#generally applicable

[penig]

Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King.

My husband has taken the week off.

It is very cold all over the U.S., cold enough that unnecessary travel should be avoided.

Nothing else of importance is happening at all. Let us rejoice that some of the Israeli hostages have been released and hope that the rest will follow soon, and stay all warm and snuggly with your loved ones.

i for one intend to drink a lot of hot chocolate today.

[penig]

I was just spammed an ad for Grammarly with the tagline: Write as well as you think.

Dude, I write better than I think and I know a lot more about grammar than whoever programmed that crap.

[penig]

Getting a lot of new followers from various places, so:

If you came here from the Good Omens tag and are confused by all the reblogs of cartoony people, the tags you want to block are widespot at large, land grant university graduates, and land grant university. I've got a lot of it to reblog today because I just found a new Widespot blog, but it should calm down in a day or two.

If you came here for sims and are confused by all the fandom and literature content, the tag you want to block right now is Good Omens season 2, but you may want to block literature or specific author, fandom, or substack tags in the future.

Anybody who wants to get away from current events should block the I am so angry tag.

And feel free to block anything at all on here you don't enjoy. I try to tag everything. Let me know if I screw up - but keep a face on to do it. I will never turn on anonymous messaging, but the ask box is open.

If you came here hoping to find new things to enjoy, I hope you do too. Welcome aboard.

[penig]

Tomorrow will be better.

[penig]

Nobody knows what they're going to do until they do it.

one of the most important things, perhaps the most important thing I have learned in my life is that nice people can fuck each other up in monstrous ways. people can be bone deep kind and loving and self reflective and still lash out under pressure. people can be earnestly neighbourly and charitable and hospitable and generous and still find themselves in situations where they become selfish. people can be well meaning and easygoing and gregarious and hold deep seated opinions that turn them into vicious little bullies under the right conditions. nobody is just one thing, and nobody stays one way. every person is a kaleidoscope and they will surprise you. you will surprise yourself. it's not a warning and it's not a judgement and it's not an excuse, and it's certainly not a reason to stop trying or to stop trusting. it is just a fact.

[penig]

I saw a tumblr staff post that claimed everyone has access to polls now. This raises questions:

Am I deliberately excluded from “everyone?” (Unlikely, but not actually impossible.)

Is there some trick to making them that I haven’t caught onto yet?

Do I have to activate something in settings?

Is “everyone” meant as “everyone who isn’t using an adblocker?”

Is “everyone” meant as “everyone who is using html instead of rtf?”

Is “everyone” meant as “everyone who has the browsers and OSes we all assume even the lamest-ass tumblr user is using by now?”

I suspect it’s the last, because we’re late adopters and our OS gets updated when we get a new computer. Also because my mobile app is on a secondhand phone and can’t use the recent tumblr mobile app update, so when I’m in bed I have to scroll through lots and lots and lots of empty posts that ought to be polls, and when I’m up I have to scroll all the way back to the last time I checked tumblr on the desktop.

But it would be nice to know.

[penig]

What Inspires your blog?

What an odd question. Who needs inspiration to keep a tumblr?

[runemyth0]

Oh, that's a terrible idea. You should totally do it.

[penig]

It's okay to bother me even if you're not my mutual, as long as you're not being mean. I bother total strangers on the internet all the time.

REBLOG IF IT'S OKAY FOR ME TO BOTHER YOU IF YOU'RE MY MUTUAL

[knifearo]

“there are always more fish in the sea!” babe no offense but i just really sincerely do not want to go fishing

[the-agent-of-blight]

also, i really find it interesting how people can genuinely go about saying "Well this group isn't attacked for their identity so they can't be queer " while then turning around and. attacking said group. for their identity. and exemplifying classic __-phobic tropes. It's really dumb. You are being the thing that you claim does not exist

[cheese-water]

Generation Loss is a comedic tragedy in every sense of the word. Every character we see exemplifies this fact, but no one other than The Austin Show proves its truth.

We begin at the carousel. Austin, Gay, takes his turn by pleading for himself to live because he has a wife and children back home. The rest of the cast interrogates him about his “wife and kids,” clearly suspicious of his truthfulness without even knowing his dubbed “title.” Everyone in the room treats Austin like a joke.

In turn, so do we.

Next, we reach the closet and shortly after the failed drag show, Austin remarks, “Look, I uh… I didn’t expect to die here.” It’s a moment of pure honesty, whether we like it or not. It happens again when the Puzzler tries to party with them, and Austin has to angrily remind him that they are his captives and are actively trying to kill them.

