[rubyone]

“hbo sam” what is that. what do you mean hbo sam. he literally drank demon blood and had horny demon blood sex with his demon girlfriend on the television screen. you think he’s not hbo sam because he’s on the cw well that is your mistake. moving supernatural to hbo would only bring everyone else’s insanity up to sams level. show some respect

[rubyone]

literally one of the first things he does is crash a car into a house on purpose. what the hell

[rubyone]

this. dean makes bonkers choices and decisions but they are clearly because of the absolutely fucked up cocktail of neuroses that bangs about in his head and it makes you go Wow that guy has obviously seen some shit to think that’s a good idea. whereas sam is like so nonplussed and accepting of doing fucked up shit with barely any justification other than “yeah ok” that you go oh something is Wrong with him. he’s so awesome

[pangur-and-grim]

do you have a favourite book that you love with all your heart but would never recommend to someone without knowing them super well because of the uh, content matter? mine is Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton. and if you want to tell me yours…. I’m always looking for something to read 👀

[skrytch]

Ooh I know!

You should read this awesome New Book called "Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die" by Greer Stothers

[pangur-and-grim]

I don’t know man…. I’m into some sick stuff, but that’s pushing it even for me.

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

My dear friend, When I was 13 years old and in a dark place I wrote you a message that we'd now call trauma-dumping in which I told you I was feeling suicidal. Not only did you respond to me, but you were so kind and told me I was brave. More than a decade has passed since then. I left tumblr and came back, I got two degrees, I changed my name, and more. I recently remembered your tumblr and am so happy that you are still here, still making silly Sherlock drawings. I don't know what the last decade has been like for you. I hope it has shown you so much kindness like what you gave to me so many years ago. I hope that you show that level of kindness to yourself. Thank you for listening to a scared teenager. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I love you <3

Dear anon friend,

To be honest when I logged into tumblr this week again and read your message I cried a little because I had a really hard day at work and then your message was so nice, and then the next day I felt really good because I had your words with me, so thank you. Maybe fandom can seem silly to other people but isn't it great that we are still connected in some way after 10 years because of a BBC Sherlock adaptation and get each other through hard days? (´꒳`)♡

I am so happy to hear what your last decade has been like! Thank you genuinely so much for sharing!! I can't wait for the next one and all the great things you will do. You wrote that you were "trauma-dumping". I just want to say I'm really glad you reached out 10 years ago. You were a child and needed help, and you got that child help. I'm really proud you did and I hope you are as well. (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡

And just like this it is may 31th again!! Where did the last year go? What happened to me wanting to post more comics?? Well, let's try again this year!! (°□°;)

I hope it was a good year for everyone. Sherlock will always be here. And John too! (*ˊᗜˋ*)

[perriaeyjeve]

[kingshezza]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN JUNE STARTS IN 2 DAYS IT WAS DECEMBER 2 HOURS AGO

[pangur-and-grim]

it’s so…… stupid that grey rocking, or making yourself as non-reactive and boring as possible, is in part the solution to domestic abuse, and stalking, and grizzly bear attacks, and online harassment, and enduring my fucking eight pound cat. because he wants fun things to happen, and it’s fun when I dash over and go “ohhhh noooo, nooo” and it’s even more fun when I pick things up, because then he can bat them down again. it is taking so much strength of will to ignore the loud and ominous thuds from the other room, but this is the only way. I can see him checking on me to make sure I heard. his pupils are so big and evil. Belphie, we can play fetch on the catio in 10 minutes, but right now I need to renew my government dental coverage.

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[gif87a-com]

[zukosgay]

is germany okay

[soloontherocks]

oh scheiße

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

This isn’t quite how I imagined the second coming of Christ.

[not-a-slayer-of-dragons]

What makes this funnier is that I’m pretty sure that’s at the station for cologne cathedral

[i-dont-crow]

It is and everytime I see that hole I think of this video

[babtest]

Remembered to check at the station today and report that

The structural stigmata are still there

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Why are the 4 holes?? Maybe 5?

[official-german-puns]

It’s his daily commute.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

#it is written that twice did jesus stumble and twice did the cross strike nearby architecture #so really this is method acting

[ninatastic]

Unfortunately they repaired it recently

[pluto-rain-her]

Es hängen jetzt sogar Schilder dort:

In Kölsch, Deutsch und Englisch 😂

[ed-recoverry]

What a privilege it is to get old.

What a privilege it is to show signs of aging.

What a privilege it is to not have passed at a young age.

What a privilege it is to have smile lines, wrinkles, graying hair, healing scars, and other signs your body has lived for years.

