#can someone else confirm it works

[pagesfromthevoid]

Hey there!

I really love whatever the poets say, but somehow part 20 and 21 can't be found on tumblr. Is it just me or are they not or no longer available? The other parts all work...

Hope your having a good day💕

Greetings from Germany!

Well that’s weird!

Here’s 20 and here’s 21

#cress talks too much #it works for me #can someone else confirm it works

[raspberryjellybrains]

yknow I've been thinking about what dream looks for in friends and lovers and I've noticed that it's not necessarily people that are mean to him, but people that are direct. dream himself deals in metaphor and manipulation, it's simply what he is, so just about everything within his realm that he's encountering consistently will be such that as well. considering both his own tendencies, the environment it breeds, and his whole Thing about guilt and choice, it makes sense he would choose people who are clear and honest with him. he wants someone who will tell him how it is, but not what to do with that—even when it's not really what he wants, dream knows it's what he can need. I think that's why figures like lucienne, matthew, death, and yes, mervyn can be important! on some level, dream knows he's convoluted and shifty by nature, and he's tried to combat that with concise words and mind-melting beauracracy, but it can't fix everything. he likes people to keep him in check and I think that is the most self-awareness he has ever been capable of. so... clap? no? idk. nod acknowledgingly.

#it is also that he is autistic #i dont make the rules. its just true. #also didnt mention for sentence flow but this is 100% why i think he REALLY hates desire #theyre the only manipulator in the universe better at manipulating than him. and uses these abilities to fuck him over. #they know how to blend direct observation with subtly implied direction to get him to do what they want whilst thinking hes not #dream knows this and he HATES it. because thats like. his every fear confirmed. in someone who is supposed to care for him. #and desire simply sees this as an extension of their function and good fun besides without understanding how deeply this messes dream up #with the guilt and choice thing: dream wants someone clear to blame and he would prefer it not be himself #so he wants to be given the option to be left with no choice so he can escape all personal responsibility as disguising it for himself as a #personal attack. the problem is that this is an inherently selfish thing to do and his perception of reality is so warped by ass kissing and #paranoia (great combo) that he ALSO cant tell whats a personal attack. #see: nada rejecting him and dream damning her to hell for 10000 years. #that also hit some other stuff he lacks the emotional wisdom to grasp #but like. why else would mervyn exist. genuienly #mervyn knows hes made by an uncaring god for menial and unnecessary work. everyone else knows hes full of shit and kinda right. #if dream didnt like what purpose he served on some level he would just remake or unmake mervyn all together. but he doesnt. #mervyn is like a chainsmoking barometer of public opinion #like boyboss good for him but thats it #anyway #dream of the endless #the sandman #raspberry rambles

[angst-and-fajitas]

Notes on Mary Oliver, Me, 7/13/2023

You see, I think I could like you in a party

I think I could like you at a brunch

I could like you outside the party in porch chairs,

With two or three of our closest friends.

But I cannot like you when we are alone,

When we sit you and I, alone, at one small table

And as you speak I find

That there is one thing you are always speaking about

And it is not the thing I am always speaking about.

(Woe is me; this core of my soul is not the core of anyone else's)

#emma writes #poetry #in college I took a creative writing course and we had a poetry section where we literally only read Mary Oliver #and from reading all her work it confirmed pretty quickly to me that poets often have a very specific emotion that they draw from creatively #and hers and mine were Very Different #and i feel like reading all her work at once like that ruined her poetry for me #rather than being able to appreciate her individual voice and the ways it was different from other poets #she became like one vast monolith to me and I felt alienated #i was looking for myself in her work and I didn't find it #and that last line there is my second wind of self-awareness #that 'well duh' moment about relationships in general of Why am I looking for myself in someone else? #everyone can only be themselves

[the-one-who-lambs]

I'm going to be turning off anon asks for a while. I think I've blocked the anon from last night, but just for safety.

I'll try to get the first Risen/Fallen rewrite chapter up soon. I wanted to have it up today but I don't think that'll happen.

#hannah's rambles #please send bam some love. #knowing someone is trying to use my works to tear someone else down just makes me sick. #I watched their stream to confirm my suspicions and yep. it's.. definitely the same anon I got. #I sent them a nice ask. I hope they see it </3 #i feel like I could've done something to shut that anon up and I didn't #best thing I can do was send them positivity just to show how fucking wrong that anon was.

