#iT WOULD BE MY PERMANENT URL IF I COULD JUST HAVE IT

[astromechs]

inactive blog who has the peterparkour url, just know i glare at you angrily from afar everyday ❤️

[clarenecessities]

He-man.org will close in 5 days.

He-man.org has been a staple of the Masters of the Universe community since the early days, originating as an email list that worked to document episodes before anything (not footage, not lists, nothing) was available online. It grew into a sprawling, multi-faceted beast of a thing, including an encyclopedia (an in-house wiki), merch lists, a marketplace, forums, anything you could think of.

Several years ago now, the main site went down for updates/maintenance. For a few weeks, we were told, maybe months. The forums remained open for fans to communicate, and barring a period of downtime earlier this year things were going smoothly.

Yesterday, the owner of the site, Val Staples, announced the site would be closed on November 14th, 2023. Six days later. We are currently attempting to contact him, to see if he’s interested in selling, and if he means closed as in “no new posts” or closed as in deleted entirely. Regardless of its eventual fate, the archiving of these forums is essential to preserving the history of the franchise, the fandom, and the brand.

TO SHE-RA (and MotU) FANS SPECIFICALLY: I have personally used these forums to answer questions that could be answered nowhere else. Had I not had access to them, I would never have been able to prove that Purrsia was fake, or found so much unpublished concept art, or discovered that Scott “Toyguru” Neitlich personally wrote Catra’s MOTUC bio (even if he’s put off answering my questions about it for over a year now). Forum members have conducted interviews with the likes of Jon Seisa, Cathy Larson, Janice Varney-Hamlin—essential figures in the very foundations of POP, and those interviews revealed and recorded priceless information for future generations (me! you! us!) to find. Did you know Cathy Larson named Adora? That she originally pushed for “Dorian”, after her own daughter? We cannot let this treasure trove disappear into the ether(ia).

TO THE UNAFFILIATED: Please help. Pretty please. If you’ve ever liked my art or my writing or my haphazard blogging, ever, at all, consider archiving just one board. Just one page. Literally anything helps. I am spiraling into madness & this is my library of Alexandria. The mythical one that was totally unique and persevered nowhere else and was destroyed in a single cataclysmic event. Pretty pretty please help.

HOW TO HELP:

Archive.org has several ways to upload shit but most of them are longer term than “a few days” so we’re focusing on two (which can be run simultaneously): Save Page Now, and browser extensions. From their help page:

1. Save Page Now

Put a URL into the form, press the button, and we save the page. You will instantly have a permanent URL for your page. Please note, this method only saves a single page, not the whole site.

We want to keep outlinks and screenshots wherever possible. The Archive does not keep your IP address, so your submission is anonymous.

2. Browser extensions and add-ons

Install the Wayback Machine Chrome extension in your browser. Go to a page you want to archive, click the icon in your toolbar, and select Save Page Now. We will save the page and give you a permanent URL.

One plus to installing the extension is that as you surf around, when you run into a missing page they will alert you if we have a saved copy.

More extensions, apps, and add-ons:

Firefox add-on

Safari Extension

iOS app

Android app

I strongly encourage you to use these tools even if you aren’t helping with this project/after it ends. Documenting and preserving information is essential in this day and age & The Internet Archive is at the heart of it. Please support them however you can.

I’m serious about paying you, though I may need more communication with folks I don’t know so we can coordinate/verify shit gets done. I think this is a worthwhile pursuit in itself but I recognize your time is valuable & like, people gotta eat. DM me if you’re interested and we’ll talk. I may need to adjust pay depending how many people bite but I’ll do what I can

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

WIP Wednesday

Nobody tagged me but I'm having the time of my life with the banter in this fic so I'm sharing anyway. Have some tidbits!

(These are not necessarily in order of when they occur in the fic. I just picked out some bits I thought both showcased the banter and didn't give away plot.)

“Right, thank you. I’ll get him to bed. Can he walk?” “I can walk fine.” “I didn’t ask you, did I? I asked the trained medical professional.” “Give me the fucking ring back, I want a divorce.” “You say the sweetest things.”

This is extremely difficult to do seeing as that performance is burned into his brain with the kind of permanent intensity he thought only childhood trauma could attain.

“Well, I’m deeply flattered, but I simply can’t see myself holding your hand and calling you ‘dear’.” “No offense, but the idea of waxing poetic about our wedding day makes me want to hang myself.” “I’m flattered, actually. I’d be concerned if it was any other way.” “Oh? Your wife never told you of my deep and unrequited feelings for you?” “No, of course not, how else would she keep her psychosexual hold over you all these years?” Someone passing by the table keeps them a very weird look.

“He’s got over her, in case you were worried about that. It was some years ago.” “And here I was about to throw myself into traffic.” “Traffic’s no good on this road, you’ll want to get over one onto the main thoroughfare.” “You know exactly what to say to a man when he’s down.”

Anyway if you're sitting here wondering "is Mads having mayhaps too much fun?" the answer is yes.

