fruitbonesandmeatseeds

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Are you exclusively on Tumblr or are you guys on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.

We're going to be on Spotify at least, when we get the first episode up. I don't know about other platforms. Tumblr is more of an advertising/way to communicate with the audience type of thing.

wowie zowie our first ask!! :D i also know Dewy was suggesting we make an instagram too, but as far as I know that hasn't gotten started just yet

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Howdy!

This is the tumblr page for our podcast, Fruit Bones and Meat Seeds! :) We'll be uploading on spotify. We plan to upload two hour-ish long episodes per month, with no particular subject; just general fun times!

We'll use this account for stuff like posting when new episodes get uploaded, uploading clips or supplementary materials, or just generally making silly little posts about our silly little thoughts.

We have three members:

Lottery🐸 (they/them): probably the most active here, and the most familiar with tumblr as a whole; adhd/aroace & into fandom culture! ^^

Gabbo🧁: probably the least familiar with internet as a whole (I'm not gonna get your jokes), umm here's some labels: nerd, bookworm, weirdo, tomboy, pooosssibblyy emo...i like cats!

Dewy💀 (he/him): (this is written by Lottery cause he was too busy to get around to writing his own bio lol) adhd, creative writing nerd (like super mega uber creative writing nerd), has vibes that are very. wiggly, if that makes sense

We are all theatre kids, into creative writing & D&D, and other things I can't think of rn lol

Our Ask Box is always open! ^^

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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?

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Scaliger Castle, Sirmione, Italy

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Did you know that the Pukeko, a bird native to New Zealand, has the same sized feet as a baby that it does as an adult? The feet are so big on the little chicks it's adorable

Just figured you would like to know! :)

my GOD

that’s possibly the worst ratio of don’t-worry-you’ll-grow-into-it that I’ve ever seen on a baby animal!

my condolences to the Pukeko.

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Dreamed that there was a mundane-setting TTRPG I’m going to call “Greg and Maureen” where the players are visiting a non-player character couple their characters are friends with. But the couple is going through a rough spot! The objective was to investigate their relationship and either to help their marriage or hasten their divorce. It’s always small town and you’re always staying at their house. Players could add a little flavor of how they knew Greg and Maureen and even choose some minor traits for them before the game.

I’d played the game with another group before, but I didn’t know there were multiple paths. There’s a note Greg writes confessing to something, but depending on the dice roll it’s a different note. The content of a major plot point depended on a 2d6 dice roll.

In the dream, I’d previously played a version where he confessed to cheating on Maureen with another woman, so I thought Maureen should see the note, but in the game we were playing, my friend Celia found the note, which actually said that Greg was dishonorably discharged from the army for a gay relationship (he’s bisexual) before he met Maureen, and that he had lied about having had an honorable discharge. So for a while I came off as an asshole because I kept saying that Maureen needed to know the contents of the note so that she could confront him about what he did to her, and my friend seemed to me to be unusually blasé about what I thought was an affair.

There were other possible notes. In other timelines he had never had an affair, never been in the army, never even loved her, etc. There was another possible note where you learned he’d lied to her that he was good at track in high school (imagine an impressive mile time, which my dream mind supplied as 6:40, though that won’t even get you into varsity level) when he was actually bad at track in high school (14 minute mile). This was a lie he’d told, like, once, and he and Maureen almost never talked about running or high school sports.

In every possible timeline, Greg was Utterly Wracked with guilt about his secret. Yes, even the high school track universe.

Also, if players had decided that Greg was white before the game, you could unlock a timeline where his secret was that his distant ancestors had been in league with THE Devil from Christianity between like 1830s and 1910s. (The devil was just their accountant. He was ashamed of them for non-devil reasons.) In this timeline, you could actually meet the devil.

You didn’t find a note in every timeline, so sometimes you had to work off other evidence. I had only ever played mainly investigating Greg, but you could also focus on investigating Maureen. I think the other players and I just suspected him of hiding something every time, due to our biases. Sorry Greg! Guess we weren’t real gregheads.

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reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

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Level of respect a class of teens I have to teach art to have for me when I walk in: 0%

Level of respect after I draw sasuke from memory on the whiteboard: beyond anything you could possibly imagine