Zombies Ate My Cosplay

cosplayer, general nerd, likes cute animals. 31/cis/white/bi, she/her pronouns please. multifandom, mostly video games.

[pangur-and-grim]

I like when the reviews for Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die are indistinguishable aside from the star rating

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

can I be radically honest for just one moment?

when I was writing the book, I thought it was normal.

[lierdumoa]

TBH I also thought the book was pretty normal ... contextually.

Not like, in relation to other published books, mind you, but normal for something a queer person on tumblr who likes Terry Pratchett and video games where you get to fuck the werebear in full shift and The Murderbot Diaries would write.

Anyway, I've said before that my idea of a good indie movie (this also applies to other media) is one that panders shamelessly to a audience so niche it has most critics muttering, "Who is this even for?!" and I think this book accomplished that.

That's my recommendation, I suppose.

[ilsa-fireswan]

Hmmm. The blurb uses the word “transmogrifying” so, in addition to these compelling recommendations, that means I probably need to read it ….

[ilsa-fireswan]

I have read the book!

Weird, sure. But internally consistent!

I LOVED the “in which …” chapter titles. I’ve seen those used for humor before, but these are both funny and give fascinating emotional background to each chapter. Mostly it’s a small emotion that’s highlighted, but it adds so much depth to what happens next. Here’s the prologue title for example:

I also loved the way the tone of the book shifted rather gently from “this is a comedy“ to “this is a horror novel“. I don’t know that it actually was a horror novel? Definitely speculative fiction. Maybe horror lite? Too much of a happy ending for horror, but too far from Happy Ever After to be traditional comedy. But that inability to nail down “who is this book for“ is part of it charm! 

The emotional drift of the story is Very Compelling. The slow breakdown of losing everything to get the one thing you want - and how that is happens differently for The Mad Sorcerer and for Sir Cameron. The grasping at bits of joy in the midst of chaos and confusion. The getting everything you wanted and it being confusing and different from what you pictured.

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Queer Liberation Library has a copy, so you can get your free library card and find this book on Libby!Audiobook version also available.

[hppjmxrgosg]

all you new fandom members need to QUIET DOWN oh my god you're going to get us KILLED. we're happy to have you but if you keep talking about BULLSHIT like PUBLISHING fanfic for MONEY, Anne Rice is going to come back from the dead to KILL US. looking at YOU, maurauders fans, heated rivalry fans, byler fans...out here giving out interviews to news channels SHUT UP. we're going to have to start setting off firecrackers to keep the rent down.

[northstarfan]

#unfortunately the kids raised on hustle culture and lack of privacy don’t know much about discretion online and letting hobbies be hobbies

Tags from prev.

[gotinterest]

Gonna be honest a lot of people deep down view cheating as worse than abuse which is why so many people view downright controlling and manipulative behavior in a relationship as 100% permissible so long as that behavior is centered around either preventing or discovering cheating.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

my toxic writing trait is imagining the scene in my head in long, full cinematic detail and then writing: “they fought. it was intense.”

[ragesharkbritain]

i really wish the x reader community would develop their own tag lingo instead of dumping it in the main tag for stuff. I'm out here firing the block button like a gatling gun just to see some gif sets

[titleknown]

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...

[kosher-salt]

More direct source of concern

URGENT: We’re one bad D.C. deal away from the era of online government censorship.

Congress and the White House are negotiating your online speech rights away. Tell lawmakers: reject KOSA, NO FAKES, and age-verification man

[rfpreiwaphase]

5calls has NOT updated to reflect this

6/14/2026

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Call now. Call often. Get your Americans on the horn. 📞 Every time you call, 🐨 will hug you

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

he's their woke dog

[zombiesatemycosplay]

I've struggled my entire life with being misunderstood in conversations with people (not metaphorically like I will say something and the other party will come away with the opposite understanding of what I intended).

Anyway, unrelated, but Project Hail Mary was one of the best romances I've seen in theaters.

[friend-crow]

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

[letmefixthatforyou]

I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.

[helenvaughans]

[itsmistybitch-deactivated202605]

These posts are sisters

[lierdumoa]

[luciiferous]

Querencia - from the Spanish verb 'querer'; to want, to desire, and to love. (…) The place where people feel most secure, gain the strength of their character and feel at home.

Title: Querencia

Rating: T

Pages: 40 + extras (58 total)

Jayvik postcanon, established relationship with domestic fluff. Redistribution on other sites is allowed, just not for profit.

[Download for free] - [Read on AO3] - [Read on Tumblr] - [Read on Bluesky]

[penandinkprincess]

listen i'm not advocating for exotic animals as pets, but i really just feel like cheetahs are probably different

i feel like we need to give them another shot as housebeasts

[penandinkprincess]

this is a critter who wants greenies and then to take a nap on the couch next to me, and i KNOW it

[penandinkprincess]

cheetah in House perfec t size for put inside! inside very Soft and Comfort cheetah sleep soundly put cheetah in House. Put Cheetah In House. no problems ever in cheetah in ho use because good Happy and Satisfy for human where sleep. House yes a place for a cheetah put cheetah in house can trust cheetah for giveing good love to humans in house. friend cheetah

[justasmidgx]

I mean, as someone who as worked in a zoo, this is fairly true.

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.

But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)

Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".

Legit if any wild animal could be adapted to a pet it would be cheetahs lmao. Only problem is they can be skittish and very anxious and that's why they're often raised around dogs in zoos to gain confidence.

[penandinkprincess]

congrats, i award you funniest take on this post

[selfship-quotes]

making a collection

[selfship-quotes]

adding to the collection

[elbiotipo]

me parece que se están yendo un poquito a la mierda no

[elbiotipo]

This moral panic has to stop. How does a post that uses this kind of language has like 15k notes.

If you oppose AI, the corporatization of technology and polluting data-centers that makes sense. I think that the environmental effect of AI is overstated (and also conflated with the rest of internet activity) but I also oppose this waste of materials to feed a corporate trend that is feeding an economic bubble.

"ai viriginity" or the whole pride on never being tainted about an AI, you should have realized this is fucking weird the minute you typed "ai viriginity". What the fuck are you even talking about.

[elbiotipo]

I don't want to reblog the OP because I don't want to get in arguments but then the reblog chain goes something "don't fall for the moral OCD!" and in the next sentence "you aren't tainted or sinful for having used AI once", you are the ones making up the moral OCD, what the fuck are you doing

16k notes by the way.

[punkrorschach]

i just remembered people trying to raise the torches against one of the authors of Oh Joy Sex Toy because she, a cis woman, wrote about wearing prosthetic penises (aka packers) sometimes during normal daily routines, and commented that it made her feel sexy to have a penis. and how her cis husband also thought it was sexy for her to have a penis.

people inexplicably found this transphobic. celebrating a woman having a penis or wanting a penis while still being a woman. was transphobic. and this being leveled against a loudly pro queer sex educator.

it made me realize how little people actually unpack about sex, kink, and gender, even ostensibly liberal people. i dont know if that was THE first time i realized it but it certainly crystalized the meaning for me.

[hitboxesonstockimages]

[hitboxesonstockimages]

Everyone keep doing this please

[hitboxesonstockimages]

Take a quick moment to scroll through the reblogs. Every version of his lyrics is both delightful and correct.

[hitboxesonstockimages]

Post your favorite tags on this I think these are mine