Post war when they’re both Uniqlo models for a line of comfy nerd wear

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It's really funny how Tumblr keeps gaining new members just because other websites mess up so colossally,, that Tumblr somehow manages to look better in comparison. Really embodies the idea of failing upwards.

I mentioned it before but it is very striking to me that as of the last tumblr update, there are now no (0) ways to open someone's desktop blog from a dashboard post. like you can't access the url dot tumblr dot com page at all now unless you already know it exists. imo this seems like a canary that personal blog pages will be gone very shortly, which would suck, since to me that is one of the only good things this site has going for it

Correction: you can still open the top-level URL.tumblr.com link from someone's avatar on the dashboard (so, someone you follow). Actually, I should specify. Here's a post on the dashboard with seven ways to access a post:

So you can access the custom blog, but not a post on a custom blog, despite the plethora of links. Very annoying.

No, here’s the worst part: you can indeed get the link of the post you are clicking on and view it on the person’s custom blog!

IT’S JUST ON THE FUCKING MEATBALL MENU TIMESTAMP INSTEAD FOR SOME REASON I DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS SITE

oh my god

Imagine…. Imagine getting into pacific rim (and them) in 2023….. Couldn’t be me…😖 (it definitely is me)

Forever my little guy 💗

Nothing warms my heart more than to see like a fanbase that’s otherwise dead except for 1 or 2 autistics having the time of their lives digging into every crevice of whatever unpopular thing they’re into for information to enrich their brains. They are literally the backbone of the internet they do more work than god where else would we get people that care about like web graphics for a lost promotional item from a dead videogame released in 2008. Key to media preservation

As someone who is unrepentantly ~wild and zany~ it feels strange to admit that being stereotyped as ~wild and zany~ is a major insecurity. It always made me feel like shit when I was younger and my social groups would assign each other archetypal roles or character associations and I would indelibly be pigeonholed as The Kooky One. It wasn’t that I was offended to be perceived as eccentric—it just felt like, in Pip’s words, other people assigned their own inability to or disinterest in understanding me as a static trait that I possess.

I know full well that I’m weird, often flamboyantly so, and in such a way that I can be extremely offputting to people with more restrained personalities. But I have interiority! I have depth of feeling! I still value the regard of others! It stings to realize that someone is not willing to even attempt to reciprocate empathy because their perception of me is flattened into a caricature of impenetrable kookiness.

Like yeah man I can see why I annoy the shit out of you but if impulsive Dracula impressions, some odd statements, and moonwalking down the IKEA lighting aisle are all it takes for you to stop seeing someone as fully human or deserving of basic respect, I think maybe we both have insufferable personalities.

To be clear, I don’t mean this in an ableism way—I don’t NOT mean it in an ableism way, but also I resent the implication that odd behavior must be explained by diagnosable medical conditions before those displaying it are deserving of empathy. Just a pet peeve in the way we talk about neurodivergence on this webbed site.

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I'm seeing a lot of people say that punk fashion is expensive and inaccessible, which is very wrong. here is a list of some ways you can make punk fashion easier, cheaper and more accessible for you, since that's... kinda the whole point.

others are encouraged to add onto this!! (just don't recommend corporations like amazon. not cool.)

1. patches!! you don't need to buy them. DIY patches are not ugly or boring. in fact, they are encouraged here!! DIY, in my opinion, is always the best thing to do when it is an option and is safe to do so.

2. speaking of DIY, spikes!! you can make them!!

cut the top and bottom off of an empty can. cut down the middle of the cylinder and flatten it, so it's just a flat rectangle of metal.

cut out a shape that is kind of a third of a circle, but around 3/4 of the curved edge is taken up by triangle shapes. (I'm not very good at describing, so here's a badly drawn picture)

roll it into a cone, leaving the 4 triangles sticking out at the bottom. this bit is optional, but you can fill it with hot glue to make it more sturdy, just be careful touching the hot metal. I tend to hold the cone by one of the triangles with a bit of fabric wrapped around my fingers for this bit. cut 4 small holes in your fabric in this kind of shape:

and put the spiky bits of triangle through the holes. fold the triangles in on themselves to secure the spike in place. boom. spike obtained. this is one I made and attached to a little piece of fabric to test this method out:

3. battle vests!! (like the base jackets). the best places to buy these are charity shops and second hand websites in my opinion, but if anyone else knows any better options, please reblog with those!!

a good trick I find works well on eBay is to filter search results to your country (or state? can you do that in the US? idk) so that a: fast delivery because local, and b: all the sellers of everything that shows up are in YOUR TIME ZONE.

why is this important? when people sell something for really cheap, it goes FAST. check eBay at like, 2am or something. all the scalpers in your area are asleep. grab the cheap stuff while they can't.

4. sewing!! want patches, but can't sew for whatever reason? I've heard of a lot of people with joint conditions like arthritis complain about the inaccessibility of patch stuff, and that does sound extremely annoying, however:

safety pins!! while they are still a little fiddly, they're much less work so you don't have to fiddle about for long. if you can, you could even ask a friend to help, since it doesn't take long at all I'm sure someone will be willing to help out!! (I know I would, but that's just me, and I love this kind of thing). safety pins on clothes are also widely considered to be a symbol of solidarity, so if anything, you're adding some extra love and meaning to your patch pants/battle jacket.

if that's still too fiddly, fabric glue is always an option. unfortunately this means you won't be able to remove/reposition patches, at least without leaving a massive patch of residue, but if you're ok with that then fabric glue is probably your best bet.

for people who prefer sewing: as for where to get the thread, I've heard a lot of people recommending dental floss, as it's apparently much cheaper and works just as well. I haven't tried this myself so can't confirm that, but I thought I'd share it regardless.

