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The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021Â
not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool
ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
Movement nudge, walkies!
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I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
People really need to take a wider view of this paranoia about age gaps and realise this is how we lose the ability to build communities. You need to be able to realise that people can have things in common with you even if they grew up in a different time/place/culture. You also need to realise you can build communities with people who don’t have obvious things in common with you, that people can have the same goals and needs as you even if in most ways they’re very unlike you. Now, more than ever, we need to be able to work together to have any chance to stand ip against the few who have so, so much more power, money and influence than any of us do individually. We need to form communities that reach across age (and class and race and sexuality and so on…).
This is one of those topics I feel very strongly about and agree completely with the points in this post.
I struggle to make fandom friends on Tumblr, and sometimes I worry that it is because people in their 20s think they can't be friends with someone in their 40s. That I'm uncool, weird, cringe, intimidating, or just too different from them.
But things don't change as much with age as most think. Older people still are silly, awkward, overwhelmed, enthusiastic, confused, playful, irresponsible, obsessive, dumb, cool, horny, and all these other things young people think we stop feeling or being as we get older. We're just humans. I am really great friends with someone on here more than 20 years younger than me because we have so much in common! You can't tell that we're different ages when we chat.
And also—you can be friends with people who you do NOT have much in common with! Because fundamentally, you always have humanity in common.
Years ago, there was this lady in my community who was maybe 30 years older than me and who I knew was far more conservative than me. I dismissed her as someone I didn't want to spend any time with because she was obviously too different than me. But, I was forced to spend some time with her (long story), and guess what? I became really good friends with her! Because I found out I was wrong about all those things that made her different than me? NO! I was right about that—she was just as annoyingly conservative as I had suspected. BUT that wasn't the whole of her person. She was so much richer than that. There were lots of things I didn't know about her. A few of those things were commonalities, but overall, we still didn't have much in common—but that didn't matter. We could still be kind to each other, help each other, respect each other, even enjoy each other's company if we stuck to topics where we didn't clash too badly. I feel really bad for judging her, and I'm so glad I gave her a chance.
So yes, please make friends with people who are not your same age. You probably have more in common than you think, and even if you don't, that doesn't matter. We're all humans and we need each other. Our communities need us to get along.
I'm 40. My bestie is in her early 60s. We met in 2014 on tumblr thru fandom. make inter-generational friends!!! <3
The constant framing of an older person interacting with a younger person as something with clearly predatory intent is a huge part of the problem. Learn to spot actual grooming behavior and patterns, don't substitute a difference in age for your actual judgment. This pedojacketing shit has to stop. We were not meant to stick to only socializing with people within two years of our own age. That is not how you have a functioning society.
Also, we built these sites and all the source material for your fandoms. Stop acting like it's weird for us to be in our own damn houses. Learn to talk to people older than you. Go learn to quilt.
When I was 13 or 14 I joined a yahoo group for Dr Who fans. I was the youngest person in that group. For YEARS I would talk online with these people and meet up with them at conventions. People old enough to be my parents and grandparents. And these people loved me. They looked after me at events, they made sure that when we all went out together it was somewhere I could join (like when someone new didn’t know I was a minor and suggested we all go for drinks and everyone said “hey let’s do pizza instead”).
As I got older I could ask them for advice and know I could trust it. Some of them even came to my wedding. I knew some of them better than their own kids did and I was younger than their kids!
Through this I learned what a healthy friendship with adults was like (we had a funny situation where one of my long time convention friends showed up as a substitute teacher in my high school class), thus making me LESS susceptible to predation by creeps. Inter generational friendships have many benefits, one of them being having many safe adults to learn and grow around so that when an unsafe adult comes your way you can not only tell, but you have people to tell.
STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.
Animated Goncharov.
Definitely that one.
unless, hear me out...
Muppet Goncharov
Look at these idiots who haven't seen Gonzorov (1993).
Reblogging entirely for Gonzorov.
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She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
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Me: *Scrolling Tumblr*
A beloved mutual: *Posts Discworld posts*
Me: This isn't the anniversary of his death, is it? Pretty sure that's back in March. It's - Oh.
Oh.
So anyway, a Glorious 25th of May to you all.
what scares me the most about episode nine of the testaments is that Garth was fully in Daisy's corner until she told him she made it up. She forgets that while he is MayDay, he is still a "raised in Gilead" man. She forgets that this would have consequences for him too. She forgets that as her handler he has power over her. She should have kept it a secret from him as well. Because he is...no, he is not going to handle it well. Now his fiance has been taken by the Eyes, a man is dead, and he knows it's all because she lied. she has shown him she is a liability to his cause. If she had kept mum even to him, he would have done whatever he could to support her even with the death of Dr. Grove and the imprisonment of Becka. Now though, he may hold this over her head for a long ass time.
