[aurumacadicus]

I listened to How to Solve Your Own Murder (So good! Very excited to read the rest of the series!) and then started Mother-Daughter Murder Night since it was in second and I didn't want to bother you guys, but now I'm coming to the end of that and want help choosing the next book to listen to on my run please and thank you <3

What should I read next on my runs?

The Royal Game by Linda Keir

Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene

The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry

The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

The Dead Cold Series (Books 1 - 4)

Voting ended onJun 24

[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.

[hellenhighwater]

The tent is up!

[hellenhighwater]

This is a vevor 16.5 ft bell tent (it's gone up in price since I bought it but it's pretty reasonable value for money) painted with latex exterior house paint, the cheapest stuff they had at menards. I used a folding foam mattress on top of the four storage bins my gear was packed in as a cot--quite comfy and practical; I'm going to cut a sheet of plywood as a bin topper and do that again for sure. The guyline shorteners are just sections of 2x2 furring strips, cut and painted. There's documentation on the process for nearly all of this here already.

[hellenhighwater]

And pitched again for the next week.

[hellenhighwater]

Arms

[hellenhighwater]

Greetings from No Bones Jones

[hellenhighwater]

Little ceramic wall shelf for no reason

[hellenhighwater]

This is what my mornings look like

[high-warlock-of-brooklyn]

One of the major ways Elementary stands out from other Holmes adaptations to me is how they wrote Watson. Like it would've been so easy to write her like any other Watson, brilliant, yes, undoubtedly, but forever attached to Sherlock. Watson is there because Sherlock wills it so, because Sherlock needs a rock and because Sherlock Holmes is a man forever in need of a partner. Usually.

But they broke that. They said this is Dr Joan Watson, and she is incandescent and ruthless. She's a surgeon and there's an episode where Sherlock says surgeons have a healthy dose of god complex and you think sure buddy and then Joan threatens Moriarty in the middle of a restaurant and you go, huh. She learns to pick pockets and watches out of boredom. She changed careers over and over again till she found the one that fit. She became a detective and could and would absolutely kill a man and vouch for someone killing a man because it's Sherlock and she loves him very much. She's a partner, in the very literal sense. She kept track of murders as a teenager. She enchanted the most dangerous woman on the planet and EARNED her protection. She's a cancer survivor. She threatens gangs and online hacker conglomerates in free time. She's a mother. She's half of two people who love each other very much. She moved across oceans for him and she would do it again.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Very nice Mid Century Modern 1961 home in Lansing, MI has 4bds, 2ba, 1,817sqft, $274,900 (Zillow's est.: $283,500)

Large closet in the entrance foyer.

And then it opens to a huge living area with big brick fireplace wall.

You can see the kitchen from the living room. The kitchen is 2 steps up, making it sort of a sunken living room.

Original two-tone green cabinetry.

Next to the kitchen there's a nice dining area.

The dining area has sliders to a patio.

This is a family room next to the dining room.

This looks like an indoor grill.

The primary bedroom is quite spacious.

Bath #1 is a standard 3pc.

There's a corridor with a long desk area and laundry, that leads to a walk-in closet.

I would say that the closet was fashioned from one of the bedrooms.

Bd. #3.

The 2nd bath is also standard, but has a lovely mural on the ceiling.

And, bd. #4 is empty except for some storage.

There's an adorable squirrel mural on the outside of the house.

The lovely yard backs up to a large park.

9,147.6sqft lot.

From here you can see the park.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2705-Woodview-Dr-Lansing-MI-48911/74016475_zpid/?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Hey I heard you’re giving out anxiety, can I have 1 anxiety please?

yes, here is a baby oarfish 

[imaramennoodle]

that’s a BABY?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

boy howdy are you in for a treat! introducing, the Oarfish!

MA! THERE’S A WEIRD FUCKING FISH!

Not much is known about Oarfish. Their maximum length is debatable, though there are reports of specimen up to 56 ft long. They live at great depths, and are rarely observed alive. Here’s a relatively small one:

Slightly larger one:

aaaaand, little bigger:

Yeah. these children get long.  hold on a mo’, i might have a better photo

yeah. there we go. a few hundred lbs of Oarfish. like i said, length-variable. that one’s only about 28 feet though. so like, imagine that but double. 

look how excited everyone is. well, everyone but the fish. oh, fun fact! they can self-amputate up to 3/4th of their body. lizard style. 

Historically, Oarfish have been described as sea serpents, and are probably responsible for a fair portion of myths. In Japanese folklore, their appearance portends earthquakes. Though rarely seen, Oarfish live in every ocean. All around the world. Everywhere. No matter what coastline you’re on, they’re always there. Just a few thousand feet below water. Waiting.

Watching.

[flowerbleedme]

JESUS THAT WAS MORE THAN 1 ANXIETY

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I AM A WHOLESALE PROVIDER

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

…when they self-amputate their lower bodies, do you think it just keeps wiggling around down there like a 42-foot-long dismembered lizard tail?

[kyraneko]

Yanking everyone on a tangent into more folklore here but I think the amputated tail should swim around seeking a dead human body and attach itself to make a zombie mermaid.

I know dead humans are not as common in the oceans as they used to be. It will swim up a river if necessary.

Siren-calling to enchant a live human to come be drowned to give it its mermaid form is optional, but gives extra credit.

[foxsnails]

His greed sickens me 🍒 Having fun with water soluable pastels! Might be my new favourite medium, they're very fun :)

[reddherring777]

me: yeah, so one of your most famous works is actually just that commission of a woman that you kept. Honestly, it's less of the piece itself that lead to its fame and more the mystery surrounding it, so I was hoping you could clear that up the decayed corpse of Leonardo Da Vinci that I resurrected: Hai detto che hanno chiamato una tartaruga che combatte il crimine con il mio nome?