Tagging @princessfbi and @buckttommy (you and your url changes I'm gonna strangle you...) since I'm not sure who else has WIPs at the moment. MWAH.

[lunarlegend]

okay, now that i've calmed down and had some coffee, let me explain what happened earlier :'D

i woke up and was editing that silly Ignis post with all the text screenshots, when all of a sudden it wouldn't let me add another photo. closed out of the post, attempted to refresh the page, and got the dreaded "Your Blog Has Been Terminated" screen 🙃🙃

i don't even know what i thought lol, i've had this blog for 8 years and it's been my sole fandom experience with FFXV. i. NEED this blog, lol. and i've never even received so much as a warning from Tumblr, so i figured something was up.

it turns out there are automated spam filters that have been wrongfully suspending people's blogs, and luckily it's fully reversible. i got in touch with Support, and my blog was restored as if nothing had ever happened. i never even got logged out of the app, lol.

BUT. good gods, the whole experience was absolute hell. 🥲🙃

this is more than a blogging platform to me, it's also a perfectly balanced way for me to socialize. the "parallel play" jokes are funny, but they're also very true (at least for me). Tumblr is a place where i can safely infodump about my special interest and passively share my thoughts with people without the pressure of traditional communication. the experience is uniquely fulfilling for someone like me, who finds most social situations stressful.

and obviously i could remake, but having all my posts essentially orphaned? my URL permanently gone? having to find and reconnect with all my mutuals and try and remember all the blogs i follow? that would have been utter hell, no way around it. there is absolutely nothing fun about the idea of trying to rebuild something so personal from scratch, there is just too much effort that i've put into this blog.

so. all of that being said, i'm fine, i'm sorry to anyone who noticed i had disappeared all day, i didn't block you, i was temporarily floating in Tumblr Space. 🥲

aaand i'm gonna pretend my Extremely Autistic Ignis Ramblings are what did it, lol

[tsutsumi-kurose]

Hi tsutsumi-kurose! This is nanabansama. I have two questions for you. First, do you have any thoughts on who was hurting Amane when he was alive, leaving him covered in wounds? I wanted to see your perspective on it. Second...what is the origin of your url?! Just curious!!! Thanks.

ahh im so sorry it took so long to answer this, i was traveling with spotty wifi and a packed schedule this week lol. but i'm so excited to get an ask from you thank you!! ☺️

it’s so interesting that you bring up amane’s injuries now, because I actually didn’t have too many thoughts on that until 115 came out!! and now I have a very Out There theory, that i don't even really believe but think could be fun and messed up haha

my assumption has always been that tsukasa was the one who did that to him. it tracks with tsukasa asking amane things like do you want me to stay or would you rather I was gone, amane killing tsukasa, tsukasa being reckless/destructive (in very serious ways, but also even in lighter ways, like turning amane’s head too far to get him to see the stars in the picture perfect arc). amane defends the person hurting him, he forgives them for it all, and we’ve seen him show tsukasa this unconditional love throughout the series (tsukasa's existence as hanako's yorishiro, hanako saving him in 109, hanako seeming to be open to giving up his wish in order to not permanently part with tsukasa). I get the impression, after the oni arc and the night out arc, that amane was almost doing this in a nurturing way, in order to care for the person doing it. hakubo eats/destroys sumire as an act of love; mitsuba bites very deeply into kou's hand, and instead of being afraid or angry kou vows to nourish mitsuba in any way he needs. generally, throughout this series, harm being done by one person to another is not necessarily shown as an act of malice, but rather one of love and longing and need. I think this theme will continue with whatever was going on with amane before he died. and i think tsukasa and amane/hanako are constantly hurting each other despite how deeply they love each other, and tsukasa has been entangled with the supernatural (not in the same way as hakubo and mitsuba, but then, hakubo and mitsuba aren't the same type of supernatural either and yet they both have shown... cannibalistic? tendencies) since he was four, so it's possible that gave him the cannibalistic (for lack of a better word) tendencies we see in hakubo and mitsuba.

so overall I still do think it was tsukasa doing that. it makes the most sense lore wise and thematically.

but... hear me out...... given the lore we've seen..... it could be nene!!!! it's out there, but i think it's possible!!

who else, other than tsukasa, does amane love enough to accept something like that? i know we can’t know how far into the series we are, but it feels kinda late to introduce a new character to be the answer to this mystery, and it seems like amane cares about the person hurting him deeply. of the characters we already know, hanako loves tsukasa and nene most deeply (in my personal reading ofc).

one thing i was on the lookout for this arc was if nene can still slip through time, and in 115 she sees amane from the past!! i know this is passed off as magic happening around nene... but she's always there when this sort of time slipping happens. this, of course, could just be because she's our protagonist. but we get a lot of story through other perspectives than nene's!! so i don't think it's insignificant that she is the one constant when it comes to time travel!! and she has specifically seen amane in the past multiple times now (at the festival when he's ~nine, when he's ~13 and injured, now in ch115 as an adult), so we know it's possible for her to see him. she even touched him at the festival!! and took a physical key from him in the classroom!! so we know nene can physically interact with amane in the past!!

