#and that is me

[hesagoodone]

The permanence and flexibility of fiction is so amazing to me. In the BBC Sherlock universe, that I'm deeply invested in, time has flown. Rosie is growing up, the boys are ageing, and Mrs Hudson has, in all probability, passed on. (Can't imagine them replacing dear Una if they ever come back.) Crime-solving days, if not over, must be completely altered. The running around and odd hours and danger-addiction and strange experiments and giggling at crime scenes.. must all be slipping away. They are no longer boys, being fussed over by an equal parts charming and badass not-housekeeper (read: mother), but grown-ups expected to be fussing over a young child. It's a beautiful thing on its own, but its also bittersweet.

Just when this is happening though, there's another universe born. There's Sherlock&Co to look forward to, where Sherlock and John (and the amazing Mariana) are all young again, solving crimes, giggling inappropriately, and running around London at all sorts of hours. It's a breath of fresh air, a do-over, a wheel-of-time reversed. Of course, they're not the same characters... but in a way, they also are. At least I can imagine they are, and that they've been given a second chance at life. In a way, perhaps, Holmes and Watson have been getting innumerable such chances since Doyle first created them. :')

I find it both deeply comforting and at times, (childishly) unsettling. For it is a privilege fictional characters get to have and we never would.

(It's mostly a comfort, though. Especially because dear old Sherlock gets to have that second chance, over and over again. And I do adore him so! <3)

[howljenky]

theyre adding 'harrow apologist' to the dsm

[mallalada]

the voice of the devil

[morganbritton132]

Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

[vee-lociraptor]

tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[fangsforfags]

fake idgafer. i saw tht haunted look in ur eyes

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[jellogram]

On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously

[mobgoblin]

Queued right up for it

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[eethok]

turns out there is nothing stopping you from making a pngtuber so you can rp working in a scriptorium

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!