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developing the hots for ryan gosling because of project hail mary is so fucking embarrassing I swear to god. that is a conventionally attractive man. a noted hollywood heartthrob. he's even blond, are you kidding me? did he win people magazine's sexiest man alive? I don't know. I'm not going to check but it wouldn't surprise me at this point. it's such a mainstream taste. such a clichéd celebrity crush. like oh I fancy ryan gosling and my favourite drink is coca-cola and my favourite snack is ready salted crisps. jesus christ. 'b-b-but i only like him when he's in a science pun tshirt and playing a dorky-awkward loner type!' doesn't matter. he's still ryan 'ken from barbie' gosling. it's so trite. I feel like the weird nerd girl in a teen coming-of-age romcom falling for the super popular jock. don't I know that I have a reputation to uphold here? cringe.

fandomsandfairytales

This post is the spiritual successor to that post about David Corenswet:

ratcandy

me: Hey girl, love to see you. You’re one’a my favorites, truly. But your presence here brings some unfortunate implications. Like there’s only one real reason you’d be in my room and it’s not a reason I’m all that fond of, you know. If I escort you outside will you stay outside, or are you just gonna come back in here in search of your prey, which I don’t want verification of being present through your return?

the ever resilient ensign wasp, parasitoid of cockroach egg cases:

haydenthewitch

me: i'll just throw on something light and fun in the backround as i'm knitting

the humble 2 and a half hour horror Minecraft arg:

cheaphalloweencostume

couple weeks ago i was at a botanical garden and i overheard a woman out of my line of sight very sternly but gently explaining, “thousands of people come through here every day, and if they each took a flower, there would be no more flowers! that’s why we don’t pick flowers here. put it down somewhere, you’re being an asshole” and i whipped around at that last part to see who on earth was calling their toddler an asshole and she was talking to a grown man holding a flower and grinning.

ckret2

getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.

ckret2

the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.

weaselle

saw a few of these in my inbox like six months ago. The first one was indeed a blog that had sent me a couple of DMs before, which did make it harder to dismiss immediately as a scam.

As per my "return contact separately" anti scam post, i looked up tumblr's contacts on my own and asked them about it.

Don't get got y'all