#Randos from asks

[mixelation]

re: the hbomberguy plagiarism video again. i keep seeing people being like "this is a reminder to always check your sources" and it leaves me wondering. does anyone on this website even understand what that means

#i haven't watched the video or the toddintheshadows videos yet so this 'reminder' might make more sense in context #but the thing about plagiarism is that 'checking your sources' won't necessarily work #if you get lucky you might find the original thing that the plagiarist is stealing from #if you're not lucky you'll just find the sources the original used and it'll seem like it checks out #and THAT'S why plagiarism is so insidious #and 'checking' gets a lot more complex once you're looking into theory over pure facts #or. like. the general vibes of a fandom #anyway an important aspect of evaluating a source is to ask who the information is coming from #and you should basically never blindly trust some rando online with no relevant credentials #not even me. not even mr. hbomberguy

[hussyknee]

cant put my finger on it, but Taylor Swift feels like walking racial microaggression

#it's not even the fact that she let herself become a white supremacist idol without telling them to fuck off #and when asked why she didn't she said she was from Nashville where the Dixie Chicks were a cautionary tale #meanwhile she had no qualms calling out sexism in the industry #but white supremacy was too far apparently #but leaving aside all of that‚ she's so fucking aggressively mediocre #and her 'girl gang' is just rich thin white women #let's not forget that racist Wildest Dreams video shall we? #she's talented and worked hard yeah but her parents are rich and connected as hell #also Swifties are some of the most obnoxious fucking people in music fandom #who get mad when WoC queer women and leftists can't stand her #the whole private jet thing was just icing on the cake tbh #Casey McQuiston had one throwaway line in RWRB where the MoC and Jewish girl dissed her #and half the white queers took that personally #Jesus fuck #let people hate rich thin white women #I mean heck I like Ed Sheeran's music but I don't take it personal when other people don't #then again I don't get idolising celebrities #just because I love someone's music doesn't mean I give much of a shit about them as people #these are objectively complete randos no matter what you think you know about them #anti Taylor swift #people with T-Swift hate blogs also dni #this post is about casual white privilege not whatever weird obsessive shit you got going on #white women #racism #white privilege #knee of huss

[applecherry108]

I want to- no, NEED to know WHAT HAPPENED TO LEO AND SPLINTER IN YOUR SEPARATED AU

Not much. They’re pretty isolated for the most part. Especially when April is unavailable.

Like uhhh… Alone on a Friday night?

But he at least manages to make some online friends. :)

(Shhhh….he doesn’t Know™️ 🤫)

#took a break from the comic for this bc I know ppl are anxious about Leo. so I asked blinday if she wanted to see hurt or comfort #she said hurt. …..with a little comfort. >:3 #is Leo isolated and lonely? yes. does he have no friends outside of April? yes. does he know his one rando friend #is actually his brother who’s too anxious to introduce himself? #😈 #there’s a lot more to be said about bootyyyshaker’s habit of always seeming to be there for Leo but I’ll leave that for another day. #my art #tmnt art #parent trap au #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise leo

[whetstonefires]

What is the author's perspective on the most challenging parts of writing a story, and what advice do they offer to writers struggling with different phases of storytelling?

Okay I'm going to be real with you, the syntax of this ask was weird enough I went to your blog to try to see what your deal is and whether you're a chatbot.

Your blog turned out to be about two weeks old and consist largely of reblogs from one person. (@cy-cyborg and sideblogs thereof.) Your blog header and all your (few but voluminous) original posts read like they were composed by a chatbot trying to somehow sell the concept of reading?? books????? Cozy book times??? The experience of following your blog as an extension of the pleasure of reading books?? The literary aesthetic?

But while you have the chirpy redundant sentence structure of a machine learning algorithm and a habit of falling into the customer-service-plural-first, you don't actually descend into nonsense at any point I noticed, rendering those posts ambiguously human in the same way as the average recipe blog. Also you commit flagrant instagram-style tag spam.

I'd have blocked and ignored and possibly reported you as a spambot, except on some of your reblogs-with-commentary you turn into a normal human person who lives in Australia, so I kinda threw up my hands. Maybe you have blood idk.

I have no idea what the point and/or goal of your blog is. Altogether baffling.

Anyway I definitely don't speak for some collective hivemind of authors and this question is way too vague for me to do much with. If I didn't suspect it of coming from a robot I'd have put in some effort to engage meaningfully, but trying to figure out what manner of entity was farming me for content used up all the spoons I had available.

