Choose your weapon! And be careful of the credenza

Quin (she/they) — fan of SFTH, Life Series, Hermitcraft, Six of Crows, Ryan George, Smosh, Project Hail Mary, and many other things — feel free to tag me in stuff

[rusty-spooooooooon]

helllllllooooo people! I have a flight in *checks watch* 5 hours! And then a vacation or over a month! And I am going to be. bored. So! This is your chance to recommend to me anything! Literally anything! ...as long as I can download it. But! Any fics, for any fandom, any pairing, anything! As long as it's not like... smut. That's basically the one requirement. But yeah anything! Absolutely anything you want. (You can also recommend music or something as long as I can download it in Spotify)(also if you're sailing the high seas to watch it please provide a link I suck at finding things)

@oliverquary @yourlocalavian @alternas-navigation-system @silly-symbiote @zeethecatlady @willowpotatox @ducklingking666 @a-chaotic-pancake @rexrambles @ghostie-blu @monochromedevdle @wynnbellamy @gatorguy777 @but-aint-this-texas @sol-arsystem @shirestrawberry144 @o-lie-pie-ver @monstarr-7 @casi-jk @azula-petrichor @jellyfishizhere @skeletal-spire-man @calliopethegreekmythologynerd @very-annoyed-crow @starryfoxglove @no1likemickey @demigoddessofthetrees @yourl0calqueer @hexesandwyrmwood @p3skybirdd @opal-and-stolas @howmanyholesinswisscheese @justa-goose @sharinosaur @axi-the-tapeworm @rainbowkessem @freelancedeity @moon-storm @sporeofmanynames @whiteraven-cosmere @sunshinefroggers @reggiehyperfixates @dont-step-on-frogs @confusedfroggirl @gwartcando @sunshine-snake @apollomidnight13 @calcium-is-screaming2 @elegytheenby @jadealaide @warrengodby3 @5tarry-skies-of-hope @im-an-anthusiast @artymarty23 @iicor @thenamesgraymydudes @venuscrashed14 @autopilotangel @algae122 @thewaffleking720 @callmemreep @merthaevelynk @ovloppy @phoenixrainsfire413 @lavendermoon48 @beanzdabean @afterdarkafternight @inferno-the-skywing @drudg30n @erratic-dragon-fruit @arsonforagoodcause @evyyy77 @foxfire16 @shiny-and-domsticated-dih @valovalenthia @smoreboi @rosey-fangz @darkcomets @non-binaryfunkyfellow @dawn-but-different @chillingasavoidcat @somethingintheaspens @rainbowfeather314 @221lesbiandconfused @cheriexcrush @potatoanarchist @volume-down @aspengrovethechaotic @vividcomet @dylacola @justamoonstar @rusticresilience @whythewhynot54396 @horsetrack10 @stargazer-r @ratttailz @queerbookbitch @renbugs-copper-crown @zonedallthewayout @cactus-coder-13 @edensolace @birdbrainztumb1r @thegroovybears @my-little-mayfly @leofromsomewhere @epitome-of-stupidity @the-blue-one247 @t0nn1x @stupidlittlestarguy @vincsatyou @miku-blue-n-pronouns @phoenixfromgallifrey @flutterszone @clauloves5sosandgays @angelicm00nzdreams @adhd-nighmare @birdbrainztumb1r @ilikesheeppp @bugboys-world @theresh3g0es @do-not-be-lasagne @lightsabersandbluecookies @between2waves @rainstormyday @sages-dick-joke-mutual @gaypistachio @hedgehogwhounderstands @moiraine-damodred-sedai @localcryptid66 @fox-offical @st4ry3mi @heliorescens @birdbrain-on-tumbler @n1c0t1n3-dd1ct @stressed2themax @fizzielio @imacanofsprite @letzgetsilly @theembergazer @moony-was-here @romanticizing-life11111 @high-school-is-killing-me @wethewatchers @just-craig @unfortunatelyunkn0wn @natavinsmoke06 @dragonling248 @unablebagel @bandcampgremlin @incompententententen @androgynouschaosfury @thehighvisionary @ari-is-hiding @shadow-ember16 @kidneystealer101 @notimportant173 @cee-views @quin387 @sparkleblast73 @seren3dip1ty @generally-genderfluid @epicsfthghosts @endlesswatcher @idkimgayasf @nerdy-yappin @indigoraven

(also hi. there's a lot of you. i haven't talked to a lot of you in like half a year. how are you)

[rusty-spooooooooon]

I think there's a limit on how many people you can tag in one post so I'm gonna put the rest of you here

@5tarry-skies-of-hope @im-an-anthusiast @artymarty23 @iicor @thenamesgraymydudes @venuscrashed14 @autopilotangel @algae122 @thewaffleking720 @callmemreep @merthaevelynk @ovloppy @phoenixrainsfire413 @lavendermoon48 @beanzdabean @afterdarkafternight @inferno-the-skywing @drudg30n @erratic-dragon-fruit @arsonforagoodcause @evyyy77 @foxfire16 @shiny-and-domsticated-dih @valovalenthia @smoreboi @rosey-fangz @darkcomets @non-binaryfunkyfellow @dawn-but-different @chillingasavoidcat @somethingintheaspens @rainbowfeather314 @221lesbiandconfused @cheriexcrush @potatoanarchist @volume-down @aspengrovethechaotic @vividcomet @dylacola @justamoonstar @rusticresilience @whythewhynot54396 @horsetrack10 @stargazer-r @ratttailz @queerbookbitch @renbugs-copper-crown @zonedallthewayout @cactus-coder-13 @edensolace @birdbrainztumb1r @thegroovybears @my-little-mayfly

[rusty-spooooooooon]

and again!

sweaty-toothed-dreamer @epitome-of-stupidity @the-blue-one247 @t0nn1x @stupidlittlestarguy @vincsatyou @miku-blue-n-pronouns @phoenixfromgallifrey @flutterszone @clauloves5sosandgays @angelicm00nzdreams @adhd-nighmare @birdbrainztumb1r @ilikesheeppp @bugboys-world @theresh3g0es @do-not-be-lasagne @lightsabersandbluecookies @between2waves @rainstormyday @sages-dick-joke-mutual @gaypistachio @hedgehogwhounderstands @moiraine-damodred-sedai @localcryptid66 @fox-offical @st4ry3mi @heliorescens @birdbrain-on-tumbler @n1c0t1n3-dd1ct @stressed2themax @fizzielio @imacanofsprite @letzgetsilly @theembergazer @moony-was-here @romanticizing-life11111 @high-school-is-killing-me @wethewatchers @just-craig @unfortunatelyunkn0wn @natavinsmoke06 @dragonling248 @unablebagel @bandcampgremlin @incompententententen @androgynouschaosfury @thehighvisionary @ari-is-hiding @shadow-ember16 @kidneystealer101 @notimportant173 @cee-views @quin387 @sparkleblast73 @seren3dip1ty @generally-genderfluid @epicsfthghosts @endlesswatcher @idkimgayasf @nerdy-yappin @indigoraven

[clauloves5sosandgays]

HIIIIIII

Omg I'm a bit late for the flight but I'm gonna recommend you some stuff for the rest of your holiday 🤭

If you like D&D, I 100% recommend Critical Role, they're a group of voice actors that play D&D together and stream it, they have their episodes up in Youtube but also as podcasts in Spotify!! If it's the first time you've heard of them, you can either start with campaign 1, which you'll find under the name of Vox Machina (if the name rings a bell, they have an animated adaptation of this campaign on Amazon Prime Video, "The Legend of Vox Machina"); or campaign 4 (which is currently airing). Both campaigns are set in different worlds and have different DMs, and campaign 4 has the same actors as campaign 1 plus some more ;) They're really fun to watch, you'll cry a bit yeah but they're amazing!!

And for fics... oh honey you're in for a RIDE! These are some of my non-smut favourite fics of all time that you can download on ao3:

All the way home (fun au, feels like a movie)

The love song of Vax'ildan Vessar (this one will make you cry SO MUCH throught the whole fic, it's amazing but it destroys you)

Labor of love (love love love love this one, coffee shop aus rule)

Talkative (short but amazing)

Every thorn has its rose (pretty good, love a flower shop au)

A pirate's life for me (one of my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE fics of all time, incredible, it has a sequel if you like it)

Fridge light (cute adoptive relationships, has some spoilers of the main plot of The Owl House)

Fame, glory and baked goods of all kind (get a coffee shop au and throw in famous actors au, amazing)

Misplaced mistakes (you're the best kind) (love it, the autor of this fic also wrote my favourite fic of all time but it has smut so I'm not gonna recommend it on here)

What's real we have to squint to see (absolutely incredible, there's not enough museum workers aus)

Couples counselling (so much fun but also cute)

Most of these fics are AUs, and the ones that have some canon content are just a few and marked as so! Hope you like them, and please tell me if you read some ;)

[rusty-spooooooooon]

hi so uhh fun fact! Critical role is one of my biggest interests, to the point where I might even consider it a special interest. However! I have not read any of these fics so I greatly appreciate them :D (I don't read many cr fics for some reason and when I do it's almost always c3 or c2)

[quin387]

Shoot from the hip, an improv comedy group, puts their longforms on spotify (and a ton more stuff on yt)! Each is about 20 min long, and they’re all really funny. My favs are Sorry about my Nan, Never Give Annabelle a Gun (this one has cowboy lesbians), Inside the Mysterious Cube (this one has gay cowboy war veterans), and Beetroots and Murder :)

[rusty-spooooooooon]

adding this to the list of people recommending fandoms I'm already in go me/silly (sfth is also my current hyperfixation)(also I'm pretty sure it's the reason I originally followed you)(:D)

But yeah I did in fact download all their videos on spotify and watch them on the plane it was great (also the plagueround and FoE)

Oh! And I also watched the new rfth campaign(?) two shot thing idk if you did but it was great

[quin387]

hmmmm yeah i really should have double checked that lol

I’m still on like the first session of lock stock, and havent watched any other rfth yet (besides plagueround). I really want to tho

I could send u the links to some of my fav sfth sketch fanfics if you’re interested :)

[rusty-spooooooooon]

helllllllooooo people! I have a flight in *checks watch* 5 hours! And then a vacation or over a month! And I am going to be. bored. So! This is your chance to recommend to me anything! Literally anything! ...as long as I can download it. But! Any fics, for any fandom, any pairing, anything! As long as it's not like... smut. That's basically the one requirement. But yeah anything! Absolutely anything you want. (You can also recommend music or something as long as I can download it in Spotify)(also if you're sailing the high seas to watch it please provide a link I suck at finding things)

@oliverquary @yourlocalavian @alternas-navigation-system @silly-symbiote @zeethecatlady @willowpotatox @ducklingking666 @a-chaotic-pancake @rexrambles @ghostie-blu @monochromedevdle @wynnbellamy @gatorguy777 @but-aint-this-texas @sol-arsystem @shirestrawberry144 @o-lie-pie-ver @monstarr-7 @casi-jk @azula-petrichor @jellyfishizhere @skeletal-spire-man @calliopethegreekmythologynerd @very-annoyed-crow @starryfoxglove @no1likemickey @demigoddessofthetrees @yourl0calqueer @hexesandwyrmwood @p3skybirdd @opal-and-stolas @howmanyholesinswisscheese @justa-goose @sharinosaur @axi-the-tapeworm @rainbowkessem @freelancedeity @moon-storm @sporeofmanynames @whiteraven-cosmere @sunshinefroggers @reggiehyperfixates @dont-step-on-frogs @confusedfroggirl @gwartcando @sunshine-snake @apollomidnight13 @calcium-is-screaming2 @elegytheenby @jadealaide @warrengodby3 @5tarry-skies-of-hope @im-an-anthusiast @artymarty23 @iicor @thenamesgraymydudes @venuscrashed14 @autopilotangel @algae122 @thewaffleking720 @callmemreep @merthaevelynk @ovloppy @phoenixrainsfire413 @lavendermoon48 @beanzdabean @afterdarkafternight @inferno-the-skywing @drudg30n @erratic-dragon-fruit @arsonforagoodcause @evyyy77 @foxfire16 @shiny-and-domsticated-dih @valovalenthia @smoreboi @rosey-fangz @darkcomets @non-binaryfunkyfellow @dawn-but-different @chillingasavoidcat @somethingintheaspens @rainbowfeather314 @221lesbiandconfused @cheriexcrush @potatoanarchist @volume-down @aspengrovethechaotic @vividcomet @dylacola @justamoonstar @rusticresilience @whythewhynot54396 @horsetrack10 @stargazer-r @ratttailz @queerbookbitch @renbugs-copper-crown @zonedallthewayout @cactus-coder-13 @edensolace @birdbrainztumb1r @thegroovybears @my-little-mayfly @leofromsomewhere @epitome-of-stupidity @the-blue-one247 @t0nn1x @stupidlittlestarguy @vincsatyou @miku-blue-n-pronouns @phoenixfromgallifrey @flutterszone @clauloves5sosandgays @angelicm00nzdreams @adhd-nighmare @birdbrainztumb1r @ilikesheeppp @bugboys-world @theresh3g0es @do-not-be-lasagne @lightsabersandbluecookies @between2waves @rainstormyday @sages-dick-joke-mutual @gaypistachio @hedgehogwhounderstands @moiraine-damodred-sedai @localcryptid66 @fox-offical @st4ry3mi @heliorescens @birdbrain-on-tumbler @n1c0t1n3-dd1ct @stressed2themax @fizzielio @imacanofsprite @letzgetsilly @theembergazer @moony-was-here @romanticizing-life11111 @high-school-is-killing-me @wethewatchers @just-craig @unfortunatelyunkn0wn @natavinsmoke06 @dragonling248 @unablebagel @bandcampgremlin @incompententententen @androgynouschaosfury @thehighvisionary @ari-is-hiding @shadow-ember16 @kidneystealer101 @notimportant173 @cee-views @quin387 @sparkleblast73 @seren3dip1ty @generally-genderfluid @epicsfthghosts @endlesswatcher @idkimgayasf @nerdy-yappin @indigoraven

(also hi. there's a lot of you. i haven't talked to a lot of you in like half a year. how are you)

[rusty-spooooooooon]

I think there's a limit on how many people you can tag in one post so I'm gonna put the rest of you here

@5tarry-skies-of-hope @im-an-anthusiast @artymarty23 @iicor @thenamesgraymydudes @venuscrashed14 @autopilotangel @algae122 @thewaffleking720 @callmemreep @merthaevelynk @ovloppy @phoenixrainsfire413 @lavendermoon48 @beanzdabean @afterdarkafternight @inferno-the-skywing @drudg30n @erratic-dragon-fruit @arsonforagoodcause @evyyy77 @foxfire16 @shiny-and-domsticated-dih @valovalenthia @smoreboi @rosey-fangz @darkcomets @non-binaryfunkyfellow @dawn-but-different @chillingasavoidcat @somethingintheaspens @rainbowfeather314 @221lesbiandconfused @cheriexcrush @potatoanarchist @volume-down @aspengrovethechaotic @vividcomet @dylacola @justamoonstar @rusticresilience @whythewhynot54396 @horsetrack10 @stargazer-r @ratttailz @queerbookbitch @renbugs-copper-crown @zonedallthewayout @cactus-coder-13 @edensolace @birdbrainztumb1r @thegroovybears @my-little-mayfly

[rusty-spooooooooon]

and again!

sweaty-toothed-dreamer @epitome-of-stupidity @the-blue-one247 @t0nn1x @stupidlittlestarguy @vincsatyou @miku-blue-n-pronouns @phoenixfromgallifrey @flutterszone @clauloves5sosandgays @angelicm00nzdreams @adhd-nighmare @birdbrainztumb1r @ilikesheeppp @bugboys-world @theresh3g0es @do-not-be-lasagne @lightsabersandbluecookies @between2waves @rainstormyday @sages-dick-joke-mutual @gaypistachio @hedgehogwhounderstands @moiraine-damodred-sedai @localcryptid66 @fox-offical @st4ry3mi @heliorescens @birdbrain-on-tumbler @n1c0t1n3-dd1ct @stressed2themax @fizzielio @imacanofsprite @letzgetsilly @theembergazer @moony-was-here @romanticizing-life11111 @high-school-is-killing-me @wethewatchers @just-craig @unfortunatelyunkn0wn @natavinsmoke06 @dragonling248 @unablebagel @bandcampgremlin @incompententententen @androgynouschaosfury @thehighvisionary @ari-is-hiding @shadow-ember16 @kidneystealer101 @notimportant173 @cee-views @quin387 @sparkleblast73 @seren3dip1ty @generally-genderfluid @epicsfthghosts @endlesswatcher @idkimgayasf @nerdy-yappin @indigoraven

[clauloves5sosandgays]

HIIIIIII

Omg I'm a bit late for the flight but I'm gonna recommend you some stuff for the rest of your holiday 🤭

If you like D&D, I 100% recommend Critical Role, they're a group of voice actors that play D&D together and stream it, they have their episodes up in Youtube but also as podcasts in Spotify!! If it's the first time you've heard of them, you can either start with campaign 1, which you'll find under the name of Vox Machina (if the name rings a bell, they have an animated adaptation of this campaign on Amazon Prime Video, "The Legend of Vox Machina"); or campaign 4 (which is currently airing). Both campaigns are set in different worlds and have different DMs, and campaign 4 has the same actors as campaign 1 plus some more ;) They're really fun to watch, you'll cry a bit yeah but they're amazing!!

And for fics... oh honey you're in for a RIDE! These are some of my non-smut favourite fics of all time that you can download on ao3:

All the way home (fun au, feels like a movie)

The love song of Vax'ildan Vessar (this one will make you cry SO MUCH throught the whole fic, it's amazing but it destroys you)

Labor of love (love love love love this one, coffee shop aus rule)

Talkative (short but amazing)

Every thorn has its rose (pretty good, love a flower shop au)

A pirate's life for me (one of my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE fics of all time, incredible, it has a sequel if you like it)

Fridge light (cute adoptive relationships, has some spoilers of the main plot of The Owl House)

Fame, glory and baked goods of all kind (get a coffee shop au and throw in famous actors au, amazing)

Misplaced mistakes (you're the best kind) (love it, the autor of this fic also wrote my favourite fic of all time but it has smut so I'm not gonna recommend it on here)

What's real we have to squint to see (absolutely incredible, there's not enough museum workers aus)

Couples counselling (so much fun but also cute)

Most of these fics are AUs, and the ones that have some canon content are just a few and marked as so! Hope you like them, and please tell me if you read some ;)

[rusty-spooooooooon]

hi so uhh fun fact! Critical role is one of my biggest interests, to the point where I might even consider it a special interest. However! I have not read any of these fics so I greatly appreciate them :D (I don't read many cr fics for some reason and when I do it's almost always c3 or c2)

[quin387]

Shoot from the hip, an improv comedy group, puts their longforms on spotify (and a ton more stuff on yt)! Each is about 20 min long, and they’re all really funny. My favs are Sorry about my Nan, Never Give Annabelle a Gun (this one has cowboy lesbians), Inside the Mysterious Cube (this one has gay cowboy war veterans), and Beetroots and Murder :)

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

my friend was testing perfumes out at the store and she sniffed a bottle and anounced "ngl this bitch kind of sucks" The girl at the counter suddenly looked really sad, and my friend was like "I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about you." And the girl looked up and said "No don't worry, I didn't think that, but I just crushed a ladybug with my shoe" We both took a peak over the counter. she'd stepped on a red m&m

[punkrorschach]

this post is like five posts per post

[puddleorganism]

Why does “falling in love” have pretty much exclusively romantic connotations it’s such a good phrase. I’ve fallen in love with every single one of my friends

[puddleorganism]

This was such a smart post to make because every day I get to see people declaring their love for their friends in the tags. Such a simple but sweet “restoring faith in humanity” kind of thing. We’re all just little creatures who love our buddies <3

[puddleorganism]

Alright so this post has gotten over 5,000 notes in a month and I think that means the consensus is that everyone loves their friends and you should tell them

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“everyone is mad at me and they just won’t tell me” —> “no one has said anything about being mad at me and i haven’t done anything to warrant being mad at so if someone is silently fuming about me and not saying anything that’s their problem and actually quite weird of them and i can effortlessly move on with my life”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this took SUCH a huge deal of unlearning because, like so many of you, i came out of a home where being quietly in trouble WAS the default state, and i DID grow up not just with the assumption but borderline religious conviction that Everyone Is Mad At Me, I Am Bad, I Must Exist In A Constant State of Attempting to Pacify The Natural Rage I Inspire In Everyone. and no it actually turns out that my family are the freaks . and yours are too

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“this isn’t true because i DEFINITELY silently fume at people in the hopes they’ll figure out what they did and apologize” that’s not good. you shouldn’t do that

“this isn’t true because the ex-friendship that traumatized me ended explosively after they were mad at me and never told me why” that’s not good. they shouldn’t be doing that

“i don’t think this is true because my current friend group is constantly icing me out until i figure out what ive done to upset them and properly apologized without being told” hey thats not good. they should not be doing that

if the peacefulness of your relationship with someone (familial, romantic, friendly, anything) can be destroyed by effective communication/asking them for effective communication, you have got to get out of there. if you can’t get out of there, you’ve got to throw away any ideas about what that person thinks of you because they have their own shit to figure out before they can accurately read anyone else

[rsingwriting]

I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school. 

