Eyes on your stuff

[zanguus-eyeball]

Maybe I should stay out of certain online spaces.

[baleful-meat-worm]

they will be boiled

[lakemojave]

I've always been really confused about the world culture of Fallout, especially before the collapse.

Like it's my understanding that the timeline diverges from our own after WW2, with the United States entering a golden atomic age driven by relentless xenophobic and expansionist conquest, plunging the world into a fascistic death spiral that lead to the resource wars and nuclear armageddon. And to deliver that bleak premise with a satirical edge, it's canonical that American culture is, at least by the 2070s when the world happens, stuck in a sort of neo 50s obsession where the only music and art that's popular enough to survive the nukes is all stuff that originated more than a century beforehand.

Like I get that the criticism being made is that a culture obsessed with its own past is indicative of a bleak present crushed by imperialism and nationalism, but can you really expect me to believe that Fallout's American empire was so bad that culture and art and aesthetics were just. Frozen in time for more than 100 years? Addicted to their own past? That the American people were so embroiled in reactionary ideologies that they were incapable of moving forward and creating anything new?

Anyway did you hear they're rebooting Malcolm in the Middle this year? And the Mummy. And the Devil Wears Prada. And Masters of the Universe. And Meet the Parents. And a 5th toy story movie. And a moana remake.

Could mean nothing.

[rneliflua]

[ohnoitstbskyen]

What it looks like to me is that these churns of outrage aren't actually about anything that these creators say or do, so much as they are a kind of reflexive action in response to literally any kind of friction. Like an angry infected rash flaring up with pain when it is brushed by a feather.

The show you like is telling a slightly different story than what you want? Friction is the same as pain so it is hurting me, AAAA!!! Your expectation of what was going to happen to that character you liked didn't pan out? Friction! Friction hurts! You're hurting me!!

But where the Disney Corporation can run a fucking angle grinder across the rash and barely provoke an "ow," indie creators (especially if they are not men), can get nearly run off the internet for things like factually answering a direct question or stating that the story they are writing has main characters.

There's a lot of misogyny in that, obviously, and in many awful flavors, but I think there's also mixed in there a very peculiar kind of consumer-brained entitlement. We expect that the big corporations will fuck us over every two seconds, and we expect to be utterly powerless to do anything about it because all they give a shit about is Line Go Up, but indie creators (especially if they are not men) are expected to be the balm to that infected rash. Where everything else in the world is painful and mean and uncomfortable, independent queer creators are expected to produce the comfortable swaddling bandage that dulls the pain and soothes the sensitivity. This is supposed to be our happy place, our safe place. It's supposed to be ours and belong to us and serve us.

And so they moment they produce friction, any friction, literally the tiniest amount of friction imaginable, well that's a failure! You are failing to live up to your purpose, and that's not just a creative failure but a moral and personal and spiritual failure too. It's a sin, in fact, it is a kind of evil. Friction hurts, and that means you are hurting me!

It creates this fucked up upside-down bizarro logic wherein the corpos and the companies can transgress to almost literally any degree, as much as they want, as often as they want, but queer independent creators (and I cannot stress this enough: especially if they are not men) have to walk tightrope on a razor wire and may God help their souls if they ever put a foot wrong. We will shake and shake and shake the towers until they each fall down; I didn't like that step I think you were taking, how dare you believe you deserve to be up there!

[mcnostril]

According to many modern Terms of Service, the following picture is 90% illegal and may get you banned from the internet at large for just looking at it.

I was later informed that them knees had to bend backwards to achieve proper 90% illegality, and since accuracy is important measures were taken to ensure we are all going to jail.

Anyway, see you in prison.

[sunnysunsins]

Golden Menace

[valdevia]

2025 Tumblr Top 10

1. 32,877 notes - May 8 2025

That time I tricked google’s AI into believing my bullshit (intentionally).

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That time I tricked google’s AI into believing my bullshit (UNintentionally).

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That time I helped make a video where we found the origin of this classic internet image (the video is so well made and very touching if you’re an artist, pease give it a look!).

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That time I accidentally made a very scary image by masking a house.

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That time I lost my cat.

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That time I taught tumblr about Greebles.

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That time I made a fictional disease based on JK Rowling’s black mold.

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That thing (derogatory).

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That thing (affectionate).

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We had some very fun moments this year, looking back. Here’s to a 2026 with even more shenanigans!

[edettethegreat]

"average employer feels neutral about workplace injuries" factoid is incorrect. the average employer hates workplace injuries because it reflects badly on the company and they'll have to file a bunch of paperwork about it. OSHA Violations Elias, who loves paperwork and whose stated intent is to make sure his favorite employee gets as many workplace injuries as possible, is an outlier adn should not be counted

[cavegirlpoems]

have you posted the xkcd edit you made on tumblr?

i have now!

[fenrishion]

drk cafe!

[theconcealedweapon]

[formlines]

Rockabye

Allie High

[zanguus-eyeball]

Man or Bear: now with nuance?

Yes, yes I know, it's been done to death. But I think the debate needs a new angle: namely, what's the most common bear in your area?

DISCLAIMER: ALL BETS ARE OFF IF IT'S A MAMA WITH CUBS NEARBY. DO NOT MESS WITH MAMA BEAR OR CUBS

Black Bear: Black bears, for the most part, are basically big raccoons with a far lower chance of self-domestication. Making yourself 'big' and yelling has a good chance of scaring a black bear away. Making yourself 'big' and yelling to scare away a man will make the man wonder what the hell is wrong with you.

Brown Bear: Here's where it starts to be obvious that meeting a man in the woods is safer, as the American brown bear is quite territorial and braver than a black bear. Play dead just might work.

Polar Bear: Meat is a hard thing to get in the Arctic, and you are made of it. On the other hand, <insert vague Arctic creepypasta that may or may not allude to the W****** here>.

I'm just glad to get this out of my head.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

What the hell is this?

[zanguus-eyeball]

I think I randomly rolled a dungeon, entirely with dice, that made more sense than this.

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[zanguus-eyeball]

Who else saw this and thought of Mausritter?

[gizmos-n-gadgets]

JUSTICE FOR POTOOOOOOOO

Umamusume has robbed us of this as a potential character

Reblog if u believe in Potoooooooo supremacy

[mahhtinmybeloved]

a happy michael