#ask #hoc est meum #cozycornerchronicles #maybe you just got here from instagram or something #there's so much sales pitch and no product??? #uncanny #scifi future where randos are slightly less likely to be robots if you can't figure out how anyone would make money off of this #if you are a person sorry for ragging on your style like this but stg i'm not the only person getting tipped into the uncanny valley #by the mechanical bubblegum approach #i do like being asked my opinion but this was so damn weird

[lemondoddle]

if tim was in skully or the ark would masky and tim be seperate or would they still be the same guy do you think

oh now that's INTERESTING!! iiii think that they would be separate within skully regardless- if masky is more of an alter i don't see why they couldn't both be there or maybe tim would have half his face half masky's

but the ark part is also interesting bc we kinda get an answer in issue 3.5 when hoody finds the mask in the ark- which promptly comes to life and yells at him

something of note is that it seems to be mocking hoody at first but then speaks in the first person from presumably tim's perspective- with how fucky time seems to be in the ark (hoody encountering jay and alex while all of their deaths were staggered between different lengths of time) i kinda see the mask turning up here as a result of tim throwing it away at the end of the series. again whether or not you consider masky to be an alter for tim (which is something i like to headcanon) at least some part of masky has been permanently changed/affected by the operator, the one we see in the ark might just be the aspect of masky most heavily affected (esp with how desperate and almost resentful it sounds)

so who knows! hell maybe there could even be two maskys and a tim in the event of skullification which sounds pretty fun if you ask me

#lane speaks #this got away from me a bit my brainworms started taking over #ask the alien #randos #marble hornets #mh #mh comic #mh spoilers #this was so fun to theorize about

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Hi, I was just rereading today, and I still think it's hilarious how Tsumiki handles Megumi’s divine dogs😭😂

Nanami, highly experienced grade one sorcerer: *appropriately assessing the risks of shikigami in a highly aggressive attack mode whose sorcerer is not coherent enough to order them down properly, trying to find a solution that prevents injury without necessitating the destruction of the shikigami*

Tsumiki, has a decade of being secretly smug that her brother’s shikigami love her best under her belt, ready to bank it all on the fact that her brother’s dogs are Good Boys: nanami would you move your ass

#makis spent her entire life listening to her family never shut up about the ten shadows shikigami #had one try to rip her fucking throat out #only to have everything she thought she knew turned on her head by some rando high schooler who thinks of them as her baby brothers puppies #the Zenin: the divine dogs are ancient and deadly weapons revered by our clan #tsumiki comes home every day and asks her brother to summon them so she can give them belly rubs: they’re good boys is what they are #Shiro: *absolutely rabid levels of aggression against everyone* #tsumiki: :( #Shiro: *sad puppy mode* #sea glass gardens #next chapter still almost done just on brief hold due to work being crazy #when tsumiki was growing up kuro and Shiro was just megumis invisible puppies who walked them home from school and kept them safe #she has suchhh a different frame of reference for them #she remembers a time where she didn’t even know if they were real but she knew that they made her brother happy and that he loved them #so she loved them too #tsumiki was a scared little girl all on her own who’s brother was suddenly seeing horrible monsters but he also had his puppies to protect #them. she’s always adored kuro and Shiro because she views them as megumis protectors and companions

[dbphantom]

Listen if you're gonna send me an ask about why I shouldn't interact with a person, can you at least do it off anon so I can request actual proof privately? I'm not replying to these since the only way to respond to them is publicly and I don't want to contribute to an unsubstantiated rumor about someone. That's not fair.

#Also I checked and I don't even follow them! So don't worry about me not interacting I've been doing a bang up job already #Maybe I did in the past because there were only like 4 of us in the Tr/ig/un tags at any given time #But I don't now so I have no clue how or why you dmed me about this random person I don't even follow #The only mention of them I can find on my blog via search (granted it's a gamble cuz search sucks but) is a tag on a gifset from 2014 #I mean if you're browsing posts from 2014 on my blog all the more power to you I had good taste #But also I don't really know this person. I vaguely recognize the username but again. Only 4 of us at any given time for years #It just feels Weird. #If ur going thru the trouble of sending asks abt this person then put your own reputation on the line since you're trying to tank theirs #Like if you believe these accusations enough that ur willing to send asks to randos then u should be comfy putting your name behind them #I'm giving u the benefit of the doubt here anon #I want to believe ur heart is in the right place and u think ur helping #But being on anon with 0 proof is not helping your case at all #Cruddy rambles #Ask

[djservo]

omg travis noooo 😭 any other characters that hang out with the bros but don't make it onto the story posts? I'm curious about their social lives.

raj (their neighbor) comes over a lot to hang out when he's bored! he + joaquin went to geek con together recently & these pics made me laff (also penny in the background of the first one hiiii)

+ sergio developed a work rivalry with one of the new townies from growing together rip We're Working Thru It...

