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Almost spooky time... here's my sona as a evil-pumpkin mastermind! OoOoOoOo...

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Mun’s PSA

I’ve been gone for a while. It sort of sucks that its come to this but lately I haven’t had the motivation or time to write. I really do want to come back because it was so much fun but with only two days to do this, I don’t know if it would feasible or fair to any partners I would write with. 

I’ve been tempted to come back due to a few people reaching out. I love that so much, that even though I’ve been gone for so long, you’re still willing to roleplay with me. The thing is, and this is through nobody’s fault, aside from some friends I could count on one hand, I don’t get many interactions. Most things I send fall on deft ears and I’m afraid that if I do come back, that I will be putting time and energy into something that, in the end, won’t matter because all of these muses will be as they are right now: sitting on a shelf and collecting dust. 

Believe me, I would love to come back but I am conflicted. I just don’t know if it would be worth it. I might need some convincing otherwise. 

If you’re a mutual, let me know if you want to see me come back.

If you follow me, show me that you are still interested in what I do.

If we’ve never interacted, now’s the time to do so.

Right now I feel like I need something that says that I’m still wanted in the RPC. Just a little something I can hold onto that will tell me its worth it. You and your muses are worth it.

I sincerely miss all of you.

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Secret Recipes To Try At Home

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (no 'letter F')

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04/07/2020 Update

Discovered a few things. The sounds for chat messages don’t always work and the active chats that are on the side don’t show which one has a new message anymore. You have to navigate to the top bar and scroll through your blogs to find out which one has the new message.

Honest Review of Beta (So Far)

Hello guys, gals, and nonbinary pals!

So I was selected for the Beta recently and even with @staff‘s latest update, allowing me to switch back to the old dashboard, I decided to give it a go and see what all of the fuss is about. I’ll leave my honest opinion at the end of each ‘feature’ with either a PRO, CON, or MIXED review.

First impressions were not great. I was immediately hit with a large font and different typeface. It was so bad that I swore that I had somehow zoomed my browser in and that’s why it looked so terrible. I’m not sure why this was added, most browsers have a setting that allows you to increase or decrease the size of the font for people with vision problems and for everyone else that doesn’t have vision problems, it just looks awful. New typeface and font size: CON

I also started to notice ads at first, I have an AdBlocker and a Xkit Anti-Capitalism extension installed so I’m not sure what was going on. It may have been glitched since I hadn’t started a new browser, but after opening a new window, restarting my AdBlocker and signing into XCloud (issues to follow) I thankfully no longer see those eyesores. Ads: MIXED

One thing that @staff really wanted us to look at was the new color palettes. These palettes change the colors of your dashboard. I guess they listened to our feedback regarding the new ‘True Blue’ color scheme. There are only a few palettes that I actually enjoy however, a couple of them are just WAY too bright and hard to look at. Compared to these palettes I enjoy the ‘True Blue’ way better, however there is also a ‘Low Contrast Classic’ which is very appealing and a welcomed sight for the Tumblr veterans, the ‘Dark Mode’ which is what I’m currently using, and the ‘Cybernetic’ which is kind of neat because it looks like the old software programmers use for typing code for websites. There are a few places where the new palettes don’t work like the activity page and rebloging something while on another user’s page, but hopefully this will be patched soon. All in all, I’m glad they are giving us options and this will definitely improve my eye strain while using the site. Color palettes: PRO

Those of you with multiple side blogs are going to love this next one. Notifications now work similar to those that are on mobile. You now have a counter that will appear with each new notification, indicating how many unread notifications you have. Time will tell if it craps out like mobile does and shows unread notifications when you’ve already looked at them. On top of that, when you click the drop down, you no longer have to hunt and peck for which blog has a new notification, it will have a marker next to the blog with the new one right there. I find this extremely important as I was relying on my phone notifications to tell me when I had a new reply, reblog, like and what blog it was on. Notifications: PRO

