The Guy

Hello I’m running out of internet pseudonyms

[twink-death-advocate]

i’m a FAGGOT and a WHORE

[makerofmadness]

I sell BAGUETTES at the STORE

[jingles-miserably]

everybody wants to rule the world

[yussures]

been super inspired by Ernest Chiriacka recently, so heres Randy in the style of his painting "Darcy" !!! (featuring my oc)

no filter + original painting :)

i listened to "you turn me on" by "who's who" for SO long while drawing this please listen to that song its so delicious

[chalupaswanswarm]

What a piece of shit!!!!!!!!

[adrian-sheppy]

Our request for our own fandom tag om ao3 for Mindverse has been denied. staff thought that mindverse wasn't seperate enough from half-life to warrant us getting our own tag --- DESPITE it being basically impossible to search or filter for all mindverse fics thanks to the plethora of terms we all use to try and specify that these are mindverse characters, not half life.

what did that mean for us? it meant we had no way of using the great filtering features that ao3 offers. whether youre a gen head, mature dark and gritty themes enjoyer, explicit reader, mindhoun fan, or buttermind warrior…… none of us could filter, because there was no body of work that ALLOWED us to filter!!!! endless loop of psychic damage. sort by recent, try your luck.

Not anymore.

after our hopes and dreams were obliterated, @blushft and i worked together to catalog EVERY mindverse fic in a collection. thats right. ALL of them. we put our personal feelings aside, because if ao3 did their jobs, then all of them would be searchable in one place, regardless of the living status of the dove. (it actually turned out to be a decent place to search for freemanverse too --- though not all encompassing…)

You can find the collection here at: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Mindverse (GO TO BOOKMARKS SECTION :D)

fully filterable! and with custom bookmarker tags for some extra filtering capabilities since there's still some character overlap present.

@blushft and i will continue to maintain it. if you think we missed any fics (or mistagged, or have a tag suggestion) send him or myself a message and we'll get that on the list (eventually)

i havent given up hope at our own fandom tag. but for now, instead of slinking back into the corners of half-life, we can exist here in this bookmark collection :]

[moss-indie]

Patron saints of one way trips or something like that...

[butch-columbo]

“There’s no platonic explanation for tha-“

[najsigt]

I've been in a bit of an art funk lately, so I decided to do a little redraw of this piece from 2021.

[llama-sidekick]

did you predict the bloody mary ship

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[astronomical-bagel]

god it’s so sad living in an allocentric world. There are so many relationships that are so complex and nuanced that are all put under the label of ‘romantic’ and immediately all the intrigue is taken from it. Like don’t you realize that these relations are actually ENHANCED by the fact that they are not romantic or sexual?

[astronomical-bagel]

NOOO DONT PUT THE CHARACTERS IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP YOURE TAKING OFF THE SEASONING!!!!

[astronomical-bagel]

[lighthouse-wizard]

"I would do anything for you; I would cross worlds for you; I would kill for you; I would die for you" etc in fictional romance= tired and expected

from a boss to their employee= what the fuck is happening there

[dmdog]

It lives in the arcade and leaves sticky little footprints on the linoleum. Naming it Gumble

[dogpuppy]

[thedgeofsleep]

IRON LUNG (2026) dir. Markiplier

[autumn-sweet-fae]

So like

When Simon finally opens up to Grace about his past, being in prison for 16 years, telling him about Filament Station, about Eden- Grace suddenly stops him.

Because Grace is very good at math.

Simon seems to be in his early 30’s… meaning if he was locked up for 16 years he could have been anywhere from 13-18 at the time of the attack. Grace had been a middle school teacher. He had taught that exact age range, before watching those same kids that he taught grow and go to the high school in the next building over.

The idea of one of his kids being held responsible for 65 deaths and then sentenced to prison is enraging enough. The more he learns about the cult Simon was raised in- it sets off every alarm Grace had ever had as a teacher.

The fact that Simon was a child soldier and Grace was a child educator is not talked about enough.

I need Simon to be ‘forgiven’ by someone who understands that he was just a kid who had been groomed by a cult

[dailymanners]

Do not ever be rude or condescending to someone who asks "obvious" questions, no matter how obvious or silly you think the question is.

For one, in some cultures asking an obvious question is just a polite way of acknowledging the situation. So for example, if you just put your jacket on and start clocking out, a co-worker asking "oh, you done for the day and heading out now?" doesn't deserve you sneering at them like an idiot, scoffing, and saying "uh duh, just like I do every day at this time" when it's likely they knew the answer, but were just asking as a polite way of acknowledging the situation.

But even if they were genuinely unsure that you're leaving even though it seems obvious to you from context clues, so what? What does being rude and condescending to them achieve? Maybe they couldn't sleep last night so they're really out of it today, maybe they're dissociating, maybe they're about to pass out from low blood sugar, maybe some other employees sometimes put on their jacket and only clock out briefly but come back.

There's all sorts of reasons they could be confused about whether or not you're leaving, but intentionally making them feel bad achieves nothing except, well, making them feel bad. Either way, they're not hurting you or anyone by asking a "stupid" question, so there's no point in being rude about it. If you still want to make them feel bad about themselves for looking "stupid" when they weren't hurting anyone, that is the mindset of bullies and abusers.

[dailymanners]

Thank you everyone who is pointing out in the notes that this is usually an attempt to connect with someone and/or strike up a conversation. Because honestly in my experience 9 times out of 10 when someone asks an "obvious" question that's what they're trying to do. If someone walks into the kitchen and asks "oh are you cooking?" while you're standing over the stove holding a spatula, they probably already know the answer, but they're just trying to start a conversation with you and connect to you.

All the more reason it's sad and hurtful when these attempts are met with sneering and being treated like an idiot.

[sarcasticmothwrites]

There are no stupid questions, only assholes providing snarky non-answers. Because aside from the bid for connection or genuine confusion, sometimes there are REASONS why you might get an obvious question.

“Oh, are you cooking?” asks person who thought you were going out tonight.

“Are you leaving?” asks time-blind person who’s surprised it’s 5:00.

“Are you going to lunch?” asks person who remembers there’s a meeting in 30 minutes.

This is where I make my occasional reminder that Emily Post said the reason for manners is to make others comfortable and foster kind, thoughtful human interactions.

[the-haiku-bot]

“Oh, are you cooking?”

asks person who thought you were

going out tonight.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[sadclowncentral]

bloodymary might be the most inspired crossover of the century. trauma group therapy in space with a language barrier

original under the cut

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[jame7t]

tumblr is like an abandoned space station & you all are the thing in the vents

[jame7t]

not me though. im girl with tanktop