Queer Novelist, queer novels @thejollywriter - Tumblr Blog

sweeetestcurse

Planet Earth II: Episode 05 - Grasslands

#this is everything to me #aesthetically and emotionally

heathultimate

Heath Ledger photographed by Bruce Weber on the set of “A Knight’s Tale”, in Prague, 2001.

rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20

Quote of the day

baffledtreesquid

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

magicratfingers

sapphireh3arts

if it's terminal im just gonna say fuck it and become a porn star

sapphireh3arts

did y'all forget about my go fund me and the breast lumps i found? its okay if ya did cuz i've been talking about transfeminism instead and fundraising for others. 🫂💞

i need to update it. we still are looking for housing in Portland but now we have medicaid to tide us over and that will be easy to switch to OHP once there. our current housing is no longer safe and we need out asap.

Hi there, my name is Victoria (or V) and I've made this campaign t… Victoria Morris needs your support for Help V and Andrea Move to Portlan

grynwood

Your honor, I love them, they're so horrible

thememedaddy

chucktaylorupset

(via hornedchick)

Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.

kaioty-summer

Hey, did y'all see this?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

yellowmagicalgirl

If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.

Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b

If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.

lucyllawless

#God she's just so fuckin fine #but I'm also a degen and now I'm thinking about transfemme kara.

sabertoothwalrus

hello instagram artist. your challenge is to do a portrait study of a woman but you’re not allowed to stylize them so their eyes are really big and more cat eyed than the reference photo. You’re also not allowed to make their noses more of a button nose or their lips full and pouty or their faces heart shaped with no double chin. Also you have to draw a fat woman. one thats actually fat and not just slightly curvier than the kpop demon hunters body type. good luck

art-the-f-up

I've been studying old miniature for a while now but I forgot I learned that one of the elements in persian illumination is called Eslimi and it's a floral, leaf like design usually drawn in the centre of the composition

Another name for Eslimi is Rumi. and Rumi is usually a part of a pattern. Get it? Nevermind

afurioushawk

Euros over here for the World Cup discovering we were right about this

archaeocoyote

shirecorn

THIS is the comic that has been banned

It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)

Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!

Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!

I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.

And yet, we will CONTINUE to exist, and grow, and find each other. We will be visible up to and beyond our own deaths. Because we stand for love. We love ourselves and each other and that just makes us stronger.

victusinveritas

cugzarui

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

alexseanchai

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

flareonfloof

its a bit easier for astronomers

nerdynonnativenarnian

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

flareonfloof

are they hydrogen or helium

nerdynonnativenarnian

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

flareonfloof

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

nerdynonnativenarnian

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

flareonfloof

im an astrophysicist

nerdynonnativenarnian

but but, science is science?!

flareonfloof

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

katzeregi

tenmongakusha

My primary research area right now (astrophysicist here) is gas-phase metallicity (how much of the gas in this here galaxy is a metal), by which we usually mean we've measured oxygen and nitrogen (not traditionally metals to a chemist or engineer).

Part of the reason we do this is that the Universe is overwhelmingly hydrogen and helium (70% by mass, which is impressive, because hydrogen is a proton): a less-exaggerated-than-merited version is below: