Just a bunch of Useful websites - Updated for 2023

Removed/checked all links to make sure everything is working (03/03/23). Hope they help!

Sejda - Free online PDF editor.

Supercook - Have ingredients but no idea what to make? Put them in here and it’ll give you recipe ideas.

Still Tasty - Trying the above but unsure about whether that sauce in the fridge is still edible? Check here first.

Archive.ph - Paywall bypass. Like 12ft below but appears to work far better and across more sites in my testing. I’d recommend trying this one first as I had more success with it.

12ft – Hate paywalls? Try this site out.

Where Is This - Want to know where a picture was taken, this site can help.

TOS/DR - Terms of service, didn’t read. Gives you a summary of terms of service plus gives each site a privacy rating.

OneLook - Reverse dictionary for when you know the description of the word but can’t for the life of you remember the actual word.

My Abandonware - Brilliant site for free, legal games. Has games from 1978 up to present day across pc and console. You’ll be surprised by some of the games on there, some absolute gems.

Project Gutenberg – Always ends up on these type of lists and for very good reason. All works that are copyright free in one place.

Ninite – New PC? Install all of your programs in one go with no bloat or unnecessary crap.

PatchMyPC - Alternative to ninite with over 300 app options to keep upto date. Free for home users.

Unchecky – Tired of software trying to install additional unwanted programs? This will stop it completely by unchecking the necessary boxes when you install.

Sci-Hub – Research papers galore! Check here before shelling out money. And if it’s not here, try the next link in our list.

LibGen – Lots of free PDFs relate primarily to the sciences.

Zotero – A free and easy to use program to collect, organize, cite and share research.

Car Complaints – Buying a used car? Check out what other owners of the same model have to say about it first.

CamelCamelCamel – Check the historical prices of items on Amazon and set alerts for when prices drop.

Have I Been Pawned – Still the king when it comes to checking if your online accounts have been released in a data breach. Also able to sign up for email alerts if you’ve ever a victim of a breach.

I Have No TV - A collection of documentaries for you to while away the time. Completely free.

Radio Garden – Think Google Earth but wherever you zoom, you get the radio station of that place.

Just The Recipe – Paste in the url and get just the recipe as a result. No life story or adverts.

Tineye – An Amazing reverse image search tool.

My 90s TV – Simulates 90’s TV using YouTube videos. Also has My80sTV, My70sTV, My60sTV and for the younger ones out there, My00sTV. Lose yourself in nostalgia.

Foto Forensics – Free image analysis tools.

Old Games Download – A repository of games from the 90’s and early 2000’s. Get your fix of nostalgia here.

Online OCR – Convert pictures of text into actual text and output it in the format you need.

Remove Background – An amazingly quick and accurate way to remove backgrounds from your pictures.

Twoseven – Allows you to sync videos from providers such as Netflix, Youtube, Disney+ etc and watch them with your friends. Ad free and also has the ability to do real time video and text chat.

Terms of Service, Didn’t Read – Get a quick summary of Terms of service plus a privacy rating.

Coolors – Struggling to get a good combination of colors? This site will generate color palettes for you.

This To That – Need to glue two things together? This’ll help.

Photopea – A free online alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Does everything in your browser.

BitWarden – Free open source password manager.

Just Beam It - Peer to peer file transfer. Drop the file in on one end, click create link and send to whoever. Leave your pc on that page while they download. Because of how it works there are no file limits. It’s genuinely amazing. Best file transfer system I have ever used.

Atlas Obscura – Travelling to a new place? Find out the hidden treasures you should go to with Atlas Obscura.

ID Ransomware – Ever get ransomware on your computer? Use this to see if the virus infecting your pc has been cracked yet or not. Potentially saving you money. You can also sign up for email notifications if your particular problem hasn’t been cracked yet.

Way Back Machine – The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and loads more.

Rome2Rio – Directions from anywhere to anywhere by bus, train, plane, car and ferry.

Splitter – Seperate different audio tracks audio. Allowing you to split out music from the words for example.

myNoise – Gives you beautiful noises to match your mood. Increase your productivity, calm down and need help sleeping? All here for you.

