#yelling into the void tag

[nicnevans]

not to talk about bleak shit on main but truly, i wish neil gaiman had just kept his mouth shut at this point. his tumblr went dead fucking silent as soon as the first allegations dropped, and that spoke volumes to me - this was a man who regularly answered asks and engaged with the platform and to this day the last post there was six months ago. he knew he was fucked. but to then go on his web blog, a site where (let's be honest) only his most loyal fans are likely to be tracking activity, and give several paragraphs of wishy-washy handwaving about "misinformation" and claims snowballing into untruths and whatever else. like. neil. stop. my respect for you is already dead in the ground, stop pissing on its grave.

[nicnevans]

I usually put my essays in the tags but here I gotta add it to the post. I'm sure OP did this for brevity, but I gotta point it out: bi/pansexuality and "playersexuality" are not synonyms. Bisexuality and pansexuality are defined and complete sexualities in their own right and there's a big difference between romanceable NPCs who are playersexual but show no interest in other non-player same-sex (or in some cases, opposite-sex) characters, vs NPCs who are written very deliberately in a bi/pansexual way (the cast of BG3 is like this: yes, all of them. They all flirt with each other and make very unsubtle comments about how hot they find each other. Yes, even Wyll, the one everyone likes to talk about as if he's hetero, and Astarion, the one everyone likes to talk about as if he's exclusively gay, are both written very deliberately in a bi/pan way)

Discussing NPC sexuality and lumping bi/pan identities in with "playersexuality" is, in fact, bi/pan erasure.

[imogen-theimaginedcat]

Thinking bout how I was so fucking touch starved and lonely and desperate to be wanted after my terrible breakup in 2022 that I almost banged an incel but he ruined it for himself by being an incel. He had nice arms and yet.

Also thinking bout how easily exploitable that could’ve been during my darker months so thank goodness I isolated(?), cuz when I met my current lovely partner I straight up was topless in their car two hours after meeting them in person and for the next like five months I was alarmingly hyper sexual and now I’m like.

Tired.

[intothehandsoffate]

[nyx-draws-things]

I saw the tag game things so I made my own! Make yourself as a monster and take this quiz!

@ladycalleddella @bjfinn @stinkyhorsebitch @lydiadeetzfan +whoever else wants to join!

[yesiamprocrastinating]

there should be a word for flirting but like in a platonic way

[tiredyke]

every time queer discourse surges on this site everyone is so quick to jump to “it was actually the evil lesbians who divided us” because y’all heard the term “political lesbian” and never bothered to figure out what that meant

[hinamie]

doodles

[actual-changeling]

A small 'this is how you use tumblr' for the people that haven't been here very long. These are in no particular order, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them!

Since I probably did not mention a lot of things, you are welcome to add to this post with your own advice.

a) Reblog posts. if you like it, reblog it. even if you have zero followers and ESPECIALLY if it's art or writing of any kind. We will see the reblog in our notifications and that alone brings joy. One reblog can start a chain and push the post onto many people's dashes.

b) Tumblr is not a very functional website, if you want to survive without losing your mind, there are two things you need: xkit rewritten and dashboard unfucker. Play around with the settings until it is to your liking. Additionally, change to firefox if you haven't already and install ublock origin to get rid of ads, tracking etc.

c) If you go to your settings (account! not blog) you can find this under dashboard at the bottom. Turn off at the very least 'best stuff first' since that will fuck up your dash and not give you posts in chronological order.

The rest are a perfonal preference but it will keep your dash tidy and easy to control if you turn them off, too.

d) Apropos settings—get a profile picture, a header, write something human in your bio, anything. Otherwise people will assume you are a bot and block you on sight.

e) Blocking! Do it generously and whenever you want, this is how you keep whatever remains of your sanity. It's not a lethal offense, it is (usually) not even seen as rude or anything along those lines. You block people and they block you and everyone is happy.

f) Under account settings you will find this:

Just like with blocking, use both options to your heart's content.

g) Tumblr is not like other social media platforms, spam liking & reblogging and going three years deep into someone's account is NORMAL and encouraged. You can search a blog by post type, tags, or even go to the archive and scroll through the posts there.

h) Lastly—interaction. We already went over reblogging (I mean it, REBLOG), but there are also replies and asks. If you add something to someone else's post please behave like a kind human being and don't be an asshole; based on my experience, that's easier said than done. On top of that, the tags are ALSO used for communication, go unhinged, ramble, leave your thoughts, or simply use them for organisational purposes. Everyone loves a good insane tag wall.

An open inbox (either anonymously or with your blog attached) is to be used! Please send people asks if they have them active, use it like DMs or a comment section, use it to recommend something, ask questions, participate in an ask or prompt game—we love asks here.

(We do not like harassment in our inboxes, same rules as above.)

[capricoopla]

Thought I might do this-

[nicnevans]

okay i'm gonna stop reblogging posts about nazi salute elon musk now i'm going back to my "no current events" policy. i'm just... fucking disgusted that this happened on national television and he's not been like, immediately removed from every position of power he holds. if i walked out into the town square tomorrow and did that in public i'd get arrested, or i'd have the shit beaten out of me before the peelers could pick me up, and "it wasn't for realsies" would absolutely not save me.

we've all known what the quiet part was for him for a while now, it's just shocking to see someone say it so loud and apparently get away with it? i'd love to see him come try that in europe. he wouldn't be doing it again, i tell you that

[kideternity]

If you lie the bugs and I will know 🐛🦋🐌🐞🐜🪱🐝🦗🦟🪲

[intothehandsoffate]

Hi hello fellow fiddauthor enjoyers. Here’s a fiddauthor comic with no fiddleford in it.

Bonus doodle under the cut:

I imagine this is roughly how said proposal went. Not that Ford is telling Stan that(Stan is going to find out immediately when he starts grilling Ford for details)

[floweypilled]

ive never talked about it here and im procrastinating going to sleep even though i want to so here are my asriel age headcanons.

When chara falls, they’re 12 and Asriel is 11. Chara turns 13 a little before they died, and Asriel is still 11 then. (Chara stayed in the underground for maybe 3/4 of a year.. In my brain that makes sense)

Flowey IS ageless, but i can’t imagine him maturing past like 14 mentally through all his resets. (also, my hc for how long he’d been resetting ranges from a number of months close to a year or at most like a year and a haaaaaaaaaaaalf?????? Keeping in mind that he like. Had to do that in real time not videogame time eheh) He’s always gonna be a bit immature because of what he’d gone through but postpacifist he’d be ablet o grow up a bit...

[cobaltfluff]

one last night

[thruflames]

i love them so much