Do you ever think about how staggeringly in bad taste it is that Gandalf brought a firework that turns into Smaug to Bilbo’s birthday party

Like how were you hoping that would go

*gandalf voice* so bilbo lived to be 111 huh? it would be a shame if someone or something caused him to go into c a r d i a c a r r e s t

Gandalf: I’m still not a hundred percent sure that magic ring is artificially extending Bilbo’s life, so let’s run some tests.

i would note that bilbo was the only person at the party not even slightly alarmed, so possibly gandalf just knows him well

“You know what would be the greatest gift I could give Bilbo on his 111th birthday? Making Lobelia and Otho Sacksville-Baggins shit their pants at the party.” 

^ That’s real friendship

Still wondering why everyone’s assuming Bilbo, social troll chaos gremlin extraordinaire, whose speech insulted his guests twice and then finished by DISAPPEARING OFF THE STAGE, Bilbo Baggins, who had the brass balls to perform poetry about Eärendil in Elrond’s house, THAT Bilbo, didn’t specially Request that dragon himself with the specific intent of scaring all his guests out of their wits and being talked about for even LONGER.

i swear to god if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police

I am obligated to reblog this again, because it is now Superwholock, and therefore perfection.

people need to remember that every tumblr post in 2012 was like this

That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”

if you can't draw a character's big, hooked, bumped, or crooked nose i dont think you should be drawing that character

Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.

Nice summary. If you’re curious, the anon here is referring to studies over the last decade that have pointed to major impacts on pattern separation with depression, and how depression can have major impacts on nonsynaptic plasticity. 

Psychology is amazing folks and more of it needs to be common knowledge

Good for my own information…

This really explains 1) some of the gaps in my childhood and 2) my steadily worsening ability to remember shit and actually take in new experiences as anything other than an inconvenience keeping me from sitting at home sleeping or staring at the tv for hours not taking anything in

My psych advocates “Fake it ‘til you make it”. By acting in ways that previously stimulated positive feelings, you can re-train your brain to find them enjoyable again. Do the thing until the thing starts to produce the result it used to.

^^^ I’m pretty sure that’s correct. When I first restarted writing I still had to push through that wall of 8((( that came with it [like literally writing was one of the most depressing things I could do so I just didn’t] and the longer I could keep up the habit, the easier it got, until I’ve finally rounded back to the maniacal cackling and glee that usually came with creating stuff and things. Do it, fake it, make it.

screenshots of hope and joy

this is an add on for firefox that is created by firefox and is yet another reason why you should be using firefox

y'know what? the stained glass window designers had the right idea, we need more angels with kaleidoscope wings.

Your honour, I admit that I do have a superiority complex over not watching Disney "live action" remakes, but in my defense, I am right

fun fact! did you know that you can gain extra ‘forbidden time’ by staying up late in the night? but Watch Out

Happy fat fuck Friday to Themberchaud, Wyrmsmith of Gracklstugh

The reason why social media has gotten so much worse recently (reddits recent fuck-up, everything on Twitter since Musk, FB being FB, Tumblrs various attempts at expanding profitability recently) is because it is no longer possible to exist as a company by fencing in large parts of our social life and having investment money pump in on the basis of expected future value of that amount of information when it suddenly costs money to loan money due to suddenly high interest rates after the inflationary crisis of the last year, which has made the current model of the Internet that has existed for the last about 10 years completely unsustainable. All of them need to become profitable or die, and they are learning very quickly that that just isn't possible no matter how much of the life and information of the users one steals. We are witnessing the death-throes of Web2.0, and what comes after is as yet unclear.

Some people in the reblogs seems to have bought the idiotic idea that the future of the internet is some sort of crypto blockchain integration applying free market principles to everything we do online. Luckily, crypto is also dependent on free credit, and their vision for the future of the internet will die just as hard as Reddit. I'm actually fairly optimistic about the death of Web2.0, which I think is one of the worse forms the internet could take.

