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happyheidi

polkadotmotmot

Fawn Rogers - Electric Oyster, 2021

haaarpb

drawings of my cat(s) (1)

7th-seraph

what if every Tumblr user suddenly looses their mouse?

bardofspades

J = Next Post K = Previous Post L = Like N = View Notes Space = Show Photo Shift + R = Reblog Shift + E = Add to Queue Z + Tab = Switch Blogs

itsblueandboxy

tyleroakley

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

starkstrider

I just reblogged this with the command, shit

enjolrasjosette

Do you know how much this helps people who have trouble with the mouse? (Me, other disabled people) thank you

femmecrip-deactivated20151212

Yup, I use these when my hands get particularly weak (like now)

spiritofcamelot

Alt + R is the new command to reblog Alt + Q is the new command to queue

twinpeaksfirewalkwithme-deactiv

good morning followers. today I bring you anthony bourdain little hoop earring appreciation post. tomorrow? the same.

twinpeaksfirewalkwithme-deactiv

and when I said “tomorrow the same” I really meant it!!!

nandomando

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hedgehog-moss

I got a phone call from the police station about my teenage llama this week, telling me some tourists had called them upon seeing a llama crossing the road, who “stopped when she saw us” and “refused to give way” (their complaint in French sounded amazingly traffic-related, “elle n’a pas cédé le passage”…) The policeman told them yeah that’s our Pampe! don’t worry about it she’s living her life, you can try to pet her but she’s shy with strangers… Imagine calling the police about a llama refusing to abide by basic road rules and being told haha that’s our girl! Give her a pat for me! Pampérigouste, you are very annoying and very loved.

I started following that road looking for her, occasionally calling her with my special I Come Bearing Muesli whistle (and it was a lie), and as soon as I got mobile reception I received a text from a neighbour telling me “Ton affreuse est là” (“your horrible one is here”). I turned around to go pick her up, and discovered that he had locked her in the Horny Bull Pen, aka his most securised enclosure. When Pampe escapes to his farm just to be a pest she usually hangs out with his cows until I arrive and he doesn’t mind, so it was a little joke, and it was so funny finding Pampe languishing in a high-security prison. She looked very put out and I told her she absolutely deserved her sentence. Then I opened the gate and I didn’t even need my rope, she was happy to be pardoned and to see Pandolf, and followed us readily, on the road and then through the woods to my farm, it felt so companionable, the three of us walking home together.

llamanonymous

oh this is such a happy tale

slow-riot-deactivated20200720

Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

tramampoline

its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies

catparazzi

at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes

awfullydull-deactivated20170619

FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS

AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT

DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER

FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY *Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe

1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)

1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)

½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.) After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.

madsciences

^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent

ghostoftwentysomethingspast

WHAT Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!

legallynonbinary

Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.

Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.

Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.

Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)

Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.

legallynonbinary

I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.

polar-academia-deactivated20230

I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one

hemlock-the-viper

FUUUUUUUCK THE SY-YSTEM

thenopequeen

I’ve been using this laundry soap recipe since I found screenshots on Pinterest. Also, my mom’s recipe for dryer sheets goes like this:

• buy cheap washcloths and cut them in quarters

• sew the cut sides with a zigzag stitch to keep them from falling apart

• mix ½ cup cold water, 1 ½ cups white vinegar, and eight drops of whatever essential oil you want your laundry to smell like

• combine in whatever small lidded container you have handy and squoosh around until all cloths are slightly damp

Keep by your dryer and toss one in with each load.

lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

user87262893

working out your brain is a must!!

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!

• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!

• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.

• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!

• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!

• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching

• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth

• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns

• play or learn an instrument!

• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)

• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!

I hope this helps :)

moonlightwaterhealing

I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.

genuineconspiracy

This but look at me. Look at me. dietary water counts toward hydration. you do not need to force yourself to drink a ton of water in order to be hydrated. Soda (while it has other problems and I don’t encourage it) counts, coffee counts, tea counts, electrolyte drinks help you retain water, soup counts, vegetables count, fruit counts. Unless you have health complications, you should be able to rely on your sense of thirst to keep you hydrated.

secularbakedgoods

Amazon fucks everyone over again

some of you may recall Neil Clarke's blog post on the deluge of AI-generated spam that has hit Clarkesworld Magazine's submissions queue.