this theory is also based on a twitter event, so take this part with a grain of salt, but i think nene being "monster 8" to mitsuba's "monster 3" in the kamome monster nursery au definitely has some implications of heer potentially becoming some sort of supernatural or school mystery at some point in the story. potentially something similar to mitsuba, since they're the only monsters in this au with numbers. if nene becomes something similar to mitsuba, this takes us back to the hakubo and mitsuba cannibal point; if mitsuba is out here biting kou's hand like he wants to eat him, and nene becomes something similar to mitsuba, maybe she'll develop the same needs?

but again, this is based on a twitter event, so hard to say how much information on canon that gives us!

this theory could also maybe be disproven by that mini comic of amane in the tea party arc where he’s blushing like “that girl had really large ankles” lol, idk if he’d call her “that girl” if she was the one hurting him when he's already hurt.

and if it was nene, then that wouldn't really connect the injuries to amane killing tsukasa? at least nothing i can connect with the information we have right now.

so yeah honestly i don't really believe this theory, but i had fun thinking about it lol and it is technically a possibility with the lore we've been given!! and it would be really interesting to see all the time traveling she's done culminate in something so significant!!

but at the end of the day i still think it's tsukasa. it may be the easy answer, but the why of the injuries may be more important than the who. the who doesn’t need to be the biggest mystery for this to be an incredibly moving plot line!! and there's still so much mystery around the injuries and the murder!! could it have been a mercy killing even? so many possibilities. personally, i think amane had a plan with the murder... but that's for another post haha

and my url is just cool hot women in bnha im really intrigued by lmao, lady nagant's civilian name is kaina tsutsumi and 13's in anan kurose, so i just put their names together bc i like them a lot lol

they're both very interesting and hot and i get strong strong queer vibes from both of them lmao. look at them. i'm obsessed i'm in love

thank you sm for the ask!! hope you're having a good week!!

[windvexer]

Hi, have you ever heard of this entity?

https://www.scarystudies.com/midnight-man-game/

Would a witch be able to summon it outside of this context and what kind of entity is this? Also, using your own name and dropping blood onto paper what does actually entail?

Easy link to URL

Midnight Man is an urban legend. I suppose that if such an entity does exist, it could be classified as a pop cultural spirit, or perhaps an egrigore.

There is no way for us to know if it is possible to summon Midnight Man outside of this elaborate summoning ritual, until we do the necessary research. When lore dictates that a certain ritual is the correct one to use to summon an entity, it's hubris to assume we can conjure the same spirit using our own, unrelated summoning rituals.

And until you let Midnight Man try to murder you until 3:33 am, then how would you know you conjured the same spookypasta spirit if you used another format? Just because you summon a spooky spirit who promises to kill you doesn't mean you've summoned the actual Midnight Man, if such a creature does actually exist.

Also, you don't even get anything for surviving the ordeal with Midnight Man. You just don't die. This seems like a terrible deal. There are lots of urban legend summoning stories. Have you considered Three Kings, or perhaps the Man in the Fields? Either of those urban legends at least suggests that if you don't die or go permanently insane you'll get wishes, or something.

I mean, even if we're approaching this from a pop-culture witchcraft context, Midnight Man explicitly doesn't like or help people at all, unlike Man in the Fields. So it's hard for me to see this going anywhere even if you want to take the urban legend and transplant him into your personal magical practice.

I'm not sure I understand your question about using your own name. The instructions you linked seem quite clear:

1. Write down your name on a piece of paper. First, middle, and last name. Then put a drop of your blood on the same paper. Let the blood soak in to the paper. 2. Then turn off the lights. All of them. Go to the wooden door and put the piece of paper with your name in front of it. Then light the candle and put it in on top of the piece of paper.

I do sometimes use my blood in rituals. To obtain blood for this purpose, I use sterile diabetic lancets which can be purchased at any pharmacy.

Also, if your aim is to summon a demon who's only goal is to eviscerate you, please let me recommend a more fire-safe option for the setup: Use a candle with a low profile, like a tea light, and place both the paper and the candle in a large, fire-safe cooking pot.

Being hunted by a suspected demon seems like a great setup to kick a real candle and actually burn down your apartment, and doubtless the insurance company would not attempt to subrogate against the Midnight Man.

Best of luck working with creepypasta spirits!

