#He missed the best one
if we all spent just six hours a day working on some kind of complex tapestry in contemplative silence nobody would have the problems they currently have
we would have entirely NEW problems. the tapestry discourse would be intense
Next Generation of Starter Pokemon looks pretty cool!
Just a reminder my blog is trans inclusive. It’s bi inclusive. It is pan inclusive. It is intersex inclusive. It is ace/asexual inclusive. It is aro/aromantic inclusive. It is queer inclusive.
I don’t support terfs or exclusionists.
If you came here looking for an ally in your bigotry you came to the wrong blog. Go away. You are not welcome here.
Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees
Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:
- Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.
- Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.
- Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.
- Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:
- Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.
Basic Features of the Site:
- Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.
- The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top
- You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.
- Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up
- You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff
- You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.
- Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.
Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:
- Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog
- Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.
- If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.
- You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"
- Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.
- Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.
- We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.
- Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.
General Etiquette:
- Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.
- Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.
- Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it
- You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.
- Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.
- Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit
- You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.
- Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.
- Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.
- If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal
- Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.
Tips:
- Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension
- In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.
- You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!
- Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs
- Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.
Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!
Having just finished Lady Knight I'm reflecting on how fundamentally different Kel's story is from Daine and Alanna.
Alanna and Daine are both heavy on The Nonsense (to use @holy-muffins excellent phrase). You can roughly sum them up as The Beginning Of The Nonsense and The Nonsense Escalates. And both of them have these very specific backgrounds, and they have powers, and the gods are constantly bothering them (and this goes for Arram Draper too)... Kel is just Kel (except for the one head's up from the Chamber).
Like, you can roughly sum up Protector of the Small as Kel Goes to School and then Kel's First Job. She's an excellent knight, but just regular flavour excellent. The entirety of First Test and of Squire is just Kel's education with a few hiccups. The climax of both is just, a final exam. The big climax of Page culminates in A Courtroom Drama, in Squire. The big climax of Lady Knight Kel describes as the greatest disappointment of her life.
Its amazing. She's living her life in the aftermath of all the Nonsense, but that's just her life, she's grown up with it.
Yes! You are so right! I think this is why I resonate with Kel more as an adult than I did as a kid.
Alanna and Daine are "chosen ones", they're unusual and special and I felt like the world was telling me I was too and that's what's important. But Kel is just a girl, then woman, who has a supportive family and is determined to live the life she wants to live. As an adult I've recognized that most people, myself included, aren't special, and that's not a bad thing cause what matters is what you do.
Weirdly I'm now realizing that its the fact that Kel isn't a "chosen one" character that makes the PotS books so expansive.
Alanna and Daine both spend a lot of the climaxes of their books off to one side of where everyone else is, for a very good reason, they have to run off and Fight The Villain. They're absorbed in dealing with the Divine Whatever and the other characters have to deal with everything that comes from that. But Kel is squarely in the "everything that comes from that" group.
Like, going back to my favourite scene in Lioness Rampant, Alanna hears about what Raoul has done to modernize the King's Own after she gets back from retrieving the Dominion Jewel. Kel gets to see it all up close, because she's a regular squire working with them for 4 years straight. The things that set her apart (having grown up in the Yamani Islands and being The Girl Page actually make her MORE interconnected to everything. She sees more of the politics. She talks to more people.
Alanna and Daine ultimately have to leave the main battle to fight Duke Roger and Emperor Ozorne alone. Kel plans to do that with Blayce... and 5 separate groups of people immediately plan to come with her and she brings an extra group back with her.
The vibe
nyc looking like the filters they put over hollywood movies to indicate the location is mexico rn
Hmmm ummm what the fuck. I’m more south down the coast and we have a health advisory and it’s smoggy but atleast it doesn’t look like THAT! I just popped onto the earthcam livestream on nyc to see for myself and it genuinely looks even worse than this picture?!? Yikes! Everyone stay safe!
i cant stress enough how much it looks like that right now. it took me a few minutes to try to find just the right settings to capture how orange it is because the camera app doesnt have manual white balance settings. i had to turn my lights on, it looks apocalyptic right now.
you can't see much across the hudson river
yeah that's a bit fucked up
🎉 Happy 10 Year Anniversary to Episode 1.01!
Okay. Ok. Here is the story of Finn and the Dragon Egg. When Finn was around 3 ½ I took him to a comic convention about an hour away. He was so excited! He dressed up as Dipper from Gravity Falls and I told him he could pick one (1) piece of merch to purchase. Well. My child found the vendor selling dragon eggs. Beautiful. Hard and scaled. Obviously hand-painted and packaged with obvious care in cute little crates. He immediately knew that was what he wanted. I told him he had to wait and look at other merch before making his final decision. Of course, two hours later we were right back at the dragon egg vendor. He picked a beautiful pink and purple one. They gently wrapped it and he carried it very carefully back to the car and through the hour-long car trip home.
Only. When we got home he told me “Mom, I Can’t Wait until my egg hatches into a baby dragon!!!!” I panicked. “Well.” I said, sweating profusely. “The thing about dragons is…they actually take 300 years to hatch.” At 3 ½ he wasn’t really sure what that meant. “So it might not hatch during your lifetime. But you are responsible for the egg and taking care of it and keeping it safe, okay?” I told him what an important responsibility it is to care for a dragon egg. How special and precious it is. So he reads to it every day, says good morning every morning, good night before bed, sometimes he takes it out of its nest box and holds it, extremely carefully. In the winter he wraps it in its own little blanket.
Finn is almost six now and he’s still a very responsible dragon egg caregiver. And that’s the story of how our family came to be the keeper of a dragon.
Northern Constellations Star Quilt
I think it's about time I make a masterpost for this quilt, pattern by Haptic Labs -- I started making it in February 2021 as fulfillment of the 2nd wedding anniversary gift of "cotton" for @starfoozle and I. As of May 28th, 2023, I completed the last stitches. Last night we were able to sleep under it :')
Honestly - and I freely admit I’m poking the bear here - the finale, and indeed Ted Lasso as a whole, feels like an aspec’s dream. So many shows prioritise romance over everything else, and I am fucking delighted that Ted Lasso never did that.
Rebecca and Ted not together? Keeley, Jamie and Roy love triangle/throuple not resolved? Was Trent ever into Ted? Who the hell cares? That was never the point of the show. The point is that the love is there regardless of what form it takes - between Keeley, Jamie and Roy, between Ted and Rebecca, between Nate and Ted, between Beard and Ted, between Trent and the Diamond Dogs, between Nate and the team, between the various Greyhounds, between all these other individuals who’ve been touched by the events at Richmond FC - and that’s always been the freaking point.
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i rly wanna know like americans and non-americans- were u immunised against chicken pox or did ur parents rather u just get infected as a child??
I was born just a few years before the vaccine was even available, and I contracted chickenpox before the vaccine was part of routine vaccination (and mandatory in schools).
Which doesn’t sound so bad on its own, but at sixteen my immune system collapsed, and the previous mild case of chickenpox I had at nine suddenly gave me a violent and atypical case of shingles. My whole damn body was covered in pustules, even down my throat. Wherever there was skin, it was covered in pox. I nearly died. The doctors told my mother if she had waited just two more hours to get me to the hospital in Indy (my hometown hospital refused to even give me an E.R. bed ‘because it’s just chickenpox’, despite our pleas that I was immunocompromised), I would have died.
I was out of school for three months with a PICC line going straight to my heart pumping acyclovir into me even after I was discharged from the PICU. I never recovered academically and I ended up forced out of school the next year because they hated that I was wrecking attendance records with my frequent illnesses.
It’s only in the last five years that most of the pox scars have faded. I was sixteen then. I’m thirty now.
People/parents love to think that chickenpox is a normal and harmless part of childhood, almost a right of passage. Oh it’s just a week or so if mild itching, life will go on. No need to get my child vaccinated. Hell, let’s intentionally infect our young child by hosting chickenpox party! Better to have it at a young age, they say! But I wasn’t immunocompromised yet when I got chickenpox at 9. And at sixteen that same “harmless” virus latent within me nearly killed me. And even with the basic chickenpox, things can and have gone catastrophically wrong. Your perfectly healthy kid might come into contact with another kid on chemo. Suddenly that kid can die just like I almost did. Even your perfectly healthy kid can have a freak reaction and be killed by chickenpox.
The chickenpox vaccine has been around and available for over two decades now. Chickenpox and further complications like shingles are completely avoidable. Get your kid vaccinated
A vaccine wasn’t available when I was a kid so I picked it up at the age of four. My brother’s best friend came to visit and sat with me awhile to cheer me up- only to catch them himself at 15. He took them home to his dad- never had them. Half his family ended up in the hospital and his dad nearly died. Get your vaccines, folks.
I was vaccinated as a kid, but not until I was like 6 or 7? And from what I was told, we had early access to the vaccine because dad was military. Also, I feel like it should be pointed out that having been vaccinated (at least in the 90s, idk if anything about the vaccine has changed and I honestly don’t super understand how vaccines work) doesn’t mean your possibility of shingles is 0. It does, however, mean you’re considerably less likely to get shingles than someone who actually had chickenpox, and your shingles are likely to be less severe. Vaccines are important.
