i like men

another one

This woman deserves an Oscar for this. She's got the voice right and pose. Perfection

It has the electrolytes that God craves

Adding "Catholicism" to the very short list of existing things generative AI could maybe safely replace

Tumblr user intheparlanceofourtimes out here trying to start another church schism

YOU'RE RIGHT!

how embarrassing, I got so laser-focused on Belphegor that I neglected the other pieces of evidence (his siblings). this is genuinely very stupid of me.

his litter consists of:

tabby is a dominant, and white-spotting is a co-dominant. this means that - since his mother has neither tabby nor white-spotting - the father would need to visually express both. old bat-ears has neither.

you know who does have them, though? the only other stud cat at the cattery. and the one who supposedly did not father this litter.

this means we now have a solid answer to this question:

Belphegor........I'm sorry, my boy. you were born a bastard in a bed of cuckoldry.

as an update, his ears changed to look more like the illegitimate father. I don’t think there any more doubt: my son is a bastard

I don't want to go to work I want to engage in gay boy activities

lets give it up for pleasures of the flesh !!

The sun is still out at 8 o'clock... Wow

I wll try being more open to other peoples' experiences

just sayin'

This should be taught in school.

Fish bite more during rain because they can sense their domain expanding. Their arrogance leads to their downfall.

people love extolling the virtues of ball-and-socket joints and how it makes us more advanced and all that but I don't see any fucking octopuses in slings now do I. Bones are overrated and I want a refund.

how dare you lay this curse upon my home

you don't frighten me

Everyone in the notes saying "this is a 10k post to me" "posts that have 100k energy" "posts that are 30k to me" or whatever - alright, fine! Put the fuckin' work in then! You'd better have this queue'd up every day for the next six months! You'd better have all your friends queue'ing it up too!

You want me to suffer?? You want to treat me like my own goddamn bones do??? MAKE AN EFFORT

I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there's something "problematic" / "wrong" with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is "male gaze fetishitic"

exactly. exactly.

good addition, thank you. I love being kinky and having fetishes and being an icky yucky nasty dyke. stay horny!

And like, so much of lesbian culture is specifically being horny for things that the dominant culture says are unattractive in women.

Fat. Muscle. Hair. Sweat. Grease. Confidence. Attitude. And, BEING HORNY.

Celebrating these things has always been central to dyke culture. Of course the expression of these things-you're-are-not-allowed-to-desire-in-women are going to be horny as fuck.

Does anybody know any faster ways to get yourself into Work Mode? The way I try to slowly build up momentum by allowing myself to just do nothing uninterrupted until the urge to get work done comes naturally doesn't work because my Doing Nothing can and will get interrupted, so it's like trying to build a card house while locked in an elevator with five ferrets who hate it in the elevator and want to get out but don't understand that you have to build the card house in order to open the door, so they keep knocking it over because they're bored and anxious and keep stopping you from doing what you all want to get done.

Hey, @homunculus-argument. I feel your pain! I have ADHD and sometimes the brain weasels are running the show. I get things done by being hella organized, so I can’t forget deadlines or drop projects as easily. Here’s my method.

Trick your brain. When you’re getting ready to end your work day or getting ready for bed, check off all the things you did today, and write down all the things you need to do tomorrow/this week/this month. No need to plan or organize. This is just about getting it all written down and out of your head. Ask the list to hold onto all of that for you while you rest, so your brain doesn’t need to.

When you get up, give yourself a few minutes to chill. You don’t need to worry about stuff- it’s all on the list. If the brain weasels start getting antsy, write down whatever they’re pestering you about so you can go back to Inert Mode. When you’re ready, pick up your list and organize tasks and projects.

Write out todays plan in minute detail. Instead of writing “clean the bathroom,” break it down. “Scrub toilet. Wash out sink. Spray shower with cleanser. Wash rugs. Scrub out shower. Wipe down mirror.” As you complete a task, check it off. You’ll know if you missed something because the check list won’t be complete. It’s okay if it’s not. You can come back to it later/tomorrow.

Over time, build a bank of lists for frequent tasks. “Clean bathroom” and “clean kitchen” are Sisyphean. Might as well save those lists.

Now gamify it. For every major heading with a checklist that you complete (e.g. “clean bathroom”) reward yourself with 10 minutes of your favorite activity. Set an alarm, and do the Fun Thing immediately after task completion.

At the end the day, go over your list. Check off all the things you did today that you haven’t checked off already. Add things you did, but that were not on the list. Write down all the things you need to do tomorrow/this week/this month that aren’t already on the list from yesterday.

Bonus: when you lose track and ask yourself “did I do [thing] yet?” You can look back at your lists and see if you did or did not do it.

Pro tip: I love using Habitica for keeping track of daily stuff. It helps gamify and track daily tasks/habits, like flossing your teeth, so you can tell if you did that today or are just remembering another day. It has a tab for bigger things, but once you check off a step, it disappears, so I don’t like that as much.

For projects, I like using MS OneNote. I’ve got a page for every week with two windows on each page: a bank of tasks and projects (complete with long-ass list of steps for each) and a window with each day of the week listed. Under each day are headings for meetings, tasks, and projects. Tasks are one-step things (e.g. make dentist appointment) and projects are multi-step things.