DeepL – Best language translation tool on the web.

Forvo – Alternatively, if you need to hear a local speaking a word, this is the site for you.

For even more useful sites, there is an expanded list that can be found here.

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

voidethered:

wait, does that mean?

oh boy…….

Luckily, this nonsense doesn’t work on girls.

Observe…

IT’S GOTTEN BETTER!

This post is immaculate

It can’t be true.

And it can’t possibly work on motorcycle helmets.

I must test it.

Nothing happening so far…

HOLY SHIT IT WORKS

What in the world?

Oh why not? This should be interesting.

Here we go!

Were all mad here in Underland!

What the hell! Never Again!

… Actually …

One more time.

Alright, I gotta try this!

Can’t be that bad!

….

…oh my god…

ask-gmodsfmrocks:

This just gets better and better

This is one of my favourite things to look at

holy shit this stuff is back

The Gravity Falls one though

i wonder if it works for flower crowns?

here goes nothin-

w HAT THE

DID I JUST-

WHAT THE FUCK

Okay Clearly something is up.

Hmm… I wonder

I’m sure nothing could possibly…

HOLY SHIT

IT GOT BETTER

I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING SO LONG FOR THIS POST OH MY GOD!!!

I wonder what happens when you wear 8 of these at once…

Never not reblog

IT’S ON MY DASH. ACTUALLY ON MY DASH.

Oh my God, there are so many new ones

It’s like looking at an influential piece from an art period…

It’s like looking at

an influential piece from

an art period…

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

stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

Reblog if you would burn down the statue of liberty to save a life

Here’s the thing, though. If you asked a conservative “Would you let the statue of liberty burn to save one life?” they’d probably scoff and say no, it’s a national landmark, a treasure, a piece of too much historical importance to let it be destroyed for the sake of one measly life. 

But if you asked, “Would you let the statue of liberty burn in order to save your child? your spouse? someone you loved a great deal?” the tune abruptly changes. At the very least, there’s a hesitation. Even if they deny it, I’m willing to bet that gun to their head, the answer would be “yes.”  

The basic problem here is that people have a hard time seeing outside their own sphere of influence, and empathizing beyond the few people who are right in front of them. You’ve got your immediate family, whom you love; your friends, your acquaintances, maybe to a certain degree the people who share a status with you (your religion, your race, etc.)–but beyond that? People aren’t real. They’re theoretical. 

But a national monument? That’s real. It stands for something. The value of a non-realized anonymous life that exists completely outside your sphere of influence is clearly worth less than something that represents freedom and prosperity to a whole nation, right?

People who think like this lack the compassion to realize that everyone is in someone’s immediate sphere of influence–that everyone is someone’s lover, or brother, or parent. Everyone means the world to someone. And it’s the absolute height of selfishness to assume that their lives don’t have value just because they don’t mean the world to you. 

P.S. I would let the statue of liberty burn to save a pigeon. 

also, there is an extreme difference between what things or principles *i* personally am willing to die for, and what i would hazard others to die for. and this is a distinction i don’t think the conservative hard-right likes to face.

an example: so, as the nazis began war against france, the staff of the louvre began crating up and shipping out the artworks. it was vital to them (for many reasons) that the nazis not get their hands on the collections, and hitler’s desire for them was known, so they dispersed the objects to the four winds; one of the curators personally traveled with la gioconda, mona lisa herself, in an unmarked crate, moving at least five times from location to location to avoid detection.

they even removed and hid the nike of samothrace, “winged victory,” which is both delicate, having been pieced back together from fragments, and incredibly heavy, weighing over three metric tons.

the curators who hid these artworks risked death to ensure that they wouldn’t fall into nazi hands. and yes, they are just paintings, just statues. but when i think about the idea of hitler capturing and standing smugly beside the nike of samothrace, a statue widely beloved as a symbol of liberty, i completely understand why someone would risk their life to prevent that. if my life was all that stood between a fascist dictator and a masterpiece that inspired millions, i would be willing to risk it. my belief in the power and necessity of art would demand i do so.

