Otterfire

:D 27 goes by Tony or Andy she/her/any

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[salamispots]

Could you please do a mermaid thats more swamp based? Maybe a gator or crawdad?

have a gator gal yes

edit: whoops fixed the back/arm overlap 

[salamispots]

rebloggin’ because I always think it’s funny whenever someone discovers this and it starts popping off again

[wolfythewitch]

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[andthepeople]

nice guys fic where they've hit a dry spell like a month with no new cases and the money has run out and march goes looking for holly's hidden babysitting money but can't find it so he's in a pinch. and healy says well alright i'm not going to beat up any more civilians, that life is behind me, but i'll fight someone who makes the mistake of agreeing to fight me. i know this guy in beverly hills who runs matches at his parties and he'll pay me $50 to fight and $400 if i win. and march is like well we're not going all the way to beverly hills for $50. do you have any idea what gas costs these days??? and healy says no we're going to beverly hills for $400. and march says pretty confident aren't you big guy. and healy says well the guys they get to do these fights are usually show-offy chuckleheads. you know, stunt guys, actors, that sort of thing. none of them have ever been in a real fight. and so they go down to beverly hills to this hedonist 1970s hollywood party (healy doesn't want to bring march but march is like what if you need backup and healy can't get rid of him so whatever. he's coming) and healy gets $50 up front and they're like okay you're gonna fight this guy who does like martial arts stunts for movies. and there's some guy doing like spinny kicks and chopping wood in the living room. march is like hey healy this guy looks pretty serious maybe we should rethink this. we can't afford hospital bills right now. and healy's like sigh. you know, march, your faith in me is so heartwarming. and then they're in the like fight ring out by the pool or whatever and everyone's gathered around hooting and hollering and march is stress drinking and healy takes his jacket off and tucks his brass knuckles in march's pocket and says hold this for a second i'll be right back. and steps up to this guy who makes his opening move a flying roundhouse kick and healy just calmly steps out of the way and then hits him with a jab cross so brutally powerful that he puts him in the pool. and march is so turned on he has to hold healy's jacket in front of his white pants. and on the way home march is like (still hard) hey maybe we should do another fight, we could use $800. $1200 even. and healy says excuse me. we??? and march says (can yuo put that out on me voice) hey do you have a black belt?? and healy says no. karate is for idiots. and that's the story of how healy knocked out chuck norris.

[kaity--did]

I know people give you shit for letting your child scream, but I just want to let you know how much you've helped me and my son. My son is 8 now, he's got some behavioural issues, energy problems and just all around ADHD. Since he was 4, it's been a battle and I honestly did not handle it well, I just didn't know what to do or how to help him. He was screaming a lot and disturbing everyone constantly and just being loud and angry and contrary, and I felt like I needed to control him and I was failing. I started following your blog because of your funny stories, but I've learned a LOT about dealing with my young wildling, mainly that I dont have to control him, but I can just guide him towards being wild in more appropriate ways. We've been doing "the big scream", and its helping SO MUCH. Sometimes he now lets me know he "needs a scream", and we can just excuse ourselves from the grocery store, or the restaurant, and not disturb everyone, and have a little private screaming party. I feel like I went from fighting against my child to fighting with my child. Thank you, so so much.

This made me cry and also "being wild in more appropriate ways" is such an amazing way of saying it!! Like yes we are feral and unhinged but also a part of society baybeee

[abortionado]

They’re calling me every slur under the sun over on twitter for this post

[cilceon]

Would you sell liquor to this baby

Yes

No

I don’t think life begins at contraception but I’d still sell liquor to baby

Voting ended onAug 6, 2025

Wait hold on rb canceled that’s the wrong word wait no stop

[minotauri]

ocean sounds for those of you who need it

[were--ralph]

Call Out Post

my cat peed on the counter and didnt clean it up

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Live at the Beacon Theater (06.02.2026)

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

[lakevida]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[eridian-rocky]

LOOK AT THIS DOG I FOUND ON GRACES WHITEBOARD

[kaity--did]

Absolutely love how emotionally aware my child is for a 4 and a half year old do not however love stubbing my toe on the island for the 100th time today and hearing "hey mama it's okay to cry! It's not okay to throw a fit though, and we hafta re-...we have to reconitize the difference"

[kaity--did]

When I immediately say "oh no thanks" to a food she offers me she says "oh mommy, chefs try new foods. Can you take one , two, bites for me and if you really don't like it then I won't ask forever again deal?"

like you know what fine sure I'll try your truly heinous concoction because I do in fact hafta respect the deals

[quasi-normalcy]

[rosenkranz-does-things]

the importance of having yuri in an Oscar Wilde play

[vicariouscarcrash]

Look textually Idk where it would be, but it is very sweet

[rosenkranz-does-things]

does it have to be textually there? it was in this production and it was awesome

[theroseandthebeast]

Tom Stoppard:

[sashaforthewin]

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”