#sometimes it's hard to tell

[submissivefeminist]

sometimes I follow hardkink blogs and it takes me like a week or two before I can figure out if they're just really hot and play a role well or if they're legitimately a sociopath that I ultimately decide to block and move on from

#sometimes it's hard to tell #like I'm into this but only if you're lying about some shit #idk I'm high as shit

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

Omfg I'm rewatching Phineas and Ferb rn bcuz I need something light and silly in my life and wHY IS GANDRA DEE'S BACKSTORY AS SHOWN IN BEAKS IN THE SHELL JUST THE DOOF BACKSTORY FROM UNFAIR SCIENCE FAIR IF IT WAS PLAYED STRAIGHT I CAN'T-

#man is this post incoherent or am I just too tired to understand my own thoughts #sometimes it's hard to tell #also I might be misremembering the scene where she revealed her backstory? #but I think at least the visuals where similar #like their cool ass marvel of science that was also kind of dangerous got ignored in favor of a baking soda volcano #eh whatever if Im wrong I can just delete this post later lol #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #gandra dee #phineas and ferb #dr doofenshmirtz #ramblings #late night ramblings

[miachee]

The bots are making me paranoid

Every time I get any sort of activity, it's been 50/50 whether or not it's a real person or a bot, which sucks. Some bots are really easily to spot: profile image of a generic woman (one click on their profile, then BAM p*rn), default image with no posts (or filled with p*rn), or a nonsensical name like Adfe23S.

But lately, it looks like some of them are getting weird. Like someone followed me with an profile of 3 people. 2 are upside down with only their legs showing, and the 1 right side-up person with only their head visible. (And of course, they haven't posted anything)

But like the profile image is so confusing that it is actually making me question if it really is a bot, or a new user who has quite the personality.

So if you are a new user, can you please post something before doing anything else? I don't want to accidentally block and report someone, because I thought they were a bot.

#tumblr bots #bots #new users #the bots are evolving #or new users are not posting #sometimes it's hard to tell

[reddyletter]

you aren't fucking tim key

...yet.

#thank you so much for telling me bc i was getting confused there #sometimes it's hard to tell #v good of you to clear it up #you little lurkers (though i reckon it is just one of you) are so bloody weird and creepy like are you ok?? #are you doing ok?? #do you wanna chat about it?? talk it through?? #dw though i will fuck him asap #haha bestie dw dw i am working on it just for you uwu #top of my to do list is a) fuck tim key and b) tim key #bc i am gonna do it twice #debating whether i even post this or not bc it makes me feel mean but then there you go creeping in all my friends' inboxes #sending hate anons #just seems wild to me that you felt this was a ThingTM to send lmao #maybe just stop #stop it #we're bored #we've had enough #please get some new hobbies #this one's not working out for you...

[anartificialsatellite]

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

#it's hard sometimes not to be embarrassed when people tell you you should be and im still working on it #but life is so much more fun that way

[cod-dump]

Soap: What would happen if a ghost possessed their own body??

Ghost: Haven’t found any downsides yet but I’ll keep ya posted

Soap:

Ghost: Boo

#sometimes it’s hard to tell when he’s joking #call of duty #modern warfare #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #incorrect quotes #inspired by a tumblr post

[deltaruminations]

what if gaster in a future chapter calls out the audience for speculating so much about him. the guy canonically has some amount of access to Real Life Social Media. like i started this mostly as a joke but there are definitely some real metanarrative opportunities for a character with recklessly curious impulses, and possibly a fragile sense of self, having nearly limitless access to streams of debate over whether or not he’s a bastard. rude to talk about someone who’s listening etc

#this is very fast and loose character reading on my part but i do get the sense sometimes #that gaster may be asking some of the same questions of himself that we are of him. #’who are you? how should i feel about you? should i sympathize with you or be disgusted by you?’ #i said ‘call out’ in the post but i don’t even necessarily think this is a matter of anger #so much as sincere confusion and ego-shattering overwhelm #a character so wrung out by the mechanisms of audience interpretation that even he has no idea who he is anymore #and he’s looking at ​the audience who looked so hard for him and spent so much energy tearing him apart for clues or answers #and saying ‘you want to know what i am. but you seem to know that better than i do. please tell me. tell me what you think.’ #’because i want to know just as much as you do.’ #…anyway this is not real speculation. just rambling on an idea i think would be cool lol #$ waltz of a shattered man

[teaboot]

(I'm a security guard.)

