Puzzleman Appreciation Zone

zecori— it/its — adult —————— i don’t know what this blog is anymore —————— wassup, i’m zecori, i talk in italics, and i have an umbrella. that’s it. nothing else to note, really. uh. have a complimentary s’more. — Professional Keyboard Smasher —— me, hopping between special interests and hyperfixations: parkour! —

[zecoritheweirdone]

look at him, and tell me there's a god.

[halleywars]

[itsmahblebaby]

[zecoritheweirdone]

finally had the spoons to draw more of the collinlock gang with pokémon!! this time, it's zac! with a skiddo, a rockruff, and a browt!

if you're curious about that last one, know that it was between this and a sobble. and honestly, i'm still a little torn? but for now, i went with browt! sobble does kinda fit his color scheme more, but also i was obsessed with the idea of zac having a tiny, angry bird.

once again, if you're curious about the pokémon assignments, or wanna know more, feel free to send in an ask! i'd love to yap!! i've got ideas for a whole lot of pokémon for zac,,,

[iapislazuli]

when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people” 

[iapislazuli]

Happy pride month to the filthiest most brutal read I’ve ever been given in my life

[alpaca-clouds]

Something I keep thinking about is how a lot of people consider it a good thing that children cannot by themselves consent (or refuse consent) to medical treatments. Some people do kinda get it that maybe it might be a problem with stuff like kids not being able to access trans healthcare, or kids being refused vaccination by antivaxx parents. But in general I see that most people are actually okay with this idea for the most part.

And like... you do get that that is kinda insane, right?

Because this is something that so often leads to suffering. And I am saying this as someone disabled, who had so many issues due to this in his childhood.

Just three examples: when I was 7, I was supposed to get checked for autism. My mother did not want an autistic child. Since she just could have a "neurotypical" child by refusing diagnosis, she did just that.

When I was 12, my mother had decided I needed a certain plastic surgery (one that had a minor health benefit, but still was largely a beauty thing). I did not want it. I really, really did not want it. We still went through almost the entire process until thankfully there was a doctor who went: "Wait, this is elective. I am refusing to do this on a child that does not want it."

And when I was 14 my mother refused to get me to the hospital when I had severe food poisoning. She refused me hospital treatment for almost two weeks. By the time I got actually taken to the hospital I was almost dead.

And here is the thing: all of this should just not happen. The doctor when I was 12 was cool, but... he refused to do the surgery because he had the right to make a conscience call. Legally my mother was in the right to force me into that elective surgery. And that just should not be the case.

A lot of children die and suffer due to their legal inability to consent - or refuse consent - to medical treatments. And I wish y'all would understand that.

Whenever this is brought up, people will go: "Oh, but parents will decide what is best for the child." And here is the thing: No, they are not. There is so much stuff out there showing that indeed, a lot of parents suck at this. Some out of malice, some because they are religious nuts, and some because they literally treat their kids like some sort of doll or some shit.

[zecoritheweirdone]

woag... das awesome......

[thatdawgthatdraws]

Quick warning

@gemwing1988 @lexieluthor1998 @rayo19z @bubblegumlover99 @dawlotte @xoangelbunnyxo @demonangelgirl134 @geeky92 @just-a-nobody7553 @pojiuha @paintywolf @pianokantzart

There's a new scam going on.

Just to warn you about this. Report and block them and most importantly repost it to warn others

[laserbobcat]

WAKE UP BABE NEW SCAM DROPPED

They're using the surveillance crisis the mf

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[databent]

hi. i really, really need everyone to see this gif of someones frog i just saw on reddit

[kriosv]

[stxrfiish]

my proposed alternative for ‘there’s no platonic explanation for this’ is ‘there’s no normal explanation for this’. there are a number of different ways they might love each other but however they do they’re crazy as fuck about it

[guileless-beast]

the solution to shipping non repulsed aspec characters is literally just keeping them aspec in a relationship. and i dont mean treating them the same as any other character in a relationship. yes, aces can have sex with other people, but they probably won’t enjoy it the same way an allo would. give them other reasons to like it. maybe they like the expression on their partner’s face. maybe they like making others feel good. maybe they have specific hangups about it- they can have sex with someone but only if their partner can’t see them. they can have sex with someone so long as it’s really romantic, or soft, or rough, or silly, or with no strings attached, or anything else. maybe they’d rather not be touched at all and just want to watch.

