your friendly local idiot since 2001

| dot | they/them | over 21 | queer | i am full of the horrors, but also of bees

[the-dot]

pinned post bc i just realized i never made one of these

hi! i'm dot. this is my main blog, although i generally just lurk around tumblr these days. you've probably found me through one of the following:

@dotmander - gw2 blog (mostly inactive)

@dotty-arts - art blog (mostly inactive except for commission messaging)

@pantsless-glowboy-stan - dragonfable blog (mostly inactive)

@damarcore - damar series blog (inactive)

currently, the only non-tumblr place i can be found is dotventures on bluesky. this may change! probably if this hellsite dies i'll just go offline forever.

note one: i block people for a wide variety of reasons, including but not limited to "post crossed my dash too many times," "hated the color orange a little too strongly," and "made posts i don't care about in one of my favorite tags too often." don't take it personally, but also don't ask me to unblock.

note two: if i was following you previously and i am not now, assume it was either tumblr being weird or you posted discourse i don't care about. this is not a personal attack or a disagreement with whatever you were posting, i just keep my dashboard curated because i am tired. i don't want to see arguing on my dash even if you are exclusively posting things i agree with.

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[the-dot]

it's officially "entire right arm ceases to function" season

[auspex]

where would we be without friend OCs... nowhere good!

[the-dot]

it's never not going to fuck me up how much of my brain covid stole from me. like, i know i know we love shitting on people who would rather use AI than think, but my god i can see how i could have become one of them if i was a little less lucky. a little less informed. i don't think it's a coincidence that the ai boom is happening right after a global pandemic where one of the long term side affects is loss of cognitive function. i don't know what anyone can do about it but it just fucking sucks.

[the-quasar-hero]

We all got that one mutual that be going through the most treacherous situations a person could endure and then posting a few minutes later about why such and such should get fucked through a concrete wall.

[the-quasar-hero]

Mutual: my situationship partner just got caught in a tornado at a broken glass factory where they were cheating on me with my landlord who just increased my rent by 6000% and my pet marmot has a disease so rare they’re naming it after him and all my bones are becoming apricot jelly which I’m allergic to.

Same mutual 16 minutes later: Do you think Ronald McDonald and the Burger King ever explored each other’s bodies?

[peach-pot]

being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 1 day 23 hours

[talonboot]

take my mermaid quiz boy

If you were a mermaid, what animal form would your lower half take? Are you a slithery eel, a powerful shark, or maybe a colorful reef fish?

[stat-16]

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[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[butterflypeaflowertea]

it’s so nice being fond of people on here :-) like yeah maybe we only know each other in a very limited way but i care abt you guys & hearing abt your lives makes me happy & i like listening to the things u have to say & i really truly wish the best for you all!!! sending my love from a couple states, countries, oceans away

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You're the secondary character in this type of media. (horror, comedy, apocalypse, cartoon, rom-com, documentary, reality TV show, etc) Are you surviving?

you are the secondary character in THIS media genre!!

Are you surviving?

yup!!!! I love it here!

yeah!!

Yeah but I'm not happy

I'd rather not but I will

I'm arospec and got romance save me

I am DEAD

results

Voting ended onJun 2

op note: all the submissions I get are really cool ideas!! Thank you!! Keep them coming!!

I am looking at you catboy. I don't know how to do it.

[stuckinapril]

They weren’t lying when they said that as an adult you have to fight for your life to practice your hobbies

[stuckinapril]

They also weren’t lying when they said that when you fail to do so your soul shrivels up inside your body and dies

[imdrinkingmiso]

I am doing whatever the opposite of locked in is .

[taavicleric]

I am locked out. I am in the parking lot. The rain is coming.