that looks like a condom and the fact that everyone in the notes is saying “the orb” proves that no one on this website fucks

the fuck kinda bouncy-ball ass condoms are you using

the fact that someone thinks that looks like a condom is proof that no one on this website fucks

ok y’all it’s LITERALLY taken from the “wizard pondering his orb” image

it’s an orb. 

ok not to beat a dead horse but i found the ORIGINAL image and it’s cover art from a lotr themed ttrpg.

so

No it isn't that's from 1993 you fucking poseur, it's from A SPY IN ISENGARD published in 1988 I'm SICK and TIRED of you people getting it WRONG

5 reblog additions later and this post is still best summarized by "no one on this website fucks"

I literally choked on my drink _TWICE_ while reading this.

Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs

Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!

i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.  

there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand. 

Henry's been amazing for a long time.

There's really nothing I could add to improve this.

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

Do you know we reached somehow the end of every story Welcome to the final show, it's here in all its glory You can run but all you flee is a life of sorrow Time will tell what kind of fate will be waiting for us now

The End of Every Story by Xandria has been running through my head for the last day or so.

What happens when you don't report pornbots

What you can see here are among the most popular posts for the convin (Connor/Gavin Detroit Become Human) tag for the last month. And presumably lollipop, cityscape, rick day, eva long, dostoyevsky, and all the other random, unrelated tags added to these posts.

You can see two identical posts made by separate bots that feature a bit.ly (so, disguised, you don't know whether the address is safe/where you're going) link to a website that contains an image of a pretty young woman (but who knows what else).

Each post is liked by about a dozen other bots, and only bots. (I reported them all, so can confirm their profiles were obviously those of bots/porn bots.) Some of them even use the same image in the pfp. Some are developed blogs full of porn images, some are clearly newer and don't even have a pfp yet. They are all gaining legitimacy from each other by the likes which act as links to their Tumblrs, and adding legitimacy to the post they have liked, which links to their ultimate goal: the site where they make money in undoubtedly dodgy ways.

They are doing this to legitimise their websites for search engines like Google, but if you don't care about that, it has the same effect in your Tumblr tags.

If we don't stop them, ALL your favourite hashtags are going to be full of meaningless posts like this, and probably porn you don't want to see (very different from porn you DO want to see).

This is why we report and block, lads. Not just because they are annoying and irrelevant to us, but because if we don't stop them they will take over this hellsite, and they very clearly do not understand the nature of the hell in which we live.

I've been reporting and blocking for months now. You say ' if we don't stop them...' but we really can't without support from @staff and I've seen NOTHING. I'm tired of 3/4 of my interactions on this site being a volunteer moderator.

my rides here

This is awesome! It pairs well with the Mercury livery I made in Gran Turismo a few years ago.

jim henson, frank oz & don sahlin showing off how to make various characters with a “whatnot/anything” muppet, 1969

#actual wizard like ACTUAL#you could take the absolute most cutting edge deepfake with every hi-res freckle and hair in place so you could zoom in to the atomic level#and it would not be as Real as this felt egg#with 2 puppeteers clearly visible (via @harrietvane)

Henson was amazing. Just on the fly you can see so much life brought into this muppet. And even though each arm is controlled by a different person, you completely forgot about that within seconds. This is also how the Swedish Chef is performed! Bork!

I feel like nobody talks about this but remember Jay’s “job interview” in the original Men in Black movie? Sure, they play it for comedy, he’s a smartass cop surrounded by all these elite military graduates. But he was also literally the only one in the room smart enough to bring the table over so he had something to write on. And he offers it to the other guys too!

And in the shooting test, on the surface it just seems like a goofy joke when he shoots the little girl cutout in the head, but look at the way he responded to the situation.

The test starts immediately without any warning, we can see that everyone is caught off guard. The other candidates immediately open fire on what they perceive to be threats, but Jay takes a second to assess the situation. He sees he isn’t in any immediate danger, and in a handful of seconds he’s able to scope out several minor details about the targets and hit one with a near-perfect headshot. Jay showed he was an innovative, quick thinker with situational awareness, attention to detail and high-level marksmanship skills, and they never say it outright but I think that’s probably why Zed picked him. (Zed never actually says anything negative about Jay’s performance, just that he has a problem with authority.)

This is highly underrated writing but, then again, this is also the movie where Tommy Lee Jones says “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew Earth was the centre of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat and 15 minutes ago, you knew humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

This movie is so underrated.

Plus, the stuff he says about the alien “targets?” You can tell that he isn’t the sort to attack anyone without a DAMN good reason. Which is how we know that the movie is fiction, because an actual cop shoots first and asks questions later.

When Jay is introduced he is running down a fleeing suspect. He chases the guy so long and so far that the MIB are like “Whoa, that’s double-tough”, and I think he threatens to shoot him a couple times, but he never actually shoots him.

In other words, Jay did NOT shoot the fleeing suspect in the back, which 99.99 percent of his coworkers would have done.

I just watched the beginning to check. Jay doesn’t even unholster his gun until the alien pulls a weapon. He doesn’t escalate until the suspect does.

the only thing he shoots is the glass out of a door to continue the pursuit.

not to mention he had the observation skills to identify an alien gun, after seeing it once, for about 2 seconds in the dark, before he even knew aliens were real. It’s easy to miss because Jay spends most of the movie seeming out of his depth with all this alien stuff being so new to him, but he’s actually excellent at his job

To summarize - science-fiction.

Jay gets better and better at the job as the movie goes on. He's got it down by the beginning of the second film, but the moment Kay comes back he becomes a bumbling fool. What a waste of development.