discord is going to roll out a new system of usernames which means you will have to have a username which has to be completely unique from any other username. which means a LOT of people are going to have to choose a new username.

if you, like me and many other people, hate this idea i suggest submitting a request form:

under "what can we help you with?" choose "help & support" and then when it takes you to the form, under "type of question?" choose "feedback/new feature request"

give them feedback. let them know their userbase doesn't want this.

important edit! make sure you reply to the automated email discord sends you so that your feedback actually gets to discord instead of being in limbo forever

small boom shadow drawing

my only impression of boom shadow currently is try hard loser, especially that stance he does

We have to start firing rent lowering shots again. Post all yer cringe. Scare them off.

But if you follow any of the new redditors make sure they know it's not about them. They've been such darlings, and they need to know we don't want them gone.

when it comes to sonadow being not made fun of by sonic team workers and stuff people will ask what changed but i think what changed it roger the craig smith came back in after voicing a gay character in bugsnax and went "alright ive done my research lets do this ive decided"

post-bugsnax roger craig smith walked in to the booth and immediately kissed kirk thornton on the mouth

yeah he was the gay one

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

Contrary to popular belief, there are three states a cat in a box might be: Alive, Dead, or Bloody Furious.

- Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett.

twitter is temporary sonadow is forever

"Plant blindness" was coined as a term relating to the tendency to fail to notice plants in your environment, to view them as unimportant backdrop.

The tendency that concerns me the most is not this per se, but rather the inability to notice plants that comes from the inability to identify them, causing your brain to see the world in terms of "grass" surfaces, "weeds," "flowers" and "bushes" and "trees"

I can identify most wild plants I encounter on sight now—it's hard to even imagine how I lived differently.

The change is shocking. Learning to see plants was not just a matter of adding knowledge to my head, but creating totally new neural pathways. I believe my brain's capability for noticing and processing detail is profoundly increased. I can look much more closely at surfaces and objects and notice and be immediately drawn to small details.

The way I take photos is very different. When I look at outdoor photos from before I learned the plants, they are very broad and zoomed-out pictures of only the most obvious and unmissable features. It really appears like I was stumbling through the world almost blind, able to see big, obvious objects and nothing else.

And when I started learning to identify plants, oh, it was so painful, they all looked the same, and I couldn't even see the small details that set them apart! And there were no good resources or guides! I was fighting for my life!

And it's normal, that's the wild thing, most people go through life not being able to name the common plants that are all around them. This thought is scary and alien to me now, but a couple years ago I was entirely aware of my ignorance and felt no need to fix it. I didn't even know what the trees in my backyard were and I had lived here for 10 years and I wasn't troubled by it.

Reasons knowing the plants is important:

In another dimension...

adrien: yknow despite everything, learning that my father died doing something good and selfless is soothing to me. My desire for him to be these things again is something I have been vocal about for multiple seasons so knowing that goodness wasn't fully gone is helping me cope with the grief of losing a parent and might be a good first step to processing the bad he did, especially to myself, but given this is the last few minutes of a season finale I can't exactly unpack that just yet.

the fandom: it would have been morally better if Adrien's grieving process included simultaneously processing that his dad was so obsessive and bitter and cruel that he terrorised a city for a year in service of his goals, and the a lot of the good that he continued to express in that time was lying or for selfish goals. Also the person to break that news to him should be his teenage girlfriend who he generally looks upon as a figure of stability and safety.

Reblogging things I like feels a lot more goblinesque than upvoting ever did. The upvotes felt like "hmm yes, I approve *golf claps*" while reblogging feels like furtively staring at something before shoving it in your mouth and scurrying back underneath the nearest piece of furniture.

Which isn't to say that I don't like it. But I definitely find myself going "maybe I shouldn't reblog this because I've already reblogged a bunch of things today and I don't want to look like I don't have a life," I say as I close the app and reopen it like one of those little automatic box toys with the switches.

