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Okie-dokie, friends. I've been on tumblr since 2011 and I plan to be here until they shut the doors completely, but things have developed to the point where I think it's prudent to have some backup options.

So: I have a bluesky and a dreamwidth!

I am also (as always) on AO3 and I have a gmail under the same username I'm using here and on bluesky and dreamwidth.

I don't plan to be doing much with either account unless/until something happens with tumblr, but I'd like to make sure I'm following all my people someplace else, just so I don't lose touch with anybody if a calamity does occur.

If you've got backup accounts you wanna share, can you kindly DM them or drop them in the notes of this post?

#sigh #i am going to be phenomenally sad if tumblr does close up shop because i am SO used to this site #and it's almost exactly the type of fandom experience i prefer #so starting over someplace else will majorly suck #but i've done it before (after livejournal)#and can do it again if need be!

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File this one under 'projecting onto my blorbos', I guess. But speaking as someone who LOVES to eavesdrop on conversations that take place in public, I think Bond and Q are ALSO inveterate eavesdroppers.

Personally, I very much enjoy sitting outside the local coffee shop with my beverage and casually listening to the conversations other people choose to have in public. I think Bond and Q are equally passionate about sitting at a table and having eyebrow conversations with each other over whatever absurdity or drama they happen to hear. It is a favored activity for both of them.

#THERE IT IS #thank you halfbaked00q!!!

redpandarascal

in conversation about white people who go to Japan and expect their knowledge of anime to culturally carry them, I was once posed with “it’s like if there was a Japanese guy who was obsessed with spongebob and came over here and thought he could get by just communicating in spongebob quotes.” This is a false equivalence because if such a man existed we would crown him king. We’d love him. Americans would fucking love that. sometimes I get sad that this isn’t a real guy I can invite to a party.

hong--zhi--zhu

frustratedasatruar

rainbowgod666

Ok the last one got me laughing actually

bunjywunjy

Can you show me some animals that look like that one jpg of snl with the "teenager who just woke up" look?

this guy?

sure!

the world is vast and wonderful

#scrungly!

inber

Writing period dramas in the discord, lads

elodieunderglass

@inber you have tapped a deep vein here

alexaloraetheris

Made it all the way to the end straight-faced and then I read 'By Jane Austen' and lost it.

#CRYING

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lastvalyrian

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > sees a doctor to be sure > "why the fuck are you here. this is nothing. it will go away on its own"

lastvalyrian

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > decide to wait to not overreact > problem remains > sees doctor with concrete problem after all > "why did you wait so long. we could have done something if you had come immediately"

#yep #every time #also there's usually an 80% chance the thing they told you 'was nothing' and 'would go away on its own'#wasactually a problem that should've been diagnosed and treated the first time you went in #if you are part of a marginalized population in any way #but that's just my experience 🙃

transfemmbeatrice

it's always you

triflesandparsnips

Okay, this is fantastic. Do you need to know anything about Jeeves and Wooster? No, you do not. Because the vid tells you everything you need to know. And also turns you feral about it within the space of a single song or single slightly slowed-down clip yes I saw that oh my god.

#jeeves and wooster #THEM

phaeton-flier

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

phaeton-flier

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

theaudientvoid

centrally-unplanned

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

theabigailthorn

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

I KNOW I've posted something very similar before, but I can't find it to self-reblog so I just gotta say it again: I just KNOW Bond and Q are both very nosy bitches who LOVE to eavesdrop on people when they are out on dates.

They love it! It's their favorite thing! Eating their ribollita and lobster pasta and drinking their wine at their candlelit table in complete silence. People think who pass the 00Q table think they're fighting but they are NOT, they are just focused on the juicy drama unfolding at the table behind them, and they are exchanging subtle glances and nudges under their table whenever some especially interesting piece of intel drops. 👀👂📝

#they are nosybitch4nosybitch #they don't care about that couple's toxic marriage #(including the affairs and tax evasion and impending financial collapse)#but they DO want to know all the gory details thank you #it's dinner and a show!#00q

puppyseedmuffins

shaking my head but shaking my head the whole time to show i dont support negativity

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cherryhatter-deactivated2015072

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

visibun

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

pangur-and-grim

I hope the neighbours don’t mind him watching

pangur-and-grim

my neighbour had a friend over, and the friend started shouting "LOOK! LOOK! THAT CAT IS CLIMBING THE FENCE! OVER THERE!" and my neighbour was just like "yeah....... it does that."