if, however, a nazi held a gun to some kid’s head (any kid!) and asked me which crate the mona lisa was in, they could have it in a heartbeat. no problem! i wouldn’t even have to think about it. being willing to risk my own life on principle doesn’t mean i’m willing to see others endangered for those same principles.

and that is exactly where the conservative hard-right falls right the fuck down. they are, typically, entirely willing to watch others suffer for their own principles. they are perfectly okay with seeing children in cages because of their supposed belief in law and order. they are perfectly willing to let women die from pregnancy complications because of their anti-abortion beliefs. they are alright with poverty and disease on general principle because they hold the free-market sacrosanct. and i guess from their own example they would save the statue of liberty and let human beings burn instead.

but speaking as a leftist (i’m more comfortable with socialist tbh), my principles are not abstract things that i hold aside from life, apart or above my place as a human being in a society. my beliefs arise from being a person amidst people. i don’t love art for art’s sake alone, actually! i don’t love objects because they are objects: i love them because they are artifacts of our humanity, because they communicate and connect us, because they embody love and curiosity and fear and feeling. i love art because i love people. i want universal health care because i want to see people universally cared for. i want universal basic income because people’s safety and dignity should not be determined by their economic productivity to an employer. i am anti-war and pro-choice for the same reason: i value people’s lives but also their autonomy and right to self-determination. my beliefs are not abstractions. i could never value a type of economic system that i saw hurting people, no matter how much “growth” it produced. i could never love “law and order” more than i love a child, any child, i saw trapped in a cage.

would i be willing to risk death, trying to save the statue of liberty? probably, yes. but there is no culture without people, and therefore i also believe there are no cultural treasures worth more than other people’s lives. and as far as i’m concerned the same goes for laws, or markets, or borders.

Well said!

This is an excellent ethical discussion.

The first time I came across this post, randomslasher’s addition was life changing for me. I suddenly understood where the right was coming from, and I had never been angrier.

This is also why so many people on the right fail to see the hypocrisy of trying to make abortion illegal when they themselves have had abortions. They can tally up their own life circumstances and conclude that it would be difficult or impossible to continue a pregnancy, but they’re completely mystified by the idea that women they don’t know are also human beings with complicated lives and limited spoon allocation.

This is also why they think “get a job” is useful advice. In their heads they honestly do not understand why the NPCs who make up the majority of the human race can’t just flip a switch from “no job” to “job.” When they say “get a job” they’re filing a glitch report with God and they honestly think that’s all it takes.

This is also why they tend to view demographics as individuals. They think that every single Muslim is just a different avatar for the same bit of programming.

Borrowed observation from @innuendostudios​ here, but: there’s also a fundamental difference in how progressives view social problems versus how conservatives view them. That is, progressives view them as problems to be solved, whereas conservatives do not believe you can solve anything.

Conservatives view social issues as universal constants that fundamentally are unable to be changed, like the weather. You can try to alter your own behavior to protect yourself (you can carry an umbrella), and you can commiserate about how bad the weather is, but you can’t stop it from raining. This is why conservatives blame victims of rape for dressing immodestly or for drinking or for going out at night: to them, those things are like going out without an umbrella when you know it’s going to rain. 

“But then why do conservatives try to stop things they dislike by making them illegal, like drug use or immigration or abortion?” And the answer is: they’re not. They know perfectly well that those things will continue. No amount of studies showing that their methods are ineffective will matter to them because effectiveness is not the point. The point is to punish people for doing bad things, because punishing people is how you show your disapproval of their actions; if you don’t punish them, then you’re condoning their behavior. 

This is why they will never support rehabilitative prisons, even though they reduce crime. This is why they will never support free birth control for everyone, even though that would reduce abortions. This is why they will never support just giving homeless people houses, even though it’s proven to be cheaper and more effective at stopping homelessness than halfway houses and shelters. It’s not about stopping evil, because you can’t; it’s about saying definitively what is Bad and what is Good, and we as a society do that by punishing the people we’ve decided are bad. 

