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pinkyunhos

here’s weirder asks

who is/are your comfort character(s)?

lighter or matches?

do you leave the window open at night?

which cryptyd being do you believe in?

what color are your eyes?

why did you do that?

hair-ties or scrunchies?

how many water bottles are in your room right now?

which do you prefer, hot coffee or cold coffee?

would you slaughter the rich?

favorite extracurricular activity?

what kind of day is it?

when was the last time you ate?

do you love the smell of earth after it rains?

are you a parent? (all answers qualify)

can you drive?

are you farsighted or nearsighted?

what hair products do you use?

imagine we’re at a sleepover, would you paint my nails?

do you say soda or pop?

something you’ve kept since childhood?

what type of person are you?

how do you feel about chilly weather?

if we were together on a rooftop, what would we be doing?

perfume/body spray or lotion?

a scenario that you’ve replayed multiple times?

about how many hours of sleep did you get?

do you wear a mask?

how do you like your shower water?

is there dishes in your room?

what type of music keeps you grounded?

do you have a favorite towel?

the last adventure you’ve been on?

is there a song you know every word to by heart?

what’s your timezone?

how many times have you changed your url?

someone in your life, other than a relative, you’ve known for 10+ years?

a soap bar that smells good?

do you use lip balm?

did you have any snacks today?

how do you take your coffee?

an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site?

what’s your take on spicy foods?

you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it?

can you remember what happened yesterday?

favorite holiday film?

what was the last message you sent?

when did you first try an alcohol beverage?

can you skip rocks?

can i tag you in random stuff?

schlaflosewurst-deactivated2022

go ahead then

corvidkiid

tumblr is such a different animal than other social media platforms for so many reasons obviously but one thing i really find funny about it is how on other sites if i see something that doesn't interest me i don't follow or don't like the post. but on here if someone i follow starts posting exclusively about something really niche that i have no interest in my reaction is never to unfollow. its just part of the natural environment. like oh mutual is now really into pro wrestling? ok i guess ill be seeing these guys around now

you-say-that-so-often

Also there's no concept of alerting everyone to a change. No "guys You would Not Believe this AMAZING thing I just found, I am going to be posting EXCLUSIVELY about this Amazing ThingTM". It's just. There. On your dash. And it's like. Well alrighty then. I guess I'm looking at gay wizards now. Or pro F1 drivers. Or Columbo. Cool.

imoriginalvisual

Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian but it’s Toxic by Britney Spears

gallusrostromegalus

I’m gonna propose something: if your combat/ass-kicking sequence can’t fit to a top 40 female-vocalist Banger like “Toxic” or “Mama Mia” or “I Need a Hero” you’re not Doing It Right.

fatsexybitch

At this point its starting to feel like Editors are using 140-150bpm as a standard for action sequences, and I cant say I hate it.

homestuckphobia

I agree wholeheartedly with every point above but I watched this first with the sound off because I forgot that was an option and what struck me most is how efficient Luke's lightsaber style is. Almost every flourish he makes and all of what, 2 entire spins?, is defensive to better parry blaster fire while nearly every offensive swing he makes is basically a head or chest level kill shot. If I had to make a guess about his character I'd say this vintage twink has probably Seen Some Shit and maybe comes from a background where resources are scarce and help is far away so if you get in a fight you have to end it before it starts or you're dead meat

screamting

deeply want a time travel fic where Luke visits the old republic and the Jedi are like “that’s not a dueling style” and luke is like “yea am not doing much dueling tbh”

kiapet2

It's commonly accepted in this fandom that humans have extremely fragile bodies in comparison to Eridians, but I think that's actually an oversimplification.

Because while Eridians are incredibly strong and tough on the outside, on the inside they are actually quite fragile:

They have no immune system, so anything that makes it past their enclosed carapace and internal heating will pretty much kill them

They have no natural defenses to radiation of any kind

In general they have very little organic matter so anything that targets their cells directly is quickly lethal

They are partially cold-blooded and live at a very narrow temperature range (about 20 degrees C)

They rely almost entirely on one, highly developed sense and are helpless if deafened (can't even remember the layout of a room)

They are completely helpless while asleep and can't control when that happens

They will forcibly become dormant after eating AND when badly hurt enough (their equivalent of going into shock)

They require more energy to function than humans do, and have very little organic matter to burn in the case of starvation

In contrast, humans:

Have an aggressive immune system and internal mechanisms for dealing with cell damage

Have adrenaline which allows them to temporarily ignore injuries and perform abnormal feats of strength

Are persistence hunters built for economy of movement and capable of extreme levels of endurance

Exist in a very wide range of habitats and on a diverse diet

Are very hardy in general, able to survive massive injuries, lack of sleep, prolonged starvation, and intense environmental conditions if given proper care

The quintessential example of this dichotomy between strength and endurance is the Going Fishing incident in the book: Rocky is able to survive and move in G forces that are killing Grace and to physically wrestle off the chair crushing him, but he collapses from his injuries almost immediately after. Despite being injured himself Grace then carries his 400lb friend up a ladder, is badly burned returning him to his atmosphere, and then proceeds to get some basic medical care, hype himself up on pain meds and keep working (albeit rather badly, lol) while Rocky forcibly sleeps.

