Quislings Don't Scream

ancient. queer. sacrilegious. american. horror & comic nerd. she/they. I have come to do the devil's work.

[buffycaps]

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

RUPERT GILES in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003)

[rayvven]

@dukethomas-week

day3-light & shadow-glowing eyes

[taibhsearachd]

To everyone who is feeling a little sad right now... close your eyes. Hold out your hands.

I am gently offering you Ring with Cat and Kittens, 1295–664 BCE.

[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]

[starfishride]

[loveridden1999]

[ratsquinks]

olive in her favourite spot having a ponder

[ratsquinks]

me showing olive all the lovely things everyone wrote about her in the tags

[ratsquinks]

olive is circulating again! i hope even now after she’s gone she knows how many people saw such an often misunderstood little creature and sent so much love her way. i love being reminded of this post and read through the tags all the time, it gives me hope in the goodness of people, especially during shit times. i love you olive!

[00000000000000z-deactivated2022]

Fuck your dream job what’s your dream hobby that you don’t have the means to take up yet. Mine are falconry and aerial acrobatics

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[chaifootsteps]

#Please little bird

[meriwetherwrites]

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

[nightguardmod]

It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo

[aquato-blog]

getting a note on a super old post

[estel-and-agape]

[possibly-emu]

reblog to slap op with some paper in the wind

[showertimeshmoopsie-deactivated]

[peridescent]

tuck him in Tuesday

[peridescent]

tuck him in Tuesday once again

[peridescent]

another tuck him in Tuesday is here

[onatuegrospatapouf]

Tuck him out 😈

[showertimeshmoopsie-deactivated]

WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM

[badpsychicadvice]

😈 TUCK HIM OUT THURSDAY! 😈

[mleelunsford]

Felt like drawing Rachel Grey, early Excalibur era

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

what do we think about the batboys' facial hair capabilities as they age not preferences. forget what they want to do, what are they capable of?

like I'm fond of the idea of Jason managing a very full, luxurious beard because of how it leans into his whole "wow he really does look just like Bruce and wouldn't he hate/love that" thing, and of course to counterbalance that, Tim as the guy who can only manage a sparse and patchy set of whiskers is very fun.

HAVING SAID THAT, Tim as the one who can manage the most wickedly full beard and Jason as the one who even after weeks looks like a cat with mange has a certain je ne sais quoi

[desinteresse]

My boss was like “Do you have any idea how much money we’re losing” like who cares, it’s not like they would give it to me otherwise

[desinteresse]

Have our investors tried making coffee at home and not eating out so much?

[minotauri]

i wish i could hit chatgpt physically i wish i could hit it with a hammer and hit it with a hammer and hit it with a hammer and hit it with a hammer

[this-is-not-a-slow-burn]

[antique-symbolism]

tumblr users love to say "we don't censor things here like on Twitter" and then type things like "r3ylo" and "jk r*wling"

[lesbianralzarek]

if you say "and then this fucking r3ylo-" that implies that "reylo" was the bad word in that sentence

tiktokers do it because they have to, we do it because it's mean ☺️

[astraltrickster]

Okay I know this was mostly a joke but I just feel the need to point out - this didn't start out as being mean, it started - and largely continues - as the opposite.

For a long time, tumblr had tags and no other search function. You wanted to find a post that wasn't tagged, you had to go to Google and type in your query and add "site:tumblr.com" and hope for the best.

As it is now, that method is STILL better than our native search function most of the time, but the quality of tumblr's native search function isn't really what's important here, what's relevant is how they implemented it.

See, the search bar in the upper left corner of the site - you used to type in something there, and it would take you to posts tagged with whatever you searched. Then, one day, they quietly rolled out an update that instead brought you to a search page that pulled up nearly every post that even mentioned your search term.

This...did not mesh well with the site culture.

Because, see, we had an etiquette guideline - do not post your negativity in the public tags. Why? Because people go into the public tags to find content about things they LIKE. Posting hate in a public tag was basically seen as being a raging dramamongering pissbaby troll LOOKING to start a fight over petty nonsense.

So imagine, suddenly, you log in one day, and someone's sending you anons angry about you allegedly posting hate in the tags, when you have NEVER done so. You use what you THINK is the tag search function to prove it, and - what the hell? Your UNTAGGED post about how annoyed you are with your notp...is appearing there???

So people started censoring things like that. Usually not because we all think the thing we're complaining about is profane (though sometimes it does get a giggle to think of it as such), but to keep it from showing up when people are searching for what they love and to prevent pointless drama. To avoid looking like some asshole troll going onto a fan forum specifically for The Blorbo Show and making a thread entitled "THE BLORBO SHOW SUXXX AND YOU ALL SUCK FOR LIKING IT!!"

And now it's just part of our site culture, for both peacekeeping reasons and petty glee.

The more you know.

[cinqueform]

On tiktok, you censor for the algorithm. On Tumblr, you censor for the users.

[penny-anna]

hot take: 

Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.

Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.

Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards

& Bombur is the sexiest dwarf by hobbit standards

[penny-anna]

#ITS TRUE AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT #(ALSO THORIN AND KILI BEING ‘UGLY’ BY DWARF STANDARDS IS AMUSING CONTENT)

further take: Kili is straight-up ugly by dwarf standards. Thorin is like, the dwarf equivalent of Benedict Cumberbatch. Some dwarves think he’s an absolutely dreamboat, others think he is super weird looking, there’s very little middle ground.

[kayla-bird-deactivated20190505]

omg now i’m like. what does this make frodo by hobbit standards

[penny-anna]

by hobbit standards, I’m afraid Frodo is probably. not conventionally attractive at all.

[femmefaramir]

Frodo is the sexiest hobbit by elf standards

[stinkylittlegnome]

@femmefaramir this is some fucking galaxy brain level tags and im crying out of sheer horror

[headspace-hotel]

Every day, against my will, the LOTR fandom makes posts.

[cipheramnesia]

We getses tagged teamed by the precious hunky orcses boys til we’re wrung out like a soggy dishes rag we does

[cipheramnesia]

Sorry that was uncalled for

[tanoraqui]

STOP!

You just used the term “Old Man Yaoi” to refer to one or more men under the age of 50.

As penalty for this crime, you are sentenced to watch this scene from X-Men (2000) ft. Professor X (Patrick Stewart, then 59) and Magneto (Ian McKellan, then 60), and maybe this one and this one, until you understand that “Old Man Yaoi” is about relationships with the weight of decades of grief and grievances, shared, opposing, and apart. “Old Man Yaoi” is about two men so grown that pop culture has decided they no longer exist, finding love or maybe toxic codependency. “Old Man Yaoi” is about divorcees and silver foxes.