waiting on an Alecto

21, she/they, lover of Critical Role, Cosmere, and Locked Tomb. JesterLavorre over on the 17th Shard

[fourdancingmoths]

Haven't watched any Aimsey content in a long time because life got in the way but I keep seeing fanart of AJ (?) from the flight smp and oh. Oh I may have to get back on the grind for them.

[zell-ion]

Their most recent vod is titled 'tongues and teeth' and I don't know what happens in it but the thumbnail is aj and drift and I cannot physically catch up fast enough.

[musithical]

this part is one that i'm really going to hate. in the wake of all that happened yesterday, i need to talk about finances. i know this is long, but i urge you to read through, because i could really use some tangible, real help right now.

as many of you know, the work we did for Avid was substantial. the music we made with him has been our lifeblood for the past several months as we have been reeling from the onset of a severe, life changing disability diagnosis that prevents us from working a typical job. music, video editing, streaming, and making our own videos are about all we can do. our disabling dissociative amnesia prevents the timely and reasonable learning of new skills. while we have been working constantly with a dissociative specialist to inch towards remedying this, we do not expect that we will be equipped to work in any other capacity any time soon.

the royalties we received from the music we made together with Avid were roughly 80-90% of our income on any given month for the calendar year so far, and they have helped us stay afloat while we have been trying to go through the rigorous and ill-equipped disability system.

putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea regardless, and the fears i had building for the past couple of months only further emphasized this. as such, i have been trying to diversify by engaging with streaming, trying to get my name out there for collaborative work in other SMPs, and reaching out to my creator friends for editing work. i really can't thank two people in particular enough - LeonSBU and NatureOfGaming - for providing me work as they have been able to afford and especially in Leon's case, getting my name out there for other SMPs.

unfortunately, the true extent of Avid's manipulations and lies were more than i could ever have imagined. the fact that my entire understanding of his intentions has been flipped in a matter of no more than 3 days feels like being hit by a truck. for full transparency, i am no longer in contact with Avid, but i did inform them that i was leaving the fate of our music in their hands. in the final messages he sent to me before i cut contact, he told me that he "would never cut [me] off financially". he told me he would never do a lot of things, so forgive me if i have trouble trusting this. regardless, the dropoff in listenership after what has been revealed will be substantial and immediate.

in the best case-scenario, i have a month or two left before royalties catch up to this dropoff, and will see consistent income for that time still. in the worst, i will no longer be able to afford my rent by the end of the month if he does remove the music and disable my royalty splits.

what i need is two things: i need immediate funds to fall back on in case things go poorly, and i need longevity. i have been so lucky to be surrounded by so many truly astounding and generous creators who have been willing to put my name out there for work. i am hoping this comes to fruition. i am already hearing from some about potential editing opportunities which is amazing. but things are still up in the air, and i need to be quick and smart. this is why i am doing something that my fans know i hate. i'm asking for help.

as i see it, there are three pillars to this. all the highlighted text below links directly:

immediate aid - if you have the funds to spare, buying our music on Bandcamp and donating to our Ko-Fi are methods of which we see the funds in a matter of days, if not instantly. this will help us build an emergency fund if worse comes to worse.

supporting our work - by spreading the word about our streaming on Twitch and listening to our music on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube (and any other platform our music is on), you provide a significant source of consistent income that we can rely on month-to-month.

word of mouth - talking about what we do and why you enjoy it is a surprisingly big help, because it helps us find connections for potential growth opportunities and commission work. additionally, letting people know we have a Discord and are the ones responsible for Avid's music in the first place not only helps us, but it helps the people who loved Avid's music know there is more out there from the person who made his songs possible.

i'm gonna level with you all. i fucking hate writing this. i feel like a beggar. i feel humiliated. these past three days of piecing things together have been some of the worst of my life, and having to once again ask for help is the cherry on top. since i learned about the truth three days ago, this has been constantly looming over me. everything else has been made crystal clear to me, so i at least know without a shadow of a doubt what happened. but with this? i'm terrified. Avid knew my situation, my disability, my reliance on our work together. he has left me in a truly impossible situation. i am taking it as an opportunity to double down on the work i was already doing and try to turn it into a positive. i hope that you all are gracious enough to help me make that a reality. it would really mean the world right now.

for some positivity in all of this, here's a sneak peak of my next song. i'm so ready to move forwards and i'm trying to let this empower me to make some awesome fucking art. thank you to everyone who read to the end. hope to see you all soon <3

[cptapathy]

I've had a couple of 10k posts so please help to spread this for me

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality

Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be

On the 25th of June people in the UK will be attending parliament to lobby their MPs asking them to challenge the new transphobic EHRC guidance.

