TSA (Temporal Security Agency)

Gamer, working on bettering myself. Currently learning about Dialectical Behavior Therapy and thinking it would have been handy to know a lot sooner.

[awwww-cute]

What if they don’t like my sweater?

[cortexiphan-athlete-deactivated]

oH NO

[grawly]

ascending_shark.mp4

[kalfromkalifornia-deactivated20]

Honestly what did I expect from a caption like that

[jeromerp-deactivated20180418]

oh hey, a zamtrios

[enki2]

[assiraphales]

I don’t think we’re rick rolling each other enough anymore. 1. it CANNOT die out 2. this under saturated market is perfect for unsuspecting victims who’ve been lulled into a false sense of security. be the person you hate. bring back the dastardly link

[json-derulo]

someone actually studied the falling Rick Roll rate for their Ph.D dissertation recently and published the paper

[junefrombug]

okay but this made me wonder if there was actually any academic literature on rickrolling and YES THERE IS this is a paper about rickrolling WITHIN academic literature. As in, studies that attempt to rickroll the people reading them. Best part is no one is going to believe me and click that link even though it’s 100% true.

[niltia]

My friend's book is mentioned in this paper!!

[teaboot]

There is no earthy way of convincing anyone that the rickroll study link is real. But for what it's worth. It is

[cat-26]

I have a new goal in my almost-finished PhD dissertation.

[thatwasfunnypleaselaugh]

Second link's good guys, truly

[type-blaze0]

Teaboot's right, there is basically nothing on earth that could convince me to click the second link. I genuinely believe it might be real, but i'm not touching it.

[dizzyghoast]

ive said this before but my understanding of the "tumblr sexyman" is that the archetype originated via a website full of nerdy teenage girls taking their first steps into sexuality and looking for objects of desire in their zones of interest that felt "safe" to experiment with and landing on anyone resembling David Tennant. It has always been, to me, the fandom equivalent of the boy band dreamboats on the cover of Tiger Beat. It's in the name even. "Sexyman". A man who is sexy but not sexual. Someone you can stare at and sigh over and dream about but actual sex is still scary to imagine so hes just just standing there looking good in his waistcoat and slacks and whether he actually has genitals under there or not depends on how brave youre feeling at the moment

That's why it always felt strange to me to try and expand the term further than that cuz, for the most part tumblr users arent really teenagers anymore. we're mostly all adults now with presumably a better handle on our sexualitys and preferences. Senshi isnt a sexyman because you dont need a sexyman any more. He's just a guy you want to fuck.

[tapacamino]

This website: "It says a lot about a person if they write or make art about dark, horrific things. It says what they're like in real life. Hiding in plain sight."

Junji Ito:

[combustable-head]

Gothic literature must be cursed to forever be misinterpreted by mainstream public because how did this happen

Dracula book: an evil count who only sees the world as a resource to be drained for his own pleasure is stopped by the group of people who deeply care for each other

Dracula in media: a tragic romantic hero, main love interest of one of the protagonists who must be liberated from her dull little life

Frankenstein book: any human has capacity for evil when completely abandoned and shunned by the world and the people who brought him into it

Frankenstein in media: don't play God because it's against nature's laws

Jekyll and Hyde book: repression and only caring about external appearances can cause your worst impulses to indulge themselves in dangerous ways if ignored for too long

Jekyll and Hyde in media: what if there was two of the same guy but one of them was evil and gross?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

“I found myself remembering the day in kindergarten when the teachers showed us Dumbo, and I realized for the first time that all the kids in the class, even the bullies, rooted for Dumbo, against Dumbo's tormentors. Invariably they laughed and cheered, both when Dumbo succeeded and when bad things happened to his enemies. But they're you, I thought to myself. How did they not know? They didn't know. It was astounding, an astounding truth. Everyone thought they were Dumbo.”

-Elif Batuman

Dracula: I’m a powerful man who sees the world as nothing but a resource to be drained. My name is Executive Producer. This book is awesome but these Power Of Love idiots don’t understand how Cool and Relatable To Me Dracula is.

Frankenstein: I’m not a Bad Parent. It is the Children who are wrong, they should be more Grateful for the Harsh Lessons I teach them so that they’ll grow up to be Hard like me

Jekyll & Hyde: I run an Aesthetic blog where I pretend I’m a cutesy woodland creature. I’m Nice, I’m So Nice, you don’t even know how Nice I am. I call the police on teenagers loitering in parks

[soft-butch-cassidy]

“What are you?” I am the Dragonborn. “No, I mean, what’s your gender?” Dragonborn, learn to listen better. “No, just tell me what’s in your pants!” Forty eight heads of lettuce and an enchanted battle axe. 

[vorbisx]

Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.

Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?

[were--ralph]

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default.

Opt out here, you're opted in by default

ALT

[whyenn-reader]

one odd side effect of being stealth and hanging out with cis guys is realising just how mean they are to eachother, and they all just accept it even if it bothers them. you reply with a ''that was really mean you cunt'' after one of them insults another and they're wide eyed bc they never thought about it that way. and they all think they need a girlfriend so that they can open up about their problems. banging my head against the wall

(i am saying this in the most ''the patriarchy hurts everyone'' way possible)

[lastoneout]

[cryptotheism]

Do you think Plato could've taken a cave hyena

RAW STRENGTH: Cave hyena wins

PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE: Also the cave hyena

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I fucking escaped The Narrative but it’s nothing but developer textures out here and the level looks like shit from outside so I’m starting to wonder if I can clip back in somewhere. Plz advise

[tastefullyoffensive]

[exotic-venom]

(Trimeresurus albolabris) white-lipped pitviper

[thewomancallednova]

i wish people in fandom spaces wouldn't couch the (alleged) crimes of creators in such vague terms. "Gaiman is controversial right now" NO, Gaiman has been accused of rape by several women. "DC probably won't reprint a lot of 90s green lantern because Gerard Jones is problematic." NO, Gerard Jones was convicted of possession of child pornography. "controversial" and "problematic" do not accurately convey what is going on remotely and if anything play down what these people have done.

[anxeious]

[redrum-sketches]