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(he/him) not mature as in actually mature but as in i can legally look at adult content. why the fuck do line breaks not work in this thing. frequent r/curatedtumblr browser and commenter, fandoms include taskmaster, twewy, ace attorney

[fuckspezwithacactus]

Hi, r/CuratedTumblr!

I know we've been sharing usernames on Reddit, but I have friends using this idea for something else, so I'm going to steal it.

If you want to find other people from r/CuratedTumblr, look at the notes of this post. If you want other people from r/CuratedTumblr to find you, like, comment, or reblog, so you'll be visible in the notes.

Please steal this idea for other subreddits, and @ me if you do.

[number1euclideanalgorithmfan]

I commented on this but now I'm also reblogging it.

My main fandoms aren't the most active here so I'm mostly just spam reblogging things I find funny or interesting.

I don't think I ever actually posted on CT but I was a frequent commenter so hi.

[theonion]

Expressing concerns after she observed several of the telltale warning signs, fourth-grade teacher Patricia Cormac told reporters Wednesday that she could tell a student in her class with spiky hair and sunglasses came from a rad home. “When you’ve been in this profession as long as I have, little behavioral tics like skateboarding into school 10 minutes late or repeatedly hitting classmates with a thumbs-ups can be a red flag that a child is experiencing some totally sick behavior behind the scenes,” said Cormac, confirming that her suspicions began when she saw markings around her student’s arms and shoulders that were likely left by a badass temporary tattoo of a dinosaur.

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[dickstolebyanalien]

im about to level up, but due to our massive level discrepancy, you would not be nearly enough xp

[thebibliosphere]

Absolutely wild to find out another indie author has been referring to you as "the competition" this entire time. Like there can only be one disabled werewolf Romance novel.

I'd like there to be more, actually. I'd like them to hold hands. I would have liked us to hold hands, but alas.

[thebibliosphere]

We could have gone on mailing lists together. We could have shared readers. We could have had a beautiful Fall wedding under the eldritch glow of a blood moon. Why, why must we be forsaken?!

[thebibliosphere]

Wait, could this be our enemies to associates arc? Hot.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Absolutely insane to consider any other indie author "the competition" unless they're directly attacking you. Readers are (usually) not going out there like "hmm, which is the one single disabled werewolf romance book I will read?" More often, they will read one and if they like it, go ahead and get the other one. It's such a rising tide lifts all boats type of profession. Other books in your genre (assuming they're not reputation-ruiningly terrible) bring more readers to your genre! Ten amazing disabled werewolf romances is so much better than standing alone! It increases audience size for everyone!

"The competition" do they even understand their job?

[thebibliosphere]

No. Which is why I suspect they're not getting very far.

And blaming other people because they don't want a community. They just want their flowers without planting any seeds.

[saltslimes]

Who would ever read one disabled werewolf romance and go: I loved that! Now I have no further interest in disabled werewolf romance

[moon-lord-big-naturals]

For some reason none of my Miis like my beescake...

[everythingfox]

Bilingual

[sayhelloanimalfriends]

no music 🐔

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.

hmm. I wonder why governments might want this

[genderkoolaid]

so are we just supposed to ignore kendrick lamar having lyrics about killing trans women? “toupee drop and a dude just popped out t of that tank top and bra / and when i say du du du du, bitch that be k-dot” ? he’s talking about shooting and killing a woman when he finds out she’s trans aka trans panic. he’s a vile transphobe, why are you platformong him?

think you've got the wrong lyrics there

Toupée drop and her two tits pop Out of that tank top and bra And when I say "Doo-doo-doo-doo," bitch, that be K. Dot

and notably in context he is. not talking about murdering the woman he's rapping about here? from the genius annotations

A Toupée is an artificial hair piece, for all practical purposes, a wig. Toupée, like touche and en garde, is a french word. Toupee is being used here in the sense of a convertible…like drop the top…when Kendrick is driving and drops the top on his convertible, his girl can’t help but get a little loose and let the girls out. This ["doo-doo-doo-doo"] is Kendrick’s signature ad-lib likely developed from his song “Cartoon & Cereal.” This ad-lib is meant to resemble gunshots. This is something Kendrick came used to due to his upbringing in Compton, a city known notoriously for its high crime rate. K-Dot was Kendrick’s original rap name, and has now become an alter-ego. While Kendrick himself is laid back and calm, K-Dot is the more aggressive Compton side.

but thanks for sending me three separate asks about how kendrick lamar loves killing trans women. nothing about this feels racist at all

[this-is-trans-joy]

Kendrick noteably has a song about his uncle (a trans man) and his cousin (a trans woman) that is probably up there as one of his most heartfelt songs of all time, but I remember on an old blog where I once posted one thing about Kendrick and someone immediately jumped into my inbox berating me for talking about an antisemitic artist (and similarly to the above anon, they had completely confused their information).

