So we’ve been having a bit of a debate in the office because we wanted to do the headline “Local man gives up sugar for 12 minutes” but then overdoing the “local man” trope is a bit male-centric, so we considered “Local woman” but then that sounds like we’re typecasting women so that wasn’t great either, but I think we’ve finally found a worthy compromise:
it’s nice to know that chasers are acknowledging non binary people too.
i mean it’s not nice but like, solidarity you know?
i know what the chaser is. i made a joke. please stop sending me asks telling me that this is a satire website. i’ve gotten like 5 of these now.
Out of all the times i’ve seen this I never paid this any attention until now. WHERE IN THE WORLD DID THE THE GUY WITH TWO DIFFERENT SOCKS ON GO?? HE JUMPED IN THE AIR AND DISSAPEARED????????
The guy in the black socks knees bend right as the guy with two different socks jumps and disappears… I think he picked him up and ran out of the room 😭
personally i think there should have been at least one episode where sokka collects aang and zuko and is like, “looks like we’re running low on supplies. time for a GUYS-ONLY field trip. three days of hunting and fishing and polishing our swords. y’know, manly warrior stuff. (aang, sotto voce: actually sokka i’m a vegetarian as you know–) you girls have fun sitting around braiding your hair and talking about your crushes” and then the entire episode is just zuko and sokka lying around by a river, plucking blades of grass and staring up at the stars confiding in each other their deepest feelings and most secret insecurities while aang braids flower crowns, and whenever the screen cuts back to katara and toph and suki, they’re fighting and screaming and hacking away at river pirates and evil spirits and legions of assassins and hired mercenaries with swords. you know, as girls do.
and when the boys finally drag themselves back to camp (they stayed up way too late discussing what true leadership really means and whether or not power always corrupts) they find suki and toph and katara lounging around with black eyes and fresh bruises and bloodstained weapons and sokka shrieks, “what were you guys DOING while we were gone???” and karata just shugs innocently and says in her sweetest voice, “oh, you know. just girly things”
they are absolutely still wearing the crowns and they don’t have a single fish to show for their efforts
the whole twitter debacle (currently) is almost hilarious because all I’ve been doing is either trying to check mutual accounts or occasionally peek into threads from people who appear to have a better handle on the actual tech situation, so, not even technically doomscrolling, and I’ve apparently hit my limit as a non-blue check. not even attempting to casually partake, limited interest/scrolling
of course this morning I had attempted to go into the trending tags about france and discovered that the new “ranking” of posts meant everything for miles up front in them were chock full o’ fash and adjacent, and while in part I should have known better than to check a hashtag on the subject not trending in french it was not a strong vote of confidence for the international breaking news benefit of that site, which is one of the only things it had left going for it
I say “almost” hilarious because as per usual the people who get fucked by this will not be gross talking heads with blue checks nor will anything of consequence likely to be done re: it repeating but condolences and solidarity for people who unfortunately have to deal with this fallout and have enough to worry about already
was curious as to why i’d hit limit once and been able to see tweets for a short time again later. fascinating
#finding the aws plan that works for you in real time I’m personally fascinated by how, after all the bullshit Elno has been pulling out of his ass, the Tweetdeck view is still chugging along, functioning afaict completely normally, no algorithm, no shitty ads, no rate limit, and i kinda wish i knew more about web dev so i could appreciate why
so I decided to go hit my rate limit and make twitter punch itself in the face because it would be funny and for reasons unclear I just kept scrolling and scrolling, I was disappointed and wondering if it was a region thing or a privacy addons thing or an antique account thing (because there’s no way it’s a they fixed the thing thing) and then
tweetdeck has finally blinked in the face of incompetence* this morning; my notifs, profile and likes columns are stuck in a loading pattern & dms are intermittently there & not
(*incompetence/SEC-dodging sabotage, it can always be both)
I think it would be very funny if being drunk was like… a relatively new cultural development for gnomes? there’s just something about their wacky gnomish constitution that prevented them coming by it naturally (traditionally they’re more into a variety of mushrooms and other recreational plants) but once they started mingling more with more alcohol-happy races they learned VERY quickly and started opening, basically, turbo-breweries that are basically one part distillery and one part wizard tower. VERY popular job for young alchemists trying to make some good money, and the reason why gnomes are known (among other things) for operating the craziest night clubs
humans and halflings are probably the most compatible drinkers of any two races, although halflings find most human wines, beers, ciders, etc, a little too dry and bland for their liking. halfling alternatives are very sweet, which makes them a huge hit among the ‘I like alcohol but I don’t want it to taste like alcohol’ crowd
I think there’s some compatability among drinks brewed by reptilian races (dragonborn, lizardfolk, tortles, kobolds, etc) although you run into similar translation issues as mammalians, but there is absolutely no crossover. like if a drsgonborn and a dwarf in a (very cosmopolitan) tavern were to switch drinks it would be a nonstarter.