The new guidance bans trans people from all toilets. Trans people will be excluded from their genders toilets by virtue of being trans, trans people will be banned from their AGAB's toilets by virtue of not looking like their AGAB.

Trans people are being pushed out of existence. Our MPs have an opportunity to oppose this becoming law, but they won't do it unless they are scared of the electorate kicking them out of office.

We need to show up in force, we need to show them that passing these laws and the upcoming section 28 2.0 will alienate the voters and they will lose their seat.

Please spread this, please come, please write to you MP.

Here is a link to a letter writing guide

The EHRC's new guidance marks a dangerous step backwards for Trans+ rights in the UK. Far from protecting equality, it risks giving cover to

Last year we lobbied against the ruling, and we had the largest public lobby in queer history, larger than the lobby during the AIDs crisis. Join me in the streets as we fight for our rights and let's make this the largest lobby in all of history.

[zell-ion]

Gideon the Ninth movie finishes, curtains close, and the music over the aftercredits is a somber cover of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up

[mediaheart]

what are some of you guys woman/girl blorbos. like female characters you are utterly obsessed with

[mediaheart]

what are some of you guys woman/girl blorbos. like female characters you are utterly obsessed with

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[geosie]

considering an antonym of previous is successive we should refer to would be rebloggers as succ

[zell-ion]

Also works with late latin succubare - to lie beneath, as reblogs lie beneath the original post.

So rebloggers are succubi :)

[airprime7]

So to be 100% clear:

tumblr just added an update that requires you to verify your age in order to view "mature content". I'm not sure how they do the verification (haven't yet checked), but given recent similar updates from things like Discord, it most likely involves sending them a photo of either your face or your ID.

In addition, over the past few months, and also years in the long-term, tumblr has been incorrectly marking things as mature content. These include:

Notifications about missing persons and requests for help

Posts about youth liberation

Posts about sex education

Posts about how the mature content is poorly implemented

Posts about being trans, more specifically about trans women and transmisogyny by both tumblr and users on tumblr

Non-sexual selfies by trans women/transfems

Trans womens'/transefems' ENTIRE BLOGS even if the blog contains no sexual content

Reblogs made by various blogs, mostly trans women, which add no additional content but somehow are marked as containing mature content, when the original post is not

Posts talking about racism and antiblackness both on and off tumblr

Posts by black people, especially black trans people, that are non-sexual

And likely many more I haven't seen

In essence, this update has mandated that a majority of users must either a) submit their personal information to tumblr, a website whose moderation has been EXTREMELY biased against marginalised people and who I would not trust with my ID, or b) be excluded from absolutely all conversations tumblr decides are "mature content", whether they are actually sexual in nature or not. Furthermore, anyone not over 18 will also not be allowed to take part in these conversations, or even see them, or interact with many trans women or people of colour on this site, as tumblr decides.

This update is complete bullshit designed to censor and exclude marginalised people, poorly hidden under a guise of "protecting teenagers from sexual content", and they know it.

[ladycrimsonandblack]

i understand fandom's fascination with hal and bolaire's yaoi moment, but where are the posts about ophelia seremai and lieutenant junaeus' absolutely toxic yuri vibes??

you mean to tell me that there is this badass evil woman gently cradling her subordinate's face and telling her that oh yes, she is going to have to die. she is a loose end. she understands, yes, that she has to be killed for the betterment of their house? don't you worry, you'll be rewarded, you'll get the scar for this, well done. you will continue to serve us after your death and into eternity.

and the other woman is like, yes. it's been honor to serve you. and goes calmly to her death.

