Meret

This tumblr sometimes deals with adult topics. Please come back when you're 18 or older. I'm Meret on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Meret I don't use ai, and never will!

[meret118]

My Fics and Bookmarks on AO3

My Fic Recs on Tumblr

My Fics on Tumblr

[king-carnivore]

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

[king-carnivore]

tbh, i didn't even think about that when i made my post and holy shit you're so fucking right

[ltwilliammowett]

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

[dragon-in-a-fez]

not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool

[dubiousculturalartifact]

ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted

[ponytailcoby]

[daddario]

[shillanov]

see here we have exhibits a and b. our scientific conclusion: man is down bad. he would not make it if shane became a retail worker at the gap

[meret118]

I don't see it that way. Yes, he absolutely wants Shane in the second gifs, but from the beginning he's holding a part of himself back IMO. There's deliberate distance there from Ilya we don't see in the open delight in the first gifs. I think it's in large part because he'll be in Russia soon, and he's already in protective mode. But also because while he can't resist the pull of Shane, he doesn't want to get too close to him either because it will make leaving even more painful.

[pride-knightess]

Since people seem to like my pride outfit!

[pride-knightess]

Woah woah this has 1000 notes. I'm super flattered and I will bench press each and every one of you.

[ambientradiation]

I can't believe you're this many notes in and nobody knows you handstitched the flag.

[pride-knightess]

Oh hell was i supposed to mention that?

I handstitched the flag.

[pride-knightess]

I clearly should've mentioned it sooner.

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[meret118]

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

I think I'm going to try and get into the habit of that with everything. Thanks for this!

[k-wame]

[striving-artist]

Oh hey, a shorter version of my rant

[boschintegral-photo]

Lilacs

[meret118]

Homeward bound by Katzynia

Summary:

"What the fuck do you want?" Ilya snaps on the phone. "Father's dead," Alexei says and Ilya feels it in his chest like a physical blow. -- Ilya hears his father is dead, right there in the locker room, surrounded by his team.

[emziess]

Shane & his parents // Ilya & his parents Heated Rivalry, S01E01

[themoonandmyman]

Can we talk about how both David and Grigori are on the right side of the frame, Yuna is to the left of Shane- but to the left of Ilya is just a sharp drop.

[heymacy]

It's my special day, Hollander. I want to watch.

[charliebugz]

a ironic “burlesque show” about humans pretending to be vampires that is actually made a real vampire…

lestat i’m sensing a theme here

[meret118]

Sneaky Magpies Outwit Scientists by Removing Tracking Devices

The trackers were supposed to track movement behaviors but instead uncovered an unusual problem-solving behavior

[meret118]

Got another of those fake verification mentions in a reply, went to the page to block it, and it shut my browser down every time. I had to paste the URL in my block list to do it. And I'm still getting notices from it in my replies even though I blocked the page. WTF?

ETA: That's the 5th one in a day and half I think.

[hoechlinth]

3x16//3x19

Stiles and Derek + Being self-sacrificing cuties (even though they say they won’t)

[o-fortunate-adulescens-deactiva]

sometimes, people don’t understand that we are hated for being autistic. “But I don’t hate autistic people!”.

That’s right! Because you don’t know how autistic people are.

You know, people never bullied me for being autistic. Because neither me nor they had the terminology. Nah, they punished me for being weird. And what made me weird to their eyes? I spoke weird and often stumbled, and I spoke like a grownup anyway, and I wouldn’t shut up about Ancient Greece. I moved weird too, because I was (am) really clumsy, and I didn’t have any friends. I was boring and didn’t catch jokes (made at my expense) and I didn’t look them in the eye, and so on and on.

If you asked any of the people who bullied me for years whether they hate autistic people, they’d say “no!”. Because they don’t hate autistic people, but oh boy do they hate weird people. Perhaps they don’t hate autistic people, but surely they hated me for being obviously autistic.

[t0rnado0fs0uls]

I’ve been trying to explain this concept to a lot of people. You did a really good job summing it up.