Clownboy

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[intactics]

[pushing my glasses up with an air of unwarranted superiority and gesturing toward a painting without a minotaur] the Minotaur is implied.

[sheepgirlmaidtummy]

hello again tumblr, second time ive had to do this, but i have to make an emergency move in about 2 weeks! the original plan was to move next year, but the apartment manager has been extremely negligent on our renewal and no longer have time. that and physical and mental health being the worst its ever been, the move is much sooner than wanted

2023 my parents kicked me out due to my transness, and you all helped me survive that back then! one more time please? (link to that post for proof)

help a black tgirl out?? you all have before.

PP: @sheepgirlmaidtummy

CSHAPP: $sukis00thes

VNMO: @sheepgirlmaidtummy

please dont tag with donation or anything like that, tumblr bans certain tags.

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[chromaticabrasions]

be VERY CAREFUL when using a shaped bucket to make sandcastles, make sure u fill all the little gaps and that they don’t crumble when u place it. i was making sandcastles and i set one down and the sand at the bottom of the bucket (now top of the castle) wasn’t sticking and fell off and IMMEDIATELY a sand dracula moved in -_- well. not immediately. it hired a sand solicitor first. and arranged to bring some boxes of its home sand with it and all that. but now it’s hiding out in my sandcastle and refuses to leave.

[pukicho]

If you’re anxious, don’t worry.

[thyboylovethgaming]

if you're having an asthma attack, just breathe.

[pukicho]

Exactly queen #I-am-a-normal-person-with-no-problems

[duckdotcom]

would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

[finleycannotdraw]

reblog to put a discarded fruit sticker on the forehead of the person you reblogged from in whimsical jest

[the-pen-pot]

This is your semi frequent reminder that there is no official AO3 app

All those are unofficial and available on the Google play store as of August 13th 2025. They mirror AO3's content and insert ads, for which the developer gets paid by page impression (that's every time the ad appears in the fic you're reading) not just clicks.

No money goes to AO3, nor to the fic writer. It goes to the person who did the bare minimum.

Many of these apps have poorly worded or non existent privacy policies, so they may also be mining as much data as possible and selling that on to unknown third parties.

Please, just use the official AO3 site and the browser.

[master-hentaifanfiction-2]

As a guy who does Cyber IT as a living PLEASE USE THE MAIN SITE ON THE BROWSER! Do not use unofficial apps. You are opening yourselves up to a multitude of cyber threats, especially when there is no privacy policy or agreements.

[punk-jaskier]

The site is mobile optimized, and you can download the fics as PDFs or epubs if you need to read offline like on a plane, there is no reason to use a third party app.

[misscouriersix]

As a Canadian, the jokes about the fires aren’t funny to me. Call me dramatic, but this is becoming a yearly occurrence every fucking summer across Canada and preventative measures are not being taken.

Fines need to be higher for dumbasses who light their grass on fire in the spring when it’s windy. The threats about jail time needs to be more than just threats… slapping people on the wrist who start forest fires isn’t doing anything. It should also be a law that ditches on rural properties have to be maintained. Our government needs to put more funding into water bombers and teams.

I watched several friends escape with nothing during the Fort Mac fire. That was utterly insane and made national news. The sad thing is, we’ve lost more towns since then. I’m in northern BC and we were on evacuation alert because of the fires last year… it was so bad it felt like the apocalypse seeing people lined up for miles for gas and supplies knowing they’d be traveling for hours to get to a safe zone check point.

Anywho. Yes, I’m sorry your air in Michigan and the east coast sucks right now. But imagine how those who are directly affected by the fires feel.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was an orphan adopted by a 30 something workaholic woman with an inexplicably large and opulent apartment. She immediately sent me off to some kind of magical school, where through completing botw style trial chambers I was supposed to learn engineering (just regular engineering). The first trial involved defeating a minotaur(?).

