there's a phrase that goes here

The awkward look out of the corner of your eye when you don't remember how you met the person standing next to you

[marzipanilla]

I'm reading a mystery novel on loan from the library and one of the previous folks has left some commentary (in pencil) on a few of the pages pointing out plot holes and complaining of pacing and it's given me a good reason to smile

[natalieironside]

Testosterone? But I didn't study

[crystaltoa]

Gender presentation? But I hate public speaking!

[natalieironside]

Birth assignment?? They're giving kids homework earlier and earlier smh

[charseraph]

No one knows if finishing a drawing is possible

[jamiemoonymarks]

Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

[fieldbears]

If I didn't want readers to chew on it, I wouldn't have spent all that time on the mouthfeel

[flightrising]

Happy Pride, dragons!

🤍 🩵 🩷 🤎 🖤 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜

To our LGBTQIA+ staff, community, friends, and family, thank you. You are beautiful as you are, and you are loved.

The world is better and brighter with you in it and we're so glad you're here. We're proud to share space with you.

Fly high, fly free, and let your voice roar!

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[herpsandbirds]

Earless Monitor Lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis), family Lanthanotidae, endemic to Borneo

ENDANGERED.

Semi-aquatic.

Closely related to the true monitor lizards in the family Varanidae.

The only member of its family.

They do have inner ears, and are capable of hearing, despite the lack of ear openings and tympana.

photograph by Will Hunt

[marzipanilla]

please elaborate on the parasitic viltrumites omg omg omg. u've mentioned this before but i beg. wydm nolan WAS human, that's so cool????

What if Nolan was a guy who finds [thing] and assumes [thing] gives him super powers and its kinda silly and fun and then he realizes actually [thing] is not object I can throw away. And what if he slowly remembers things that are not his memories and slowly loses time and his body changes and he can't do shit about it. And then I remembered the cordyceps fact about how that just manipulates your muscles and your brain is 100% intact and I was like, wow, wouldn't it suck if this guy was eventually stuck inside of his own body 100% not in control watching a bunch of horrific shit happen. how fucked would that be.

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[lazyscience]

So apparently this source is not super reliable so take with a grain of salt, but enough people chipping in in the replies who have seen it in person that the part about the paper and broken jewels seems legit and that speaks to me not just on a practical level but of Jareth and what he's offering, a beautiful soap-bubble dream in the moonlight but one that tears if you touch it, reveals its constriction and weight and lack of substance in daylight. The goblin king's ballgown is a magpie's nest, beglamored, unwearable.

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[auncyen]

the link in that last reblog doesn't work (at least not for me) so here's what seems to be the relevant post.

[achillesinhighheels]

sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and i'm losing sense of time

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Luis Camnitzer - The Photograph (1981)

[gastronauticsyd]

The Screenshot (2014)

[fredersen]

The Reblog (2014)

[toratiger-deactivated20211204]

Bahahahaha love this

[processintegrated]

The Unnecessary Comment (2014)

[grumpygreenwitch]

The Revival (2026)

[guiltfactory]

i would like if something horrible and invasive was happening to him and his boundaries were violated and he was uncomfortable and scared

[luna-azzurra]

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.

[joepickett]

Galavant 1.05

[fellshish]

i feel bad for people who don’t read fan fiction. imagine only having canon

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions