Sunshine

cai - ♉️

[heraldic-thunderbolt]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[shooting-stars-andsatellites]

Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.

[puppygirllaika]

in addition: Trying to avoid ever doing these things will cost you in ways you cannot comprehend until you stop and accept this.

[ashstfu]

propaganda i am not falling for:

always moving on. some goodbyes need to rot a little. some griefs need to be held in the mouth like a stone.

beauty defined by algorithms. beauty exists in crow feet and smile lines

pretending to be chill. i’m not chill. i care deeply and inconveniently. i read into things. i write poems about eye contact

beige apartments with no soul. give me bookshelves and incense and loud art

sneaky links and unclear intentions. i want devotion. and also clarity

treating books as decor. read them. dog-ear them. argue with them in the margins

[theconcealedweapon]

[tordenvejr]

no connection without willingness to be seen. no connection without curiosity and understanding, without compassion and forgiveness. no connection without tolerance and inconvenience. no connection without the courage to divulge feelings, thoughts and needs. no connection without putting the health of the bond before pride or the comfort of hiding. no connection without embarassing yourself a little. without hard conversations, or the space and will to learn and grow. without accepting and loving imperfection

[theconcealedweapon]

[rufflekerfuffle]

I’m literally in my childhood home on tumblr late at night

[officialfist]

OUR COUSIN MADE IT TO THE NFL

[nemesisdub]

This your cousin? What team is he in?

[bakelite-bliss]

Our cousin

[lordeboy]

Check out MGMTs new single “Electric Feel” if you get the chance. Sound of the summer.

[westiec]

see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

[westiec]

@ everyone reblogging this i'm so sorry hang in there and be kind to yourself

[strangeandrandompolls]

You've been turned into an animal

Spin the wheel to find out which

Do you like the animal you've turned into?

I love it

I like it

Indifferent

I don't like it

I hate it

Voting ended onMay 16, 2025

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[crimsonservbot]

If I told you I wrote this while thinking about the dangers of being visibly trans vs never trying to transition at all, happiness followed by a bright, burning end, smacking hard against a concrete ocean vs playing it too safe and never flying high, dooming you to a cold, crushing end from drowning, You'd believe me, right?

[kermitlesbian]

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

[tiredadventurer]

Sam, please put a Jacob Wysocki travel show in the Dropout 2026 lineup.

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

being anticapitalist with a strong work ethic is so fucking embarrassing like my managers don't deserve this

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

shaking my head while working overtime to clarify I disapprove of the situation

[brehaaorgana]

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

[brehaaorgana]

If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.

For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:

(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)

But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:

"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."

[brehaaorgana]

Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."

Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:

That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!

Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?

So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.

Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.

[penrosesun]

While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.

Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:

Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming

Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dol

7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp (Published 2023)

A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared

Cambodia scams: Lured and trapped into slavery in South East Asia

Traffickers are forcing thousands of people from across Asia to work in online scam centres.

Trapped in Myanmar’s cyber-scam mills

Myanmar youth recount life inside a cyber-scam mill before a city’s fall brought the scheme crashing down.

This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

This whole scenario is a really prime example of a phenomenon that probably has a proper name elsewhere, but I personally call Race to the Binary.

Step 1: an appalling atrocity happens, and victims of it ask for aid. We're all on board.

Step 2: Scammers pop up pretending to be those victims. A few users step forward to vet requests, to try to filter for genuine victims.

Step 3: the race begins. Some people, used to associating things like poor English and young accounts with scams, assume that most of these victims are therefore scammers, and the vetters are either incompetent or in on it.

Step 4: the race diverges. Other people recognise that these "tells" are just as easily symptoms of non-English speakers who are making hasty blogs under unimaginable circumstances, and so conclude that claiming a victim is a scammer on the basis of their English is actually racist.

Step 5: the race concludes. These two groups repeat their points so many times that they gallop in opposite directions until they reach the binary poles of this particular spectrum. Group 1: absolutely none of these accounts are genuine. It's all scams, and only stupid gullible babies would ever think otherwise. Group 2: saying a single one of these accounts is a scam is a racist denial of the very genocide itself that they're facing and only a simpering fascist would think so.

This happens all the time in all fields on all subjects and in every corner of humanity. But that's what's happening with the random accusation of genocide denial on this post. That is someone who reached their binary pole, and now even the suggestion that scammers might be posing as genuine victims - a thing that is literally, definitely happening, which is why we needed the vetting in the first place - is somehow twisted into a claim that there's no genocide.

Anyway - OP is right. And there's been a huge uptick in these, so for fucks sake, pay attention and learn the signs.

[bleakparadise]