LadyStrangeKnight

Here | Queer | Filled with Existential Fear Banner by me; profile pic made using @hellosunnycore's Picrew

[dbmartist]

Mistborn - wallpaper!!

It took a while, but here it is! A poster of the first era of Mistborn. Vin, Elend, Kelsier... do you recognize them all? Would you like more posters from other eras or series?

[fuck-it-darling]

I finished Hero of Ages and was left completely speechless for 10 minutes…soooo here I am🫠 SPOILERS BELOW‼️

Sazed: Poppies for peace after conflict, hope and resilience, rest and eternal life. The two orbs besides his hands represent Ruin and Preservations power given to him.

Vin: Chrysanthemums for passion, courage truth and honesty. The halo is the same colors as Sazed’s robes to show his guidance on her in the early years and also her power that was given to him. The mist around her is different than Eland’s and Kelsier’s to show her actually pulling in the mists with her own power.

Eland: Gladiolus represent honor, courage in battle, respect and remembrance. The blue halo is the same as Vin’s sky and represent him gaining his power from the Well of Ascension. Him and Vin also mirror each other in a yin and yang pattern.

Kelsier: Tulips for freedom. The red halo is the same red as Vin’s chrysanthemums to show his martyrdom and his passion and guidance passed onto Vin.

I fucking love this series dude✨

[nyaa]

“omg you’re just blogging for attention”

and you’re blogging??? for gold? Women? Immortality?

[geekandmisandry]

[sapphicsocialistspacegamer]

Love interest be like, "I can't control my necromancy powers and am bringing everything back to life, but lots of them come back wrong/evil. It isn't safe for you here and you should leave." And our main character is like, "I have dealt with anxiety and panic attacks my whole life and honestly, now that I know I'm not overreacting and there IS spooky shit going on, I am oddly calm about it. I am ride or die for you, girl. Let's go dig up a grave and kill some undead things." Romance.

[sabertoothwalrus]

I DO think tumblr's dev team has been instructed to constantly implement new features and that's why they keep tweaking the UI in goofy ways. I imagine this is an upper management thing, so even if we say "well don't change anything and just maintain the status quo" they'll continue to make other changes anyway.

I will admit I REALLY like the recent improvements they've added to tumblr's search (you can exclude terms now!! you can search multiple tags!! and time frames!!) so it's not like they're incapable of adding useful features. it might be mutually beneficial for us as users if we were more vocal about things we want and don't want. Some features I'd like to see added:

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spoilerable images

the return of hover text!! remember when we had that?

ability to embed videos in reblogs

ANIMATED GIF ICONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ability to turn off other people's animated gif icons

the ability to filter original posts on a user's ENTIRE blog, not just a tag/search

more html support, like what if we could build tables

adding reactions to replies! I'm glad we can like them more but it'd be nice if we could take this further

embeddable tiktoks?? I don't even use tiktok but I remember trying to embed one in like 2020 and I'm surprised we still can't! even vines were able to be embedded

being able to search in your DMs. not being able to do this is why I tend to redirect mutuals to discord

MUTING USERS POSTS/COMMENTS WITHOUT BLOCKING THEM! just cause I don't want to see someone's posts doesn't mean I don't want us to never interact ever

a mutual-only dashboard feed

a feed for the blogs you're subscribed to

get rid of tumblr tv lmao I've literally never used it

"mark as read" button for communities without opening them

please dear god no AI shit unless it's a way for me to filter/block it easier

several of these I've submitted support tickets for under "feedback", and if there's anything you feel strongly about I suggest you do too!

[kedreeva]

Hey hang on a second

As important as it was to contact Tumblr when they made that asinine, fucked up change, now that they've reversed it, you have a chance to say thanks for reversing it.

I know that you're probably still riding the high (negative) from the stress of going through yesterday's changes, and worrying about the fate of your community, and how badly the change would have affected creators. We banded together, and we let the staff know that we didn't like what they were doing, and you know what? They listened. That's part of why we're here on Tumblr and not other places that would have just shoved that down our throats regardless of the hundreds of thousands of complaints. Yeah, they fucked up. Big time. But they also backed off, and it's important to speak on that front as well if you want them to do it again later.

