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moondragon17

@moondragon17

The hydrangeas have gained sentience! Run for your lives! (She/her)

I have very strong opinions on this subject, and I'm curious how others feel.

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Hi, public librarian (lower case l, no degree) here, please don't.

We're already, in general, severely underfunded. Shocker, the capitalist hellscape we're stuck isn't great about allocating county budget to such a socialist outlet.

When you write in the margins, that's considered damage, and we just do not have the funding to replace every book we have to weed for damage.

Use sticky notes. Please. Write your margin notes on sticky notes in the book. You can even keep your place that way. But please please please don't write in the books, don't crack the spines, and don't dog ear them. That's just going to force us to weed them, and we can't always replace them.

Hi, capital L Librarian here, if you think your notes enhance other readers' experience of the book 1) you're wrong and 2) no one's going to get to read them anyway because you damaged the book and we had to throw it away.

Good job breaking it, hero.

GO LOG INTO YOUR ACCOUNT RIGHT NOW

If you manage an account for a small business or a personal project, go log into your account right now and back up your work.

Things are getting worse on Twitter by the day and the suspensions are not rumors, they are happening. Please make sure to make copies of things you don't want to lose forever.

I talked about this on my Twitter already, but it's especially important to keep hammering in this one major point: this policy applies to the accounts of people who are deceased. Other social media sites have protocols to deal with the dead, and Twitter does not.

Shon Howell was a good friend of mine. He's better known as King Cheetah, a prolific furry artist that had been active since the 90s. In early 2019, he died from cancer, leaving all of his art and social media accounts abandoned.

Once this policy was announced the other day, I realized what that meant. So I went back to check Shon's Twitter, and...

Thankfully, I do have a huge archive of all of his work, and I'm in the process of tracking down and preserving anything that's left. But keep in mind, especially if you're an artist and use Twitter as your main platform: go somewhere else. Make sure your work is elsewhere. Make sure you can be contacted elsewhere. Twitter clearly has no concern about archiving your posts anymore because Elon fucked things up and seems to be invested in continuing to make it worse.

This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

This fucking guy.

The funniest response:

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Knowing that there were two people in this video and seeing only "This fucking guy again." and "I used the fact that I didn't know who that guy was to figure out who that guy was."

I had enough information to not only know who both people were, but also the full contents of the video in question.

best part of today’s dracula daily is jonathan describing with pinpoint accuracy how it feels to pull an all-nighter. ‘i’m not sleepy! anyway this is how dying people feel when they let go of their grip on life and shuffle off this mortal coil i think’

Let me clarify something. I don't mean crossing the US-Mexico border. I don't even mean heading north, away from a border town. I mean between two cities or towns, dozens or hundreds of miles away from border crossings.

Example: the city of Las Cruces is 42 miles north of the nearest border crossing. The city of Deming is 32 miles north of the nearest border crossing. These are two different border crossings. There is no reason to pass between Las Cruces and Deming if smuggling goods from Mexico into the US. There is a US Border Patrol checkpoint in the westbound lane on Interstate 10 between Deming and Las Cruces. This checkpoint serves no function but to give the US federal government a site at which they can harass immigrants -- including legal immigrants with permanent visas -- and US citizens who live in the area. You may face federal drug and smuggling charges if you bring legally purchased marijuana from a dispensary in Las Cruces to Deming. You may face smuggling charges if you move a locally legal substance from one part of the US to another, parts of the US in the same State, parts of the US that do not have any legal or real necessity for a border checkpoint between them.

If this is a normal and reasonable thing to you, there is something wrong with you and i do not trust you.

This is due to the so-called 100 Mile Enforcement Zone:

Tumblr. I have a proposal for you.

If you vote on this poll, for ingredients for bread, I will make the bread and attempt to eat it.

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the great thing (so far) is that this is gonna turn into garlic beer, with that much yeast, and i have no idea what garlic beer would taste like.

also i'm horrified

Re: Dracula is Dracula Daily for your ears! Listen to the story with a full cast of voice actors and immersive sound design - all for free on your favorite podcast app!

I am loving this podcast. The actors are perfect and they add so much to the story that you miss reading. They really bring home how freaking young and earnest Jonathan is

Update: THIS IS VERY GOOD. I've listened to hundreds of audiobooks and i wholeheartedly recommend this. The acting, the sound effects, the creative decisions, chef's kiss! I can't wait to get to the fucking COWBOY.

This is already in my top 10 list of audio drama podcasts, and its quality has eclipsed some well-loved classics like The Black Tapes. I can't BELIEVE how good the experience is, and I am floored by how much more accessible the text is when I hear Jonathan Harker's voice.

Absolutely phenomenal. Please listen to Re: Dracula.

This super cute Przewalski's horse goal (still unnamed) is the result of cloning DNA that was cryopreserved 40 years ago. The second cloned foal, this has amazing conservation potential for this species.

Jonathan, heading out, having a brief but intense flash of knowledge of his position in the timeloop: Anyway bye wish me luck that I don't unwittingly walk into a nightmare realm of unreality ruled by a monster who deals in blood and madness

Mina: what

Jonathan: what

But, on the bright side, look forward to paprika!

Jonathan: My love, I fear I may have walked into a nightmare realm of unreality ruled by a monster who deals in blood and madness!

Mina, fully aware of the timeloop: Could it be the paprika?

Don't let studio execs and streaming corporations convince you that this writer's strike is going to ruin the art that you love. The art is nothing without the artist, and our favorite artists cannot make our favorite art when their pay is too low, their contracts too short, and their writer's rooms understaffed!!!

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Hollywood Writers Strike: Official Sources

The Writer's Guild of America has voted to strike, and I want to get out ahead of something Tumblr is bad about doing and encourage y'all to PLEASE get your information about the strike from the guild itself, not from random people on Tumblr telling you it's "actually" about this or that.

The WGA wants the public to understand why they are striking. They have plenty of info available that is written with a general audience in mind.

  • WGA.org is the official website of the Writer's Guild of America West.
  • WGAwest is on Twitter and posting extensively about the negotiations and strike. This account is linked from the WGA website.
  • WGA also has a Linktree (linked from their Twitter bio) with more information about the strike, including their own Twitter threads about various strike issues, as well as articles in the media.
  • WGA Contract 2023 is a website full of information about the strike. It is one of the first links in the Linktree above. It's a great resource if you want to get deeper into the subject. There is a FAQ.

Any third party explaining the issue for you has an opportunity to, intentionally or not, insert their own spin or agenda. Get the information from the source.

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stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) it was on the driveway got out of the car and accidentally (didn't know it was there) stepped on the plum (warm) (on the ground) (it had fallen from the tree) barefoot (no shoes) wearing long pants (too long) (need to hem them) plum viscera got on them (the pants) unexpected plum on the driveway (hot plum) (97 degrees out) already super hungover (throwing up all morning) (should not have been driving at all) and I stepped out of the car (black car) (97 degrees out) and onto the plum (unexpected) (didn't know the plum was there) and it burst (plum nightmare on my only good pair of sweatpants) still we find ways to keep ourselves going from day to day

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guess what post just got read aloud in poetry club tonite by an unknowing club member as I watched on in terror

part of being an ally to trans men is not being a dick to cis men for their appearance btw

the short trans men hear you. the trans men with bottom growth—or who are post-phalloplasty—hear your bad jokes about small dicks. the trans men undergoing hrt who are losing their hair hear you talk shit about bald spots.