[zell-ion]

Haven’t been keeping up with c4 but I may need to get back on it…

[rainydaydecaf]

Forever fascinated by the spectrum of morality in VSMP cause it’s like:

There’s Owen “I killed 2,799 people who I personally knew since childhood and who personally and viciously wronged me and took away my reason for living, and I don’t feel bad about it at all, I would do it all over again, why would I ever feel bad about my sins, they all hurt me first, they all deserve it, why are you looking at me with pity and disappointment, there was nothing else I could have done, I refuse to let anyone get away with that level of cruelty, I’ll go to hell a thousand times if it means I can make them suffer a fraction or the pain that my loved one felt in his dying moments, I’ll never repent, I’ll never seek forgiveness or accept the very same light that would damn someone as kind as him, we’re all monsters in the end, and I’ll drag us all down together to suffer the same fate”

And Legundo “I killed over 6,000 people in the most slow and horrific way, people who I did not personally know or have reason to care about, under orders I could have disobeyed but chose not to because it was the only way to end the war, and that decision haunts me every moment of my life and I reformed my whole existence around trying to do more good than the harm I’ve caused, even though I know nothing I do will ever fix it but that’s no excuse to just lay down and die, I have a penance to pay and by god I will pay it before the end, it’s the only thing letting me keep a grip on my sanity, and I’m terrified of how close I keep getting pulled to that edge”

And Cleo “I have killed well over 80,000 people, under duress and magical compulsion that I literally could not resist, at an age when I was too young to have any power over my circumstances, and I wish for death every day, this world would be better without me, and part of me also lowkey wishes that I never escaped because it was easier to be helpless, even though all I wanted was the freedom to make my own choices and not hurt anyone ever again, and now that I have that freedom I’m so scared of losing it again, I’m scared that I’m broken and will become the thing I tried to leave behind, I need someone to guide me and keep me on the right path and at the same time I don’t want anyone to look at me with anything like kindness ever again”

And Pearl “I only kill people who kill people, I make no distinction between humans and monsters, I give no allowance for being weak or cursed or taking vengeance or preventing more death or being unable to control yourself in the moment, it’s entirely your fault for raising your hand to another living being, no I don’t care if that vampire killed your family, I said what I said and I expect you to do what I did and be the better person, what’s a moral quandary, why are you mad at me, why is it so hard for you to just stop, look it’s so easy to stop, why are you making this complicated, just be a good person, it’s literally not even hard, will you all just stop-”

And Avid “I killed exactly one person in my life, and it was entirely my fault and my choice and my circumstances that caused it, and I’m so desperate to shift the blame that I will attack everyone but myself because it’s killing me to know I could have maybe prevented it, but I didn’t, and I accept all of the blame but also none of the blame because really it was Them who caused her to attack me, it’s Their fault, she wasn’t herself, I wasn’t killing her, I was only killing a Monster, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, shut up, it’s not my fault (or maybe it actually was, maybe I’m just a murderer, maybe it should have been me all along, I wish someone would blame me and call me the monster that I am)”

And Drift “it’s my job to help people and imprison criminals, but the second that my life was personally threatened, I ran away and I feel so guilty for it because now there’s no one to stop the killer I was hunting, now every death that happens at the killer’s hands is on my conscience, because I could have stopped it or at least tried, but I didn’t, I ran away and I’m paralyzed at the thought of going back, I can’t face the reality of my own death, there’s nothing in this world worth sacrificing my life for, and I hate that I learned this about myself, I wanted to think I was strong and I was putting my life on the line to help others, but I just found out I’m the kind of coward who would let other people die to protect myself, and I am not okay, I look at the people around me and see them making hard choices and wonder where they found the strength, and then I wonder when I started equating strength with killing people, what is wrong with me, I wish I could be more like them, they make killing look so easy”

And Pyro “I have killed one person in my life, in a moment of uncontrollable rage, after years of enduring physical and emotional and mental abuse, and being told to just swallow it and be civil to my tormentor, until it all finally coalesced and pushed me to fight back, and I don’t know to this day if I was aiming to kill him or not, if something in me just snapped or if it was purely an accident and now I’m trying to take control and rationalize after the fact, I’ve never had control in my life, everything’s always been decided for me, I’ve been told over and over that I’m weak and stupid and impulsive, too emotional, not intellectual, I don’t belong in high society despite being born there, despite not having a choice, is it so wrong that I want to claw out a place for myself, why is it only wrong when I do violence, yet everyone else around me can commit violence against me without any consequence at all, I’ll show them what consequences look like, I’ll show them the beast they all claim to despise”

And Shelby “I’ve been told all my life about these creatures that are not human, these bedtime stories about killers and monsters and demons that I’m supposed to fear, yet they were told to me by the gentle voice of my dad, so of course I find comfort in tales of the dark, of course I want to find these monsters that are pushed to the fringes of society and make them all my friends, what do you mean they’re evil, can you blame them, maybe they’re just lonely, did you even think of that, maybe they just need someone to hold their hand and give them a hug and tell them that they don’t have to be alone anymore, maybe they just need to know that someone believes in them and cares about them, why else would they keep trying to steal away humans in the night, I would go with them if they asked, of course I would, I would kill people too if I was left all alone like that, why not, why does that shock you so much, do I really look that innocent to you, I’ll do anything if it means having a family again, I will tear apart anyone who tries to take my family away”

And Apo “of course I have morals, of course I have standards, I’m a soldier (I never wanted to be one) and I’m a good person (I try so hard to be one) and I want to help these stupid people and do the job I’ve been given to the best of my ability, except that the minute I take any action at all, I get told that it was the wrong choice, the immoral choice, why would you ever do that, you monster, you’re so selfish, were you even thinking before you did that (I agonize over every choice I make) but can’t they see that my intentions were good even if I messed up, doesn’t that count for something, why is forgiveness allowed for literal murderers and not me, fuck it, I’m abandoning my morals, it’s not like they got me anywhere, I might as well serve myself like everyone else is doing, only one person has ever understood me and I fucking love her and I’ll do anything to get back to her, oh my god why are you yelling at me again, you’re making it so damn hard to be a good person right now, I’m so tempted to just-”

And Scott “oh yeah, I’ve massacred civilizations, it was all the rage back in the day, it’s all I’ve ever known, I was born to power and I spent my life and unlife reaching for more power because why would I ever do anything else, moral quandary what’s that, never heard of her, don’t know her, I make all of your kill counts combined look laughable, if I ever had feelings and emotions they were buried a long time ago, yeah I had friends, they were all just like me, I made them just like me, I’m not out to enslave or torment anyone, I’m literally just over here living my best life, you should try it sometime, you should try not giving a shit, it’s great, it’s amazing, I promise my mental state is perfectly stable and not at all on the verge of total collapse after the loss of one fledgling, I’m not at all being overprotective of my remaining fledglings and considering altering my entire way of life and flipping my moral compass just because my new friends asked me nicely if we could please not massacre anyone, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m totally fine you guys, I’m not looking back at my kill count and seeing the tsunami of repressed emotion about to sneak up and riptide me, I’m fine-”

And Sausage “of course I think about killing people, I’m a writer, it’s my job to think about these things, I spend all my days and nights hunched over a desk doing research and using fiction as a medium to explore all kinds of taboo topics, isn’t it kind of interesting to see what the human mind can come up with, isn’t it fun to think about how the only thing stopping most of us from being killers is a silly little thing like laws and morals, what do you mean that’s just me, you’re lying, I know you’re lying, everyone fantasizes about what they would do if they had unlimited power and no one to stop them from killing everyone who mildly annoys them, it’s totally normal for me to run off into the wilderness and throw myself at a vampire and beg to be turned, we all secretly want it, I’m just the only one not pretending anymore, come on, come play with me, I know it’s getting a little real now and I’m actually kind of scared, but I don’t know how to turn back now, I don’t know if I can or if I want to, I can’t even do the cool metaphorical thing of looking in the mirror to see what I’m becoming, please someone tell me that it’s not too late to turn back”

And Martyn “you see the thing about morals is, you assume I have them, I don’t or I try not to, it gets in the way of getting what I want, which right now is a safe place to lay my head, I’ll stay here for awhile, why not, these people look nice and gullible, I can tell them any sob story I want and they’ll accept it, they’ve actually been more kind of me than I expected, they’ve gone out of their way to look out for me and keep me fed and safe, and I keep looking for the underlying motive in their actions and coming up with nothing, and it’s hitting me now after realizing the danger we’re all in that a lot of them are genuinely good people stuck in bad circumstances and I don’t want them to die just for that, I’ve been there, I always wished someone had been there to help me, so I’ll gear up and do whatever it takes to get us all to safety, I’ve never been the hero in any story before and I’m finding it’s actually nice to feel like I’m strong and I have someone to protect, I’ll make the decisions that they won’t, I’ll hold them up when they falter, I’ll be the light in the dark, and for just a brief moment I’ll get to see what it’s like to be on this side of things, the one that stays instead of the one that runs away”

