Tag game!!!

Do this quiz

And this picrew

And tag people(obviously)

@anartistwithamask @gummy-axolotl @shadowthegay @auseryoumayknow @copper-ichor @moonysfavoritetoast @alexthescaredenby @invaderxeya @fungal-boy-witch-yay @artists-void @hazbin-hotel-lucifer-simp @ka1-the-pr0ot @theautumnalcat

I came across this absolute gem by chance, and I simply had to participate even though I wasn't initially tagged :]

Tagging all my moots! ^-^🧡

@so-called-yokai @sinestroslight @thescribblings @sp1n-dle @whunwhub @snedbee @animatedjunkfood @evakazoo @lykaios2 @tdillustrates @activistwizard @cowboysoups

Yoo thx for tagging me bug! Here’s my results

Tagging my moots now: @mghtk @destructivewritinggoblin @vixidi @acey-waceyy123 @mortallyshyguy @definitely-a-username @yooangeloo @apocalypticroadtrip

I’m REALLY sorry if I forgot to tag one of my moots these were just at the top of my head

guys ima be real i have a SINGULAR honorary mootie aside from TD 🔥🔥 @sp1n-dle

anyway heres my critter theyre kind of really silly

i imagine them to be a stupid lil beetle prob

I'm like half asleep but keeping the chain going or smth 💪💪💪

This fella is a lil guy for sure

Uuuuhhh tagging moots, love you guys :)

@ilikeavatartomuch @iloveyoumost @mxmoons @overdramaticemotions @toulousifer @undauntedgremlin @zenkori @deadbeatbug @generally-idiotic @detailofdawn @aloverabagel

wowow! thanks for the tag :')

i cant take screenshots (rip my laptop) buuuut i can list my percentages! im 14.2% evil and 14.2% lawful so im apparently true neutral

sorry you cannot see my picrew though :(

tagging moots! dont feel pressured to keep the chain going :) @helpigotlostatsea @unniebeans @ghostytoad @noahh-blossom @ghostenluvs @lunarshrub @claraghost22 @violetjedisylveon @alilcherry @oftincturedwords @mincognito-rambles @sillystupidgayartkid @garmabawls @agentwalkerz @emzi-148 @sinnerppony

Thanks for tagging!

@lotus-sunn @marithegemini @rayningstars @eclipse-into-your-walls @dee4001 @roquog @turtlemurtlebooyakasha @screwzara @invisiblehoodie14

Here's what I got!

Also tx for the tag!

@jadetheblueartist @justasmallflick @allmightyscroll-swag

Thanks for the tag @marithegemini

Obviously I made a human Frida with the picrew teeheehee

@exhaustedwriterartist @bowandbrush @plumsodapop @leilanising-vault-of-knowledge @nyaboshi

Thanks for the tag Jade!

This is what I would look like if I lived out my dreams of being a druid or witch in some random forest with my cat.

Tagging: @banana-pancake5 @ferniforest @poetique823 @untitled-main-blog @crowsandturtlesandbatsohmy @allyheart707

And anyone else who wants to do this!

Oooooo love this one thanks for the tag!!

:D

If y’all would like to join: @justmesadlysry @hellaskeptical @holydragonhumanoaf + all of my moots and anyone else who wants to :D

Dyam, me so close to being evil 😌👍

@fluffyr0cky @arise-children-angel-is-here @m3l0man14c @bossbabyfan2 @maxmemer @ender-outlaw

I did it for myself

But I also did it for Liǔ cuz I can

Damn she's a disaster oh well

@ofthefrogs @artistheworld @trashyandtiredsol @diona-98 @angryvampire and anyone else is welcome to join ofc

Soooo.. i did It for my RPG character and uh... 😳

She's not "EVIL" evil, she's just a bit sillyyy... Yeah definetely... 👀💧

@beemyhuneybee @olavored @lemonsandsadness @dogbound1128

Did for mine as well!

Tagged by @angryvampire

She's like a paladin, I swear-

Tags! (Only if you want to)

@normal-about-the-dca @flamestar126 @nowiknowthislooksbad and anyone who wants to join in on the fun!