[emi1y]

lol fuck that guys pipes <mantra of clearing out my shower with draino instead of trying to get my dipshit absentee landlord to call a plumber for me

#literally the process ALWAYS goes like this: i submit a claim on my tenant website. nothing happens. in two days i call my property manager. #it goes to voicemail. the next day i call again and MAYBE get a pick up or else i get voicemail again and they call me back while im at work #they confirm they will send someone. a week goes by. out of the blue i get a call while I'm at work. #“hey this is the plumber im 5 minutes from your house lol is now a good time?” me: no im at work. “well can someone else let me in?” #me: no i live alone. “oh uhh well they [landlord] didn't tell me that. how about tomorrow same time?” me: no i will also be at work. #then we go back and forth for a while trying to schedule something because nobody else has a key to let work people in to my place #THREE TIMES WITH THIS SAME PATTERN. WHY DONT THEY EVER SCHEDULE AHEAD OF TIME?? WHY DO THEY JUST SHOW UP WITHOUT WARNING WHEN I'M NOT THERE #once to replace my fridge once to check out my toilet and once to replace said toilet. god. #emily.docx

[stinkrascal]

Plz tell me how you got diagnosed with autism? I defiantly have symptoms but don’t want to assume ):

i could sit here and tell you to drop thousands of dollars on a formal assessment or hundreds of dollars each on therapy sessions, but i will tell you a secret instead. u are not harming anyone at all by assuming you have autism without having a formal diagnosis. i promise it isnt as big of a deal as you think it is and anyone who tells you otherwise is uneducated

#jade answers #anonymous #self dx is not harmful in the way people pretend it is #especially when receiving a formal diagnosis can go upwards of thousands of dollars #it's classist to suggest that you're only allowed to relate to symptoms if you pay someone to confirm your suspicions #also people who arent formally diagnosed cant 'steal resources' from those who are formally diagnosed like some suggest #and also also even if people are 'stealing resources' (they arent) thats not how resources work #resources don't disappear because they're being used that's the opposite of how resources function #it's like basic supply and demand you know. and also monetary resources aren't typically given without professional diagnosis anyways #so in that regard self dx individuals can't steal those resources at all. so there's no argument there #also self dx is a great tool in your pathway to actually receiving a diagnosis if that's something you plan to do #or something you can afford to do #relating to symptoms. researching symptoms. then bringing up these symptoms to your doctor. that's all part of the journey #i think people have this weird idea that when u see a doctor they're the ones who have to organically recognize the symptoms within you #but that isn't true. you are allowed to recognize those symptoms within yourself first and bring that up #basically self dx is not a huge deal at all and the people who pretend like it is are generally just uneducated and kinda classist #or honestly just insecure. they're like the people who took out loans for college who don't want college to be free for others #because they're like Well i had to pay for college! so why can't everyone else pay for college? #and i'm not trying to say that to sound rude either. i used to be avidly anti-self dx and it was rooted in my own insecurities #about the legitimacy of my own mental illnesses which i had to fight tooth and nail to receive official confirmation #so yeah. just don't worry about it so much anon i promise it is not as important as people online make it out to be

[nightofmiracles]

You know how whatever Summer's mission turned out to be it's very likely that it went just as good as Qrow & Clover's ordeal in v7 did?

And how Qrow's weapon, a symbolical part of himself, was used that night?

I was thinking through an idea I had on how that could be translated into Raven's situation - where a part of hers is turned around to hurt her & someone she cares/cared about - and, well, what is also a representation of the self?

A Semblance.

The literal manifestation of her bonds might have been turned against her.