This is why the conservative response to “holy fuck, they’re putting children in cages!” is typically something along the lines of “it’s their parents’ fault for trying to come here illegally; if they didn’t want to have their kids taken away, they shouldn’t have committed a crime.” It doesn’t matter that entering the US unlawfully is a misdemeanor and child kidnapping isn’t typically a criminal sentence. It does not matter that this has absolutely zero effect on people unlawfully entering the US. The point is that conservatives have decided that entering unlawfully is Bad, anything that is not punishing undocumented immigrants – due process of asylum and removal defense claims, for example – is supporting Badness, and kidnapping children is an appropriate punishment for being Bad.

#ivan karamazov#enters the chat (@the-world-lit-or-unlit)

This is really long but please read it

Source

Want more info? Here ya go: 

This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science 

ALSO:

Sex redefined

“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”

More on anti-trans arguments as bad science

As a biologist I am reblogging this so hard.

Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.

THANK YOU!!!

I’m studying medicine. During our course on embryology we talked about all the different ways “biological sex” can develop, and discussed the six major known phenotypes of sex in humans. And these are just the basics they teach second year medicine students. I can’t imagine how much more nuanced it gets when you get to specialised information. This is important.

One of the first things they teach us in medicine is that nothing in medicine is 100%. Humanity is so diverse that nothing, from sex to painkillers to which artery supplies what part of the body, none of it is 100%. I’ve seen pancreases with extra lobes, arteries that exist in less than one percent of people, and so many variations of the human body that I couldn’t possibly name them all.

Nothing is 100%. Nothing is all or nothing. So why would sex be?

I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

hnn I WANT IT SO BAD

on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!

IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS

now we enter the testing phase

yup. looks good.

Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?

OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement

*roar sound effect*

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

There’s more!

I love.

I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!

(just fine)

Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures

OP and Wexter can break all my toes and I would still send a thank you card

Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)

so it’s come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think that’s very cash money of her.

we’re coming to you LIVE More than two hundred thousand notes later from HALLOWEEN 2020, where WEXTER continues to be absolutely DINO-RIFFIC!

… at least for as long as it takes to chew the costume off.

people have been asking about Wexter again in the summer of 2021! she’s fine, but she needs to stop napping in the laundry basket.

WEXTER NO

This is quite possible the purest tumblr thread I’ve ever stumbled across and I adore it so much!

I’LL GO FIRST

Saving this for later para purposes

You people are saints

doing the lord’s work

we thank you for your great work

Oh yeah I’m definitely using these

Signal boosting for my fellow pannies out there❤️❤️

oh man, the fake flag is so fucking ugly, muted colors just like the boring personality of whoever created it

ok not to be That Person but please, please rb. its incredibly important for us pan folk that our flag doesnt get erased

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

why on earth doesn’t this have more notes

I actually had to do this once. She lived.

if you scroll past this on your dash you are absolutely heartless.

Reblog this!! This can save somebody’s life!

reblog.

help.

do not scroll down.

I SWEAR TO GOD IF ANYONE SCROLLS PAST THIS WITHOUT REBLOGGING I WILL LITTERALLY FIND THEM AND GIVE THEM A LECTURE

may I just update this?

see the little thing that says help?

Don’t ever scroll past this post. FUCKING NEVER SCROLL PAST!!!

Anyone know where it is on mobile ???

You report the user, choose “something else”, scroll down and choose “suicide or self harm”

DO NOT SCROLL DOWN

REBLOG TO LITERALLY SAVE A LIVE

Reblog this now

THIS 👏 DOES 👏 NOT 👏 WORK 👏

I AM SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE. THIS TAKES THE POST DOWN AND DOES NOTHING ELSE.

!!!THIS DOES NOT SAVE LIVES!!!

PLEASE STOP SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION

Im not sure who to believe but i guess maybe report it anyway??? I still dont want to take any chances. :/

THIS!

