I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

why on earth doesn’t this have more notes

I actually had to do this once. She lived.

if you scroll past this on your dash you are absolutely heartless.

Reblog this!! This can save somebody’s life!

reblog.

help.

do not scroll down.

I SWEAR TO GOD IF ANYONE SCROLLS PAST THIS WITHOUT REBLOGGING I WILL LITTERALLY FIND THEM AND GIVE THEM A LECTURE

may I just update this?

see the little thing that says help?

Don’t ever scroll past this post. FUCKING NEVER SCROLL PAST!!!

Anyone know where it is on mobile ???

You report the user, choose “something else”, scroll down and choose “suicide or self harm”

DO NOT SCROLL DOWN

REBLOG TO LITERALLY SAVE A LIVE

TREE LAW TREE LAW TREE LAW

Radioactive Hero (but not really) au

Danny moves to Gotham, hear him out! There's really good jobs there that pay through the nose and the cost of living is cheap!

Plus, the city is riddled with heroes and vilains! It's so easy to slip under the radar!

Unfortunately, there are so many civilian casualties. Like, all the time. Even in Metropolis!

So Danny, for his first year in Gotham, opens small portals to the Far Frozen and gets schooled on being a field medic. None of his powers can really be used for healing, but they can make people feel better. He just has to be careful to be as far removed from the Phantom moniker as possible, so he can't use any obvious powers.

He gets a bit of a reputation in Gotham; a small time hero of the people, for the people. A hero not invested in fighting, but in dragging civilians away from the danger. He doesn't even have a moniker; people are too busy arguing over the best one for him.

So while aliens are attacking both Metropolis and Gotham, Danny is out in full kit; a gas mask to hide his face, all black, repurposed kevlar from the vests the GCPD did not properly dispose of, no identifying markers.

But one of the clean up crews notices something insanely worrying; the geiger counter they have to point at alien spaceship parts? Yeah. Yeah, it's going off when they point it at the new small-time hero.

That hero's power is radioactivity. Holy shit. It's not at a level that will hurt people, but when he's dodging through fighting the level goes up.

The clean up crew concludes and shares via Twitter that the medic-hero is only a danger to others if he gets too stressed.

Word spreads fast, and pretty soon the absolute second Danny shows up on a scene, all fighting stops.

After all, no one wants to piss off the living Nuclear Bomb.

Basically, Danny's ghost-everything sets off Geiger counters, and now absolutely everyone is convinced that the medic-themed hero only refuses to fight because his meta power is just...being radioactive.

But he isn't.

So now, because it's the perfect cover and completely disassociated from Phantom, he has to play along and pretend like yes; that is his power.

New City, New Name, Who the Fuck is This?

When Danny had been forced to ditch his dimension, life, name, and home, he'd set his sights on a place so far removed from what he was used to, and a name he was so far removed from, that he would never be reminded of what he left behind.

With Clockwork's help, he constructed a fake Identity, got himself a decent three bedroom apartment, and settled into Gotham. Sure it was a shit hole, a terrible place full of terrible people, but it was so infested with crime that fulfilling his obsession could be easily achieved without ever going ghost.

So he settled in, laid back, and used his first few months to enjoy his new life and adjust. With his coffers as High King, he doesn't have to work, he just fashioned himself an ID as a trust fund baby and moved forward.

Then he gets a knock on his door.

It's Child Protective Services.

They're looking for Eddie Daniel Drake, his new identity. Apparently, his nephews last living parent died and Eddie was listed as the next in line to get the kid.

Problem

This is a fake Identity.

He doesn't have a brother who recently died, and he certainly doesn't have a nephew.

Which means that someone falsified documents, and the're trying to get to the kid.

So.

Shit.

Danny has a kid now.

And given how weirdly attached Bruce Wayne is, and how connected that guy is, he's kinda starting to think that maybe Mr. Wayne has something to do with the falsified documents.

The thing is, the kid is tiny, even in photographs.

Danny's human instincts are blaring, let alone his ghostly ones, which are already booming klaxlons of findprotectdefend and he agrees to meet the kid before he's even fully aware of exactly what it means for him to be doing this.

Whoever's after him is good, to have things set up so well, so quickly after the kid's, Tim's, parents deaths. It probably couldn't compare to the work done by the collective administration of the Infinite Realms and the God of Time for his documents, but the fact that it came pretty damn close was...worrying.

In any case, it's fine. It should be fine. He's already kind of a dad right? And he's surely faced worse than a ten year old orphan.

Sure Danielle ended up more of a sister than a daughter, but again, this kid was already a couple years grown! Had a chronologically experienced life and everything!

How hard could it be?

