How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

drake?

josh?

where’s the body of christ?

Hey guys!

Kaizu and I will be participating in the Etsy strike coming up from April 11th to the 18th!

Our shop will be put on vacation mode so sales will not be possible.

The Etsy strike is to protest the recent increase in fees. Etsy has announced record profits but still increased fees by 30% and have over the last few years been making the site inhospitable to small creators.

Please help support this strike by not buying anything from Etsy during the week of April 11th.

Here's a link to a petition outlining the exact demands from the strike and also more information on how some changes have harmed small creators.

Thank you!

Please spread the word if you can! Crim and I are putting our shop on hiatus— and if you’re a creator on Etsy, and can afford to do so, we hope you do the same!

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

Brain farts, a thread

At the library where I work, I once told a patron a book was due on the "thirty-oneth".

And then when I grabbed the next patron's hold, I tried to say "here we are" and "here it is" at the same time and said "here we is"

We just stared at each other for a minute and I whispered "Oh, I need coffee."

One time, at my pre-pandemic job, I went to offer assistance to some customers. I opened my mouth to confidently speak and... Screamed absolute gibberish at them because my brain shut off right before I started speaking. They stared in mildly terrified confusion and my coworker was like doubled over laughing in the background

戦力外通告

hope this explains it

Honestly, probably the best social tip I could ever give you guys is literally just ask. Need to make a doctor's appointment but don't know how? Call the doctor's office and ask. Don't know the meaning of what someone said? Ask them. Don't understand the instructions you were given? Ask them to repeat or clarify. This has literally never failed me, no one's gotten angry, no one's refused to answer.

Even in situations where you think it might not work, I once accidentally missed a deadline to accept a job offer, so I called and asked if they could reset it and they did. Just today I called a doctor and asked how to schedule an appointment, the lady told me how, and then I did it. Didn't know if someone was being sarcastic or not, so I asked and they told me. Just ask.

obviously sokka is like, the platonic ideal of an Older Brother. and katara and azula are both suuuch Little Sisters. and it’s clear that toph and aang are both Only Children. but zuko.... does not have older brother energy. at all. so I think that means that lu ten, at some point, must’ve been around a lot, and was the older brother figure that both zuko and azula looked up to. and that’s why zuko is, in fact, the ultimate Middle Child.

I was thinking the other day about how Zuko doesn't feel like an Older Brother.

Now I get it. Lu Ten is the key.

OFFICIAL CAST ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SEASON 2 OF SHADOW AND BONE

LEWIS TAN will play Tolya Yul-Bataar.

ANNA LEONG BROPHY will play Tamar Kir-Bataar.

PATRICK GIBSON will play Nikolai Lantsov.

JACK WOLFE will play Wylan Hendriks.

Wake up kids, new extreme paint dropped

“The paint reflects 98.1% of solar radiation while also emitting infrared heat. Because the paint absorbs less heat from the sun than it emits, a surface coated with this paint is cooled below the surrounding temperature without consuming power.“

holy shit this could be a game changer

By reblogging you agree you're not Anish Kapoor, that you're not associated with him, etc etc.

remember when you were 12 and the internet seemed like an endless source of fun and now you just scroll through tumblr and check instagram?

or is that just me

thought i was the only that felt this way lol

The internet when you were 12 in 2007: Most of your friends didn't use it and neither did your parents. Corporations didn't fully understand it yet, commercialization consisted almost exclusively of banner ads. The most popular social media was MySpace, of which you could personalize almost every aspect and nobody's parents used. Instead of having one Nerd Website that everyone uses, you had accounts on a bunch of different forums related to your interests and each had its own unique environment. YouTube was an uncharted terrain of kids just like you uploading whatever they wanted, unpolished and unedited with no ad partnerships.

The internet in 2020: Literally everyone is online, every member of your family has an account on each of the most popular websites. Instead of being a place you can enter on your own terms when you're ready, the internet now comes to you, giving you a little spike of anxiety with every new notification. Ad spam is everywhere and it's becoming increasingly harder to differentiate between real people and marketing schemes. The most popular social media websites have streamlined, neutral colored UIs that cannot be personalized at all beyond a singular photo and username. Instead of being a haven for fellow weirdos, everyone is a denizen of the internet now. 90% of online activity for your interests takes place on a single website, the community is going to be devastated if it ever goes down but what can be done? YouTube is just mainstream television but on the internet now, YouTubers are rich celebrities who live in Hollywood mansions.

Im so glad people are talking about this cuz Ive been scared it was mainly my depression sapping the joy out of everything again

This is how I think Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness is gonna go

~reunions~

ok but forreal why did they imply Iroh spends the rest of his days in the Earth Kingdom when we know Zuko is over in the Fire Nation being Fire Lord. I know Iroh is running his tea shop and I'm very proud of him but wH Y WOuLD yOU SEPARATE THEM AAAA 😭😭

[Image Description: Three pieces of digital art of characters from Avata: The Last Airbender.

The first is of Zuko, Sokka, and Suki sitting in a row, with Toph laying across their laps. Zuko is smiling peacefully, Sokka has his arms crossed and an eyebrow quirked up, and Suki is smiling down at Toph, who‘s stretching, grinning. The background and the characters are green.

The second is of Sokka and Katara hugging, Katara‘s face smushed into his shoulder and him leaning down to hug her properly. Zuko looks on from behind them, smiling, and Aang watches from in front of them, also smiling. The background and the characters are coloured in a purple-blue.

The third is of Iroh cupping Zuko‘a face with his hand. Zuko is crying, but smiling, staring at his uncle with gratitude. Iroh’s back is to the viewer. There’s text above Zuko’s head that reads “I miss you, Uncle”. The background and characters are coloured gray. End Image Description]

today i’m sad about that one line from the creator’s commetary about how zuko is a tsungi horn prodigy and the little letter zuko, aged 7, sends iroh in “legacy of the fire nation” where he very politely requests that iroh come home and teach him pai sho tricks, because that casts such a different light on their interactions in book one.  it was never iroh trying to push his own favorite things - pai sho and music night - on an uninterested zuko, it was iroh desperately trying to reconnect with zuko by recreating the activities he knows zuko used to enjoy.  zuko, aged 7, once begged iroh to come home and play board games with him and now zuko wants nothing to do with him and you know that eats iroh up alive

normalize creators replying to fanon shippers with “that’s great that you’re inspired to write your own version of things. keep doing that! but please respect our version of our story.”

normalize fans being reminded that boundaries between fandom and creators exist for a reason.

normalize fans recognizing their own creative potential without seeking canon validation

normalize the idea that fandom is a hobby, not an identity to threaten and fight and harass people over

normalize a healthy understanding of the boundaries between fiction and reality

normalize just chilling the fuck out lmao