Midwest Mud

19, He/Him - Used to be a lurker - Writing Blog I guess

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[kaioty-summer]

Hey, did y'all see this?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.

Google Wants To Control Our Phones

Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b

If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.

[thatsmoderatelyraven]

My mom said that if this post gets 500,000+ notes, then i can get a fluffy chicken like this one

[titanandclank-deactivated201811]

i really want you to get that chicken man

[processintegrated]

If it makes you feel better I reblog this every time I see it. Just for you.

[sceptixfakemon]

i really genuinely wish I could hit chatgpt with my bare fists and hear its pityful electronic voice fade into glitched robotic gibberish and choking beeps as I hit it before I smash it for good and it shuts the fuck up forever

[sceptixfakemon]

no no it's fine

[sceptixfakemon]

why are so many people wondering if I'm horny for chatgpt. it's like the most unfuckable robot ever created heeell NO

[sceptixfakemon]

dragging you out of the tags like it's the last thing I'll ever do on this site

[leonkennedy]

RESIDENT EVIL: VERONICA (2027)

[swaggyyena]

To the motherfuckers in the indie community brushing off atrocious behavior just because it was however long ago (some of the things only being 6-4 years ago too.) Yall need to get a grip.

Most of the behavior I’ve seen people defending is racism which is just.. fucking terrible??? What is wrong with you people?

Even from the show creators, Vivziepop when Brandon was being called out, Gooseworx in general, like wtf is wrong with yall?? Whenever black people have their concerns yall feel the need to speak over them constantly. It happened with people like Max G too.

If you’re not mad about “past dramas” then good for you but other people are and that’s OKAY.

[palesweetscherryblossom]

The fact that people legitimately downplay it is so fucking disgusting. Racism is not just a little controversy or anything, it hurts actual people and is currently causing black fans to feel unsafe in a place that’s supposed to be fun and welcoming.

You would all much rather baby grown ass adults than give any sort of sympathy to POC

[queued-up-mic]

Omg they're remaking Code Veronica, we are so back

[glitchy-haha]

INCREDIBLY CONCERNING SPIKE IN ANTI-BLACKNESS IS HAPPENING RN.

Some of yall may have heard some of the shit that has been going on right now. I'm gonna give a quick run down of some of the stuff that has been happening. Note, this is not all, and it may never be all as much as I will try to update this.

(I am going to try and compile and briefly explain these as much as I can. There may be misinformation. Please inform me if I got something wrong.)

(This will also be updated with additional information and new topics added.)

1) Racist Chinese Dolls.

There are these dolls in China that are being called "Natasha" baby dolls. These dolls are not only very obvious caricatures of black people, but they are being advertised as a "stress relief" in which the people who buy these abuse it in various ways.

This links to a video of a compilation of the various "uses" of the doll. There are more in the replies of the tweet. (Another link to the same tweet just incase)

2) The Mocking, Abuse, and Dehumanization of Black Children.

Apart from the aforementioned doll, there are apparently people going around mocking, abusing, and dehumanizing black children.

Some people have compared black children to the doll.

Others have been going into African countries and have found ways to mock, abuse, and dehumanize black children for clout.

(Source 1 + Full Video) (Source 2)

There are more videos surfacing.

3) Black people are going missing.

Black people, especially children and teens have recently been going missing at an alarming rate. Some of these same people are turning up dead, deaths being ruled as "suicides."

While it generally unknown why many of these people are going missing, many suspect that their disappearances, deaths, and even lack of coverage is rooted in anti-blackness.

The following is a list of black people that have been reported missing as of recently. Please note that this is not a complete list (it may never be completed due to the fact that many of these disappearances will still occur as time passes) this may contain inaccurate information. Please inform me if that is the case.

By the time you see this, some of these people may have already been found either alive or deceased. This post will be updated overtime.

It is also heavily encouraged that you reblog this with more links to recent cases of missing black people if you are aware of any that aren’t included on this list.

Alexis Shaver

Payton Diver

Nasir Tacuma

Ka’Laya Cooper

Makaila Monae Adam

Moriah Kerre Smith

Uchechi Chijindum Nkemdirim

Victeria Uriah Spear

Rilen Wade (Found. Is Safe)

Leara Sessoms

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[thulium]

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[littleluciddreamer-blog]

Reblog if you're hoping 2011 will be a fresh start.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

PSA: new type of bots plaguing AO3’s comments section.

as obvious as it is that these are all bots/scam, I believe there are still people who believe they are legit and fall victims to these trolls. so if you get a comment like these, don’t panic, don’t delete your works. they are all bots. you’re fine.

MORE ABOUT SCAMS ON AO3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“lock your fics”, “turn guest comments off” the solution should be to find a way to get rid off these bots (I fully understand how hard ao3’s volunteers work so this isn’t to throw shades at them at all), not limiting our works to only a limited amount of people.

