Prospero's Manor

Welcome, but please, wipe your feet at the door.

[fallingtowers]

i am the very model of a modern gay millennial i have a tumblr blog and a prescription for estradiol i've problems economic, psychological, and medical and sympathies political which border on heretical

[warandpeas]

Mr. Pavlov

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[nokiabae]

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

[sleepy-milkbread]

I’m in the last 47.33% 

I shouldn’t have taken that test

[keldrikakand]

Am I fucking stupid LMAO

[perfidiousverisimilitude]

Finally, a quiz I’m good at!

*puts degree back in drawer for the year*

[scribblerfrog]

Been a long time out of the writing game, glad to see I can still connect the dots through the rust

[autumnarchfeyartwork]

Subtle Pride Flag Masterpost

All my subtle pride flags so far compiled into one post.

Lesbian

Gay

Bisexual

Pansexual

Transgender

Non-Binary

Genderfluid

Demisexual

Aromantic

Asexual

AroAce

Progress

Remastered, better quality versions now available.

[aquitainequeen]

Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar's words! Don't let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.

[monimccoythings]

My guys it is starting to work, I've seen some people I know complaining about the writer's strike and turning against them because their favorite shows and/or movie got put on hold. Please do not be fooled like this, this is exactly what the corporations want. It can wait, I promise you will find other things to focus, but writers need this.

[cleolinda]

Reword every headline they put out. “Due to not wanting to give writers money, Marvel has shut down pre-production on…” You can end this strike any time you want to, pal.

[shadowmaat]

"Marvel too cheap to pay writers, production shuts down"

"Disney too greedy to pay residuals, deletes shows/movies"

"Studios cut corners on safety, production values, writing, acting, etc. in order to make more money; won't share with anyone below CEO level"

[dduane]

This.

[neil-gaiman]

100% this.

[scribblerfrog]

Feast

Its power is in the slowness. The steady creep every day so slight as to be imperceptible. It does not swallow you whole, instead It opts to consume a speck at a time. It perches softly on your shoulders while weightless and it feasts with delight.

Perhaps the sun begins to grow too bright and the wind feels too sharp. Perhaps your food becomes bland or your passions dull. You won’t notice regardless of how it starts because It whispers in your ear “that’s just life” or even “you’ve grown up”. 

You won’t feel when your shoulders begin to hunch under the growing heft. You won’t question when your body becomes sluggish and stiff. You won’t think twice as your favorite things feel false in your hands.

Its poison is lethargic and your soul will happily allow it to subsume you. You’ll smile until you can’t, you’ll laugh until the sound becomes foreign, you’ll cheer until it seems a farce.

Color will drain from the world while your life becomes routine. Excitement becomes a burden and society a chore. You’ll collapse within yourself until all you know is the toxin deep inside and the murmur filling your head. 

It has ballooned on your suffering. It has gorged on your life, your fun, your self, and your memory yet still you will not know. You will not notice when the path you walk is no longer built by you. You will not know when a stranger supplants you because you, the self you were and believe yourself to be still, are entombed in the abysmal abdomen of It

You may never notice but I hope you do. It is not unstoppable. It wields power beyond reason but with support It can be stopped. It can starve and wither. I hope you wake, dear friend, and find support in whatever form that takes for you. Rout the monster and rise again.

[scribblerfrog]

Please take me with you

A selfish ask I know

To make myself a burden

That you carry when you go

I know your path is scary

A dark and troubled road

But I’d rather travel with you

Where it feels like time has slowed

You certainly don’t need me

With your beauty, wit, and power

But I’d do my best to ease

The fears that make you cower

The trail will still be rocky

Our boat will shake and sway

Yet my arms enclosed like iron

Will keep the cold away

See not all the bluster

Heed not that quiver in my voice

Ignore this smiling coward

Afraid to make the choice

A parasite of titans

Among who you stand tall

Leeching from the brave

Too afraid to fall

Finally the ink has dried

The good, the bad, the true

This husk of good intentions

Confused and scared and blue

Knowing that its selfish

Would ask it all anew

When you leave for better meadows

Would you please take me with you?

[lizclimo]

[neil-gaiman]

Read this Twitter thread... (partly because Microsoft doesn't want you to.)

[sufficientlylargen]

Every time I see a post about updog I’m torn between not wanting to fall for it and wanting to help the poster complete their joke.

[tommyeatseaton-blog]

okay but what’s updog ?

[jaiwithanadult]

Updog is a long sausage in a bun often served with ketchup, mustard, onion e, and/or relish.

[yumantimatter]

No, that’s a hotdog. An updog is when a new version or patch of an application is released

[defectivealtruist]

You’re thinking of update. Updog is when you end a sentence with a rising intonation.

[ghostpalmtechnique]

No, that’s uptalk.  You’re thinking of the fourth-largest city in Sweden.

[argumate]

surely that’s Uppsala, whereas Updog is the giant spider in Harry Potter.

[regexkind]

That’s Aragog. Updog is a symbol conventionally used for an arbitrarily small number in analysis proofs

[another-normal-anomaly]

You’re thinking of epsilon. Updog is an upward-moving air current.

[yieldsfalsehoodwhenquined]

no that’s an updraft

updog isn’t a noun at all, it’s a verb; it basically means to chew someone out, or harshly lecture them

[identicaltomyself]

No, that’s upbraid. An updog is a small dog that likes cuddling on people’s laps.

[speakertoyesterday]

No that’s a puppydog. An updog is when the Mets win.

[mistbornthefinal]

No that’s an upset. An updog is the modern version of a henway.

[yumantimatter]

What’s a henway?

[eversolewd-deactivated20250517]

Oh, about 5 pounds.

[penprp]

… I am reblogging this because I am in awe of the ability to morph through THREE JOKES and end at a good punchline.

[babyanimalgifs]

These are perfect.

[perfidiousverisimilitude]

@totally-toasty heck

[hulksmashley]

Literally nothing will ever be as satisfying as the 4 minute long fight sequence in Kingsman: The Secret Service, in which Colin Firth mercilessly wastes an entire Westboro Basptist Church like congregation as the guitar solo from Lynard Skynard’s 1973 anthem Freebird plays in the background.

[gentlekingsmen]

[socrappyicoulddie]

This was the best career move Colin Firth ever made

[walkingdorito]

Also had the best line/delivery of any movie ever

[musinvenusian]

One of my fav movies

[comicbookcosplayvixens]

Valkyrie by Maweezy

[papa-peach-deactivated20241019]

😍😍😍

[perfidiousverisimilitude]

@totally-toasty

[taylortut]

y’all know that john mulaney quote “the things crazy people say mean nothing to them but everything to me?”

every time i hear that quote, i think about how i got this light-up pen

[taylortut]

i got this pen four years ago when i was working as a barista at starbucks. I was on the registers and taking the order of this woman, who ordered a nonfat latte, because she was “watching her weight”

so this guy behind her, whom no one was talking to, for some fucking reason says “wathing your weight? but what about the wait for your watch?“ (which is a completely unhinged response. like just complete Mad Hatter nonsense)

anyway this lady gets really uncomfortable and of the five people (me, him, her, the other checker, and the customer at the other register) who were now sucked into the uncomfortable silence, i decided that i should alleviate the tension by saying “you can’t wait for a watch; you don’t have the time”

and then he said “oh, quick girl!”, gave me that pen, got out of line, and left without ordering anything 

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

You pleased a mad fae trickster

[ithelpstodream]

[gayasscommie-deactivated2017090]

this meme I hate it

[gelasticscholastic]

I’m mostly mad that I had to sing EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE in my head

[bot-dad]

Hello mostly mad that i had to sing every single one of these in my head, I’m Dad!

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[bifacts]

Fact: Bisexual people in different gender relationships are basically straight, and bisexual people in same gender relationships are basically gay. Baking powder is basically flour so you can more or less use them as substitutes for each other. Tigers are basically large house cats and make suitable pets. Money is basically paper so you can get away with paying for goods and services using the A4 sheets you’d find in a printer. Pillows are basically just feathers so as a substitute if no pillow is available just rest your head on a live duck.

[fierceawakening]

You, Too, Can Bother An Entire Duck

[stevviefox]

Unfortunately, roast pillow is not a popular menu item.

But this is delightfully well written!

[bifacts]

No ducks were harmed in the making of this post

[bifacts]

Fact: Bisexual people in different gender relationships are basically straight, and bisexual people in same gender relationships are basically gay. Baking powder is basically flour so you can more or less use them as substitutes for each other. Tigers are basically large house cats and make suitable pets. Money is basically paper so you can get away with paying for goods and services using the A4 sheets you’d find in a printer. Pillows are basically just feathers so as a substitute if no pillow is available just rest your head on a live duck.

[fierceawakening]

You, Too, Can Bother An Entire Duck

[stevviefox]

Unfortunately, roast pillow is not a popular menu item.

But this is delightfully well written!