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Fandoms, science, history, art, writing, and any other pretty things that catch my fancy. Old writing tagged IMW. Also on ao3 (link is above). Trans dude.

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[aeide]

By day I wove the web, and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it // ἔνθα καὶ ἠματίη μὲν ὑφαίνεσκον μέγαν ἱστόν νύκτας δ᾽ ἀλλύεσκον, ἐπεὶ δαΐδας παραθείμην

Odyssey 19.149–150. Emily Wilson translation.

a weaving based on Dora Wheeler's "Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night", which is one of my favorite works that looks woven but is actually embroidered. I wanted to try out deborah silver's split-shed weaving technique, so I chose polychrome taqueté with linen and cashmere. I maybe should have chosen an easier technique with fewer colors to start, but here we are! on the right side, I left the uppermost warp threads bare to show the unraveling.

reference below the cut:

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I am whatever the opposite of a speed runner is. I am a game meanderer. I have to look at literally everything. I am overly cautious in every way. I forget to pause and wander away from the game. I take a minimum 7 hours to get through any given level. If you give me a timer I will cry.

[json-derulo]

[irish-american-chan]

The Summertime Is A Little Different From The Normaltime

[irish-american-chan]

Did You Know Clovers Theyre Doing This Kind Of Thing Nowadays

[nim-lock]

whee stamps

[nim-lock]

also like. the packaging is cute af 👀✨🦐

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

(guy who doesn't really know how software updates work) i hope they keep the keyboard letters in the same order. i was just getting used to them

[dustdotorg]

sometimes you will see a joke circulate within a fandom and at first it's all fun and games but then the slow and terrible realization starts to seep in that this will become in fact a widely-accepted way to read a specific situation between characters that were subject of said joke and there is nothing you can do about it but to watch the horrors unfold in real time

[spamton]

cooking my husband a delicious and nutricious breakfast consisting of lead pipes and

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[spamton]

idont remmeber what the rest of the post was going to say. use your impregnation i dont care

[spamton]

you get what i mean.

[free-post-store]

$0

[spamton]

[dogpuppy]

[gatheringbones]

right to comfort as in: I need you to be comfortable around me. My behavior may go against every single one of your values but I have the right to your placid and friendly perpetual good will. Leveling the mildest of criticisms towards me is a hateful and hostile attack. Decentering me or seeking to distance yourself from me is a hateful and hostile attack. I am entitled to close friendly comfortable contact with you. Withholding your approval is violence.

[gatheringbones]

right to comfort as in: l exist in a state of such precariousness that the cultivation and maintenance of my positive image is the only way I gain access to income. criticizing my behavior in any way endangers my survival. If you don’t promise to stay quiet about what I did to you I lose access to that source of support. my safety deserves to be protected by your silence.

[gatheringbones]

[gatheringbones]

an older woman said “I’m such an idiot” in front of me and I paused and said very softly “no you’re not” and then I thought she was gonna cry…..

[gods-chariot]

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

So it turns out the giant moth that looks like a bumblebee/hummingbird that i see occasionally is not a true Hummingbird Hawk Moth (which is an asian and european species) and is instead a Snowberry Clearwing

(I thought i had this long beautiful clip but turns out i wasn’t recording most of the time but here’s a glimpse)

It does get called a hummingbird moth, and um

Sure

[teratocybernetics]

idk look at their little tails (not mine from here)

[veliseraptor]

If fiction is only a commodity, then a writer is a mere content producer, or as McGurl puts it, a "servant" and a "service provider" while the reader is a "consumer." If a writer is a service working - a corporate employee/contractor - it naturally follows that a work of fiction is a service and is judged on whether it fulfills that service accordingly. [...] There's a subtle but key difference between being socially permitted to have your own opinion about whether something was good - whether it met your version of the implicit contract - and the decision that you are "owed" customer satisfaction in a literal, actionable sense. If you read a book or saw a movie and you didn't like it, you're allowed to say so: but it's not a mattress, and you don't get your money back. But on the other hand, if a novel or film or TV show isn't art, only more stuff you bought, then the writer does owe you, as does the corporation who sold you that product, from whom you can demand everything you want.

from Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality by Lyta Gold

[pokeballvictimized]

Oh god. Why is her skin darker. No, no, I get that you brainwashed her and made her evil, that part is clear. Why is her skin darker. Ugh, no, it's not the aesthetic sense - the skimpy, revealing outfit is great, love it, though we do need to talk about why a sexually liberated woman parses as evil to you, but like. what about darker skin makes you think it signals evil. that's racist. i don't care that you're literally blue, its still racist. hey, you little cackling imps in the corner. yeah, you with the horns. no, the other one. any of you got a copy of Ibram X Kendi's How to be Antiracist? I feel like that's a good starting point

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[natalieironside]

In between the credit card scams and incomprehensible mobile games and pleas to soak my feet in olive oil like we've all come to expect, a significant percentage of the tumblr "ads" I've been getting are just AI generated videos of ppl doing blood meridian shit to theirselves with knives and needles and such. I haven't looked at any of them long enough to ascertain what product and/or service is being sold.

[natalieironside]

Maybe this is a viral marketing campaign for tumblr premium. Staff is like "Pay us to block ads or you're gonna see what we do to freeloaders around here"

[natalieironside]

Tumblr is a webbed sight where you can't post tits but if you pay for ad space you can post snuff and gore

[ninefoldrin]

You can pay to force anyone to watch you walk around pissing everywhere and not be able to block you.

You can pay to advertise "the tiktok of sex."

You can advertise ANYTHING on tumblr! But god forbid a trans woman post fully clothed transition timeline photos. God forbid you show a bare boob occasionally to only be seen by a few people following you.

[basic-bamboo]

God forbid you draw a picture of Black bunnyboys with big bellies

[natalieironside]

Oh, and also there is The Bible. So much of that all over everywhere. Some group of people is paying umpteen pasquillion dollars to make sure tumblr users are aware of The Bible. Like none of the ads I've seen mention any specific congregation or denomination, it's just Hey guys here's Jesus. And here is Bible. In case u didn't know.

That's what's for sale on tumblr: Snuff, gore, scams, and the Bible. Real one-stop shop.

I must say that I am deeply deeply mistrustful of people who seem a bit too enthusiastic about increasing my awareness of The Bible, on account of all the different stuff that's happened over the past 2000 years