Reblogging this too for folks with anxiety like myself who feel bad when they say they’re too busy but they don’t have every second accounted for doing something so they feel almost like they’re lying. Self-care goes on your schedule too, lovelies.

and also how much time a person is able to give to others varies from person to person and from one time in your life to another! do as much as feels okay for YOU!

Children/teens aren’t allowed to be sad or in a bad mood because they can get yelled at for it and ridiculed and told to ‘change your attitude or I will for you’, while adults who are sad or in a bad mood, are allowed to yell at and take their frustration out on the kids. Adult privilege huh?

And when the adult is in a bad mood, it’s the kids job to step on eggshells in order to keep them from not exploding, and when they do, it’s on them.

And when the child is in the bad mood, it’s their job to try to hide it, and when they break apart trying to, it’s on them.

What extra sucks about this is that adults literally have more experience, context, perspective, and brain development to help them manage emotions. Adults who do this are shit. We are the adults, we should not be expecting kids who are still developing and learning about the world and trying to figure out their place in it to be the ones who are emotionally mature. 

People who treat adulthood like a power trip are honestly shit and should not have authority over kids. 

I’m and adult myself and my mam STILL does this this with me 

wow! congrats, yall!

We’re just that cool. Also Ima hate myself for saying this later since im gender fluid and like when im cis again ima be like, why’d I post that im not trans?!?!?!? GOD I HATE YOU GENDER DISOPHORIA YOU BITCH

I find ugly things quite enjoyable we should have more of them

reblog with something ugly and i’ll compliment it like i’m a grandma trying to keep the peace at a family reunion

Reblog if you don’t have a tumblr 

Nope

I’ve never had a tumblr in my entire existence

Tumblr? Is that a sauce?

I think it’s for rocks.

Nope

No Tumblrs here officer

Guys your being idiots, tumblr is a toothbrush company

Fucking idoits. Tumblr is a brand of toilet paper.

You Idiot’s it’s a soap, duh

bruh tumblr is a brainchild of tupperware

SON, IT’S SHAMPOO-

memeception

WE’VE HIT TERMINAL MEME

@caesarianconfection

I’ve said “I hate this” so many times on this website, and never actually meant it, because “I hate this” is just shorthand for ‘this is an example of a meme given a twist I wasn’t expecting with intent to surprise’. Which is, in of itself, a meme on this site. God damn it.

But this… This is something else.

The rapidity of a meme’s introduction to its zenith to its decline is so rapid that in ten years, you’ll need a damn twenty-page manual to explain this. It’ll be as unfunny and hard to explain as jokes in Shakespeare plays, except even more inexplicable because fuck, at least Shakespeare’s jokes are usually about anal or fucking your mother, good wholesome sex jokes we can all get behind.

For the love of fuck, how do you explain loss.jpg? How do you explain gun?

….I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YMCA REFERENCE

it is a YMCA reference - that’s one of the 6 memes being represented here

ok let me see if i can break this down easily. YMCA is the easiest place to start - the song itself has become a meme over time with people changing the lyrics to reference other pop cultural events. so YMCA is meme one (1)

this first lyric replacement (”take the breadsticks and run”) is a reference to the tumblr meme ‘stuffing breadsticks into my purse’. i think everyone remembers that one so i wont bother to explain it. that’s meme two (2)

“man door hand hook car door” is a meme of its own, a creepypasta from i dont remember when. it was a terrible stupid retelling of the generic ‘stuck in a car while hook handed man tries to kill us’ story so the stupid title caught on for memorability. that in and of itself is meme three (3)

‘gun’ is… yeah i dont know how to explain gun. long story short you add gun to the end of a phrase instead of what you expect the last word to be. its shock funny. its everywhere but its popular to add to “man door hand hook car door” for.. some reason? gun is meme four (4)

and the thing is, this four meme combo is something thats gone around before. meme combos are, itself, a meme. which means taking this meme combo and mixing in another meme actually becomes meme five (5)

which leaves us at loss.jpg. loss.jpg was a terrible bad comic supposed to be about some tragic event, but it was presented so poorly literally no one takes it seriously, and for some reason recreating the four-panel setup has become popular. so thats meme six (6)

