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[stjohnstarling]

I think a significant part of this whole neo-Victorian sexual moral panic is down to the fact that society en masse simply isn't prepared to confront the incomprehensible nature of what the average person gets off to. Since time immemorial, normal people have been getting off to weird, gross shit in the privacy of their own heads. With the internet giving us mass, unfiltered access to each others' raw sexual expression, we're all just freaking each other out.

[litbysalplight]

Merry Scary Christmas!

new holiday declared btw. it's called Scary Christmas. its on January 25th. mark your calendars

[renthony]

I'm in a Facebook group that collects & signal boosts announcements for free food distributions and food bank events. One thing people who aren't in that kind of group might not realize is that free food distributions are frequently last-minute. It happens several times a month that I get a notification from a shelter or church or volunteer group giving away free food boxes because they got an unexpected delivery of items, but I'd have to drop everything and get there within the next hour.

It's not practical. I never make it to those. Half the time they run out of food before I even see the notification, anyway.

And, like, it's not bad that these pop-up events exist, because people are benefiting from them, but it's another way that "just go to the food bank" is really unhelpful advice for people who are fundraising on tumblr for groceries. If I'm on tumblr asking for grocery help, it's because I've already exhausted my other options first.

[ratgrinders]

Happy birthday to my wonderful daughter Kipperlilly Copperkettle <3

[frameacloud]

Fictionfolk aren't necessarily fans of their fictional sources

by Orion Scribner, January 24, 2025

For fictionkin, fictives, fictional introjects, fictionflickerers, fictherians, and other sorts of fictionfolk and people who have experiences of deeply personal connections to fiction, one's source in fiction is not necessarily one's favorite story or something that one "vibes" with.

Many fictionfolk feel uncomfortable reading, watching, or playing their source because it feels uncanny to see their truth turned into pretend entertainment, or because the canon feels like it got things half right and half wrong, or how it portrays them. That can feel sort of like seeing something misreported on the news that you know didn't happen like that, or overhearing strangers talking about your private life. For people whose memories from another world turn out to be similar to a piece of fiction in this world, one can feel uneasy about the mystery of how that happened.

Some fictionfolk participate in the fandoms for their sources... carefully. Fans can get uncomfortably personal if you say you are one of the characters, so fictionfolk often choose not to talk about that in fandom spaces, only in alterhuman spaces. Seeing how fans reinterpret you in art and discourse can bring up all sorts of feelings. Some fictionfolk decide they won't look at their source's fandom.

There are fictionfolk who wish they didn't feel that connection to that piece of fiction. There are fictionfolk whose source is a story they always disliked or found offensive. Maybe they have a lot of thoughtful criticism, or maybe it simply feels disagreeable to them. Sometimes recognizing one's connection to fiction starts with exploring why a story bothers you so much.

There are fictionfolk who dislike the authors of their sources.

Some fictionfolk are experts on their fictional sources. There are also fictionfolk who recognized that their memories and feelings have the strongest similarity to a piece of fiction that they have had never even watched and would prefer to never watch. Or they watched just enough of it to recognize it and then "nope out" on watching the rest.

Funnily enough, it turns out that feeling a profound connection with a piece of fiction doesn't have to come along with liking the piece of fiction at all.

[litbysalplight]

Is this being based on the ratios of the colors in the bag of marbles to each other?

the 1997 Anastasia film decided rasputin made a better villain than the bolsheviks and i’m still reeling over the fact an american company was given a once-in-a-lifetime historically justified reason to vilify communism and they SKIPPED it

[legendknit]

I made LSTR doggy shimeji! this time i made cheap ko-fi product because i lost my job recently woo...

Sorry for not free but If you support me I hope this doggo made you happy !

[mikimakiboo]

Last but not least on the redesign series, Horror !

You see how in Norse Mythology Thor's hammer is so so so heavy that only him is able to lift it ? It's practically the same with Horror's axe, it's really heavy, the others might be able to lift it by holding it with two hands but they wouldn't be able to swing it or hold it with one, while Horror is perfectly capable of grabbing it with one hand and swinging it like it weights nothing

The red moon pin is once again a gift from Nightmare

The two golden moons holding his coat were originally fully round but he modified them to make them look like crescents

I like him in thick fluffy clothes

Also the boots are Moon Boots because they are big so it goes well with the outfit

Under the cut are everyone side by side !

I like them

Also, height wise from tallest to shortest, it goes Horror -> Nightmare with heels (little bellow the shoulder) -> Killer (little bellow Nightmare) -> Nightmare without heels (little bellow Killer) -> Dust (little above the elbow)

[felixcloud6288]

Speedrun challenge called the "10 hour any% speedrun." The goal is to get to 10 hours of in-game time as quickly as possible.

[stjohnstarling]

@mastermatoyas Co-signing your tags, I’ve been thinking a lot about similar things.

I increasingly think publications like Cracked and Mad Magazine served a load bearing cultural purpose keeping young straight guys from developing extreme reactionary opinions.

[misterlemonzmen]

01-24-25 | William Roepstorff. MisterLemonzMen.tumblr.com/archive

[timmie15]

I'm in my era of bodypillowing mechs and ig I'm accepting it

[tentacleplains]

given that pc is supposed to be the specialest most fuckable little orphan in the world it does amuse me thinking about the Lore Implications of everyone’s pcs existing concurrently. is bailey just raising an orphanage full of sex gods… is there something in the water that adds + + Beauty gradually over time… much to think about

[enigma-the-mysterious]

They could have started fucking nasty on the lawn and it wouldn't have changed a thing in this scene

[damsel-loves-machines]

Me: Staying up until near 2 am in hopes of catching a new chapter update from one of my favorite fanfiction authors.

Tumblr: !🛑STOP✋🏾!

@heart-of-the-morningstar I couldn’t not share this with you.