For anyone reading this wondering “wait, who liked my ancient Red Panda Adventures post”:
Yes, hi, I finally finished the audios! (except the pilot season, which I will try next) I figured it was time to see what the fandom looked like!
And…yes, it’s small, but after looking at the Hidden Almanac tag and seeing almost nothing, I’m mostly just glad anyone was talking about this at all.
(I don’t even listen to very many podcasts, why do I keep ending up in tiny podcast fandoms)
I don’t normally do reaction-blogging (maybe I should, it seems like it might be fun), and I don’t art, so right now all that’s in my Red Panda tag is a couple posts of me yelling about mind-control ethics, because I’m me. I’d love a chance to yell excitedly about other things together, though!
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#Red Panda Adventures #I’ve also read the books #I’ve watched the Kickstarter video comic but not the later ones yet #(nor have I read them in comic form) #oh look an original post #(also I’m glad people seem to generally agree with me that the Mad Monkey is fantastic) #(he’s been my favourite villain since his first appearance) #(and the finale was brilliant)
Hey you, did you remember to take your medication?
Did you remember just now because of this post? Go do that now and earn this badge!
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#I…remembered one of them and not the other #I should have just enough time left before bed that I can safely take the second one #I’ll go do that #(I don’t try *super* hard to remember to do them) #(because both iron supplements and prune juice are kinds of drugs where skipping a day isn’t a big deal) #(mind you I’ve forgotten the prune juice for several days in a row now) #(I’ll try to be a *little* more careful) #anyway since this post helped me I’ll pay it forward #PSA #medicine #tinyadventureclub
#the other half of his superpower is the ability to locate coffee anywhere #which is how he knew what direction to start walking when he was in afghanistan #‘the nearest pot of coffee is 23 miles east’ #and then he started walking through the desert #honestly that’d be kind of a fun plot device #somebody write it I’m too lazy (via @buckykingofmemes)
There is a reason Tony never mentions that he’s a mutant. It’s not that he’s ashamed, or even that he’s afraid of the negative impact the news would have on the Stark name and his business.
It’s that he got such a fucking lame power.
The X-men can fly, control the weather, shoot lasers from their eyes, and make things go boom. Tony? Tony get’s the amazing ability to metabolize caffeine extra well (okay, on a level that would kill ten average people) and sense it for miles.
He’s one of those mutants whose powers fall into a category all their own. teeeechnically, he’s actually an alpha level mutant, given the complex way his body processes caffeine and the nearly fifty mile range on the sensor aspect of his talent, plus the degree of sensitivity. But in practice? The few people in the know mostly consider him to be a beta mutant, since his power isn’t really applicable as a defence or offense.
At any given moment he can tell you with pinpoint accuracy what things within a block of him have caffeine and what they are, even managing to differentiate between different kinds of coffee. He can even tell you who made it, if he’s met the person.
(He tries to explain it to Pepper and Rhodey, once. Tries to explain that it’s not that he’s measuring the level of caffeine in a pot of coffee really, it’s that everyone makes coffee differently. If he focuses, he can tell that the pot of coffee down in the accounting break room was made by Margery, not Cole, or Clarke, or Franchesca, because it feels like her. Numbers and irritation and impatience coupled with the peppermint sticks she likes to swirl in a cup of black. He knows he doesn’t manage it well when all he gets are indulgently confused smiles from his two friends.
Charles Xavier prattled a bit about possible subconscious empathic or telepathic impressions, but honestly Tony doesn’t really care. He just does what he does. It’s not like the mechanics really matter with a useless power like his. He doesn’t stay at Xavier’s long. Hanging with the X-men makes him feel like a toaster hanging out with sports cars.)
It’s not until he’s kneeling in scorchingly hot sand, an unforgivingly bright sun high in the sky above him and bits of scattered metal around him, that he’s thankful for the power evolution gave him. Because when he reaches out with that strange other sense of his, he can feel all the distant pinpricks of sensation that mean, ‘Here! There be coffee here!’. Most carry the notes of people who feel like the land around him, but one….. Smiling grimly, he heaves himself to his feet and looks east, towards the distant call that carries with it a taste of foreigntiredordersyessirdutythiscoffeeSUCKSman that tells him there are american soldiers that-a-way.
He starts walking.
