happy pride to these lesbian foxes
HARLEY QUINN | BARBIE Suicide Squad (2016) ♦ Birds of Prey (2020) ♥ Barbie (2023)
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
I just learned that when gay sex shops were illegal in England a lot of them masqueraded as book shops in SoHo, and now I’m dying to know how Aziraphale might have reacted to patrons who may have mistook his shop for something else.
Kindly, and with directions to the bookshop they were actually looking for, around the corner.
(There is this part at the book, so it does happen often ❤:))
Aziraphale's cocoa was stone cold.
The only sound in the room was the occasional turning of a page.
Every now and again there was a rattling at the door when prospective customers of Intimate Books next door mistook the entrance. He ignored it.
Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
Amanda is Super Perceptive
The super perceptive @occasionallygiveadamn pointed this out to me and now I can't Unsee it.
Because holy crap how quickly does Amanda understand Dirk in S1?
Bear in mind that at this point, Amanda has met Dirk once, briefly. Nothing weird happened, they only said a few lines to each other, nothing case related occurred - and still - Amanda totally gets the following about him:
- Weird stuff happening..? Call Dirk.
- Dirk is central to the Weird Stuff in some way (caveat below*)
- Whatever Dirk is/has - it's Real.
- He doesn't need to investigate in a normal way, he works by going with the flow
- Despite his protestations to the contrary, Todd really is Dirk's assistant
- There is some connection between Dirk and the Rowdy 3
- Dirk is fantastic
* I would say that Amanda makes an initial mistake that lots of people (including Dirk himself) make which is to think that Dirk causes the weird stuff, but that's not true, the universe brings Dirk to The Weird so he can fix it. He doesn't cause any of the weird at all.
Dirk also rightly perceives that Amanda is Fantastic
I would have enjoyed more Dirk & Amanda friendship scenes because they are such Instant Friends in the show and Real Friends irl so have great friend chemistry <3
I mean look how sad they are that they didn't get to spend more time together?
THE TRAILER FOR GOOD OMENS 2 IS HERE! 🥳❤❤❤
They are THE Master duo, I love them so much 🥹😭
big day for annoying people!! (me)
happy pride dirk and todd kissed
Here you go. The Good Omens S2 Episode 1 title sequence, by Peter Anderson Studios, music by David Arnold. We warned you it was madder than the S1 titles, and it is. I think it's really good.
Last Line/7 up/Do what you want
I was tagged by the always wonderful @strivia. Thank you so much, Striv!
Rules: There are none. Share what you like :)
(I’ve been working on this one for a while. Not sharing the current last lines—because I’m stuck on what is apparently the Scene From Hell™ and progress has eluded me for months—but have a snippet from the scene beforehand. Also, Tumblr won’t let me properly format it with an indent, so I’m just throwing some quotation marks and spacing in here.)
“By the time Martin’s around fifteen or sixteen, he’s been drawing pictures for a while now.
Someone had apparently grown a shred of something like a conscience a few months—or years, or however long it’s been, Jesus, Martin hates the way time moves in this place—ago.
This means they’ve got blank paper and a shitty little box of crayons. Gripps can sketch pretty well, and it turns out Martin’s got some half-decent artistic ability, too.
(That seems to be the case with just about anything he tries—aside from actually managing to keep the others safe and figuring out ways to get the fuck out of here.)”
Tagging @full-clown-car @everythingremainsconnected @holistic-midnight-snow @brittlebutch @lazarusemma, and @quillingmesoftly (no pressure, consider this an excuse to post a snippet or line if you want to, feel free to ignore if you don’t. 💜)
I love your writing @occasionallygiveadamn <3 I'll post one of the many random half-baked scenes on my computer that have no story/plot/context/point whatsoever and don't go anywhere...
---------Random Snippet---------
"I know you don't like it when I say this but seriously, it's ridiculously cute." Amanda teased Martin, leaning over and watching the tattoo artist at work. "I never got to look at these close up before" she observed, looking at the line of small symbols tattooed on his inner arm. He was just about to add a drum and a rainbow to the collection.
"Let's see - a cross for Cross, very original." Amanda smirked, ignoring the glare Martin sent her way. "I'm guessing the pi symbol is Gripps?"
"If you ask him to recite it…that's on you" Martin warned.
"Noted. So then the little bird is Vogel - I see what you did there…but then what's the sun symbol?" she frowned. "Does that represent you? "
He looked at her with an amused smile. "I don't need to tattoo a symbol of me ...onto me Drummer. This is strictly family."
"Aww." She grinned "So who's the sun? Or are they…" she hesitated. "Like, dead or something?" she winced slightly.
He looked at her with a bemusement that made her think she was missing something very obvious.
She thought for a moment. "Wait. Dirk?" she asked tentatively. "Does he know?"
"Brit's got his own path to follow." Martin said softly. "That don't mean we can't watch out for him from time to time" Amanda smiled fondly at him.
---------End Random Snippet---------
Tagging @clockworkcheetah @kieren-fucking-walker @generalized-incompetence if you feel like it but feel free to ignore too :)
and @krikkiter68 even though I know it's unlikely because you're taking a break but just don't want you to feel left out / forgotten <_< *hugs*
Thanks for tagging me! Here's a snippet from a WIP on Dirk and Mona's friendship:
Dirk had raised his tearful face and blinked to see a large, plush brown teddy bear sitting next to him. He had picked it up and held it against his face, its front leg clutched in his little fist, and his colours flashed and danced in Mona’s mind. They’ve been pretty much inseparable ever since.
bi solidarity is looking at your crush like they hold the entire universe in their soul ✨💖💜💙
[ID: digital sketch of Amanda Brotzman, crossing her arms with an aloof expression. The background is bright red. /end ID]
Shelley Duvall is modeling for Vogue in 1971.