Daisy probably should have bidden her time and had a few more teeth cleaning sessions with Dr. Grove so he would let his guard down and actually try something so she could scream for help. And I know she did it the way she did so he wouldn't have the opportunity to harm the girls any more. But now Garth can see she has too much desire for justice to make a good spy. At best, he gets her out of there. At worst, he turns her in and spins it so that no matter what accusations she throws at him in return as taken as the ravings of a traitor.
Daisy was warned not to trust anybody in Gilead and yet she can't seem to stop trusting. She wants people to be good. She wants her friends to be safe and happy. She wants someone she can confide everything in. She didn't receive nearly enough training from MayDay, not nearly enough education on what she would find in Gilead. Rita only told her that the girls there are vigilant in a way she has never had to be and that she couldn't trust anyone, but never gave her any training to deal with the isolation. So my biggest fear is that she has trusted the wrong person here.
Yes, she is a teenager. But unlike the girls in Gilead, she was not brainwashed from childhood. I don't blame her for her sense of justice - i would feel exactly the same - I blame May Day (and Rita) for sending a piece into play without the necessary training and understanding of what she was going to have to sacrifice for the cause.
Amazing news! My brilliant and talented wife has started sharing her (gay!) fantasy novel on substack!!! Go read and subscribe!!!
This is an old project that is mostly done. I have 32 chapters mostly done. I will write more if I get some engagement. Sharing it to remind
This is the writer who gave me the idea for Sha Ka Ree, who co-wrote "Printer Perfect," who wrote "Second Thoughts of a Secondhand Person," and who is responsible for the comedic brilliance of @shitmygaywifesays (she's the wife).
The book she is sharing on substack is a tour de force. It's heartfelt, hilarious, inspiring, romantic, painful, and full of characters that feel so human. And the world building is honking AMAZING. I've been a fan of "Hadrian the Scholar" since she first conceptualized it, and the fact that she is letting other people read it for once???? I am excited to have other fans with whom to scream about it!!!! Go read! And tell me all about it!!!
I come to you in the body of the main post and not the tags for once to tell you something very important. READ THIS. READ THIS IMMEDIATELY. ITS SO GOOD. I remember reading drafts of it in college and adoring it and Wondering when I would see an end to it. The fact that there could soon be more Hadrian fans than can be comfortably counted on one hand is IMMENSELY exciting. Please give this hilarious motherfucker the attention they so richly deserve, if only so we (I) can finally see the conclusion to it
Ah! Oh my god I can’t wait!! I haven’t read this since college and I can’t wait to see how it’s changed!!!
Merlin approaches the king’s chambers with a handful of flowers. Before he enters, he offers a bright sunny smile to the guards on duty.
“John, have some flowers. Samuel, these are for you.”
He splits the flowers between the two of them and waltzes into the chamber empty handed. John and Samuel look at each other.
“Merlin’s nice.”
“Yeah, I like him. My wife is gonna wonder who is giving me flowers though.”
A time later, Merlin backs through the door again, this time with a basket of the King’s laundry in his arms. King Arthur follows him.
“-and another thing!” Before he notices the flowers his guards have.
“Why…are you lot holding flowers?”
“Oh, Merlin gave them to us.”
The King whips around to see Merlin’s retreating back.
“Oi! Why do they get flowers?”
“John and Samuel work hard! They deserve flowers!”
The King looks like steam could come out of his ears. “I work hard! I run a kingdom, Merlin!”
“But I like John and Samuel!”
“Merlin!”
“What’s that? I can’t hear you over the sound of how much laundry I’m carrying! Bye!” And Merlin vanishes around a corner. The King scoffs - more like a growl - and storms back into his chambers.
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“Suddenly, I don’t think my wife will mind the flowers.”
Merlin— Merlin! Are you watching? Did you see me? Did you? // Training grounds // @merlinbingo
Arthur crawls out of the lake of Avalon and sees old Merlin’s joyful, tear soaked face. His face screws up.
“DRAGOON? Of all the people I have to share the future with, it’s YOU? Wasn’t Merlin supposedly the most powerful sorcerer of all time? Why isn’t he here? I’m stuck with YOU?”
Merlin stops crying with joy. This…this is what he didn’t miss about the clotpole.
this is one of my favorite reddit posts of all time
God forbid Chippy do anything
You absolutely must unmute this video.
Reblogging this one again because @chimericaloutlier and I quote it to each other on a almost a daily basis.
Enjoy more fanart of The Adjuster
Any time I try to register a username and I see that it is taken and I have to put numbers behind mine to be allowed to use it…I want to find the person who took my username and challenge them to a duel