And sometimes I think, “Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred.” And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good. 

And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don’t feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I’ve rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways. 

Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it’s much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.

[theamyrlinsofa]

This is the second time this post passes on my dash and it’s the best advice I ever got. I can’t write consistently in one go, it’s always about 50 words and then I get distracted and just have to do something else for a while. Do the math quickly: trying to write 2000 words a day takes a looooong time that way. So there were many days where I just didn’t even start writing, cause I wouldn’t reach my goal anyways and feel like a failure. Then I stumbled upon this post and I thought: hey, let’s give this a try. And it works! I set my goal between 200-400 words a day and that’s perfectly doable. Some days I get into the flow and I write a whole lot more. On other days, I struggle to get those 200 out but hey, at least I wrote 200 words and reached my goal. Whatever the outcome, t makes me feel good and accomplished. 

Writing takes practice, so even if it’s only 100 words a day, it’s better than nothing. If it worked for Terry Pratchett and me, than it can work for you too!

[stillnotmollified]

some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows

this kind of policing is why ao3 was created

remember, kids, the three laws of fandom are:

- don’t like; don’t read

- your kink is not my kink

- ship and let ship

[rembrandtswife]

your kink is not my kink *but your kink is okay* don't forget that part

[the-haiku-bot]

your kink is not my

kink *but your kink is okay*

don’t forget that part

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[only-cat-memes]

[forgwater]

[3rdrealm-deactivated20200301]

i think the crux of human misery stems from the fact that our skeleton just wants to sit around and accumulate dust in an ancient barrow (that is the innate imperative of all skeletal remains in-case you didn’t know) but our meat has its own agenda which creates this fundamental conflict of interests

[tri-punisher]

hi. did you know australia has a fairywren species called the superb fairywren

and another species called the splendid fairywren

...and one called the lovely fairywren

[naamahdarling]

They just named these by showing pictures to some elderly woman and noting down her first delighted exclamation.

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

[lesser-flamingo]

me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig

me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back

[anonymousretired]

So fun. The axolotl. The penguin waddle. Learn something new everyday.

[dragonpyre]

Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

[rootbeerrex]

starting a collection

[clever-fandom-reference]

If I may submit:

[kisskisscantfallinlove]

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 3

posts created during 2026, or posts shared with you during 2026?

Posts shared with me during 2026.

It is easier to use a post if it was made in 2026, but it doesn't have to be made in 2026.

Some posts are labeled mature content by Tumblr, and some posts are labeled mature content by the person making the post. Won't that change the result?

That's actuality what I'm studying!

Is there a way I can follow updates, without having to follow you?

As of this FAQ post, I am using "iamthelowercase science project updates" as a tag on all my posts about it. I am considering whether to use tumblr's "community" feature to create a dedicated place to follow about it, as well.

If I'd thought about it beforehand, I'd have made a sideblog specifically for this project. Hindsight really is 20/20.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 4

OP are you secretly rounding up a bunch of posts to report them and get them deleted?

This question comes in two parts. Part one: well if I were doing it secretly, I wouldn't tell you that, now would I? I promise I'm not doing that, but like, isn't that what I would say if I were lying to you?

Part two: LMAO if you think Tumblr doesn't already have the ability to nuke all posts marked "Mature Content" just as thoroughly as they nuke trans women's blogs. Now like, a mass reporting campaign targeted at this dataset could still have negative effects, if nothing else by getting employee eyes on the posts. Which is why I'm going to have to be careful who I share the full dataset with. But that's antithetical to my goal here.

What if I have tumblr set to not show me the mature content clickthrough? Do I still send you the post if I notice it?

Yes please. I am studying the clickthroughs themselves, more than the content of the post; but for the same reason I am looking at the clickthrough myself. You don't have to look at the clickthorough if you don't want to.

I am specifically comparing posts labeled "potentially mature content" to those labeled "mature content". Some people have turned the clickthrough filter back on so that they make sure to notice when posts they would not consider mature got flagged. I am very grateful to these people.