[briteboy]

Someone is sending an ask about your past blog and your fanfic you wrote about two teen anime boys. I suggest you acknowledge it on this blog to let people know instead of trying to rebrand and have a “redemption arc” when what you did is more than wrong, it’s disgusting

if i was really trying to rebrand i wouldn't leave my previous url permanently in my header so people wouldn't forget. ("redemption arc" is from an anon message i received, just for clarification.) i've said this before, but i'll reiterate: anyone who's curious can go to that url and see the post that lives there where i've made my final statement about the situation (and reposted on this blog as well at the time), where i also make it clear that i'm not "rebranding"...i simply got sick of my last url. believe it or not i am just a person and not everything i do is purposely diabolical.

i've tried to handle this as responsibly as i can, i've spoken about this ad nauseam and i've apologized multiple times. what more am i supposed to do or say if i'm not actively harming anyone or contributing to the problem, and haven't been for years now? genuinely asking. like...yeah, it was weird and gross. i'm not disagreeing with you. i'm sorry and i'd go back in time to stop myself from writing fanfiction of aged up personifications of teenage anime characters– or better yet, urge my even younger self to question the norms of fandoms and the like that i'd grown up in, where this was commonplace– if i could.

i don't know how many different ways i can make it clear that i'm not even remotely the same person i was then in any capacity. anyone who's known me for years could tell you this. i could apologize again and again but people would still hold it against me. so at this point i think it's well within my rights to live my life and enjoy my hobbies (completely unrelated to the situation at hand) without being indebted to those who know me through the narrow lens of sims tumblr for a mistake i made 5 years ago and took accountability for at the time, and again even now. as long as this keeps being rehashed, i will continue to do so. it's all i can do.

i know that very insular online communities like to think some people are just Bad Forever but that's just not how life works, especially in the case of ignorance where people actually take the time to reflect, learn and grow after realizing the wrongness of their actions. but if believing that makes you feel more comfortable, then i invite you not to engage with me. we're both better off that way. more than that, i encourage you to consider the fact that people change. that's all i have to say.

[pionoplayer]

wait is your URL like. a fun silly way of saying "piano player"? I've been following u for at least a year and that's never even crossed my mind.....

Okay, so, username storytime since I haven't shared this on tumblr before.

Pionoplayer was not, originally, intentional.

Let's cut back to wee baby piono. Sometime during like... I dunno, first, second grade? All my friends were playing Roblox. I wanted to play Roblox too, but did not have an email account. I COULD have, like a reasonable child, simply asked my parents to help me make an account. And I probably would have!

Except. The moment I decided I was going to go ahead and make an account was at like 1 in the morning. When everyone was asleep, and I was very much not supposed to be on the computer making a roblox account.

So the lights are off in the room, and it's the middle of the night and I'm tired so my bitty baby hunt and peck typing does not have guardrails. The fact that I typo 'pianoplayer' (I was taking piano lessons at the time) as 'pionoplayer' is a mistake I do not discover until the next day. Alas, it is too late, I am now a piono.

Here's the thing though. 'Pianoplayer' was almost certainly already taken by that point. I would've had to add random numbers or whatever if I wanted to commit to it. Pionoplayer was an easy oneshot untaken username. And then it was again when I got into minecraft and joined the MCForums, and so on and on again. I've heard tell of another pionoplayer or two somewhere in the internet, but I've never actually had the username be taken yet when I sign up for something new.

So... By virtue of it being extremely convenient to the point that it eventually settled in as comfortable (and got lodged in my history in a way that more permanently added it to my personality by it being my username in a community that was fundamental to my personality growth during high school) it eventually just... Became my online identity.

I haven't even been able to play the piano really for years. The old connection really only ever comes up when someone asks about where I got my username or if I see the opportunity to make a stupid joke.

Interesting how these things work out, isn't it?

[aubrey-right-back]

Heck. That was a lot.

We're all safe. Police were circling by in case they caught the watcher guy and this intruder took the hint and left after seeing one drive by and after Polly got out the phone. Appearance and licence plate was reported anyway to the relevant authorities, who identified him as someone on the sex offender registry.

He never saw me.

It wasn't my dad, by the way, just someone who looked a bit like him. Who saw Watcher's photos and had intent to break in here and do something to me or Basil or both. Made it clear he had no clue of my actual blog or Sunny's, he doesn't know our URL, the photos had been uploaded to other circles and the background data on the photos was used to figure out the exact address. This would never have happened without @watcherblog-faraway, and even if it did, it would have been our own faults in a reasonable matter. But no. You're trying to protect us by leaking more data first? Saying it's okay because you delete it? Everything on the Internet is permanent, you know. Everyone you claim to protect could be in danger at any moment BECAUSE OF YOU.

Do I expect this to go through your thick skulls? No. Of course not. But you're not the hero you think you are.

(Saturday 16th September, 2000, 3:09 PM)

[eossa]

How I'd Make Tumblr More Profitable

Yes, this is going to be controversial, since I know nothing about the behind-the-scenes spending, economics, and all that jazz. But I've been on Tumblr for long enough to have a rough idea of the userbase wants - which is what positions Tumblr in a niche other sites don't really utilize. Most of the points I list here are about improving the experience of existing users, as keeping users might be harder for tumblr than attracting new ones.

Please note that this posts reflects my personal opinions and some stuff I've seen people complain about it. Do not attack me over anything I've written here, it's not worth my time and I will resort to blocking if I'm being bothered. Constructive criticism is fine and encouraged!

[under the cut because this got quite long] [last updated 20th July 2023]

Features to Add

Block posts. Xkit has/had this feature, it was great. Sometimes I just don't want to see a specific post, and others probably agree with that.