#There is an overwhelming number of traumatized people who work in security #So many of us have histories of abuse #Or other things #And I wonder so often #I'm good at my job #But am I attracted to power? #I like helping people #I don't like hurting people #Or picking on anyone #But it's hard to know what the right answers are sometimes #Part of my job is working with police #Even if I disagree with them #I tell myself it's better that I'm the guard here #And not someone malicious #Or cruel #But how much am I really changing? #And am I using my power correctly #Or will I become the unreasonable authority that made me the scared person I am #Is it already too late? #What if the calls I'm unsure of are the warning signs #Maybe I'm already too late #Maybe my sense of morality and justice is eroding #To fit the hole I've placed myself in #Maybe I'm not chipping at the walls fast enough #Maybe I'm being reshaped #Just being here #Maybe my conflict of conscience is the internal monologue of a sympathetic villain #Maybe I'm the bad guy

[faragonart]

We interrupt this program to bring you...

Echo

#doodles #Echo #echo project #furry #horror #Leo #Chase #visual novel #been playing this and god I absolutely love it #it is NOT for the feint of heart #it is pretty intesnse in its material so proceed with extreme caution if you intend to check it out... #there's a lot I wanna doodle from this VN... so many well described visuals... #I can't wait to get further in the story... #just chef's kiss #sorry sometimes I draw stuff from other things hahah... #I really wanna draw all of the main cast at some point... for fun and me time. #I just love me some messed up spooky scaries... #with amazingly well written character study~ #this game sure do be hitting home real hard sometimes I tell ya... #Echo vn #leo alvarez #chase hunter

[arcanegifs]

Caitvi Scenes: 2/? ↳ The infamous "you're hot, cupcake" scene

#caitvi #piltover's finest #caitlyn kiramman #vi #vi arcane #caitlyn #arcane #arcaneedit #loledit #wlwedit #netflixedit #showedit #arcane league of legends #league of legends #s1 ep5 #media: arcane #type: gif #i wish i could tell yall how hard it was to color this LMFAO #so many arcane scenes are dark af sdkfjskdfs its so hard to color them sometimes #thank u amanda overton for this iconic scene #never thought i'd see caitvi have a kabedon scene but here we are lmfao #ik my url says arcane gifs but the first things im making are probably gonna be anything related to vi or cait or both LMFAOOOO #i'll make the rest next time yes i am biased and there's SOOOOOO many scenes i wanna gif #also WOW i know i said in the about page that i dont schedule posts but i went crazy and made like 5 more gifsets #so these are all scheduled now #enjoy lol

[daisywords]

Conlanging for cheaters

quick tips for creating fantasy language(s) that look believable if you squint

Pick a few rules about what letter/sound combinations can and cannot exist (or are common/uncommon). For example, in English, "sp" or "st" can begin a word, but in Spanish they can't. The "ng" sound (or the voiced velar nasal if you want to get technical), can't appear at the beginning of a syllable in English, but it can in at least of third of languages around the world. English allows for consonant clusters (more than one consonant together without a vowel), but some languages, such as Hawaiian, don't. Picking a few distinctive rules that are different from English or the language you are writing in, and sticking to them, will yield a lot better results than just keysmashing.

Assign meaning to a few suffixes, prefixes, or roots. A simple and useful example of this is making up a particle that means -land or -city or -town, and tacking it onto your appropriate place names. You could also have a particle with a similar meaning to the "er/or one we have in English, such as in "baker," "singer," or "operator," and then incorporate it in your fantasy titles or professions. It's like an Easter egg for careful readers to figure out, and it will make your language/world feel more cohesive.

Focus on places and names. You usually don't need to write full sentences/paragraphs in your conlang. What you might want to do with it is name things. The flavor of your language will seep in from the background, with the added benefit of giving readers some hints on background lore. For example, you could have a conlang that corresponds to a certain group of people, and a character with a corresponding name could then be coded as being from that group without having to specify. A human-inhabited city with an elven-sounding name might imply that it was previously inhabited by elves.

You don't have to know what everything means. Unless you are Linguistics Georg R. R. Tolkien, you probably don't want to (and shouldn't!) actually make up a whole language. So stick some letters together (following your linguistic rules, of course) and save fretting over grammar and definitions for the important stuff.

(Bonus) This isn't technically conlanging, but it can be fun to make up an idiom or two for your fantasy culture (just in English or whatevs) and sprinkle that in a few times. The right made-up idiom can allude to much larger cultural elements without you having to actually explain it.