#ahaha #the neighbor was literally that time knife meme #yeah yeah the fence-climbing peeping-tom cat #we've all seen it #belphegor

manyblinkinglights

why am I so bad at math. Eridian atmosphere is 29 times 0.33atm because that’s what the Hail Mary is pressurized to when Rocky does the necklaces thing. Erid’s only 9 or 10 times Earth’s pressure. No hope for me even at all.

ecobanshee

actually you're considerably better at math than book grace/andy weir because iirc neither of them notice that rocky bases his atmosphere comparison off the hail mary specific atmosphere

manyblinkinglights

(Yeah, this didn’t help me lol.)

manyblinkinglights

Great news! This makes it MUCH more plausible for Grace to go on his little walks and drives on Erid. It’s really just the heat that’ll need to be engineered around. At only ten times Earth pressure he’s 200’ down underwater; people regularly dive to 200’ with weird gas mixes so he could even carefully do short stints without pressure protection/in a flexible bodysuit (likely a drysuit).

Extreme deep technical diving presents significant physiological challenges. While procedures often blend elements from both recreational an

^This isn’t THAT relevant but deep divers in general and their experiences would be.

Anyway. So long as there’s a team on the gas mix (and there will be), Grace can literally just rock an airline to a soft-suit design of your choice and go see and be seen on Erid and touch stuff. Snuggle. Fist bumps. Etc.

#this brings me joy #i like to think of grace in his little diving suit and gas mask scuba thingy taking his class of eridian kindergartners on field trips #this is very spiritually important to me #grace marching them down the street (or tunnel or whatever they got on erid) with his ducklings scuttling behind him #on their way to the science museum or whatever #stopping every so often to do a headcount #or break up small fights or deal with other problems teachers deal with on field trips #i need this #grace deserves this #project hail mary

not-freyja

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

#not Deaf/HOH but i prefer having the subtitles on for a variety of reasons #and it drives me INSANE how often they are covering critical bits of info #video creators: PLEASE be aware of this issue

bisexualityjunkie

#me holding paws with all my tumblr friends 💖

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bethanydelleman

I think the mark of a realistic writer is having antagonists who act out of self interest instead of pure cruelty, and understanding the difference.

John Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility is great example. He is very self interested, but he doesn't want to be viewed poorly in society:

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties.

As much as I really doubt he cares at all about his stepmother and three half sisters, he's not going to throw them out of the house until they've found somewhere good to stay because he doesn't want it to reflect poorly on himself. He won't actually do much for them, but he also won't do them active harm, because that is the action of maximal self interest. Yet he's still very much an antagonist and causes pain.

Caroline Bingley of Pride & Prejudice "dropped all her resentment" because self interest is more important to her than cruelty. She may not like Elizabeth Darcy or be happy about Jane Bingley, but she will not prioritize snarky comments above her all important connections. Self interest wins.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, the new Mrs. Gibson, Hyacinth Clare, does not care about her stepdaughter Molly at all. However, self interest dictates that she treats Molly well, because she doesn't want to disrupt her relationship with Molly's father or become talked about as a cruel stepmother in the town. She is a very selfish character, I honestly doubt she cares if Molly or her own daughter Cynthia live or die, but that self interest dictates that she give at least the appearance of kindness. She still causes a lot of distress in Molly through her "kindness," because it is rooted in selfishness.

In the end, I think self interest is just a more plausible driver of actions. There are people who are cruel for cruelty's sake, but I think they are rare and usually have profound grudges or something driving them to that. (Mrs. Norris from Mansfield Park is probably the closest in Austen's works and I think her motivation is feeling inferior so she needs to punch down to feel better about herself.) More realistic to me are people who act in their self interest and don't really care about the harm. I think most of Austen's antagonists can better be described as careless than outright cruel.

#austen's villains are just the best

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