So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.

Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.

wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them

Follow anyone you think is neat, that's what the function is for. You're not like sitting in their house raiding their fridge, you're listening to them yell out of the window

(Oldest meaning how long they've been a system member. Best estimates are fine if you aren't sure.)

I don't know if 'demon from fiction where demons aren't contrasted to angels' should count given the nature of this poll, and we don't know what the heck our spiritual introject is, really, so...

Am I getting a good grade in tumblr mutual?

Reblog to give the person you reblogged from a good grade in tumblr mutual

THIS IS A FALSE DICHOTOMY

Like asking if a hippo should be large or wet. Obviously they should be both

I mean, if I have to pick just one then sexy, but why is this a choice?

Every good vampire should make you feel the 'scared and horny' gif in your soul:

Vampires should also be large and wet.

Good morning exclusively to the 6158 people who aren't fucking cowards.

There are already large, wet vampires.

They're called leeches.

Leeches are small to medium though?

if you opened discord’s april fools day loot boxes how long did it take you to get all the items? it took my friend 18 boxes but me 65 and i want to see how bad my luck is

please reblog purely because it seems like almost no one played their april fools loot box game and if that’s the case it would be really funny

I opened one. Thought it was a daily? And I tend to forget about those.

what do superheroes with secret identities do in worlds with daemons. how are you supposed to stop people from realizing it's you when you're the only known person in the city with a daemon of that specific species.

Unless you're able to separate and team up with a witch's daemon or something. Or you're still a kid.

The daemon wears a costume too. Duh.

I mean obviously, but no costume's good enough to hide the fact that your daemon is a kangaroo lol

Weird giant frog.

YES I'M GAY:

faGgot

dykAe (the a is silent)

trannY

i may be stupid

you shut your whore mouth

i won’t hesitate bitch

stop being mean to me

when this post hits 69420 im turning off reblogs

Seems to of missed the target - 0's a good divider, as is 1, perhaps on 690420? Or 691420, of course.

actually kind of ticks me off a little because this is an excellent example of what is probably my favorite editing technique, Match Cutting

Note how the Tom and Jerry footage cuts right on the impact frame, going strait to the impact in the anime footage, and how care is taken to maintain the same direction of the momentum in both, creating a feeling of connection between the sources, even when the quality of video and styles of animation couldn't be more different.

This is a technique that happens all the time in filmmaking, one of my favorite examples is this scene from the Kingdom Hearts 2 opening, which is recapping events from Chain of Memories, cleverly using match cutting to show two important fights that happened at about the same time as each other.

And going back to the original video, not only is it satisfying to look at, but it also (albeit probably unintentionally) illustrates the ways in which western and eastern animation have basically always been in conversation with each other. Classic Tom and Jerry is (at least in my opinion) the pinnacle of slapstick comedy, with it's excellent animation capable of selling punchy and hilarious impacts. Take this shot for example:

A slow build up, as Tom shaves the log down into a bat, followed by a sudden impact on the dog. It works because it starts slow, and hits fast, and that is the basis of all slapstick comedy. And the wonderful thing about slapstick is that unlike other forms of comedy, like puns or observational humor, it requires no translation. Tom and Jerry in particular almost always depicts a David and Goliath struggle, a clever underdog against a large and powerful opponent, which is relatable and understandable to all audiences, and easily localized due to the shorts having little to no dialogue, thus explaining why the series is beloved throughout the world. It's been referenced in manga and anime from Stardust Crusaders to Fruits Basket!

And that brings us back to Anime. Slapstick is a huge part of the humor in tons of series, to the point where it even bleeds into some of it's tropes. Just think of one of the classics, a character finds himself in a compromising situation with one of the girls, and what happens as a result? (for some reason this outdated meme was the best example I could find as an isolated clip im so sorry)

This scene from the same series is practically a slapstick sketch in and of itself:

And of course, that same level of power initially developed for comedy proved itself highly effective for action, and nowadays anime action scenes are well known for their moments of high impact, utilizing the same animation techniques

tl;dr: Without even meaning to, by tying together the western slapstick comedy of the past and the eastern action sequences of the present, this meme edit is a celebration of how far we've come. And that's pretty cool.

sideways sunday

HAPPY IDES OF MARCH

pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.

pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.

there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?

pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?

this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.