#joaquin talks 2 everyone he comes across tbh so he's always getting texts from randos #asks

[zero-a]

people will go all "just be yourself and love yourself! :)" and then go "if you don't act the way i want, you gotta reprogram your entire way of thinking then reach into the very core of who you are and what makes you you, discard it, and replace it with this better, friendlier, more empathetic version that's coincidentally far more convenient for me to deal with than any other possible compromise we can make that you can do for me but doesn't stretch your mind to nothing but thin bands of what you'd consider 'You' :))))))"

#mine.txt #just thinking about all those 'think positively!' and 'romanticize your life!' posts #like on one hand i can see their merit cause self-hatred though instinctual is ultimately detrimental to your mental health #but on the other hand...some of them (a lot of them) are really just unashamedly asking other people to completely change themselves huh #all in the guise of ''positive thinking'' ''self-love'' and ''betterment'' no less #i suppose i shouldnt be surprised considering most people can barely grasp the concept of someone who Genuinely has muted emotions #as a natural state instead of a depressive symptom #not to mention the human quality of escalating things #so ofc tumblr which seems to currently be in its mental health recovery phase would naturally lean in so hard towards ''radical happiness'' #but man sometimes i really do just wanna shake the person from behind the screen and say #'no! dont you understand! this is just how i am! stop implying that everybody who doesnt feel joy at simply waking up is a miserable hag!' #sometimes they dont even imply it they just straight up say it 💀 #im honestly fine (as in idc) with seeing them but they remind me so much of those toxic positivity bitches that sell you random hoaxes #and tell you that youre ''ruining their vibes'' when youre not just beaming like the sun every waking second #well idc most of the time that is #sometimes they just trigger my szpd (and my dpd weirdly enough) #with the szpd obviously i dont like being told what to do and what to feel and having some rando assume things about me #but with the dpd its like #oh i must be doing something wrong ofc this stranger on the internet knows more about emotions and feelings than me #cause im a dumbass who doesnt Feel things therefore i must do what they say even to my own detriment #this mainly applies to those guilt-trippy ones so ive learned to steer clear of them #possibly even block the op

[warden-melli]

Incredibly unpopular opinion but I actually wouldn’t mind if tumblr had some sort of “stories” feature so that I could post wips and silly stuff, and not clog up tags, or bother people with unfinished/random pictures

Stuff like this

No influencers trying to sell stuff, just random snippets of someone’s day, artists and writers posting wips, and pictures of cats and stuff

+ me and some Melli’s (and Sabi’s too I guess)

#Melli #sabi #melli draws #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon #wip #this drawing is at the ‘omggg are they nekkid :O’ stage #I’m sure all artists know what I mean. when you’re blocking out basic anatomy before adding clothing/details and someone who doesn’t draw #sees it and asks this classic question #it’s usually followed soon after by the ‘can you draw me….? XD’ request #or even the ‘did you trace that?’ despite them watching you draw it from start to current point 🙃 #sorry this devolved into a rant about drawing in front of randos lol

[marzipanandminutiae]

I have this one antique papier-mache doll I’ve been trying to sell for years

and that I saw in my favorite childhood antique mall for years before that

and she will. not. move.

it’s insane. she’s a gorgeous doll- rare size, great painting, stunning spiral-threaded glass eyes, a wig that’s new but beautiful and really suits her, good condition, lovely dress made of antique silk and lace. and I’m active in the antique doll community, so you’d think, with all those commections, I’d get a bite

but for some reason known only to the gods, nobody wants to buy her

the owner of the antique store gave her to my mother when the shop went out of business. seriously! I am unconvinced that money has changed hands for this doll since she left the toy-store shelf in 1870-whatever!

she’s not haunted. she’s not linked to any Dark Events. she doesn’t have a ~bad aura~. literally she is a pretty doll in a lacy pink dress, with a sweet face that’s animated enough to not look blank, but not so realistic that it’s eerie. just, for absolutely no reason I can discern, nobody wants to buy her

so now, naturally, I want a supernatural comedy story about a haunted doll whose only Weirdness is that she’s impossible to get rid of once she enters your household

#antiques #dolls #doll collector #if I was willing to give out my address to Internet randos I'd ask whether any of you lot wanted to buy her #but I'm not #the one time someone sent me something from Tumblr I had it shipped to my friend's office #antique doll