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#Marvel #fanfic #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
when tumblr’s weekly malfunction kicks in and you’re not sure if posts aren’t loading correctly or if there’s a new wave of nihilism memes circulating around so you get stuff like this
this is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen
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#oh my god #recursion #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #(although–*knocks on wood*–I don’t tend to encounter this problem?) #(I was under the impression it was a mobile thing) #(but that screenshot doesn’t look very mobile)
#alignments #clothing #yeah pretty much #(I tend to show up on alignment tests as neutral-edging-towards-lawful neutral-edging-towards-good) #(I suspect this is somewhat actually meaningful) #(because my brain looks at that result and goes) #(”well it’s just telling us what we want to hear”) #(”obviously everyone *wants* to think of themselves like that”) #(even though it is demonstrably not true that everyone wants to think of themselves like that) #((I don’t know about Evil but I’ve met quite a few people who like the idea of being Chaotic)) #(so the fact that I parse my alignment as ”telling me what I want to hear” itself provides information about me) #anyway these are neat designs
10 years ago this Sunday, with modest expectations and little fanfare, Marco and I launched a side-project called Tumblr—a place where anyone could “post anything and customize everything.”
Why did the world need Tumblr? I wasn’t sure it did. But I did.
2006
The net is vast and infinite. The web browser has become a multimedia powerhouse. “Social media” is upending news and entertainment. One-year-old YouTube has created a phenomenon of “viral video.” Google hits for “podcast” have jumped from 100-thousand to 100-million in less than a year. Twitter has just launched. And the “blogosphere” has become the voice of millions, with the total number of blogs now doubling every six months. Dope.
But for all this progress, some of the internet’s brightest promise is fading. The wide-open and whimsical frontier of the World Wide Web is being reshaped by strict, narrow platforms. Our pictures, videos, music, journals, articles, links, status updates, are spread across a dozen different networks—each specializing in a single medium. The infinitely expressive canvas of HTML has been eclipsed by directories of vanilla-white profile pages. Our digital identities are fractured and engineers make the rules.
Enter TumblehubTumblespot Tumblr, a modest solution inspired by an avant-garde community of bloggers calling themselves “tumbleloggers.” The premise, simply, to make space for each individual’s full range of expression. A median between the author’s unfiltered and editorial voice. With complete control over design and presentation, so anyone can create something that truly represents themselves and that is truly unique.
2007
After four months of running my own blog on Tumblr, making tweaks and improvements, we open to the public. Hundreds of thousands of people begin using Tumblr to share some of the most eclectic, clever, and beautiful things we’ve ever seen on the internet.
We are humbled and awestruck.
Racing to keep up, every feature we add attempts to stretch the canvas a little bit more, pushed by this community’s constant and boundless creativity. Five months in, you have captured our hearts. We work up the courage to pursue Tumblr full time.
With a new purpose and braveinvestors, we close down our web development business and reopen as Tumblr, Inc.
2017
336 million Tumblrs. 146 billion posts. And counting.
A generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders that have redefined our culture.
I can’t say this enough: Thank you, thank you, thank you for making Tumblr everything that it is. For everything we’ve built, and all its shortcomings, you have managed to make this one of the most creative, lively, thoughtful, supportive, and open-minded corners of the world.
We have learned so much from you and been so moved by your voices.
The Next Ten Years
The internet is at a crossroads again.
Internet culture has become the prevalent, global culture. These networks expose us to new ideas and information but–too often–trap us in bubbles. The world has been compressed, and we are constantly challenged to reconcile our differences.
With so many barriers to digital expression now lifted, and nearly all modes of media supported across all platforms, there is now an unprecedented opportunity to dedicate this space to freedom, truth, expanded perspective, and positive influence in the world. Tumblr’s focus over the next decade will shift accordingly.
Expression has been and always will be a foundational part of Tumblr—and our roadmap this year will not disappoint—but it is now more urgent than ever to empower positive and productive connections across the communities that thrive here. To create an environment where people are truly safe to be themselves. To ensure positive discourse rises above toxicity. And to protect the free exchange of ideas, from which truth will emerge.
We still have so much to prove and so much we’ve promised you. With this renewed focus, we are determined to deliver.
One Last Thing
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone working on, and who has ever worked on, Tumblr. I’ve learned so much from all of you, and it is a privilege to come to work with so many brilliant and talented people. We couldn’t have done any of this without your maniacal devotion throughout this journey.
so we went to an improv show and we played this game where somebody is given a trait and another player has to guess what it is based on how they answer questions
and one of the players who was a taxidermist was asked “what do you do for a living?” and she replied “oh you know…. stuff” AND TO THIS DAY THAT IS THE GREATEST PUN I HAVE EVER HEARD MY GOD
#millennials #(mostly as a blacklist tag for people tired of uphill-both-ways-ing) #I’m at least 50% convinced this is some kind of marketing campaign for unsnow.me #I notice their current userbase is tiny #(and they’re the sort of service that needs a large userbase if they’re going to operate at all) #but it’s an interesting enough idea that I’m willing to help them advertise #and anyway #I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog
Brinens and Things 