The forced beta was a real kick in the gonads but I’m glad they’ve now allowed us to switch back and forth between the new and old dash. This is a good thing because some ‘features’ don’t work. I know a lot of you use and love Xkit. Staff has been working with them for the transition and I’m happy to report that…some of @xkit-extension sill works. For now my blacklist isn’t working as well as a few other things like my mutual checker, but one-click reblogs still are working. To try to fix the issue is by signing into your XCloud. The problem with this is any keybinding that has a function in the dash, like the ‘j’ or ‘k’ will trigger while you’re typing in Xkit and won’t type the letter in the text box. I had to switch back to my old dash to sign it and try to fix some of the extension issues. Xkit Compatibility: CON 

Staff has also added a few new animations like a rainbow loading bar and new posts/threads slide up from the old ones when you click on the home button. I’ve noticed some slight delays when loading blogs/notifications so I’m not sure if it is linked to the new animations but they are a neat little touch. New Animations: MIXED

All in all, the change could be worse. Yes, I know it’s got some kinks to work out but if we give Xkit Devs and Staff time to work together, I think most of these things will be resolved. Honestly my biggest issue with the change, outside of being forced into it, is the way the text looks. Other than that everything else will be fixed over time.

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Muses:

When I let my Muse take control for .2 seconds and see what they’ve done.

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Honest Review of Beta (So Far)

Hello guys, gals, and nonbinary pals!

So I was selected for the Beta recently and even with @staff‘s latest update, allowing me to switch back to the old dashboard, I decided to give it a go and see what all of the fuss is about. I’ll leave my honest opinion at the end of each ‘feature’ with either a PRO, CON, or MIXED review.

First impressions were not great. I was immediately hit with a large font and different typeface. It was so bad that I swore that I had somehow zoomed my browser in and that’s why it looked so terrible. I’m not sure why this was added, most browsers have a setting that allows you to increase or decrease the size of the font for people with vision problems and for everyone else that doesn’t have vision problems, it just looks awful. New typeface and font size: CON

I also started to notice ads at first, I have an AdBlocker and a Xkit Anti-Capitalism extension installed so I’m not sure what was going on. It may have been glitched since I hadn’t started a new browser, but after opening a new window, restarting my AdBlocker and signing into XCloud (issues to follow) I thankfully no longer see those eyesores. Ads: MIXED

One thing that @staff really wanted us to look at was the new color palettes. These palettes change the colors of your dashboard. I guess they listened to our feedback regarding the new ‘True Blue’ color scheme. There are only a few palettes that I actually enjoy however, a couple of them are just WAY too bright and hard to look at. Compared to these palettes I enjoy the ‘True Blue’ way better, however there is also a ‘Low Contrast Classic’ which is very appealing and a welcomed sight for the Tumblr veterans, the ‘Dark Mode’ which is what I’m currently using, and the ‘Cybernetic’ which is kind of neat because it looks like the old software programmers use for typing code for websites. There are a few places where the new palettes don’t work like the activity page and rebloging something while on another user’s page, but hopefully this will be patched soon. All in all, I’m glad they are giving us options and this will definitely improve my eye strain while using the site. Color palettes: PRO

Those of you with multiple side blogs are going to love this next one. Notifications now work similar to those that are on mobile. You now have a counter that will appear with each new notification, indicating how many unread notifications you have. Time will tell if it craps out like mobile does and shows unread notifications when you’ve already looked at them. On top of that, when you click the drop down, you no longer have to hunt and peck for which blog has a new notification, it will have a marker next to the blog with the new one right there. I find this extremely important as I was relying on my phone notifications to tell me when I had a new reply, reblog, like and what blog it was on. Notifications: PRO

