#really looking forward to this!

[birch-shark-art]

Birch Shark Art Pottery Stall

Offering 1 custom handmade ceramic dish for the Fandom Trumps Hate Craft Bazaar (auction form here)

What: a custom glazed ceramic piece made by me to your specifications

Cup, small bowl, mug, set of 2-3 tiny bowls (those would count as 1 piece for this)

Potentially open to discussing other types of dishes (plate, cereal bowl, perforated berry bowl, etc)

Food safe, microwave safe, dishwasher safe

Will ship: anywhere in the US; international is negotiable

Style: see the pictures above for some examples, and my pottery tag for more!

I can do a wide range of glaze colors – happy to discuss options. I can also do painted designs in underglaze, sgraffito (carved designs) and incised/cutaway/texture decorations. And, of course, these can be combined.

My underglaze painting and sgraffito style tends to used limited colors and relatively stylized designs; I’m going to be better at motifs than realistic portraits. For example, see this or this. Happy to discuss until we find something that works for us both!

Any fandom, ship, etc. is an option for design. If I don’t know it, I’ll ask for some references or more detailed description of what you have in mind.

Non-fannish designs, words, cool glazes with no designs, etc., are all options too!

What I won’t do:

NSFW stuff (explicit sexual content, drug references, etc) – I make and fire my work at a shared studio, and this is their rule.

Please note that this is a custom ceramic piece, and I have limited studio time. Please allow 6-8 weeks for me to make it, fire it, glaze it, fire it again, and get in the mail to you!

Again, the link to bid is here! You can see the current top bid here.

[gallifreywhere]

River meets Ace and Tegan!

13 December 2024

A dream team of Alex Kingston, Janet Fielding and Sophie Aldred assemble for The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan, a brand-new audio drama box set, due March 2025.

In the 2022 Doctor Who TV special The Power of the Doctor, the Time Lord reunited with two past companions, Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Ace (Sophie Aldred). It was clear these two were already firm friends, but how did this friendship begin? The answer involves a certain 51st-century archaeologist… 

Ace and Tegan have been plucked from their twenty-first century lives and stranded in 1860. But who is responsible, and why is River Song mixing in nineteenth century society too? 

Somebody is out to eliminate the three of them, as Ace and Tegan realise that this may not be their first meeting with River. Their lives are entangled, and to escape, somebody must pay the ultimate price... 

The second volume in River Song’s brand-new audio series, The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan comprises four episodes of full-cast audio drama, which chart the course of the three characters’ interactions across their lifetimes. There are hauntings, monsters, and an arch-villain playing games with time but, through it all, strong friendships will be forged. 

The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan is now available for pre-order exclusively here, as a limited edition four-CD box set (plus digital download) for £29.99, or as a digital download only for £22.99.   

The four adventures for this trio of iconic characters are: 

Castaways by James Moran  Driftwood by Roland Moore Dead Rising by Roland Moore The End is the Beginning is the End by James Moran 

Producer David Richardson said: “Ace and Tegan – the pairing that, until The Power of the Doctor came along, we didn’t even know we were crying out for! Sophie and Janet made such a huge impact when they returned for Jodie Whittaker’s last story, and in this latest River Song box set, we get to explore the lead-up to that. 

“How did Ace and Tegan first meet? And how did they encounter River Song? It’s a story told over decades and not necessarily in sequence. River has encountered many formidable things, but is she ready for the explosive properties of both Nitro-9 and Tegan Jovanka?” 

Further details about The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan, including guest cast and story details, will be announced nearer the release date. 

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[darcyolsson]

in loving memory of tumblr's april fools' pranks 💐 2014 - 2024

icymi, tumblr used to do an elaborate april fool's prank every year, but this year they suddenly stopped. here's a somewhat detailed recap of everything they did over the decade:

2013 - mishapocalypse (honourable mention): tumblr staff didn’t start doing april fools until 2014, but the mishapocalypse happened on tumblr in 2013 and i feel like this list would be incomplete without it

2014 - tumblrpro: upon opening your dash you were greeted by an “inspirational” video, that ended with the option to get “tumblrpro (for free)”. all it did was put a top hat on your icon.

2015 - tumblr executivesuite/coppy: a copying machine appeared in the corner of your dash. it would offer tips on how to use tumblr, like clippy the paperclip used to do in microsoft word. as the day went on, it slowly broke down and died right in front of your eyes. many people hated him (but not me). you could also make a (small) spreadsheet. @executivesuite2016 is the official blog.

2016 - this is decision/lizard election/tumblrdecides: a parody of the 2016 US elections. there were 4 lizards (well, one of them turned out to be a salamander in a scandal) to vote for. the dash looked different and there was a live news report with election updates, as well as an election blog for each lizard. they all had their own slogans and you would get an "i voted" button after you voted that would get slapped next to your icon. there were built-in functions to make an election poster for your favourite lizard and to create a text post that supported your lizard of choice that autogenerated a statement for all your followers to read. imo tumblr’s april fools peak. @thisisdecision2016-blog is the official blog, @mop-2016-blog @wretchedtooth @timefordeborah-blog were candidates. rick also had a blog (rick-official) but that now seems to have vanished because he ended up dropping out of the election. mop won, if you're curious. by far the most elaborate prank tumblr ever did.

