Verushka70

fiftysomething fangirl from way back

[tastefullyoffensive]

Portals to Hell by hrmphfft

[marchqueen-deactivated20161002]

IT’S BACK

[lady-dirtbag]

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS AGAIN FOR MONTHS

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

[2ndratewig]

ITS BACK 

[trumpetnista]

This is one of those posts that you need to save and tag or you’ll never see it again for 84 years.

[lyninabin]

it’s from 2013 with 2.4mil tags how the fuck have i not seen it before?!?!?

[ckret2]

getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.

[ckret2]

the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.

[teaboot]

Alright kids say it with me

My thoughts don’t make me a bad person

My feelings don’t make me a bad person

My thoughts, feelings, and impulses only exist inside my head, and none of it matters unless I act on it

Nobody can see my thoughts or emotions

The only things anyone can see and judge me on are my actions

There’s no such thing as a thought crime

thank u

[teaboot]

You can have harmful beliefs and harmful impulses and harmful urges and not be evil. You can make yourself aware that these things are harmful and take steps to correct yourself and not be evil. You can walk around with the urge to kick puppies all goddamn day and as long as you are capable of redirecting that impulse to something benign then it doesn’t matter. I don’t know how else to say this

[verushkak70]

Don't believe everything you think... Especially about yourself

[succubusboyfriend]

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

[snake-eggs]

“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[verushkak70]

For decades now we've been told, time and again, that computers/technology/technological advances would give us more leisure time, higher quality of life, and allow us to work less

So now that we've got AI slopping all over everything - and the billionaire AI evangelists spouted similar bullshit about AI, early on - you'd think that with AI in virtually every field now, finally, finally, the work week could be shortened... right? RIGHT??

No - even with all the (bogus) promise of AI, they will never shorten the work week - because they know that if they do? People will never give it up again when they inevitably try to take it away later

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags if you’re old enough to remember renting movies from the video store

[verushkak70]

It's not exactly the same, but I still borrow DVDs from the public library... Including DVDs from other libraries far away, but within the same system

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[butdarlingthestarrs]

François Arnaud | How Far Will We Take It Music Video | 2024

[prairie-fever]

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[verushkak70]

So during some research for a Scott/Kip fic, I ran across this old UPI article from Sochi 2014 about the fact that Grindr use in Sochi more than doubled/nearly tripled during the 2014 Sochi Olympics:

I'll get to the relevance of what Carter Vaughn says to Scott and Shane in the ice cream shop in a minute.

But first let us revel in the fact that the Russian version of Grindr was called Hunters (tho it was subsequently shut down by the Russian government):

So if we posit that Kip broke up with Scott after the St. Thomas fundraiser at the end of S1E03 - which is one interpretation of TV canon...

...then the near tripling of Grindr users in Sochi during the 2014 Olympics would've given Scott plenty of opportunities to have forlorn, empty sex (while picturing and pining for Kip with every meaningless encounter) - facilitated by Grindr, if not by the Russian gay/bi hookup app with his own name.

(Here, plot bunny, have some carrots - go forth and multiply! You're welcome!)

The rest of the article, though, explains the sobering reality of what Carter points out to Scott and Shane.

72,000 Hunters (Russian Grindr) profiles were deleted.

You could be arrested and jailed for "gay propaganda" by simply having a profile on Hunters.

So when Carter says -

"Hell yeah, man. Show up for any dude who's that brave. Fucking brave for a dude to show up to this place and be like: "Hey, here's me." Russia is not safe for folks like that. Fucking balls of steel, man."

- he's being an ally. An imperfect ally, yes, but an ally all the same. Any other interpretation is just flat wrong.

Fucking balls of steel indeed, Carter.

[jestwithmebuddie]

Last Line Game

Post the last line you wrote! I was tagged by @groggygrogu

The guilt doesn’t hit until after Scott's finished cleaning up. All he’s done is basically stalk a guy who was nice to him once and then get off in the most pathetic way imaginable thinking about him. This is how some serious serial killer shit starts.

This is from the werewolf au that I'm giving myself affirmations that I. Can. String. Words. Together.

No pressure tagging: @summerscottkip @joyousmistake @verushkak70

[verushkak70]

Thanks for the tag!

“But the flesh is weak, yeah,” Kip whispers before he kisses Scott deeply, taking Scott’s cock in his hand and loosely jacking it. “That’s okay. I’ll do everything.”

[skeletonclaw]

[showerthoughtsofficial]

People often say they hope their deceased pet dog is chasing squirrels in doggy heaven… what did all of those squirrels do to deserve an afterlife of torment?

[doggy-puppy-indulgence]

Dog heaven is also squirrel hell it’s a very efficient system.

[ubercharge]

i can’t stop fucking laughing at the thought of squirrels sinning so much in the mortal plane that they have to be sent to squirrel hell to atone

[sapphireswimming]

They know that the bird feeder isn’t meant for them

[rocktheholygrail]

[skodasforge]

“It’s photoshopped” honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?

[kaosuqi]

photoshop fakers are like the villain with moral standards now

[verushkak70]

It's as if every new technological advance decreases the sensitivity of susceptible people's internal moral compass...

...and the proportion of the population that is susceptible grows with every technological advance

[buckysgrindr]

Episode 1 x 03 Hunter, Heated Rivalry vs Game Changer by Rachel Reid