The forced beta was a real kick in the gonads but I’m glad they’ve now allowed us to switch back and forth between the new and old dash. This is a good thing because some ‘features’ don’t work. I know a lot of you use and love Xkit. Staff has been working with them for the transition and I’m happy to report that...some of @xkit-extension sill works. For now my blacklist isn’t working as well as a few other things like my mutual checker, but one-click reblogs still are working. To try to fix the issue is by signing into your XCloud. The problem with this is any keybinding that has a function in the dash, like the ‘j’ or ‘k’ will trigger while you’re typing in Xkit and won’t type the letter in the text box. I had to switch back to my old dash to sign it and try to fix some of the extension issues. Xkit Compatibility: CON 

Staff has also added a few new animations like a rainbow loading bar and new posts/threads slide up from the old ones when you click on the home button. I’ve noticed some slight delays when loading blogs/notifications so I’m not sure if it is linked to the new animations but they are a neat little touch. New Animations: MIXED

All in all, the change could be worse. Yes, I know it’s got some kinks to work out but if we give Xkit Devs and Staff time to work together, I think most of these things will be resolved. Honestly my biggest issue with the change, outside of being forced into it, is the way the text looks. Other than that everything else will be fixed over time.

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When I was nine, possibly ten, an author came to our school to talk about writing. His name was Hugh Scott, and I doubt he’s known outside of Scotland. And even then I haven’t seen him on many shelves in recent years in Scotland either. But he wrote wonderfully creepy children’s stories, where the supernatural was scary, but it was the mundane that was truly terrifying. At least to little ten year old me. It was Scooby Doo meets Paranormal Activity with a bonny braw Scottish-ness to it that I’d never experienced before.

I remember him as a gangling man with a wiry beard that made him look older than he probably was, and he carried a leather bag filled with paper. He had a pen too that was shaped like a carrot, and he used it to scribble down notes between answering our (frankly disinterested) questions. We had no idea who he was you see, no one had made an effort to introduce us to his books. We were simply told one morning, ‘class 1b, there is an author here to talk to you about writing’, and this you see was our introduction to creative writing. We’d surpassed finger painting and macaroni collages. It was time to attempt Words That Were Untrue.

You could tell from the look on Mrs M’s face she thought it was a waste of time. I remember her sitting off to one side marking papers while this tall man sat down on our ridiculously short chairs, and tried to talk to us about what it meant to tell a story. She wasn’t big on telling stories, Mrs M. She was also one of the teachers who used to take my books away from me because they were “too complicated” for me, despite the fact that I was reading them with both interest and ease. When dad found out he hit the roof. It’s the one and only time he ever showed up to the school when it wasn’t parents night or the school play. After that she just left me alone, but she made it clear to my parents that she resented the fact that a ten year old used words like ‘ubiquitous’ in their essays. Presumably because she had to look it up.

Anyway, Mr Scott, was doing his best to talk to us while Mrs M made scoffing noises from her corner every so often, and you could just tell he was deflating faster than a bouncy castle at a knife sharpening party, so when he asked if any of us had any further questions and no one put their hand up I felt awful. I knew this was not only insulting but also humiliating, even if we were only little children. So I did the only thing I could think of, put my hand up and said “Why do you write?”

I’d always read about characters blinking owlishly, but I’d never actually seen it before. But that’s what he did, peering down at me from behind his wire rim spectacles and dragging tired fingers through his curly beard. I don’t think he expected anyone to ask why he wrote stories. What he wrote about, and where he got his ideas from maybe, and certainly why he wrote about ghosts and other creepy things, but probably not why do you write. And I think he thought perhaps he could have got away with “because it’s fun, and learning is fun, right kids?!”, but part of me will always remember the way the world shifted ever so slightly as it does when something important is about to happen, and this tall streak of a man looked down at me, narrowed his eyes in an assessing manner and said, “Because people told me not to, and words are important.”