#rwby #thinking over my idea of Summer's semblance being spatial manipulation and how that'd make her able to move the portals around #compatable with Raven's in very creative ways if she can slide portals just enough to surprise enemies even further #Summer's semblance being about her /actually pushing others away/ could work both in a 'i'll save you' and 'go away' kind of way #it'd be pretty tragic so it'd fit #and it'd work like Clover's good luck and Pyrrha's polarity making them look 'invincible' from an outside pov #anyway my one proof/confirmation of being right about this post is how in v5 Raven let Cinder fireball Ruby just after bringing up Summer #meaning we already have a precedent of someone firing an attack through the portal and it happens right after Raven probably recalls the - #- last time she was with Summer #anyway this is off topic but in this Clover is both Summer and Vernal and possibly the third person in That Mission too. hope that helps #this is off topic 2.0 but back to the idea of portals and. doesn't her portal look like a gaping wound to anyone else or is it just me #i had to look at Clover's body having a Very similar wound on the center of it so i don't think i'm too far off with that #something about bonds being the death of you #something something fear of getting close to someone #rwby theory #raven branwen #summer rose #<- adding the tags only later <3 mwah

[protect-namine]

I miss having an extrovert teammate hhhh why am I pressuring myself to welcome our new designer and making this team meeting like. not awkward. I'm not the social person!!! but someone needs to break the ice and not make this experience terrible for the new hire and if no one's doing it I'm gonna make myself do it. I don't like doing this btw!! but it's a terrible feeling to join a new team and not feel welcome like helloooooo we're gonna be working closely together from now on

#mine musings #work tag #pros of having a new designer: YAY someone i'll be working with regularly!!!! literally i always work closely with designers. i love them #cons of having a new teammate: oof gotta make sure she feels welcome and nobody's TALKING oh nooooo #i miss having a moodmaker in the team hhhh I'M NOT MEANT TO BE THAT GUY. i'm gonna do it for now but can someone else take over later #i'm good at being like. the person who helps the moodmaker y'know. i'm good at MATCHING other people's energy but i'm not good at SETTING i #do you get me? does this make sense #i'm a very good second banana but i can't be the top banana #anyway through trying to make conversation i have indeed confirmed that japan's kfc sells roast chicken on christmas #and apparently they don't? sell gravy on the regular menu??? #and this year the shops selling chicken are advising people to schedule their orders before 12/16

[orcelito]

I try not to be mean but anytime that one employee does anything I get the overwhelming urge to just b like You Stupid Bitch

I'm so fuckin sick of her

#speculation nation #i could not go over every single instance of this bc it would take all day #like As Soon as we can hire smth else we r going to be firing her. already gotten confirmation from manager #its so hard to make me sick of someone like this but man she sure has done kt #this post brought to u by tbe fact that she claimed a cover from under me that i was hoping would let me switch shifts #so i could go to a family thing #and she messaged me again this morning like 'hey uh do you think you could cover after all? just realized i work that morning' #and im overwhelmed with tbe You Stupid Bitch bc a: why didnt you CHECK THAT B4 AGREEING???? #and b: MESSAGE THE PERSON U WERE GONNA COVER INSTEAD OF MESSAGING ME. THE FUCK???? #if she wants to take me up on it after all thats her choice!!! #but fuck dude it's not up to me to act as leeway between you!!!!!! #god. fuck. im. sofucking sick of her #and she didnt do any cold brew teas friday night so we ran out of green tea yesterday and had to emergency hot brew some #im still annoyed about that. and a million other things. like shut the fuck up girl ur inflated sense of ego has no place here #'i deserve to be a supervisor' lmfao right of course bc ur refusal to finish ur kitchen test so u can even start making drinks #is SOOOO appealing for ur ability to be a supervisor #'how soon can i be promoted“ YOU STUPID BITCH THERES A PROCESS!!!! YOU FINISH YOUR TRAINING FIRST #I HAVE NO IDEA WHY ITS SO HARD FOR HER TO WRAP HER HEAD AROUND IT. WE'VE TOLD HER MULTIPLE TIMES!!!!!! #so fucking sick of her. i am so fucking sick of her. i cant wait to hire someone else so she can be gone. #anyways hi im awake and complaining. hello.

[ghostinacardboardbox-oldblog]

The new Camp Here and There cast members were announced and I am HYPED.

