Stranger Things
occasionally subtle
★
if i look back, i am lost
cherry valley forever
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
dirt enthusiast
RMH
Janaina Medeiros
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shark vs the universe
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Acquired Stardust
Sade Olutola
Discoholic 🪩
Claire Keane
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
we're not kids anymore.
d e v o n
Jules of Nature
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@thediffidence
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
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
what does prev give off?
prophet in the desert
tyrant king
shady merchant
wandering bard
forgotten god
healer in the woods
rebel group leader
average peasant
x
Nobody:
Me: In 1995 Hayao Miyazaki directed a music video/short film for the song On Your Mark by Chage & Aska. It's a sort of non-linear premise about 2 cops who find what appears to be an angel being worshiped by a weird cult and their attempt to set her free.
@shrubfriend thank you for posting this, I'd never had known it existed otherwise. That little kiss on the hand is just a heart-breaking detail.
do something to prev
shave them bald
put them in the timeloop
they must find your pages
trapped in mirror dimension
let them loose into the wild
introduce them somewhere else as an invasive species
put a plastic bag in their enclosure
fill them with milk and throw against the wall
turn them into marketable plushie
remove them from reality
study them in a petri dish
lizards
what an amazing fellow! filled with true faith and good vibes. @bowelfly I hope your muse moves you to continue the series of monastic critters
Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.
As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.
Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.
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hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach
do we want this?
yes
no
please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit
Linktober 2025 Day 31: Free for all- Redesigned Link and Zelda ✨
Print available here!
This game, about listing as many animals as you can, is shockingly well-considered and polished for such an apparent shitpost of a game idea
hot new brain workout
What's stood out to me most about recovering from depression or depressive episodes is the idea that even though doing things seems pointless in the moment, they eventually pay off in the long term. Living in an age of instant gratification and dopamine hits doesn't really help either, I can see now why that fries peoples brains so easily, even without mental illness on top of it. But this is mostly in the context of anhedonia, whether caused by depression or some mental illness or something else. Reading books seemed pointless, but I kept forcing myself to do it and then one day I made a connection between something I read and something else I had just seen/experienced/heard and something sparked in my head. Drawing seemed pointless, until I finished something and then something sparked. Going out seemed pointless until one day I realised that the people around me genuinely consider me their friend because I make the effort to go out and show up. Then something sparked. Repeat for everything in life. It's a gradual build up, and the most difficult part is learning to tolerate the absence of meaning until those pieces start to fall into place again and you start to slowly feel like a human being again. It's like stitching a quilt piece by piece or building a house brick by brick. It's an entire process that you repeat until you die because that's what being alive is.
This is an honest question (or set of questions) because I think I fundamentally do not understand people's viewpoint on this (my goal is not to debate anyone, I just want to understand what the viewpoint is):
Is the viewpoint that, for those people who do not read or write stories about female characters, think all female characters are uninteresting, this is not the result of that own person's conscious or unconscious bias against women? If so, does this extend out infinitely (i.e., a person who actively refuses to read about female characters, dismisses the idea of any female character ever being interesting, actively works to avoid writing positively [or at all] about female characters) or is there a point at which it is the result of that own person's bias against women.
Additionally, does this count for all identities? For example, if a person refuses to read or write about gay characters, says no gay characters are ever interesting, etc., is this similarly not connected to a bias from that person against gay people?
If I am misrepresenting this argument, please let me know what a better articulation of it is--I'm trying to honestly articulate a point I have had argued at me over the Internet, which is always a little fraught.
The context of me asking is that I often see people making the argument that not reading or engaging with female characters is not due to sexism/misogyny on that person's part, and I never quite feel like I have a grasp on exactly the argument being made, so I'm hoping to understand it better for the future.
I keep running into a wall. The wall is that I enjoy a subgenre of fiction aimed at men. I used to read the subgenre aimed at women but it started feeling formulaic and I stopped reading unless it's recommended by someone who I trust to give good recommendations. (Sorry my one friend, your taste in books is too self indulgent) Unfortunately, the chunk aimed at men doesn't really care if there's good female characters when they pop up on recommendation lists.
What are the subgenres, if you don't mind saying?
i like sword and sorcery fantasy. My friend usually does cozy fantasy.
Oh I am not a good person to give recs on either of those, because I don't read much of either of them.
Anyone have any suggestion for female-focused sword and sorcery fantasy and/or good cozy fantasy?
(Looking at a female-focused sword and sorcery fantasy list on goodreads, one of the few books that I both 1) recognized and 2) thought actually fit into the category of sword and sorcery fantasy was the Twelve Houses series by Sharon Shinn, which I read like 15 years ago and remember enjoying, but I don't remember much specifically about it. The only other author I can potentially think of is Vanessa Nelson, and potentially her series The Hundred, though I am not super confident in the subgenre classification.)
I guess I should put my money where my reply is, huh. Sword and sorcery fantasy - does Tamora Pierce count? There's swords, and sometimes sorcery, but her books are young adult fiction. Ursula le Guin - the second book in her wizard of earthsea series has a female protagonist. It's not swords and sorcery, in the sense that the fantasy isn't about adventures in the Conan sense.
Now I'm curious too.
Yall can pry more fiendishly presenting Wyll Ravengard out of my cold dead hands
best answer to the tiefling pants problem i've ever seen!
huh, that second one makes my heart hurt a little. the face and the expression fits well for wyll about to make the pact. he's a character with so much determination.
I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence
Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.
Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.
u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.
For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.
For the Device Setup
"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:
Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.
Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO
I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f
Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.
Group Policies
You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.
I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this
It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c
Start Recommendations
In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.
Here's what you should set:
Turn off user tracking: enabled
Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled
Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled
Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled
Do not search Internet: enabled
Windows Spotlight
Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content
Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled
Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled
Cortana
In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search
Allow Cortana: disabled
Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled
News and Interests
In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.
Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled
Microsoft Account Login Nudges
When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.
Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.
Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol
This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!
I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.
As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech's debloat tool on it.
Having Fun with Technology
It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.
I know I'm going to need this to set up a new computer for dad eventually, so reblogged as bookmark. you guys are doing a worldwide community service.
I think a lot of my followers are 25+ so I wanna see something.
“Mid-twenties effect” is defined here as like, your moods and mental health leveling out and somewhat stabilizing. Not mental illness disappearing but a general decrease in mood turbulence and that feeling that everything is the end of the world mostly disappearing. And this usually happening around age 25 though anywhere like 24-27 would also count it you had to place an exact time where it “flipped”.
Did you experience the “mid-twenties effect”?
Yes
No, I am 28+ and this has not happened at all as of now
No, but I’m in the 24-27 range so there is still time
Yes, but this happened later in life for me than 24-27 (tell me in the notes)
Under 24 button
REBLOG FOR SAMPLE SIZE!!!!!!!!
Yes! When I was 27/28, it was like a switch got flipped! I mean, it took a lot of work to get there, but it really was like things clicked into place.
it was kind of gradual for me. 28 was better than 25, and 30 was better still. around 31 I got a job I quite like, and that was the final thing I needed to feel pretty content most of the time.
