[nuclearpowerstation]

New url

millenniumbreak->nuclearpowerstation

[forcewound]

[theuglymachine]

I forged the blackguard's blade from Realis based on art from the manual by Gryme (bottom picture)

[hopeless-eccentric]

if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills with my first two wishes, my third wish would be that sabrina carpenter would get gradually taller. she'd be in on it and think it was hilarious. we'd have a strong cap at 7 feet here, maybe an inch a week so people have time to theorize--let's not be ridiculous. but she'd still keep up the "ooh! im so little and small!" schtick. but shed be gradually getting taller. she'd be like 6'1" and still jumping for the microphone. and she'd never say anything about it. and if anyone asked shed act like she had no idea what they were talking about. and shed cheekily play into it a little bit but mostly still keep up the "ooh im so little and small" schtick. do you see my vision. do you get it

[hopeless-eccentric]

ok and so if i met a genie and fixed the world and all its ills in one wish i would do the sabrina carpenter thing second and third i would wish for all evidence of one random taylor swift song to disappear from the world once every month or so. taylor would have no memory of it. her fans would remember it and there would be an outcry over where it went (it's not even in concert videos anymore!) but taylor would have no memory of it

instead, all her brainspace spent on that song would be replaced with the vivid memories of roman gladiator, taylaurius velox. she's able to hide this at first, but her music begins to take on a gradually romaner and romaner tint. at first, people are like "damn, she's getting REALLY conservative, huh" and other people are like "wow, she's so deep, she knows what a rubicon is" but eventually travis kelce leaves her out of nowhere (he wasn't sure if dating someone possessed by a roman gladiator made him gay or not and anyway he was getting sick of being like "we're going to play the lions" and taylor being like "LIONS? WHERE?") and taylor publishes an entire brutus themed album about this betrayal and it's beginning to weird people out

and so eventually travis kelce is getting like, bomb threats sent to his family for leaving taylor and eventually he's like "okay, okay, i left her because she kept having all these vivid nightmares of gladatorial combat and she kept saying that football was giving her the ick because we never actually killed anybody for the glory of rome" and then he just gets more bomb threats because he left a struggling woman during a mental health crisis

and eventually taylor is writing music about her forbidden roman senator lover and her fanbase is either whittled WAY down or WAY up because people want to watch this trainwreck happen (or maybe she influences culture so hard that we're just all really into rome now) but she's being super cagey about the name of this roman senator. until. and now here's the twist:

weird al has been getting all of the same vivid memories of taylaurius velox. and he still has all his memories of her old songs. so he's writing all these detailed song parodies of taylor swift songs that don't exist anymore including specific details about their shared gladiatorial reality that taylor has never shared with anybody else. including that her lover's name was publius, and she's been calling him Poob for short

at this point a lot of original swifties are leaving. they could do the brutus stuff, but they really can't survive poob. taylor makes a clapping back at the haters song including the lyric "these bitches don't know publius" and it ends up all over all sorts of merch. there's a renewed archaeological interest in roman gladatorial combat

most importantly, the internet discourse is the best it's ever been. does this make taylor swift transmasc? is travis kelce problematic for leaving his fiancee while she gradually morphs into a roman gladiator? is this good queer representation? if taylaurius velox was a gay man, does that mean the gaylors were technically correct? is weird al morally wrong for capitalizing off of her music if she cant remember it anymore? was weird al sent by god to torment taylor swift?

anyway thats what id do if i met a genie

[officialbizness]

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[amygdalae]

challengers was a real as fuck movie tbh if I was Zendaya levels of beautiful id just be psychosexually tormenting beautiful bisexual twinks every day of my life

[artemissoftstepper]

need a bad sleep reset

this is a very delicate operation which involves not falling asleep until the late enough tomorrow that i can get a normal nights sleep

[voxelfoxkae]

[iwantwings44]

[haveyouever-polls]

Have you ever smoked a cigarette?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 28

[bedupolker]

Scary Movie

[girlnextvore]

Watching some wrestling tonight

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

PPS: Image credits, bark and grass.

[clementine-kesh]

tom paris seeing all of time and space in threshold leads to him having prophetic dreams but they’re mostly about harry and b’elanna fucking so he thinks it’s just his own fantasies getting a little out of hand

[clementine-kesh]

janeway: tom, why didn’t you tell us you had this ability? i know there might be ramifications we don’t yet understand from asking this question but i need to know… did you see anything important? anything that could help us? any dangers along our current path?

tom, desperately trying to piece any useful information from hundreds of hours of prophetic visions mistaken for wet dreams: um. i think at some point we redesign the crew quarters

[clementine-kesh]

tuvok suggests they do a mind meld “in order to extract any key details lieutenant paris might have missed” (he thinks tom is an idiot who can’t interpret prophetic visions) and tom is like trust me bro you do not want to do that, not if you ever want to comfortably play kal-toh with harry ever again. years later tuvok comes to believe tom said that because losing at kal-toh was the first sign of his neurodegenerative disease and not, you know, because if he’d gone through with the mind meld he would’ve been treated to an onslaught of hd closeups of harry’s dick

[clementine-kesh]

tom does not care that this potentially means that at some point in the future his girlfriend cheats on him with his best friend because he doesn’t think infidelity counts if he finds it hot

[justicefortyvarkell]

Tom and B'elanna don't get together until well after Threshold, so this implies that if Tom did know they were visions of the future Tom started dating knowing it too.

[clementine-kesh]

he’s just a freak like that y’know

[goatgirleyes]

"Is it normal to ... ?" No. Nothing in the world is normal. Normal things don't exist. Existence itself is deviance. Let this false world die by your sword. Kill everyone.

[chiarrara]

why was messi lowkey serving saddam hussein hiding spot

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

FUCKING ÖTZI THE ICE MAN FOR ICE 🧊🥶

[mochipuchi]

yiou can only reblog this post on july 17th dont reblog it on any other day or you will be boiled

[mochipuchi]

what the fuck

[0x4468c7a6a728]

you can't boil me it's july 17th