The TL:DR is that Eridians are harder to damage, but easier to kill. They're like an rpg character with high armor and low health. I think Rocky would consider Grace to be very delicate at first, only to be blown away by how deceptively tough his friend can be.

#I feel like in contrast to Eridians #Humans are Space Hobbits #project hail mary #phm #Which makes me think that maybe all of the “Humans are [X]” designations are real #It just depends on what species you compare us to #for instance with Eridians we're similar in temperament and thought process but small and squishy and surprisingly resilient #so to them we're Space Hobbits #where as to another species we might seem incredibly strong and warlike and weirdly durable and live on a death world #and so compared to them #humans are space orcs #and to another species that's very blunt and with minimal language abilities but are very physically hardy #it might be a case of #humans are space fae #because we can run circles around them in communication and have (seemingly) very specific rules of engagement #but we also need quite specific conditions to survive and can't do or touch weird things that they may be fine handling #and maybe to another species that's very similar to use but deals with a much softer gentler planet #humans are space Australians #I think there's something to be said for all of them being true at once

m0unta1ndude

god never intended me to make this many accounts

arizona-green-tea-absolutist

I cannot be trusted with floorspace . . .

i-was-today-years-old-when

i learned that actor Danny Trejo has the most on-screen deaths of anyone in Hollywood history, with 65. Followed by Christopher Lee (60), Lance Henriksen (51), Vincent Price (41), Dennis Hopper (41), Boris Karloff (41), and John Hurt (39). (x)

splend-42

Yet poor Sean Bean is stuck with the reputation for dying in every movie. Unfair.

deliriumcrow

Give him time, he still has many years of dying yet to come.

cipheramnesia

Also there’s the question of density vs quantity. If you make a hundred movies and die in 50, and someone else makes 30 movies and dies in 30, the first one has died more, but the second one has died more often per movie.

patrickat

It’s the DPM ratio that really counts, IMO.

avron

65/402 16% Danny Trejo 60/282 21% Christopher Lee 51/259 20% Lance Henriksen 41/211 19% Vincent Price 41/205 20% Dennis Hopper 41/204 20% Boris Karloff 39/209 19% John Hurt 33/117 28% Sean Bean

digitaldiscipline

I’m so proud of the statistical side of tumblr for coming through on this.

you-say-that-so-often

Someone better suited needs to add Basil Rathbone statistics as well, I was surprised he didn't make the initial list of names

ratbastarddotfuck

tumblr userbase is going to become unconscionably insufferable in response to this taste of power I suspect. don't let it go to your heads.

ratbastarddotfuck

Lots of talk about "bullying wins" and little talk about power and the flow of capital, which is what matters to the corporate bigheads who approve these things. imo a few things were at play here to make them rescind this.

- It was buggy. Tags not showing up for an OP past even an empty reblog did not appear to be intended (or at least, it was not mentioned in the announcement), and is a MAJOR problem. Specifically, it undoes the major update from around 5 years ago which was heavily praised by the userbase (one of few tumblr updates to actually be widely well recieved) which allowed a poster to see tags in their activity feed. If this was the only problem, they could have launched a bug fix. Same goes for not being able to turn off reblogs.

- Userbase unity? Well, maybe. Specifically - the userbase had a swift, harsh, and overbearing response to this update. Most of the complaints were the same: this will exacerbate harassment, this will disrupt the flow of communication, this will make it impossible for someone to maintain their posts. Big names in the tumblr ecosystem came down hard, fast, and with significant concern: if this stays in place, I will have to leave - this place will not do what I need it to do. Much of the userbase said the same, sharing alternate blog hosting sites and doing the thing we always do when this ship looks like sinking. Additionally, their replies and feedback forms were obviously being flooded. This put real pressure on their workers in the office, which puts financial pressure on the company. I think the most disrupting tactic though, was going offsite. I checked out their instagram and twitter comments; they were flooded. This is something we Don't Usually Do when we're just whining about the newest change. Usually we stay here to complain but we make do with the change. This, I think, is the thing that signified people weren't just whining but were actually for real pissed. And then of course...

- Five hours before the roll-back announcement, an article drops. That kind of bad press is the nail in the coffin for a dying company like tumblr. I imagine several concerned meetings somewhere in those five hours.

