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Hi, I try to post art sometimes but I don't always. Thanks for stopping by.

[segamascott]

[beesmygod]

i cant look at anything about the internet archive without wanting to reach through the screen and throttle people. access to information delivered through an infinite resource should never be restricted by one's income. period. end of. i dont give a shit about authors losing out on pennies bc their contracts sucks ass. their willingness to torch free access to everyone makes them my idealogical enemy and an enemy of human progress

[beesmygod]

"oh so you dont want authors to make money...?" i think if you oppose the distribution of information in favor of a profit motive your house should be torched

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

(x)

[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

[khashanakalashtar]

My computer is so quiet and reasonably-temperatured now and I barely notice a difference in utility, why is windows like this

maybe I can even play computer games again

[paintpencilink]

The second best thing you can do for a Win10 computer is turn off whatever unnecessary services it's decided it needs to run in the background always. Some services it does need, but others are useless. Here's an article that goes into step by steps.

10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.

Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")

The first best thing you can do for a Windows computer is install Linux Mint. But some of us do need a few pesky Windows-specific programs. Bleh. Still, if you're up for a project, you can have both (and it's awesome). Here's an article about setting up a dual boot Windows/Mint system.

[mynameisfungus]

can’t stop thinking about this post on the crusader kings wiki

[nonbinary-bosmer]

[sparrowlucero]

i gotta be real i read a lot of folklore and i don't think i've ever seen a source over like 15 years old call fairies "the fae"

[superectojazzmage]

”Fae” DOES kinda feel like a word made by people who are weirdly embarrassed to be talking about fairies and want to make it sound more “respectable”.

[sparrowlucero]

I'm sure it was used somewhere, but yeah, I think it's something to that effect. my gut instinct is that the popularization of "fae" probably came from 20th century fantasy/role playing games/etc actively trying to create some distinction between what they were depicting and the more popular disney/victorian postcard style fairy, but more recently this has gotten telephone game'd over time to people thinking that "fae" is the proper folkloric term and "fairy" is some sort of bastardization or a different thing entirely:

I think the omnipresence of "fae" today is probably a mix of people 1) genuinely finding it more serious and respectable, 2) being under the impression that it's the more accurate word, or 3) just using it because everyone else is

(side note, I frequently see people also treat the (also very common) "fair folk" as an older, more accurate term for fairies; as far as I can tell this term originated with tolkien (as a translation of the welsh tylwyth teg). If it did exist before him, probably only academically?)

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Okay so. I'm Welsh. These things come from my culture. I very much use faerie when I'm speaking in English, always have, and am much older than 15.

I do this because I grew up with two different versions of them - the first was the English version, which were pretty little people with wings who lived in flowers and were ever so sweet. As kids we owned a set of charming watercolour picture books called The Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker, where fairies were essentially sweet little girls and boys whose pretty clothes were themed on a specific species of UK wildflower, like this:

And my sister and I loved these things and thought they were great. A lot of my botanical knowledge was actually reinforced by those fairies. And they were super, super English - every time you saw fairies in English media this was basically the template. Even including Peter Pan, and the fake fairy photos that fooled Arthur Conan Doyle. This is, according to the English, a fairy.

This is not, however, what Wales understands by that word or concept.

My English family gave me flower fairies. My Welsh family taught me to never step both feet into a faerie ring, a superstition that has left my 41 year old sister unable to step on circles to this day. In Wales, you know not to follow strange music in the woods. In Wales, you're told the great sand dunes of the coast are covering old cities, drowned in sand because lords and kings insulted faeries.

Faeries here do not look like pretty little people with wings. Faerie here is a category for multiple different types, varying from beautiful water nymphs to vicious hags of the mountain, and you always keep an iron knife to hand. The human sized ones are not always beautiful. Gwragedd Annwn? Sure. Gwyllion? Very much not.

Faerie here is something I immediately recognised and understood when Doctor Who episode 73 Yards aired, and was faintly astonished I had to explain it to so many people, because to me it's so incredibly obvious, but non Welsh people did not understand.

So I use both spellings because they belong to completely different cultural traditions. Fairies are sweet and charming and safe. Faeries are wild and unpredictable and unsafe. Fairies are English, faeries are Welsh.

Is it a traditional Welsh word? Of course not, but that's because it's not a Welsh language word. Traditionally, I wouldn't be speaking English about this anyway. But it uses Welsh spelling logic, and so it makes it easier to visually distinguish.

There is something incredibly frustrating about the way faeries have been taken by non-Celtic cultures over the years and turned into something else, but actually the fairy/faerie distinction was good and working fine. For me, the problem is more with how certain fantasy romance novels in recent times have started writing about "the Fae", because those are very much using them as an alternative version of elves that feels newer and fresher and more up for grabs. That's your 'human-sized and gorgeous' model, although they often still have wings, somehow. And the biggest example of this, of course, also sprinkles in Welsh words and phrases (without understanding them) to give the illusion of being "more accurate" (while being anything but).

In any case. I have seen these conversations many times before about terminology, but I don't think I've ever seen a modern Welsh perspective sought or included, so... there you go lol. In any case, I personally shall continue using fairy/faerie the way I always have, and the way my father did before me, as a shorthand for cultural distinction; I'll also continue to be increasingly uneasy about the way the damn things are being used, portrayed and named by primarily white Americans

[xansmenageriereblogs]

I'm English, and I wonder how much OP's view has also been shaped by...well, London/city/middle-class views. Half of my family is very much rural, and using "the fair folk" or "the good neighbours" or similar for reference is pure common sense, because one doesn't want to cause an upset.

(Even in typing I'm struggling to be anything but polite and circumspect.)

It's not recent in England, it's just taken that long for scholars to write it down seriously. If anything, it's the whimsy fairies that are the newcomers...

[litheammunition]

It's certainly remarkable that people in rural England, a nation bordering and with much similarity to Wales but with a much larger area and population, never got around to developing their own folklore and had to wait until Peter Pan could show them what a fairy was.

Ah well, I suppose I'll accept that assumption without a second thought.

[xansmenageriereblogs]

...not what I meant there, neighbour.

It's more...it feels like in England, the more one gets away from being close to the land, the less likely one is to know about all of this. It's probably part of the big industrial revolution migration to the cities combined with pure snobbery ("In an age of rational thought who needs these silly superstitions?" etc). Out in edges, away from the cities, traditions persist: look up the stories of Goblin Coombe for one.

Goodness knows that I've only had that exposure because of the aforementioned very rural half of my family (the other half is...let's be charitable and say poor maritime, which comes with a whole different set of folklore and rules, and not "have you watched Coronation Street? Dial that up to 11 and put it after the watershed."). A lot of people my age and economic class probably wouldn't know why you don't pick Lady's Smock if you like your freedom, and so on and so forth.

But it's why England gets flower fairies, because memory persists and if you're a twee middle-class Victorian coming up with stories for children it's exactly the sort of twisting of folk memory one might expect to see in the circumstances - and then that's what continues to persist amongst that class. Wales has a different history and economical development, that's all, which amongst the rest means that this sort of knowledge is much closer to the bone.

[xansmenageriereblogs]

#I was agreeing with this#my comment was sarcastic#in response to the black and white 'Tinkerbell is English#authentic fair folk are Welsh' take from the previous poster#as if you cross the border and suddenly there were no folk traditions etc. until the Victorians invented stories

TLDR: Sarcasm unwarranted, please do not, also I have a cold so apologies for the disjoints.

Ah, see, that's still not what I was trying to say, although I'm guessing I wrote it wrong if that's how you took it.

Because, let's be honest here, in England unless you're either a folklorist or from a poorer rural background chances are the only acquaintance with our versions of the fair folk are going to be the flower fairies, Spencer's Fairy Queen and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream*. We did a pretty good job of oppressing ourselves along class lines and that's the result - and that's what we export to the rest of the world.

So my post was considering that particular facet, that someone from outside that group in England (assuming OP was from England) wouldn't have that exposure and hence their comment about how "fair folk" was a recent invention could come from lack of exposure outside of fantasy fiction. If OP was from the USA or elsewhere in the English-speaking hegemony, it's even less likely they'd have that bit of context.