God seeing the redditors on here really is just reminding me of everything I like about this site

so i have a mildly popular “reblog and put in in the tags” post going around and its. very clear how many people don’t know how to interact with a tumblr post

so, first of all, tumblr’s culture has changed a lot in the past couple years. there’s a genuine community effort to not start any drama, and ironically a lot of the current hostility is an effort to keep things calm. there’s also a change in how people interact with posts, so if you haven’t been here in a while please skip down to the tags/replies/reblog with text section.

for newcomers: you should be reblogging posts about as liberally as you would like something on twitter. if you only like stuff, people will think you are rude/a bot. you’ve probably heard people talk about “cultivating your dash,” and thats because this platform is 100% centered around your dashboard. trending matters less, unfollowing and blocking in order to shape your dash into it’s best form is widely accepted, the majority of the content you’ll find and interact with will be because of your dash, and the only way to put things on your dash is to reblog them. tumblr users are deeply distrustful of algorithms and have largely turned off the “see posts your friends have liked” function (i recommend you also turn of the various algorithms in settings → general settings → dashboard preferences).

so, once you’ve reblogged a post, there’s three ways to add content to it. the tags, replies, and reblogging with text. all of them have different connotations

the tags: an inside voice. originally they were meant for organizing your blog (and they’re still used for this), but they’ve also morphed into a way to share thoughts that aren’t funny/insightful enough for non-followers to be interested in. when in doubt, put your comment in the tags

replies: basically talking to your friends in class. your followers have no way of finding your replies (they don’t pop up on the dash, nobody gets notified except for the original poster) so chances are, only the person who made the post is gonna see your comment. it’s for quick one-offs that you’re okay with other people overhearing, but really is only made for one person. they’re like a public dm

reblog with text: an outside voice. you’re getting up on a stage in town square and entertaining people. make sure it’s funny or insightful— bottom line, add something new to the conversation. you should use this the least

general rules of thumb: 

Finally real advice for new users. This is a solid guide for how to make the transition from Twitter to Tumblr.

In particular, artists need you to reblog. A reblog helps them get seen. A like doesn’t help them at all.

No offence, but no, Marinette did not spare Gabriel because of the nightmare. She spared him because she's fundamentally a nice, kind person at heart, someone who genuinely wants to give people second chances, who thrives on love and friendship and thinks that seeing the best in everyone is a good quality to have. She did it because she's a superhero.

Also note that even in the nightmare, she kills Gabriel by accident, not on purpose as a punishment, because that's just not who she is, even in her wildest dreams. Completely different scenario.

marinette’s nightmare is more likely tied to her decision to not tell adrien than her decision to spare gabriel. the nightmare wasn’t about accidentally killing gabriel, it was about making adrien cry. it was about how even after she slays the dragon he’s still hurting and still not free. so she does her best to prevent that in their final scene: she gives him his freedom and lies to spare his feelings because she never wants to see him trapped or hurt.

She's trying to be nice.

Nice is not the same as GOOD.

Sometimes good is holding your poor scared puppy so the vet can give her those shots and take that blood for a heart worm test.

Some times good is cutting out the tumor and bombarding the body with poison so it never comes back.

Some times good hurts.

Please don't ask me for relationship advice unless you are prepared to receive some truly upsetting information because some people are ready for the "He's exhibiting the literal textbook signs of a psychological abuser and you need to get away from him before he successfully cuts you off from your support network" talk and some people aren't

FOR WHOEVER NEEDS A REMINDER:

GUYS GUYS GUYS, i just realized something, so in miles’ suit his spider is always upside down, and that’s something that really bothered though out the across the spider verse, but it’s obvious super intentional. because the spider isn’t falling, it’s rising, just like miles through the first movie

that’s just something i thought everyone should know lmao

Why is Teruhashi into Saiki? Why has Teruhashi shown no interest in any other man? Why is Teruhashi so obsessed with Aiura's breasts and hair and culture?

Is she a lesbian with a weakness for pathetic little blorbos? Is she bi and grey-ace? Is she just really into bitches with psychic powers?

The answer may surprise you.

Teruhashi is actually really into...

This also explains why she's so fascinated by Saiki's "hairpins" and always immediately goes to grab them when given the chance.