[drakonovisny]

why do my sims playthroughs always turn kinda fucked up :'D

#i made a girl who is really outdoorsy and wants to have a great ranch #i made a horse for her and moved them to the world that was included with the horse pack #she immediately got to training her horsie‚ gardening and stuff #but then her first bill came and it was astronomical because the lot is big #so she got a job as a gardener #but what she was making wasn't enough to sustain the ranch #some time later some rando called her telling that she might get a distant relative's inheritance if she marries within 7 days #ofc she wasn't planning to do that but then one of her neighbours asked to crush at her place for a few days #they had great chemistry so she decided to marry him platonically for the inheritance money and a helping hand at the ranch #he moved in and so did his horse lol #also aside from the inheritance money he also contributed 20k simoleons #however the same night they got married he froze to death while playing with the horses outside (i wasn't paying attention to him lmao :'D) #she didn't really love him but she still was heartbroken #she got on a drunken bender for a while and decided she's going to grow weed for sale now (i got the basemental mod at that point ajdnbfbb) #since she had like 50k simoleons on her now she hired a ranch hand who would help her with that while she focuses on training the horses #so i think next she's going to get closer with the ranch hand and maybe date her too if they have any chemistry #and they're gonna grow weed and look after horses together ahdbbxzbbz

[lamby-grahamy]

Real quick: If you get sent asks about signal boosting for somebody’s pet’s surgery fund or whatnot

Remember to check their blog and the timestamps on their posts. Scammers will fill their blogs with a bunch of posts in the hope that you stop scrolling and think they’re legit, but usually the account’s only been made a few days prior and they haven’t put in enough effort to actually establish themselves. Keep scrolling and you’ll find the end of the blog p quickly.

Also reverse image search the pet pics. They’ll steal them from other folks and you can usually find them elsewhere if you put in the legwork.

#this psa brought to you by: i got a scam ask from some rando #and i figured it might be a good idea to post about it

[cloverstellar]

sending an ask so u dont have to answer if u dont want etc etc UR HAIR IS SOPRETTY!

THANK YOU!!!!!! I’d just straightened it for the photo (I took it awhile ago this morning)

#rose asks #mutuals my beloved #usually it’s got some kind of wave or curl to it but the curl is falling away bc my hair is really heavy #AUGH straightening it took forever #also I’m totally fine with responding to you it’s just the weirdass not-jokes from randos that weird me out 💖

[unproduciblesmackdown]

billions(tm): it's incredible how we just provide a little snippet of material designed to be "guy we all want to push down the stairs immediately somehow" and through this amazing acting alchemy it becomes gold. electric. magnificent. we can't get enough so we will just keep writing this loser character and the actor will somehow keep bringing the dazzling transmutation through his ability

actor will roland: [is aware autistic people are real]

#this is at least half humorous in several ways lmao but also like fr... #winston billions #will roland has pretty much said he is aware that autistic people real. and not [ppl's utterly off the walls assumptions abt what Defines #Autism or what an Autistic Person is like and how you would Know] #i don't think that Billions(tm) would be very much better at that than re: say; taylor's being nonbinary (surprisingly alright yet. u kno) #quant kid 2 could've been anyone but writing Winston is like so certainly the common deal of the inadvertently autistic character #drawing from all the autistic people allistic ppl encounter all thee time without being aware & deciding they're annoying / jerks / too #weird to live too pathetic to die / grating nerds / Funnily Odd in a way you deign to merely raise an eyebrow or scrunch your face at.... #so on so forth. ''oh you know Those People we all know who are just Like That'' #and deciding they must be ''just like that'' b/c they're either too arrogantly rude &/or clueless / Unaware to be neurotypically superior #also do not get me wrong lmao big old proponent of Did You Know That? Actors Act. Now You Know #so of course yes will's acting is off the shits i mean here i am am i right. and he is using it when he is acting. #the acting talent Is off the shits. the tiniest moments they give him & he CRUSHES KILLS it really is amazing i'm not waving it off at all #cue twitter randos so betrayed when kelly aucoin is not dollar bill & is like ''yes in my acting job i'm playing this fuckin asshole'' #meanwhile i'm still following the interviewer who a) asked will anything abt billions b) talked abt the immediate striking intro of will's #as quant kid 2 And the immediate draw of / effervescent dynamic between winston & taylor. Someone Who Gets It #anyway it's like will can fathom that actually the people who are Always ''acting wrong'' w/their bad grating vibes no matter what they do #are not always Those People(tm) who We all know & loathe right....thee magic of knowing winston can be someone fully earnest #and of course always actually trying; & having perfectly comprehensible wants & needs. damn how's he doing that #bringing a certain je ne sais quoi to this Insufferable Loser Nerd material! so we don't mess with the process. #i.e. we will only ever let his role get dunked on forever b/c sure can't fathom anything else anyways. our Correct characters could never.. #only tuk; adjacent in wrong nerd loserdom; can be his friend. rian who is correct but zany with it can be his abusive friend