And Abolish “you see the thing about morals is, not everyone can afford them, and I get that, I really do get it, this world is not a kind one, I’ve experienced that for myself and you do what you have to for the sake of survival, it becomes purely a numbers game, there are people with power and people without it and the scales won’t be balanced unless some of these people with power actually get up and start doing things for the benefit of the rest, I never expected to be one of those people with the power, it kind of snuck up on me, but I’m here now so I might as well do the job, there’s no point in making this world worse but there is a purpose in making it better, I don’t really know if I’m making it better or not, I’m definitely doing more killing than I care to, and I’m so damn tired all the time, honestly just point me at the monsters and hand me a crossbow, I’ll deal with it as fast as I can and try not to think too much about the moral implications of it all, I just hope that if my soul ever becomes corrupted or if I go off the proverbial deep end, there’ll be someone else ready to stand in my way and do what has to be done, please don’t make me explain my reasoning to you, it’s both simple and complicated, and please for the love of god, don’t make me kill you”

And Ren “the most traumatic thing that ever happened to me was an act of absolute senseless cruelty with no purpose or reason behind it, and I can’t even speak of it without everyone mocking me and laughing because they assume my story is a joke, and now I struggle to trust anyone, human or monster alike, for fear of being tricked again, I withdraw and recoil from genuine acts of kindness, I cannot look into someone’s face without trying to see the lie behind their smile, the poison in their honeyed words, I beg anyone to heed my warnings as I watch my friends fall to the same darkness that cursed me one by one, I can no longer trust any of them, I know that I must kill them before they escape and hurt anyone else, before they hurt me, and yet I struggle to raise my hand against them, I can’t understand what would drive a man to become the very same monster that left my life in ruins, I cling to my humanity and my hatred of the darkness as the last thing I have left of my mother, and if I can’t bring myself to kill these creatures, then at least I will die before I become like them”

[knightofiron17]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

[blessdunrest-deactivated2026042]

Hey OP, thank you explaining this for us. I'd like to also add to please submit all feedback by commenting on tumblr's CHANGES sideblog (link below). based on the tumblr support email i just received and many others have already received, tumblr engineers are monitoring their feedback more closely there.

You can access it here.

Please.

We need all the feedback we can. Support tickets, reblogs, but most importantly THE CHANGES SIDE BLOG.

[wickedsnack]

so as long as tumblr keeps this, here's the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter's quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source

otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist's notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

[patron-saint-of-emesis]

Lego Gideon the Ninth. the overwhelmingly emotional bone dome scene at the end would be just gut wrenching. and then Lego Gideon lands on a lego fence spike and breaks into bricks. with the lil noise and all.

[cosmerelists]

Should These Mistborn Characters be Genderbent for the Live Action Movie?

An important question was raised by @foiazoli in this post: namely, who should be genderbent in the live action Mistborn movie that has been announced? Well, I've thought about this deeply and carefully and I have what I believe is THE definitive answer for each character.

1. Hammond: Yes

Sanderson has said that he wishes he made Ham a woman. I would be shocked if Ham is not a woman in the movie, tbh. And I support Sanderson in this.

2. Dockson: Yes

What's better than Ham and Dockson lowkey hating each other? Them lowkey hating each other in a toxic yuri way.

3. Elend: Yes

Elend and Vin have a delicious forbidden romance. But what if they had a delicious forbidden lesbian romance? What if Elend became the Last Empress and still wore that white military uniform? Imagine.

4. Kelsier: Yes

This would be a bold and refreshing choice, plus she could be the older butch mass murderer of our dreams.

5. Marsh: Yes

I mean, in the books Marsh & Kelsier have a brotherly rivalry and a shared heterosexual love interest. Surely it is time to see their sisterly rivalry and their shared lesbian love interest. Plus, the movies should show the gender equality that surely exists among the Inquisitor's ranks.

6. Spook: Yes

I would be more invested in Spook's sad longing for Vin if it were in a gay way. Plus, I think Spook is a cool name for a woman.

7. Breeze: Yes

In his heart, Breeze is a wine aunt. It is her destiny.

8. Sazed: Yes

What? Bald women are hot. I'm not a saint.

9. The Lord Ruler: Yes

What? Evil women are hot. I'm not a saint.

10. Clubs: No

The gang has to have one guy right? Otherwise it would be so unbalanced.

[zell-ion]

Yes

[blodornmee]

looking for cherri