Kungfunurse

Hey all - I'm Kungfunurse on AO3, Dreamwidth and Pillowfort. I’m a fandom old from pre-LJ days, and an inveterate slash fan

[waitingforthet]

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[nynevefromthelake]

This turned to be a little lighting study couldn’t decide what colours to choose

[kettle-bird]

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

[ASR | AC | ES]

[despazito]

[dreamsy990]

[nataliehall]

Hey look it’s your boyfriend

[lbhslefttiddie]

meng mo is such a fun character bc he has a pretty clear voice, but we only get just enough of him to be able to speculate in wildly different directions potentially. one scene in particular that i turn over a lot in my mind is when meng mo pulls sqq out of the punishment protocol and is talking to him in the dream realm without lbh. when sqq asks him to show him sj's memories, and meng mo hesitates, offering that it might be better for those things to remain forgotten, like. why did he do that!!!! theres so many directions you could take it, like, off the top of my head,

1) he doesnt want to subject sqq to a potentially traumatizing memory bc theres a non zero chance if lbh found out he would disintegrate him (pragmatic grandpa, wants to live to see retirement)

2) he actually likes sqq (gossipy old men club) enough to not want to show him The Horrors

3) he has subscribed to the cultivation world gossip believing that sqq is so niceys now because he forgot key memories from his past, and believes theres a Very Good Chance that showing sqq those exact memories could make him return to being mean (route A: doting grandpa wants his foolish student's freakass human master to treat him right. route B: second coming of pragmatic grandpa: if sqq returns to bitchery at this crucial junction when lbh is already so fucking unstable it will literally rend the three realms apart and not even he will be safe from That)

4: hes not comfortable with the contents of the dreams themselves (this one is SO fucking fun to consider--he has no qualms with subjecting 14yos to the Worst Memories Embargo, but he has Standards, and exploiting a potential victim's memories of csa for cheap power aint it)

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[wockpurz-draws]

scums shitposts (2022-23)

[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.

[blumineck]

If you can correctly identify what type of dog Zorro is, you get a prize*

Also go watch Min-Maxed!

[manyblinkinglights]

I have strong opinions on the Eridian clothing they’d try to stuff Grace in and my opinions are all that it would look stupid as hell, and attempt to visually radially symmetrize him, and he’d be expected to be on hands and knees to wear it right (NOT in a weird way).

The real question is whether he’s actually vain enough to attend a social function that way if Rocky dismissively/disinterestedly/disappointedly tells him he looks normal in the outfit + all the people on the biodome team are like varying degrees of actually impressed by how well he cleans up.

[manyblinkinglights]

They come up with at least one attempt that treats his head-mouth as his pole of radial symmetry, but everyone agrees this is WAY too tall and long for anybody to be. Bellybutton as pole of radial symmetry it is.

[ecobanshee]

sorry the mental image of them trying to put grace into radially symmetrical clothing was Killing me. turtleneck onesie. look at him he's so disconcerted

[manyblinkinglights]

YESSSSSSSSSSS OMGOMG TY TY

[noah-wyles]

this is such a fantastic and reassuring response

[weaselle]

I know i've said it before, but if you are concerned it could be real and not a scam, the best way to avoid getting scammed is to return contact separately.

Here's how that works:

say you get a text from your internet provider, let's say it's Comcast (whom i hate). So you have this text that says it's from Comcast about your bill with a contact number and a clickable link -- could be real, could be a scam.

Don't touch anything about this text. Open a web browser and look up the customer service number for Comcast. Or get the number from the bill they send you. However you do it, get the contact info for Comcast from a trusted source, like an official phone directory or the Comcast website itself.

Get in touch with them using that information.

So. Let's run the example both ways it could go.

If it IS a scam: you reach out to Comcast and tell them you were contacted about a problem with your bill, they look you up in their customer database, and they tell you there is no problem with your bill.

If it's NOT a scam, you do the same thing, they look you up, and they explain the problem. In this case, neither Comcast nor the employees involved give a single shit whether or not you clicked the link in the text vs. going through their official website.

This works the same for the your bank, the IRS, Amazon, political causes, charities, everything.

By handling any questionable incoming calls to action this way, you significantly protect yourself from scams and malware and shit

[cozyandconcerned]

You can do this with phone calls too!!! If a company calls you asking for some info or about a problem with you card/account/whatever you can ask them for a reference number for your case and call back later. You don't have to give a reason but if you feel awkward you can just say you have a meeting in 2 minutes but can call back another time to deal with it.

If it's not scam they'll be like sure, here's the reference number. Then you follow the instructions above, call the separate number you find yourself on a reputable website and give that person the reference number. And they'll help you resolve the issue.

Don't let scammers scare you over the phone into giving them sensitive information!!!!

[weaselle]

great addition ^^^

[themirokai]

I have literally done this with the FBI. Got a call from a guy who said he was with the FBI and was looking into a real thing that happened and I knew about but I was not expecting the call. So I told him I would like to look up the number and call back. He said that was a good plan, told me to get the number off the government website and what to tell the operator when I called back.

Real people who are not scamming you will not mind if you take this precaution! If someone gets up in arms or hassles you about confirming that you are talking to the right person, that is an absolutely HUGE red flag that that person is a scammer.

[depsidase]

[kungfunurse]

Ok this one surprised me. Is the US the only country where loitering is illegal?

[drachenmagier]

“Be careful when you plant lunar flowers. They often grow far beyond the expectations of the owners and you suddenly realise that your garden is in orbit instead of the other way around. And let’s NOT talk about the dragons.”

Acrylics on colour paper. :D 

[afloweroutofstone]

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

[afloweroutofstone]

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

So I hadn’t scrolled down far enough to see prev and I was watching the video thinking “if DOGE hasn’t already cut this I wonder how long it will be before this program is defunded.” Then I finished watching the video and scrolled down 😭

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[sheafrotherdon]

I do the same thing with the word "interesting." Interesting good? Interesting bad? What do you actually mean?