Send asks and replies from sideblogs. Would literally make a lot of things easier and better.

Delete individual reblog additions from a post. Sometimes, you have a post where there is one"relevant" addition, multiple "irrelevant" additions ("yes!", "[repeated phrase in bold]", "this is a must reblog"), before there is a "relevant" addition again. But right now, you can only remove all reblog additions, not just individual ones. I feel like this would be a neat feature.

Direct blocking of anon hate which also tracks the IP and blocks the associated account(s). No rights for cowards, that's all I'll say.

Features to Bring Back

Reblog chains. Prev tags are the backbone of lots of interactions on here. If I click on someone's username in a reblog chain, I want to see that post on their blog, not their blog starting from the newest post. The loss of this feature is one of the things people constantly complain about in the replies of @changes.

Several text formatting options. As a theme maker, it would be nice to have proper preformatted text again - it makes code so much more legible. Other formatting options I miss are marked/highlighted text and text lines, which are really helpful to visually break apart passages of text.

Features to Ditch

Tumblr Live. There I've said it. If I want to see stuff like that, I have TikTok, IG Reels, Pinterest Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Twitter also has something like this. It's oversaturated, and aparently there are still enough cyber security concerns that it's not even accessible outside of the US and Canada.

Ads in lightboxes. Especially on mobile, there are already more than enough ads on the feed, no need to add more nested inside other elements.

Features that Make Money

Pay for NSFW. If this site allowed full nudity etc. again but hid it behind a paywall, we'd kill two birds with one stone: The site would probably still be allowed on the App Store, and the money influx would be huge. The userbase would also increase again.

(If Tumblr Live is kept.) Pay to snooze Tumblr Live permanently. It's the most complained about thing in changes' replies, so I feel like people would pay on a subscription base just to not see TL anymore.

Pay to increase limits. 250 posts per day is the maximum that can be posted - and there are people hitting those limits. If there was an option to buy a higher limit (500p/d, 750p/d, etc.), people might generally use it. Like those add-on charges for mobile data. Same goes for posts in the queue, posts in drafts, images in a photoset and so on.

Pay to pin posts at the top of a tag or search result. Ebay Kleinanzeigen has this neat feature where you can push your small ads to the top of a search query so that more people can see it. This could be a cool feature to try, as it would work in a more content-aware way than Blaze does.

Pay to buy inactive URLs. There are some really cool usernames on here that are taken by blogs that haven't updated for 5+ years and only have one post (or none at all), and I feel like it would be neat to be able to buy one of these cool usernames attached to an empty account. To make sure that usernames attached to redirect or something else don't get bought, tumblr should send an e-mail to the username owner - if the user doesn't react to that for 3 months, the usernames changed owners. [added 13th July 2023]

Existing Features to Improve

NPF posts. I feel like a combination of legacy and NPF would be neat. Think selecting a main element like in the legacy editor (e.g. video, image, audio) and then adding a caption that can add different content types like NPF does. Or at least create a better overview over NPF variables and release the full base code with documentation to make things easier for the web designers on here. There are more issues with the NPF format but I won't list everything people dislike about it here.

Block people. The block feature should make sure that the person being blocked doesn't see any posts made by the person they were blocked by, even if those posts were reblogged by another user. Also, like IG does, there should be an option to block either just a specific blog or the IP address attached to block side-blogs and other accounts of that user.

Color palettes. The color palette options for the dashboard are generally a nice idea but I think it would be better if there was a dropdown menu to choose a palette from rather than having to click through all the different options. For example, if I want to go from Cement (light mode) to Dark mode, I have to click through 10 options until I reach Dark again. There has to be an easier way. [added 20th July 2023]

Other Improvements Needed

Nuke spam bots. Users are reporting all the spam bots, yet, it doesn't seem like they are dwindling in numbers. Also - at least this is how it's being perceived by the userbase - tumblr isn't doing enough on their end to reduce spam bots. This is definitely something that needs to be fixed.

End hateful and criminal activities. It's the year 2023, yet there are still outright N*zis, violent tr*nsphobes, literal p*dophiles, and other people committing to the daily bit of hate speech and other illegal activities (fraud too considering all those fake GoFundMe sites) on this website. I'm not saying free speech should be banned but there is a bright red line between what is free spech and what is hate speech (or should get you jailed considering fraud and p*dophilia).

A through-out, perhaps even interactive, beginner tutorial. "The site is too complicated to use for new users!" – then explain how it works in easy terms, with examples, images, and videos. Every other application or web app has walk-throughs, just do the same here.

Improved ad relevancy. The ads I see on tumblr are usually so out-of touch with the userbase, and many of them feel like the sort of stuff you see on a spam-ridden torrenting site. I feel like increasing the relevancy of ads to what the users usually blog about would cause a higher click-rate and turn-over-rate than the current ads do.

Summary

There is probably more I could add, but that's it for now. Should I make any later additions directly to this post, I will mention it to prevent misunderstandings. If you have any ideas or constructive criticism, let me hear about it in the replies or reblogs of this post.

