#is this just

[ashertickler]

i hc asher's parents as your stereotypical """weird""" parents

his mum is like a plant mum and swears by talking to her plants because it helps them grow, and she goes out for "wild flower walks" where she picks specific flowers based on a bouquet she wants to make and then use in tea or her cooking/baking, and she collects mugs and uses them for everything she can (plant pots, paint pots, for her jewellery, storing medicine, "temporary" piggy bank that is never temporary, some open-concept tool box that holds woodworking tools), maybe she's a painter, or a carver, or a knitter - that depends on whatever medium catches her attention first and then becomes her craft hobby for the next half-year, she's very sporadic with her current fixations

and his dad probably collects stuff like seashells or postcards or maybe something more bizarre like bird art in state national park brochures, and they're displayed EVERYWHERE, or clocks and watches and has a "tinkering station" in their shed where he pulls up those magnifying glasses that jewellers use to take apart old clocks and makes animal art from it (and they're all of mrs. talbot's favourite animals)

((wait I kinda see them as kusuo saiki's mum and dad coded yes.))

they're very eclectic magpie-type people who collect trinkets and little things that remind them of each other, or of asher and madelyn and these little things are scattered all over the house, and their walls are FULL of paintings and prints and photographs of all styles and mediums and of themselves and the people/animals they love, put in all sorts of frames (nothing is taped up raw, if it will be hung up it WILL be in a frame - a thrifted or handmade (by asher's mum) one)

and there's always holiday or seasonal decorations up SOMEWHERE, could be a small string of Christmas lights or fake jack-o-lanterns in the hallway or going up the stairs, an easter basket with fake painted eggs in the living room, dried fruits and leaves in a decorative bowl in the kitchen... you'll find practically every major and some cultural holiday decor in their house

i feel like these traits were something asher and maddie were both embarrassed about as kids/preteens, wishing their parents could be "normal" for once whenever their friends would come over and they'd hear people in their schools say that their parents were kooky, but then grew to love their quirky parents who let them be whoever they wanted and encouraged them to indulge in their hobbies and interests so passionately and without a single care in the world about what others think... they're so supportive and open and want their children to be unapologetically themselves

so you KNOW asher and his mum bond over and watch star trek together, or he would play video games with his whole family growing up (the just dance competitions were intense I fear), and he and his dad would go hunting for whatever his dad was collecting and they'd make games out of it like judging stuff as if they're art critics

so yeah. the weird talbot family :)

[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?

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[vampiricbisexuality]

like to charge, reblog to cast <3

[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.

[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

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[rats4brainzzz]

imagine how much of a fucking horrible person you have to be that on the first day your elected into office the crisis calls of a Suicide Prevention Project Go Up 33%. The Trevor Project Received over 1,400 Call By Early Monday Afternoon. Most of those calls, if not all, are coming from children. Children scared of you and what you will do. Imagine how much power and how horrible you have to be to do that.

( Edit ) Link To Where I Got My Info:

[mobgoblin]

Queued right up for it

[miggylol]

Surprise! Tumblr just got turned into an epic fantasy RPG, just like [your favorite appropriate media franchise]. And the Tumblr RPG's plot needs to have all of its characters covered, in roles both large and small.

That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.

[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.

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[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!

[windwenn]

This drawing made me realise that actually I love the comfort zone and I would like to go back into it. Also that I must draw more tigers.

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip