Sapphire Clawe

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

This needs to be reblogged today.

Consenting to see adult content doesn’t mean you should have to see a bunch of shit romanticizing incest and pedophilia you walnut

Except this is the last line of consent before the actual work. So if you’re at this button you have already done the following:

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

You walnut.

This is the most beautiful thing that I have seen about ao3

“You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.”

Stop complaining with writers when you dislike a story FGS

This also works when stories are tagged, oh say, infidelity. If you don’t want to read about someone in your OTP being unfaithful (I.E., HAVING SEX WITH A DIFFERENT PERSON), don’t read that freaking story. The tags are there for YOU. So stop complaining when the story contains exactly what the author says it contains. Freaking hell.

If I go to the supermarket, walk down the fish aisle, pick up a salmon fillet, pay for it, take it home, put it in the oven, wait for it, take it out, then take a bite…

I cannot complain to Tesco that I don’t like fish.

all the 9 to 5ers scrolling through tumblr at 7am like we're reading the morning paper. raising our coffee cups in greeting by reblogging each others posts.

Small town culture is knowing that there are Old Folks with strange nicknames but never knowing the stories behind them.

Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.

His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.

I‘m trying to arrange my face into an appropriate approximation of silent bafflement and failing miserably.

i appreciate brickaday

chaotic good

My grandpa once told me he worked with a guy called Scrappy at General Motors back in the 50s. Every few days he would wheelbarrow out metal shavings and the foreman was convinced he was stealing things and hiding them in the scrap metal to get it out of the factory. But every time they’d go through the scrap they’d find nothing. He was stealing the wheelbarrows.

One of my late grandfather’s friends was called Salami because he used to steal salami and cured meats so I’m seeing a pattern here

Thieves Guild call signs

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it

but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.

Reblog if your ask box is open.

Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.

Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.

This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.

Please.

It’s been so bad lately.

There was an earthquake DURING the hurricane today.

Only the return of long-lost Slut Mint could bring 2023 back from the brink.

Oh, and if we find out it’s savory we’re either calling it Whoregano or “This-Fetus-Will-Not-Be-Carried-To-Turmeric”

Thank you, no further questions.

Clean the mold out of your reusable water bottle including the cap and straw

Mold poisoning will kill you and has a high chance of causing severe hallucinations and nightmares while it's doing it. My final message goodbye

Oh, hey, yea that's a good reminder! Wait a second tho

A year or so ago I saw someone who studies bacteria on food surfaces talking about how she never ever uses a water bottle for longer than 2 days without washing it with hot water and soap or running it through the dishwasher and I've become really adamant about it ever since. Everyone has enough water bottles to keep them cycling through the dishwasher and in use.

Also please don't die.

Yup to all of this, but also, if you read this and went “lol, I have too much ADHD for that - do you know how many water bottles I would actually need to buy?”

I need you to listen closely, right now

Yes, you might, in fact, need to buy a mountain of water bottles

“But the plastic-”

There comes times when disability, sustainability best practices, and your health cannot co-exist

And you cannot stop being disabled

You might need to not only buy a mountain of water bottles, but also keep prepackaged single use water bottles for emergencies when every surface of your house is covered in reusable water bottles that haven’t been cleaned, and you find yourself asking “what’s the harm in using this one for one more day?” for the seventh day in a row

Or going “well, I’m not that thirsty anyway” and stopping drinking water altogether

Don’t make yourself ill holding yourself to standards you cannot meet

Well, this stopped me cold.

"There comes a time when disability, sustainability best practices, and your health cannot co-exist.

"And you cannot stop being disabled."

@redrevelry

i don't wanna be a weird old person but there's this great invention that holds liquids you can drink from, it's called a cup or a glass, it can come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and you can use it any time you're near the source of the liquids you like to drink, and you can just refill it whenever, and you can wash it however you want, and if you're lazy about washing it, it's open on one side so there's nowhere for bacteria to really build up? anyway i recommend them, they used to be so fashionable as to be omnipresent and nobody seems to use them now but i promise they work great. i even like to bring them places and then pour my water from my bottle into them, and then i never put my mouth on the bottle so then i can share it without sharing germs, and don't have to wash my bottle as often, so i don't need that many bottles.

cups or glasses often come in sets of multiples, so you don't tend to run out of clean ones either!

you can even wash and reuse smallish glass jars for this purpose. salsa or jelly jars work great. a little harder to clean because the mouth is threaded, but still more sanitary than a water bottle because the mouth is wider so you can get your hand in there to scrub it. Can't recommend 'em enough.

I know this sounds condescending but I am fully losing my mind at the thought that someone would need so many water bottles to have a constant supply at all times every day or otherwise they'd get dehydrated. I'm sure there are a few lifestyles where that's the case but please let me preach to you the good word about just having a cup of water in your house. If you ever spend time in your house I really cannot recommend a drinking glass enough. You can ignore this if you like but if you had not considered drinking out of a cup let me remind you it's a thing you're allowed to do, especially if you left your good water bottle at work and don't have a spare.

Bonus: They make these things called pitchers, which you can leave in your fridge, and then you can have cold water whenever you want, in your cup!

