eggtrolls:

My kneejerk dislike of oi xenoi misusing the Greek alphabet for bullshit/aesthetic reasons has been challenged by one of my xeno friends getting a tattoo on her leg that just says τίποτα. yes it literally means ‘nothing’ [bullshit/aesthetics] BUT in daily conversation is used in response to someone thanking you for a small favour; it’s nothing, don’t worry about it

therootbeersprite:

sixstringxoxo:

fantasticsublimepeanut:

relaxxattack:

for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?

for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?

if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason

They are doing surveys that are really hard to find because their survey blog has reblogs disabled for some reason.

Log survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2V3MQTP

Short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS5LP3W

Blog: https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenthellsite

clickable links:

long survey

short survey

blog

I took both the long and short surveys. It only took a few minutes.

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muppethole:

can another billionaire die i’m tired of hearing about these two movies

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cryptidseabird:

tk-duveraun:

zoobus:

revolutionarygays:

@ my fellow adults who use tumblr a lot:

can you PLEASE put your age in your about/sidebar and make sure it’s accessible on mobile. imo if you’re an adult esp 20+ it’s a little weird that you wouldn’t have your age readily available on your blog. if you’re reading this now and you don’t have your age listed, please rectify that. i feel like teenagers get lured into talking to adults in fandom/lgbt spaces that they may not have intentionally sought out because they think they’re talking to other teenagers, and this can lead to a lot of other – much more insidious –problems

Can you guys step out of the tumblr “everyone over 20 is inherently predatory and creepy towards children” bubble for once and consider that encouraging people to give up their personal information for the imagined safety of the community is like…not safe?

this advice doesn’t even make sense for multiple reasons; if someone is intent on preying upon minors, all they have to do is follow your advice and lie about their age, being over 20 doesn’t mean you can’t be preyed on yourself, you should never be coerced into giving up your privacy on social media (seriously, did a fed write this?), and promoting the idea that turning 20 means your interactions with younger people should be viewed with suspicion is absolutely harmful, like OP do you have any common sense? At all?

“ignore your own privacy boundaries and discomfort and if you don’t idk 🤔sounds a lil sus 2 me, pedophile” will you guys stop larping as conservative politicians for one second please

think-of-the-children fearmongering is not the same thing as actually protecting minors

You’re talking about - much more insidious - problems while telling people if you don’t do what I tell you, you might be a threat to the safety of our community, like okay Dubya!

Let me tell you about the insidious things that happened when I was young in fandom spaces and older fans became my friends

1. I was taught real sex ed by a midwife, including a lot of pros and cons of various birth control

2. I learned you can just get anything printed into a book and having it in a physical book don’t legitimize something

3. I learned how to enjoy other cultures without making people from those cultures uncomfortable

4. I realized my guardians, while better than my past guardians, were still abusive and what I was experiencing was not healthy, even if distressingly common

5. I learned generosity without ulterior motives actually did exist

6. I learned I don’t have to abandon the things I enjoy as I get older.

7. I was taught ways to treat people differently in deference to their age while still treating them as peers.

(they treated me as an equal, but I was not included in any sexual discussions, for example)

8. I learned that friendships don’t have to be quid pro quo

All of these things super insidious and destructive to the conservative agenda.

Destroying the links between generations is part of how the powerful keep us from forming communities and bettering our lives. Don’t do the masters’ work for them.

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milf-ray-toro:

whats the longest (singular) flight youve been on?

never been on a plane

less than 1 hour

1+ hour

2+ hours

5+ hours

8+ hours

10+ hours

12+ hours

14+ hours

15+ hours

singular meaning without stopping for any reason

feel free to add what the flight was!

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autisticexpression:

Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I’m watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It’s like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn’t have people dressed like the founding fathers. That’s how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the “barbarians” didn’t dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

There really is an exception to everything, and it’s usually the French.

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that-halloween-gay:

lemonistas:

lesbiancolumbo:

good for her

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cardasia:

okay okay but the metaphor when christine simultaneously isn’t moving fast enough for spock at chess and isn’t moving fast enough for him in their relationship while jim is playing the game in his head from across the room

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mikkeneko:

applejee:

applejee:

100% my favourite part of the d&d movie was that holga had pit hair. i zoomed the fuck in on that. YES your female barbarian has armpit hair YES she does YES you fucking get it, yes this makes her a million times hotter. good fucking lord

visual for those who missed it or need something to inspire them to watch this movie

ALT

i saw this movie and never noticed but GOOD FOR HER   GOOD FOR HER   fuck the stigma that women HAVE to have shaved armpits ffs   she was a badass bitch   it was really refreshing to have a platonic m/f pair   where the woman was the muscle and the man either had to be saved by her or watch her do the fighting   maybe take down one guy while she took down 20   and she didn’t feel like ‘ooooh girlboss female empowerment for the win’   her strength felt natural it was nice   fucking loved her dynamic with chris pine’s character  - by @scarletbirbs

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ruffboijuliaburnsides:

rainbowsandchocolate:

flippityflapjack:

America_is_the_bad_place on TikTok

#stitch with @Léon iglesias #america #travel #americaisthebadplace #usa #fear #americanabroad #afearican #livingabroad #school #lockdowndri

TikTok

People in our neighborhood set off fireworks and firecrackers for literally no reason sometimes.