yes, aros can be in a romantic relationship with someone. but they won’t feel the same way as their partner does about it (or if they do, it’s gonna take a while. ex: greyros, demiros). give them more complex feelings about it: maybe they feel completely platonic love for their partner, but deep enough for them to want to be in a romantic relationship with their partner. maybe they feel queerplatonic about their partner. maybe they wish they could feel romantic feelings for their partner (cupiro). maybe they like kissing for sexual reasons but not romantic ones. maybe they like cuddling but not kissing because it feels gross. maybe all they like are kisses that arent on the lips. maybe they only like kisses that are. maybe they like having sex with their partner. maybe they don’t. maybe they want an open relationship. maybe they only want to fuck their partner.

and these are just the parts of the a-spectrum that i’m on (asexual, aromantic). i didn’t put anything down for aplatonics because i’m admittedly undereducated on the aplatonic parts of our spectrum :( any aplatonics or microlabels that would like to reblog with some ideas for other aspec identities in relationships are extremely encouraged!! i love hearing from our community!!

(Also, just to be clear, please don’t ship repulsed aspec characters. Don’t put repulsed aros into a romantic relationship, don’t make repulsed aces have sex, don’t force repulsed apls into having a friend. That’s erasure, just like how shipping a lesbian with a man or a gay with a woman is erasing their queerness. Please remember we are a part of the queer community to be respected, too, and taking our rep from us doesn’t help anyone. Yes, even if it’s yaoi or yuri. Leave them alone.)

[markovchaingang]

first they came for me and i was all like "hang on, aren't you guys supposed to come for other people first" but they pointed out that they had to come for someone first and we can't all be the guy from the poem and i couldn't really argue with that logic tbh

[bingutop]

You are trapped in an elevator with the person on your lockscreen. Who is it?

Reblog with who you get stuck with~

[algae122]

my fuckin cat

[drudg30n]

THE SUN

[ineedbettershittodo]

a turtleduck

[theultimatenerd0fficial]

Jim and Nomura… and Enrique… in the dark lands 💔 fahhhhh

[frooglet]

MY WIFE :DDDD and also jax and also angeldust

Honestly peakness ngl

[duality-the-chaos-god]

Luz and Amity from toh

Honestly?

Pretty cool

[evil-baker-and-storyteller]

Luigi Mangione 🤤

[babylon-butterfly]

Elder faerieeeee

[ririwithrice]

MR BURNS IN A MARILYN MONROE DRESS god damn 😍

[breadteleporter-offical]

my axolotl

[isaacmustdie-1525]

Dan and Phil. This is very funny considering that dream Phil had about being stuck in an elevator

[definitelyfrankiero]

All of the dead poets society

[elliotsaqueenfan]

My dad and siblings 😭

[cutestpuppyeverr]

Ritsu kageyama, I’m walking out of there with four of my limbs signed bro I am NOT missing out on an opportunity like that

[he7tiangle]

v1 ultrakill. im going to fucking die

[evilfloortile]

If we going with my tablet it’s Wagyu objectified which if you touch him once you get assimilated ok

If we going with my phone it’s 2 of my ocs both which are extremely deadly and probably would want to kill me

[starstarstarrystar]

Taka and Mondo from danganronpa v1 im so fucking SCARED🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[the-haiku-bot]

Taka and Mondo

from danganronpa v1

im so fucking SCARED🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[zecoritheweirdone]

been sitting on this one for a while bc i wanted to draw the other characters as well, and post 'em all together,, but uh. haven't been doing that! so i think i'm just gonna post this now and see if i make more later?

anyway! been thinking of a collinlock pokémon au! it's mostly just vibes atm, but it's been fun to draw! i need an excuse to get better at drawing pokémon, homestly,, sksmslsm. here's collin with two of his pokémon, a crobat and a prinplup!

feel free to ask me about the au, me and some friends spent a while trying to come up with pokémon assignments for a lot of the main cast,,, and a few bonus guys as well! and i'd be happy to talk about them!!

[zecoritheweirdone]

people are sending you asks, idk what thats about but i thought i'd say something nice.

me and my partner really enjoy your art a lot. we'll share it to each other and talk about it, and your style is really cool and cute. youre very cool and awesome, i hope youre having a good day.

W...... WEALLY...........?

snibbles...... i really appreciate that tanku...... i hope y'all have a wonderful day, as well!!