#this is what really happened

[ruubesz-draws]

This is what Kong said to Godzilla before fighting him in Egypt

(Audio from MarsMignon)

[once-delight]

[shallowseeker]

dean, cursed w bad luck, mortified

running his ass to alaska asap

*cas canNOT see me like this*

[whataboutsimple]

Order of Ex-lovers

Because..

Ivor: you still didn't get me back my sweater, you know?!

Gabriel: well, you have my t-shirts! A LOT of t-shirts!

Ellegaard: you both owe me whole collection of nail polish!

Soren: uh huh, and who had borrowed y'all bunch of jackets? Wait a minute, I DID!

Magnus: every of you still have my handmade plushies! MY plushies!

Jesse: ..maybe we should calm them down?

Olivia: I think it's none of our business tbh-

Lukas: uh- GUYS?? WITHERSTORM IS, LIKE, BEHIND US?!

WitherStorm: shud up imma watching the drama *eats popcorn*

Axel: yeah, Lukas, shud up *being eaten by WitherStorm*

Petra:

Petra: What the-

Old Order: Don't interrupt your elders! *Continue arguing*

[insidemyblood]

@savef1le said: It isn't until they've ridden to Jackson and helped the residents clear the streets of dead infected that Abby makes her grim confession to Joel. Tears are making her eyes sting and the sight of him, a stranger, looking so concerned already has her crying harder. "You killed my dad. I was going to kill you but... But you helped me. And helping seems to be all that you do now." She wipes some gross, dripping snots from her face before continuing to speak. "You both ruined my life and saved it. I hate you." (some canon divergence for the soul, from abby for joel)

He had gone to check on her. The stranger lost at the mountains. She was too young to be on her own. A part of him felt sorry about dragging her to the heat of it all but there had been no time. No time to think it through. Everything had happened too damn fast and now only the smell of smoke and death remained in the streets.

Her words hit hard. But Joel didn’t interrupt. Didn’t argue. He simply listened and stared at her, at the tears cutting tracks down her dirt-streaked face. His gut twisted, but his face stayed locked.

Joel swallowed hard as she went on. His jaw worked for a second, the weight of it all pressing in on him. What could he say? What words wouldn’t sound hollow? A long silence stretched between them, the crackling of a burning trash barrel nearby the only sound breaking the stillness.

"…Your dad," he echoed low, almost to himself. Then the image came unbidden. A man with no real face in a blue surgical gown. Joel’s hand on the trigger, no hesitation. He shook his head, jaw clenching harder. "I know who he was." He let the silence fall again.

"You got every reason to hate me." His voice was rough, the words heavy with a mix of regret and resignation. He wasn’t sure what she expected from him. Maybe for him to confess to what she already knew, for him to ask for forgiveness. But none of those things felt right. None of them were honest. There was no magic sentence that would fix what had been broken. The truth was, the damage was done, and it was too late for anything to make it better.

"I don’t got a way to make that right... Not with you. Not with anyone." He shook his head just slightly, ashamed. Maybe he was waiting for her to lash out at him, to tell him to go to hell, to scream for the pain he’d caused her. Maybe, deep down, he wanted it because it would be easier than facing her like this.

[filmmakerdreamst]

"To one side behind the family, there were two people who happened to be caught in the camera flash. One was Oskar Eriksson, and the other was a slender girl with long, black hair. In spite of the fact that the photograph must have been taken immediately after his disappearance, Oskar had changed his hairstyle; it was cut short in a way that was more fashionable among young people today. I remembered him as a chubby child, but the boy in the picture was considerably slimmer, and as he had been caught on the run, so to speak, he actually looked quite athletic. I looked at the enlargement again, and Stefan's story about what happened in Karlstad came back to me. There was something vaguely menacing about the way the two children were moving behind the smiling, unsuspecting family. Like predators. Then I spotted something that made me gasp. The father of the family was holding a mobile phone, and not just any mobile phone, but an iPhone. How long had they been around? A year? Two years? I turned the photograph over and read the words in the bottom hand corner Barcelona, September 2008 The photograph had been taken barely a month ago." - Let the Old Dreams Die

[mugloversonly]

Love it.

I've always disliked the "I Am No Man" moment in Peter Jackson's Return of the King because it fails to capture the fact that when the Witch King threatens Eowyn with horrific unimaginable torment, she responds by making him soil his ghostly britches.

[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

[bakerstreet-and-beyond]

There seems to be a general malaise on most of Tumblr about TikTok getting banned in the United States.

I understand the problems, "brain rot", whatever but- A government banning a social media app that opened the world for many people is legitimately scary and upsetting. Say what you want but, there are MANY global and local issues that would not have gotten the same traction, recognition, and outreach without TikTok.

And then add to this that Meta/Facebook was one the largest lobbyists working to get TikTok banned... Like- I think folks should be more concerned about the implications of what this means, especially since the ban goes into effect the day before inauguration.

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,

[heph]

The tech guy in movies

[gongyussy]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[and-corn]

shoutout to the "foolproof" bread recipe I fucked up entirely for inspiring this

[kwadlayns]

talk to me in french, talk to me in spanish 🍒

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF 4 bullies have had a rough few years