[classicslesbianopinions]

it is like. i am deliberately not posting that much about the nolan odyssey because i don't have much genuine interest and i find the whole like outrage theater people do at adaptations to be exhausting and unproductive and often misguided + i don't really care what celebrities are doing. but zendaya's 3000-year-old iranian earrings are like. such an on-the-nose fuck you. like 1. you can practically feel the stylist going "oh, it's old, it must be on-theme!" without really considering that ancient cultures are not interchangeable. but also 2. there's a very clear and important difference between ancient greece and ancient iran, in that there's a reason zendaya isn't wearing ancient greek artifacts on her ears--ancient greece has a cultural cachet that ancient iran does not, by virtue of its position as the perceived origin point of "western" (white) civilization. they are just interchangeable enough that zendaya can wear the artifacts of one civilization to a premiere of a work based on the mythos of another, but just different enough that she can get away with one but not the other.

and of course there's 3. which is that modifying and wearing a cultural artifact of dubious provenance taken from a country the us is actively bombing (and in doing so presumably destroying plenty of historic buildings/artifacts) asserts a certain lack of respect for and/or sense of ownership over that country's people and culture. and obviously this is what makes it seem like such a specifically heinous move.

[perrenlore]

Really important to note when it comes to (3) that the elite (and frankly Orientalising) appropriation of ancient Near Eastern artefacts as jewellery has a long colonial history. Cylinder seals are these little cork-shaped cylinders with pictoral or written designs engraved on them, and work the same way as a signet ring in that you could roll them over wet clay to leave an impression of the engraved relief on the clay to dry. They look like this:

(Cylinder seal of First Dynasty of Ur Queen Puabi, found in her tomb, dated circa 2600 BC, with modern impression. Inscription: 𒅤𒀜 𒎏 - Pu3-abi(AD) Nin - Queen Pu-abi. Nicked straight off Wikipedia as it's a fab comparison of seal / relief.)

In the British Museum you can find "Lady Layard's jewellery". Austin Henry Layard is a guy whose academic efforts I'm admittedly very indebted to. He was passionate about Venetian and Roman glass and did a great job re-popularising both styles in the UK, but more importantly he was the assyriologist who excavated Nineveh and the Library of Ashurbanipal—where we've found the majority of the Gilgamesh tablets. Pioneer figure in terms of Near Eastern archaeology... but check this out:

This is a necklace Layard had made for his wife. It uses real cylinder seals.

To quote the British Museum's entry on the item: One cylinder seal is Akkadian (about 2200 BC) and four belong to the second millennium BC, but eight are late Assyrian (about 1000-612 BC). Late Babylonian and Achaemenid stamp seals (about 600-350 BC) are used for the pendants and clasp.

Enid later wrote in her diary that, when they dined with Queen Victoria in 1873, it was 'much admired'.

Ancient Near Eastern artefacts, repurposed as jewellery in a set that doesn't give a single fuck about accurately dating them, let alone treating them with the sort of respect you might perhaps expect of items over four thousand years old. Instead they've become a mark of elite colonial status, an Oriental curiosity utterly separated from their historical context. They're 'old'. They're non-descriptly 'other'. Time and place dissolve into an attractive and vague exoticism.

All while the place these seals have been appropriated from is busy being exploited by the very empire this "jewellery" is being shown off to!

So to bring it back to your third point: you're absolutely right!!! And this has precedence dating right back to the start of Western study (and plundering) of the Ancient Near East. It's a carelessness, it's an ignorance of historical context, and it's explicitly colonial.

[nikoco11]

vy tail explorations … it’s comforting to hold, especially when she misses family

[9ofarc]

I love when people are weird. Do your thing diva

[soup-mother]

Sesame isn't actually supported anymore, but people have been making an open source port of it called OpenSesame for the last decade. You install it by typing an esoteric combination of 1's and 0's into a txt document and running it as a command. It doesn't actually work yet but the team is working on that.

[natjennie]

looking through my random youtube homepage I got a video of someone playing this game called the archives of trevosa so I checked it out and it was really fun!! it's like a fantasy royal succession family tree you fill out by looking through different documents and there are all these fictional terms you sort of pick up and translate through context and you're supposed to find the true heir. it's relatively short and completely free so I thought maybe someone might be interested :)

[aggot]

weather so nice i've decided to free a hostage

[jessss-ica]

if anyone needs me i’ll be alone in my tower

[pukicho]

Welcome to the gang. I'll give you your new gang name. Baby Beebo. That's your new gang name. We work hard but we play harder.

[pukicho]

what? why? :(

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Myself and three other girls shared a house in a forest, where we had to stay for five days while we waited for a rescue ship to come and get us. At night, creatures from the forest would try to kill us. We lasted a day before one of my roommates snapped and brutally murdered one of the others, and I found her mutilated corpse in the shower.