[ask-agent-rapzutin-vodello]

Starting 2024, The blog will permanently change.

This is hitting me harder than I thought it would. Been a bit emotional. I have been pondering about the following decision for a while now, and it’s not been an easy one: in 2024, I will effectively shut down the Ask Blog. Now don’t panic and let me explain.

What will change?

Starting from January 2024, I will permanently disable the ask box – with exception a few times I feel like taking asks. The Ask blog will be rebranded into a reblogging …blog, complete with a new url. I will still post my Psychonauts fanfiction – both links to AO3 and tumblr posts, but mostly I’ll just be reblogging Psychonauts content. I also have a few asks and prompts saved up in my drafts, so I’ll be working on those too. Any sort of asks can also be asked on my main blog: @devastator1775.

THE TIDES OF WAR sequel story is still going to be written, so don’t worry: I will bring this AU to a satisfying conclusion.

Now, I feel like I can’t just drop this bombshell and leave it at that, so here’s my explanation for this action.

First and mostly, it has fulfilled its purpose.

When I started on “The Lives and Times of Razputin Vodello”, I created this ask-blog as a fun little side-project; never really expecting that it would take off in the way it did. Soon, this blog and the asks I got became my main tool for worldbuilding and fleshing out the AU. And I feel that, as a worldbuilding tool, the blog has reached its goal. With the expection for a few times I could manage to squeeze in a little story, my content hasn’t felt that exciting anymore.

Secondly, my priorities have shifted.

2023 has been a tough year for me, and I have come to the realization that I need to bring some changes in my life, both for my physical and my mental health – some of which have already been implemented. I want to work on myself in 2024, explore new opportunities and undertake new endeavors. Which brings me to my third reason.

Thirdly: I'm going to be working on my novel.

Pretty much self-explanatory. If I ever want to get this thing written, I'll need to get started and make time for it, but it means going to some sacrifices on my part, so …yeah.

So …yeah, I originally wanted to wait until November and post this on the blog’s second year anniversary, but … Anyway, we still have a few months left before the end, so please load up my inbox with as many asks as you can think of. If you have messages for me, I’ll happily take that.

Now, don’t get me wrong. This blog has been an amazing experience. This blog and, most importantly, every single follower have brought me so much joy and happiness these last two years and I know for a fact that my blog has brought happiness to some of you guys as well.

This blog invigorated my love for writing again.

With every single ask, you guys have helped me grow as a writer.

I will be forever grateful for my followers and readers for walking alongside me on this journey.

But every journey has its end …and this one’s is in sight.

So don’t be sad and remember the happy times.

The blog might change, but its spirit will forever be etched into my heart and soul.

So, once again:

THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING TWO YEARS!

Your Friend

Simon, the AUthor

[pandaladie]

My stupid guide to getting the stupid list of people YOU FOLLOW on tumblr

if tumblr has some way fo getting a list of usernames and urls of blogs you follow i don't know of it, if theres some script i don't know it, if theres anything. LET ME KNOW. but since i dont think there is welcome to my bruteforce method of getting a list of people you follow.

I am not a coder, i don't know how to do this with a program, and i dont know of any program that does it, no programmer thats going to or anything so im bruteforcing this in perhaps a stupid way but it works

go to your https://www.tumblr.com/following page

its just this same link, it takes you to the list of everyone you follow Then you need to load EVERY FOLLOWER by scrolling ALLL THE WAY DOWN the list, i have 2000 blogs i follow but ti doesnt take long for me to get to the end, yes you have to do this.

rightclick and select inspect

a box will come up, this might be scary for non techy people, don't worry were just looking at the code underneath the site, nothing you change will be permanent. dont mess around here unless you know kinda what youre doing, but dont be scared for what were gonna do.

there are several tabs to this new window, we want to be in the inspector tab, and when you mouse over the text in here you can notice that it flashes certain parts of tumblr. these different lines all pertain to certain spots of the webpage so you can see what tumblr wants you to see.

we want to find where they put the followers

so were gonna hover over:

and notice that the very center and only the center where you're followers are shown is lit up, that means inside this line somewhere is your follower list ((its not gonna be pretty)) use the little arrow on the side of this line and click it to expand the underlying code (this is really called nesting i think im not a coder, basically when there an arrow, theres stuff in there)

open the next arrow too (main something something)

keep hovering over the lines within this one and see which one lights up the center and only open that one, next one is "section something something" next class something something

now this might start to look familliar to you if you read all these "data-cell-id=" lines these are all the people you follows usernames,

I'm sure someone who knows how to code would be able to grab this in a neat way and put it in a text document for us, but i dont know how to do that i just know i want it.

so what i do is:

right click the line whose arrow we just opened to be able to see this and select "copy, inner html" this line to be clear

and i make a new notepad document(txt) on my computer, and i paste all that shit in there. and yes it looks like complete nonsense because everything is going everywhere with text you dont need or understand. dont worry about it. you still have all your list of following usernames in there.

