J. Gray Dingler

In the tail end of my teen years I ventured into writing fiction and self publishing. After that was a spectacular failure, I took a scant ten years off to cry about it. Now that modern technology has made failing creatively a lot more affordable and accessible, I decided to try again. I wrote a humorous novel about Superheroes called The Starlight Sentinels which is on Amazon.com. I did a fanfic that completely rewrites The Walking Dead Game: Season 2 called Young and Young at Heart. You can find it on FFNet, AO3, and Wattpad. I'm currently working on a sequel to my first fanfic. It's called Three Orphan Pilgrimage, and you can also find it on FFNet, AO3, and Wattpad.

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[liirker-at-thresholds]

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

[liirker-at-thresholds]

The church of scientology is on tumblr and they are sending me anon asks telling me that they can't even commit to reporting a post

[allthingslinguistic]

This young girl uses “los,” “las” and the gender-neutral “les” — watch her explain why. —from REMEZCLA on twitter.

[jumpingjacktrash]

to all the cowards who whine “how will i explain it to my kids??” i say: how about you shut up and let your kids explain it to you.

[angelbabyspice]

“Ma’am, you don’t have to be a lawyer to defend someone else” wow she snapped

[space-knight-dummy]

dammnn she really popped off with that last line though

[st3vi3charl3s]

IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN THIS KID

[snuffles005]

as someone who studies linguistics, i will never not laugh when someone says “that word doesn’t exist” like, my good bitch. if a word is regularly used by a certain amount of people then it exists. if it has its own grammatical rules then its perfectly valid. it’s part of their lexicon now, sweetie. “It’s a made up word” honey, all words are made up. Linguists didn’t just fucking excavate athens and were like BEHOLD!!! VOCABULARY!! “that word isn’t in the dictionary” dictionaries are not rule books, they’re record books. “Refrigerate” didn’t exist 200 years ago and yet here we are. a language that doesn’t adapt to an ever changing society is bound to be lost because, eventually, it won’t be able to keep up with social progress. you motherfuckers.

[nebbeli]

rough painting based on the undertale stream <3

[museeeuuuum]

Did you know they're removing all librarians from federal prisons in Canada

[museeeuuuum]

Read more:

Correctional service cutting librarians at federal prisons, in move criticized by advocates | CBC News

The Correctional Service of Canada is finalizing plans to cut all prison librarian positions at federal institutions, in a move that advocat

There is an open letter that you can sign here if you're a resident of Canada:

Open Letter - CSC Elimination of Librarians & CEGEP Education

Book Clubs for Inmates 400-192 Spadina Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C2 OPEN LETTER The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Sa

[awishturnedwell]

@teaboot

[isuggestlandback]

Indigenous people make up 1/3 of the prison population of Canada, and HALF the population of women's prisons, despite making up only 5% of the population.

[drearyhours]

scene before movie climax:

protagonist: So who’s with me?

*5 seconds of silence*

the stoic one: *looks up* im in

4 people one after the other: me to

*after everyone else has joined we see The Edgy One standing in the back*

*2 more seconds of silence*

The Edgy One: *chortles* we’re all gonna die… what the hell, im in

[lightsintheskye]

My favorite movie.

[aflo]

this will be magic the gathering in 2028

[renehhh]

this is objectively the best thing the internet has produced, I think

[kremlin]

this is so fucking funny

[kremlin]

i can't stop thinking about this. this kind of shit is not like milsim plane nerds with their own super-expensive desktop cockpit recreations. that kind of hardware makes sense to exist.

this does not. they're playing world of tanks which is like the "call of duty" of tank games (casual, players only slightly bad-smelling). it also doesn't have support for tank peripherals. no game does. no trainers do afaik. which means that (assuming this isn't just a video editing) all of that shit they are fucking with translates into mouse/keyboard inputs that the game understands. that's weird/hard and perplexing, uh, and considering that "tank peripherals" aren't a thing that exist i can only guess they built them theirselves

which is fucking hilarious because why are they so good. why does the fucking cannon breech have a little dry ice smoke effect when the breech opens like they just shot a shell. what. manual turret traverse crank?? did they build a fucking ready rack!! they're even using the correct phraseology which means one of these mofos read a PDF file

[nitewrighter]

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

[cassandralexxx]

I searched up the line “you cannot give me anything, because all the you have is stolen” from Pluribus and somewhat ironically the google ai perceived that as a prompt insulting it.