Congrats! You now have a conlang you can dust over your wip like an appropriate amount of glitter. Conlangs can be intimidating, just because there's so much you can do, but that doesn't mean you have to do it all. So yeah anyway here's what I would recommend; hope y'all have fun :D

#writing advice #worldbuilding #conlanging #world building #fantasy #writeblr #writing #linguistics #I feel like sometimes it can be hard to know where to start #So I am telling you where to start

[lowpolyanimals]

Herbert P. Bear from Club Penguin

#herbert p bear #bear #club penguin #thank you for your submission! #sometimes its so hard to tell if they are low poly with some of the more stylised models #what do the people say? #shall we let him live?

[scintillyyy]

can you really talk about tim's tendency to idolize and place dick on a pedestal and his semi-entitlement to understanding dick without also talking about dick's tendency to project his own feelings and insecurities onto tim and also his semi-entitlement to his right to try and micromanage how tim should feel and react about things. i, personally, cannot.

#dick and tim #anyways trust me when i say that none of this is meant in a negative way because this is what i Like about them lmao #forever thinking of the M/F fight where dick expects that tim will go alone with his line of thinking just because he says so #and is shocked when tim doesn't and instead has his own thoughts and feelings abt the matter #and babs has to tell him that tim isn't him & had a fundamentally different experience to him #it's like hmmm very realistic to me #the way they do this to each other in a way that almost is depersonalizing but like isn't actually #it's more just that they understand each other so well most of the time that it's easy to forget that they're their own person #with their own thoughts and feelings #like hm. there is something very realistically siblings about it in that #older siblings do tend to try and dominate the relationship with their thoughts and feelings because #their first memories are of being expected to lead their sibling and the sibling usually comes at a time when the older sib is v possessive #so the older sibling conceives the younger sibling as belonging to them and being kind of a hm extension of them vs their own person #meanwhile the younger sibling has no knowledge of a life where the older sibling doesn't exist #and the younger sibling's experience is that of observation of the older sibling from basically the very first day of life #so the younger sibling will often see and perceive the older sibling in very interesting ways #they're always learning something with thay observation good or bad #and thus probably develop more instrinsic understanding than even the parents do #and conflict comes because each is their own person but it's hard to see them that way sometimes #anyways there's also another thread where for dick it's hard to conceptualize tim's family of origin as real compared to them #but that's like mainly headcanon just know i'm right and it's interesting

[otaku553]

Procrastination doodles of sabo for the king sabo au :)

#one piece #sabo #king sabo au #I wonder sometimes if I keep thinking about this au because i like putting my blorbo through crushing existential nightmares #something something. it must feel so wrong to him. to be born like this and know that he’s not suppose to be there #but not having the memories of times in the wild with his brothers to contextualize why he feels wrong or where he’s supposed to be instead #directionless. knowing that he has to exist for some reason but not the reason that everyone around him tells him he should exist for #and continuing to try to bridge the cognitive dissonance through fallacy after fallacy until he is in too deep to escape #anyways. thinking about Him #Him is the academia mentality of ‘just keep going and you’ll eventually reach the light at the end of the tunnel’ #‘because you’ve tried so hard to get here and surely you must belong here because you’re so academically highly-achieving’ #does that make sense? maybe the parallel is a bit of a reach. I could write an essay about it tbh #I love this au lmao it’s both a lot of projecting and a great chance to be like ‘god I can make him so much worse’

[foldingfittedsheets]

My betrotheds mom is big in the SCA and does tons of hand sewing and period accurate clothes, she’s got several custom made outfits and enters competitions with her special projects.

One of them she meticulously researched and created a custom glove. I have no idea how much work goes into such a thing other than A Lot but whenever she tells us stories about these competitions she’s always slighted in favor of flashier offerings.

Her most recent endeavor was some kind of stiff collar. I’m not going to embarrass myself pretending to know the specifics but the original ones back in the day used layers of fabric and whale baleen to get a nice strong silhouette. She researched the crap out of it and wrote up a report to go along with the item.

At the judging one of the judges commented, “Well, it’s alright, but it’s so disappointing that it’s not fully authentic, why didn’t you use whale baleen?”

She sputtered out, “Well, if you’d read my report you’d know it’s because it’s illegal!”

#ramblies #sca #like imagine someone being like ‘why didn’t you use ivory to construct this?’ #it is a bit hard to tell with her sometimes cause she’s a very unreliable narrator and has a tendency to feel slighted #but in this case I’m 1000% sure the judge just cattily asked why she didn’t use illegally source whale parts for her crafting project #funny #story #ffs foibles

[eddiemunsons-missingnipple]

Would really mean a lot to me if I had Eddie Munson calling me his "good girl" and saying how proud he is of me for doing the most basic and mundane tasks.

#i need the praise #life is hard sometimes #just tell me i did a good job at the self checkout line #eddie munson #joseph quinn