(not so) secretly a total geek

Hi folks, I'm the Sylversmyth! ‘90s baby, aro/ace-spec, she/they NB/agender. I'm an artist and a metalsmith/jeweler. I draw some too (and very occasionally post it). I love reading but don’t do it enough (unless you count fanfic). Since I work with my hands I am CONSTANTLY listening to podcasts and audiobooks. I'm a big fan of way too many things, so you can expect basically zero consistency on this blog!

[deadpowol]

[imathers]

[afurioushawk]

[foolishmortal]

Egg producers will pay $3.3M and donate 53 million eggs to settle price-fixing claims

The U.S. Justice Department and 17 states have reached settlement agreements with three major egg producers over allegations of that the com

[regularlywrong]

Thank goodness that justice is being served, and the companies that stole from every American family to the tune of tens or hundreds of dollars are being forced to pay less than one cent per person they affected!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Props to Murderbot for both having the most grammatically ambiguous common pronouns and not allowing anyone to use its name. MB was like “if you absolutely must talk about me in any capacity I’m going to make that as difficult as possible for you” and I respect that.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#I started to watch an interesting-looking video about fight scenes in murderbot the other day#and the dude said ‘murderbot himself’ ten seconds in#I jumped back TWICE to check that this dude had just truly blatantly said that utter nonsense and not just ‘themself’ poorly pronounced#then closed the heck out of that video#‘themself’ would still have been wrong#but a slight effort would have been made#I’m still mad about this#how do you make a video about murderbot and understand it so poorly??? 

This one time I heard someone be like “Martha Wells should assign Murderbot a gender since it’s becoming so human” and my incandescent rage was halted only by my brain bluescreening as I tried to figure out which completely wrong part of that statement made me the angriest.

[03josten]

i mean this from the bottom of my heart: no one is impressed by your loud ass car. actually we talked about it and we all want you dead.

[stiffyck]

Rocky love Grace voice statement.

I was listening to City Of Stars on repeat and kept thinking about aroace grace. I love grace who is happy without a relationship, who doesn't need any romantic relationship to be fulfilled, but... I also keep thinking about Grace being a hopeless romantic. Grace who keeps hearing about love love love and nothing else, Grace who keeps waiting for that one true love, Grace who was more in love with the idea of romance than his actual girlfriend. Grace who just doesn't understand why it doesn't come naturally to him, why he can't seem to have what everyone else wants, what he keeps dreaming of. Maybe he thought Stratt may be the one for him. Maybe the idea of a big swooping romance with Stratt makes him want to claw his eyes out. Grace doesn't know what he wants.

He wanted to experience romance so bad, to understand what it was like to fall in love, what everyone keeps talking about... and now he never will.

Grace mourning his one true love back on Earth, someone who doesn't exist and never will. Grace mourning something that was never his in the first place.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

please do yourself a favor & watch this rock climbing–themed drag king/burlesque performance set to “roxanne” by the police with all the lyrics but “rox” edited out

via @edithwigglesandgiggles on instagram

[rubyvroom]

[rubyvroom]

Yeah, it's time to get this post out again

[ceilingfan5]

help me out?

How do you PRIMARILY find fanfiction to read?

I know the people who write them and get a front row seat

I go check the tag on ao3 frequently

I follow the tag on tumblr to find them

fic recs from posts on tumblr that come across my dash/ follow writers

I find fics from posts on other social media like bluesky, instagram, etc

I find fics from posts on short form video sites like tiktok, instagram reels, e

i am in a discord where people share fic recs/fic promos

i am in one of those tumblr communities and find fic recs there

someone i know sends me fic links

i only read fics brought to me by carrier pigeon

it's all good/ no consistent way/ i really don't know/ i don't read enough fic

there is a secret other way and i will elaborate

Voting ended on12h

[peachyjude]

what movie/show remake do yall genuinely think hudcon could do Well in together. like we are probably never seeing them in anything romantic again but i think they could body a 10 things i hate about you remake

[peachyjude]

oh my god………………..

[wolfythewitch]

Hngr

[3liza]

do you live in seattle (the american city)?

yes

no

Remaining time: 5 days 23 hours

please reblog to get this poll out of my bubble, i want reach

[3liza]

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

[lotldraws]

hey don't worry? completely unrelated giant dump of heartwarming PHM doodles ok??

once again these are all from like the same two canvas files in procreate judging from the same color background. also straight up had a dream where grace and rocky figured out how to make gnocchi out of taumoeba hence the making gnocchi over a bunsen burner

[catchymemes]

[self-mortification]

DONT use glasses, youll become dependent on them to see!!!! #WARONDRUGS #OVERPRESCRIPTION #CORRECTIVELENSADDICTION

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I know this is a humorous exaggeration designed to show how silly it is to deny medication and mobility/quality of life aids to disabled people by applying the argument to something silly in a way that nobody would ever do but... unfortunately I have heard people say this. I've heard people suggest that people with minor sight problems shouldn't get glasses, and people needing to move to a stronger prescription should do it and should stay on as light a prescription as they can use and still function, because the glasses will "weaken their eyes" and make their eyesight worse (which is bullshit). People will pull this ableist bullshit on glasses wearers, too.

[bananonbinary]

unfortunately no matter how much you try to parody ableism, some completely genuine asshole out there already has you beat.

[theothin]

#'you wouldnt say this about wheelchairs!' yes they would.#'you wouldnt do this with a missing limb!' i promise they do#'but what about-' look just assume no matter how stupid it is that people are dicks about it

[featherquillpen]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bolaire Lathalia & Azune Nayar Characters: Azune Nayar, Bolaire Lathalia, Thimble (Critical Role), Kattigan Vale, Julien Davinos, Vaelus (Critical Role), Paint Bolaire, Paint Figment, Halandil Fang, Misha Undragore Additional Tags: Episode: c04e031 Trick of the Light (Critical Role), Missing Scene, Canon Compliant, Azune Nayar wears Bolaire Lathalia, POV Azune Nayar, Autistic Azune Nayar, Bolaire Lathalia’s Mind Theater, Sharing a Body, Angst with a Bittersweet Ending, Thjazi Fang Haunts the Narrative, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied Halandil Fang/Bolaire Lathalia Summary:

“I have one request then, if you would do one terribly dangerous thing for me. Would you accompany me back to my apartment to gather some things? Would you help me leave this particularly kind gentleman behind?”

“Would you like me to—”

“Put on the mask, yes, please.”

[An expansion of the scene at the end of episode 31 when Azune wears Bolaire and goes back to his apartment to gather his belongings.]

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