for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

Incredible footage of a Octopus imitating a moray eel | source

The way this pasta is prepared | source

Being a pasta fan this is so fascinating

NooOOO

HE’S FINE YOU GUYS 

(ask @spatialheather she told me so)

Good news, everyone!

I’m pretty sure those are ptarmigan tracks, not those of a rabbit who got scooped up by something! They’re birds that hop through the snow and then leave those snow-angel imprints when they take off.

I’d also honestly be kind of surprised if a predatory bird swooping down on a prey animal just left nice clean imprints like that and not a bigger disturbance in the snow.

This took an interesting twist and i gotta say i am very fond of how it ended.

I still like the bunny growing wings theory

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Sometimes when I’m on my period, I like to just lay in bed and bleed out and pretend I’m dying.

Same

The carpet under me is rough against my knees. I shift my weight to perch my round ass onto my other foot, the hemp rope pressed between my cunt and heel.

She’s waiting like such a good girl, I think.

About myself.

Rhys, Cassian, and Mor are in the room right across from me; I am idle a few feet from the threshold I desperately wish to be invited across. This doesn’t happen. Instead I watch, being careful not to make eye contact for too long. I watch as Cassian and Rhys take long drinks from their crystal glasses filled with red wine. Mor makes eye contact with me as they take a slow, savory taste of something darker than wine. The cut on my arm hasn’t quite healed yet and I my throat is so dry…

The rope around my neck pulls tighter as my tongue reaches for just a drop of the liquid slowing dripping down.

Victory and contentment are on my face, and I relax into the rope binds. Thanks to the skill of my rigger, this action pulls on the line tying my neck and sweet cunt a little tighter. I indulge in this gentle daze, unaware that rest of my polycule is watching me. I open my eyes to the sound of three chairs sliding back as Rhys, Cassian, and Mor walk toward me.

“Who’s a good girl?” Is whispered in my ear.

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

actually i'm reblogging this again with commentary, fuck it.

There's people in the notes talking about "not basing your worth off numbers", and like. that isn't what this post is about. It's not a threat, either, it's a comment on how this site works, at a mechanical level.

Likes are worthless. Let me say that again.

Likes. Are. Worthless.

They don't do anything. They're a bookmark. They were never part of how tumblr works - in the early days we didn't even have a like button, and the site still more or less acts as though we don't. They're personal bookmarks and the only people who "get" anything from them are you (you bookmark the post) and the OP (maybe a very slight serotonin boost), but they don't keep the post in circulation, they don't keep it alive.

Without reblogs, a post will be dead in the water within an hour. No matter how good it is, no matter how many hours of painstaking love and attention its creator put into it, it will be dead within an hour and never seen again. It gets pushed down the dashboard and nobody aside from the followers who were online when it was posted will see it. And there's a huge difference in engagement on posts that get even one lucky reblog from someone with wider reach - that one reblog shows your post to five, ten, fifteen other people, and if one of those people also reblogs it, and so on and so forth, that's how posts stay alive and in circulation. It's like a contagion, but we're sharing creativity instead of disease.

And that matters. That "lifespan" of the post matters, artists and writers give up on this site and go to sites where posts have longer lifespans because it sucks to spend hours of your life, maybe even days, to get two notes and some fucking pocket lint for your efforts. We create for ourselves, but we share because we want people to see it, because that engagement offers positive feedback and encouragement to continue. But more than that, if every post (whether art, fic, gifset, whatever) is dying within an hour or a day of being posted, that means it's not making it onto your dashboard. And if it's not on your dashboard, you won't see it. This kills the site, after a while. You stop seeing the posts, because nobody is putting them on your dashboard, because this site doesn't have an algorithm like twitter and insta's and it shouldn't, it's the last bastion of chronological timelines.

Forgive my giant fucking rant I am so tired right now and full of the plague but like stop acting like artists and writers are just being whiny little babies, or "threatening" to withhold our fucking work (you're not entitled to it! it's ours! if we get nothing out of sharing it we're well within our rights to keep it private!) when we say this site will dry up without reblogs. We're just stating facts.

also I’ve seen some people in the tags say ‘oh there have always been more likes on posts’ no there haven’t ???? 

these are posts from 2013, look at the ratio

not to sound like a nursing home resident but back then people know that the point of this site was to reblog things and share them, not to bury them away among your other 23k liked posts

my top 5′s of 2019 🎀Actress in a tv shows

#4 Jodie Comer as Villanelle in Killing eve

Hey quick question(s) for my non-melanated people who don’t use washcloths, loofas, and other scrubbing devices in the shower:

Why not?

