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Tart / Internet Elder / she/they - queer witchy nerd, spoonie (fibro/RA/POTS), reader, occasional fangirl

[aetherixs]

listening to NADDPOD as an avid D20 fan is wild because every time a paladin casts 'detect good and evil' i expect the classic brennan response of "you don't detect good or evil, but rather an absence of energy that seems to disturb the environment around you. it's impossible to describe because you've never felt this sensation before... a mysterious aura pulses around you at a frequency that sounds like both the ending and beginning of all things" and murph will be like "yo that sword is straight up EVIL dude that is 100% a cursed sword"

[aquareegia]

ii continues to be the funniest person! 🙏

[animentality]

[tartdarling]

Even my close friends don't have my ao3 handle. My bookmarks are between me and god.

(also my friends write fics and I will not ask for theirs because I don't need to know what they're writing if they don't ask me to beta read it)

[frownyalfred]

you're withholding giving kudos on a fic until it's fully completed because you're terrified it might update and include something "problematic" that your "friends" will find using a kudos tracker. I'm withholding kudos on a fic because I thought I gave it already 13 chapters ago. we are not the same.

[ryebreadgf]

something something the poetry of science etc

[ryebreadgf]

woah

[dramaticwriter]

yeah

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

i genuinely dont think it was intentional, but making blanc a queer character adds Such an umami to him; like the reveal of phillip was totally just meant as a "pwn the conservatives" moment (one of the primary functions of these films, i think we're all aware, is rian johnson expressing his very slightly left of lib opinions and pwning conservative viewpoints) rather than a thoughtful choice to make blanc not straight

but irregardless it, to me, makes him just that bit more Flavorful, adds more context to his visible need to help the downtrodden get their dues, especially against people using the rigged system to their benefit. and in WUDM it gives his dislike of the church more substance than "reddity atheist" (i have No love for the church myself but a more nuanced viewpoint on why someone might feel that way is always more innteresting).

and metatextually, ive made this point before but agatha christies two best known detectives are both Disadvantaged Societially for their time period (poirot has a cane for many stories and is an Foreigner, and marple is elderly and a woman), and that is part of what makes the "Unassuming Detective" trope really hit, so making blanc an older queer man gives him that extra Oomph poirot and marple have

[segamascott]

Why the fuck are you 30+ on tumblr

this is my house?

[grungixfungi]

[all-my-simpings]

Friend: Don't you want to have a romance?

Me: I'm good, I have romance at home.

Romance I have at home:

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[countofeight]

Glad it’s not just me

[ventela1]

The first time I saw this video I didn't reblog or save it anywhere and it's been genuinely impossible to find again. I searched every variation of "dyke falling apart car bentley review asmr meme" I could come up with on Google and across multiple websites/apps.

So, thanks for putting this back on my dash.

[melit0n]

And they called him The Giggler™️

Credits: @/deadervant -> twt.

[tartdarling]

if this had happened in Denver, i would have melted into the floor. i feel like making your friend basically teabag you and then do a pole slide down you is a power move.

[teaboot]

I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

[teaboot]

Humans keeping cats and dogs as family members is like three prodigy assassins being introduced in the back of a shady nightclub and 45 minutes later they’re 6 crunchwrap supremes deep passing a blunt in the back of a shag carpeted Volkswagen microbus rating Oreo varietals by fuckability

[miseria-fortes-viros]

tumblr users have the unique ability to string together sentences never before seen in all of human history and yet they conjure up such specific visceral imagery that you can’t help but be a little in awe. and i think that’s beautiful

[teaboot]

Love and peace on planet earth

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

[veerletakino]

[thebristolboard]

“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” an original painting by Richard Williams from “The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014″ in Mad magazine #531, published by DC Comics, February 2015.

[spaceraptor]

Here’s the original, for comparison. And here’s a bit more about the artist and why he created the piece above for MAD Magazine.

[pennamerequired]

Richard Williams on Norman Rockwell:

“For most people, he was the painter of ‘America,’” he added. “But even he said his vision was what he wanted ‘America’ to be. It was a mythical ‘America,’ a place where all people were decent, honest and full of good will. His work was full of gentle humor that made you feel a little better; even if you knew it wasn’t really true… you just wished it was. My parody of Rockwell’s painting simply says, ‘That myth is dead.’”

[1-420-666-6969]

I think it’s relevant to add that even Norman Rockwell chose to leave his cushy job at the Saturday Evening Post because he wanted to make artwork that was more radical. The Post had rules that wouldn’t allow him to do artwork depicting black people as anything other than servants. The job paid really well and that was a huge reason he continued on. But he wanted change that and so he moved to Look magazine.

A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.

But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here

Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.

Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:

But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:

We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope. But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us. Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it. We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too.

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[inkvoices]

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

[inkvoices]

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

[lightningladybug]

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

[inkvoices]

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

[dannnnnnnnnnnnex]

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

[halcyonhue]

[lizinprogress]

43: Valhalla Does Not Discriminate Against the Kind of Fight You Lost

[izzy-hands]

Edgin + being completely normal in his reactions to Xenk

[ekjohnston]

I love this movie so much.

[cannibalchicken]

[thenightetc]

@argumate

[argumate]

you verb noun?

[redfagdiver]

You verb noun? You verb noun like the comparison? Oh!! Punishment for title! Punishment for amount of time!!!!

[vidapuppen]

Scientists Are Working on an Mrna Vaccine To Wipe Out Allergies

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania may have developed a vaccine for seasonal allergies and food allergies.

Y'ALL THIS IS SO COOL AND COULD BE HUGE FOR SO MANY PEOPLE

[dirt-mann]

additional article:

A new Penn mRNA vaccine stopped allergens from causing dangerous immune reactions and life-threatening inflammation in mice.

[ourladybinxthings]

@thebibliosphere have you seen this? Could this help MCAS?

[thebibliosphere]

I'd need to know more, but if it's training the immune system not to overreact to the presence of an allergen, I suspect they're targeting specific protein strands that keep mast cells stable and from degranulating--which is what happens when you're exposed to a trigger.

So, yes, this could be significant in terms of calming down and reducing the over-priming of mast cells that triggers both normal and idiopathic reactions we see in mast cell diseases.

And even if it doesn't work (though I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't) this is still incredible. Holy shit, what a time to be alive.