#this was fun to talk about

[canines-crown]

Hi, I was wondering if you had any tips on where to get some good gear? My theriotype is wolf if that helps narrow stuff down :)

Ooo I'm honored you'd ask ME for tips on this ehheh/vpos

Okay so! Basically! Etsy has a TON of great stuff, sometimes it's a bit pricey, but if you want great, handmade stuff I'd totally recommend it! If you want real fur tails I'd also go to Etsy as sites like Amazon, Shein or Aliexpress only have low quality tails from cruel fur farms...

Speaking of Amazon tho, I got most of my (faux fur!!!) gear from there! My fins, my ears, my gloves.. All from Amazon! Just search for something like "wolf ears" or "paw gloves" and you'll find lots of funky stuff

Also, if you have the chance to do so, I'd say just going to a pet store for stuff like collars or chew toys could be fun! But you can also simply search for those online! There's webistes that let you customize your own collars, just search for "customized dog collar" on Google :3

I hope that helped!!

[iceeericeee]

this isnt even angst but like do you ever think about the inconsistency between the rules of the exhibits organs? teddy can get cut in half and be like 😁✌️ but jed can drown in sand?? excuse me??? does the tablet like...add organs?? like how does that work?? they shouldnt be able to eat/breathe right????

my working theory is that jed actually couldnt have drowned/suffocated. if the tablet didnt give teddy any guts, then it shouldnt have given jed lungs. he was freaking out because theyve never actually tested how to kill one of the exhibits before. he thinks he wouldve died, but in reality he wouldve just kinda been chilling under the sand

I mean- would you test your own mortality? These guys don’t how the magic works any more than we do. Probably less, since we’re able to look at it from multiple points of view. Maybe to them, they’re actually alive every night, and they really don’t want to find out if they can die.

[bluedalahorse]

For heart and homeland, what inspired the use of letters to tell the story?

I don’t know if I could point to a single reason, so I’ll name a few reasons the format appeals to us.

First, we kinda wanted to do an homage to old school novels, and a lot of popular early novels were epistolary/found media. These kind of gave readers a sense of heightened realism, like, oh, here we are rooting through someone’s trash and getting a sense of all the tea in their life. Some novelists (epistolary or not) also used the Dostoevsky Dash and blanked out names and places, whether that was to cover their butts for creating something inconsistent with reality, or doing a “no celebrities were harmed” version of prose. We have a particularly exciting moment coming in our next match of chapters where the Dostoevsky Dash drops…

Second, we knew we wanted to devote a lot of time to each of the five main characters, and writing letters gave us an easy way to track each character’s part in the story and develop their unique voices. It’s fun figuring out what each character’s correspondence style is like.

Third, it felt like a way to nod at the clever and organic way YR canon uses social media as part of its storytelling.

Finally, it’s a pretty practical way for @heliza24 and I to collaborate on our writing. Every time we plot out a run of chapters, we have a massive spreadsheet organizing to the letters, diary entries, newspapers, etc that will make up the storytelling. Filling out the spreadsheet becomes a game of sorts! Also, sometimes when I summarize a letter, I go out of my way to do it in a ridiculous manner (the August letters are particularly good choices for a summary full of performative pomposity) and it’s honestly fun to just make @heliza24 laugh, especially when our plot twists and turns get dramatic.

Found media has always been one of my favorite things! I adore it.

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[great-and-small]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

big bro jazz

[batcavescolony]

THE TIKTOK PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY MADE GONCHAROV!!!!!

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[chimchiri]

gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please

It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)

[lgbtlunaverse]

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

[lylahammar]

Randomly thinkin about Chilchuck today, and how he tries sooooo hard to self sabotage

like for example, other half foots on the island think that he's a greedy asshole who only cares about money, and he does nothing to try to disprove that

but then there's this omake at the end of book 9 that shows that people treat half foots fucking TERRIBLY and chilchuck started a union to protect them

and then in the bicorn chapter, he doesn't want Marcille to keep digging into his personal business so he tells her he CHEATED ON HIS WIFE

but he just COMPLETELY fuckin lied about that and made himself sound so much worse than he is bc he's afraid of being vulnerable with people and would rather everyone believes he's a shitty person so he can keep them at a distance

and the thing that's memed so often is that he refuses to help with fighting most of the time because it's not part of his contract

but if you take this lore into account (not gonna add those particular images to this post simply bc I've used them in so many posts already LMAO) along with this tidbit from the world guide:

then it's like. yeah he has to keep his weight low so if he gets killed or severely injured and has to be healed, that could be really dangerous for him. and even if he was healed at that point he'd end up being a burden to the party after that point, he would be too dangerously thin/sickly to be able to help.

Like, Chilchuck has so many things about him that APPEAR to be character flaws, but every single one of them has a very reasonable explanation. He just leans into the mischaracterization bc he's emotionally withholding and can handle people thinking he's an asshole more than he can handle opening up to anyone. he's such a well thought out and interesting character

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Sun reviews Michael Afton’s art,,

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[cottagedreamy]

They're such a good duo...Pls let's talk about them more.....