What a privilege it is to get old.

[headspace-hotel]

y'all might have heard of this but there's a youtuber called KVN AUST who has a series of videos about "youtube's recycle bin", basically videos that have zero or very few views because they were uploaded without titles and instead have the file name given by the devices they were shot on.

I HIGHLY recommend the whole series but also you can use his library of "leads" to explore the Youtube Recycle Bin yourself and I've done that a lot and it's SO fun

The internet is so vast, much more expansive than algorithms will ever show you. This really reminds me of wandering around randomly on Google Earth. It's possible to experience so much of the world it's kind of mind boggling.

I've been keeping a collection of my favorite youtube recycle bin finds.

I think this is my favorite thing I've found on there.

[headspace-hotel]

theres apparently more kinds of music than you can possibly imagine. its like. completely randomized sample of human artistic expression.

also there's at least more kinds of sports than I thought existed.

and also everywhere people are dancing. and they're usually not very good at it but that's okay

at the club in some eastern european country judging by the cyrillic text

guy in some kind of cosplay with a gas mask dancing

dance show, looks like students, cyrillic text again. pink panther theme? then party rockers in the house tonight?

guy plays drums on buckets and trashcans (interesting)

guy rapping but you cant hardly hear him because of wind blowing over the microphone. im amazed by the video quality being so good and the audio quality being so bad

brief ambience in a bar

dancing (pretty good)

on stage monologue in language i don't understand

more dancing

no idea what this is

furries dancing on the roof of a building to a furry related song

unfamiliar kind of music. I've never seen instruments like these before. there are poles you beat against the ground and pipes that you slap with a flat implement. it sounds really cool though.

disco music with a guy with a really bad wig

low quality video at a rave or something

driving terrifyingly thru snow somewhere in eastern europe i think

riding in a boat along a canal with dilapidated buildings with graffiti right up to the waters edge very interesting

truck sports somewhere in like, saudi arabia or nearby

Fish market. they are VERY fresh you can tell by the fact they're still flopping

riding a four wheeler in some kind of savanna like environment in the darkness

boat on a lush waterway nice ambience

Some kind of technology being demonstrated. would be really interested to learn what is being shown here

guys inside of a mine?

view out the window of a train near a gigantic city

unfamiliar sport where you hit eachother with sticks balancing on a beam

Guy walks under a bridge appears to be singing to himself the word "homeless"

early morning city ambience really vibey

another peaceful city ambience out a window

night time video out of the window in a city

oceanside city ambience

people in knight armor hitting each other with sticks

anyways that is most of my curated list

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[pangur-and-grim]

@creekfiend was very kind in sharing some writing resources with me, and I thought I'd pass along the kindness by listing them down below.

N.K. Jemisin's article 'Describing characters of color in writing'

Mary Anne Mohanraj's article on approaching characters of colour

Renee Harleston's article How to 'Write Characters of Color Without Using Stereotypes'

Working with Colour, a resource site for writers

the book Writing the Other by by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, which had a description that cut deep, because I've definitely fallen into this trap out of fear:

and then a video recommended by @sheprd (thank you!) about pitfalls in descriptive language

if anyone else has more resources to add, feel free to reblog with them! this is something I want to learn more about.

[pangur-and-grim]

I was talking yesterday about how I should probably change the skin colour of a character in a not-yet-written book, because that character is a large, aggressive dragon-shifter and I was worried about her being read with unintentional and offensive subtext.

I haven't gotten my hands on Writing the Other yet (it's still in the mail!) but from reading my way through these articles and watching the Princess Weekes video, I now understand that 'white-ifying' a character you're worried about is a lazy and cowardly solution. so, if I do ever finish the book Eres loses Everything, I'll keep her as is, do my best to be thoughtful, and hire a sensitivity reader to pick out any blind spots.

thank you to everyone who passed on resources, I really appreciate it!

[pangur-and-grim]

here are a few more resources I've found, if anyone’s interested:

Writing Diversely FAQ

Writing With Colour blog

A conversation between many writers on writing diverse characters

Four Tips to Help You Incorporate Diversity and Inclusion in Your Writing

A Medium Article: "Yes, You Should Be Afraid to Write “Diverse” Characters"

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[delphinidin4]

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation IV. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐌

[4nimal]

I turned them into individual transparent pngs if anyone wants those premade!

(Op lmk if you want me to take this down, I'd totally understand—on the other hand, I'd love to do it for the other public domain pieces you've done if that's ok!)

[hideki-koga]

ブロンズトキ（Glossy Ibis）

[silky-selkie]