almost always improvising

he/they, 30s / queerio, lads / canadian prairies

[energyprison]

every political scandal has to be called ____gate now because 54 years ago a guy named blowjob told reporters there were bugs in the democrat offices

[dragongirlbunny]

saw a post on bluesky about reimagining The Iliad as a mecha war and that idea goes unbelievably hard. achilles in his legally distinct gundam cutting through dozens of enemy suits. aggamemnon in his gold-plated mech. paris using a long range sniper rifle to exploit a design flaw in achilles' armor. the gods are all various megacorps who have a stake in the war bc it'll impact their profits.

[t-a-c]

I mean if we got Ulysses 31 to work in the 80s I have no reason why this can't and shouldn't happen

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[sashayed]

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

[enthusispastic]

I think the best part of Tobias/Rachel is that the whole is like a billion times shittier than the sum of its parts.

Tobias is the central tragic figure of the animorphs, even if he doesn't get as many books. He's literally so chosen one coded. He's a suicidal trans bird. He's full of hope for humanity. He is deeply alienated from his own humanity. He survived abuse and neglect. His dad's a fucking alien prince. He saved a different alien species from extinction, and became the namesake of their first free leader in like, three generations. God talks to him personally and doesn't do anything that he wants. He's the most character of all time. He's just like me for real. No one is doing it like him.

And Rachel!!!! Girl has the best character arc of the entire book series (outside the Hork Bajir Chronicles but I digress). She's a princess. She's a monster. She's the pretty one. She beat a man to death with her own severed arm. She sacrificed herself for humanity. She self-destructively followed orders to her own demise. She almost gave up her human life and became a cat forever just to comfort a crying friend. She's Satan's most specialist favorite teenager. And she was a Packard Award winning student to boot!

But together, they form the messiest, most dysfunctional situationship that any middle schooler ever read about. They love each other. They flirt with other people (or birds). Rachel cared about Tobias when everyone else thought he was some weirdo who would never amount to anything. She also wants him to stop living as his authentic self because it's inconvenient to her. Tobias thinks that Rachel is the most beautiful creature ever to grace the earth. He also enables her most self-destructive tendencies and romanticizes her for being the monster she doesn't want to become. He knows that she loves him no matter what. He was mortified that she saw him eating roadkill, and fears her judgement like death itself. She celebrates his birthday with him, even though he forgot when his birthday even was. She also, and I cannot stress this enough, thinks that he should leave the fight that gives him his only living purpose and stop living in the body that he's chosen for himself because she doesn't know how to be a bird's girlfriend (and like, fair. Not a normal situation tbh). They are doomed by the narrative. Together ❤️

Literally nobody is doing it like K A Applegate. Look at these two. What a goddamn mess.

[yesornopolls]

Do you have a favourite piece of classical music?

Do you have a favourite piece of classical music?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 11 hours

[curiooftheheart]

Politics is actually like…one of the top reasons to cut someone out of your life? Where the fuck did we get this idea it’s an invalid reason to abandon people? It’s literally your statement on how you think society should exist and what rights you think people should have and how. It ain’t fucking “My uncle Craig’s dead to me because he takes his sandwiches with the crust on” it’s “My uncle Craig has consistently stated a hatred of minorities and poor people for longer than I’ve been alive, of course I’m gonna call him a piece of shit”

[curiooftheheart]

Fash’s mad at this post. Angry that people might hate you if they know your thoughts on society, eh?

[elen-aranel]

Think I’m going to start assuming anything from a verified twitter account is AI slop until proven otherwise.

That story about a cat called Felix Martinez who was summonsed for jury service didn’t sit right with me and lo and behold the original author on twitter describes themselves as an “imaginary writer”.

This is the sort of thing that should make local news. And it did! But in 2010 and the cat was called Sal Esposito.

And of course the article that still exist about that cat’s story is criticising media outlets at the time for publishing for clicks and not doing proper research on things like when the story had taken place

[hunter-rodrigez]

Accessibility tip:

If you want to automate your home a bit, but you don't want any "smart" tech, you can just buy remote controlled power sockets instead

They are a lot cheaper and easier to set up and use than some home automation smart tech nonsense

They don't need an app (but some models come with optional apps and there are apps that are compatible with most of these)

Many of them use the 433mhz frequency to communicate, which makes most models compatible with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers

The tech has been around for a long time and will be around for a long time to come

You don't have to put any fucking corporate listening devices like an amazon echo in your home

Models for outdoors exist as well

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Five electrical outlet enhancers accompanied by two remotes; each of the remotes has ten buttons: Two for each outlet (one on, one off).]