People have also been shot and killed within three blocks of our house.

So every time a firework goes off on a day that isn’t 4th of July or New Year’s, we get to play “was that a firework or a gun?” and the truth is we’re almost never 100% sure it was a firework.

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mrv3000:

kkglinka:

This is a Moving Forward PSA for everyone using AO3. I am witnessing the results of a culture clash and communication failure. Not a lack of communication, but a misunderstanding caused by changes in fandom culture.

Before fic tagging was common, fics weren’t tagged. You had a pairing, if applicable, an author’s note about genre or general content, and if they were feeling charitable, a vague content warning. There are even a few genres of fic where even vaguely tagging literally spoils the plot and impact (such as horror, psyche thriller, in which the likely content is implicit to the genre). As a result, there is a basic category tag that permits this, as a courtesy to “old-fashioned” writers.

“No Archive Warnings Apply” means the fic is PG13 at worst, probably fluff, totally safe.

“Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings” is the polar opposite. It’s a glaring Enter at Your Own Risk billboard. It means: a shitload of warnings apply but I ain’t telling because this story requires shock value. It’s very important to read the author’s notes for those fics because they might be using that older format from above.

But without the context of fandom culture that generated AO3, it’s understandably easy to conflate the two categories, given their similar wording.

“No Archive Warnings Apply” means there’s no

• graphic depictions of violence
• major character death
• underage
• rape/non-con

“Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings” =  HERE BE DRAGONS. (implies that one or more of the above exists, but the author doesn’t want to give anything away by tagging)

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fernacular:

fernacular:

Small psa:
Generational divides are fake, people can’t be sorted neatly into millennials, gen z, babyboomer, etc. Age is a gradient and people are individuals. Young kids are gonna do dumb stuff because they’re kids and the world is so fucking hard for little social mammal creatures with overgrown brains to figure out. Older little social mammal creatures are going to get disoriented and nervous as the way things worked when they were young are no longer the way things work. Everyone has been the former, everyone will be the latter. Be kind to each other.

Don’t eat detergent.

There are just as many queer older people as there are young ones, and a ton of young people trying to take away human rights from plenty of fucking people.

I promise you have more solidarity with an 80 year old drag queen who remembers when tvs were black and white than you do with kyle the college senior who knows all the same internet lingo you do and thinks trans women are cringe. Neither of them are outliers.

Older people arent the goddamn enemy its white supremicy and capitalism 

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hunter-rodrigez:

traycakes:

liberalsarecool:

Add this to list of shitty things silver-spoon knobheads get away with. #Hyperloop

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swarnpert:

swarnpert:

i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

ok because apparently i’m wrong about this, reblog with where you live and whether you got to eat lunch outside during school or not

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writers-hq:

WHY IS WRITING IS SO FUCKING HARD?

Ten types of fuckery that stop you from writing the thing:

1. Imposter syndrome

You think you’re not good enough or everyone else is better than you and you’re just winging it AKA ye olde imposter syndrome bullshit. Yeah nah you’re fine. No really, you’re exactly where you need to be right now, and you’ll keep getting better and better so long as you don’t stop. Chances are, if you’re filled with doubt about your abilities it means you’ve actually improved to the point where you can really start to understand what makes good writing. It means you know where you wanna end up and goshdarn it you’re gonna get there.

Read this: 4 tips to kick imposter syndrome in the face and also genitals

And also this: How to silence the inner critic

2. Fear of rejection and/or failure

Yeah, us too. It fuckin sucks. BUT. Not all rejections are equal. And rejection is a necessary part of the process. Sometimes it takes a rejection to realise that a story isn’t ready. Sometimes a rejection is entirely subjective and has ZERO reflection on the quality of your work. But shying away from the very idea of possibly maybe hypothetically getting rejected is only going to hold you back from even trying. And knowing why you got rejected and how to learn from it is one of the most valuable writing skills.