Hi, also older than the vaccine! My brother brought chicken pox home when I was 3. And my story isn’t dire like the above. No one almost died. Honestly, I don’t even remember having it. But you know what I do have?
A permanent scar.
In the middle of my forehead.
Even a mild, unmemorable, not dangerous case of chicken pox left me with a scar for life. An unflattering scar, in a prominent location.
Seriously, why do people not fucking vaccinate when the vaccines are right fucking there?
Vaccinate your kids, you assholes.
Hey gang, guess what I've been dealing with this past week? If you're going to guess a case of T1 Shingles, then you're right!
I thought it was something wrong with my shoulder blade, then my left breast hurt like I was being stabbed, and it progressed down the underside of my left arm, before I even got any sign of a rash. It's been a week of stabbing, burning pain in those areas. It sucks. And! I'm only 36! I'm too young to get the shingles vaccine by 14 years. (I'm the second mid-30s person I know to get shingles, and my boss got it in her mid 40s. I'm starting to think it's not just people over 60 who get it anymore.)
I'm so so so glad my daughter is vaccinated against chicken pox. I was also born before the vaccine was widely available, but having chicken pox is one of my earlier memories, and it sucked. Shingles sucks now.
Vaccinate your kids, for now, and for the future.
did u kno: ur icon is actually you in 20 years
I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.
But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?
My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.
A few months later
All hail the High Warden of Gondor.
Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.
I’m going to wear this on my head like a raccoon and show everyone
Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it's time for me to talk about offleash dogs
Reasons not to have your dog offleash at a public park:
1) roads (this one is self-explanatory)
2) it makes the park inaccessible to like, entire swathes of the population. If you have experience with police dogs or guard dogs in your neighborhood, or you're a new immigrant from somewhere with a large population of feral dogs, it sucks ass going to the park and having someone's massive lab bound up to you!
3) If, for example, you are in a protected wetland area plastered with friendly signs asking you to please leash your dog to avoid causing an ecological impact, having your dog offleash might cause an ecological impact! "Oh no, my dog is well-behaved, they would never bother the wildlife" wrong! your dog is in the pond trying to eat the endangered Blandings' turtles!
4) Non-zero chance of a jokerified park guide (me) just clipping your dog to a leash and stealing them
5) “Oh but my dog is friendly!” If your unleashed “friendly” dog runs up to my leashed UNFRIENDLY dog, and my dog bites yours, guess who’s getting the blame despite doing everything right?
6) Allergies. “Oh but my dog is friendly!” oh well that’s great I guess I can just put the epipen away because, yknow, he didn’t mean to induce anaphylactic shock, it was all in good fun, nothing to worry about!
7) Small children, the elderly and disabled people. “Oh but my dog is so friendly!” When your friendly dog slams into me/jumps on me/knocks me over I am just as injured.
addendum to the point about dog trauma above -- it's not required for someone to have had a traumatizing experience with police/guard/feral dogs specifically in order to have had a traumatizing experience with dogs. absolutely any kind of person can be triggered by having a dog race up to them. you have no way of knowing an individual is triggered by the presence of dogs until your dog has already triggered them. just fucking keep it on a leash at all times outside of no-leash dog parks and your backyard.
also: if i have to tell you outright "i don't want to meet your dog", or if i physically step back away from it, pull it back immediately. do not fucking wait around and tell me how sweet and friendly it is while letting it come closer to me. if i am speaking up or visibly trying to avoid it, you need to do something about your animal. no exceptions.
#listen#my dog is cute#my dog is small#and#my dog is always leashed#i also try to give people the sidewalk when we pass by going onto the grass#because she wants to get close to everyone#but not everyone wants to get close to her#she is a small dachshund#but she also barks loudly and a lot#/i/ know she's not agressive#/they/ don't know that#i will say out loud that she is friendly but just loud#but i say it from a distance and keep her away from people unless they ask if they can say hi#it is my responsibility to keep her safe by keeping her leashed#and it is my responsibility to be a good member of society by keeping her leashed and giving people space from her as much as possible#dogs
i made a roast tonight for the first time and it actually turned out really good
at 35 i'm finally a real adult y'all
seriously this might be the perfect adhd/disabled cook's Nice Meal
you just
you just slap a slab of meat in a pan. peel potatoes and put em whole or halved in a circle around the meatslab with some baby carrots. sprinkle some stuff. dump a couple cans of cream of mushroom all over it. cover with tin foil. oven at 325
AND THEN YOU LEAVE IT
FOR HOURS
it smells really really good for a while before it's ready so you can't even completely forget about it and fuck up the timing
i even took a nap
[image id: @princesssarcastia replied to the post saying "would LOVE to see the directions for this, it sounds great"]
:D it IS and if you ever try it out, let me know how it goes!