So, even though you may still be mad that they did it at all, take a moment and a breath, and click here. Select feedback if it isn't already selected. And just say "Hey, thanks for listening to your users, and for rolling back the change. I like my community here, and I like that you listened to us when we asked you not to do something we didn't like." It doesn't need to be elaborate. But if we want them to listen to us, making it worth listening to us is a step in the process.

Which also means that if you added a negative review somewhere due to this update, consider retracting or editing it to address the back track on the update. If you were a premium user and you cancelled in order to speak with your money to object to the change, consider speaking again now that you've been listened to.

Staff fucked up. But I'd rather have a staff that fucks up sometimes and then actually listens to its users and fixes or tries to fix it, than a staff that fucks up and pushes through to force the fuck up on everyone. So I'm going to thank them for listening this time, and I'm going to encourage them to listen again next time.

[quitodrawsstuff]

Mentally I’m still here

[not-a-choice]

I have succumbed to the madness and done another Big Art.

This is the transcript of the bed video (well, some of it. it's a long video) handwritten using nine different colors of ink. Process under the cut.

(cw - flashing images from 0:14 to 0:59)

I'm really really happy with this one. This is the first of these big pieces where I feel like it turned out exactly how I pictured it. Tempted to do another one (or two?) since I only got through about a third of the transcript.

[stuffandatherstuff]

I wish i had the words to really say it but, the way the cosmere inaracts with religon. In every story, in wvery world, for better or worst.

Its just.

Religion is good. Religion is nad. Religion is complicated. Religion is an inate part of a culture. Religion is controling. Religion is a form of unity. Religion can protect you. Religion is currupt. Religion will save you. Religion will be used against you. Religion can teach you about the world. Religion holds the truth. Religion is a lie.

[catcas22]

The best part of Warbreaker is that each character thinks they're in a very different book.

Susebron: "I'm the prince from a cautionary fairy tale!"

Siri: "I'm the rebellious protagonist girl from a light-dystopian YA novel!"

Blushweaver: "I'm a master manipulator from Game of Thrones!"

Nightblood: "I'm in a buddy cop comedy! Oh, or a sword anime! Oh OH! I'm Pinocchio and I'm going to be a real boy!"

Vasher: "No we're not, and no you're fucking not."

Lightsong: "I'm the Hardy Boys! From the Hardy Boys!"

Vivenna: "I'M IN HELL!!!!!!"

[knitmeapony]

Do it for the meme. http://blinkingguy.com

[whimsicalmane]

i checked the thing

there is only like only has been 35$ raised

[mirrorleaf]

Signal boost April 2025. $240 raised...

[ruffboi-mags]

February 2026: $72,835.10/75,000 goal raised

heck yeah y'all :)

[earsandtailsarefeet]

I'll give that a shout.

The off label drug research run by the MS Society and MS Trust in the UK and the National MS Society in the US are the only reason I can walk right now. Decent charities.

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie8]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[catgirlthecrazy]

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

[mikkeneko]

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

...

Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

[huckleberryhal]

Grandma Ferret. (X)

[huckleberryhal]

Today’s Grandma Ferret

[fairycosmos]

im not complaining because i expect you to fix anything im complaining to bond with you. omggggg find your hater spirit

[joeyclaire]

you are not an endearingly rude and unfriendly cartoon character you need to be nice to people

[joeyclaire]

coming from a place of love btw i still have to remind myself this often. i’m very autistic i know what it’s like to think of yourself as like a lovable character with quirky flaws because your sense of identity comes from fiction but you are a Living Person and that’s not how it works to be a living person

[joeyclaire]

not enough people are reblogging this version which is fine but i think they should. I Know Ball i still struggle with this i Get It

[danisnotonfirebrand]

Happiest of Birthdays, Phil "AmazingPhil" Lester (1/30/87) 🎉✨️

[rollercoasterwords]

my tumblr mutuals will take characters from media that is not very good & construct such rich & intricate inner worlds for them in their posts that i will go wow that sounds so compelling let me go check this out….& then the canon character will be like. relatively boring with very little interiority. but that’s okay because sometimes the real character is the one my tumblr mutuals hallucinated along the way….