“this is basically just a capri sun,” the dragonborn says, disappointed.
“cool, I’m pretty sure I just drank actual paint thinner,” the dwarf says. “get me to a hospital.”
the flip side is that elves are an entire race of (comparative) lightweights, and a whole gaggle of teenange elves can get piss drunk passing around one bottle of fruity human wine
……… different fantasy races should be impacted differently by each other’s alcohol
no more if this “fine elvin wine” shit, I am going to personally write a fantasy setting in which every human knows that elf booze tastes and feels like fantasy la croix. there’s barely even a flavor, and you’d need to drink a few to even get tipsy.
meanwhile, every human with a lick of common sense knows that you need to plan accordingly if you’re going to be drinking dwarven liquor, because it hits you hard and fast and you’ll lose feeling in your legs faster than you thought was physically possible. the hangovers are the stuff of legend.
here’s who I think should be able to get drunk but become sober at will:
1.) sufficiently powerful paladins and clerics
2.) aasimar [all of them]
2.) very very few tieflings. it’s not universal at all, but few tiefling traits are. I know 5e has really solidified them as horns + tails + inhuman skin color but we need to be making them weirder
tumblr users love to say “we don’t censor things here like on Twitter” and then type things like “r3ylo” and “jk r*wling”
if you say “and then this fucking r3ylo-” that implies that “reylo” was the bad word in that sentence
tiktokers do it because they have to, we do it because it’s mean ☺️
Okay I know this was mostly a joke but I just feel the need to point out - this didn’t start out as being mean, it started - and largely continues - as the opposite.
For a long time, tumblr had tags and no other search function. You wanted to find a post that wasn’t tagged, you had to go to Google and type in your query and add “site:tumblr.com” and hope for the best.
As it is now, that method is STILL better than our native search function most of the time, but the quality of tumblr’s native search function isn’t really what’s important here, what’s relevant is how they implemented it.
See, the search bar in the upper left corner of the site - you used to type in something there, and it would take you to posts tagged with whatever you searched. Then, one day, they quietly rolled out an update that instead brought you to a search page that pulled up nearly every post that even mentioned your search term.
This…did not mesh well with the site culture.
Because, see, we had an etiquette guideline - do not post your negativity in the public tags. Why? Because people go into the public tags to find content about things they LIKE. Posting hate in a public tag was basically seen as being a raging dramamongering pissbaby troll LOOKING to start a fight over petty nonsense.
So imagine, suddenly, you log in one day, and someone’s sending you anons angry about you allegedly posting hate in the tags, when you have NEVER done so. You use what you THINK is the tag search function to prove it, and - what the hell? Your UNTAGGED post about how annoyed you are with your notp…is appearing there???
So people started censoring things like that. Usually not because we all think the thing we’re complaining about is profane (though sometimes it does get a giggle to think of it as such), but to keep it from showing up when people are searching for what they love and to prevent pointless drama. To avoid looking like some asshole troll going onto a fan forum specifically for The Blorbo Show and making a thread entitled “THE BLORBO SHOW SUXXX AND YOU ALL SUCK FOR LIKING IT!!”
And now it’s just part of our site culture, for both peacekeeping reasons and petty glee.
The more you know.
On tiktok, you censor for the algorithm. On Tumblr, you censor for the users.
Also sometimes we censor names as an act of disrespect.
obviously dietary requirements aren’t a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she’s up to today and she said extremely seriously “ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia”
Shannon, but you can call me Bramble. Early thirties. They/them or thon pronouns. Sometimes I get the morbs. Assorted fandoms. Lots of complaining about things I like. Strange ideas of what constitutes a cute animal.