I nodded, very seriously in the way children do, and knew this to be a truth. In my limited experience at that point, I knew certain people (with a sidelong glance to Mrs M who was in turn looking at me as though she’d just known it’d be me that type of question) didn’t like fiction. At least certain types of fiction. I knew for instance that Mrs M liked to read Pride and Prejudice on her lunch break but only because it was sensible fiction, about people that could conceivably be real. The idea that one could not relate to a character simply because they had pointy ears or a jet pack had never occurred to me, and the fact that it’s now twenty years later and people are still arguing about the validity of genre fiction is beyond me, but right there in that little moment, I knew something important had just transpired, with my teacher glaring at me, and this man who told stories to live beginning to smile. After that the audience turned into a two person conversation, with gradually more and more of my classmates joining in because suddenly it was fun. Mrs M was pissed and this bedraggled looking man who might have been Santa after some serious dieting, was starting to enjoy himself. As it turned out we had all of his books in our tiny corner library, and in the words of my friend Andrew “hey there’s a giant spider fighting a ghost on this cover! neat!” and the presentation devolved into chaos as we all began reading different books at once and asking questions about each one. “Does she live?”— “What about the talking trees” —“is the ghost evil?” —“can I go to the bathroom, Miss?” —“Wow neat, more spiders!”

After that we were supposed to sit down, quietly (glare glare) and write a short story to show what we had learned from listening to Mr Scott. I wont pretend I wrote anything remotely good, I was ten and all I could come up with was a story about a magic carrot that made you see words in the dark, but Mr Scott seemed to like it. In fact he seemed to like all of them, probably because they were done with such vibrant enthusiasm in defiance of the people who didn’t want us to.

The following year, when I’d moved into Mrs H’s class—the kind of woman that didn’t take away books from children who loved to read and let them write nonsense in the back of their journals provided they got all their work done—a letter arrived to the school, carefully wedged between several copies of a book which was unheard of at the time, by a new author known as J.K. Rowling. Mrs H remarked that it was strange that an author would send copies of books that weren’t even his to a school, but I knew why he’d done it. I knew before Mrs H even read the letter.

Because words are important. Words are magical. They’re powerful. And that power ought to be shared. There’s no petty rivalry between story tellers, although there’s plenty who try to insinuate it. There’s plenty who try to say some words are more valuable than others, that somehow their meaning is more important because of when it was written and by whom. Those are the same people who laud Shakespeare from the heavens but refuse to acknowledge that the quote “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them“ is a dick joke.

And although Mr Scott seems to have faded from public literary consumption, I still think about him. I think about his stories, I think about how he recommended another author and sent copies of her books because he knew our school was a puritan shithole that fought against the Wrong Type of Wordes and would never buy them into the library otherwise. But mostly I think about how he looked at a ten year old like an equal and told her words and important, and people will try to keep you from writing them—so write them anyway.

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Doomguy just waiting with his boomstick for Salem to respawn:

Quick question everyone

How fucked would Salem be if the Doom Slayer arrived on Remnant?

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bisexual men……. exist.

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this dumb website is in need of some love, so reblog this if you like the person you reblogged it from!!!

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super rough, but was fun to do

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If keyboards came with braille marks by default, most of us would have a basic knowledge of that writing system (and it would make it easier to make other things like food menus available in braille too)

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but don’t be racist during the COVID-19 scare.

My mom’s friend was out shopping when a (very not asian) woman came up and started berating her for not wearing a mask. Asian businesses in my area are suffering. Some people are refusing to interact with anyone who looks Asian.

Asian-Americans have been through racism already. We’re fucking sick of it. We’re not flea-infested rats; we are actual people who most likely have never been to China.

And if you’re not Asian and see someone being racist and giving a poor schmuck a hard time for having squinty eyes and dark hair, tell them to knock it off and they’re being a butt.

NON ASIANS PLEASE REBLOG

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“In 1901, Harvard was a man’s world. But an astronomer named Edward Charles Pickering broke that rule. He assembled a team of women to map and classify the types of stars. One of them provided the key to our understanding of the substance of the stars. And another devised a way for us to calculate the size of the universe.”

COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter