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I'm pretty sure I made a post with where else you can find me, last time tumblr was burning. It's fine. I'm not going anywhere.

But if you're looking for me elsewhere:

AO3 (fic, podfic, art, recipes)

dreamwidth

pillowfort

deviantArt

bold-baddie

memories-of-ancients

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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motherfuckingnazgul

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026 🟩🟦🟦🟨🟨🟦🟥🟩🟩🟦 68,088 · top 12% of players today!

aurpiment

Anthropeum.com · Jun 9 2026

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77,134 · top 9% of players, baby!

yuhengwanye

Anthropeum.com · Jun 10 2026 🟦🟦🟨🟩🟨🟨🟦🟩🟩🟦 77,633 · top 8% of players today!

elodieunderglass

Anthropeum.com · Jun 10 2026

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In my defense that red one is where I accidentally flicked the map marker to the wrong side of the planet

#anthropeum #i've been playing this dilligently for the past month and a half #comparing results with friends #complaining about portughese merchants making things confusing

drill-teeth

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

the-quasar-hero

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

mayhamster

Holy fuck

cirrus-grey

Having thoughts about Drumknott and Vetinari again, and specifically about how much The Truth seems to be a turning point in their relationship. Drumknott is around, before that book, he's already Vetinari’s personal secretary, he's clearly a trusted and respected figure in the Palace, and yet his appearances are always brief, there-and-gone, just dropping off a file before disappearing again.

But in the books after that (and particularly by the time you get to Going Postal)? There’s barely a Vetinari scene without him, and there's a major increase in the number of scenes with just the two of them. Suddenly Drumknott is whispering information - and even corrections - in Vetinari’s ear, Vetinari is monologuing to him about philosophy and asking for his opinion, they're doing a double-act to keep visitors on their toes during meetings. They're a team, not just a politician and his secretary.

And I'm thinking about how, after the events of The Truth, Vetinari must have dug for the details on everything that happened. And he must have learned, either from the Watch or Drumknott himself, that Drumknott saw a man who looked like Vetinari attack him, and still argued for Vetinari’s innocence in the incident. That Drumknott chose to distrust the evidence of his own eyes before he would even consider distrusting Vetinari.

How rare must that be, for one of the most powerful political figures on the continent? To have earned that sort of loyalty and trust from someone, that the thought of betrayal never even crossed his mind?

Vetinari doesn't trust easily - he can't, too many people want to see him thrown from power, too many people could be plotting against him. But seeing someone else give him so much trust... well, that does seem to earn an equal amount in return, doesn't it?

#discworld

apolladay

Have you ever been to a celebrity's grave?

yes

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

Define celebrity however you'd like.

#had coffee in Belu cemetery with a bunch of long-dead authors

nessa007

#iron lung #and it's a no

s-t-a-r-c-o

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

jewish-joy

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

lydiardbell

I think Tumblr in general would appreciate the newest back-of-bus advertising campaign in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

lydiardbell

So-called "free thinkers" when a bus is traveling between Strathmore Park and Newtown:

s-t-a-r-c-o

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

sg1

Stargate SG-1, 06.11 Prometheus

#stargate sg1

mixelation

remember like an actual decade ago, there was a post giving advice for what to do if The Heterosexuals asked for your celebrity crush, and the advice was to just say "chris" and let them guess which chris and then just agree

and as your local ace i understand why such advice is appealing because i have been 13 and feeling a rising panic that i would answer "wrong" and bad things would happen. however as an adult i now understand that most people asking this are just asking you a question on par with asking what movies/music/whatever you like. they're not testing you, and if you give a fake answer, you're going to end up fielding follow-up questions or being sent memes or whatever, because they're trying to engage with your answers. just say a celebrity that you actually like (regardless of if you find them attractive or have a "crush"), or if you don't have one, say you don't pay attention to celebrities

anyway, i went out to drinks with people i didn't know that well, got asked that question, and said i wanted to study robert pattinson like a bug. now i get sent weird photos of him

captainclickycat

I've talked about reasons I don't like internet censorship a lot in the past, but one reason that's more specific than most is that if someone writes "shot" as "sh*t", no matter how clear the context is, I am not going to process the word as "shot".