Whiplash Whirlpool

Simple; art go brrrrrrrrrr and I like it that way. Camp Buttercup Masterpost

[gaily-daily]

Seduction Two: Electric Boogaloo

[idkjustlee]

Not to sympathize with the elves/church on main, but it must have felt so good to make that prophecy and realize that the guy who needs to die is the one everyone already hates. Like wow. We need to sacrifice someone, and it specifically has to be the guy that sucks so much. Imagine that. "To save the world we must kill the coworker you can't fucking stand." I would have had a party.

[senshibignaturals]

I just finished Apparently Sir Cameron Needs To Die and one of the best things about it is that it is, at its core, a brutal grimdark fantasy about the choice between idealized tradition and freedom and man vs god. However because it is from the perspective of the fantasy equivalent of a rich BYU girl and her pet closet leather gay she does coke with, it is, inexplicably, a comedy. I can not recommend his highly enough

[who-is-page]

We finally got our copy of Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs To Die yesterday and the polycule has been reading it aloud to each other with great flourish (if you, too, have a family of nerds who you can subject to read-along time for this, I HIGHLY recommend it).

My fiancé, who most notably is not on our favorite hellsite, made a passing comment about how the fact that the book leaned heavily into the Tumblr syntax style made it harder for him to read aloud, because so many things were "written backwards." To which I said, what? And then he re-read the same line he had just read and looked at me, expectantly. To which I said what? again, but louder.

Readers, I had no idea what the fuck this man was talking about.

Apparently, he explained to me far more patiently than I probably deserved, one of the major flags that someone has been around on Tumblr long enough for it to affect their speech patterns is that we love to reverse the order of a sentence and throw in a comma or period as a brief pause for breath, so as to make the second part of the sentence have more of a comedic punch. He said that we've been "yes, and"-ing on the site so long that we've developed entirely around The Bit. He said that while other sites are chasing clout, we're chasing the ha-ha's. He functionally said we're a separate jester genus in the social media taxonomy of the Internet. Tumblr is a clown car and we're driving dangerously with our infinite handkerchiefs and squirting flowers at the ready. Cool, cool. What?

I protested that I definitely don't speak that way, and he looked me dead in the eyes in front of my entire polycule and said that I do exactly that when I'm trying to be funny. Because I've been on Tumblr for almost 15 years. Exactly as long as I've known him. He's watched it develop, in real time. I have never felt more fuckor in my entire life until that moment.

[herpsandbirds]

What's you're favourite caecillians outside south america?

I LOVE ALL CAECILIANS

Off the top of my head, there are some cool African caecilians, such as...

São Tomé Caecilian (Schistometopum thomense), family Dermophiidae, endemic to São Tomé and Ilhéu das Rolas (Africa)

"Cobra Bobo"

Grows to a max length of up to 30 cm (12 in).

Associated with moist soils in forests and coconut plantations.

Caecilians are amphibians, like salamanders and frogs.

They are not worms, nor are they snakes.

photographs by vanessamata & gmucientes

photographs by m_burger

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

[lenixtt]

[cunked]

touch water (touch grass for people who like swimming)

[snapplyapples]

Ao3 works on my Barbie flip phone

@tiredgothskeleton

[snapplyapples]

Important update:

It can run ao3 running doom

[snapplyapples]

this feels like a good day to bring this back

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[foldingfittedsheets]

There are very few things I enjoy watching extended videos of and I was unprepared for how stoked I was the entire time I watched this.

[sabertoothwalrus]

it’s good for you to look at things that make you lightheartedly say “ew” while snickering like a little kid and then carry on. i say this genuinely. it will shift your knee-jerk reaction towards things that mildly disgust you away from fear

[sabertoothwalrus]

sometimes it’s bugs. sometimes it’s a funny-looking doll at an antique store. sometimes it’s bad art that you made.

and sometimes it’s someone else’s food preferences. sometimes it’s a weird-but-normal thing that human bodies do. sometimes it’s someone else’s kink.

obviously, be respectful, and keep the reaction in your head when you’re in public. but the sooner you can separate disgust from fear, the sooner you can show empathy

[abyss-in-machines]

We owe it all to them.

[kaelio]

[famouspainterwombat]

[batbetbitbotbut]

For those like me who knew the piece was familiar but couldn't remember the name

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Is the pianist tiny or is the rooster fucking enormous

[dumgumgum]

let’s smile again

[canichangemyblogname]

This June, I need Gen Z queers to understand that some people are closeted.

[canichangemyblogname]

I am saying this as a Gen Z queer, before y’all get your guns out to fucking shoot me.

But I need y’all to understand that if someone doesn’t give you their government name in a queer space, it’s not because they’re “mysterious,” and you do not have permission to take it upon yourself to figure out their “real identity” and go digging for them online like a private investigator. First, that’s creepy and a violation of privacy and reasonable boundaries. Second, some of us keep our private and professional lives very separate because we need to keep food on the fucking table and a roof over our heads, and our private life could jeopardize that.

[canichangemyblogname]

“Why won’t you tell me about your parents?” “Why can’t I know your real name?” “Where do you work?”

1.) Not all our parents would bake us a fucking cake when we come out. Some of us are closeted. Surely you understand this? You also do not need to know my parent’s names or occupations; we are both adults. I do not need nor want to mix you and my private life with my parents and my public life.

2.) Trans people do not owe you their dead name or government name

3.) I’m not telling you for the sake of job security. I am a government fucking caseworker working amidst a fucking lavender panic!

“There’s no way you’re a different person outside this; you’re still you at your core. What harm is there—”

No, I am a completely different person. A different person with a different personality and different interests and a different name and presentation. I am a completely different person because I keep this life and my public life private to avoid fracturing 90% of my interpersonal relationships and 100% of my professional ones.

“You’re not out? But you’re so confident.”

See— that’s part of the issue. Y’all assume someone is in the closet because they hate themselves or lack self-identity. Some of us know exactly who we are, but need to prioritize financial stability or else our entire life gets exponentially harder immediately.

[canichangemyblogname]

You meet queer people over the age of 40 and one of the first/earliest questions is “who knows?”

I need y’all to start bringing that energy. Because it’s not always safe for someone to be out and not everyone is safe to be out around.

There is a misnomer that “the closet” inherently means “doesn’t know they’re queer” and not “isn’t out widely and publicly.” “Outness” is often a patchwork.

[dykeselfcest]

holy shit okay may have found a game-changer for web searches...with duckduckgo it's easy to turn off the ai features permanently, but regardless of engine there's the increasing problem of the search results themselves leading mostly to ai-generated articles on random ghost websites that say a lot without any information, and then the information they do give is contradictory or otherwise just wrong. this is especially a problem for me when trying to search for, e.g., a current list of the best products in a certain category.

finally searched for a solution and there IS in fact a giant hand-curated list of sites containing this content. it can be imported to ublock origin on desktop or mobile, and even can be used on iOS via the ublacklist extension in the safari app. it's updated regularly, and importing via the link as described should allow those updates to go into effect automatically.

i've only tested it a little bit, but after importing the list and repeating my duckduckgo search for backpack recommendations, my top results now lead to websites that appear to be linked to actual organizations in some form, with an "about us" page and the name of a founder and everything. the text is still often a bit wordy and SEO-optimized, but it now has actual recommendations that are relevant to the query. BIG IF TRUE???

please do not start talking about The Definition Of Art on this post, or Whether Human Creations Have Souls. i am very tired.

[dykeselfcest]

once I added this it took me 15 minutes to find a backpack that met my needs and order it with free shipping. I feel reborn