I didn’t mean it in that way but, yknow what? I agree. The LLM is built off of people’s work who didn’t consent; it can give me nothing of its own, just a generation of plausible words.

[thetursithan]

In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

[alexaloraetheris]

In the ye olde days, when technology allowed phones to become small but there was no general concensus on what a phone should/ought to look like, it was like the wild west of phone design. The crazier it was, the higher the prestige. Phones back then did two things and they did them with flamboyance.

And then Steve Jobs ruined everything.

[zandergb]

[astromechapunk]

This is how it's done:

[cilceon]

And this is how you homage it:

[everydayconman]

Literally less than a year ago we were adding cool spins to it like “Sliding Up Tokyo Tower” how did we downgrade so hard?

[crimsoncadmium]

We even got live action slide

[bellatrixmelody]

The slide in the first post bothers the fuck out of me because he’s using his right leg to slide on the ground.

So, I ride a motorcycle and I know at least the theory of doing a power slide (still cool but you don’t slide nearly so much and you need a pretty light bike to do it most of the time). You have to lock the back wheel until your back wheel looses grip on the road and then turn sharply to the left. Rear wheel slides and the front wheel turns.

But how do you lock the back wheel you might ask? Well with your rear break of course.

WHICH IS UNIVERSALLY UNDER YOUR RIGHT FOOT! How the FUCK is he locking the back wheel, with his shifter on his left foot??? Not possible. The creators of Akira knew it, and so did everyone that homaged it. The post above gets it right even if he’s likely on a slider and being pulled back.

[vespertinecat]

This is why I love tumblr. Where else could I find gifs of back to back tribute references and a perfect explanation of why the above doesn't work and how you would need to do everything to ideally execute to move in question? Thank you for explaining, fellow tumblr friend.

[gorochuva]

Welcome to Tumblr, what flavor of autism do you have?

[depsidase]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[sanctuarytiktok]

🌈Frill_ on TikTok🕊️

[marlynnofmany]

#this is one of those 'oh yeah we're stewards of the planet' moments #the skill with which she grabbed that bird tho #apex predators who take it upon themselves to heal and repair little things…

[gardensofcanaan]

@a-rogue-god

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

[depsidase]

[suppermariobroth]

In Super Mario Galaxy, Spring Mario can normally never sleep, as he always keeps bouncing in that form even if no input is made, and he cannot enter a sleep state while moving.

A glitch exists that allows Spring Mario to stand still without bouncing, activated by touching both a wall and a Gearmo on the same frame. However, performing it reveals that even then he does not sleep, as the code for the Spring Mario state explicitly forbids it.

By combining the glitch with a small modification to the code to force Spring Mario to go to sleep, it becomes apparent that the code doesn't merely never call the sleep function for Spring Mario, but doesn't even define it in the first place.

This leads to a visual glitch when it tries to load undefined sleepy eye textures, causing his eyes to appear completely black instead.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Source: SMG (NA, Wii), additional info: cometmedal

[outofcontextarthur]

[sussura]

This is what having an argument on the internet is like

[xeansicemane]

Honestly teaching first years in college chemistry was a bit like this too

[jgraydingler]

[sarahseeandersen]

All the new pieces for my collaboration with The Marine Mammal Center all together! This collection was curated with otters as the theme for their otter themed month in September, and it was really fun and exciting to create these works for them.

I hope you've enjoyed the new pieces, and a gentle reminder that we've made signed prints available and a portion of all proceeds will go to them.

[sarahseeandersen]

This is the LAST day that signed prints are available. Thank you all so much for your kind words on the new comics, I had a blast making them!