#if you want no pressure tho

[merwytchart]

I... I watched AMC's Interview with the Vampire against my will (my best friend is a Lestat stan) and I actually loved it??? and the revamp style (pun intended)???

[disco-troy]

Its folly to think Alfred's favorite is anyone other than Bruce. That's his son, and he would throw any of the Robins under the bus (even a recently dead one) for Bruce's well-being

[walkingbomb]

for absolutely no particular reason, tumblr mobile won't let me reblog the post right now, but @courtlyvampyrism tagged me in a mutuals ask post that asked the question:

'what are you up to right now?'

it's 01:20am and i'm awake, listening to the rain hitting my window, contemplating writing poetry or painting because inspiration only seems to strike at around 2am when i definitely should be sleeping. in the morning i'll make banana pancakes and chocolate pastries and, hopefully, i'll have a better day than today.

tagging a handful of mutuals i'd like to know better;

@mizuki73 @shanaraharlyah @mephal @deadgirlrising

@maintitle @guacamolleee @nuka-rockit @nerdmomma14

[beanbagbuddies4life]

Silver and Silver II fixing my espresso machine

(photographers note: don't try this at home and don't let your beanies try either.)

[cybers-multiverse-mansion]

Goretober day 23 ; Vivisection

Tw ; Surgery

@sir-teacher

Chalk leaned on a locker, fidgeting with a small thin piece of metal with four screw holes in it. He twisted the screws in and out of the metal.

It was taller than your average person, at least 7 feet something. It also had 3 inch platforms to add onto that. Menacing for sure.

He groaned and put the metal piece in the pocket of his leather crop top jacket. He smoothed out his skirt and fixed his fishnets, just kinda fidgeting to make sure he looked alright.

[a-tale-of-legends]

Like I love Piers. I do. But it will forever erk me on how he just. Pushes so much on Marnie. I don't think it's malicious by any means, it's clear he adores her. But again, the " team yell situation would've been out of control if it wasn't for her" as if he's not the adult there. Or the " I'm not much of a gym leader, so I want my sister to take over for me", despite her interests being. Not that atm.

And I don't exactly hate these flaws for Piers. I think they're really interesting! But both the game and masters kinda don't do anything with it. At least masters goes " yeah, my sister wants to be champion, so I'm still gonna be a gym leader for now and let her do her own thing " but it's still banking on the fact Marnie will eventually become the gym leader in her place. Like he doesn't mean to do this, but he's putting so much pressure on the girl. Him and team yell! And I don't think that's fair! But nah, they still have a good relationship - and I want them to! But I also want them to address this. I think their entire situation is just messy, and pokemon isn't exactly showing that.

I do think it's interesting, according to Marnie, she feels like the reason her and Piers don't argue is because Piers is holding back on her. And that she would want that sibling squabble. Like! God that's so interesting! And kinda sad! To know your older brother is holding back emotions for your sake! There's so much you could do with these two I swear, and yet! We don't get much!

[crybaby-bkg]

Bakugou finds himself trying to live up to an expectation he never thought he would have to—being some kind of sex god. He’s not really sure how this rumor started, or from who, seeing as most of his experiences were with close friends that he knew didn’t run their mouths about his sex life. But after so much ‘news’ being spread about his uncanny abilities in the bed, he finds himself trying to live up to its expectations.

Which makes sex with you…entirely too awkward. It’s not that he doesn’t wanna do it, or that he’s not attracted to you (couldn’t be farther from the truth, actually). It’s the fact that he’s sure you’ve heard the rumors, read the stories from tabloids and shitty Reddit posts. You must have, with the way you smile all sultry up at him and rub a hand down his bicep and grin all prettily at him.

It’s why he cusses extremely loud in the otherwise quiet room when he’s above you, and slips. He’s still not sure how it happened; you were laying beneath him and he was on his knees in between your legs, resting his weight on his hands beside your head. He knows it couldn’t have been a strength thing, with his arms giving out, but he’s embarrassed nonetheless.

Especially when the slip makes his head knock against yours.

You groan loudly, rubbing your head as Bakugou cusses again, pulling his body weight from on top of you as he sits on his knees. He’s irritated now, at his stupidity, at the weight of being better than he knew he actually was weighing on him so heavily, that it’s fucked up your first time together. He opens his mouth to apologize, ask if you want him to drop you off back at home, but he stops himself when he sees your wide grin and hears your quiet laughter.

“Me almost knocking you unconscious with my head is funny to you?” He asks accusingly, but he can’t help the small smile tugging his lips when his words only make you laugh louder. You nod at him, giggling all the while you pull him down on top of you again. He gives a little resistance before he falls onto you until his nose brushes yours.

“Yes, actually.” You chuckle, soft eyes searching his. “It’s nice to see that Dynamight is actually human, and still occasionally fucks up.” You whisper, smile diminishing but genuine all the while. It makes Bakugou soften, a huff escaping his nose as he mashes his lips against yours until you feel teeth and giggle again.