Read this: The different types of rejection (and how to deal with ‘em)

Then read this: How to cope with rejection

And also this: Writing lessons from Groundhog Day

3. Not enough planning / too much planning

Leaping into a new story with nothing but a glimmer of an idea is exciting as heck (and can sometimes be a great way to begin) but at some point you’re gonna need some sort of outline or plan to keep you on track. HOWEVER. Planning your story to within an inch of its life can also sometimes be a hindrance - leaving you stuck in the hypothetical stage of the process where your story doesn’t quite exist yet (and therefore avoiding the prospect of it sucking). The sweet spot is in the middle. Having just enough of a plan to know where tf you’re going, but enough freedom and flexibility to let the story lead the way…

Read this: Planning vs pantsing

Then read this: Five plotting techniques

And also this: The perils of overplanning

4. Your WIP just isn’t working

Sometimes things just fall flat. Sometimes you work on the same story for yeeeeears and then it just kinda… dies. Sometimes you have the best plans (see above) and the best intentions and things still don’t work out. Sometimes it’s just time to move on. And sometimes it’s not! Sometimes a story can be revived, fixed or changed. Sometimes you just need time. Sometimes YOU’RE the one that’s changed and this isn’t the story you need to be writing right now. Many variables. Muchly personal. Read the things below for more advice cos this is a big question:

Read this: What to do when your WIP isn’t working

And also this: Give it space - how to grow a story in your head

Or how about this? Editing 101

5. You keep deprioritising it

Ah the irony of writing being the thing you love/want to do most of all AND YET the thing you procrastinate over and avoid and shove to the very bottom of your to-do list all the freakin’ time. Maybe it’s the comodification of art destroying our freedom to create without pressure. Maybe it’s late capitalism sucking up all our available time and energy. Maybe it’s a lack of self-belief subconsciously telling us our 'little hobby’ doesn’t really matter. Maybe it’s maybelline. Whatever it is, you have the power to reclaim and revalue your writing. To say, “I’m a fucking writer, goddamnit!” and mean it. To ringfence your creative time so nothing and nobody gets to interrupt it. To do that thing you love.

Read this: Prioritise your writing

Read this: How to write in 30 second bursts

6. Shiny Thing Syndrome

You know that feeling when you’re just getting stuck into a writing project and then — SQUIRREL! — you get distracted by another, better, more shiny writing project? Or maybe you’re deep in the editing phase and your current WIP just isn’t feeling very shiny at all and pretty much ANYTHING seems more exciting? Or you simply can’t decide which of the many squirrelly writing ideas to actually start? You, fine writerperson, may be suffering from Shiny Thing Syndrome (STS). But fear not! There are a few ways to combat it, depending on the cause, and most of them involve embracing the squirrel-brain and injecting a bit of fun into your writing, like so:

Read this: Shiny thing syndrome - a writer’s malady

Aaaand read this: Get excited about your writing again

And also this: Write like a kid

7. Perfectionism/self-sabotage

Look. Writing is scary as shit. What if someone READS it? What if they don’t like it? What if they see into your soul and gain a deeper understanding of you through your words? Writing your truth, being vulnerable, smearing your heart juice all over the page? No thank you. But also, that’s where the good shit is, so actually yes please. Just make sure you smear responsibly. And rest assured, even the most 'successful’ and experienced writers ALSO feel like this sometimes, so you’re in good company. It’s just part of the art, bruh.

Read this: Why writing is scary (and why that’s a good thing)

Read this: Beginning a story - what stops us starting?

And also this: Get out of your own way

8. The dreaded blank page

Oh godddd the blank page. It should be an exciting palimseset of possibility but is somehow also the most terrifying thing known to humankind. You wanna write something but where to start? HOW to start? You type that first line and immediately delete it. You watch the cursor blinking at you—taunting you—until you just give up and shut your laptop again. It’s probably tied up with a bunch of things we’ve already covered so far: perfectionism, imposter syndrome, fear of failure, maybe a lack of planning or faith in your story or whatever. But it doesn’t have to be this way. A blank page IS exciting and full of possibility. We just have to get over ourselves and learn to embrace the unknown…

Read this: Don’t fear the blank page

And also this: The moaning method

9. Not enough time/energy/motivation/gnuuuughh

Dude, same x 1000. But you don’t have to get up at 5am, do hot yoga, drink a kale smoothie and write a thousand words before sunrise to be a Proper Writer. You don’t even have to write every day. But what you can do is hack your writing brain and figure out when, where, how, and why you write most effectively. Then tweak your schedule, your habits, and your attitude to ensure you’re making the most of your time. Productivity is a big ol’ lie but finding the secret to getting in your own personal writing zone is actual MAGIC.

Read this: Maximise your writing time

And also this: Get in the writing zone

And also unto this: The Writers’ HQ Guide to Productivity

10. You’re just fucken stuck

Got the writing morbs? In need of some literary sudafed? Stuck as a pig in a poke? Writing is a whole puzzle of a process—and to be honest that’s what makes it so fun and exciting and addictive, because your writing brain is hardwired to both create AND solve the wordy puzzles within your story. Sometimes the answer is time. Sometimes it’s a second opinion or a fresh eye. Sometimes a totally different approach or just a hefty kick up the bum. But whatever the problem, there IS a solution. You just gotta keep going and trust that you’ll find it…

Read this: Troubleshoot your writing - why are you stuck?

And also this: Break through the writing blockage

And also also this: Write yourself into a pit (and then dig your way out again)

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Alright, that’s it for today. Now go write, you flithy animals.

(And if we missed anything, stick a question in our ask box or check out the rest of our shit here)

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