now i used vs code(or visual studio code) (its a free program you can just get it if you want use google) and you dont even need to know any coding for this cleaning step. to clean this up, i open the document i created with all this shit in it in vs code and it has the capability to select every instance of a word or symbol or whatever and delete every single one, or replace it. it can also write with multiple cursors at the end of every line of text at the same time. so this way i can get rid of all this nonsense stuff to line up everyones usernames the way i'd like.

you can use google to figure out how to do this, or fuff about in vs code, but selecting a chunk and right clicking and choosing "change all occurrences" is what i used the most.

now if someone who actually codes could… help.. help me please.. dont let anyone else have to use this guide, there has to be a better way. thank you i love you

[power-handmaiden]

patreon users help me

the tl;dr of my question is: is there a way to search a creator's posts for a specific string of words? Or search titles only? Is there any good way to search that doesn't just turn up anything with the vaguest similarly?

The details: in preparation for my 2024 Tingler marathon I signed up for Chuck Tingle's patreon so as I build my checklist, I can include whether each title is available on Patreon or whether I'll have to buy it myself. Just to test it out I decided to search for "Creamed In The Butt By My Handsome Living Corn" since that was one of the titles I could remember off the top of my head, and I got... a lot of results. More than I'd like to sift through. I tried searching for Living Corn first and got results that included both words, but Corn was a part of Corner. So I put quotation marks around it, but that did nothing. Then I just typed I'm the whole title and got the same results, most of which don't even include the word Creamed. I guess I can go back through every listing, grab the patreon link, and assign it to an item on my checklist once the checklist is all done, but if there's an easier way I would appreciate it. (I also don't know if patreon URLs are good permanently so I'm kind of scared of going to grab a bunch of links just to have them go dead a couple months into the year)

[dramamath]

tag game— spelling out your URL with songs! I was tagged by @purplemuskrat. I will follow my friend's lead and add some commentary. It took me a few days to consider the options, but I like my collection of songs. I think they fit me quite well.

Drowning by Joe Jackson - I connected with this song when Joe Jackson released his album Laughter & Lust in 1991. It rattled around in my brain looking for a cause, which it would find in 2005. At the time, I had just wrapped up my 11th play as a high school director and although I was looking forward to the next show, I realized that my darling bride was pregnant, we would soon have four kids under the age of 6, and I needed to step away to spend as much time as possible at home. The drowning in this song refers to the end of a romantic relationship. However, as I sat on an empty stage, the lyrics took on a new meaning. "I don't love you, but I'm lost," are the opening words. I realized that, in that moment, I didn't have the deep love of theatre that had been central to my being, but felt lost in the need to walk away from it. This song made it easier to do just that, until I was ready to return.

Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel - From his 1974 album Streetlife Serenade, this instrumental is lively and witty and just picks you up and carries you with it. It is a beautiful marriage of Rock and Ragtime as you will ever find.

All Along the Watchtower arranged by Bear McCreary - Originally written and recorded by Bob Dylan in 1967 and memorably recorded a year later by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, this version that was an integral part (in instrumental form) in the latter half of season 3 of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, its full exposure in the final episode of that season was haunting as many hinted secrets were revealed. I get chills anytime I hear it.

Make Me Smile by Chicago - This song begins a seven-song cycle which the band refers to as Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon (Make Me Smile - So Much to Say, So Much to Give - Anxiety's Moment - West Virginia Fantasies - Colour My World - To Be Free - Now More Than Ever) from the 1970 double album Chicago II lays out the story of composer and the band's trombonist and his attempt to win back the love of his ex-fiancé.

Accountancy Shanty by Monty Python - Formally known as The Crimson Permanent Assurance, this song is from a short film that opened Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It speaks well for my love of absurdist humor.

Maybe I'm Amazed by Paul McCartney - From his 1970 debut solo album, the lyrics just haunt me. "Maybe, I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time/And maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you." I thought about these words when my darling bride asked me, after six years of friendship, why I had never asked her out.

Alive by Hiromi - A jazz pianist, this song opens her 2014 album of the same name. The song grabs you by the lapels of the jacket you are wearing and won't let go until you are fully engrossed in the journey.

Take Her to the Mardi Gras by Harry Connick Jr - I feel lucky that I purchased the 2007 album Oh My NoLa from Walmart, because this track was only placed on copies of the CD sold in those stores. It is another "hold on tight and don't let go" kind of song ... one I wish was available for karaoke, because I would be on that stage in a heartbeat.

Hearts by Yes - Truth be told, I could have probably done this entire list with nothing by music from Yes. They have invented and reinvented themselves for 50 years. Again, it is the lyrics that just haunted me upon first listen. "Set your heart sail on the river (Hearing)/Look around you as you drift downstream (Talking)/Pouring souls into the ocean (Love you)/Take account of all you've seen."

If you have made it this far, I hope you enjoyed my journey and perhaps, find yourself a new song to put into your rotation. Thank you, purplemuskrat, for the inspiration.