But, in a similar vein, the external view of "the English have flower fairies" is what it is based on the dominant cultural narrative. So I'm not surprised that a "very English family" would hold up that narrative as what fairies are in England, because for "standard" English culture it's true? Because we've tried to make ourselves into one homogenous "rational" English culture with none of this messy folklore, when really we're lots of little ones constantly arguing with each other and holding onto our stories (like at least five different reasons for Silbury Hill (the bag of boots is still the best)), and an awful lot of the English have fallen for it.

*We shall not speak of the nonsense that can be found in the pagan community, especially in Glastonbury.

[sparrowlucero]

do you guys, like, not get that I'm talking about how the general unfamiliarity and dismissal of folklore amongst people who claim to be really interested in it shows in how they treat relatively uncommon terms like fae as the "real canon word". how are you managing to get that I'm totally unfamiliar with anything outside of extremely basic english pop culture out of that

[puprinus]

OP is Correct:tm:, at least as far as Irish conceptions of the fairies go. I apologise for how rambly I'm gonna get, I work as a traditional Irish storyteller so being concise isn't my strong suit! Personally, in my storytelling practice, I do not use the term "fae" or "faerie." The idea that they're more correct or more apt is just...entirely a modern invention. It is as much an invention as victorian ideas that have leaked into modern fairy folklore - not just flower fairies, but the classifications of the Seelie and Unseelie courts, the Leanan Sídhe or about Trooping and Solitary fairies.

In Irish folklore, you won't find pixies/piskies, fairies in the sense of tiny creatures with wings don't really exist, this is true, but I don't see a point in conceding the word "fairy" over to them because "fae" is somehow more authentic or less commercial. This categorisation of "faerie" = Adult, Real, Serious and "Fairy" = Commercial, Childish, Inauthentic is just...useless to me. It also kind of sets of classism alarm bells in my brain it feels like the same poor approach to folklore that the Victorian aristocrats took when they recorded folktales from the peasantry and then erased all the parts they thought were too immodest or uncivilised. The fact is, for the last few hundred years, English-speaking people in Ireland have called them fairies. I don't see any point arbitrarily breaking with this tradition. We also used different terms - taboos about speaking their name aloud led to us calling them "The Other Crowd" or "The Good Neighbours." Irish words for them are also based on euphemisms - The word "Sídhe" - which people sometimes scatter in for good measure to really drive home how Authentic and Real their fairies are - refers to the ancient burial mounds that fairies were said to dwell in. In Irish, we often call fairies the "Daoine Sídhe" - People of The Mounds. However, just as many times we'd simply call them fairies, and there's nothing wrong with that! It's totally accurate! I'd also like to address the prevalent idea that Fairies were historically always seen as Dark and Serious and Terrifying and Utterly Intimidating. Fairies, in Irish folklore, do not serve one purpose. They are inherently messy and hard to categorise. There is no canon. If anyone ever serves you a version of Irish folklore that neatly categorises things into simple boxes, they are serving you a heavily edited and inherently exclusionary ideal of what they think Irish folklore SHOULD be. Yes, Fairies were seen as a terrifying force of nature that could ruin your crops, steal your children, and do terrible things. People really believed in them. Yes, Fairies could be romantic heroes, or they could be part of horror stories, and they could part of Big Boy Serious Epic Myths For Serious Academic Researches And Scholars. BUT! Fairies are also silly! And weird! And ridiculous! Some Irish folklore existed, funnily enough, as entertainment! Stories about fairies like the leprechaun are often ignored and dismissed as inauthentic nowadays by people who consider themselves 'educated' in fairy lore, but the fact is they form a CRUCIAL and important part of our folklore and tradition. Comedy, slapstick, and crude humour are INTEGRAL to Irish folklore and should not be ignored just because of romantic ideals! TLDR: Faerie/Fae are not terms that were historically or culturally used by the people of Ireland in reference to our fairies, or at least certainly weren't considered appreciably separate/different to the term Fairy. Fairy is perfectly accurate and I see no point in not using it. Furthermore, the idea that you can rigidly classify fairies into Faeries: Important, Serious, Authentic and Fairies: Inauthentic, Childish, Commercialised isn't accurate to folklore, and falls into the same trap as the Victorians did when they erased and made up folklore and folktales to pretend that folklore was some Lost Higher Art Form. The idea that an art form *has* to secretly be Serious and High and Mighty is itself resting on classist ideals. Honestly, if I'm reading a source and they use "fae" or "faerie," I generally personally see that as a red flag that I'm gonna get condescendingly fed some romantic bullshit or something that Yeats made up, and I'll treat that source with a lot of skepticism.

[spicypolls]

People attracted to men: Which part of the male body do you like the best?*

Abs

Chest

Back

Arms

Legs

Other (Specify in notes)

See Results

Voting ended onJan 1, 2025

*Full Question: For people attracted to men, which part of the male body (Excluding genitals,) do you like the best?

[gallopinggallifreyans]

two bros, both alike in sexuality

in a hot tub, where we lay our scene

[yesornopolls]

Do you have a facial scar?

Do you have a facial scar?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMar 21, 2024

[cryptotheism]

Weirdly specific question but are there any occult/alchemical symbols associated with thyroids?

Thst is weirdly specific. Not that I know of unfortunately.

[puprinus]

my quest to find ways to exploit my thyroidectomy for arts council funding continues 😩

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

in which i recommend books like the netflix algorithm

you wanted it, you got it, babes! caveat: this list is long (seriously, sorry about the length) and i can’t write blurbs for everything, but i highly recommend going and looking at anything that sounds interesting. some books will fall under multiple headings, so i’m listing them twice. i am linking to their purchase pages on bookshop.org, because amazon sucks and bookshop helps support indie booksellers, but if your local indie bookstore offers delivery or curbside pickup, buy it there. and i’m trying to keep this list confined to pretty recent titles, so even though a few older ones might slip in there, it’s definitely centered on releases from the past few years. okay let’s do this.

if you want a book that feels like a primal scream:

godshot by chelsea bieker

the book of joan by lidia yuknavitch

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (short stories)

trust exercise by susan choi

my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell

the rehearsal by eleanor catton

indelicacy by amina cain

the answers by catherine lacey

the mars room by rachel kushner

the love affairs of nathaniel p. by adelle waldman

if you want clever social commentary and/or hilarious female protagonists:

you too can have a body like mine by alexandra kleeman

the new me by halle butler

queenie by candice carty-williams

prep by curtis sittenfeld

the idiot by elif batumen

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh

oksana, behave! by maria kuznetsova

where’d you go, bernadette by maria semple

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

nothing to see here by kevin wilson

made for love by alissa nutting

the pisces by melissa broder

the herd by andrea bartz

if you want to start reading the unhinged women canon (not all recent):

mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf

the awakening by kate chopin

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

gone girl by gillian flynn

rebecca by daphne du maurier

white oleander by janet fitch

cousin bette by honore de balzac

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys

play it as it lays by joan didion

the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek

valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann

postcards from the edge by carrie fisher

if you liked the secret history:

if we were villains by m.l. rio

social creature by tara isabelle burton

the basic eight by daniel handler

the incendiaries by r.o. kwon

bunny by mona awad

hex by rebecca dinerstein knight

if you like speculative/dystopian fiction:

the dreamers by karen thompson walker

the book of joan by lidia yuknavitch

severance by lin ma

gold fame citrus by claire vaye watkins

the farm by joanne ramos

followers by megan angelo

the power by naomi alderman

the glass hotel by emily st. john mandel

if you want a book that reads like a good fanfic:

normal people by sally rooney

fame adjacent by sarah skilton

stay up with hugo best by erin somers

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

circe by madeline miller

the nobodies by liza palmer

evvie drake starts over by linda holmes

if you like dark stories about complex relationships between women:

my sister, the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite

baby teeth by zoje stage

dare me by megan abbott

eileen by ottessa moshfegh

social creature by tara isabelle burton

the worst kind of want by liska jacobs

the girls by emma cline

oligarchy by scarlett thomas

devotion by madeline stevens

baby by annaleese jochems

marlena by julie buntin

bunny by mona awad

necessary people by anna pitoniak

if you like stories about complicated families:

red at the bone by jacqueline woodson

the care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls by anissa grey

mostly dead things by kristen arnett

bee season by myla goldberg

bowlaway by elizabeth mccracken

everything i never told you by celeste ng

the nest by cynthia d’aprix sweeney

the grammarians by cathleen schine

ask again, yes by mary beth keane

if you like smart and thoughtful books about relationships between women:

