Swirly-swirl~

God loves you! ❤ she/her ~A blog of art references, cute things, and bits of internal conflict and keeping faith~

[possumsarenice]

Shout everyone else taking the vow of silence today

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[fangirlshenaniganrex-deactivate]

REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.

[prismatic-bell]

You know.

I feel like.

Something Tumblr has failed to understand in its quest to become solvent.

Is that user surveys would probably help in providing things people would actually pay for!

--I would pay up to $5 a month to be able to list my crochet for sale in-app. I post the photos and information and indicate it's a sales post, Tumblr provides the "buy here" link.

--I would pay $30 a year for ad-free, but not $70.

--I would pay $1/mo to have a second user icon, and while $1/mo isn't much, it adds up. Indeed, back in the LJ days it was really common to pay for extra icons for your RP accounts so your character could "make facial expressions."

--that $70/yr? I'd pay that if it included one free Blaze per month, no ads, and three user icons.

I would pay to help keep the lights on if they gave me something I felt was worth paying for. But they don't seem to understand that payment needs to have value added, and "we're doing weird coding stuff nobody wants" is not value added.

[latveriansnailmail]

Somebody ought to Blaze this post. Regardless of whether or not it goes forward, Staff would see it.

[prismatic-bell]

I would be okay with this. I'm a semi-popular blog and I'm a Jew, you can't break my notes more than they're broken already.

Also I would encourage others who may have a "this, I would pay for" wishlist to add it here. Maybe we can make some positive change.

[spiderweb-wine]

I would pay for those things just like you said. You, you get me.

[prismatic-bell]

I legitimately think separating this place from other socmed by making it more user-driven would not only make Tumblr thrive, it might also push other sites back toward not being THE ALGORITHM THE ALGORITHM THE ALGORITHM all the time.

[mayakern]

^all this sounds great, and i’ll add another thing i would pay for in a heartbeat:

a one time fee to change a side blog to your main blog

please. this blog is my side blog. it’s also the blog i use most actively. most people don’t know i have a different “main” blog. most of the people i follow follow this blog, not my main one and i would very much like to have the notifs from my beloved mutuals highlighted.

also, to a lesser extent, i’d pay to be able to mute/hide reblogs from certain accounts. sometimes you love a blog but would like to only see the original content from it. 🤷‍♀️

basically if it was a core function from x-kit, a lot of people want it and would probably pay a subscription for it.

[cantanopeshitthatwastaken]

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

[thatgiraffebutt]

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

[literallyaflame]

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”

[madd-catter]

Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.

[gen-is-gone]

this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”

(note the dates)

[anarchistmemedistro]

this post aged like an ice cube in an oven

[deathcomes4u]

worst part is! IT’S STILL HAPPENING! SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES ARE STILL LIKE THIS!!! THEY LEARNED NOTHING!!!!!!!

[mod2amaryllis]

[thotsoflore]

Literally looking like the kind of note you find in a post apocalyptic horror game jesus

[teunvolkarin]

As someone from a country with insurance and schools not requiring a doctor’s note, just a call from a parent: kids still go to school sick because parents can’t take the day off of work to take care of them. So the kids will just be dumped at school, sometimes with an apology from the parent, in the hopes that they can make it through the schoolday without too much trouble. The whole capitalist system needs to change before sick kids and adults can stay home when they’re sick.

[sailatina3]

Hi, Isabella of "sailatina" fame here. Boy did I really not want to do this, but I legitimately have no other choice.

Today I learned my step mother got an order of deportation. (She is from the Philippines.) My family will fight it in court, but lawyers are expensive and the bills just went up too. So, starting February 25th money will be tight. I'll have to pay for all my groceries and other necessities.

I don't have a job at the moment, so I'll have to look for one. And I have only about 800 bucks rn. In the event my step mother gets deported, my options will be to either move all the way over to the Philippines or find a new home on my own here.

This has put me in quite the predicament, and I truly have no choice but to exhaust all possible avenues to support myself and my family. Do not feel too much pressure to donate, tumblr donations should not be my primary income, but if you do have something to spare, my cashapp is $SnowStorm626.

Also, here is some proof that this really is me. I know there are impersonators out there so here you go:

[tankie-transfeminist]

Please donate!

[weepingwitch]

i know this means absolutely nothing to most people but basically all of the little web game things I've made recently (angels in automata, hex plant growing game, d.a.n.m.a.k.u., life music, sudoku land, the metroidvania style map editor, etc etc etc) are all entirely self-contained individual client-side html files that can be downloaded and run offline and have literally no libraries or frameworks or dependencies, because i'm an insane woman who enjoys hand coding my input handling and display code from scratch in vanilla js and having it all live in one single html file with the game logic and the page structure and the page style all just living and loving together side by side in a universal format that can be run by any web browser on any devixe. i'll even include image files as base64 data-uri strings just to keep every single asset inside the one file.