I pull tasks and projects from the Bank into the weekday list, and can track progress I’m making, make notes about holdups, waiting on other people, things I need, questions I have, etc. I can copy/paste stuff from one day to the next, or put it back in the Bank if I don’t get it done. At the end of the week, I copy the Bank to the next page, and start the new week fresh.

I hope you find some ideas to build on, buddy!

My entire "to-do" list for the next five months is "draw comic". I have all the tools to draw comic, they are accessible to me. I can pick them up at any moment. I know all the technical steps of drawing a comic. I could churn out an entire year's worth of comics in one 40-hour week if I sat down and could work a solid eight hours uninterrupted through every single day.

The problem is that I cannot figure out a good way to execute the work unless my brain is in the right space and position to do quality work. I cannot simply Stephen King my way through it and churn out garbage while accepting that it's garbage, everyone tells creative artists that "nobody else can tell the difference" but that's a lie, I can tell it in my own work and I can tell when Stephen King is doing it. I hate drawing garbage for the sake of drawing garbage.

The only thing I am lacking is my brain being in the work mode. When my brain is in Good Work Mode I get two weeks' worth of work done in four hours. But when I fail to do that, I'll spend the next two weeks trying to wrangle my brain back into Work Mode and failing.

Also an ADHD-haver here. The 'build momentum until you can launch yourself at it' method is so so hard :( Something I found for my brain is putting putting a task with a big wall in front of it at the top of the to-do list just means nothing (or very little) gets done at all.

I've found that starting with some task that is (relatively) easy, that I like doing, and makes me feel like I've Done/Achieved Something, gives me more momentum to start swinging in the direction of the harder stuff, even if it's more of a 'fun' task than a To-Do-List-er.

I hope you don't mind the intrusion, I'm intimately familiar with the Brain Ferrets and was hoping I could be helpful :)

What do you do when you've already done all the easy, approachable tasks and there are no more easy tasks available, so it's the hard thing or nothing?

Come up with more easy, approachable tasks. Drawing a comic is a lot of steps, some of them can be broken off into easy things. Like opening your art program. Making tea/coffee/whatever. Thumbnails, coloring, lines, whatever other steps there are in your process - breaking them down into smaller ones will help.

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

Something I see mentioned often is "I don't have many followers, my reblog won't matter" which is untrue.

First of all, reblogging, commenting and interacting is how you start gathering your own micro community, second of all— you literally do not know how far a single reblog from you could go in the long run.

For instance, let's say you only have one person reblog from you, and that person only have one person who reblogged from them also, and so on, and somewhere ten reblogs down the line a very large blog reblogs it and boom, the post is getting more and more exposure!

You see, it does not matter if you don't have a large following so long as you cultivate a micro community with the people you do enjoy interacting daily with.

As you can see in the second picture I added, most of the reblogs were between very small groups of people, and occasionally it'll lapse into a large blog that would create a bigger reblog pool. BUT STILL. Saying that you don't have many followers and so it doesn't matter if you don't reblog is UNTRUE.

Even if someone just randomly wanders into your blog one day, it's beneficial for both sides because A. Seeing you reblog content they like might be enough for them to follow you B. They would be exposed to new content creators they didn't know previously and might also follow / reblog from them!

So yes, do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you're not 'big' or whatever. It is not how tumblr works!!

P.S IT IS NOT CRINGE TO REBLOG 10 YEARS OLD CONTENT ON TUMBLR. YOU SEE IT. YOU LIKE IT? REBLOG IT. DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU DIG IT FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ITSELF. XOXO :'D <3

YES

went to a discussion led by elliot page earlier today and there were many good things said but at one point the other presenter asked him "what's a cool thing about yourself that has nothing to do with being trans?" and he said "uhh this is all I've got going for me" and then paused before adding "if anyone has three oranges, I can juggle"

The correction is killing me

girl typing a very specific question into google search bar, scrunching her face as she takes time to make sure she hasn't made any spelling errors, hitting enter, shaking her head as google only presents her with unhelpful websites that don't answer her query at all, moving her cursor back to the search bar and clicking on it so she can carefully write 'reddit' at the end, hitting enter again, sighing with relief as she finds a link to a reddit post asking the exact question she needed answered posted in a subreddit for a very niche topic, finally moving her cursor to click on the link, wondering why she didn't go straight to the subreddit earlier, only to be met with a deleted comment with a reply from the OP stating 'that was very helpful, thanks', sighing with frustration as she moves her cursor back to the search bar so she can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine,

Replace "reddit" with "reveddit" in any reddit url to reveal deleted or removed comments. If the comment/post was deleted too quickly after it was posted, it may not pull it up, but it works most of the time

girl after reading a post on tumblr dot com with a reblog by user impossiblepackage, moving her cursor over to the url of the aforementioned reddit post, using her mouse to highlight the word “reddit”, typing out the word “reveddit” in its place, hitting enter, waiting with bated breath as reveddit loads, finally content as the deleted comment is displayed in front of her eyes containing the information she sought for so long.