#FENNEL MY BELOVED I CANT WAIT TO HEAR YOUR VOICE #ever since it was confirmed that Fennel would be in season two ive just been so excited #and new Jedidiah?? I’m sure it’s gonna take me a good while to get used to hearing someone else voice him #but I also know that the actor Mayfield chose will be great because Mayfield always makes great choices #he loves this podcast and it shows. I love when you can tell a creator is putting everything into their work #and they love it in a way that no one else can #I love chnt I love the cast I love the lore and I can’t wait for the next season #ghost posts from their box #camp here & there #camp here and there #chnt #fiction podcast

[friendofthecrows]

every time i'm planning a book and I don't explicitly state in my planning whether they are cis or trans they just Suprise! get canonically confirmed as trans at some point while writing

#a character just made a comment about gender dysphoria #and i was like 'wait is this character even trans?' #and so i checked and it didn't say either way so #she's trans :) #hal rambles #writing #characters #my books are going to be known for having almost no cis representation #it's not on purpose they're just all trans somehow #like universal fate or something #if i've been describing someone in a way that makes you imagine they're cis #and then later the narrative confirms that they're not #just assume they're on hrt or just really good at passing #or they just look like that #it happens #but i'm never anti headcanons that say 'this person is on hormones :)' #or 'has had top surgery' #or whatever else works #also the reverse. you can say ACTUALLY this male character has big tiddies #so long as you aren't weird about it

[hyah-lian]

K so not a loz thing bur I've been feeling rly online-chatty lately

It might be one of those kind of a 'taking advantage of folks' thing but I got some of those fancy colour ear plugs (sorry "noise reducers") to try out. (I really hope it ISNT shitty reasons and it is a thing done with good intent)

I get rly sensitive to sound at night when I'm stressed and sometimes get overstimulated with sound especially at work so if anyone is wondering about them I can let you know how it goes

So far it's comfortable. I have really really REALLY tiny ears. It fits comfortably so far. Not rly doing much for the low level hum I hear a lot but p sure thats from me clenching my jaw and also probably old man tinnitus shit. But that isn't what bugs me too much. I'm taking them to work tomorrow to try during breaks qnd we shall see

#not loz #neurodiverse stuff #trying new things to help be comfortable and functional to the level i want #unmasking practice stuff. yknow the whole thing that comes with hella late life diagnosis #(adhd stuff confirmed. other stuff ???? sensory fuckery OH BOY YEAH) #inalready have blue light glasses i bring to work too. doesnt do much for cutting light but it does help #whether thats bc i used to wear all the time glasses and it was comfy having a frame qround the world #or the tint qnd extra layer between Too Much and my eyes i cant rly say bc both have been feelings i had about it #also wearing more stim stuff like worrystone textured necklaces and things i can bite if need be #fun Acceptable Noise Making items #and being more open about what I struggle with AND what I excel at have all been helpful #and life is slowly getting more comfy to navigate. therapy helped a lot too to help me identify stressors and emotions #so yeah. im proud of all that too. and was v happy to see people talk and share openly on it and that got me to try #so idk. if this maybe helps someone else thats awesome. if not it helps me see how far ive come so also cool

[vagueiish]

i've been told a number of times that mental illness is a dirty, filthy, no good liar. but like..... what if it isn't?

#to me anyway. it's lying to the rest of you. dont use me as a guide #but. anyway.... #im much more inclined to give the mental illness and negativity the benny of the doubt than not yknow? #there's a non-zero chance (for example) that im right about the people around me merely tolerating my presence #and theyd be much happier if i were to just.... not be there #there's a non-zero chance the opposite is true i suppose but... #i know im awkward and off-putting and weird and also Not Good Looking #so evidence suggests the more negative scenario is true. right? #idk. what if i choose to believe that people do appreciate me and want me around only for it to be revealed that i was right the first time? #this kinda thing has happened before lol :'') #it was a situation i created myself i think so maybe it falls under self-fulfilling prophecy but. it still happened #the brain doesnt care if shit is homegrown lmao #i just dont want to be wrong #yknow? #im fuckin terrified of doing the stuff and working on loving myself #only to come to a point where all the alleged bullshit nonsense i used to believed about myself turns out to be true #is there proof somewhere? something refuting what im feeding myself?? #i know confirmation bias or whatever is a thing. maybe i need to be more vigilant looking for evidence to the contrary but. like.... #i dont know what im looking for really. or that i expect to find much of anything.... #i guess people are nice enough to me but it's horrifyingly easy to find ulterior motives behind being nice #they pity me. theyre nice to the weirdo to feel good aboit doing some good deed. theyre a masochist. etc etc. #and if you ask people straight up why theyre being nice to you they get defensive. understandably i guess but. #why would someone else be genuinely decent to me (says the 'liar' in my head) im not even nice to me #i suppose i should just trust other people but. lol. trust does not come easy #i want to believe people are genuine. i can kind of believe it from a distance #but.... #idk. i need sleep. i need to be up early #save me nyquil #to the void with love

[esleep]

i actually do kinda like delivering groceries on the side because it gives me such a unique cross-section of the community. i never know whose groceries im shopping for until i finish the delivery and see them/their home and it's like it adds more detail to the picture of who they are. the baby supplies going to the apartment that i know for a fact is one bedroom (they'll be moving soon - i bet they're apartment hunting, i hope they find a place). the new cat litter box, bowl, and kitten food going to the house covered in "i <3 my dog" paraphernalia (a kitten definitely showed up on the porch recently and made itself at home). the fairly healthy boring grocery order that includes an incongruous tub of candy-filled ice cream going to the home of an elderly woman with toddler toys in the yard (it's clearly for her grandkids, whom she sees often).

shopping for someone else's groceries is a fairly intimate thing. i've bought condoms and pregnancy tests, allergy medicine and nyquil, baby benadryl and teething gel, a huge pile of veggies paired with an equally huge pile of junk food, tampons and shampoo and closet organizers and ant traps and deodorizing shoe inserts and a million other little things that tell a million different stories in their endless combinations. one time someone had me buy one single green bean. i messaged them to confirm that's actually what they wanted, and they said yes - neither of them liked green beans very much, but they had a baby they were introducing to solid foods, and they wanted to let him try one to see if he liked them. another time i had someone request 50 fresh roma tomatoes - not for a restaurant, but for a person in an apartment. the kitchen behind them smelled like basil and garlic when they opened the door. another time i brought groceries to three elderly blind women who share a house. that was one of the few times i have ever broken my rule and gone inside a place i've delivered to, because they asked if i could place the grocery bags in a specific location in the kitchen for them to work on unloading and there was no way i was going to refuse helping.

i gripe about the poor tippers, but people can also be incredibly kind. one time i took shelter from a sudden vicious hailstorm inside an older lady's home in a trailer park, while i was in the middle of delivering her groceries. we both huddled just inside the door, watching in shock as golf-ball-sized hail swept through for about five minutes and then disappeared. she handed me an extra $10 bill on my way out the door.

when covid was at its deadliest, people would leave extra (often lysol-scented) cash tips and thank-you notes for me taped to the door or partially under the mat. i especially loved the clearly kid-drawn thank you notes with marker renderings of blobby people in masks, or trees, or rainbows. in summer of 2020 i delivered to a nice older couple who lived outside of town in the hills, and they insisted i take a huge double handful of extra disposable gloves and masks to wear while shopping - those were hard to find in stores at the time, but they wanted me to have some of their supply and wouldn't take no for an answer.

anyway. all this to say people are mostly good, or at least trying to be, despite my complaints.

#long post

[5ummit]

New Mature Content Warning Overlay (And How to Get Rid of It)

More fun community label "features"! Unlike the new mandatory label for #NSFW, this one is a bigger deal to me because it affects my entire blog and it can't be avoided by just using a different tag.

Apparently on custom blog layouts, if you happen to post or reblog even a SINGLE post that's been flagged with the mature content community label, a full-page warning overlay will appear blurring out your entire blog that must be manually clicked through every single time the page is refreshed. At first I thought this was just a bug due to my older layout but I've come to realize it's not. It's a feature (as confirmed by this recent changes post) that affects all custom themes. The formatting will vary based on your own theme but here's what it looks like on my blog:

I don't know about you but I find this is stupid and annoying. If it could be dismissed once and never seen again that might be one thing, but that's not the case. The vast majority of my blog is not "mature" enough to warrant such an aggressive and invasive warning. I also think pop-ups are obnoxious in general and I'll be damned if tumblr's going to force me to have one on MY blog.

After some desperate googling for a known workaround and being unable to find even a single mention of it, I decided to take on the challenge myself. I'm not a theme coder, so apologies if there's a better way to do this, but luckily it only took me like 10 minutes to figure out a simple fix, which I'm now sharing with anyone else who may want it:

.community-label-cover__wrapper {display: none}

Just copypaste that somewhere in your CSS and goodbye pop-up!

