be kind

[solcarow]

obligatory readings

[kosmogrl]

[maniatown]

Girl whose most frequent mistake is inaction voice: wow I keep making mistakes I better not do anything

[eggshellsareneat]

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

[brightlotusmoon]

[cdrlogic]

Reblog the reblogging post.

Like to ignore its wisdom.

[furryprovocateur]

i started reading this book and kept tilting my head at the comparisons the author was using so i started a running list of them

[furryprovocateur]

this author's use of imagery is so questionable

[furryprovocateur]

i actually went "what the fuck" and had to stop for like 5 minutes after this one

[furryprovocateur]

[letslipthehounds]

I feel like this is important information about this post.

[packageboyswag]

Is it gay to have two men parallel not one, but two in universe fairytales about two people falling in love

Theres people who still argue that they arent canon

[depsidase]

[90377-sedna]

No Murderbot, that look didn’t mean: “I’m guessing SecUnit doesn’t know what a central system is”. It meant: “I know you think I don’t trust you so I’m emphasizing that a machine intelligence was lifesaving here to show that I actually do have faith in you”.

[vi-visected]

i told my dad the joke “dad jokes are just mom jokes that a man repeated louder” and he thought it was hilarious. he turned to my mother, intending to relay the joke to her, and a bare second after he opened his mouth i watched it dawn on his face that he was about to become the subject of the joke. when i tell you that man was slackjawed as he turned back to me, like he had an entire life altering realization in the span of about 20 seconds.

[hanzya0]

[voyaging-too]

So, the first swordfight between Guts and Griffith is a sex scene. A few chapters later, the playfight where they splash each other with water (and Griffith is fully naked) is even more of a sex scene. I thought people were exaggerating whatever is going on here but they were not.

[funshinebf]

[like-shooting-stars]

I’ve seen a lot of people talking about the snugstone and how they were surprised to see it colored in all these blues instead of the traditional reds that come with fire magic

Not to mention it’s the color of Qifrey’s eyes I don’t have the time to go into that

And I was thinking. You know what other spell I saw animated and went oh wow that’s so pretty and not the colors I expected it to be animated as?

Qifrey’s water dragon. Which does in fact have the traditional fire magic coloring

All of their magic contains bits and pieces of each other in one way or another they are making me ill

[orufreyhaunting]

Sometimes I think about Olly finding out about the promise and how Qifrey has been living in this tormented existence *for him*. And yes, I think he would feel incredibly guilty (and relieved that Qifrey kept that promise in the first place).

But you know what I think would hurt him worse?

When he finds out that Qifrey, through the trauma and the horrible reality of his existence, has warped the situation into being *all his own fault*.

Can you imagine? Olly is aware enough to realize that him making Qifrey promise to stay alive by repeatedly taking his memories was a special kind of torture for him. He knows that this was an incredibly selfish and cruel demand. The minute he knows about it, he wouldn’t hesitate to beg forgiveness.

But imagine Qifrey beats him to the punch. Just- falls to his knees, voice shaking, as he says he understands if Olly can’t forgive him. That he doesn’t know why he keeps on doing so. That he doesn’t deserve that kindness from Olly.

And Olly has to sit there and realize just how much this has so deeply affected Qifreys perception of himself and their relationship. He’s suddenly confronted with how living like this has made Qifrey loathe himself so completely.

I think that would hurt him more than anything else about this situation.

[mjclaria]

petermj based on that bts footage of tom and zendaya ❤️🕸️🕷️

[warmdayssweetnights]

I lose my shit everytime I remember that despite the various differences between Murderbot and Three both of the agree that their modules are terrible.

[authorbeloved]

I've been thinking about this scene in Artificial Condition where MB meets ART for the first time. ART threatens MB to make sure MB doesn't attempt to hurt it.

Then Murderbot shows it what punishment from a governor module feels like.

ART can't feel pain. It can't understand human physical pain any more than it can understand human media. Murderbot has to help it translate these things into data.

This is ART's first experience of pain. It goes silent for three whole minutes and then it immediately apologizes to MB.

Later Rapport (short story) shows us how ART is suddenly more gentle towards human trauma. This moment must have been so pivotal for it.