I love my guest comments (who are real and not bots). I love my readers who find comfort in my works but don’t have registered accounts on ao3. I refuse to keep my works from them just because these bots are cunts. I can delete and shame them until ao3 find a way to properly deal with them without keeping my works from my lovely guest readers and commenters

I also like to add that not all bots are guest comments. most of them are, yes. but I’ve certainly seen a fair amount of them with registered accounts too, unfortunately

[queued-up-mic]

Yandere Human Alastor (Friend-Platonic)

📻 You have to be quite the person to intrigue and delight Alastor into being so completely obsessed with you. However you two met doesn't matter to him, whether you're a script writer from the studio he works at, someone he found around New Orleans that interested him, or maybe one of his friends introduced you to each other. Regardless of the way you’ve met, he will make sure that you will be close, he’s great at planning ahead.

❤️ The perfect duo: A charming radio host and his endearing co-host, to be, two birds of a feather. Oh to be conjoined at the hip with this guy would be excruciating after a while. If you get along with him in the beginning, with no resistance, it will make your companionship a lot easier for him to shape. Maybe you don't even jive with him at the moment but he has already decided that you two will be friends, he always gets his way in the end. 

🦌 He'll make excuse after excuse to keep you close, perhaps it's running into each other on the town while running chores or he is checking up on you during a work break. He wants to talk with his dear friend, make sure they are doin’ alright. Expect him to try and keep you with him or to linger longer than normal as your friendship deepens.  “Oh dear, it's quite late, you shouldn't walk home alone in the dark, there's a murderer going around, I don't even want to think about what could happen to you.” From time to time, he’ll just follow you around to make sure you're okay, it's also interesting to watch you on your own.

📻 Alastor shows you the world he built, his famous radio station, the parties, and connections he has. You always wanted to meet this musician, well golly, he had them on his show a few months ago and would love to introduce you to them. Never gone out to a speakeasy with live jazz music, fear not he’ll take you out to his favorite. He's the toast of New Orleans, he can't let his friend go without, he's very charitable when he wants to. Using his accomplishments and ritzy lifestyle to pull you in, the life he is inviting you into is impossible to resist, although this has a price on your personal life.

❤️ He has a constant need of knowing what you're doing, where you are, and who you are with. Hovering and stalking you to make sure you aren't in danger but, it's also nice to watch you do ‘you’ things, but he's always in your general vicinity. He is so hellbent on this that he won't let you out of his sight, he constantly drifts back to you or will sway the circumstances so you go back to him. “Now what are you doing with this fellow, sorry to interrupt your friend but I do believe we should be headed back to work.” 

🦌 Forget about any close friends that he doesn't like, he will not let you associate with individuals he doesn't approve of. Will probably introduce you to people he likes, Mimzy for example, “Isn’t she just a doll, I  knew you two would hit it off.” He’ll show you how the people he has introduced you to are better than those others you thought were your friends. Just be happy he doesn't get rid of them permanently, at least for the moment. He starts to drive a wedge between you and your pals he disapproves of, lightly criticizing or barring them from joining you two.

📻 Eventually Alastor will eliminate this person, either they will do something to aggravate him enough that it pushes him to this final action or he uses them as another way to coerce you back to him, however it is a mixture of likely both. He is comforting you about your loss, but in his head he is apathetic and indifferent, all while patting himself on the back. 

❤️ He pushes this situation in particular by manipulating you to feel the need to rely on him, “Honestly it was a matter of time that bird was gonna get knocked off, he was constantly in a jam with some crook.” By pushing the narrative that this was a natural consequence of the deceased, it makes you question how many of the friends that you have are either grifters or deceivers that don't act in your best interest (the hypocrisy is astounding.)

🦌 Smooth talking you and influencing the world you see around you to encapture and nurture the toxic relationship he longed to build. He’ll have you cut off the rest of your familiars he dislikes: friends, family, or potentially a partner, it doesn't matter to him. Having you cut them off is just another step in his plan, it was you that burned the bridge, not him, those people will most likely never reach back to you. 

📻 This leaves you isolated with him and the fellas he already had under his thumb. It's these subtle ways that further captivate you, pulling you even closer together. Separating your past life, destroying it in the process, changing the way you view the people you knew before, and charming you into fully appreciating him and his overbearing presence.

❤️ He’s gotcha, hook, line, and sinker. So begins a new era of companionship and secrecy, all during the vibrant nights of the Roaring Twenties. The companionship of someone who doesn't know that they have been stripped of a healthy life of independence, a life free from constant control and deceit. However there is a thin film of secrecy that is one of the only things holding your relationship together, if unraveled would disfigure countless lives and bring out the truth of the reason why so many died. While truly tragic, this dark shadow of reality is overcome with the blinding light of the glamour Alastor has shown you.