[ofwordsandwaltzes]

Cannot express enough my love for these. My entire apartment is on five circuits, controlled by two duplicate remotes. I can turn off the living room lights from my bed, if I forget, without getting up. And no apps needing so nothing to hack or spy on you.

[socialistfremenist]

[parhelion-studio]

July sale! Help an artist out!

Almost everything in my shop will be 25% off through the month of July!

I work as a part time college physics and math tutor. As such, I get two weeks off between semesters! Yay! Except they're not voluntary or paid breaks, nor are there other ways to pick up hours. Not so yay! Which means I'll be missing half of my monthly income in August, which is why I'm running the sale now.

I have a few new space prints currently available (the Cowboy+Milky Way piece and the Uranus travel poster) along with restocks of all my PHM prints and bookmarks. All PHM, robot, and most space stickers are still available as well, but I'm running low on a number of my Murderbot and one or two space stickers.

I wasn't able to get my lanyards, keychains, or new stickers ordered in June like I wanted to due to losing the first half of the month to an unrelenting fibro flare. That being said, I plan on making a limited number of them available for pre-order in the second half of July. They won't be included in the sale, but they will be offered at slightly discounted prices. I will have regular and wristlet versions of all three PHM lanyard designs, along with new PHM and The Martian stickers. I should hopefully have them in hand in early August.

[parhelion-studio]

I will have some limited preorders up starting next week, probably around the 15th!

[retrogamingblog2]

[digital-magus]

I love you, vintage gay Pikachu. You’ll find the boy for you, I promise.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[love-too]

Just heard the sentence "non practicing bisexuals" for aroace people and I'm losing it

[soft-galaxies]

thought of a new terrible mbtv oc: sleazy adult entertainment talent scout rogue comfortunit who scans for augmented humans to recruit for a specific subgenre of fetish media. gurathin's waiting for the rest of presaux at an interstellar bar one night when this sleazebot sidles up to him. hits on gurathin with no interest in having sex with him but with much interest in his potential for raking in the hard currency credits on OnlyAugmentsMax or whatever with that svelte data port of his. slides over a transparent digibusiness card with its feed contact info and a wink. mb catches wind of this and incinerates the card on sight and presaux are banned from the bar for life

[therearesomewhocallmemari]

@carrot-gallery these tags are good tags:

[peglegmcgee]

hello! So…this took a hold of me. I hope this is ok and in the direction of what you were thinking :)

Sleazebot (3278 words) by PeglegMcGee Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Murderbot (TV) Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Dr. Gurathin & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Gen or Pre-Slash, Dataport touching, Gurathin is irresistible to constructs and bots, Murderbot is protective, OC: Sleazebot, no beta we die like Leebeebee Showing your data port off in the Corporation Rim comes with consequences. Some of those consequences are dangerous, and some are just gross. Either way, Murderbot is totally justified for getting itself and Gurathin banned from all station bars for life.

Inspired by soft-galaxies’ tumblr post.

[soft-galaxies]

omggg :3 the multi-floor bar and business card details and additional creep ocs :0

will come up w/ a comment on ao3 later! i've been developing sleazebot in some other ways in my own draft (oily and unctuous), but there certainly can be more than one >:3

[thepiper0fhameln]

Oh, oh hello. I love this. I love all of this.

[44prop]

one normal day in british politics that’s all i ask for . will never happen

[coleslaw-frosting]

this is a normal day in british politics

[junewild]

i think the scientology speedrunners should start visiting the hospital mitch mcconnell is supposed to be in. i think it would be enriching for them

[hussyknee]

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Over 16 years (before 2010) (toddlers in the dawn of the ant colony)

16 to 14 years (2010-2012) (livejournal and Myspace refugees)

13 to 11 years (2013-2015) (you used to follow thebootydiaries)

10 to 8 years (2016-2018) (era of Russian bot conspiracy)

7 to 3.5 years (2019-2022) (post sex ban to Goncharov)

3.5 years or less (2023–2026) (Twitter refugee)

Remaining time: 4 days 10 hours

Rebagel for science pls.