Tim is very confused. He... Was pretty sure those details were meant to be fake? But he accidentally forged documents to this random stranger.

a random stranger who immediately agreed to take him in. Clearly knowing this was fake. Just because he was a kid who needed help. Which is... A bit mind boggling really.

sojfchjfksjxhd accidental identity unfraud 🤣 Please Tim would try to flee as quickly as possible, realize that fleeing leaves him vulnerable to Being Cared About by Bruce, and then run back the way he came so that at least Batman doesn't have to be emotionally involved sjhxhxjsjdbbdh. I'm dying.

Danny just parenting this random teen he got given by accident. He is gonna be the best guardian can! He goes to parenting classes! Online forums. Whatever he can. He will do better than his parents did. And if I'm the way he applied to be a foster? He just likes kids ok.

After a few months, it’s obvious that Tim is thriving in this new environment. His eye bags have almost completely disappeared, he started to actually gain some decent weight, and he’s never bored! Not even for a second!

Sure, his new uncle was suspicious as all hell. Tim had “borrowed” the Batcomputer more than once trying to track down his real name. (His uncle had even said his real name wasn’t Eddie!) But despite his efforts, “Uncle Eddie” was technically in the system, and therefore untraceable. He had all the right paperwork you’d need to live, and nothing more than that.

notes from @zetrashguardian

#danny just stepping up and being a good dad#giving tim the love he deserves#i like to imagine that Danny is willing#and has#threatened batman over tims safety

lmfao can you imagine; Bruce tries to do another mind fuckey test on Tim, only for Danny to show up in the Batcave, eyes glowing, and say in the creepiest, glitchiest voice possible

"If you ever try to do something like this again; I will go to the afterlife and find Jason's soul to drag out of it, just so you can hear him tell you how much like his biological father you are becoming."

Bruce makes normal tests after that.

😭 Danny goes to find Jason anyways -for some reason- only to not find him in the realms and realize that something funky is going on. Eventually, maybe before LoA finds Jason wandering around lost in all the ways and just ¡yoink! Second son that needs even more help!

What if, two for one trip Son deal, Danny yoinks Damian as well as Jason?

Let me be clear, Danny has no clue this stabbly 8 year old is Bruce's kid, he just thinks a creepy ninja death cult is No Place for a Child!

Also the kid is giving off some of the same weird ectoplasm vibes that Jason has that he absolutly need to help with, so its also for his own good! If only he'd stop loosing all of his good knives in Danny...

Dami stops being quite so Stabby once Cujo decides to make an appearence.

A new migrant’s perspective on how Tumblr works

So, basically, how Tumblr works is this:

We are all, all of us, in a series of caves. Some of the inhabitants of the caves have dug little holes or access routes to the surface, where strange things like blue tweeting birds dwell. Some of us have fled here from a site the alien rules, and a few of us are splitting our time between their weirdly bright and shining domes and our comfy moss-covered holes.

From within your cave, you can dig tunnels. Some people choose to dig tunnels up to the top of other peoples’ caves just to observe. Occasionally they might sneak down and steal a choice morsel to drag back to their own hoard, sometimes they just observe. Some tunnels don’t lead to the caves owned by other individuals, but instead to dumping grounds where people shove copies of things that they think are related to a single topic. There’s no actual rules to that, per-se, it’s just a sortve rule by collective consensus about what kinds of things should go in that cave. Sometimes things get shoved in there which don’t really belong, but that’s fine too.

Some people cultivate their caves to reflect their own specific sets of interest - maybe their hoard has a theme, a motif, a genre. Some people just grab whatever looks shiny and show it off to whoever comes by to look.

When you find something that’s interesting, you can - and should - grab it and run back to your cave and put it on display. As everyone knows, piracy isn’t stealing, since it makes a copy, so the original is left untouched. That’s how things spread down here. There’s no real pacing to it, so sometimes someone will make a thing, show it off, and no one will notice that it’s there until later, at which point it might take off running through the caves as everyone grabs a copy. Sometimes it does that in fits and starts. Sometimes it hits a particularly nutrient rich patch of the caves and grows way out of control, far beyond its original creator’s intentions. Like a slime mold that hit a big ol batch of protozoa. The slime mold thing is probably more accurate than it should be.

The point isn’t the spread, though. Tumblr works opposite of how most other big content sites like Facebook and Reddit and Twitter work. In all of those, the point is to yell at the top of your lungs and get as many people to hear you. If you can’t get enough people to hear you, you might spend billions to buy the platform and try to buy more of an audience that way, because the audience is the point.

On Tumblr, instead, the audience is irrelevant. The treasures you can bring back to your cave are the point. The point is to hoard and collect and grow your shinies. It’s nice to show them off (because who doesn’t like it when their hoard is admired?) but it’s the having and the getting, not the giving.

it’s more work than reddit or facebook or twitter, because no one is out here trying to tell you what should go in your hoard. Everyone everywhere else has strong feelings on what kind of kitsch and treasures and knickknacks you should have. Here, you have to dig. You’ll find a lot of trash in the process, but you have the choice of where your tunnels lead, and which garbage pi… other people’s hoards you’re sifting through, so it’s a friendly sort of grubbing in the dirt that feels comfy once you’re used to the muck.

I like it here.

deductions!

i am literally losing it people

WE FUCKING DID IT ‼️ (the whole interview) (the shorter clip)

Dracula has gone ages living off of scraps, and finally in the culmination of his planning drank from Jonathan to celebrate

He can be patient, he can bide his time

But he chooses to terrify the crew of the Demeter, to sow panic, and drag them into horror one by one

“Tree law” is trending after Universal absolutely destroyed the trees sheltering the sidewalks where the picket line for SAG AFTRA and the WGA is out front and I for one could not be more thrilled to watch shit go down due to their own incompetence and greedy bullshit

so SAG-AFTRA finally released some official guidance for fans, viewers, creators/influencers, critics, and more during the strike. here's what you need to know:

2. they're asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.

3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they're asking people to use their best judgement. "organically" means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company's social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).

obviously this doesn't answer every question, and isn't hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!

You love to see it. (Not the destruction of trees, obvs, but shitheads meeting their oncoming comeuppance at the hands of trees.)

Wake up babe new fish dropped

Fact-check: The squid pictured above isn't a strawberry squid! It looks like a relative, but if I had to guess, I'd say the one pictured above is a Histioteuthis reversa (reverse jewel squid or elongate jewel squid), while strawberry squids' scientific name is Histioteuthis heteropsis.

Importantly, though, they're both members of the genus Histioteuthis, commonly known as the cock-eyed squids, because their eyes are weird as hell.

Histioteuthis species have a unique method of hunting; they swim with one eye pointing up and one eye pointing down, so they can see predators and prey both above and below them. The eye looking up spots dark shadows against an already-dim background, meaning it needs to be very sensitive to light; as a result, their other eye looks like fucking this

that green orb thing? that's their eye! It's incredibly specialized at detecting shadows; it's even evolved yellow fluorescence to make them better at it!

This image of a Histioteuthis heteropsis (strawberry squid) was taken with a blue light; as you can see, the squid's big eye is fluorescing yellowish-green. This allows them to see through their prey's camouflage: many deep-sea fish have bluish bioluminescence on their bellies that hides them against the lighter background of the water's surface. The yellow filter present in the squid's eye lets them see through that bioluminescence and spot their prey.

Also, notice how the squid looks basically the same as its background in that photo, despite the fact that it's bright red? That's the whole point of the red coloring! Water filters out red light, while preserving blue light, so in the deep ocean red things appear as black. Here's a great video that shows an example, and relevant screenshots:

Even at just 155 feet below the surface, the red appears almost black, and considering that this squid lives at 660-3,300 feet, red coloration would make them blend in perfectly with the water. Tons of deep-sea animals use this strategy, including the bloody-belly comb jelly, vampire squid, deep-sea crown jelly, and whalefish.

information on all these animals can be found at mbari.org, which is where all these photos came from as well. MBARI is the research organization connected to the Monterey Bay Aquarium; they're super cool and I'd 100% recommend checking out their website!

SAG officially considers cosplays of current/past media as crossing the picket line as it can be seen as supporting the studios they're currently striking against.

(link is to a series of tweets, which include the original poster of the screenshot directly asking SAG-AFTRA what the rules are for cosplayers who want to support the strike)

I felt it was appropriate with your latest video!

And while I enjoy your art, I don't think I could trust you to sell me high quality copper.

hey now my products are of the HIGHEST quality and can I interest you in some pins

fancy

I always underestimate how easy it can be to entertain a teenager. I have this preconception that small kids find everything fun even mundane stuff while teens are jaded and self-conscious and need elaborate or cool activities, but my teen cousins are visiting this week and when they arrived I was in the greenhouse having an issue with the filter in one of the tanks, so I asked them if they could catch all the fish from one tank and move them to the other tank, and they were delighted to be given little dip nets and sit on the edge of the tank to hunt fish for 20min. As I asked them to do it I was thinking, it’s like those duck-fishing fairground games from when they were toddlers, they’ll probably think it’s a bit cringe, and five minutes into it these jaded teenagers were like, hey it’s like duck fishing at the funfair when we were toddlers, I’ve missed it, it’s fun :D

Oh no, Ubisoft games at risk of becoming even more bland and shit.