#we will be a better species for it

[jaythelay]

Wowww Tumblr really just autoplayed an o reily's ad at full blast volume the second I launched, SOMEWHERE in the app hidden from view.

Yeah no straight up I will move the fuck on if that happens again. Fucking absurd advertisements still play any audio when that's what booned the initial adblock users in the first place.

Can't adblock the tumblr app but I'll gladly never come the fuck back. This is how you keep users from seeing premium in any light but pathetic. Awful.

[prokopetz]

One of the more entertaining consequences of broadcast standards for children's media during the 1980s is that villains weren't allowed to express or directly imply the desire or intent to kill the protagonist, but they were allowed to openly state their intention to eat the protagonist – provided that at least one of the hero or the villain were non-human.

(i.e., human villain expressing the desire to eat a non-human protagonist: okay; unambiguously monstrous villain expressing the desire to eat a human protagonist: okay; human villain expressing the desire to eat a human protagonist: not okay.)

This often led to interesting characterisation choices, like Shredder's strange preoccupation with making the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into soup in the 1987 series – he's not allowed to threaten to kill them, but he can freely threaten to eat them!

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by anonymous.

"have you done the humble house centipede yet"

By Filip.vidinovski, CC BY-SA 4.0

[nyaskitten]

It's so crazy to think about how these two almost certainly come from the same realm, as part of the same tribe

[uncanny-tranny]

It's really freeing when you learn that rationality isn't going to be feasible in the long run, not because rationality is this thing that only Truly Enlightened people get the privilege to experience, but because humans are just irrational.

You can know when you're being irrational, and sometimes, it is in big ways. But pretending like that irrationality doesn't exist or can only exist if you're "stupid" only sets you back from growing. Irrationality is part of the human condition - it is impossible to actually be this enlightened person people like to project themselves onto.

[eggwishing]

dave but mlp

[dilbobloggins]

girl :( I hate replacing my shit :( I want the same shit FOREVER. why must the passage of time ravage us all :(

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

A destiny written in slightly less permanent ink ↳ whiteboard, 19x25 cm

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[bikananjarrus]

a little bonkers to me how the make-up and practical effects for jecki lon and tasi lowa actually looks really good; their make-up blends well and actually looks really natural. and yet, star wars make-up department still can't figure out how to do green face-paint that doesn't look god awful :/

[quietwingsinthesky]

the last unicorn post from earlier has me thinking about the master. that yana is still in there, you know? is still someone he was, if even for a brief flash across the life of a time lord. there’s no way to unlive that life. there are ways to twist it later, sure, to make utopia into hell on earth. but the life was lived. in much the same way that the doctor can remember, can feel, the love he held onto as john smith even as that life is ripped out of his hands. the doctor choose denial and then grief and then to shutter it all away. and so john smith died, and so professor yana died, and the doctor and the master live on. the doctor has done this before, and he lives in orbit around humanity, trying to keep the best parts of them and hold them deep enough to take root (which he can pretend he gets to choose, as a time lord. as a human, it all floods in and can’t be dug back out.) but what about the master, right?

to borrow a turn of phrase: i think there are two time lords left in the universe, and they both learned how to regret.

[freshwritingarthorse]

I'm gonna preface this by saying I know this isn't a problem unique to a specific ship or fandom.

If you are writing an essay on Tumblr about why X ship is not real and Y ship IS real, can you please tag it as "Anti-X"?

Oh wait! No, I know. You aren't personally ANTI that ship. But you see, Tumblr does this awful thing where they include posts in a keyword search if that keyword appears in the body of the text, even if it's untagged!

And I didn't want to wake up to an analytical essay about why IzuOcha "isn't real" from a Bakudeku fan, and how Horikoshi is "fixing the story" now.

I also don't want to block the Bakudeku tag bc I ship them too.

So please, just, if you're going to make a post that boils down to "that ship sucks and mine is better", think of your polyamorous multi-shipping homies and use the anti tag, so we can filter it out properly.

[runawaymun]

There’s a study going around rn about how ADHD may have evolved in order to help hunter gatherers collect more food without exhausting resources, and that’s an interesting theory! But I take umbrage with the scientists’ (and article’s) reasoning for why this theory was conceived of:

“This MUST be useful to us as a species, or else it would have evolved out by now.” (They literally said that.)

Like is it just me or is this an incredibly ableist way of viewing the world. Maybe I need to go touch grass or something, but it’s rubbing me the wrong way.

[fabledfoxglove]

It just occurred to me that myths about US cryptids will one day be considered “American folklore”.

Some poor kid 10000 years in the future is gonna have to read about Mothman in a history textbook

[fullmoonfireball]

sigurayyy~!

[yonemurishiroku]

Imagine 30 years later and have to teach your children about how the world - we, as human beings - have failed 2 millions people and many more. I would never be able to live with myself knowing I’ve watched an entire nation fading into oblivion under the bloody hands of other humans. What’s the meaning of staying in a world where even our fellows can turn against us and no one does anything.