worms

she/her whimsy is my middle name “I’m not part of someone else’s wishes, Satan. I am all of me!” - Shadow the Hedgehog

[ooo-silly-worms]

Hey tumblr, I’m worms! I like superheroes, animated media and niche sub-genres of psychological horror. Oh, and worms on strings, of course!

I identify as female, but I’m not particularly fussed about pronouns. They’re just words to me, I guess, so call me whatever you like :)

Here is where I post my art, media analysis, dumb shitposts and the *occassional* reblog, but you can also find me reblogging lots of stuff over at @pile-of-worms (it won’t let me tag it properly because it’s a side blog, but anyway-), so feel free to check it out :D

The usual DNIs: homophobes, transphobes, TERFs, aphobes, racists, misogynists, bigots, anything else I’ve missed. I’ll block you anyway.

I hate generative ai with every fibre of my being, keep it the fuck away from me :3

My DMs are not open, sorry — but feel free to communicate via reblogs, comments and asks :D

My blog is open to minors :) I won’t post anything NSFW, maybe the occasional reblog of a suggestive joke but nothing explicit

My main interests:

Little Shop of Horrors

The Amazing Digital Circus

DC comics (especially the riddler and scarecrow)

Sonic the Hedgehog

Welcome Home

Will Wood (and the Tapeworms)

The Magnus Archives/The Magnus Protocol

Iron Lung (I haven’t seen it yet, but I will…)

The Stanley Parable

Gorillaz

Gravity Falls

Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared

Coraline/Tim Burton films

I’m always taking suggestions for more indie animation, podcasts, and music :D anyways I’m running out of stuff to say now

Stay whimsical! 🍊👁️🍓🦠🌀

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

THISSSSSSS!!!!!!! curate your own internet experience. block them because they’re allergic to peanut butter, block them because they have what you don’t, block them because they dislike your favorite food, block them because you don’t like their layout, block them because you can.

blocking is NOT a personal attack against someone. it’s you curating your own internet experience and catering for your comfort, and you have every right to do that.

you, yes, you!!! you CANNOT tell other people to censor themselves for your own comfort and personal likings. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t post. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t write. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t draw. BUT you CAN block them for whatever reason.

that block button is offered to you for free. use. it.

[questions-about-blorbos]

Reblog if it’s okay for people to inbox you questions, headcanon, theories, anything about your Blorbo

[the0fi]

Thank you so much for the tag @schrodingerspsycho and @uncleasad 😆

Rules: make a poll with 10 of your favourite shows (they can just be 10 shows you loved watching or your top tv shows of all time) then tag 10 people

Choose your favorite show!

The Originals

Nancy Drew

Dickinson

Cloak and Dagger

Julie And The Phantoms

The Owl House

Lessons in Chemistry

Abbott Elementary

9-1-1

School Spirits

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

I think everyone who usually plays has already been tagged, so if you see this and you haven’t been yet then consider yourself tagged!

[vm-voidmaster]

I voted for toh in the previous one :P

Favorite out of these?

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Wild Kratts

The Owl House

Gravity Falls

Arthur

Odd Squad

Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion

Konobi (This Art Club Has a Problem!)

SKZ CODE

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Voting ended onJun 10

@le-worm @alphisopod @coffee-n-sleep @justarandomart @likely-confused @obsessedsometimes @katslopyurispam @gillybeanns @vegetable-appendages @snowglobe9891 + open tags :)

[obsessedsometimes]

THANKS FOR THE TAG @vm-voidmaster !!!

Ehehehehe i missed these

Also yea i voted owl house earlier its just too good (tho not voting gravity falls was tough 💔)

Favorite show?

Stranger Things

The Owl House

Gravity Falls

One Piece

Mob Phycho 100

Bungo Stray Dogs

Code Geass

Avatar the Last Airbender

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

mannn i wanted to add more shows. 😔 oh well

Ok so tags (open)

@creepycakez @bylers-homophobic-dog @petrolpeanut @hyori0213 @owlbboy @childlikegoblinqueen @puterdooter @sophie68473 @flea02 @pickledoesthetumbling

[pickledoesthetumbling]

honoured to be included!!! here's mine:

Pick a show, any show!

The Owl House

Gravity Falls

Original Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Z Abridged

Marvel What If

Thomas and Friends (Model series, of course)

Victor Tanzig's Stories of Sodor

Arcane

Chainsaw Man

Amphibia

Voting ended onJun 10

was actually a little hard to think of 10 shows i like, i'm more of a movie person

tags: @blinday @girl-on-the-subway @likely-confused @greenbunny7 @cameforstuff okay you five GO

[greenbunny7]

I picked gravity falls obvy

ok here's mine

Over the Garden Wall

Gravity Falls

The Owl House

Camp Camp

Lackadaisy

The Amazing Digital Circus

Star Wars the Clone Wars

Batman the Animated Series

Spectacular Spider-man

Hilda

Remaining time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Tags!