2017 - horse friend: a tamagotchi-inspired game where you had to take care of a little horse in the corner of your screen. it came with a randomly generated name, and you had to feed and clean up after it. if you didnt take good care of it, it died. you could then hatch (yes, hatch) a new one. there was also an option to look at the names of all your dead horses. this is now available to buy in the tumblr shop. @horse-friends is the official blog.

2018 - tumblcoin: a parody of cryptocurrency (this was the year bitcoin took off). you could ‘invest’ in tumblcoin, with which you could in turn buy things with to spice up your dash, including last year’s horse friend, coppy from 2015, and a frame for around your icon. you could share the amount of tumblcoin you owned in an automatically generated gif post which would be tagged #tbc2018 and #tumblcoin. @tumblcoin is the official blog.

2019 - @memories: this blog still functions the way it did on april fools itself! it's like mad libs, where it takes post templates and then adds in tags you use a lot and users you frequently interact with on your main blog. like a personalized shitpost bot.

2020 - group chat prank/@storybot: it was so hard to find info on this because it was contained entirely in the now-defunct group chat function, which no one used. i had to go through the notes of this post for information because no one cared enough to actually write anything explaining it. turns out, you could write a story with your mutuals by adding storybot to your group chat. it also kept working after april fools (well, up until the group chats were deleted) just like memories. many people missed out on it entirely because they did not use the group chat function.

2021 - tumblcryptids: tumblr allowed you to adopt “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. clicking a button that said "Summon thy Tumblrcryptid" would spawn an image of a little blob-shaped creature with a short description, which would always read "Hi! My name is [randomly generated name]. I love [thing most people like]. I hate [thing most people dislike]. Like my parent, I can't get enough of #[tag from your main blog]." you could share them in a post, which would automatically add the tag #NFTumblcryptids to your post. and yes, people on the piss on the poor website freaked out about it because they thought they were real NFTs harming the environment. @tumblcryptidadoptioncenter is the official blog.

2022 - click-a-thon: when you clicked a light switch on your dashboard, a bunch of colourful things showed up, like a sponge you could move around, an "engagament meter", clickable buttons, and a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when you clicked it. you could. the crabs, like horse friend, are still available in the tumblr store as of 2025. here's some screenshots. there were various ways to share your crab activities, which would all get tagged #april fools 2022. the prank was presented as a marketing technique created by Brick Whartley, a fictional businessman character created by tumblr, who (afaik) originated in a post on the official blog of the 2018 april fools prank, albeit originally in a different role. around this time he also started functioning as the mascot for tumblr's shop ( @emporium )

2023 - abstract reactions (emoji reacts): buttons were added to every post that allowed you to add emoji reactions, many of them based on tumblr inside jokes (horse as a reference to horse plinko/horse friend, vanilla for the vanilla extract meme, pikaman, bug for bug race, and brick whartley, who wasn't a meme but staff really wanted him to be). if one specific emoji was used a certain amount of times it would add an effect to the post, eg many cheese emoji reacts would cover the post in cheese. this was also attributed to Brick Whartley ("his" blog @brickwhartley also documented the day)

2024 - boop-o-meter: allowed you to “boop” other users who had opted in to the booping, like facebook’s poke feature back in the day. depending on how long you held the button, you would either boop, super boop, or evil boop. on the dashboard there was a counter for both how many times you had booped others and how many times others had booped you, as well as how many boops were given side-wide. when booping someone, an image of a cat paw appeared. you would get badges (which can still be used) for booping 1, 100 and 1000 times. if you gave/received more than 999 boops, the counter would switch to showing a three-letter word (see this post for specifics). this was brought back for halloween 2024 (as BOOp-o-meter. get it), with a ghost, skeleton and mummy paw. no official blog, but here's an official recap for april first from staff. i believe this was the only april fools prank that was mobile user friendly.

2025 - @fandom is running some polls, i guess

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[labannori]

Touch

[harblkun]

I’m glad all the Caleb girlies are getting everything they wanted and more 👍✨

I am also glad to go back to the N109 Zone, thanks. Main Story MC may not be ready to speed-dial Sylus, but I am. It’s safer in the lawless wasteland.

[abandoned-quiche]

I LOVE ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS BTW. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR HATE FOR THEM ON MY POST

[eff-exor]

suck the dick that pisses on you or whatever the saying is

[death-by-sc0tland]

“david overshadowed ncuti blah blah blah” dude everyone in the fandom is falling head over heels for ncuti’s doctor just from the 15 minutes of content we’ve had with him plus ncuti himself got to act alongside his idol he grew up watching like i don’t think there were any losses here

[bberetd]

PIGTAIL DAISY ACQUIRED!!!

[anbaisai]

"(Sigh) We'll continue this another ti- mmf?!"

With a guy like Jamil, you really gotta pick up the slack sometimes. No tie to pull on though, so I guess we'll just have to use that hoodie!

(Inspired by this artwork by オレコ on Pixiv!)

Bonus Jamil for the rest of the day:

[billy-crudup]

Hinako. Time is running out. The fact that you’re alive… means you’ve made it here, yet you’re still lost all the same. You can’t think about it forever. You’re running out of time to choose. 

SILENT HILL f Developed by NeoBards Entertainment

[snarkspawn]

anyway I'm going for some old man yaoi next

[mrdespondency]

he's so babygirl

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A whole new meaning to Gay Chicken.

(For: Anonymous raffle winner!)

[somnimagus]

out of the frying pan and into the fire and into another frying pan that's also on fire

[id in alt text]