ShadowAmong Fireworks

She/Her, AroAce, Thomas Sanders fan, Autistic, ADHD, What else should I put here? 26

[tobiosty]

General useful stuff!

Guides

How to make Crumbl Cookies!

How to bookbind!

How to pirate movies/shows

How to make frog plushies

How to make a Go-bag for emergencies

How to repair clothing

How to make different a03 kudos!

How to download videos/pictures/gifs from a website

How to make various chocolate desserts!

Tips and Tricks!

A03 formatting

Back stretches!

Depression tips

Adult cheat sheet

How to regulate and understand your emotions better

Disabling Windows 11 web search in search bar

Resources

Horror game recs!

Dca fic recs!

Hand references

Free Adobe photoshop

Artist resources

Free spotify

Pirating sites

Artist resources pt 2

Helpful random sites

Homemaking, gardening, sustainability

Free libraries!

Making stuff and doing things (free book pdf)

Healthcare (medicine discount websites, guide on how to pay hospital bills)

Alternative stuff to mega corporations

[burntundertones]

[distinguishedbaloney]

[eilooxara]

Non cooking spray stick

[eilooxara]

Non spray stick cooking

[that-house]

Non cooking stick spray

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[autism-official]

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[littlefingies]

Sorry for us politics posting, but we have until May 22, 2026 to submit public comment to the FCC:

More info from GLAAD:

https://glaad.org/fcc/

They have some good tips about writing a comment and protecting your privacy which, fuck it, I'll just paste here:

Providing an email address is optional. If you have concerns about privacy, you may use your initials or public address in your local area, such as City Hall. Do not use a joke name. It diminishes the comment’s credibility.

Your submission does not need to be long. A single, well-reasoned paragraph is sufficient.

Do not copy/paste a template comment. The FCC values unique perspectives, and an original comment carries significantly more weight in the public record. You can explain why this matters to you without revealing private or sensitive personal information.

Here's what I said:

“Free speech is a fundamental American freedom. I do not need a warning about seeing queer people, much like I do not need a warning about women, veterans, or any other group of people.”

Here's the link to submit your comment by May 22:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=19-41

[3liza]

Bra Fitting Graphics

 

[3liza]

fyi

[3liza]

this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it

[boxingcleverrr]

AHHHHHH someone put all the info from the now-extremely-hard-to-read, 10+ year old bra post into one nice infograph! THAT POST WAS MY BOOB BIBLE. Yay Boob New Testament!

[naomiknight-17]

@aspect-rei

[darcylindbergh]

further FYI: it is EXTREMELY common for breasts to be different shapes and different sizes. if you find that your breasts are different to the point that it's hard to find a bra, if your cup sizes are extremely different, you may find that masectomy aids are helpful - ranging from variations on bras to partial forms or shapers!! a lot of insurances in the US will aid with cost if you ask your doc for a script, and a lot of docs are willing to write that script bc not only is breast support critical, the emotional impact is no joke. you don't have to have had a mastectomy to use these aids!! it's ok!!

here's one place that will let you see what is available but there are a number of sites -

https://www.mastectomyshop.com/

[queerasfact]

Four sapphic women from history to know this Lesbian Day of Visibility!

In 15th-century Korea, SA BANGJI, an intersex woman, had a ten-year relationship with another woman, Lady Yi. Sadly, we only know about Sa Bangji because she was prosecuted when the relationship was discovered. In 1988, her story was adapted in the Korean film Sa Bangji.

19th-century English landowner ANNE LISTER devised a secret code to record the intimate details of her love affairs with women. Anne wrote 6600 pages, or almost 4 million words of diaries, giving us a treasure trove of information about her life, and one of the only first-hand accounts we have of female same-sex relationships in the 19th century.

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, lesbian cellist FRIEDA BELINFANTE forged ID cards to help Jewish people go into hiding, and raised money for Jewish artists who were not allowed to work under Nazi laws. Frieda never hid her sexuality, and had relationships with several women throughout her life.

Self-identified “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, US writer AUDRE LORDE explored the intersections of these identities in her work. She focussed her activism on fighting for women who, like her, were excluded from mainstream feminism, whether because of class, race, sexuality, or disability.

[kyra45]

That account who sent you a DM/left a comment saying they need to contact you?

They are hacked

No ones impersonating you

No one has lost money to someone impersonating you

Tumblr support doesn’t use discord/microsoft teams/whatsapp

Tumblr told you in your DMs anyone ‘accidentally reporting you’ are scammers you probably missed that

Tumblr support wouldn’t tell you to DM people telling them anything

Your account is fine

Any account issued would be noted via your email

Don’t change your email to ‘fix’ a report

[champagnemoon]

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

[carewitchproject]

this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about

[purr-in-ink]

A small moment of gentleness in the middle of everything. 🐈‍⬛🤍

[artpoint420]

Kind words from LARRY

[kyri45]

So I'm not an english speaker and i did not know what Paraphernalia meant. But then i reseaeched a little and-

Something thst belongs only to someone wife, mmmm

[queer-is-future-deactivated2025]

so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.

ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.

if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also because my exact address in Queertown is usually nobody's business.

[tarragonthedragon]

In either case, you only need all the details if you're coming back to my place.

[alastors-totally-canon-deertail]

[fast-and-fit-sam]

Hey runners (and walkers)! Thought this might be helpful :)

[motivationforfitness]

Shoelace Voodoo

[coconuts-and-crunches-deactivat]

The heel slipping one is awesome if you have to wear orthotics because it stops them from slipping round inside your shoe

[thededfa]

Oh! I’ll have to try this

[feanor-the-dragon]

oh my god. oh, oh my god. the wide forefoot one… oh my god bless you you beautiful hero

[white-throated-packrat]

Ian’s Shoelace Site – https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ – is the page for all these lacing patterns and more.

[ms-demeanor]

He’s got specific lacing advice for skates and tall boots and there are decorative patterns and I recently relaced my skate shoes for both a wide forefoot and less friction on the laces so it’s easier to tighten and loosen them but he also has lace-locking patterns so that shoes stay exactly as tight as you laced them the first time and it is just a VERY GOOD website.

Like. I’ve been buying shoes the wrong size because it’s often hard to find wide shoes but the lacing pattern for a wide forefoot means that my big hobbit feet actually fit into the previously too-tight running shoes and sneakers I had.

[digitaldiscipline]

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini

Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!

Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?

Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps

Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)

Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

[depsidase]

[creativitycache]

Lead poisoning FROM BULLETS. The Romans would have started breaking out into hives and sacrifices by three pm

[questionableadvice]

~ Ladies’ Home Journal, August 1904

122 years of concern about unrealistic beauty standards for women

[marzipanandminutiae]

I think this is a really good reminder to modern researchers and just the general public as well that historical drawings do not necessarily represent reality, especially in advertising! Because the letter writer wouldn't be saying that if women actually has those proportions in 1904 of course 

[sewlastcentury]

This is what they're talking about, FYI. (Oct 1904)

And funnily enough, there's a Foster ad in the same issue that actually does show "real" bodies. The center figure is the ideal (and definitely retouched to be that way); left and right are what real people look like in a straight-front corset without the affected posture and retouching.