(but i need to add that this is the greatest version of loss.jpg i think i’ve ever seen. the initial ‘young man’ lines up with the guy bursting through the door, and the shock meme ‘gun’ matches the shock scene of the woman in the hospital and idk if OP even thought about that but it makes this just so much better)

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but @pagesofkenna‘s comprehensive meme-by-meme annotation is a thing of beauty and should be shared.

average tumblr post contains one meme, this post, which contains six, is an outlier and should not be counted

it might also just be a coincidence due to loss.jpg’s format but the whole white minimalist four-panel setup is also suspiciously reminiscent of those early 2000’s rage comics

I was getting a political compass vibe too

tag urself im man door hand hook car gun

This works better than I thought it would.

This was in my senior project

I’m not sorry.

EIGHT MEME COMBO

FATALITY

We have officially created a new language 

I just had to do it to em

THIS FUCKING THREAD I’M GONNA CRY

I LOST IT AND MAN DOOR HAND HOOK CAR GUN AND DIDN’T EXPECT MORE I’M SOBBING

M E M E T E N

OwO?

You know I had to

I hope you know this is the most cursed addition to my post, and I love it

THIRTEEN!?

SOMEONE EDIT THIS FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTO SAYING “this one does not spark joy” TO THIS VERSION SAYING “this one sparks joy”

well i added my contribution : )

why—

IM SCREAMING

This is the most elaborate meme I have ever seen and damn am I concerned by how it makes sense.

“You’re in your 30s, but you still understand all this meme stuff?” “Oh yeah, sure.” “Can you explain it to me?” “I absolutely fucking cannot.”

One does not simply explain this

Edit:

Another freaking layer!!!

16 motherfucking layers

In the future someone’s going to ask me to explain this and I’m going to be at a loss.jpg for words

I’m not reblogging this because I want to. I’m reblogging this because sometimes you’re a witness to history whether you want to be or not, and you have to embrace that. 

GUYS STOP!! IF WE CONTINUE ON THIS ROAD, THE MEME WILL BECOME TOO POWERFUL!

No keep going, let’s see if we can brake tumblr. If we do let’s use it to brake fb and twitter

You’re chaotic neutral I love it

What he said

Struck by inspiriation twice lads

My humble contribution

I love going through the notes of this and seeing my 16 layer version and 24 layer version circulating.

ive added my end of the chaos

Beautiful

last time I saw this it was still at only 16 levels

now it has 21

This makes me cry of pain and sadness…

So obviously I have to contribute

22 oh my god

im screaming

I absolutely hate this, so I had to contribute.

GYUS THERES MRORE

MY CONTRIBUTION

Every time a post on queerplatonic relationships makes its way around tumblr, the comments are inevitably filled with a flood of “IT’S CALLED FRIENDSHIP” or “WHY DO YOU NEED A WORD FOR THIS.”

Do you honestly think society regards friendship as an acceptable substitute for romance and marriage?  The thing is, most aros would LOVE if it could just be called friendship.

Because that would mean a world where:

Until the day that those are true, friendship is unfortunately not an accurate word to convey the types of relationships we’re talking about. 

The Handling of Ash

Room 1-A was all but empty, desks unattended, cubbies cleared out, silent except for the bump and shuffle of the two students left behind on clean-up duty. Deku dumped the last bit of paper scrap swept from the floor into the trash. He knotted the top of the bag and hoisted it. He offered one glance over his shoulder, momentarily catching eyes with Bakugou who leaned against the open window, dusty erasers in hand.

“I’m taking the trash out. Don’t lock the door behind me,” Deku said, and he freed one hand from the trashbag to reach the doorknob.

“Wait.”

Deku paused. He heard footsteps approach from behind him, and he turned just in time to see Bakugou, inches from his face, snap his hand up and ignite his palm. It burst, fiery hot, and the heat breezed over Deku. Deku shut his eyes on reflex, but only in response to the heat. He didn’t flinch, and he certainly didn’t cower.

“What, Kacchan?”