#ash: i just found a new region called jotoh!#oak: hey cool so apparently the world is round now#ash: wow!#oak: was the world round yesterday#ash: sure?#oak: great talk im gonna go have some grownup lemonade now bye

tags are too good to not pass along

things that the pokemon researchers regularly fight over at scientific conferences:

-is there any meaningful correlation between type and likelihood of a humanoid evolution

-why are pokemon more likely to evolve towards a bipedal bauplan than away from one

-if pokemon dont have genitalia why is it that the more closely they resemble adult human proportions the more likely they are to have mock-clothes over where their genitals aren't

-when a pokegenesis occurs (the entry point of a new pokemon into the universe's timeline) (you have to think of it as an entry point because once it happens it goes backwards into the past as well as forwards into the future) do all the new instances of the individual pokemon arrive as a big lot of eggs, and spread out from there, or as the ages and in the positions they would have been if they had always been there, because now they've always been there

-why isn't there a bicycle-shaped pokemon yet?

-do we categorize pokemon by self identification (the cat pokemon know they're cats) or by similarity of build and ability (fish pokemon)

-are the indefinitely young trainers in chronostasis (their age has been fixed to a certain unmoving point OR unmoored from the forward flow of time) or are they just experiencing periodic chronoregression (they loop a very short period of aging OR are reset to a pre-event age) by their entanglement with multiple pokegenesis events

-is exposing prepubescent children to significant chronological aberrations ethical even if they really want to

-how do you stop a ten year old with a dragon from doing anything they want to do

-was the world always round or what

fun fact! as of scarlet/violet there are have always been bicycle/motorcyclish pokemon!

it puffs up its throat sac and curls its tail up and *runs along on all four legs*, you know, exactly like a real bicycle.

behold, a bicycle Cyclizar!

oh we are getting UGLY DRUNK at this year's pokeconference

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire's Delta Episode has an answer for this! Every single copy of every single pokémon game is a separate dimension, and the Link Cable is a device for traveling between those dimensions. Giovanni of Team Rainbow Rocket also uses the Ultra Wormholes in Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon in order to assemble a group of all the evil team leaders from all the teams to date from dimensions where those teams were successful in their ambitions.

From this information, we can extrapolate that every new generation takes place in a timeline where future pokémon didn't exist. This doesn't provide a satisfying answer to why Pichu has a dex number so separate from Pikachu, for example, but in the real world we realize what we thought were the same species were actually multiple separate ones all the time. It's entirely likely that scientists just didn't realize Pichu and Pikachu are separate species until after they'd catalogued Pikachu.

i like that there exists a cord that will let you access an alternate dimension where your world is bigger and has more stuff in it and all that happens is some shitty assholes import a bunch of other assholes to do dumb asshole shit

like, literally any geologist on earth would murder a mafia boss with a rock to get a shot at running around in Bigger Earth Now With Extra Continents, to say nothing of feral zoologists, how did giovanni survive this nonsense

Well, he seems to be the only competent crime lord in setting; presumably, he therefor has no issues with relatively legit ways of making money - and of making goons if their a bit short on cash.

I was (likely)shadow banned for tagging fic updates- how to save yourself:

Thanks to a lovely suggestion, I looked into tumblr's new(ish) 'subscribe to the conversation' feature since, by all apparent deduction, tagging people (as requested by them) on fics has gotten me shadow banned.

How subscribing to a conversation works:

To set this up for replacing tagging:

To use this for replacing tagging:

It's a bit of a faff, but once set up it's actually easier than tagging! No list to maintain, no limits, people can manage their own subscriptions. And may save you from being shadow banned like me!

There's some folk being very aggressive about using the subscribe conversation feature instead of pestering people, without bothering to ask if there's other requirements. Such as the ones being broken by them being able to comment on the post.