well, Clarkesworld and other short fiction magazines like it are about to get another swift kick in the dick: Amazon is discontinuing their magazine subscription service (and replacing it with a new service that pays creators much, much less). of the very little money made in the short fiction market, most of it was coming from Amazon.

as Clarke points out in his editorial on the subject, "While there are plenty of people happily reading, listening to, and writing short fiction, a very disappointingly small percentage of those same people are actively paying for it."

short fiction is not dead. the existence of subreddits like r/NoSleep and blogs like @writing-prompt-s proves that. if you value these stories and you want to help writers get paid for their work, please consider checking out (and subscribing to) some of the following publications:

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Apex Magazine

Asimov's Science Fiction

Clarkesworld Magazine

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Fantasy Magazine

Nightmare Magazine

many of these publications charge less than $5 USD per month for subscriptions, so if you've just dropped Netflix and have an extra $10/month lying around, you can instead support two fiction magazines full of interesting, original, well-written stories.

(feel free to reblog with your own favorite publications!)

anonymousalchemist

hi im short fictions number one weirdgirl (lie, this title goes to probably like idk kelly link or cat valente or something, im short fiction's number 152 weirdgirl) and heres A GUIDE FOR WHICH MAGAZINE U MIGHT LIKE (based on what i read):

Analog and Asimovs: These are PRINT MAGAZINES! you can BUY THEM IN STORES! They go more Scifi scifi, regular ass scifi (appreciative). the Big Boys

F&SF: Also a print magazine!! as the name suggests - fantasy and science fiction! one of the Big Boys.

Clarkesworld: mostly science fiction, literary/experimentalist bent, lots of stories you read and go "well i suppose it is time to think about that forever now!" (think kij johnson, cat valente, sam j. miller, peter watts) - updates monthly, with podcasts, AND pays authors the most out of all the mags rn.

Apex: sf&f with kind of a gothy (appreciative) vibe, reminiscent of neil gaiman maybe? its good i prommy - also has podcasts!!!

Lightspeed: sf&f with a ??? bent - not particularly married to a style other than Weird and Interesting and Very Quality - lots of stuff that makes you go huh?? If you're a fan of the weirder sort of fanfic (you know what im talking about, the one weird fic in the fandom that you cant stop thinking about) this is for you. I like it lots. also podcasts!!

Fantasy: Lightspeed's sister magazine - just fantasy! not a ton to say here other than generally really enjoyable shit. (The EICs are so nice also)

Nightmare: HORROR! oops all horror! I don't read this regularly but one of Lightspeed's sister magazines. (and if you end up liking Nightmare - the Dark is also a good magazine)

Uncanny: mostly fantasy, some scifi (in my experience). Lots of big names in this one, so the work is usually very quality. believe they also do podcasts.

Escape Artists (Podcastle, Escape Pod, Pseudopod): this is a PODCAST NETWORK! If ur like audio THESE R FOR U. if you liked the magnus archives, fuckin peter lukas (aka: his va) DOES run these, fun fact. As name suggests - these are split into genres (fantasy, sf, horror).

and more specifically:

if you like DEATH, check out THE DEADLANDS !

if you want to support diaspora fiction, read KHOREO!

anyway not to be tumblr about this but rly, think about it like sending ur favorite fic writer a kofi, or donating to ao3.

all the magazines run on shoestring budgets but also produce some of the most interesting experimental shit on a tighter timeline than the novel publishing industry - and there's a side benefit that if you support these magazines, you're supporting essentially a sff incubator. a lot of the people writing short fiction at point x end up writing a crazy novel at point y. (taz muir is a good example of this)

rozentias-deactivated20240103

in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

charaznablescanontoyota

cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can't lend, and we absolutely don't have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it's difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.

sunshinae

an adorable sign i saw on my morning walk !! 🍅

henriplantagenet-deactivated201

The Statue of Cleopatra, Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art.

oatmylkmachiato

This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far. I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.

bmwiid

A barn rasing: a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.

because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive.

What a fuckin’ gem of a sentence. “What we did today was a barn rasin”

moki-dokie

i think that very last line is what a LOT more people need to fully digest. there’s this romance around friendship that it should be perfect and smooth and unproblematic at all times but that isn’t what being a friend is. that isn’t what a normal connection with another human being is. sometimes you NEED to do things that might not end well for you personally, in order to be a friend to your friend. sometimes you’ve got to be willing to face serious consequences to help, to save your friend’s life in the way they need saving at that moment.

being a friend takes commitment. a willingness to take that risk.