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

[glumshoe]

someone fired a bullet through our bathroom wall the other day when we were gone, which is scary (but probably accidental), but the weirdest part is that we can’t actually find the place where it entered from outside... the wall inside is fucked up and you can see the hole where it came through, but there is no corresponding entrance hole on the exterior of the house. somehow the outer paneling was undamaged.

[glumshoe]

I think the exterior of the house is asbestos siding which apparently hides bullet holes really well.

There’s also a dent on the opposite wall where the bullet bounced off, and it looks like it had a really bizarre trajectory. Anyway, the neighbors say it was from a car chase where bullets went flying everywhere, so I’m not actually worried beyond “wow hope that doesn’t happen near me again”.

[mythopoetry]

This is the most American post I have ever seen

[glumshoe]

“someone fired a bullet through my asbestos from a car chase” yeah fair

[urgetocreate]

Sheila Anderson Hardy (Scottish b.1956), Silver Moon, 2022, Oil on canvas

[bisexualdinahlance]

Percolating thoughts about the fact that a lot of Shane's "weird" and neurotic habits would likely have been tolerated and looked upon with a certain fondness by friends and teammates once he hit a certain level of "good enough". They'll razz him about it to the press sometimes but like, accept it wholeheartedly as something that helps make him as good as he is.

[saltlessseaotter]

Every so often someone decides they should add more letters to the LGBT+ initialism and it always starts discourse every single time it happens, and every time I'm just further convinced that we need to be using Queer instead of a bunch of individual letters that represent specific granular identities

[saltlessseaotter]

Pros of "queer":

Inherently inclusive (a lot harder to pull acephobic or "LGB without the T" type bullshit when you don't base the legitimacy of your community on an arbitrary and ever changing list of individual identities)

Less susceptible to misguided or bad faith attempts to center non-queer identites in discussion of queer topics

An actual word that can be comfortably used in a sentence and take on grammatical functions without sounding like a government organization

Cons of "queer":

Tiktok iPad babies think it's yucky for some reason???

Queer bigots get big angey they don't get to be special morally upstanding LGBTs, unlike those degenerate pervert Other Queers™

[sleeepy-sun]

Its also so funny when people say "yeah but queer was a slur!!!!!"

Ok? So was gay? So was lesbian? But youre fine with those. Curious.

[ymutate]

Bob Crooks, b1965, London

Glasswork

https://www.bobcrooks.com/index.html

[shamebats]

[luckynein]

Ah, trans broken arm syndrome.

[ymutate]

William Hawkins (American Artist, born 1962)

"Glory Clouds", 2025.

Oil on Canvas, 50.8 × 40.6 cm.

Private Collection.

[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.