yknow these little guys?

little sawgaw floofs? yknow them?

i made fanart of em :)

did it

yknow these little guys?

little sawgaw floofs? yknow them?

i made fanart of em :)

So I started this cross stitch in January to celebrate Warframe's 10th anniversary and have just finished! It features every unique warframe up to March 2023.

I'll be making the individual patterns available soon if you'd like to make some yourself.

I love Yonta's idle animation

[Also first time making a GIF, I feel like a turboboomer]

Fleetwood Mac, 1977 — Annie Leibovitz

Guy at the top(no I don’t know their names) looks like cuddling is his least favourite thing

That’s Mick Fleetwood, cuddling up to Stevie Nicks because she didn’t want to be touching Lindsay Buckingham, who is lower left holding Christine McVie. Dude alone on the far right is John McVie who is in the middle of a divorce from Christine… who didn’t leave him for Lindsay, but rather for some sound tech (not pictured).

If anything Mick is skeptical of this particular cuddle puddle because it’s a goddamn hot mess.

Few bands, if any, will ever top the sheer interpersonal drama that was Fleetwood Mac.

I mean, respect.

Lindsay and Stevie were in the midst of a break up. John and Christine were divorcing. And Mick was going through a divorce as well. Yet with all of this going on they recorded the best selling album they ever made. It is the 12th best selling album of all time. The album would win the Album of the Year at the Grammys in 1978 and has since been placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Library of Congress.

Fleetwood Mac, 1977 — Annie Leibovitz

Guy at the top(no I don’t know their names) looks like cuddling is his least favourite thing

That’s Mick Fleetwood, cuddling up to Stevie Nicks because she didn’t want to be touching Lindsay Buckingham, who is lower left holding Christine McVie. Dude alone on the far right is John McVie who is in the middle of a divorce from Christine… who didn’t leave him for Lindsay, but rather for some sound tech (not pictured).

If anything Mick is skeptical of this particular cuddle puddle because it’s a goddamn hot mess.

Few bands, if any, will ever top the sheer interpersonal drama that was Fleetwood Mac.

I mean, respect.

It’s one thing to know another musician wrote a song about your tumultuous affair/relationship/breakup with them.

It’s quite a different thing to then sing backing vocals and/or duet that same song with them for the next few decades.

wait THAT’S why my wife always says “son boy allowed” about our cat??

happy 5 years to son boy allowed

Gold, silver and garnet brooch uncovered at the Harford Farm near Norwich, England, 7th century AD

from The Norfolk Museums Collections

Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh

I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff

no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that

Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.

Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?

doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them

You will die in 7 days

It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right

Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I

You could if you weren’t a fucking coward

World Heritage Post

Art by coolfrogdude together at last

[ID: a comic illustrating the above thread as if it was happening in a theater. The users are mostly shaped like their icons, pukicho is a pikachu and hokuto-ju-no-ken is a gengar. The last panel is gengar looks back where a speech bubble comes out of the crowd to say, “you could if you weren’t a fucking coward.” /end]

I can’t believe I’m actually seeing this post

Magic of tumblr,

I am morally obligated to add the YouTube video whenever this thread crosses my dash

I’ve seen this thread more than a few times. But this is the first time I’ve seen this video. So thank you for your service.

Because @staff is too cowardly…

this is a poll about whether or not you can remember the first election that happened whilst you were reasonably old enough to form memories. when I say “remember”, I mean, do you ACTUALLY remember it happening?

definitions!

parliamentary system = system of government where the executive is responsible to the legislature (e.g. UK, Canada, Australia)

presidential system = system of government where the executive and legislature are completely independent (e.g. USA, Mexico, Indonesia)

semi-presidential or mixed = a system that blends presidential and parliamentary in some way (e.g. France, Ireland)

for the purpose of this poll, “conscious life” is anything that happened AFTER your earliest memory. for most people this is between the ages of 3 and 6

Sherlock Holmes receiving a case from a working class girl who is slightly suspicious of her employer: "I need you to understand that Watson and I are ready to drop everything at a moment's notice if you ever feel uncomfortable in any way."

Sherlock Holmes receiving a case from a literal king who pays a thousand pounds upfront: "Ughhh fine, but get to the point already 🙄"

Proto-bracket Round 2 Poll #12

Descriptions:

Great A’Tuin (It/its, Discworld): Giant turtle flying through space, on its back stands four giant elephants that support the Discworld.