Bakugou lowered his hand in increments, annoyed, perplexed. His lip twitched, and a scowl overtook his face. “That. Why didn’t you flinch?”

“Hmm?” Deku glanced to Bakugou’s hand, lowered and still smoldering. “Well I would have blocked you if you actually tried to attack me.”

“No! I mean why aren’t you afraid of me?” Bakugou leaned back. He glanced around the classroom, eyes sharp and bothered. “It’s pissing me off.”

“You did this all the time when we had clean-up duty in middle school. Maybe I’m used to it.”

“Bullshit.” Bakugou stalked around Deku, hands in his pocket, blocking Deku’s path. “You used to flinch every time. Now you’ve stopped doing it. It’s been pissing me off for months. What’s different, huh? Do you think I’m weaker than I was in middle school? Because I’m not. I’m stronger. I could crush you into a sniveling pile of ashes.” Bakugou removed his hand from his pocket. He flexed his fingers, inches from Deku’s face. “I might even feel like proving it, just to wipe that bored look off your face.”

Deku set the trashbag down. He turned away from Bakugou, moving toward the window and retrieving the erasers Bakugou had left on the sill. Deku held them out the window and slammed them together twice, their dust trailing down to the stories below.

“Are you ignoring me?” Bakugou asked through clenched teeth.

“Sort of. If we fight again then Aizawa-sensei is going to come up with a real punishment this time. I don’t want to miss anymore class because of you, so let’s just drop this, okay? I’ll do the erasers if you take the trash down.”

“No. No, no, no,” Bakugou answered. He lifted the trashbag, held it from beneath in his palm, and he slammed his other hand down on top. The bag burst into flame, hot a violent and reduced to ashes in a single moment. The air spiked hot, acrid and dense and choking with the smell of burnt plastic and smoke. The charred black remains trailed through Bakugou’s fingers as he moved toward Deku. “You don’t order me around. Stop acting like you’re not afraid! You are! I know you are!”

Deku set the erasers down. He rubbed his eyes, just a bit black beneath with exhaustion. He’d been up most of the night studying. “You’re acting a lot like your middle school self right now, Kacchan. Does being on clean-up duty with me again bring you that far back?”

“Far…? No! There’s no ‘selves’, Deku! I’m me, and you’re you! And you’re supposed to be afraid of me!” Bakugou clenched his fists, and his nerve faltered. “Why aren’t you afraid of me?!”

“You really want to know?” Deku leaned against the window sill, one hand set to his chin. He looked to the side, thinking. “Well, it’s not really you who’s changed, if that makes you feel better. It’s me. I think I just finally realized you’re not someone I need to be afraid of.”

“You’re wrong,” Bakugou answered, tense. “I’m still better than you. I’m still stronger. I can still destroy you. I haven’t gotten weaker. Even with your quirk you’re no match for me, I’ve proven that!”

“Sure, I guess, you’re still stronger than me.” Deku grabbed the erasers and pushed off the window sill. He moved to the chalk board, laying them back in the tray. “But you’re not better than me, Kacchan. That’s what’s changed. I’ve finally realized you’re not better.”

“I beat you! In our fight I beat you!”

“Yeah, but I’m not just talking about strength. Let me see if I can explain.” Deku opened the closet, pulled the broom and dustpan back out. He set to work on the pile of ashes by Bakugou’s feet, and Bakugou stepped to the side. “Growing up, you spent so much time doing everything you could to feel like you were better than us. Better than me especially. I really believed that for the longest time. And I still believe you’re incredible…but not better. And not the best.”

Bakugou remained silent this time, face a mask of stone. Deku pulled another trashbag from the closet to empty the ashes into.

“Kacchan, you tried so hard to drill it into my head that I didn’t deserve all the things I wanted to accomplish. It got to me. I started believing I wasn’t actually accomplishing anything. I got into UA because I was lucky, because All Might helped me. I kept telling myself that, that it was just because of luck and because of other people’s help that I could do anything. Not like you, who could do everything on your own. But you know what, Kacchan? I realized something. I think we both owe a lot to luck. Maybe you were just lucky to be born with that quirk.”

