Welcome, My Dears

I’m here to indulge in my hyperfixations, meet cool people and make art. Begin with compassion and respect.

[scribz-ag24]

the dark world bosses are coping well with the introduction of a competent, functional, confident leader that has enough self-control to never seriously hurt the lightners.

[lestatfag]

my ultimate fantasy is to have a brain and body that allows me to enjoy being alive

[tennas-t-v-time]

Im gonna be so honest and say the take ive had for a year here. Kris and Susies dynamic is 100% more impactful if it ISN’T romantic

[tennas-t-v-time]

It’s not even because I rep suselle(though people suddenly hating it more and more is alarming), like you guys know me I’m the polycule lover I have one of the longest polycule fics in the fandom.

But like. Have you ever had a friend you’d die for? Have you ever had a friend that changed and saved your life? Have you ever had a friend you want to live with, you’d trust with your life, that you’ve been through thick and thin with?

Theres such an amatonormative attitude towards shipping the two of them that kinda makes me pull my hair out. “Oh well best friends aren’t like THAT” yes they are. “They have a heart between them!!” Are you five. “Kris keeps blushing!!” Kris blushes over a shit ton of things unrelated to Susie, they’re a teenager that’s flustered easily and it’s a really interesting trait if theirs which also gets overshadowed by thinking blushing is only romantic.

Like it’s okay to ship them. It’s fine. But it makes the scene where they fall into the titan together go from tear-jerking to “eh”.

[tennas-t-v-time]

A lot of people are adding this so I’ll add it too: there’s another beautiful addition of Susie making sure she prioritizes both her relationship with Susie and her friendship with Kris. She still wants special Kris time. She still wants to include them. They’re still just as important to her. There’s not a “scale” of bonds where romantic is automatically stronger than platonic. Are we aware of this

[queer-as-city-folk]

Why do we treat the secretary of labor under fucking Bill Clinton as this anti capitalist icon because he is mildly rude to billionaires on occasion

[queer-as-city-folk]

Robert Reich is a middling figure who at best failed to protect workers despite being one of the most powerful people in the world in the mid nineties and at worst was actively complicit in the destruction of the unions and welfare state

[queer-as-city-folk]

Golley Gee, media consolidation is a bad thing Robert???

Shame you had no involvement in or ability to stop the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Ignore that

[starbeenz]

Happy Father’s Day to everybody but this guy.

[malevolentoutofcontext]

Lmao

[guyprincess14]

Kayne had seen so many Eldritch abominations and phantasmal horrors but couldn’t handle baby owl. Just look at her ❤️

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[guyprincess14]

I follow lots of trans people. This shit is being honed in on trans women in particular. Though I have seen trans men and enby folks work being classified as “mature content” when it really isn’t, their shit isn’t getting fucking erased. We aren’t getting our stuff wiped off the site. We are losing places where people feel safe to exist outside, and on the internet. You don’t get to do pride if you are actively silencing trans voices.

[queer-as-city-folk]

nobody ever mentions this but Soviet jazz is really good

[greg-jar-mp3]

No clue what I would look up but Ill try and find some

[queer-as-city-folk]

[fuzzyblizzardkitty]

> oh it cant be THAT good

> what in the everloving mother of god

[aromantic-diaries]

"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.

[collinnmckinley]

THE WITCHER 3 EXPANSION. NOT A DLC. AN EXPANSION.

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[queer-as-city-folk]

I AM UNFORTUNATELY PROOF OF THIS

[beanfreak]

has tumblr seen this photo that james ortiz posted of himself holding rocky because oh my god

that’s his real son that he gave birth to. grace better watch out bc james is about to steal the title of rocky’s number one fan

[xenasaur]

we need legislation banning games >100GB

[xenasaur]

OPTIMIZE YOUR SHIT BETTER THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR A 150GB GAME!!!

[xenasaur]

upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake

[xenasaur]

to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50

[creamypancakebatter]

Helldivers 2 heard you and went from 156 to 23

[xenasaur]

wait is that real

just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost

[somespicycheese]

it's worse than that: The Helldivers devs were told that duplicating assets would help HDD load times, but then they actually tested it and it had basically zero effect on load times!

So they had more than sextupled the size of their game by following industry standard practice that actually did basically nothing!

[midnights-dragon]

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

[mushroombea]

gosh this is sensory heaven I just had to reblog it

[sirswooshnoodles]

Here is a website that is just gifs of rotating sandwiches, there are many kinds of sandwiches to see spin slowly!

[alintheshitposter]

No but y'all do realise

that THIS:

(idk why Tumblr isn't showing it but the gif is from @crowley-anthony )

is what everything! THE WHOLE SERIES! every season and every episode boils down to!?!???!

The ending we got is the best ending we could have gotten. It's all they ever wanted. From the very beginning. From season 1 episode 1. From the beginning of time itself.

They only ever wanted each other and the universe. They wanted humans to have a chance of free will without influence from heaven or hell.

And they actually got it. They actually got what they wished for!

They got peace forever! They have each other. And that's everything they ever wanted and needed.

[soloorganaas]

that post that's like. fans have got too used to acting as stakeholders. media analysis is about the narrative intentions not a checklist of what fans want. i think criticism of the finale because it didn't include specific elements we wanted to see is separate (if sometimes intertwined) from whether the narrative worked overall. because as an overall arc it makes sense. from the start they wanted an earth where humans could live their lives free to make their own choices, without interference or pre-determined rules and plans and divisions into heaven and hell. crowley believed the system couldn't be fixed, aziraphale believed god could be reasoned with, and in the end they were both right and they both got what they wanted: a chance for humans and them to make choices that were true to who they were. for crowley and aziraphale that was choosing each other. it always would be

[milliekr]

GO hot take apparently

Imagine finding out you have 90 minutes to tie up a love story that's developed over thousands of years. You create something beautifully in character and completely on point for the plot. You pay homage to the original writer's legacy in a fitting and poetic way and create an ending that not only shows the depth of two people's love for each other but the wider love they have for the thing that brought them together in the first place.

And then you go online to find the loudest outcry is that everyone hates it and "THEY DIDN'T EVEN KISS!"

I feel sorry for people who didn't get anything out of that stunning finale.

[crowley-anthony]

the fandom: "us" but at what cost?

[guyprincess14]

Before I read anything else online I’d just like to say that I loved this. It wasn’t perfect but with the time and budget they were given I think it was genuinely really amazing.

Of course its pacing was weird, it was a whole season condensed into 90 minute. There are actors who didn’t come back, and characters we know didn’t see but I loved it so much. The costumes were still great, coming back to the bookshop was wonderful and I loved the eternal flame set piece. If we had a full season we would have seen Crowley show Jesus the world and probably other vignettes. I really appreciate the one we got though.

No matter what I loved the ending, if anyone says it makes the series essentially pointless they can eat dirt. We got closure, we could have gotten nothing at all. I don’t care if it isn’t perfect, there is a world that we didn’t even get this and I am so grateful we did.

I started crying at the 1:25 mark but that zoom in to the portrait of Pratchett had me ugly sobbing. I still love this story so much and I genuinely think that they did right by him in all the ways they could. We got our South Downs, everyone got to live a human life, presumably Gabriel and Beelzebub also got to live a life as well. It also kinda felt like we were being encouraged at the end by god’s speach to continue creating fanworks, continuing the story in the ways we want.

This story will stay with me forever, it’ll always be a part of me and I am so grateful I got to experience it with everyone.