Writing Cave

this blog is 99% queued content, but I do check in on it every now and then. Asks are open!

[i-am-a-fish]

this is a loving reminder that you can use tumblr on your browser with an ad blocker for a better quality of life, I'm of the opinion you should never be forced to see anything ever

[frenchtugboat]

Chromium is now completely removing manifest V2 support. This impacts chromium based browsers like chrome, edge, opera, and brave.

If you want to continue to use effective tools like uBlock Origin, you'll need to make the switch to a browser using a different engine that supports manifest V2, like firefox.

[theoldaeroplane]

If you're on android I highly recommend checking out Revanced as well. It can patch official apps like Tumblr, reddit, and YouTube to block ads and do things like enable background play on YT.

[rockytheeridian]

YELENA BELOVA trying to protect and comfort her past selves in THUNDERBOLTS* (2025)

[fasterpussycatgifgif]

“All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first, they must catch you—digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

(Watership Down, 1978. Dir. Martin Rosen.)

[dl4draws]

mr richard!

[sharkfiinn]

[annabelle--cane]

I will be honest if someone posted "I'm a tutor and everyday I watch zoomers try to double tap on books to open them" thousands of you would reblog it and tag "😱 it's so scary that this is what all kids today are really like they're so helpless and stupid omg!!! those damn kids need to get off their phones!!!!"

[annabelle--cane]

things a concerning amount of people aged 25-40 on this site believe about today's children:

they don't know how to read and this makes them mean and dumb. also even though their meanness and dumbness are the result of poor education, they are still personal character flaws that deserve to be mocked.

they are responsible for wide scale censorship in schools and on social media. because, as we all know, children are famously politically powerful, never want to see horny or edgy content, and love it when books are banned in their school libraries.

they love to spread misinformation around so they can all armchair diagnose each other and act like they have learning disabilities in order to excuse their laziness about doing school work. obviously they are all liars and just need to just get their acts together and grow up instead of shirking responsibility for their actions like this.

they are uniquely cruel in comparison to past generations, and this is because of Phone. and also TikTok. no one has ever been cruel like this before.

they would all be much better off with their parents monitoring their internet usage. if they're closeted and their parents are homophobic then, well, sucks for them. kids being abused out of sight is better than them being annoying where I can see them.

[psychicpinenut]

incredible how well lit shows used to be

[psychicpinenut]

tv used to look like this... i'm killing myself

[psychicpinenut]

if you even care

[pitviperofdoom]

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."

[elizabethanism]

On this day in 1953, novelist Shirley Jackson replied to a disappointed reader.

[jakzibi]

"?" redraw of my 2023 work

[theknightlywolfe]

When the CEO of the company that didn't turn away Nazi business says "this isn't going to work" you know it's bad.

[unrelatedwaffle]

404 has been knocking it out of the park since they started. Please support their original reporting on this! If you subscribe to nothing else I highly recommend them. Their podcast is great too.

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

[homunculus-argument]

The reason they make you do group project at school is as a preventative measure against falling into conspiracy theories as an adult. The vast majority of the population can and will come out of the experience with a much better understanding of just how goddamn impossible it is to make multiple people do what they were supposed to do, everything they were supposed to do, and nothing but what they were supposed to do. You can't make five people do that, and yet billions of people are keeping this supposed machine rolling?

[cypherdrgon]

Phm from Adrian's perspective is just what if you were Penelope and Odysseus came home but he also brought a jellyfish and keeps begging you to build a fish tank for the jellyfish and make jellyfish food for the jellyfish and youre an ancient Greek whos never seen a jellyfish and you cant even comprehend how your going to do it but youre going to because if you dont Odysseus may kill himself. And also the jellyfish can do like. Witchcraft.

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[kate-komics]

Well it’s gettin close to harvestin time on the ol’ Kent farm

[baltharino]

Spider-Man: The Animated Series 1x06 - "The Sting of the Scorpion"

[beyiii123]

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