“I wish I wasn’t a Victorian invalid”

He/they, AuDHD+OCD, 26yo, BST. Insufferable twink lover About // Art // D&D

[monamoni]

[red-mercer]

Looner Landing

[dogpuppy]

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[actionpainting-deactivated20231]

my nephews lunch that he packed

[rnelodyy]

[ID: A lunchbox containing a handful of loose lettuce and a half-empty bottle of Pepsi.]

[puppygirllaika]

that's arugula

[ceo-of-lesbians]

[ID: A lunchbox containing a handful of loose lettuce and a half-empty bottle of arugula]

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: c tat ac [: A c ctag a a ttc a a a-t tt .] tat' aga [: A c ctag a a ttc a a a-t tt aga]

Closest match: Polygonum aviculare genome assembly, chromosome: 2 Common name: Prostrate Knotweed

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[treecitysessions]

Text I got from my guy friend who’s currently dating a man for the first time when I asked him how it’s going

[treecitysessions]

I heavily fw bro

[eldritchrach]

Long Live the Black Parade was incredible and I've made 6 new stickers which will be available soon. 🤘

[dorianjackdaw]

GET!!!!! FATTER!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!

I can’t express how much I love this show or how many times I’ve watched its pilot (or sat down with a friend to introduce them to it). It made me want to animate again, which I haven’t really felt since I was a teenager crunching through my own college FMP. I love the designs, I love the characters, I love the premise. I love the characters animated laughing at their own bloopers left in. I love the way you can tell it was made by just a bunch of friends messing around. It’s just plain fun.

[Image: a digital painting of Gilly, Franny, and Nico, from Get Fatter Now, each sitting in their own wonky little cart modelled after their car. They are all colourful aliens made from simple shapes. Gilly is green, with short black hair and two large conical “horns”, looking alarmed at the speed of the cart; Nico is blue, with darker blue dreads and spherical “horns” that look similar to a bear’s ears, and looking worriedly towards Franny; Franny is pink, with curly blonde hair in pigtails and long, S-shaped “horns” that look almost like antennae, with a playful expression on her face and overly long sleeves that cover her hands. Their designs each have a shape motif: a triangle, circle, and diamond, respectively. They’re rendered backlit with smooth shading, and the background is bright and abstract. End ID.]

[sleebyfrogs]

Imagine people in the age of discovery discoursing about advancements in navigational instruments the same way we discuss AI

[sleebyfrogs]

“The horologists developing chronometers are enabling colonialism that would not be possible without their work and should all be shamed and drawn and quartered” crowd screaming at the opposing “the horologists are getting commissioned by the king and will probably get hanged if they refuse and the labourers producing and assembling the pieces are doing it for farthings just trying to not starve and the technology isn’t at fault for the way the ruling class weaponises it for their own unfair gain imagine the improvements these same inherently neutral instruments could be making in more responsible hands”

[sleebyfrogs]

Imagine people in the age of discovery discoursing about advancements in navigational instruments the same way we discuss AI

[sweetfirebird]

So I saw some people remarking that they didn't understand why "liberals" are focusing on the disaster of the Reflecting Pool paint job, and ok so when you see stuff like that, I need you to remember we are dealing with a wannabe strongman. Anything that makes him look ineffectual, wasteful, and incredibly stupid-- you get that between your teeth and you don't let go. Especially *especially* when it involves laughing at him.

Also... it is funny. Except for the poor ducks, it's funny. Man lost a war to algae. His "American Flag Blue" is green and slimy and the paint is peeling off, and all before his big 4th of July show that no musicians want to play. It's funny. Point and laugh. That is fighting fascism, actually.

[espanolbot2]

Like, this is the same guy who is trying to hide that a judge made him take his name off the Kennedy Centre by hiding the building with a great big tarp to obscure where his name used to be.

Any public slight, no matter now petty, no matter now little it matters to everyone else, gets under his skin like those screwworms he accidentally let Musk reintroduce to Texas (causing the government to call a state of emergency as it's trashing their beef industry).

[elalmadelmar]

Mocking the Reflecting Pool is Springtime for Hitler.

Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.

That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.

But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.

And that's why we're riding that fucker so hard. This is what's under the power fantasy. Deep down, he's just pathetic. And that's what Mel Brooks understood with Springtime for Hitler. You don't fight the Nazis by making them big bad scary evil guys. You fight the Nazis (when actual weapons aren't a present option) by making them a laughingstock. There is no way to derive a power fantasy from being the object of derision.

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[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[jessebloom]

first day of pride month

[pendogcreative]

Some patreon requests too cute not to share!

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[edupunkbitch]

This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.

It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.

[sleebyfrogs]

Okay not to be on my TADC grind and especially not on Jax but guys I do think if this song had been written as a character study of her it wouldn’t change a goddamn word

Like even down to the video visuals

[vicholas]

why did no one tell me that the full context of “Sasuke snapped back. ‘Anyway, what’s Gay Pride Day? What are they proud of?” was so fucking funny

[comradesaucegay]

this fanfic author gets sasuke like no other

[woman-respecter]

looked up this fic it is over three hundred thousand words

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