Hey Demons it's ya boy

IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN

Hey btw idk who lied to some of yall but just to be totally clear you absolutely do not need to be pale or do pale makeup to be goth. You also don't need to be thin or young. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is just some bigot and they're not part of my subculture.

You don't need clear skin. You don't need to be white. You don't need to be pale. You don't need to fade your freckles. You don't need an hourglass figure. You don't need expensive clothing. You don't need to hide your wrinkles. You don't need to lose weight. You don't need to conform to some set of gender roles. You don't need to be able-bodied. You don't need to dress up all macabre and elaborate every single day and put tons of effort into your appearance or wear anything that causes you discomfort.

You don't need to act a certain way, you don't need to look a certain way.

Just listen to the music and follow your heart from there and you're in the club, it really is that simple.

one of my favorite poem titles 

it’s not the point of this poem to make you think of rivers behind houses, but that’s what it does to me. the creeks and culverts and wide muddy shallow things with gravel banks or tall grasses on either sides. it makes me think of being thirteen instead of thirty-three, and all the rivers I leapt into, waded into, fell into out of canoes, things I wouldn’t allow myself to do now, on a whim, if my backyard had a river. and my father, sixty-three, covered in drywall dust from finishing the walls of the half-farmhouse half-shack my parents bought, jumping into the pond to rinse off instead of taking a shower.

babe wake up a new disaster in applied libertarianism just dropped

it is already KNOWN that cryptobros are goons and always up to clownery but this is truly the FUNNIEST example i’ve seen in a long time

please take the time to at least skim the story 3 guys buying a yacht, planning to make it into a floating town where you can only spend cryptocurrency while in the freedom of the ocean, immediately discover that maritime laws exist, end up blowing all their money to be three guys and a crew of 40 on an empty ship they are unable to sell for scrap, one guy spends christmas alone on a waterslide…….. it’s incredible

like i do not feel remotely bad for them, literally any amount of research would have revealed their plan as unfeasible, they CHOSE to waste their money like this

The rooms:

Did not allow pets over 20lbs and would not allow barking for over 10 minutes (or else the pet couldn’t live on the boat anymore)

Only had a mini fridge with no microwave (the only food on the ship would be from a restaurant)

Cost $560/month for a small, windowless interior room

And the “seastead” was supposed to be in the shape of the Bitcoin sign

absolutely hysterical that a bunch of libertarians thought a cruise ship was the way to escape regulation

Okay, so Friedman started yammering on about libertarian seatopias in 2010, three years after Bioshock. You cannot convince me this is a coincidence.

Cryptocoin, cruise ships, and libertarians are like three things that are all constantly dangling by a single frayed thread over total disaster and they put all three together.

@fugicross​ I feel you would enjoy this.

The notes of this post are full of references to a town overrun with bears and I NEED someone to fill me in on that

I absolutely cried laughing reading about this. I have the book on order.

Yeah I’d get on a boat run by this guy

Oh my. Don’t get me wrong, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is a highly entertaining cautionary tale, but this…. is next level. This is like buying a condo at Fyre Fest, but dumber.

Understand that you were not allowed a microwave, but you were allowed to set up a cryptomining rig.

Every time I go downstairs to the laundry room, this pigeon tries to seduce me.

“we have incompatible genitals” is now my favorite excuse.

Reblog if you have incompatible genitals

there was a time in my life where I painstakingly trained myself out of using "likes" and "ums" for public speaking, and then when I started learning about like basic linguistics and shit I realized that fillers are completely normal and useful parts of language and now I use them even in text all the time. I feel like if anyone suggested that I should remove them from my speech at this point I would genuinely just be like "alright well you're not ready to engage with the topic I'm discussing yet."

until you stop needing communication & language to be just one specific way for you to view it as skillful, authoritative, persuasive, educated, etc. then you aren't prepared to engage in deeper conversations about language. if you can't handle "likes" and "y'know?"s then you certainly won't be able to handle the ways in which multilingual speakers can use one language's grammar while speaking in another, you won't be able to handle AAC, you won't be able to handle discussions with people with verbal tics or stutters... like you're not going to be able to engage with a lot of language and therefore your understanding of language is not going to be enough, currently, to really get into studying the ways in which power interacts with language or analyzing creative writing on a granular level of phrasing, word choice, punctuation, spacing

Sometimes if I get the exact right/wrong amount of drunk ill cry a little bit because i will never hear a parasaurolophus call.