@localcelestialcreature62 @lostsprit @chaseerr0rcode @cameforstuff @mira-marbles @thenoellebird @acebbirdandbean @eliunderscore @bren-the-chicken @empressofsamoyeds

And anyone else of course <3

[lostsprit]

Thank you for tagging me:D

Heheheh (idk what to put here)

Gravity falls

the amazing digital circus

the owl house

House md

the big bang theory

shoot from the hip (they technically do shows right ?)

Spy x family

Supa strikas

Avatar the last airbender

My little pony (g 4 )

Remaining time: 6 days 1 hour

@aurite-aj @murderous-beetroot @fraythet1red @frog-lord-offical @weedletum @welcome-listeners-to-night-vale @1lovelylavender @chaoticallystupd21 @quantumm76 @rangerofthesouth @localcelestialcreature62 (get tagged twice sukka)

@phantombegruvia @help-imanartistt @0-amateur-writer-0 @thenoellebird @galactic-squiddo

[frog-lord-offical]

pick ig

jjba

tadc

one piece

Horiamya

Gameoverse

The owl house

Mha

Chainsaw Man

Arcane

Beastars

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

@kingkit7734 @britishhateroffical @rebekka-with-2-ks-specifically @elder-sister @sages-dick-joke-mutual @lightsabersandbluecookies @romanticizing-life11111 @silly-moth-123 @avery-the-enby @gr3at-s4ge

[romanticizing-life11111]

thanks for the tag <3

i don’t watch enough tv for this

the amazing digital circus

arcane

steven universe

sweet tooth

murder drones

doctor who

battle for dream island

helluva boss

gravity falls

heartstopper

Remaining time: 6 days 16 hours

@driseoga @willofdpeople @eye-prophet @ooo-silly-worms @angels-haven-official @shenanigan42

[ooo-silly-worms]

10?! This is gonna be hard… (also thanks for the tag!!)

my shows? i guess? :3

gravity falls

the amazing digital circus

spongebob squarepants

phineas and ferb

friends

brooklyn 99

the amazing world of gumball

how i met your mother

over the garden wall

don’t hug me, i’m scared

Remaining time: 17 hours 39 minutes

Boom, tags!!: @stronglychromatictroll @envyasinnv @jpeggingboy @ashkinstree @elitegeek @nixotinix @ringer21368/@cringyfuckassbitch @voodookid @the-randomest-of-usernames @standard-human @arbitrarilyselected @icky-flix @piter-foxi-2 uhh i’m so sorry, i can’t remember other mutuals names lmao-

[creature-lala]

Ok fine this ask got me thinking about how I would design @roguespodcast’s jon better from my first animatic, after a shave and haircut 👌

[oneefin]

number theory* diagram

[michaelrotonal]

these relationships are always increasing numbers as well. so obviously we need six eleven to mean somethimg

[ovenroastedtwerkey]

imagine if that's the date it finally happens

[ooo-silly-worms]

4, 2 and 0 are their own little microcosm

[ooo-silly-worms]

I forgot how much the bbc war and peace soundtrack slaps, maybe i need to rewatch this show...

[ooo-silly-worms]

I had a dream the other night where I was in a small, claustrophobic courtyard with brick walls around it. The sky was a muted grey, and in the centre of the yard was a highly raised grassy platform, fenced off with picket fencing.

I kept trying to go into the grassy area, but every time I went to the gate in the fence, I'd look up to see a woman in a black Victorian style dress sweeping the floor and sneering down at me, and behind her was the literal incarnation of Death.

The dream reset several times with me starting in one corner of the courtyard, and every time I would walk to the gate, then look up to see them blocking my entrance. But every time, Death got closer until eventually he wasn't on the platform, but next to me on the path. I felt physically repulsed as I tried to walk past him, recoiling when I accidentally brushed against his cloak.

Finally, they let me get onto the grassy platform. I could sense Death behind me, just outside my peripheral vision, watching as I took in the sight of the place I had so ardently wanted to reach. There was nothing but a faded sign showing an uncanny picture of the Tellytubbies.

Soooo... I think I went to hell?

[peach-pot]

recently saw a comment section full of people, primarily women, talking about loving living with their best friend and being sad about having to live separately one day. some people talking about missing living with their best friend, some talking about “getting” to live with their best friend “until” they find partners. saw one person mention that moving out to move in with a partner felt like a divorce. it makes me so genuinely sad… all these people recognizing the joy they can find living outside the norm, letting themself live with a friend instead of a romantic partner, but still feeling like they have to live with a spouse eventually. like it’s not even a decision, just an inevitability.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

[ooo-silly-worms]

Ivory Bangle Lady - Wikipedia

Here’s a Wikipedia article detailing the remains of a woman in Britain who was buried in the 4th century AD, during the time of the Roman Empire. Not only was she likely a North African woman, but had also been buried with lots of jewellery, signifying wealth or status. I feel like that says a lot.