“I never fuck up,” he grunts against your mouth, smiling when he feels your smile against his own.

“Tell that to the knot on my forehead.” You snark back before he’s pulling you in again.

Realistic sex with him includes the time you both laughed when you released too much air while in doggy position and it made a funny sound. And when he accidentally stumbled while carrying you and you bit his lip too hard to be sexy. And when he collapsed from exhaustion on top of you after trying to initiate, instead finding comfort in pulling out of you so you two could just cuddle instead.

[kev-smell-my-fart]

ouughh funny pepper guy.

edit: I DIDNT REALIZE HOW COMPRESSED IT WAS GONNA BE LMAOO im keeping it like that idc.. gives me ms paint vibes.

[hplonesomeart]

Hey!! So turns out a video I made between a certain “well beloved but highly sensitive/emotionally reactive T.V” and an “orange haired inkling-turned-human” has managed to sweep my YouTube channel and accumulate 100k VIEWS!! THAT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY?? My most widely viewed video EVER to exist in this moment in time?? AAAAA?? Not even mentioning the various comments and staggering increase in subs! It’s so much more then what I expected or even prepared for—might even be the most impactful thing to happen for me this year <3

…aside from graduating high school + the social connections I’ve been fortunate to make lol

BUT THE POINT IS I’d been closely monitoring the YouTube growth through the entirety of October. It’s make me smile like a dork, gawk in astonishment, dance frantically in my room from the energy boosts, and grow courage to stop being so selective/self-conscious with what I wish to share with the world! It’s kept my ambitions going!

I needed to find some way to celebrate the occasion and express my thanks—because I can’t NOT acknowledge this milestone jksjskp. Typically I try to avoid getting tunnel visioned focusing on the metrics/numbers. Mr. Puzzles had already demonstrated how much those things can mess with the minds of creatives. Caring too much about chasing views or placing your artistic value in attention seeking gets damaging. But at same time…it’s hard to deny the sense of pride the 100k achievement has filled me with. I understand that reaching 100k views doesn’t immediately make me any “better” or “worse” then I was before. I’m still just me! It only helps me feel seen by others—and that’s all I really needed. To hear some nice words & receive reminders that my ideas are cared about. So thank you SMG4 fandom for that, seriously thank you.

Please accept this Mr. Puzzle drawing as a way of sharing the happiness around. He’s so entertaining. Love him for simply existing. So glad we can all collectively be super attached to him (and the rest of the SMG4 cast of course). Can’t wait to see more incredible artworks from the fandom :)

Just incase anyone is confused by my vague description over which “animated video” I’m referring to here—hopefully this photo will help clarify lol. It’s this one!! Sorry about not outright stating the title at the start, I got carried away with writing!!

I’ve been in an odd place mentally when thinking about it. Wondering to myself if any of the attention is deserved considering it’s not even fully colored and could be dismissed as “low effort” content (despite taking several days making it). It’s easy to get into a trap of comparing yourself to others and questioning how much of the videos success is based on your skills, sheer algorithm luck, or only because you used popular characters and catered to a specific fandom. And then judging yourself by looking at other peoples videos. I’ve seen several artists post higher quality works then my own but it somehow gets less views. So why did mine succeed when others (who should have gotten just as much attention if not more) didn’t? Sometimes you feel like you’ve unfairly robbed them of that chance to be seen. However I’ve realized that I can’t ever expect views to be consistent—and comparing is pointless. So why worry about it or feel inadequate? I mean it’s pretty common for funny cat videos to go viral, so who am I to question the system lol. “Popular” YouTube videos can range from a passion project which took 7+ artists…to a clip of Toad singing Chandelier or a nonsensical Vine sketch. Anything can happen when it’s the internet! And just-so-happened my video was chosen. I should stay glad about that and get rid of all the overanalyzing. So that’s what I’ve chosen to do :)

[foxclcves]

☕🍂 compilation of autumnal prompts

overcast skies

corn mazes

scarecrows

baking

sitting fireside

making s'mores

carving pumpkins

apple cider

rainy days

pumpkin patch

autumn walk

decorating

hay ride

apple picking

farmer's market

picnic

bookstores

festival

bundling up

flannel

hiking

first frost

leaves

spices

haunted houses

matching costumes

trick or treat

ghosts

homemade

movie night

candy bowl

black cat

golden hour

foraging

park bench

sunrise

candles

visit

memories

trees

pine cones

harvest

acorns

reading

fauna

cemeteries

traditions

full moon

creature comforts

cold hands

handmade

embers

cozy

arts 'n' crafts

sunset

[girderednerve]

Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer dollars to provide patrons with information they don’t realize is AI-generated.

With Hoopla, librarians have to opt into Hoopla’s entire catalog, then pay for whatever their customers choose to borrow from that catalog. The only way librarians can limit what Hoopla books their customers can borrow is by setting a limit on the price of books. For example, a library can use Hoopla but make it so their customers can only borrow books that cost the library $5 per use.