stuff:
- 1 chuck roast (size only matters for how hot your oven/how many hours it's in there/what your budget can handle)
- russet potatoes (however many fit in your roast pan/large baking dish; we used half a bag)
- seasoning salt (i used Lawry's) and meat tenderizer (brand is whatever)
- 1 packet of onion soup mix (lipton's or off brand is fine, i used off brand); it normally comes in a box of two of em and you use one packet
- 1-2 cans of cream of mushroom soup (1 might do but buy 2 just in case)
how do:
- preheat your oven to 325 (if you have an especially enormous meatslab or need to shorten cooking time a bit, 345, but not hotter)
- slap your chuck roast slab in the center of your roast pan/large baking dish
- season the top liberally with meat tenderizer and seasoning salt. you do not have to stab or beat it with a hammer
- peel and rinse your potatoes (full disclosure; we don't currently own an acutal potato peeler and my hand steadiness ain't shit, so i tapped @odairiver for the peeling)
- you want your potatoes roughly the same size, so some might need to be cut in half. stick em in a ring around your meat slab
- add baby carrots, as many as your heart (or enjoyment of carrots) recommends
- sprinkle over all of this the packet of onion soup mix
- open 1 can of cream of mushroom soup and dump it out on top. spread it around thoroughly with a spatula/knife/spoon/whatever, and if your meat/potatoes/etc aren't sufficiently covered, open can 2. extra gravy is never bad
- cover your pan/dish with tin foil, tucking around the edges
- place your dish on a rack placed mid to high in your oven
- leave it for 3-4 hours (on average; we left this one in around 5 for fall apart tenderness)
@odairiver educated me on how to know it's done (it will smell amazing for at least 1 hour before it's ready, brace yourself and snack lightly if needed):
you can take the dish out of the oven, stab a potato to make sure it's cooked through, and then stab the meat. if it goes in with little/no resistance into the meat and pulling slightly to the side starts separating a chunk from the rest, it's ready
FEAST
edit: @silvain-shadows made a good point in another reblog that you can use red potatoes instead of russet. red potatoes don't need peeling, which is a huge bonus if you don't have a roommate who will peel taters for you.
i have not tried doing this (obviously, tonight being my first roast), but my only concern at all would be that they'd overcook to being too soft in the oven that long, since red potatoes cook faster and more easily than russet. still, i'm sure they'd be plenty tasty
some updates!
since I have made several more roasts since the original roastpost, i wish to share and report some more stuff i've learned through experimentation:
- two cans cream of mushroom, not one. one simply does not give you enough gravy and the gravy is key to making sure your roast comes out fallapart tender
- if you're cool with a minor extra step, get a small mixing bowl, dump your cream of mushroom cans in it, add your onion soup mix, and stir together until smooth and even in color. just makes sure your gravy is more fully constituted, whereas skipping this does mean you may have unmixed pockets in your finished roast. not a tragedy if you just don't feel like doing this
- the red potatoes do work just as well as the russet. i like the russet better overall personally, but the red potatoes are very good in it also and do indeed require less prep
- 3-5 hours is a delicate time range and you need to stab-check your roast at least at the 3 hour mark. if it's not done then, check it again at hour 4; left one in 5 hours on blind faith one time and it overcooked more than pleased me
- did tonight's Big Food Day meal as a roast and actually cooked it at 350. was perfectly and completely done at exactly 3 hours and extremely delicious. we did just move, so remember ovens are unique and stroppy snowflakes and learn how yours behaves
as always, check the post's notes in comments and tags where people have left their own tips and favorite recipes for roasts, slow-cooked meats, and straightforward adhd-friendly meals! great resource tbh and one of my favorite things about how this post has gotten around
go forth and roast, my darlings, enjoy the experimentation and learning process, and i hope you all have wonderful food <3
Finishing up this Mermay with raccoons 🦝 Raccoomaids? Mercoons?
Blame my Discord for this
the thing they dont tell you about listening to the adventure zone for the first time is that you'll miss them for the rest of your life. taako magnus and merle will be held in your heart wherever you go. when you binge it and get caught up to the eleventh hour in 2016 and you're a sophomore in high school shoving your sweatshirt sleeve in your mouth to stop yourself from laughing you have no idea that you'll be coming up on christmas 2022 and it's been six years and a goblin that looks like common and sounds like kelsey grammer will still make you laugh. you hear "are you naming your god damn wizard taako?" and that's it for you. you're in for life.
Tears of the Kingdom: Wiggle to Detach (colorized)