Schrödinger's Lurker

Just a magpie's nest of anything that takes my fancy! (30s, she/her/they)

[phantomrose96]

That thing where milkmaids were often immunized against small pox because they'd already contracted the weaker cow pox earlier in their lives. That's Tumblr, to me, against whatever the hell social media landscape is happening in 2026.

[phantomrose96]

"TikTok Instagram Youtube-Shorts Share-Your-Whole-Life Influencer Social-Media Online Online Online" it cannot affect me. I was already a weird online 16-year-old all so many years ago. You cannot grab me raw and unfortified with these poisons. I inoculated myself when glomping was a thing. I am still on Tumblr making text poasts.

[gaycism]

visited my boyfriend's island

[sea-mists]

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

[queriesntheories]

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[yfel-axel]

been messing with the colours yesterday

[screechfoxes]

CRITICAL ROLE 4.27 Complicated Questions

+ bonus Kattigan reaction:

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm going down a rabbit hole looking through this Thai cattery that breeds for white back-stripes

[imfullabeans]

[bimmyjimmy]

i didnt know the flash was on

[crabussy]

captivated by his colours. how is he doing this

[bimmyjimmy]

the jimmy summer palette has dropped

[anxietyproblem]

[taytei]

happy pride to them

hope they know what a rainbow is

[blueberrybindery]

your heart; a doorway by @heartslogos

"Yes. Many people died in this house," Al-Haitham confirms. "Some of them are even buried on the land." And then, almost like an afterthought, he answers, "It is my house."

[incaseyouart]

More studies of Dr. Ryland Grace from Project Hail Mary, ft Rocky, aka the two bestest of friends ever from the best movie and also book ever oh my god

One of my fave moments is when Grace draws PPE onto Rocky's dome, so he can be included in big science time D:

[izu]

pay my respects to grace & virtue, send my condolences to good

[kaidenchii]

Bloodymary x WHA (combining my two niche because i can)

[rogers-carter]

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann and Orlando Bloom as Will Turner PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END 2007 | dir. Gore Verbinski

[userfpurteen]

aaaaaand that was it for the suggestion box for today! 🫡

that was really fun! i got some reallllly good suggestions that i didn't get to 🥲 BUT i'll definitely do this again!

big thanks to everyone who submitted and kept me busy today 💋 see you next time

[bedlund]

a 6 minute single take of shane's first time bottoming just exists in the universe and we have to live with that