Might I suggest the best of both worlds and introduce y'all to mason jar drink lids?

Can you drop them on the floor while capped and not have them leak? Yes. (IME the glass of the jar itself is too thick to break easily)

Can you stick a straw down the spout if you can't pick them up to drink? Yes.

Can you get different ones with infuser baskets (if you want mint water or iced tea) or other fun shit? Yes.

Can they contain both hot and cold liquids? Yes.

Most importantly: are they dishwasher safe? Typically yes.

Also IMO they taste better than normal reusable bottles because glass doesn't have a taste like metal or plastic does. I can't drink from most reusable drink containers because they taste weird to me.

Can you stick a straw

down the spout if you can’t pick

them up to drink? Yes.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

For those of us who are legitimately forgetful enough to forget a cup somewhere, or who want to be on a different floor than the beverage in question for whatever reason, the cups aren't the best idea (as someone who likes to hide in the bedroom because the rest of the house is stressful) because both spills and forgetting that "oh, there's a cup in here already!"

So I made a Light Dragon candy tray 🐉🍬

Harbinger

PUPPY HAS RECEIVED SO MANY PETS AND IS ALL WARMED UP NOW

Because some people seem to have forgotten.

This also does not include a) older media where an openly lgbt character would spell cancellation for the series or b) foreign media that cannot show open lgbt relationships due to censorship

^^^^^^

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.

Everything I learnt about Dolly Parton was against my will and it was an absolute delight every single time

I know deer are like 500 pounds of muscle but they LOOK like they're hollow. I should be able to knock on a deer and hear a metallic echo. that's what God intended but something went wrong

if you hit a deer with your car that deer should just fall apart gently at the seams and not leave a scratch. instead You die in an explosion. somethings not adding up.

They look hollow bc what you see as a deer is just the mask of their true form perceivable to us

hi! never say that again please!

They look hollow because it’s just the Wii music playing between their ears.

I just feel like that's probably not correct💜

just a reminder that if you were rolled out the test roll-out with the new post headers without floating avatars/icons to provide feedback to staff (original post in source).

i know there's already 3rd party fixes going around, but please take the time to send feedback to staff to get at least icons back in some capacity in the headers while this is still in beta testing mode.

old/current:

header being beta tested:

Thank you so much for sharing what the test looks like. That's unbearable, would make Dash unusable.

Found out today that staff is also tracking metrics (aka if youre using the dash or not) to determine how sucessful an update is. So. Uh. Even if u get an xkit function that fixes it, the tumblr system will STILL mark you as using the new desktop dash, so to anyone doing that, could you maybe, not, for a while? Cause clearly. Them receiving a bunch of negative feedback... while seeing people seemingly, to them, STILL USING THE NEW DASHBOARD, will make them believe these changes are okay and that they can make more. So uh. Idk where im going with this but. Maybe do what im doing and stopp using the desktop dash for a few days or something, and send a feedback ticket telling staff why before u log off?? Idk.

there are 2 Ethans in my daughter's class. you'd think they'd go by Ethan L and Ethan M, but they decided together that they would like to be called Lethan and Methan and I think that's fantastic

The year my brother was born, the name Chris was the most popular boy's name by a wide margin. His name is Chris. His five best friends growing up were also named Chris.

Our last name starts with a D, so for a while he was Chris D. Then he became Christie for a little while

Then for about a year my completely cis and straight brother who has never questioned his gender or sexuality in any way went by Tina.

Perhaps minimalist design is so prevalent because we no longer have anything to say.

The Cultural Tutor

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it

but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.

Reblog if your ask box is open.

Brazil high court rules homophobia punishable by prison

Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that homophobic slurs are now punishable by prison, in a decision applauded by rights activists in a country with rampant violence against the LGBTQ+ community.

The 9-1 ruling puts homophobic hate speech on the same legal level as racist hate speech, which was already punishable by prison in Brazil.

Justice Edson Fachin, the lead judge on the case, said in his ruling it was a "constitutional imperative" to give LGBTQ+ citizens equal protection under the law.

The court had ruled in 2019 that homophobia was a crime, just like racism.

But the earlier decision applied to slurs against the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, not attacks on specific individuals.

Continue reading.

"OP why are you mad that your words are being misinterpreted you're on the piss on the poor website" actually i think it's very reasonable to demand people pay attention to the words they use, the choices they make, the things they believe, and their capacity for empathy and comprehension and that it's sort of weird that you're finding humor in making excuses to just believe that there simply is no possible way to improve your actions

it's going to be (not) okay

Yeah, that tracks.

It's a real shame that no version of the "Knights and Knaves" puzzle is attested to prior to the late 19th Century, because it probably means no actual pair of castle guards ever pulled the "one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies" routine just to fuck with people.

This sounds like a challenge for any security guard reading this who works with a partner.

The only buddy-cop movie I'd watch

Jeremy Knight is a compulsive liar. Arthur Knave is a stickler for the truth. Can these two detectives get along enough to take down a dangerous drug cartel? Find out in Knight & Knave, coming this summer to Netflix.