For me! Almost complete neutral

@ghostdoodlen now you

and whoever wants to! def feel free too

Surprisingly neutral but that looks about right

Thought I'd get more good

Your turn

@otome-wandering @eggadoodle @the-alice-of-hearts @ggomos-maribat @boldlyanxious @mochegato @blondie-4404 @abyssal-ali @the-coffee-fandom @eggadoodle

Yeah that tracks

No pressure tagging:

@marirah @ladytauria @bi-bats and of course @jovialjuggernaut

Not surprising 😂

No pressure tags: @this-was-a-terrible-idea @chipmunkery @generatorcat @cheetahleopard @waffleinator-inator @felinemotif @candywafercutie @stabthroughme

oooh thank you for tagging me! this was fun 💕

no pressure tagging: @jzbnee @n1ightw1ng @deepwithintheabyss @must-be-mythtaken @jpeg-dot-jpeg and anyone else who wants to hop on this train!

thanks for the tag !!! was surprised at how close i got to evil but not surprised by the foray into lawfulness haha

ummm @paprikadotmp4 at least... i think everyone else i know... has been tagged... paprika probably also has been tagged

thank you for the tag bb!!!

it's like 4:30am and I need to be up in... 4 hours haha.... just in case I forget anyone / tag people twice that's why bahaha

@jacenpetertodd @disniq @37nightwalker @grannyhitsuzen @marsupialmenace @azol-otl @sjura @setsailslash

🥹thanks for the tag!!

@lanadelreads @luaucrunch and anyone who sees this~ it's cute!

tags by op

‘But I don’t wanna rp with real ppl its so embarrassing 😳’

Me:

not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)

and yes, this does pretty much align with the "proshipper" position — to be clear, i'm firmly in the camp that it's literally fine to ship whatever and engage in fiction however you want and people are not morally wrong for making art that engages, even gleefully or pornographically, in dark topics. the reason i still choose to not call myself a proshipper is for a few reasons:

-there are so many different implications under that umbrella, and i resent the dichotomy that reduces so many different positions on so many different aspects of media studies to two different labels. such a framing actively stifles discussion and prevents people from having tough and thorny conversations about media with people they mostly agree with

-i think "proshipper" is only a useful positional label for people whos primary mode of engagement with media is through fandom. but as a journalist and queer person, the main ways in which the "does fiction affect reality and how" issue interfaces with my life have nothing to do with fandom, so it feels backwards to me to define my opinions regarding media in relation to the area that has the least relevance to my life

-i want my actual opinions to be the most visible part of how i engage with fandom, rather than a label that will cause everyone to draw nuance-stripped conclusions that vary depending on which "side" they fall on. i want people to listen to me, not project their expectations onto me and listen to a phantom of me they've created

-why should i? if people are willing to engage with me regarding media discussion, it shouldn't matter whether i choose to identify as a proshipper or not — they should treat my ideas on their own merits. and if people think that i'm a sick freak for "condoning" whatever is problematic these days, they're not going to care what i call myself, they're going to call me a sick freak anyways. and im kinda petty and want them to actually have to read my posts and rub two braincells together to interpret things and think critically about how to label me instead of seeing "proship" and slamming the cancel button

(via @vinelark)

(via @cairoscene)

hey good news

there's a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for "guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger's house"

Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures They're cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet. They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.

They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don't grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.

Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.

born and raised gothamite combating kon's influence on tim's taste buds

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

the archive/tagged trick is a lifesaver!!

a caveat on op’s caveat is that if your blog/the blog you want to search is older than [whenever they forced everybody into the tumblr.com/user change], most of these tricks will still work whether or not they have enabled “custom theme.”

tumblr works it’s just a closely guarded secret

OMG useful.

Questions and answers pt. 2

A continuation of the first thread here!

Q: Hello! If you accept cosplayers, what will the policy for works involving them? Do you want exclusive photoshoots or just photos from existing shoots, or something else? How abstract/"canon" do these shoots need to be, if so? Thank you!