[ooo-silly-worms]

May I highly suggest coming up with some sort of creative pact with your friends? Me and one of my friends have one; I send him a drawing I’ve done every day and he sends me a piece of his writing. We get positive feedback from one another, we are both developing a healthy creative routine, we each get to enjoy some cool art that we otherwise wouldn’t have interacted with, and it’s starting conversations between the two of us that we otherwise wouldn’t have been having, improving our friendship bond :) go do fun creative things with your friends now!!

[imjunebitch]

if u call urself a misandrist I'm going to assume ur homophobic. I'm gonna assume that ur at the very least weird about trans women like me, that you're going to judge them based on how they pass, on how out they are, on what level of transition they are at. I'm gonna assume ur racist too. like. idk "misandry" very feels like the sorta "feminism" someone is really into when they're in high school and carefully making sure to never think about anything.

[ooo-silly-worms]

In fact, any kind of label you might choose that implies you're ideologically opposed to an entire group of people -- no matter the reason why -- is going to immediately put me off.

[ringer21368]

hi!! ^^

oh hello!

how are you?

[villain-in-your-story]

I'm doing ok!

how are you?

I really like your blog :>

[cringyfuckassbitch]

oh I'm doing wondefully!

I'm so glad someone enjoys my blog

I sorta abandoned this one for a side blog sorry about that

I post FAR more often on @cringyfuckassbitch

[villain-in-your-story]

ohhh that makes sense. no need to apologize

glad to have your more active blog!

[ringer21368]

yes this one's for my au where as the other is shitposting? mostly

also random political events n such but that's more so staying informed over anything

anyways

it's been quite a while since I've posted about my au and it has changed greatly...

[villain-in-your-story]

oh? au? now I wanna know everything about that!

[cringyfuckassbitch]

holy shit there's so much uhm

the main jist is that the au takes place as an animated show that's very episodic in nature?

sorta like an adult adventure times almost?

uh it's called weird!verse because a lot of it is just heavily exaggerating what's already there or taking it to it's logical conclusion

it's supposed to be a rather batshit insane show?

like yes one episode could deal with batman solving a grotesque murder mystery and in the next the rogues are fighting sentient cheese

[villain-in-your-story]

ooo!!! that seems really really cool!!!

also sorry I totally fell asleep!!

[ringer21368]

no worries bro

I also went to bed

it was like midnight for me lol

[pile-of-worms]

Wait sorry to join the conversation lol- is this the same as scopophilia or is this the other au?

[ringer21368]

one it's scopophobia

two yeah it's the other au since scopophobia got abandoned

wasn't happy with it and also that was a labor of a very intense depressive episode

three don't worry about joining the convo

[pile-of-worms]

Oops, sorry- I’ve been doing too much research on 19th century art lately and I’ve used the word “scopophilia” a hundred times, it’s become engraved in my brain :’)

Ahh yeah that’s fair, weird!verse sounds awesome too!! I need to check out your blog again, it’s been a while since I saw any of your posts

Oh also, I just realised I accidentally reblogged this on the side blog before lmao, sorry, I’ll reblog the conversation as @ooo-silly-worms from now on

[ringer21368]

no worries

and it's been a while because I haven't been posting?

at all

so there's that

[pile-of-worms]

Ahh that’s fair-

[ringer21368]

yeah I should post more but tbh it really felt like nobody (aside from you) cared and I mostly just messaged my friends about it

so I stopped

also my shitposting garnered a lot more attention and that did better for the dopamine

[pile-of-worms]

Yeah that’s completely fair, I get that

Also yay for dopamine!!

[ooo-silly-worms]

Fuck, I reblogged with the wrong blog again lmao-

[ooo-silly-worms]

Ah yes, the diswease storge. It’s where we. It’s where we stor the diswease.

[galagotchi]

trans person: i'm trans

society: ok

that one bisexual friend you try to ignore: you should play scarlet hollow

[stronglychromatictroll]

@envyasinnv @ooo-silly-worms

[ooo-silly-worms]

It's literally you omg

[voidandradiance]

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

[booksandchainmail]

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[issela-santina]

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

[lierdumoa]

Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.

[pacificnorthwhore]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[weirdchristmas]

I am being perceived.

[heartofaspen]

i love it and hate it when a character in a story is so obviously created to be cool and awesome and then i do think they're cool and awesome. like fuck, yeah, ok, they're fucking epic. swag as hell. you got me you coolbaited me ok? i'm coolbaited.