How do y’all exfoliate?

Moreover, do y’all moisturize after???

I see a lot of y’all complaining about dry and itchy skin and I’m just…there’s lotion, vaseline, shea and cocoa butter, body creams, like…

Genuinely curious bc it’s blowing my mind

We're really bad at having skin...

Recently I found a young woman going on about a new trend called “body slugging.” Which is “like face care but for the rest of your body”… The year is 2022 and they’re just discovering lotion.

I would like to note that I am a non-melanated person that exfoliates and moisturizes.

If ya care to know: I use a big sponge and some oatmeal-based body wash (I think it’s St Ives but idk). And then I just use the green baby oil all over while I’m in the shower because it’s more efficient than applying lotion.

@chaos-and-kittens thank you! I’m trying to understand if it’s cultural or regional or whatever. I asked my wife (non-melanated) and she said she had chronic dry and scaly skin all through her childhood. No one thought to use lotion or moisturizer at all. She also didn’t use loofas or washcloths until she got a little older.

@adventurouschase I didn’t start until high school because I was annoying how dry my skin was and I didn’t like the feeling of the body wash because (as soap does) it was drying out my skin. My mom lotioned herself but didn’t think to pass that knowledge down lol And my spouse (also non-melaninate) uses the 3-in-1 and never uses lotion unless he is sunburnt - and then complains that his skin is so dry and itchy? Smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

@chaos-and-kittens not your spouse complaining about dry skin and the moisturizers are RIGHT THERE 😭 pat his head and tell him “Bless your heart” and then throw away the 3in1 and tell him they need to be *separate* items 😭😭😭😭

@adventurouschase I’ve literally WATCHED HIM take separate body wash, shampoo, and conditioner AND PUT THEM IN THE SAME BOTTLE AND SHAKE IT UP

*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

If Stranger Things was british

This is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

Hey quick question(s) for my non-melanated people who don’t use washcloths, loofas, and other scrubbing devices in the shower:

Why not?

How do y’all exfoliate?

Moreover, do y’all moisturize after???

I see a lot of y’all complaining about dry and itchy skin and I’m just…there’s lotion, vaseline, shea and cocoa butter, body creams, like…

Genuinely curious bc it’s blowing my mind

We're really bad at having skin...

Recently I found a young woman going on about a new trend called “body slugging.” Which is “like face care but for the rest of your body”… The year is 2022 and they’re just discovering lotion.

I would like to note that I am a non-melanated person that exfoliates and moisturizes.

If ya care to know: I use a big sponge and some oatmeal-based body wash (I think it’s St Ives but idk). And then I just use the green baby oil all over while I’m in the shower because it’s more efficient than applying lotion.

@chaos-and-kittens thank you! I’m trying to understand if it’s cultural or regional or whatever. I asked my wife (non-melanated) and she said she had chronic dry and scaly skin all through her childhood. No one thought to use lotion or moisturizer at all. She also didn’t use loofas or washcloths until she got a little older.

@adventurouschase I didn’t start until high school because I was annoying how dry my skin was and I didn’t like the feeling of the body wash because (as soap does) it was drying out my skin. My mom lotioned herself but didn’t think to pass that knowledge down lol And my spouse (also non-melaninate) uses the 3-in-1 and never uses lotion unless he is sunburnt - and then complains that his skin is so dry and itchy? Smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hey quick question(s) for my non-melanated people who don’t use washcloths, loofas, and other scrubbing devices in the shower:

Why not?

How do y’all exfoliate?

Moreover, do y’all moisturize after???

I see a lot of y’all complaining about dry and itchy skin and I’m just…there’s lotion, vaseline, shea and cocoa butter, body creams, like…

Genuinely curious bc it’s blowing my mind

We're really bad at having skin...

Recently I found a young woman going on about a new trend called “body slugging.” Which is “like face care but for the rest of your body”… The year is 2022 and they’re just discovering lotion.

I would like to note that I am a non-melanated person that exfoliates and moisturizes.

If ya care to know: I use a big sponge and some oatmeal-based body wash (I think it’s St Ives but idk). And then I just use the green baby oil all over while I’m in the shower because it’s more efficient than applying lotion.

seeing the photos from Webb up against photos from Hubble just makes me… I don’t even know like, wow! Look at that!

:)