[spideyfan42]

Why X-Men Apocalypse and I Are Just Acquaintances - Or More Accurately, Why Beast in the Movies Was Just Ok

(I'm sorry Nicholas Hoult, you're an incredible actor)

Now despite my URL being very pro-Spider-Man (That's a lot of hyphens), I got to say I love the X-Men. This is most likely due to them not only paving the way for superhero movies and also back in the olden days of 92' and 97 respectively, animation. I also found a kinship with these groovy dudes who were persecuted for being different. While no robots have tried to kill me for being autistic, i do get feeling like an outsider.

As a big comic fan since 2012, I've been picking up the odd X-Men here and there, but religiously watching the movies, so much so that old St Nick, The Kristopher of Kringle himself got me the Rouge Cut version of DoFP, my first real "directors cut" (?) of a film. Given how that reset the timeline I was so excited to see what would happen next. However, one little weird issue I had was Beast. Now for those in the know Henry "Hank" McCoy was a founding member of the merry mutant band, one of the OG 5 students, and in the films, he is also one of the original team members as well. Also mirroring his comic counterpart, he decides to perform some Oingo Boingo style Weird Science on himself, turning him from a guy whose power was :

"Man I have big hand and feet!"

To a man whose power was:

"Damn now I'm a blue fuzzy dude."

It's a change that whilst initially beginning as more lycanthropic in nature, eventually settled as permanent, supplanted by not one, but two future mutations to enhance his already furry physique.

Now why am I dropping 60ish years of Beast lore on you when I'm supposed to be describing my quote-on-quote "dislike" of X-Men Vs Poe Dameron/Moon Knight? It all stems from one thing.

Beast isn't blue. Or even grey.

Hell, he's barely fuzzy. One of the main joys of the X-Men is that in a school such as Xavier's School for Gifted Children is that everyone is welcome. Guy made of rocks? Come on in. Literal fairy lady? There are at least two. Guy whose mutant power is LIKE JUST HAVING MORE EYES? WHY HE'S STUDENT PRESIDENT, PROBABLY. These mutants, regardless of their mutation are welcomed and treated fairly by the staff, with some of the staff even in the same boat as them.

Now there are two reasons for said "De-Beast-ening"

Mr Hoult didn't want to be caked in prosthetic make-up, just to look like a superhero Cat in the Hat. Whilst I can empathise, you signed onto play Beast. The one guy who is just blue. ALL THE TIME.

In DoFP, Beast makes a mutant suppressive drug. For Charles, it turns off his telepathy and I guess also miraculously heals a spinal injury (Even though I suppose a drug that amplified his telekinesis at the cost of his telepathy would make more sense but I guess magic serums can do anything), but for Dr Bones here it means he turns blue when he's a wee bit agitated. That's just the Hulk. Smart guy turns into a monster when stressed? Hulk. Plus it's a stand-in for drug abuse in DoFP after the students get drafted and Charles can hear their pain through his use of Cerebro, so his continued use well into the 90s seems...questionable.

The main issue that Beast as a character is one who consistently is a mentor to students with outward mutations they can't control. It's a story of embracing consequence and change that the films stepped on to just have more actor screen time. And whilst I know films and comics are different mediums that can tackle different stories, the lackluster use of a role model for positive body images does show that the Fox Films missed that its the human part of superhuman we all prefer. Even just one scene where Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner could say Beast inspires him, being so open with is mutation.

Here's hoping the House of (M)ouse doesn't make the same mistakes!

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

which Badfinger song would you use for a URL if you could?

SO MANY POSSIBILITIES i could be sweettumblrmorning instead of sweet tuesday morning or nameoftheblog instead of name of the game or storminatumblr instead of storm in a teacup. comeandblogit instead of come and get it. i actually love that.

MAYBETOMORROWIWILLBLOGAGAIN

midnightblogger

blogofallages

BLOGWYN < this is my favorite one

yes they have to be puns on "tumblr" or "blog"

but no, i would actually probably choose something more serious for an emotional reason and i'm not sure what that would be right now, i would probably analyze every single lyric thoroughly with blog name thoughts in mind to pick the perfect one that i could keep forever. this is IF i planned on having a permanent badfinger blog. it would take me a while to come up with one, probably.

if i was limited to only using the actual song titles without them being puns and just because i like the song, then i'd probably go wiiittttth (scrolling my playlist right now) either blodwyn, we're for the dark orrrr beautiful and blue. or walk out in the rain. or blind owl. i like other songs a lot too but i vibe with the titles of these ones the most, i think.

i could go with perfection, but i would want some extra lyrics so it would have more of the song's point in it because he's saying there is no real perfection. i agree, pete.

i would also consider apple of my eye but i think i like the other ones more for urls so i don't think it would be a final choice(though i do love the song)

i'm rambling now, look at what you did to me anon (thank you very much i'm having fun answering this)

shine on could work too actually because it sounds happy and uplifting, like yes i think i will shine on today. AND the music sounds happy so every time i look at the url it would put a happy sound in my head. and the image of pete's mustache.

i'll stop here because i'm going to end up listing too many songs and explaining why and how they could work for a url