Austin: “What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? We're trying to get out of here. I have children and wives— wife. One wife! What is this some sort of game? I’ve been stuck in hear for hours it seems. We’re trying to get out. Why is nobody else freaking out? We’ve got C4 strapped to our neck…”

It isn’t until Ethan’s death, his blood pooling out from underneath the door, Austin screaming at the others, begging them to have a reaction, to care about their circumstances, to care about death, that we finally understand Austin’s role in Generation Loss.

After all, in every great comedy, someone always has to play the straight man.

[penig]

And yeah, even in your 60s you'll wake up with a sick twist in your stomach because of that time when -

But then you wake the rest of the way up and remember that it doesn't matter. That you're the only person in the world who even remembers that. And you go back to sleep, with all the past layers of you that built you up into who you are.

everyone is embarrassed of their fourteen year old self trust me if you’re fourteen right now you will regret whatever it is that you are doing at this moment

[lacystar]

The Maruki Labs Psychological Assessment - a Persona 5 fanfic formatted into a Uquiz. Answer honestly so we can tailor make a reality that best suits you!

Just like a real intake forum!*

Based on the psychological test puzzle in Maruki's palace!

21 questions to assess your mental wellbeing!

One fabulous free-write question to share your biggest dreams with Dr. Maruki!**

10 possible "endings!" (1 for each Phantom Thief!)

*Not at all like a real intake forum

**im not dr Maruki please dont actually look to me for therapeutic advice. actually, dont look to maruki for therapeutic advice either 😭

Inspired by the Jubilee Line Satisfaction Survey by @/peninkwrites

[nelkcats]

Application Rejected

When Danny adopted Cujo he saw him as a puppy, which was a little sad considering the implications. He always thought Cujo was the only one who had stayed, the only one whose soul had persisted. He thought Cujo was alone.

He was wrong. Not all adult dogs and puppies stayed, of course. But many had. Cujo was simply the only one who decided to return to the world of the living, probably because of his obsession with his toy.

One day Cujo showed him where they were all hiding; Danny knew that those dogs had not stayed for the same reason as Cujo, they probably had a myriad of different reasons, and that was fine.

The problem was that excluding some of the adult dogs (that obviously were fine on their own and didn't care), there were many puppies similar to Cujo running around in need of affection and he couldn't adopt them all (besides, Cujo would definitely get jealous). And while many ghosts agreed to take a couple, it wasn't all of them, so Danny did something extreme.

He held an adoption fair in Amity, which was a smashing success. He just forgot that a lot of people in Amity...were usually traveling, and the ghost puppies would follow.

Then, a few days later when a scowling guy showed up (he obviously wasn't part of the general Amity Park population) and demanded a "bright green" puppy, Danny said no and refused his application. He couldn't trust someone with no knowledge with a ghost dog. Although he did offer him a course to learn about their care.

Damian Wayne was offended with his overall assessment. He was obviously the right person to care for one of those pups. So he set out to prove that to the boy in front of him, without hesitation.

[ovaryacted]

The way some of y’all act on this platform like you fucking run shit on here is actually ridiculous. Y’all criticize writers for what they write, how they write, what tropes they use, how frequently they write, what ideas they have, how they manage their pages, and everything else under the damn sun. But yet you still want people to continue writing and share their work FOR FREE may I add. Y’all can’t keep reading fic and picking it apart every which way, you can’t have it both ways. Pick a damn side.

Fanfic writers don’t get paid for doing this, for dealing with the stress of coming up with ideas and writing pages upon pages of something they want to share, formatting the posts, and then sharing it on this platform or an AO3 just to get berated, judged, critiqued, accused, plagiarized, exploited with AI, and ignored. Y’all literally give people everything but support on here and then bitch and cry about nobody wanting to write fanfic anymore. Maybe if you guys grew some fucking sense and supported the writers that are actually here instead of constantly policing their actions and pushing their buttons and jumping down their throats for little ass shit, we’d have more people willing to use their spare time to write fanfic.

Y’all get bold as hell using the anon button, saying whatever y’all want without caring of how it may come off, but god forbid people respond back with just as much vitriol, all of a sudden they’re the bad guy and you’re playing victim. We literally have bigger things to fucking worry about than bullshit anon hate that won’t amount to anything. When you all realize that we soon won’t have a platform to share fic and our writing to begin with because of mass censorship and your favorite fic writers are being targeted for being sex offenders for engaging and creating pornographic material as planned in Project 2025, then maybe we’ll fucking get somewhere.

Let people enjoy this app while we have it, cause trust me, it won’t be long before you all have no more fic to complain about. Maybe when that happens, you can finally use your free time and whatever energy that’s left in your brain to do something useful for once.