5. where to get fabric!! old clothes. rip em up. you don't need any kind of fancy fabric from the craft store. my patches are made of old jeans that I grew out of.

don't have any old clothes and you don't want to waste any good ones? I'm not sure about other countries, but in the UK, as long as you're not on private property (trespassing), dumpster diving is perfectly legal.

I definitely ;) do NOT encourage ;) trespassing rich people's land ;) to steal from their dumpsters ;)

or tbh it doesn't matter too much how rich the person is, since it's all going to landfill anyway. if it's in the bin, it's free game, but you didn't hear that from me. ;)

please add onto this where you can!! and if I missed something or got anything wrong, add that on too!!

i’ve seen a lot of young kids/baby punks recently complaining about how expensive dressing alt is. especially in the past week, with across the spiderverse coming out. and listen.

listen.

no it’s not. get a pair of boots from a thrift store and rip up/ make patches from your old clothes and paint shit. cut and dye your own hair. fucking steal. if someone told you you have to buy $200 docs from amazon to be punk you’re allowed to kill them

someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???

Hi,

It’s you friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

What the FUCK?!

So instead of giving feedback to writers so they’ll continue to write you guys decide to feed our work into some AI program to get what you want? Guess all my fics are going on lockdown now. Y’all brought this on yourselves smh. I am so beyond being nice about this anymore.

Also, some people from the replies all authors should block immediately because obviously they don’t care about people’s work.

You don’t own it either dipshit.

We wouldn’t publish fics of their work? Authors respect other authors. Please show me an author who’s forbidden someone to write fanfic of their stuff anyway. Bet you’ll say Anne rice won’t you? That toxic meatloaf doesn’t get respect from anyone because of how she handled things. She could have done it a lot better,

Maybe this is a sign you should delete yourself from the internet. You don’t know if the author is going to finish it or not dumbass. You just decided they didn’t because it hadn’t been updated in a year, you know what that means? That means the author hasn’t gotten any interest in their fic. Show interest and the fic will be updated. Amazing how that works moron. Let’s see you put hours and hours into something you’re passionate about only to get no attention and then have people steal it to finish it because they decided you weren’t going to. Fuck off.

I need UNI AUs OH MY GOD

original post here

Best au ever obviously

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

Tumblr Migration 2: Reddit Boogaloo

We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what's happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.

What's happening?

Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.

In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.

Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?

Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don't worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.

What do us Tumblr users do?

Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site's culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.

I'm new from Reddit, what do I do here?

CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.

Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don't mistake you for a bot

This is one of the first posts I've seen after trying to look at Tumblr again, so I've decided to head their advice and reblog this. I don't even know what a reblog is but I'll find out in time. It's a learning process

a reblog is what you just did! it's similar to a retweet on twitter and it's the main way things spread on tumblr

Happy b-day, you grumpy son of the math! 

sassy as always

Teen Newt and Hermann studying and flirting (in their own way).  Inspired by a cypress-tree tweet about teen hermann having crushes on all the punks. Soooo… happy bday. lol 

THANK U SO MUCHH!!!  gosh, I think I’m the last person on tumblr to reblog this, but that’s because I was writing u somethin–

it would figure–hermann successfully manages to nab the last empty table in the library, only to have someone sit down across from him ten minutes later.  and if that wasn’t bad enough, it was newt geiszler–the boy hermann’s had a crush on since the first day of orientation.  hermann bites his lip and focuses on his work.  finals begin next week, and he won’t allow his grades to slip because of one little distraction.

“psst,” newt whispers.  hermann looks up.  “you’re hermann, right?  you’re in robotics club with mako?”

hermann’s heart flutters.  newt knows his name?  wait–of course newt knows his name–hermann is friendly with mako, and mako hangs out with newt and tendo and the rest of the alternative crowd.  why wouldn’t newt know hermann’s name?  but–does this mean mako and newt have talked about hermann?  what would they–

“um–yes,” hermann mutters, once he remembers that newt is still waiting for an answer.

newt smiles.  he looks back down at his book, and doesn’t seem to be interested in further conversation, so hermann turns to the next question on his problem set.

they’re quiet for a moment, and hermann has just managed to re-focus on his work when newt kicks his foot under the table.

“sorry,” newt whispers.

hermann doesn’t say anything.  newt kicks him again a few moments later, this time not bothering to apologize.  hermann pulls his feet in a little closer, even though he had been keeping them under his own half of the table.  newt kicks him again.

hermann looks up and glares.  newt is grinning.  at first, hermann is distracted by newt’s freckles–they look so sweet on his round cheeks, and seem completely incongruous with his mohawk and gauged ears.  when newt holds eye contact and kicks him a fourth time, hermann gets angry.

“you’re doing that on purpose!” he hisses.

newt shrugs.  “yeah, so what?”

“so stop kicking me.”

“I’m not kicking you dude, I’m flirting with you.”

hermann opens his mouth to argue, but then newt’s words sink in, and he blushes.

“I’m playing footsie,” newt says.

hermann glances around the room, making sure no one is listening.  “that’s not how you play footsie,” he whispers.

“yeah, like there are rules.”

hermann quirks his lips.  he feels strangely bold, despite the butterflies in his stomach.  newt is smiling openly at him, and pokes at hermann’s textbook with one black-lacquered finger.

“if you’re so smart,” he says, “why don’t you show me the right way to play?”

hermann looks down at his book.  the problem set could wait until later.

Omggggg this story is so cute. I’m going to die. Teen AUs are a total weekness. Just a pair of nerds being dumb. Yes. Good. You are perfect and this is perfect.

Gay Pride Day, NYC 1979 / © stanleySTELLAR

Karaoke!

Stupid competitive nerds

gluethegrue answered your question “I wanna draw some newt and hermann….suggestions?”

I think Newt would start it, but Hermann would finish it.