“Investigating these authors, their book covers, their social media, etc takes A LOT OF TIME, especially with the volume of questionable material increasing month to month (and that's not including the sheer amount of legitimate books published each month in adult fiction that I'm looking at),” one librarian who asked to remain anonymous so she could talk openly about her job, told me. “Is it the best use of my time doing this work on top of my other duties when customers may or may not care? And with the rising multitudes of AI generated content, will there come a point where it just ‘is what it is?’”

This type of low quality, AI generated content, is what we at 404 Media and others have come to call AI slop. Librarians, whose job it is in part to curate what books their community can access, have been dealing with similar problems in the publishing industry for years, and have a different name for it: vendor slurry. While the term now encompasses what seems like AI-generated content as well, it predates the rise of generative AI, and also refers to the glut of low quality, often self-published ebooks or book “summaries” that are common on Hoopla. As some librarians told me, the sheer quantity of books in Hoopla’s service makes it seem more valuable because it offers such a large number of books, but in reality that number is misleadingly inflated by this slurry.

Several of the librarians I talked to said that they are worried about discussing [the problems raised by Hoopla's weak, unclear selection policies, including the 2022 inclusion of explicitly white nationalist texts,] because of the growing hostility towards libraries and groups like Moms for Liberty demanding that books about LGBTQ rights, race, and ethnicity be removed from libraries. One the one hand, librarians want to curate their collections and make sure their patrons are getting access to quality information. On the other hand, they don’t want people to think that they are trying to censor what materials patrons can access in way that’s comparable to what organizations like Moms for Liberty want. None of the librarians I talked to suggested the AI-generated content needed to be banned from Hoopla and libraries only because it is AI-generated. It might have its place, but it needs to be clearly labeled, and more importantly, provide borrowers with quality information.

[4th-make-quail]

tagged by @heartofhubris! 💚

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most! Please make a new post. Then tag Tumblr friends to keep the game going!

MY ENTIRE MUSIC LIBRARY...... OKAY HERE GOES LOL (for the record i have... 11,382 songs in my Liked music library on spotify sgljhfdlg)

A Perfect Circle - Sleeping Beauty Orgy - Shady AF (feat. rexi XO) Devil May Cry 2 - DARKNESS INSTINCT (Argosax the Chaos) Behind the Scenes - Hate the Day The Anix - Renegade - Live

tagging: @des-no9 @7-et @eemamminy-art @armandmollloy @queer-crusader

@lullabiestoparalyze @liamgallaghermpreg @witchoil @unaarista @1st-sui

[cranberrytea451]

Let the playdate begin @lazyasyoucansee

Part 1

Edit

Don’t cross cross. He’s got a bad feeling.

[cherry-pop-elf]

TODAYS MY BIRTHDAY 🎂

Ya gorl is turning 23! 🥳

Damn. Well over a year on this account. And so much has happened and changed.

Nearly 700 followers, so many new friends, new mutuals, opened a AO3 account, starting my second semester as a sophomore for a Psychology Doctorate, just woah. I’m adulting! Lmao

And I’ve, somewhat, got my health kinda under control. Using my walker far more than my wheelchair, medicated and in therapy, I’m getting somewhere. Sorta. It’s still a tough journey but I’m doing something about it! And that’s the heaviest and hardest step. I’m taking ADHD medications, going to therapy, losing weight, and forcing myself to accept that it’s ok I can’t do everything. I’m still just as valid of my worth with what little I can do

Just woah. Writing it all down helps me kinda see that I did make progress in life. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it, since I have so much wrong going on, but everyone’s got their own journey

And thanks yall for being part of it with me. Crossing fingers this year is the year I’ll get even MORE shit done! Woo!

Maybe this will be the year I finally get top surgery to!

And for those sending birthday wishes, and what not, I’ll be busy at the aquarium with my dad! He’s taking me on a day trip to the aquarium and imma enjoy it. Just me and the jellyfish. So know I’ll see them and do my best to respond when I can/at the end of the day

Thank you all for this amazing journey, and being there for me. Even when I take long breaks between writings, for the drawings I’m passionate about, the variety of hyper fixations, and of course my Weasley FamilyKinning

Thank you all! Cheers to a new year!

[joonasmybeloved]

I'm starting a tag game because I'm bored

Reblog this and tell me your top three favorite movies!

Mine are:

I'm tagging: @ss4nni @extraordinarygirl @rbf451 @johnnyporko @kraeuterhexchen @lonelyvomit @because-its-eurovision @mil-peri

[girlbob-boypants]

I didn't FORGET to do this for several days I just. Didn't remember.

Tagged by both tragicomedykitty and arcann (ily guys)

Uhhh I'll tag. @vounoura @doriansbutt @troublexbug @ratellini @silvacentric andddd @probably-guinea-pigs

But if you see this take it as an excuse to do your own if you want. The more the merrier :3