A: Hello! As all content made for the zine has to be brand new, photos from existing shoots are not allowed (existing shoots can, however, form part of your application portfolio). At the very least, if there is an existing costume, a brand new photoshoot has to be done, with the theme and specs to be discussed with the mod team should the cosplayer be accepted. As for how abstract or canon the shoots have to be, it really depends on what the idea is, but a good line of reference is whether it fits in with official art and material that has been released. We hope that answers your question!

they makeme ill

another kiss on the cheek drawing as a treat 4 me

Mercymaker doodles

if anyone new here is concerned about this whole thing being a scam, the first pic is me and my SDit as a puppy last spring, the second pic is me a couple days ago with megace, a cancer drug that increases appetite to treat cachexia in very sick people. just one of several new specialty medications i take now, lol. the second pic has been edited to redact my personal information. the difference in how i look is substantial, at least to me. for anyone who needs more info in private, i can provide evidence of medical tests, care, meds, bills, whatever; can provide evidence of all that other shit with my car, family, service dog in training, etc too. i'm not okay, lol, and i'm not keen on dying before i even get to see the specialized oncologist. just the newest of many very cool tricks gd loves to play on eden 👍

venmo: enimi / cashapp: $stoat / paypal.me/stoat / i also have Wise as an option for international transfers

Hey things are very bad here and I still need much, much more help than I have been receiving, despite the notes. I wouldn't ask if I had another option. Below are screenshots of just some of my unpaid, upcoming bills, as well as my bank account right now.

1. $410 I owe for my hospital visit and TEE for diagnostic testing, which yielded clinicially significant (and bad) results. This amount is what I owe out of pocket after insurance.

2. This month's upcoming car insurance premium payment. This is for just one month, this is the plan renewal month. I have no idea why it's this high given that I have never gotten a ticket, been in an accident, etc etc. It is much higher than before and extremely excessive, so I'll be shopping around for quotes, but as of right now this is what I will have to pay regardless and does include discounts.

3. Monthly financing payment for the car to replace the more "affordable" one I traded in after I was quoted at $9k to replace the engine... for what would have been the fourth time in less than a year.

4. My bank accounts currently.

I'd say to hell with it and just end it atp but it looks like my illness might do that for me before the specialty oncologist gets back to me anyway, so. You know. Please help or whatever.

Venmo: @ enimi / Cashapp: $stoat / PayPal.me/stoat

None of these bills have been paid as of yet. I still owe $410 for diagnostics, $941 for one month's car insurance payment for some reason, $505 for my auto loan payment, etc. and these are not going to get paid on time/at all without help. I also need to go grocery shopping again and pick up my medications. Meanwhile, my bank account is now nearly -$550 as of this morning due to needing to eat, get gas, and get travel supplies for my job last week.

I appreciate everyone's kindness and support. I don't really even know how to keep going with all this right now. The care coordinator nurse through my insurance who is assigned to my case has upped the urgency of getting me to a specialty endocrinologist and oncologist since the referral process from my doctors was taking longer than we can really afford right now. Still losing significant amounts of weight, still incredibly tired and dizzy and in pain no matter how much I rest when I actually have the option to. Will update more when I know more, could use help meanwhile.

Venmo: @ enimi / Cashapp: $stoat / PayPal.me/stoat / Wise (for international transfers): @ edenorin

These bills are still unpaid. Today is the due date. I am nowhere near my goal. I was supposed to work an important event across the country. However, upon arrival in the destination airport, I left to immediately go to the out-of-state hospital emergency room and spent the whole night there before being told the root condition I am suspected to have is one they cannot test for in the ER and I needed to fly home immediately and get in touch with my providers here asap. I was placed on medical restriction to work minimal hours, and to work from home only, because of how high my troponin levels, blood pressure, etc were. I was able to switch my flight back and I am now home, but I am missing a significant work event as a result of my medical issues. Paramedics were called for me on my return flight home. Etc.