my brilliant friend and the neapolitan novels by elena ferrante

such a fun age by kiley reid

gingerbread by helen oyeyimi

the female persuasion by meg wolitzer

the burning girl by claire messud

expectation by anna hope

the animators by kayla rae whitaker

if you want something queer that isn’t YA:

my education by susan choi

permission by saskia vogel

mostly dead things by kristen arnett

real life by brandon taylor

after dolores by sarah schulman

patsy by nicole dennis-benn

wilder girls by rory power

enter the aardvark by jessica anthony

less by andrew sean greer

exciting times by naiose dolan

you just want something good and are willing to take a chance on one of these books i love (these are not all recent, i just like them a lot):

dept. of speculation by jenny offill

the interestings by meg wolitzer

godshot by chelsea bieker

play it as it lays by joan didion

the bonfire of the vanities by tom wolfe

wolf in white van by john darnielle

things you would know if you grew up around here by nancy wayson dinan

sex and rage by eve babitz

wise blood by flannery o’connor

leading men by christopher castellani

saint x by alexis schaitkin

the cosmopolitans by sarah schulman

lake success by gary shteyngart

odds against tomorrow by nathaniel rich

the great believers by rebecca makkai

good citizens need not fear by maria reva (short stories)

[lauraannegilman]

TV Executives: “if the strike goes in, you won’t get new episodes of your favorite shows! You won’t get new movies you were looking forward to! Isn’t that terrible, what the writers are doing to you?”

Me: Bitch, that might have been an effective threat in 2007, but we have since survived a Covid shutdown and discovered ways to amuse ourselves while we waited, we can outwait this shit, too. I got a pile of shows saved I haven’t even watched yet, and a Mt. TBR waiting for me.

Compensate (and respect) your writers for their work, assholes.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

It's just hilarious that they're trying to pull this whole "but your favorite shows!" nonsense.

Oh, you mean the shows you cancel after the third season no matter how good they're doing to avoid paying writers residuals? The shows that get produced and then never aired because you found a nice tax writeoff? The shows whose writing suffers because the writers' room got six weeks to write before getting booted and making the showrunner adapt all their scripts? The shows you straight up pulled from your streaming service to scam their crews out of rewatch money?

I will happily sacrifice my shows for the writers that gave them to me, no questions needed, but if anyone tries to say that the blatantly terrible way streaming treats its writers is somehow beneficial to shows, remind them of Infinity Train and Batgirl. That's the ideal they're pushing towards if someone doesn't say no, and we should be thankful that the writers are doing that for us.

[catchymemes]

BLOCK 100

HEAVY ARMOR 100

[desmondsprettyface]

So I looked up the whole story and, as the BBC reports:

[wolfbrotherzach]

I legitimately want to know what the wife’s reaction to this was.  I know she deserves to go to jail for attempted murder, but I can only just wonder what was going through her head when she saw him get out of bed complaining of a headache.

[swooood-dooooood]

[reaper-0-1]

There is not a singular use better for that picture anywhere on the internet. 

[neotrances-deactivated]

i keep thinking about this picture like the pure cunt of it all shakes me

[cloud-and-proud]

Is that the drag pride flag in the corner?

[neotrances-deactivated]

no that is the flag of the great and humble nation of ireland

[queer-adhd]

[solardrake]

[hashtagloveloses]

if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this

[hashtagloveloses]

ok i need to make this clearer: if you do not reblog posts and only like them you are contributing to this site actively getting worse and becoming like all the apps you hate. keep likes to things you just wanna keep off your blog. reblog everything else. ESPECIALLY fanart, which always needs a reblog.

[hashtagloveloses]

and FYI: what i’m saying here is backed up by tumblr themselves. they admit this publicly.

if you want a good RECENT (as of the end of February 2022) overview of what is going on behind the scenes at tumblr, it is basically what i’ve been saying for years: the core staff is tiny, constantly not being listened to when they advocate for us, the community, and working there is a nightmare:

The inside story of how Tumblr lost its way

And how it can find itself again for a new generation.

[taikeero-lecoredier]

Reblogging to encourage people instead of only liking is really not that fucking hard if you dont want people to be discouraged cuz their stuff get zero interactions and 99% useless likes and be driven off the Platform.

[puprinus]

crash