#y'all are doing good work!

[macro-microcosm]

Hey there, jacrstuffsblog is a scam. The user ran this same scam on older URLs and has been remaking/renaming their blog to avoid callouts. Their current blog was created August 10. More details on their old urls can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/kyra45/725672815992438784/hi-i-got-a-suspicious-ask-from-jacrstuffsblog

Scams on Tumblr are often:

- Very young blogs. They have a few posts to seem legitimate but you can usually scroll to the bottom fairly easily. You can turn on post dates in settings to reveal when a post was made

- Mass send out asks to users requesting donations (obviously not everyone is a scam, but I have yet to ever see anyone doing this who wasn’t suspicious)

Info on scams like these are documented on kyra45 ‘s blog. If you delete the reblog, please remember to report the op for phishing or spam as well

Ah damn, I even thought it sounded fishy but mindlessly reblogged anyway. I'm normally so on top of things like that XP I even delete asks that solicit donations, but ya know. Everyone misses sometimes.

Post deleted, user reported. Thanks for the heads up! Stay safe, all!

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[cangrellesteponme]

wife

[raiiny-bay]

Love, Dhes

Parker,

It's unfair how time with you feels so short. How the last 10 years have felt like no time at all. I like to think there are other versions of us out there, somewhere. Maybe in another timeline, another universe. I like to think we find each other no matter where we are or what we're doing. That we're together and happy and I get to love you in a dozen different lifetimes. That's what I hope, anyway. And I hope when this lifetime ends, we get to start over and do it all again. Because once just isn't enough. Not for me. Not with you.

I hope the next 10 years pass slower.

Love, Dhes

[mattodore]

birthday boy 🎂

[rainybraindays]

Not to be that bitch, but if you're out here still saying Colin never apologized for the whole "I would never court Penelope Featherington" i think you need to maybe actually rewatch episode 1.

He very much does, as soon as he can once hes aware he hurt her. He addresses literally everything Penelope said hurt her about it. He says what he said was cruel and hurtful, he says that hes not embarrassed by her, he tells her hes changed and regrets doing something that hurt her. Its the most genuine apology anyone in this show has given.

How any of you have walked away from that seeing it as a fake apology makes me genuinely question what you think an apology is. Is he meant to fall on his knees crying and begging her to move on? Thats not an apology. Is he supposed to go "I'm sorry I fucked up, you're actually soso cool and so much better than me and everyone else" because thats love bombing.

Colin did it right, he came to her privately, apologized, addressed how he hurt her, reassured her he's not embarrassed of her and views her as his best friend, and said that he'd changed. Thats the correct way to apologize, thats how adults communicate. Everything that happened after that was in response to Penelopes frustration at her inability to be someone viewed as desirable in their society, and Colins want to prove how much he cares about her.

If we want to talk about non-apologies in this show, Colin is far from the first character in that line.

[ask-lu-wild]

[thelaurenshippen]

I spent a chunk of yesterday making a bunch of these trope memes for atypical's shows and when I tell you I BLANKED on how to describe a show I spent the better part of my twenties writing...

I'm really curious, TBS listeners, what tropes/identifiers/hooks would you use to get someone to listen to the show?

[purplesoup-lad-le]

sometimes i wonder if one of those couple name generators would do better than what we've come up with.

I don't have to wonde anymore

[simptasia]

LOST: Season One

[a-s-levynn]

"Wash me clean again before I pull myself beneath the waves" A Series of Small Offerings - III/11 - day31

[morangoowada]

Ishimondo week - July 20th Free day

[blackoutballad]

happy birthday, kiddo

[trials-of-apollo-my-beloved]

I just want to say I love when the ToA fandom does anything. It's always like that spider man meme in the tags/comments. It feels like we all live in one big town sometimes and you're all neighbors that I borrow sugar from on regular occasion. Like, yeah I know them!

Me whenever the lovely people of this fandom do anything at all: Y'all just so good at everything. Stop that. Please. Leave some talent for the rest of us.

[torchstelechos]

Yall need some joy and whimsy to balance the saddness, make Loop meow or something I dont know

[odo-apologist]

The first part of Quarantine is so interesting, especially in regards to Rimmer and Kryten's relationship. Rimmer is very defensive and hostile towards Kryten in those beginning scenes, and there's a clear reason for it. According to the hierarchy of the Space Corps, and the hierarchy Kryten himself adheres to, he, as a mechanoid, is still the being in the lowest position, with the least rights. While Rimmer may appear officially as "less" than a human, his hologramatic status is still higher than Kryten's. Rimmer, due to his attitude, his personality, all his flaws, is an easy target, but he tries to retaliate by making Kryten into one as well and asserting his authority over him through that hierarchy. It doesn't work, obviously; Lister considers each crew member's personhood as valid, and The Cat has no interest in such a structure. However, it's still a notable move on Rimmer's part, the characteristic way he lashes out when he feels his autonomy, his authority, his being threatened (his existence may be at stake, after all, if the others are considering shutting him off for Doctor Lanstrom).

But I think there's more to it than just that. Of course, this is the episode after Terrorform, which could definitely contribute to Rimmer's behavior here. This counts for all three of them, but what I think is interesting is how that incident might have impacted his view of Kryten specifically. One of Rimmer's negative emotions/traits defeated by the personified positive ones is Mistrust, with Rimmer believing at that point in his crewmates' display of affection towards him. He believes they are telling the truth. He believes that they are genuine. He is disillusioned by their blunt denial right before the episode ends, a pretty harsh betrayal of Rimmer's trust. They lied to him. Kryten, incapable of lying when he was first reconstructed by Lister, was involved in this lie. Perhaps when Rimmer remarks- with such a strong amount of bitterness- that Kryten has changed, he's thinking of that. Maybe Rimmer, a man always afraid that any good thing will be taken away from him, that acts of kindness are suspect, had felt rather assured by Kryten's initial inability to deceive. Now that he has proven himself as capable as the others of lying, he's a bit more upset with him over the rest of them, and he acts accordingly.