These sounds where based on digital models, a friend of mine instead build physical models of Parasaurolophus nasal passages but also Euoplocephalus. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to bring him to Tumblr yet.

AI art and humanity

Compilation of people holding things that shouldn't be held, please add more if you have any

@chai-cow-ski

@is-the-snake-video-cute looks like a coral snake (blunt nose) but double checking- is it ?

That's indeed a coral snake, good ID!!

This thread is full of the luckiest people on the planet, I think. Also goes to show just how calm even venomous snakes are - coral snakes rarely bite unless you're actively harassing them - and how important it is to make sure your ID as non-venomous is 1000% certain before picking up any wild snake.

Was in the emergency room for a total of maybe twelve hours yesterday (I'm okay) and Halloween candles weren't part of the Bath & Body Works candle sale (I swear these are related), so in that twelve hour span, my partner took it upon themself to go into the Bath & Body Works and go, "My BOYFRIEND is in the HOSPITAL and he NEEDS a Three-Wick Candle in the scent MOONLIT GRAVEYARD or he will PASS AWAY," and for some reason they were like, "Absolutely. We will break the sacred rules of Bath and of Body for you and your ailing man friend."

A high speed rail train overtaking the green-skinned train in Guigang, Guangxi province.

tshirt that says BAD AT BEING A WOMAN on the front WORSE AT BEING A MAN on the back worn with shorts that say NEVERTHELESS STILL KICKING

It's legit. Section 11.G "Opt out" explains how.

I just did this, and Etsy doesn’t actually tell you anywhere on the site how to find your username (it’s randomly generated), which you need to opt out, so here’s how to do that:

https://help.etsy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015653248-Your-Username the main point is “The URL of your profile page contains your username. It looks like this: etsy.com/people/[your username]”

Cannot stress enough that if you currently have an Etsy account, the only way to opt out of this EVER is to opt out before the deadline, which is 30 days after this policy was enacted. That deadline is August 23rd. New users are beholden to knowing this policy and must opt out within 30 days of opening an account.

Boosting this again because tomorrow is the last day! I'm not sure what at what time tomorrow, it might not be up until midnight wherever you live

jot that down

WRITERS

If you see this, spoil your WIP's biggest plot twist using ONLY ONE WORD

Here's mine!

Dying

Ancestor

Fairy

Variant

Connections

Guilty

Masquerade

Covenant

Missing

Victim

Justifiable homicide

Noncompliant

Salt.

thought of a truly funny concept for this horror project. it's probably not original, someone else HAD to have tried this before but like...y'all know how poc usually say shit like "white people all look the same".

what if. and hear me out. in a horror story, you can't actually tell if your neighbor is really Kyle, or just some white guy spending the night. For several nights. and then you see another guy who looks like Kyle and acts like Kyle but he can't be Kyle because something is off about him. Like maybe he had a mole on his left ear one day and he didn't the next.

What if you were so sure that your coworker Evelyn was not 5 foot even, she was at least a few inches taller than that. She doesn't smile or laugh the same way but the face seems right...enough. and she says she's Evelyn so you just go with it.

and i know this is a concept more prominently featured in like, say TMA with the Not-Them, but i'm saying what if in a horror story, this is the case with every white person. and they do keep changing.

the face is mostly there, the hair might be a slight shade different (but maybe they had a bad dye job, who knows), there are scars and moles that come and goes, they gain height and lose it (but ever so slowly like one day you ask them to reach the middle shelf and one day they just can't).

this is so fucking funny. imagine going "man all white ppl look the same" and suddenly you're in The Office: Horrors Edition, being gaslighted about who everyone says they are. did you ever really know Kyle? are you positive the first Evelyn you met was really Evelyn? etc and so forth

This reminds me of a short story on Nightlight Pod where this Black man was saying he was a famous Black man and the white people just kept believing him 😂

YOOOO WHAT STORY WAS THAT

I was asleep for a minute, but here it is:

THANK U

I really genuinely like this site and it's original layout and premise. I like custom themes. I like mobile themes. I like how posting works. I like how tag search works. I like sending and receiving asks. I like how you can make your blog whatever the hell you want. I like this fucking platform and for some reason staff is vigorously sawing their limbs off like they have to but they're in the middle of a grocery store and everyone there is going "why the hell are you doing that?" and staff cries "you all want me to"

zekrommy sketches :)

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straight guys are absurd. i once asked one if they’d kiss a boy for $50,000 and they said no. at that point it’s not even gay it’s just the best option

she’s a lesbian girl now if anyone wanted an update.

NINE YEARS?