Skaia (it/its, Homestuck): this one is hard to define because Skaia, while definitely conscious, is a bit... fuzzy. it's *there*, sure but in same way "the sky" is there. you can be among the clouds of Skaia and read its thoughts and redictions and intentions from there, and Skaia can both be attacked and act (in a very limited sense). but like, Skaia simultaneously has no *tangible* physical form (the Battlefield isn't conscious or Skaia), but simultaneously you could argue that the entire Medium is Skaia, which is very much a location you can be in, and it's all within its sapient, intent-driven sphere of influence. that's arguably what the Incipisphere is to begin with. a hard to define omnicient un-location.

discworld verses homestuck, this is going to be fun

101 Comment Starters

I began working on this last summer. Like many veteran fanfiction authors, I lament the decline in commenting that I’ve seen in my fandom, the Tolkien fandom. I’m also a humanities teacher, so I spend a good part of my day teaching young people how to write, and one lesson I’ve learned the hard way is that each type of writing involves unique skills that have to be learned. And commenting is a unique form of writing and one that comes with added stresses around social expectations and public performance. My research on the Tolkien fanfic community confirms this: Many people want to comment, but they simply don’t know what to say.

As a teacher of writing, I often use  sentence starters or mentor sentences. The writer uses these to jumpstart their thinking and writing, until they become comfortable enough to begin working independently. “101 Comment Starters” is built around this research-based strategy of teaching writing.

Some of the comment starters are simple enough that they can be merely copied and pasted. Others require filling in some blanks or providing some elaboration. In some cases, a because can be dropped if the reader isn’t comfortable providing that level of elaboration yet. In other cases, a more experienced commenter can add the because and elaborate more on their comment.

They also differ in their level of praise. They range from simple statements of how the author made the reader feel to compliments around an aspect of the author’s writing or their work in general. I’ve tried to limit words like really, very, and so as much as possible, except when it made the comment feel wooden. You’re welcome, of course, to add those words in if you feel they more accurately help capture how a story impacted you.

If you’re just starting to comment, please keep in mind that the vast majority of authors will love to hear from you! They don’t care how long or elaborate your comment is. They don’t care if your English is perfect or if you’re a little awkward. They just want to know that you’re reading and enjoying their work.

Finally, please feel free to reblog and share and add your own comment starters!

101 Comment Starters

Keep reading

Reblogging this for @justleaveacommentfest, which starts today! Commenting is not some mysterious thing that is easy for some people and challenging for others but a skill that can be learned and practiced.

101 Comment Starters

I began working on this last summer. Like many veteran fanfiction authors, I lament the decline in commenting that I’ve seen in my fandom, the Tolkien fandom. I’m also a humanities teacher, so I spend a good part of my day teaching young people how to write, and one lesson I’ve learned the hard way is that each type of writing involves unique skills that have to be learned. And commenting is a unique form of writing and one that comes with added stresses around social expectations and public performance. My research on the Tolkien fanfic community confirms this: Many people want to comment, but they simply don’t know what to say.

As a teacher of writing, I often use  sentence starters or mentor sentences. The writer uses these to jumpstart their thinking and writing, until they become comfortable enough to begin working independently. “101 Comment Starters” is built around this research-based strategy of teaching writing.

Some of the comment starters are simple enough that they can be merely copied and pasted. Others require filling in some blanks or providing some elaboration. In some cases, a because can be dropped if the reader isn’t comfortable providing that level of elaboration yet. In other cases, a more experienced commenter can add the because and elaborate more on their comment.

They also differ in their level of praise. They range from simple statements of how the author made the reader feel to compliments around an aspect of the author’s writing or their work in general. I’ve tried to limit words like really, very, and so as much as possible, except when it made the comment feel wooden. You’re welcome, of course, to add those words in if you feel they more accurately help capture how a story impacted you.

If you’re just starting to comment, please keep in mind that the vast majority of authors will love to hear from you! They don’t care how long or elaborate your comment is. They don’t care if your English is perfect or if you’re a little awkward. They just want to know that you’re reading and enjoying their work.

Finally, please feel free to reblog and share and add your own comment starters!

101 Comment Starters

Keep reading

Can someone please explain to me what evaporated milk is? Wouldn’t that just be gas by definition? I live in constant fear

no no it's what left behind after the milk has been evaporated cuz only the water goes, not the other stuff

THERE’S WATER IN MILK?

WHAT DID YOU THINK THE LIQUID WAS?

NO

IT'S MILK-STUFF MIXED WITH WATER

MILK STUFF? DOESNT IT JUST COME FROM THE COW’S TIT?

ITS LIKE TIT JUICE, THERE IS WATER IN JUICE AND THERE IS WATER IN MILK

It’s fat droplets suspended in water, with some nutrients and soforth dissolved in it. You know, like ranch dressing.

Evaporated milk is just dehydrated milk.

Obsessed with the user who assumed milk was its own element on the periodic table

As op I felt like I had to make this

Milk, the forbidden 119th element

the only question left is if it’s a metal, non-metal, or metalloid.

OP seems to have classified it as a special case of halfnium, reclassified as a lanthanide. This has fascinating implications for electron orbital geometry.

Anyway it’s a rare earth metal apparently.

Yes I definitely classified it intentionally and knew exactly what I was doing when I put it with the lanthanides because I am never wrong

MILK IS A RARE EARTH METAL

I thought so, I took one look at your classification and immediately thought “this is definitely someone with a deep understanding of how the periodic table works”

I’m glad that we have reached a consensus on the expected elemental properties of milk

I’d really like to know what @derinthescarletpescatarian’s thoughts are on milk’s electron orbital geometry

That would involve writing a crash course in how suborbitals work on a post about whether water (the primary ingredient in milk) is in milk and even for tumblr that’s going a bit far

no, it is absolutely not going too far

You guys always complain that you don’t get to learn stuff in normal ways and then you come asking for this

MILK IS SEVERAL COMPOUNDS PLEASE YALL ARE KILLING ME OVER HERE

We have a container of dry milk because in addition to a little fat and sugars, it contains proteins, which settle into the pores of nitrocellulose membranes, making sure analytical proteins (specific antibodies) don’t get trapped. We could just use casein (one of the proteins in milk), but milk is much cheaper and can also be found at Walmart.

No milk is a lanthanide keep up

lanthanide?

I think you mean lactanide

I will put lego in all of your shoes

A cube of milk with 3 inches of edge length can blow up the galaxy.

Our galaxy is actually the result of such an explosion, that’s why we call it the Milky Way

WHO IS BRINGING THIS POST BACK

Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

If you change the chronological feed in the name of creators, I'm hunting your dumb asses for sport. This is one of the only websites that isn't actively pumped full of infuriating algorithm bullshit.

This slate of changes is moronically out of touch with how people actually use this website, and what makes it popular.

Users have been telling you idiots what they want out of this website for years. All you have to do is not shoot yourself in the foot while every other major website collapses around you.

I cannot stress this enough: adding an algorithm will make this website LESS friendly to me as content creator. Do not fuck this up.

The only reason tumblr is currently enjoying a second hayday after multiple mass exudi (pretty much all cause by big changes to a working system) is because it's shut its pantheon damned mouth. Twitter had Musk continuously fuck up the site. Reddit shot itself in the foot with the API changes. People fled to a harbor they perceived as stable.

Tumblr does not need to be like TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat or whatever the fuck. The increasing changes to be closer to that have been vocally disagreed on. At best, they did not benefit the user experience, at worst you fucks added features literally illegal in europe because of the shitty way you handle the tracking and privacy aspects of anyone using tumblr live.

Let users come, see what the site offers and make their mind up themselves. EVERY SITE has some amount of initial friction (vanilla Reddit has two horrible versions with www. and old.: The former is full of unwanted and unneccessary information that blends too much with the content you actually want and old. is only really usable with a browser extension. Twitter still has a fucking character limit of 280 iirc. The site formally known as Facebook makes it easier for advertisers to stick their tongue directly in your ass than for you to find original content aside from racist rants).

NOTHING you can do will convince the people that are only interested in more content from the site they came from.

So you have two choices: A) Listen to your existing userbase that got you through Yahoo and accepts that you make us pay for our own memes B) continue to fuck us over for the benefit of new people that would've come regardless because tumblr isn't actively imploding

Why is it so pantheon damned hard for websites to accept that they have their own culture that makes people interested in the first place?

Thanks, @vaspider! Readers, the original post is here if you’re curious.

Folks, if you want even more things to watch for, check out these other guides, too:

And for more gluten-free resources, have a scroll through our Gluten Free tag!

As a side note, to clarify why that disclosure of shared facilities is an issue not completely solved, there’s a lot of crap in our grocery stores from places like Canada that are labeled gf but are not processed in a dedicated facility. So unless something is CERTIFIED GF and has the official label, you gotta read the whole back of the package.

Then there’s the other fun thing where you gotta start reading the ingredients on your cosmetics, bc some people with celiac are super sensitive to gluten getting into open cuts or, even just topically, they may develop rashes. If you’re super sensitive, you ought to watch for TOCOPHERYL ACETATE or TOCOPHERYL. It could be derived from corn. Orrrrr it could be wheat. Companies aren’t required to specify. Which, uh, sucks tbh.