If you're not sure how to access your theme code, check out this help article. You can also add the code via the Advanced Options menu, which is actually even better (if you can get it to work, it depends on how your theme was coded), because it will then automatically be reapplied to a lot of themes without having to remember to manually add it every time if you change your theme in the future.

Obviously this will only remove it from your own blog for anyone who may visit it. If you never want to see this warning again on other people's blogs you can also add this custom filter to your ad block:

tumblr.com##.community-label-cover__wrapper

Unfortunately I do not have an easy tutorial on hand for this one as the method will depend on your specific ad block app or extension.

Some additional notes:

After adding the theme code and saving the changes, give it a minute to update as it sometimes takes a little while for the page to refresh.

The warning overlay only seems to appear if a "mature" post is on the FIRST page of your blog, which is still annoying and makes the whole thing even more pointless and stupid because what if someone visits any other page of your blog, and oh no, happens to see "mature" content they weren't warned about?!

The warning also appears on direct links to "mature" posts.

This hack has NOTHING to do with entire blogs that have been flagged as NSFW. It only works for non-flagged blogs with custom themes that happen to have individual "mature" posts.

#I'm not letting my entire blog be penalized for a couple rare singular posts that may or may not even be 'mature' enough to warrant it #tumblr may force us to use community labels #and they may have full control over the new blogview #but MY custom blog layout has always been and always will be MINE to format and present however I want #that's the whole point #tumblr #psa #tutorial #my words #tumblr themes #wendy's help desk

[dduane]

Had an idea you might be able to use for something: Klingon Soap Operas.

(sigh)

Thanks for the thought. I appreciate your kindness!

But unfortunately, because you've sent me the idea and I've read it, I can now not use it, ever. No matter how much I might like to.

This isn't about you, you understand. And in its way it probably seems like a cruel paradox. You were only trying to be helpful! But if I was working on something for Trek and this concept came up even in casual discussion, I would be honor-bound (and contractually required) to inform them that the idea had come to me from a reader or fan. And then—rightly, from their point of view—they would forbid me to use it, because the idea's originator might some day, despite all their friendly intentions now, sue them over it. And the evidence that I was at fault would be easy to obtain. Sending a DM on any major platform generates an electronic "paper trail" that will confirm its target has opened and read the message in question. And that electronic record can be subpoenaed and submitted as evidence, and would stand up in court.

"Oh, come on, who'd do a thing like that, what are the odds...?" people will say. But it's not generally known that I've already been involved in a high-stakes lawsuit in which someone tried to sue Mattel over material I wrote when developing the initial form of the "Barbie: Fairytopia" universe (and the first Fairytopia film) for them. I'd never so much as met or communicated with the person suing them, had never read even a word of their work... but they still went to great trouble and expense attempting to prove that I'd had access to their material and used it without permission.

Mattel won the suit (as I'd frankly been expecting: the attorney handling their defense was one of the most expert IP lawyers in the US). But it gave me the chills... and made it clear how very wrong things could go, and the kind of damage that could be done to my career and my personal life, if I even accidentally used ideas from unauthorized sources.

Seriously, folks. I know you all mean well! But please don't make me tap the sign. DO NOT SEND ME STORY IDEAS, no matter how vague or general or unformed they may be. To do so is to absolutely guarantee that they will never, ever happen.* (And in my own universes, your innocently-meant suggestion could mean that neither you or anyone else will ever see that particular Young Wizards or Middle Kingdoms plot, no matter how much you'd like to... because I take this stuff seriously.)

...Thanks, all.

*This is also why I don't read fanfic set in my universes. Which you also shouldn't send me: please and thank you.

ETA: I would really, really appreciate it if y'all would refrain from giving @eldritchcatpossumamalgam grief in the tags. They made an honest, well-intentioned mistake, that's all, and they don't deserve to be personally raked over the coals for it. (And any of you who think I would derive any kind of satisfaction from that happening plainly don't know me very well.) So thanks in advance for your cooperation.

#fanfic #story ideas #Don't. #Just... #you know... #DON'T. #(thanking you)