If you are a physically disabled peep who thinks pd folk are above mentally disabled folk in the struggle? Go fuck yourself and dont talk to me.

If you are a mentally disabled peep who thinks md folk are above physically disabled folk in the struggle? Go fuck yourself and dont talk to me.

Disability is disability. Diff shit, sure. But same stink and equally as valid. And yes I get peeps have fucked each other up before in the struggle for rights and humanity before. Which is exactly what Im talking about rn. Because its that punching down bullshit again. Walking over each other and then pointing out how "well were better than them atleast?" Shove it up your ass if you got one. Or any other hole. Im not picky.

Were in this shit. If we like it or not. And we gotta figure it out together. But youre scum if you think demonizing others makes you a punk. Or a real activist or whatever.

And yeah. That included self diagnosed folk too. Diagnoses are a privilege. Hard to come by. And sometimes very dangerous. And if youre a real one you know that.

So shut the fuck up and quit being assholes. Fuck the system up. Not each other.

Image Description: A pale woman in a striped pink and white tank top with darker pink tone pants stands besides a man in a wheel chair. She has a ponytail, is looking at him to her right with both hands raised in anger and with frown. Man sits beside her with tan skin, an uncomfortable frown, full body cast and neck brace. There is a text bubble leading from the woman asking "Why don't you just try harder?" (The words "try harder" is underlined for emphasis.) Text at the top reads [#mentalillnessfeelslike]. There is a logo at the bottom left for Mental Health America. And the artists watermark on the bottom right that reads [Gemma Correll]

Image description: There is a plain white background with pink and black text. The pink is in a more elegant font. The top line is in pink and larger than the rest. It reads, "I AM SICK". The next line is in the smaller simple, black font. It reads, "I'm not stupid or mentally disabled. I'm not crazy. It's not stress, it's not in my head. I'm not causing this to myself. I'm not making it up. I'm learning about myself everyday. How well I deal with this sickness. I can still do things for myself. I like my independence, but sometimes may need your help." Then the font changes to an equally small pink, elegant font and reads, "Don't take that as weakness, or that I'm giving up. I'm trying the best I can." Finally, in the black font again it reads, "We all need a little boost from time to time, lend a hand. You never know how much it could mean."

I'm an English major and I know how English works and I would never make an intentionally misleading poll on Tumblr dot com just because I was feeling a little silly

My man, they only have similar endings.

Dove has an "uh" sound while move and prove both have an "oo" sound.

Oh, you mean like in "floor?"

Not previous fellow, but no - floor's oo is pronounced the same as the o in or.

Okay, like "door" then?

No, that's the same sound as or again. Thinking about it more, I suspect it comes down to 'its kinda an o, but it's weird, so double o'

I'm an English major and I know how English works and I would never make an intentionally misleading poll on Tumblr dot com just because I was feeling a little silly

My man, they only have similar endings.

Dove has an "uh" sound while move and prove both have an "oo" sound.

Oh, you mean like in "floor?"

Not previous fellow, but no - floor's oo is pronounced the same as the o in or.

Acknowledgement. Thanks. Explanation makes sense.

What about the safety laws created by incompetents to fix problems that don’t exist?

What if they’re created by corrupt officials to destroy competition? Or to get kickbacks to the officials?

In fact, RSC is just assuming regulations would’ve saved the sub, because regulations good™. 

Visible fire alarms have nothing to do with fire alarm manufacturers. It has to do with a fully deaf person working alone late at the office when the alarm goes off, and asphyxiating because he doesn’t know to get out.

Building codes today (in the US at least) are written by the ICC and ANSI. I’m sure there’s contractors in there but mostly they’re materials scientists and engineers. Is the code complex? Yeah, but it’s not impenetrable, and it’s complex because it covers almost every possible building. Your local credit union branch and the tallest skyscraper in the US were built with (largely) the same codebook.

The main issue I have with code is that so much of it references standards and other rulesets which are paywalled. Someone has to shell out money to private standards firms in order to comply with the law.

Interesting.