What if the post is from a few years ago?

Go ahead and send it. Some of those will prove useful to me, and some of them won't, but the only way for me to know for sure will be to check them.

I just didn't want to be getting posts from this project forever.

[iamthelowercase]

Things I've learned so far

I should have done a trial run before blazing the post. Oops.

Apparently there's some sort of scam where people need to trick you into messaging them first? And this does look like it would be one of those. I promise it's not one, but of course you have no way to know.

You can just. Tell people the null hypothesis without having to worry about it corrupting your data.

Just how much work data entry is.

I should have provided some way for folks who are interested in this project to receive updates on it without resorting to following me. Sorry if you followed me for information about this project and were disappointed in my regular posting.

Whether or not a pinned post can be a reblog (this is the test case!).

You can paste markdown into the "create post" form on web, and the formatting gets automatically applied. Handy.

That doesn't work on the Android app, though.

Tumblr uses github to track past versions of their community guidelines (good! +1 trust), but they didn't do so when they last updated the community guidelines (bad! minus a whole bunch of trust).

[ishimarukiyotaka]

Full offense but i dont wanna hear people’s opinions on how covid is over/not a problem anymore if you haven’t read a single scientific publication on covid/long covid in the last 4 years like you just don’t know what you’re talking about and i wont pretend that you do

[victusinveritas]

It's almost like something happened in 2020-now that is causing these problems.

[weaselle]

ignoring everything the pandemic response specialists were saying was good for the economy tho. State governors and federal agencies with no medical experience and no economics education told us so

[small-witch-big-hat]

"no reliable data" What A Curious Coincidence. I Wonder What Might Have Been Happening In That Period To Cause Such a Thing

[m-e-and-me]

10 reminders for disability pride month.

1. there will always be someone more severely affected by their disability than you are, this does not mean you aren't disabled, or that your struggles aren't real. these disabled people are not your enemy.

2. visibly disabled people are not treated better than invisibly disabled people, there are different struggles to both.

3. visibly & severely disabled people are not lucky for being visibly disabled or severely disabled. this belief is ableist.

4. we all need to keep the more severely disabled people in mind, they are the most vulnerable & this is disability justice 101.

5. there will always be severely disabled people in public, you absolutely need to work on your discomforts about the conditions/aids/symptoms/behaviours they might have; drooling, incontinence, "odd" behaviours, visible differences, use of AAC etc. this is a you problem, not a them problem.

6. there will always be symptoms of disabilities that you don't approve of; zero social awareness, cognitive impairments, violent meltdowns, strong smells & loud noises, being nonverbal/semiverbal etc. no one can force you to like it, but you cannot be cruel to them regardless of your opinions, again, this is a you problem & not a them problem.

7. you can still be ableist even if you yourself are disabled, this isn't always internalised, it can also be outright ableism.

8. caregivers of severely disabled people often play an important role in disability spaces, try not to *immediately* discount their experiences, unless they're truly over stepping, are being factually incorrect/uneducated or ableist. (caregivers can come with unique problems in disability spaces, 100%, but they are not inherently bad)

9. severely disabled people will have experiences you do not have, it is not an attack on you when these experiences are talked about.

10. “people wouldn’t say [ableist thing] to a wheelchair user” yes they would and yes they do.

and yes, some of these things that i've mentioned still applies to less severely disabled people, but goes especially for severely disabled people who often experience these things the most. be kind, be compassionate.

[smoov-criminal]

pedestrians don't seem to realize how exhausting using a wheelchair is, both manual and powered. i had to wheel around a hospital today with several ramps i had to go up and down multiple times, and even with my smoov i ended up with shoulder and chest pain and deep exhaustion.

people look at wheelchair users and think "well you're sitting down all the time that doesn't take effort" no actually it does. pushing a manual chair takes a lot of fucking effort, especially without a power assist. repetitive stress injuries are a huge problem manual chair users encounter all the time. going up hills and ramps is so deeply fatiguing.

this doesn't just apply to manual chair users btw. power chair usage can also be really exhausting, especially for people with complex seating needs. going over bumps and cracks can trigger many symptoms such as spasticity, pressure sores are common, even just sitting upright can be exhausting for many people.

basically don't assume using a wheelchair takes 0 effort, it really really does. getting to "sit down all the time" doesn't mean it's easy.