[metal-autistic-coven]

Hang on let me translate something real quick

[metal-autistic-coven]

Yeah this is funny

[reddherring777]

[scribblesnsketches05]

more ducks

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When I was a kid, I lived on a farm, and once a year the adults would go duck hunting and bring home a few ducks. One year, it was me and my brother's job to pluck those ducks. We were, like, maybe eight or nine? Plenty old enough to pluck a duck, but with zero experience.

And that zero experience turned out to be a problem, because we hadn't had much to do with birds and the thing about a bird's feathers, right, is that you've got a feather that sits in a little sheath thing that's rooted in the body. So what you want to do is pull the feather and sheath both out. But if you're a little kid who's never done this before, all too often, the feather comes out and leaves the sheath in the body. So we'd be doing our best but the ducks would come out maybe a quarter plucked properly and otherwise still full of these feather sheaths, and then it's a matter of going back and pulling all these little sheaths out.

I remember quite clearly, my mother and aunt helping us with this part, because it's fiddly and we were taking forever. They'd take the plucked ducks and re-pluck them properly. And I remember my mum making a remark to my aunt (not maliciously, she didn't know I could hear and was just making conversation), "You know, it would've been easier for us to just do it from the start and not have to deal with all these fiddly little bits." And she was absolutely right -- my brother and I were involved for our benefit in the same way you get a young kid to "help" wash the dishes, we were learning a life skill. But even though we'd done most of the work, we'd removed most of the unwanted mass from the duck's skin, we'd actually made things harder. We'd removed all the feathers and a quarter of the sheaths, but the sheaths are much easier to remove with the feathers attached, so working on a "mostly plucked" duck was a lot more work for the adults than just doing the whole duck from scratch would have been.

Anyway, I vividly remember this incident every time someone suggests saving time by writing with AI and then just editing it into something good.

[dashcon-two]

VirtualDash Panel Programming!!!

Welcome, welcome, one and all, to the VirtualDash panel programming! We are very excited to share with you the list of all the panels that will exclusively be running virtually. Panel programming will run from 10am - midnight EDT on Saturday August 1st, and 8am - midnight EDT on Sunday August 2nd.

Get your VirtualDash ticket over at https://simpli.events/e/virtualdash-2026

DashCon 2 - and by extension, VirtualDash - run during the weekend of August 1st and 2nd 2026. However, we are also running a short-but-sweet block of virtual-exclusive programming the weekend prior to DashCon 2! Join us on July 25th for the Tumblr History Kahoot by @anonymoussong and a few other treats :)

Saturday August 1st panels

Saturday, we have a very special treat for everyone. We are hosting Tumblr University! These panels are educational, extra-curricular, or a mix of both. We hope you enjoy your classes - and maybe we'll even host a Tumblr Prom for all of our graduates!

'Frog tongues attach at the front of the mouth' and other fun facts: science and stories from the Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum Denmark - @markscherz

Fanmusic: How to Create the Illusive Middle Child of Fandom - @caramiaaddio

Unmasking the Masq: What to know before joining your first Cosplay Masquerade - @mackdizzy

Yarn wig styling with Julie Joyful!

3AM to Ao3: A Guide to Writing and Posting Your First Fanfiction - @publiccmenace

Fanwork Exchanges 101 - @antimony-medusa , @mackdizzy , @jaybin-superiority , @creetchure , and @that-fall-guy

The Muppet Joker's Quiet Sock Puppet Craft Corner - @the-muppet-joker

Syd and Marti Dissect Classic Literature: Why The Road not Taken by Robert Frost is an Allegory for Dreamnotfound - @disaster-syd and 

Strange Croaker (TTRPG) - @em-7dice

Sunday August 2nd panels:

On Sunday, we have a grab bag of panels somewhere on the spectrum between informative and bonkers, with some deep dives into Internet/Tumblr/DashCon 2 history and peculiarities!

Bionicle and Gender - @LucasBuilds

"I block all blaze posts, but yours." - @millenniallust4death

The Unofficial Neopets Crash Course to Late Stage Capitalism

Unsinkable: A History of Shipping Culture - @watchinghimrakeleaves

Underpants on the Outside - @ohnoitstbskyen

Intro to Presidentblr (Or How I Found Myself Dedicating an Absurd Amount of My Time Pretending to be President Richard Nixon on Tumblr) - @nixon-official

A Musical Analysis of Shrek: Let’s Get this Ogre and Done With - @biggestdumbestduck

da fanfiction of da fanfiction: Adapting My Immortal for the Stage - @myimmortalplay

Vampires Never Die: Why Vampire Fiction & Symbolism Never Goes Out of Style - @yvesdot

Gregoria: A Historia - Lizzie Teddy & Gregory

We still have a few surprises in store, so LOOK OUT! :3

[millenniallust4death]

The list of panels at Virtual DashCon is now available!

The Laura Hour™ is on Sunday, August 2: "I block all blaze posts, but yours."

Not only does my panel have a banger title, but there will be lots of opportunities for audience engagement. You, too, can participate in the extremely Tumblr experience of collectively examining something way too deeply because we accidentally developed an emotional attachment to it. XD

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

white Heathcliff casting is of course unconscionable but I do think someone should have let a young Nic Cage take a crack at it. performance would have been crazy. imagine the accent work.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

he could have been the best white Heathcliff to ever do it.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

everyone making direct reference to Cage's performance in Moonstruck understands the vision perfectly