some dude I guess

he/him but in a he/they way 20 (rb spam account @kissthecryptidrb)

[whumpster-dumpster]

o7

[flamingwell]

I want to highly recommend two tools for helping you with this very sad situation, which you must use before it happens.

The first is this wonderful script that will automatically add key information (that you choose) like author, title, summary, etc to your bookmark notes so you at least know what got deleted.

The second is this incredible bulk downloader for AO3. Input any AO3 page (such as your bookmarks page) and tell it what format you want to download in and it will just.... DOWNLOAD IT ALL!! I run it every few months so that I have all my bookmarks downloaded in my preferred EPUB format. That way I know I always have my favorites downloaded in case they ever get deleted.

With the combination of these two, I can look in my bookmarks, see what was deleted, and easily find it in my downloads. It's such a relief to have my own fic library is all my favs!

[akasanata]

Let me add my life saver, an absolute wonderful add-on, ao3 saver:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ao3-saver/

It automatically saves evey fic you visit so you have a backup if the fic is ever erased. No more mysterious bookmarks lost forever.

Also if you go to the page of an erased fic, it not only gives you the option to check on ao3 saver in case you have it saved, but also in archive.org in case someone ever did a backup there.

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[patronsaintofmistakenidentity]

"cigarette" implies the existence of a much larger "cigar"

[patronsaintofmistakenidentity]

i recovered by the time i hit post but when i first had this thought i had genuinely forgotten cigars exist

[were--ralph]

im legit embarrassed but i really do wonder if i've spent 5figures on furry commissions this year bc i have a lot and i really did not buy or save this year at all outside of those

[therealjendavis]

[were--ralph]

honey.......i......think i may have lowballed it...

[were--ralph]

I added it all up and im not saying the amount. it's less than 5 digits but it's. so embarrassing.

[hidingfrompolice]

back in ye olden days times, they would have called you a patron of the arts. sooo… yeah. give that a little think.

[were--ralph]

know what you're right

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they’re… magical, strange traveler

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

These fucking techbros are so fucking childish. "Let's rebuild the twin towers as AI Bots With Lasers" is the most 8 year old idea I've ever heard.

Then again, 9/11 TWO on the AI Laser Buildings would rule

[noraschweeps]

probably one of my favourite one piece gags

[stvrw1tch]

this artist!!!! THE ART *MWAH*

[ghastlytboy]

i love you transgender internet perverts thank you for existing. if it weren’t for transgender internet perverts i’d have thought i was an unloveable freak forever

[ghastlytboy]

INCREDIBLE NEWS!!!!!: THE NOTES OF THIS POST ARE FILLED WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF TRANSGENDER INTERNET PERVERTS

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[lillie-garden]

The next big tumblr meme is [x]berry I think.

[lillie-garden]

i gave you a warningberry.

[lillie-garden]

this was the idea actually & I'm surprised ur the first person who's clocked it

[tenderjock]

everyone's heard of this, right? per ap article of apr 8, 2026:

Jacobs went on to record more than 10,000 concerts, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, over four decades in Chicago and other cities. Now a group of devoted volunteers in the U.S. and Europe is methodically cataloging, digitizing and uploading them one by one. The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection [link to internet archive] is an internet treasure trove for music lovers, especially for fans of indie and punk rock during the 1980s through the early 2000s, when the scene blossomed and became mainstream. The collection features early-in-their-career performances from alternative and experimental artists like R.E.M., The Cure, The Pixies, The Replacements, Depeche Mode, Stereolab, Sonic Youth and Björk.

[beemovieerotica]

one cool thing about having an autistic dad whose special interest is underwater spearfishing is that when he catches fish he'll just call up a nearby chinese restaurant like "hi. i caught a fish. can you cook it and i'll bring my family by?" and they're like "yeah sure come on over white boy" and the fish is delicious.

[beemovieerotica]

it's worth adding that my mom is chinese and she always gets embarrassed by this. like she doesn't want to come to the restaurant with us. she doesn't want to be seen with the white man she caught plus the fish that her white man caught. everyone who works at the restaurant thinks my dad is awesome and compliments him + her for choosing him and we all find this very fun except for her.

[tiktoks-for-my-besties]

[alexaloraetheris]

My favorite brand of people are musicians who hear Rush Fucking E, which isn't technically meant to be played by a human at all, and immediately picking up their instrument and going 'bet'.

[darkspaceboytoy]

Did you guys see this? That’s so fucking funny

[demilypyro]

wow.....

[strictlyquadrilateral]

although actually i was being extra glib in that last post because a lot of people who consider themselves good often commit harm on purpose and then pat themselves on the back for it, because they're good so the harm they do must be good. key words to look out for are "teach [you/them] a lesson", "[you/they] deserve it", "[this punishment i am choosing to enact is] natural consequences for your actions" and other similar phrases that imply a hierarchy of desert. the person being harmed deserves to be harmed; the person doing the harm deserves to be praised for it. "you're hurting me" is not a valid defense, because you deserve to be hurt and it is good that you are hurt. you can see this outlook everywhere but the nuclear family is a particularly great place to find it ime

[strictlyquadrilateral]

when i was i think 14 and we were traveling, i hurt my neck really badly on a trampoline and no one believed me. my bioparents made me climb a mountain with them the next day, and partway up i just physically couldn't take it anymore and sat down on a rock by the side of the trail. i assumed they'd notice i was gone and come back for me. they didn't. i have permanent nerve damage in my neck from pushing myself through the rest of that agonizing climb because after hours i was terrified that they would just abandon me on that mountain and i'd be without any resources or recourse in a foreign country. i didn't even have any water, though i figured there was no way they could have known that.

a few years back i got my biomom's side of the story, through my sister who didn't believe that this had happened despite literally being there for it. it's actually a very similar story, but in this one i'm lying about having hurt my neck, and every action after that is therefore a valid punishment. in this story, she's so proud at me reaching the top of the mountain, because i learned my lesson (what the lesson is is not explained). in this story, because it's punishment and not neglect, she considers herself to look good. a perfectly reasonable parent. praiseworthy.

in this story, saintly, she leaves me without water on purpose.

[gael-garcia]

Salt of the Earth (1954), dir. Herbert J. Biberman

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Damn, son.

[kommunistika]

EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH SALT OF THE EARTH

[em578]

Salt of the Earth actually has a crazy interesting history- OP already said it was made in 1954, but that was in the middle of the Red Scare (communism scary cold war hysteria)

Congress’s anti-communism target fell hard on Hollywood, and those in the industry who were suspected of communism at all were blacklisted from all jobs, because studio’s didn’t want to face backlash from Congress

Salt of the Earth was made nearly 100% with blacklisted crew members from Hollywood, and had such difficulty finding actors that they hired local citizens and miners from the actual strike the plot is based on. There were only 5 trained actors involved, and one of them (Rosaura Revueltas, the woman in the gif) was deported to Mexico before they finished filming on accusations of communism, with no proof and no substance. The filming was plagued with police harassment and threats (according to my professor they were shot at more than once), and the local union hall was burned down.

The movie itself not only covers a real 1950′s labor strike demanding safer and more equal labor conditions for Mexican-American employees, but after the miners were facing arrest, their wives and children took up the strike in their place. The movie’s combination of blacklisted crew, civil rights and feminist message, and pro-union plot (during the red scare) got the movie blacklisted and only 12 theaters in the entire United States would show the movie- it was successful in Europe, but didn’t actually achieve viewership in the US until the 60′s

[gael-garcia]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/10/salt-of-the-earth-labour-workers-blacklisted-filmmakers

[beabaseball]

It is available on YouTube for free