[submalevolentgrace]

the sudoku one is gorgeous and a really intuitive way to play sudoku

[greaseonmymouth]

i also really love the hexplant one

(reaching the purple aquare with the three exlamation marks is how you 'win' this game)

[weepingwitch]

this is going Around again and it is always funny to me when ppl tag it "need to try this later on my computer" babes you don't need to wait they all work on mobile too <3

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[meow-moment]

[unterwaesche]

[prguitarman]

Wild seeing my comic age so well ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[noknowshame]

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

[brbeth]

I think...you might be right

[brownheadedcowbird]

what the fuck

[victusinveritas]

[oodles-of-boodle]

For anyone who wants an easy copy-paste into their favourite recipe keeper:

Pumpkin Pudding Pie w/Orange Zest and Cardamom Whipped Cream

(makes ~3 pies)

Ingredients:

Pie:

2 ½ cups sugar

15oz can pumpkin puree

2 eggs

½ tsp baking soda

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp vanilla

pinch of salt

2½ cups milk

4 TBSP butter (melted)

1 orange

1 tsp powdered sugar

Whipped Cream:

1 cup heavy cream

2 TBSP powdered sugar

1 tsp cardamom

pinch nutmeg

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Instructions:

Pie:

Preheat the oven to 325°F

Prepare the pie crust (that's another recipe's job- either find a scratch recipe or buy a pre-made dough or graham cracker crust)

Blend 2½ cups sugar, pumpkin puree, eggs, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl (if using a mixer, blend with a paddle attachment)

Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt; blend until well mixed

Add the milk and melted butter, whisk until well mixed (if using a mixer, blend with the whisk attachment)

Pour your batter into the crust, filling right up to the edge (the mix will be more liquid than solid, but it will rise/solidify in the oven)

Bake at 325°F for 55 minutes

Remove from the oven and let it cool

Top with sifted powdered sugar

Zest an orange over the top of the pie (microplane if possible but regular zester is fine; have found that the most aesthetically pleasing version is to peel the orange and then finely dice the peel but that's a hassle!)

Whipped cream:

Put your metal mixing bowl and whisk in the freezer for at least 15 minutes

Whisk powdered sugar, cardamom, and nutmeg together in bowl

Add heavy cream; whisk until stiff peaks start forming

Serve on a cooled pie :)

[swirlypinkswirl]

Hi

I know this is a long shot on here, but I need some help

We just found out that my daughter is dying. She was born prematurely, and ended up with pulmonary arteries that are too small and calcified. Doctors have told us she has less than a year...

Please...I just want to spend as much time with her as possible. I can take more leave from work, but it would be unpaid, and we can't afford that

If you can't donate, please reblog

And if you pray, please pray for a miracle. We really need one

Donate to Give Isabelle the Gift of Time with Family, organized by Gabrielle Melara

Hello We're Gaby and Sonny, and this is our beautiful daughter Isabelle … Gabrielle Melara needs your support for Give Isabelle the Gift o

[targetedknowledge]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

How to disable Copilot in Windows 11

Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11

You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.

[punkitt-is-here]

the way transgender women convince themselves that their only other allies in this world are other transgender women is really sad

[punkitt-is-here]

the idea that there is one group of people that you will only ever find sanctity in and every other group of people on the planet is just waiting to betray your trust is just. Fucking!! Sad!!! It leads to so so so much self isolation because the myth of The Only People You can Trust as a TGirl Are Other TGirls gets perpetuated so often by women who have been hurt and see it as an innate truth rather than the product of circumstance

[rosethornewrites]

I live in Chicagoland and have family friends who are brown and undocumented. It’s not good here.

[rosethornewrites]

I want to specify that the US government ICE agents rapelled from Blackhawk helicopters to take over an apartment building, breaking open apartment doors in the middle of the night to drag barely-clad residents from their homes and detain everyone in UHaul trucks with the children zip-tied to each other. Regardless of citizenship.

There was too much traffic today, and an ICE agent deployed a tear gas canister in traffic in response.

This is not normal.

[theplaguebeast]

From the very bottom of my heart: what the ACTUAL FUCK

[rosethornewrites]

It’s not even near me yet, but where I live there’s lots of brown folks so they’ll come.

This is surreal. We’re being attacked by the United States.

[bisexualbaker]

"ICE Agents Rappel From Black Hawk Helicopters Into Chicago for Major Raid" - MSN, published October 1st, 2025

[rosethornewrites]

Most mainstream media is barely covering it.

[bisexualbaker]

I genuinely wish I were surprised by that.

[tochira]

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosi

Spread this far and wide - there's no paywall.

[onionsu]

Hello everyone! Made a Silksong inktober prompt list because I haven't seen one yet.

As any Inktobers go, if you will participate, I ask you of one thing: have fun! Do not worry about keeping up, do what you want, and have a great time! <3

(I will be participating too :D)

[yukoters]

Get this insectoid out of my head

[lelif]

on survival

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