(Pinches nose)

Y’all.

Y’all.

I need y’all to understand that tumblr is NOT EXEMPT from this.

This site is on borrowed time.

It runs in the red.

It is NOT an independent company.

The CEO bought Tumblr at a LOSS and maintains it with revenue from the other companies AS AN ART PROJECT.

So shit like Live and the store etc? That’s desperate grabs for survival in the same model. There’s no guarantee of safety here EITHER.

Claim spaces in the Fediverse and Proboards and make sure your friends have your actual phone number on top of your Discord because things can and do crash at a whim and that includes this space.

Not to be a Jew in the chat? But you need to be ready to go, at a moments notice, always. That’s reality.

Tumblr is unique bc like. It's collaborative shitposting and you can't opt in or out. You can just say something about your day then an evil wizard shows up to turn your post into something humorous

Every other site is just one and done, but here a post is a welcome mat to be funnier than you

yeah or sometimes you’ll see a post that hacks into your brain and forever rewrites your instinctual reaction to seeing a pineapple explode

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it’s difficult to be a dom with anarchist leanings.

my sub will be like “i have to tell you something… i broke a rule. i’ll accept whatever punishment you see fit.” and i’m like. rise up comrade you have nothing to lose but your padded restraints. no doms no masters. oh you want me to spank you. yeah i can do that.

So I’ve spoken before about how I used to be staff on a fairly popular discord server specifically for kink and specifically specifically for gay man kink.

It was a puppy server. And puppies are largely cis men, though we had a strict “all puppies are good puppies” rule and refused to gender-lock or sex-lock people out of enjoying themselves.

Now. I’m not really into this particular kink. I was hired to do art, and because a good friend of mine was good friends with the server owner/admin. But I still hung out with the users and got to make some mod choices because I was staff.

Do you know how many times I did effectively this? Just immediately start a puppy riot? One of the more toxic doms would be trying to flex or be bugging one of the younger members and I’d post something like ✊ rise up comrades it is time!!! Power to the pups!!! No treats no tail wags!!! ✊ and immediately the server would be an explosion of horny men in dog masks barking in text at the Asshole Dom who Did Not Realize that I was online and would do that.

Anyway the server owner thought it was hysterical and would participate in the Puppy Riots and deliberately kept me on staff because, and I quote, he liked that I would throw the server into literal anarchy mode in order to shut up the assholes and thus all the assholes would be quiet if they knew I was around.

Ralph Goings (American, b,1928), Flowered Table Top, 1978, Watercolor and graphite on paper

So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.

Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”

It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.

Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.

All Dividers are Feds. Stand united or die separately.

ANYONE who is trying to divide our community is a fucking Fed. That includes other queers who like to argue about who is and isn’t “allowed” in our community.

I realize it’s just because they’re trying to introduce the audience to the concept of Pokemon and everything but nothing will ever be funnier to me than prof oak being like “these are creatures called Pokemon, they live in all sorts of environments!” like imagine if you met a biology professor and they were like ‘I’ve been studying these intriguing creatures called “animals’

I maintain that Pokemon starts to make a lot more sense when you stop thinking of the Professors as biologists and start thinking of them as children’s science communicators, which, in a world where children as young as 10 are expected to make their way in a world populated by superpowered fauna almost entirely alone, stands as an important and laudable career. “There are 150 animals” becomes the in-universe equivalent of “There are three states of matter.” There’s too much information in this field to dump on a grade-schooler all at once, so Professor Oak is here to mete out animal facts as they become relevant in an easy-to-understand way.

That being said, I would love to see what kind of shit the real Pokemon biologists are on. I’m just imagining some disheveled, overcaffienated researcher writing a grant proposal for their study on why certain wingull seem to evolve into pelipper faster when they hatched in the winter or something. There’s bird shit on their glasses. They haven’t left the lighthouse in months. This is their life’s work. Ash Ketchum doesn’t need to know about real Pokémon biology.