I've had to buy food, check bags, get Ubers, and pay for airport parking for what is now a completely useless trip. Several hundred I didn't have to begin with. Need to pay my hospital bill from home, my auto loan payment, my car insurance payment (I was able to switch to a cheaper option going forward but I do still have to pay the $941). Will also need to pay hospital bills from a completely different state, recoup the costs of travel, eat, and get my car back from the airport; will also need to follow up asap for specific further tests so I don't keep having these bizarre and severe medical episodes. I'm working on a medical financial aid application. Really exhausted from everything and it just keeps growing. Please fucking help.

Venmo: @ enimi / Cashapp: $stoat / PayPal.me/stoat / Wise: @ edenorin

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A commonly overlooked symptom of depression is anhedonia, the inability to feel joy or pleasure. The reason that it's easy to overlook is that it's easier to miss the absence of something that's not around all the time than it is to miss a symptom that causes active distress, such as feeling tired and miserable all the time.

Anhedonia is good at being a persistent undercurrent to your life. My aunt, who has major depressive disorder, related to me that she figured out that something was wrong when she looked at the daffodils she had planted blooming, and couldn't recognize the emotion that she felt when she looked at them. It had been long enough since she had felt happy that she lost the ability to recognize the emotion.

It's a particularly dangerous depressive symptom, because it robs you of the ability to feel those little spots of joy that keep a lot of people going, while not doing anything to impair your ability to function. If you don't know that this is a treatable symptom of depression, it's easy to assume that your ability to feel good is permanently broken, and decide to commit suicide because you don't want to live like that. It's not an irrational conclusion, but it is an uninformed one, and everyone deserves to have all the information when making a major decision.

This is what a lot of questionnaires are trying to look for when they ask about "loss of enjoyment". If you can't remember a loss of enjoyment because you can't remember enjoyment, then you probably have anhedonia. If you struggle to define how it is to feel "happy", "content", or "good", or how it feels when you feel those emotions, you probably have anhedonia. If you can't remember feeling any of those emotions for a week or more, you probably have anhedonia.

Symptoms commonly co-occurring with anhedonia are fatigue (often the cause), clear and thoughtful consideration of suicide, loss of desire to socialize or do activities that used to make you happy, and weight loss (due to lack of enjoyment of food).

This section is anecdotal. In what I have observed, anhedonia due to fatigue rarely responds well to depression treatment unless depression was causing the fatigue. If fatigue and anhedonia are co-occurring and are not both alleviated by depression treatment, consider other causes for the fatigue.

A couple notes that I forgot when I originally posted this:

It's also a common symptom of schizophrenia and schizoid personality disorder, but often doesn't respond to antipsychotics. In addition, in schizophrenia and schizoid personality disorder, anhedonia generally tends to "come and go", as opposed to depressive disorders, where when untreated, it often doesn't let up for months or years. This can make it more difficult to spot and treat than in depressive disorders.

ADHD can also have "come and go" anhedonia as a symptom, and ADHD medication has mixed results with alleviating it.

An early warning sign is if you've tried the "enrichment in your enclosure" by rolling out something new and fun or something you rarely do that generally brings you joy, and the result is an emotional reaction you can describe as "null".

I miss the pre-New 52 Tim and Jason dynamic so much. It was basically Jason beating the fuck out of Tim well being all "nothing personal kid I just hate everything about you, your existence and the fact you're breathing right now" and Tim spitting up blood going "what if your mother was a whore, kill yourself" and Jason just deciding right then and there that this kid is his favourite person. Then it just turned into a Tom and Jerry hunt across the city where Jason keeps hitting Tim with the "join me, be my robin" and Tim kicks him in the balls.

#look after Jason came back everyone fucking tiptoes around him #around his trauma the fact he died #the fact that he is (rightfully if a bit mislead) angry #and tim goes "I don't give a fuck you died do better" #and like of COURSE Jason likes that #likes that tim isn't someone who's afraid to speak his mind #who will tell him to shut up fuck off etc. #(tell him when he has gone to far) #not afraid to speak about Jasons trauma but not make that the ONLY thing about him #Jason is Jason and he's an asshole #yes he has trauma that defies him big time #but he's also more than that #and he's more than the kid that died #and Tim is an asshole too of course #but he also just recognizes this #reblog

– @deepwithintheabyss