no more cold and calculating i want warm and calculating. i want characters who use deductive reasoning to figure out whether their friend would like a wool or cotton quilt based off of their lifestyle, career, hobbies, and habits. i want “your nails are often chipped because you work for a law firm as a typist for this company which notoriously underbudgets their IT department, so ive bought you a keyboard cover that will not only prevent manicure damage but is also sensory friendly because I know you dislike certain clicking noises”. i want characters who figure out their friends entire schedules and social battery levels just by examining who only use that info to know when the best time is to hang out with them. i want characters who create elaborate, supervillain level schemes just to get their hands on some collectible they know their best friend wants. most of all i want characters who do not use intelligence and reasoning skills as a reason to be cruel but as a means to be kind
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#this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
this is professional influencer-level framing. this is the EXACT spot they needed to take this photograph to make it seem like the gävlebocken has not been decimated by birds.
the angles. the lighting. gävlebocken is about to start doing sponsored posts.
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#Gävlebocken #fun with loopholes #Christmas #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Fantasy setting where the kingdom has a secret police with the mission of finding any modern-world people isekai’d in so they can be whisked off to the academy and all their future knowledge transcribed
It’s a known thing that isekai events happen. All the major nations do this. The coming war may very well be tilted in favor of whichever kingdom gets the most Japanese teenagers appearing within their borders
They are worried that the flow of isekai protagonists is slowing down, what with increased traffic safety measures.
So they hire a evil wizard to send a minion into our world, with only one goal: increase the number of automobile accidents, and keep their isekai harvests bountiful.
The minion can’t return, of course. Travel is one way, unless you isekai back, and that’s a one in a million chance.
So the poor fish out of water minion stuck in our world can never return. At least they gave him plenty of precious gemstones with which to start his car-accident empire. So don’t worry, squire Musk will not starve in our world.
The real problem is that they mainly get teenagers and thus they’re pretty limited in what info they can get from them. Sure, their basic physics and mathematics have been advanced beyond their neighbors, but they’ve also got pages and pages of handwritten illuminated texts about an illustrated motion play called “The single part” and many music sheets filled with the works of some “Quick Seamstress” who lives in a distant nation across the sea in the far future.
Still, they persevere. A single trainspotter with a special interest in steam trains revolutionized the transportation infrastructure in their nation, they only need one kid who memorized the history of firearms or metallurgy to win this coming war. They’ll write down a thousand books of the exploits of Marius the lead-worker and his eternal struggle against a dragon-turtle if it gets them just one teenager who can tell them how to make this “steel” they’ve heard so much about.
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#story ideas I will never write #(…or‚ at least‚ won’t write *precisely* like this) #death tw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.
Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.
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#…the fourth question they ask is ”what country do you live in” #(with a long list of possible answers) #I am going to have to look into this #I still don’t *super* expect it to work #–later parts of the questionnaire kind of implied that the #only valid reason to be a non-resident citizen is if you’re on a military deployment– #but it does need further investigation #(tax-preparation services for non-residents normally start at USD$120) #(that’s for an ~installation-wizard‚ not a person) #(it’s $160 if you’re a gig worker) #(if you hold index funds outside of a short list of exceptional circumstances #you don’t qualify for the DIY tax software and you have to buy a human-assisted service for $550) #((yes‚ five hundred and fifty)) #home of the brave #tag rambles #PSA #adventures in human capitalism #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
oooh, it’s “(M)t(WTF)”, not “(M)t(W)t(F)”, that makes more sense.
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#I love that multitool gender #art #gender #surveys #language #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
If anyone else is looking to do firework noise exposure ahead of July 4th for the US, or other noisy holidays, this one seems pretty nice! It has a bunch of the whistles, and deeper pops & bangs than the last couple we’ve used.
Have a picture of Emma sleeping in my lap with no concerns even though we went up in volume a bit today!
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#interesting ideas #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#Star Trek #DS9 #art #fanart #comics #juxtaposition #recursion #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #stalking cw? #(I think on the whole I will not give this a nsfw-image tag) #(even though that closeup on Quark’s ear is kind of‚ uh‚ concerning‚ in context) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Right before BD the book came out there was a leak of a few pages referring to a “Nessie” that was, somehow, Bella and Edward’s daughter.
I was only a ~casual fan at the time, but I remember 24 hours or so of Twilight fans trying to figure out what “Nessie” was short for, and everyone kind of settled on “Agnes” which means something like ‘pure’ or ‘holy’ but someone suggested also meant ‘lamb.’
Everyone was so mad at how “ugly” and “old fashioned” ‘Agnes’ was, although it had some defenders who said it made sense Bella and Edward especially would pick an old-fashioned name.
Then the book came out and everyone found out what Nessie was actually short for.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Twilight #names #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Happy 45th birthday to Dean Winchester, and goodbye to Tumblr Live.
In the spirit of how we’ve all come to communicate the news here on Tumblr dot com, here’s this: As of today, January 24, 2024, Tumblr Live no longer exists.
What does this mean?
The Tumblr Live marquee will no longer appear at the top of your dashboards, the Live icon will be removed, and the snooze option will disappear from your settings. You will no longer be able to go live or watch streams.
Questions?
Here’s an FAQ we’ve prepared for any questions you might have regarding your Live accounts and credits. If you have questions or concerns about this decision, email us at livesupport@tumblr.com, and we’ll send you some answers.
Thank you to all the streamers who joined us on this journey. We’ve very much enjoyed watching your LEGO building, wildlife streams, and live draws. And happy birthday, Dean.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I don’t really care about Tumblr Live either way) #(but that *is* a great opener) #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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