I know Kendrick isn’t perfect, but I used to talk about a lot of artists on my old blog and coincidentally it was only the Black artists that had multiple people explaining to me exactly why I shouldn’t listen to them, with baseless and incorrect information that they hadn’t bothered to look up properly. I don’t just think this anon is being racist, I know they are because the second you mention a rap artist, it seems like every white person on tumblr has to crawl out of the woodwork and try to hide their overall disdain for Black artists with random excuses as to why those artists are the most dangerous and violent people alive.

You’re not slick. You could’ve spent five seconds searching up “Kendrick Lamar and trans women” into Google and you’d immediately be linked to Auntie Diaries, but you decided to choose a misheard lyric in a song that didn’t mention trans women once and berate someone for sharing a single Black artist. I’ve seen these games before, anon!!

And not just any Black artist, either, but one who is like… actively trans supportive! I’ve said it before, but Kendrick Lamar has done more for me as trans man than pretty much every white popstar that tumblr loves to put on a pedestal for simply saying “protect the dolls” once in an interview. Kendrick’s not the perfect ally, but he sure as hell is a genuine one.

Anyway, go listen to Mr Morales & The Big Steppers.

[txttletale]

it's easy to make fun of marxists for being like "we have a special way of understanding society called Thinking About Things That Are Real" but to be fair if you ask the average person what their ideas about society are based on they will start listing some of the Least Real things to ever not exist

[mostlysignssomeportents]

"Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases, the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not there."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

[teomodo]

src

[lunaraen]

There are a lot of excellent excerpts from this interview.

[hotcinnamonsunset]

“what’s your dog’s name?” “dijon” “oh, like the mustard!” “no, like dijonathon”

[christopher575]

[teratodentata]

I was convinced for a second that Pikmin Bloom had church themed Pikmin, realized that would be ridiculous, imagined a Pikmin on a cross and lost my mind laughing. So I had to draw it.

[teratodentata]

Buddy if you don’t show me this crucified pikmin I am going to literally die, love that we share the same mind re: church pikmin

[eatsleepcrap]

Look, I made a collection of Fandom cakes that I found!

I like cake.

[mimidiann]

What about Homestuck.

[princecharmingtobe]

Homestucks aren’t sorry.

[fuckingkarkalicious]

[dunkstein]

Children born when this post was made will be in the sixth grade this year

[wingedcatgirl]

Children born when this post was made are now allowed to create a tumblr account.

[grimoiremanifest]

[g3minii]

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[prokopetz]

Something that puzzles me about DnD spaces which you might know about:

Why are there so many third party supplements coming out right now that advertise themselves as having extensive crafting rules?

Hasbro promised in 5.5E's pre-release promotion that it would have expanded and improved crafting rules, then when it was published it turned out that all they actually did was add a thing to the bottom of each crafting kit proficiency's description listing which specific items on the Player's Handbook equipment list can be crafted using that kit.

[smorgasbork]

Wild that this kinda spawned a bit of a cottage industry for that specific thing O_o

[prokopetz]

This one's actually kind of tame. Third-party publishers gambling that they can capitalise on plugging a specific gap in D&D's gameplay loop has spawned much weirder trends.

[rampagingpoet]

NSFW example under the cut:

This chart is from the Book of Erotic Fantasy, which among other things noticed that D&D has a lot of race-science-like rules for specific cross-breeds but no rules for conception and pregnancy. An oversight perfect for third-party developers to step in!

The rest of the book is about character classes powered by having a lot of sex and the like, plus some troubling things like "using charm person to get people to sleep with you is totally fine" and "wiping someone's memory of what sex even is is Lawful Good."

(I think the sex rules meant that some of the sex spellcasters could literally exhaust their partner to death in the process of preparing spells? But I'd have to check the details to be sure)

[moshroom]

he had to jump in the ballpit to cool off after getting all airplane ears over a treat puzzle that proved a little too advanced

[moshroom]

he's done this a few times now. the ball pit actively soothes him when he gets mad over puzzles. i could learn something from this

[moshroom]