Obsessed

I'm TJ or Tamara or anything that starts with a "T" really. She/her

[nelc]

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. — William Gibson, Neuromancer

[liam-summers]

This is a hard one. Rest in Peace, Anthony Steward Head 💔

[rocketsaurus]

Curious what is actually normal for bed time. Go for your normal/average time, not your most extreme or what you wish it was.

what time do you go to bed? (local time)

7pm or before

8pm

9pm

10pm

11pm

12am

1am

2am or after

it's never consistent

some other time entirely

Remaining time: 2 days 13 hours

I just don't know what grownups do for bedtime and I want to know!!!

[spangelbanger]

8 hours from the time I get up, If I have to be somewhere at 10, I get up at six, bed time is 10. If I don't have to get up, bedtime is when I start drifting off to sleep playing on my phone.

[spangelbanger]

Went to the cemetary to make sure my kids grandma's grave is ready to put her in it tomorrow. My five year old sat at the edge of the grave kicking her feet. her dad said, "she's a little blond in a pink dress, with her nails painted, kicking her feet over a grave....Are you raising Buffy?"

"Listen if my daughter needs to stab an abusive Ex. I want her to know a broad sword is an option."

[scramratz]

everyone u reblog is safe right? i feel like u reblog a lot of ppl and i just want to make sure ur vetting them all first,,,

Everybody I reblog from is evil and does crimes aplenty

[spangelbanger]

Vetting? We just use the block button when someone acts like an idiot.

[nordstarr]

hot take but i think it's good for your brain and your critical thinking skills to consume and engage with media from different cultures and different parts of the world, especially those out of your comfort zone

[spangelbanger]

If media from a different part of the world is out of your comfort zone that's even more of a reason to engage with it. The best way to get comfortable with the unfamiliar is to explore it.

[bobbymoynihans]

[mrsfallontimberlake-deactivated]

Ive been counting down the days until I could reblog this

[poetry-protest-pornography]

Happy Orgasm Day! I wish you a satisfying day!

[poetry-protest-pornography]

If orgasms are a thing you’re into, have a good day!

[accras]

Two-year-old Albert Apsassin feeling the spirit at National Indigenous Peoples Day in Camrose, Alberta.

[knitmeapony]

Babies doing the Thing with their grownups will never not be an immediate and loving reblog.

[aspen-aura]

This is also important because until 1951, Indigenous kids were not allowed to dance at pow wows. It was illegal for them to participate. This is not only heartwarming, but an act of defiance against the ongoing oppression and genocide sanctioned by the Canadian government.

[omgthatdress]

ily, menswear guy

[tamarahaddock-author]

Rebranding

Hey everyone, my blog has been tjswritingstuff for about 15 years. I decided since that name doesn't really capture what I'm doing I'm going to change it to my actual name, and title.

I write science fiction, horror, poetry, and flash fiction. This blog has mostly been a collection of writing resources and my thoughts on writing, it will continue to be a place where information is shared. In February I started writing full time. I'm currently submitting to 9 submission calls per month and creating daily. I am not great at personal updates, but I wanted you to know if you see this blog and don't recognize the name that's why. TLDR; tjswritingstuff blog has become tamarahaddock-author.

[the-sacred-now]

I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

[the-sacred-now]

Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

[the-sacred-now]

Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

[the-sacred-now]

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

daily affirmations: i am allowed to be weird on tumblr. i am allowed to post stuff that makes me seem crazy because it's fun to do that. no one is watching me panopticon style they are just following me normalstyle. i am allowed to be weird on tumblr.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I’m blindsided by authors using ai in their works. how can readers and writers tell if the writing is ai generated?

I’m gonna assume writers know whether or not their own works are ai because they either write them themselves or have ai write for them.

but as for readers (or writers who read other writers’ works), no, you can’t tell unless the writer themself says their works are ai generated. anything else is witch hunt, speculations and possibly wrongful accusations — all of which harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

so if at any point you think an untagged work is ai and if that bothers you, quietly click away. but you can never know for sure based on vibes. because everything ai writes, a human writer does. that’s what ai was trained on and what it was trained to mimic.

I’ve already talked more about this here, here, here. and more on my other blog @writingdose here and here.

[littlepagodatree]

You can notice certain telltale signs in some of the writing, such as short sentence stacking and usage of "not x not y but z" structures. But you have to be familiar with AI writing styles to be able to notice that.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I’ve been writing “not x, not y, but z” way before gen ai became a thing. I’ve read works that have “not x, not y, but z” in them, and I’ve read those works way before gen ai became a thing. I’ve also been using em dash way before gen ai became a thing, and I’ve seen em dash used in so many written works way before gen ai became a thing. I know for a fact some human writers actually prefer short sentence stacking too.

every “ai telltale” is something humans write before, otherwise ai wouldn’t have been able to mimic it in the first place. because it needs human-made works to mimic on.

when I say ai witch hunt, speculations and accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more, “not x, not y, but z” and em dash are one of the main things I’m talking about.

[spangelbanger]

Ai checkers are not checking for AI they are checking for the source material AI was trained on. and that was all written by a human. So no you can't tell. AI mimics good writing.

[wowwforever]

monster that wants to eat your flesh : Okay, that's what most carnivores do. Not scary.

monster that wants to drink your blood : Okay, that's what mosquitos do to me. Not scary.

monster that wants to specifically eat your bones : whadda fuck

[morkaischosen]

#giant African land snail if it was evil as opposed to a being of pure heart and utmost virtue

hey tumblr user ravnervn, I now have additional questions, such as, bwah?

[ravnervn]

Giant African Land Snails eat bones in order to get calcium for their shells, but are also among God's most innocent of creatures and thus contain no malice. Hope this helps.

[the-awkward-turt]

Giant African land snails are (as far as I know) the only invasive species in the US that poses risks to all three categories of environmental damage, human health, AND structural damage--because they will eat stucco and plaster in their hunt for calcium.

Of course I don't blame the snails for this, they are just doing their snail thing and it's not their fault we introduced them to a new place where there's lots of delicious native vegetation and building materials to devour. But if bones are not available they WILL eat your house.

[weburnedthechurches]

Pink Snout Moth (Pachypodistes angulata) +

[iridescent-sunshine]

I've never met anyone who's issues with transgender people couldn't be solved by minding their own business.

[spangelbanger]

If I'm not going down on someone what's between their legs is NONE OF MY BUSINESS. and if I am, I'll work with whatever I find when I get there, cause I am past the point of caring what their gender is, their pleasure is now my only concern. I think everyone should be this way about gender.

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

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[spangelbanger]

1049, I've had this account for a long time.