Bakugou’s lip twitched again, revealing teeth this time, but he still did not speak.

“You were born with that quirk. I wasn’t born with one. You were lucky, and I wasn’t. There’s no reason you should have had that quirk over me, even though you spent so long convincing me of that. Quirks are luck. Hard work isn’t.” Deku swept up the last of the ash, clearing the floor of everything but the black coating the rim of Bakugou’s shoes. “I’m not saying you don’t work hard. You do. But you don’t work the hardest.” Deku cinched the tie on the new trashbag. “I do.”

“So what?” Bakugou answered, tense. “You work harder and I’m still stronger than you. You’re worse. You’re weak. You’re just insulting yourself.”

“Not at all. It’s an advantage, I think. I’m willing to work harder than you, Bakugou. I am working harder. I’m better at learning from my mistakes. I’m better at improving. I’m better at handling failure, because I spent most of my life thinking all I could do was fail, thanks to you.” Deku set the trashbag down. He left it alone, and moved to face Bakugou. He held eye-contact, full attention set to Bakugou. “So eventually I’m going to be stronger than you. And I think you know that. I think that’s why you’re so panicked right now. You can’t handle anyone being better than you, and I’m the worst person in your mind to be better.”

“It’s never going to happen,” Bakugou answered, but some kind of apprehension lingered in his eyes, holding him back. He didn’t move to attack, like Deku thought he might.

“You need it to never happen, Kacchan, because I don’t think you’d be able to handle it if I really did pass you. I actually worry how you’ll handle it, or any kind of failure once we’re professionals, you know, Kacchan? Because you can only handle being the best, no worse than that—you can only handle being the best in every way. You don’t know how to deal with it when you slip up, even a little. You won the Sports Festival, but you couldn’t handle that you didn’t win it exactly the way you needed to in order to prove you’re the best. And you couldn’t handle losing to me in the villain-vs-hero fight. And I’m actually afraid for you, how badly you’re handling what happened when the League of Villains captured you.”

“Shut up…” Bakugou whispered. He jerked forward, hoping Deku might flinch. Deku did not. “That’s not your damn business.”

“No, I guess not, but I still worry for you. You needed to be top of our middle school, and top of UA. How are you going to handle being a debut hero with a low ranking? How are you going to handle the years and years it’ll take for any of us to climb the ranks. Worse, Kacchan, how are you going to handle the failures you face being a hero? It happens to every professional. Sometimes it happens a lot. Villains get away. People get hurt, or even die sometimes, when you can’t save them. You might even get hurt. You could get hurt so badly that you’d have to give up being a hero all-together. Could you handle that?”

Bakugou reached out, he grabbed Deku’s arm, his grip deathly-tight. Deku could feel the heat radiating off the palm the held him.

“I’ll shut you up, if you don’t want to shut up yourself. I’m not going to fail as a hero. I should kill you right now for suggesting I would.”

Deku set his free hand to Bakugou’s arm, and gently, he pried it off. “Exactly. You don’t know how to handle failure, so you just keep on saying you won’t fail, you won’t fail, and that’s an impossible way to live. I’m better than you at that—I’m better at failing, Kacchan. If I’m a low-ranked hero, if some of my missions fail, if I’m injured so badly I have to retire, I know I could endure it. My dreams are as strong as yours, Kacchan, but I also know how to keep going if those get crushed. I’m strong like that, Kacchan. Stronger than you. I’m afraid that you’d just break.”

Deku opened the door, and the air in the hall was cooler, unaffected by Bakugou’s explosions. A breeze washed over Deku, clean, untouched by the smell of burnt plastic and ash.

He stepped into the hall, and he gave one last look to Bakugou, who stood frozen, stricken, pale.

“I’m not afraid of you, Kacchan. I’m only afraid for you.”

never too early to start reblogging this

^^^ well, Halloween candy was on shelves like 7/31 so this is right on time.

The middle right girl in the Asian one looks ready to throw hands I’m in love

Please don’t wear sacred Native dress too