[filmnoirsbian]

Fighting for my life trying to find a phone or tablet with a headphone jack. Fighting for my life trying to find a laptop with a cd rom. Fighting for my life trying to get more than one usb port or, god forbid, an hdmi. Fighting for my life trying to find any electronics that haven't been streamlined into flimsy chastity belts with the structural integrity of a sopping sheet of paper which require me to buy 3 extra devices (each with their own separate charging requirements) all because some silicon valley jackass somewhere decided holes were a bad thing.

[body-knows-best]

I’m having a meltdown. When I was 9 years old I read an article in a magazine called Backyard Adventures about how this antelope, the saiga, was on the verge of extinction. I enlisted the help of my best friend and launched a fundraising campaign called Save the Saigas. We sold lemonade, had bake sales, sold belongings, yelled at strangers as they passed in their cars. Our parents were able to match the money we made. Our school helped. It wasn’t much, it didn’t save them, but it helped the organization at least a little bit.

Y’all. The saigas have been saved. A little piece of my passionate child heart that has seemed hopelessly lost and endlessly disappointed for a long time feels so soothed. Maybe it’s not all hopeless. Maybe our efforts aren’t a complete waste. Maybe we keep trying and actually hope for the best.

[evelina-maar]

Couldn't decide which one to draw, so I drew all three

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[thegreenpea]

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

[rubixpsyche]

Also it’s just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em

[zathechaosgod]

for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we’re making gemstones out of it and suddenly “it doesn’t count” anymore

[linory1]

IZZYYYYYY

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[storminateacup-97-deactivated20]

“That’s why high school, or a crappy job, or any other restrictive circumstance can be dangerous: They make dreams too painful to bear. To avoid longing, we hunker down, wait, and resolve to just survive. Great art becomes a reminder of the art you want to be making, and of the gigantic world outside of your small, seemingly inescapable one. We hide from great things because they inspire us, and in this state, inspiration hurts.”

— One of the best articles I’ve ever read. Rookie Mag. By Spencer Tweedy. (via wildyork)

[polyamzeal]

POLYAM POSITIVITY HELL YEAH

[harvestspriteirl]

Wait are we allowed to use cheating memes to make polyam positivity posts now because if so I’m down to go off

YOU ARE MORE THAN REQUIRED TO

[tomanto-the-friendly-nb]

OK I’M GONNA GO AHEAD YALL

I MADE SUM

[lynati]

: D

POLYAM POSITIVITY MEMES ARE MY NEW LIFE SOURCE!

[eryn-n-g]

AAAAAHHH

I feel so happy!!!

That last one jdjdjdhd

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

Go Jim. Sheets are expensive to replace-especially for big beds

[enbies-and-felonies]

yES

[youareextremelyfuckinselfishdie]

Polyam! Positivity!

Amazing

Yessssssss

[cuspofcoffee]

This could be a freaking entire Jackbox game

[cuspofcoffee]

I cannot stop

[sex-obsessed-lesbian]

Um this is a goddam delight

[zackbuildit]

BEAUTIFUL

[calypsolarts]

[fidisart]

Just gonna put this here as a balm to the bad news: the other day, Con shared my fanart (unhinged caption included) in his Instagram stories 🥹

Couldn't be happier about receiving the angry cat stamp of approval ❤️

[piscesboar25]

[seizethegrey-deactivated2025081]

The absolutely amazing @piscesboar25 made some art for my Lucien/Caleb fic, Mistakes Don't Make You. I am utterly besotted with it. Besotted.

They're new to tumblr, so show them some love!

(If you're new to the series, start at the beginning with Mistakes Were Made).

[depizan]

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

[valarinde]

maskerade (1995)

[toadsbogblog]

He has so much anxious energy. literally so worried and angry all of the time. i love him he’s my miniature scottish terrier that I keep in my purse, hate him love him

[dimension20official]

Here’s the new character art for Riz Gukgak for Fantasy High Junior Year, courtesy of @caitmayart

[themakeupbrush]

Miss Grand India 2023 Final Evening Gown

[stardustemotions-deactivated202]

One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.