🦌 Now that he has you dependent on him, he'll take you out to show you his favorite spots in New Orleans. Hope you like coffee, I guess, cause you're going to this cafe that he thought you would like. Oh, you prefer a night at a Gin Mill, well he is always ready to party, oh Mimzy is here as well! "What a trio, takin’ the night by a storm, I wonder what kind of trouble us three will become!" Or maybe you just want a relaxing night to yourself, well he has some nice jazz on record from his personal library that you two could listen to, maybe read some books that he can recommend, just you two peas in a pod. Even when you go back to work, Alastor is ceaselessly there with you, if you didn't have a job with him before, now ya do. He pulled some strings in the station, to have you works at the Studio with him. Your job could range from being his assistant and getting him coffee when he needs to fully joining him in the booth room as his co-host, becoming as well known as he.

📻 This way of life with Alastor lasts for a while, you two are content with each other, it's honestly not a bad situation. Yea, sometimes he looks like he is drilling a hole into your head because of how he stares at you. Also yes, he does have a tight grip on you when dragging you from someone he finds particularly unsavory, he'll take care of them later. He seems irritated when one of his friends takes up too much of your attention, Mimzy has gotten chided by Alastor more than once in private because of her behavior, especially if it bothers you. 

❤️ After knowing you for as long as he has, he can read you like a book, all that time ‘observing’ you has really paid off. You don't even have to verbalize anything to him, that gleam in your eye when you see something you want to your way of wringing your hands when someone disturbs you. All of it, recognized and locked deep in his mind for safekeeping, from micro expressions to regular habits. "What's with the frown, is it that blasted neighbor of yours again, I've seen frogs with more class than that Dumb Dora"

🦌 While he wished to be near you all the time, Alastor needed his alone time, every once and a while, you would finally have some peace all by yourself. It's just a deer hunting trip, he needs to get outta the city and breathe some fresh air, a simple break from life. "It will be a quick trip my dear, I'll be back before you even know I'm gone." As we know this is merely a cover up of what he is really doing, taking ‘care’ of the people that he dislikes. The racist vermin that treat him badly and your ‘friends’ he wanted gone, all to be brutally murdered. It is during these trips that he also tries to contact Rosie, using the remains of the bodies he tarnished.

📻 After countless rituals it finally works out the way that he wanted, except, he has some added intentions to just being the most powerful sinner. Someone needs to be able to protect you in the cesspit which is hell, he knows you can't, at least one of you needs to be prepared. He was shot within a day of their deal, neither of you said proper goodbyes the day he left for his trip, that was something he would come to regret in hell. 

❤️ It was only after that last ‘deer hunt’ was it revealed that he was shot and killed, this eventually declared Alastor to be the very killer he ‘worried’ about. The shock of it is immediate, both for his death and the deaths he caused. Thoroughly shaken, you leave New Orleans and everything you had there, hopefully disappearing to somewhere was never swayed by Alastor.

🦌 Even years after he has passed, him and the friendship of yours still leaves a sour taste of regret and shame in the back of your throat. How many of his victims died for the sake of you, they were slain because of the connection between you and their murderer. Could you have stopped him in any way? The questions of ‘why me’ rings like tolling bell, why not hurt or kill me, why behave the way he did around me, why manipulate my situation with such precision, why did he do all of this. 

📻 He conned you of everything, and left you broken when he died. Nothing you had was yours. The people you knew were his, your job, your livelihood, your time on earth, your very being in the world created to trap you were all his. The one thing that he hadn't obtained was your very soul, what you would become after you leave the pitiful excuse of an existence on the mortal plane.

❤️ When you do eventually pass, you better hope that you get sent to the pearly gates and into the arms of the angels, or else Alastor will find you as he has been patiently waiting for you down in the fiery pits. You’ll return back to him, it's just a matter of time.

Author Note: this is my first time writing and posting any kind of work, sorry if it's kinda wanky, I've never posted on Tumblr just reblogged. Feel free to leave any constructive criticism, I'd love for any help.

[dogposts]

An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked “Philippines 1942”. Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead (via)

[gayluigi]

This is so freaking profound. Like, this was before the advent of the personal camera. Not just anyone owned a camera in these days. Cameras were expensive, and so was the film. When you were recording shit, it had to be stuff you were willing to shell out a pretty penny to have preserved. Someone so deeply and profoundly loved these dogs and found joy in them that they decided to preserve them for future generations to see, after these pups are long dead and gone. This camera operator wanted to preserve the joy these dogs brought them and to share it with others. How incredible is that?

[catgirl-techsupport]

Saw a post like this with negative outlook so I asked for it to be fixed

[stephenleasheppard]

Yeah I’ll buy into this one.

[brightlotusmoon]

*deep breath*

*reblog*

[thesunoficaruss]

big fan of romance horror. big fan of terrible people still being loved. big fan of bending morality and turning the grotesque into something beautiful.