What do we learn? The answer is not "bullying works" and "swearing at customer service reps is fun". The answer is to remember that online, we are both the product and the thing that creates the value (similar to but obviously distinct from the actual workers of a corporation; if we vanished overnight they'd have nothing). Brush up on your collective bargaining & try to understand why this happened in this way. And don't try to replicate this for every random update that comes next by endlessly harassing them. Take stock of the little power you have and work out where to put it to use. This is still just tumblr.

jackiefour

Okay, so according to this post, @staff says they're listening to us, so...

Sound off, Tumblr! How do you feel about the latest update to the reblog and notes?

Hate it. 👎

Like it. 👍

Voting ended onMar 19

No nuance. Go ahead and reblog the crap out of this.

oops-all-birbs

Watching the Pitt made me wonder how many times I've been to the er, out of curiosity

And. 11 times (that i rmb, might be more). Over 31 years. It's once every 2.8 years

It feels like a lot, so it got me curious:

How many times have you been to the ER?

never been

only once

2-4

5-7

8-10

>10

Voting ended onFeb 15

#only once #had a really bad ear ache that came on suddenly and strong #couldn't sleep so sister brought me to the er #basically spent all night there most of it in the waiting room #at one point I asked for more medicine to help with the pain and told them what I'd taken so far #waited calmly another forty-five minutes in polite agony until I went up and asked again #at which point they told me it was against policy to give me anything more #I turned around to go back to my sister and promptly burst into tears on the wall back #a doctor came to check on me and brought pain meds like five minutes max after that #also the TV show ERs full of shouting and running is NOT accurate #it was the calmest sleepiest chilliest place I have ever been even though I had to be moved to the hallway to make room for a gunshot wound #weirdest feeling I've ever had -- very liminal space

my-dailydreams

girljeremystrong

PLEASE watch this. i love chaotic sisters best dynamic in the world

anais-ninja-bitch

1. this should be required viewing for anyone writing young girls, especially sisters

2. she did a good job and totally saved their asses.

flo-machina

This is honestly the best short film I've seen in years.

sparrowsarecool

Duckduckgo is doing a poll on whether people want A'I' or not, vote here:

Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

codotafterdark

It's currently at about 91% for NO, so let's help it out a bit and see if we can't pump that number up.

Just to REALLY drive the point home.

you-say-that-so-often

To be clear, the poll is just advertising for duckduckgo, since AI is optional there, they aren't threatening to change anything. But still. Click button. Show support.

hbmmaster

AITA for asking my husband to stop posting our interpersonal conflicts on Reddit?

My (29F) husband (36M) and I have been together for almost ten years now and like any couple we occasionally get into arguments. Over the years I've noticed a pattern where the day after an argument he'd either give me an eloquently-phrased apology or, more often, a perfectly logically sound counterargument that completely proves that I was in the wrong. My hubby is an intellectual hunk so I've never thought this was suspicious, but the other day he brought up a counterargument that was so logically airtight that my only response was to laugh and say "Did you get that from Reddit or something?", because even though I don't use Reddit I know the reputation it has for being a center for wit and intellectual debate.

Well, turns out I was right. Every time we've ever gotten into a fight, he's always posted about what happened on r/AmItheAsshole and used the comments he gets to decide what to say the following day. When he told me this, I demanded to see some of these posts and he obliged.

To my surprise, not only has he been posting our arguments on this subreddit, he's been posting them from my perspective, writing them as though I'm the one posting these stories on Reddit from over a hundred different throwaway accounts. He'd always "anonymize" the posts too, apparently changing our relationship, genders, and ages with a random number generator, which is honestly really clever because it preserves our privacy without changing any important details for the purpose of deciding who was right in the argument.

Anyway, I really didn't like that he was basically impersonating me on the internet, but of course I didn't want to admit this to him so I made something up about him "misrepresenting" my side of the argument, even though I know he's a perfectly rational man and that it's impossible for him to be biased when describing things from my perspective. So I told him that he needs to stop putting our interpersonal conflicts on Reddit and "think for himself" (and of course I know that he really is thinking for himself but sometimes my womanly emotions cause me to say things I don't really mean. Fortunately he's always able to see through that and understand exactly what I meant to say every time.) but he refused, saying he doesn't think he did anything wrong. And then like always he got really quiet for the rest of the night and we haven't really talked since.

So, Reddit, am I the asshole?

hbmmaster

my two favorite types of replies to this (besides how many people are just genuinely enjoying my writing. thanks everyone!) are people who said the ending makes it too obvious and it would be better if it stuck to the more subtle clues throughout and the people who are (incorrectly.) saying it's ambiguous which of the two characters really made the reddit post. which taken together mean I think it's exactly as subtle as it needed to be and any subtler would have meant even fewer people would have gotten it

#I'll be honest fam #anyone who still thought it was ambiguous after “acting like it was me writing the posts” needed the ending paragraph #I thought it was histerical 100/10