So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.

Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.

wow. really hope this isn't actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn't facebook, you don't need to know people before following them

You DO need to post something on your own blog first, though. Otherwise, people you try to follow will think you're a bot & block you.

If your blog looks like this, you look like a bot:

Just post something. Anything. PLEASE. Even if it's a simple text post saying "I SWEAR I'M NOT A BOT 😅"

You don't want to get mistaken for a bot! Most follow-bots don't do anything but lurk (not sure what the point of them is tbh), but I've heard some will wait a couple weeks & then spam all their followed pages' inboxes with porn. So I block them & report as spam. 🤷‍♀️

FYI, I also block-and-report all strangers DM'ing me to ask for money. Stop that. It's rude & you look like a spam bot.

UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.

To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.

The counter-argument: Not having UBI is in the interests of those in power who want to do anything to the people they are in power over in order to remain in power.

If the greed of the few should come before the need of the many.

Not-so-friendly reminder that everyone is easily 1 second away from needing a resource like this.

DO NOT think you are above the necessity for something like UBI, ESPECIALLY in the US. You could get into an accident or have a sudden health issue and now whatever money you had saved is forfeit.

The only people who are “above” this are the people standing in the way of letting UBI become a thing.

i am filled with unimaginable fucking rage at the people of the US right now. this is going to have ramifications accross the next few decades if not centuries.

to everyone who encouraged not voting as a form of political activism, i hope you're happy with the result. fuck every last one of you.

to everyone that spread conspiracy theories, or said the two parties were the same: fuck you. you have led to the deaths of human beings with your decisions, all over the world. sit with that fact, i hope you feel any proportion of the guilt you should.

You think THATS a denim jacket?

Surely you

That punchline hit me like a sack of wet mice

Like a sack of what

IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS POST

Danny goes to a new School

So! When Danny got expelled from his High School, it wasn't really a big Suprise. He had missed for too many days or just walked out in the middle of Class, and his grades were lower than anyone else in the school. It was just a matter of time really.

When confronted by his Parents, he had just claimed that it was the constant ghost attacks getting to him (not a total lie) and that he was sorry.

Well, his parents tried to help.

After hearing about his supposed Fear of Ghosts, they decided that it was a good idea for him to go to school somewhere outside of Amity Park, so he could focus on his Schoolwork and not be distracted by the constant Attacks.

Of course no School wanted to accept a problem student like Danny, so they were forced to look into alternative schools to find one that would accept him. And they did! So they had Danny pack his bags, promise to call regularly, and shipped him off to his new School.

HIVE Academy.

The Titans/Heroes when they find out WHY he's going there. (Aka. Small Town Hero was kicked out of School for missing classes.)

*Titans:* You don't have to go there, there's this better School. And you don't even have to worry about class schedules, the adult heroes will help you figure that out.

*Danny wondering where they were when he got his powers/BEFORE he was expelled:*

I'm good here, thanks.

Danny: Would these be the same heroes that are obligated by government law to turn me over to be vivisected?

The Titans: They fucking WHAT 👀

Robin: That violates, like, ALL of the meta protection laws!

Danny: Not if you're dead and/or affected by ectoplasm 😁

Cyborg: Ectoplasm?! Ghosts aren't real!

Danny: I've heard the Evil Government Scientists call it "Lazarus water", too

Robin: 👀👀👀👀

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I got all of these pins! They're very cute.

@electricmeatorchestra presumably, if someone were using a digital menstrual calendar and realized that (1) they were pregnant, (2) they wished to terminate said pregnancy, and (3) they lived in a state where this was not allowed (as, for example, under a law where this would always be prosecuted as fetal homicide), this data could and WOULD be pulled for the sake of their prosecution. the data being unreliable, on the other hand, would serve to the defendant's defense through the impeachment/unreliability of the data itself. for lack of a more eloquent way of putting it, if you have to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt, a history of people fucking with the data DEFINITELY casts some doubt on this lynchpin evidence, does it not?

took me 8 months and very approx 380m of embroidery floss, and I’m now finished. going to have it framed soon :)

simply in awe of this jaw dropping insane amount of perseverance

it’s beautiful

It's been an unlucky week, in a really rough year. But remember; it's not luck that makes you a hero, it's what you do.

lindt is being sued in a class action in the united states because they are one of MANY brands of chocolate that tested high for heavy metals. and this is despite lindt claiming their chocolate is "expertly crafted with the finest ingredients". no recall was issued after the tests came out. lead and cadmium can fuck the body over BAD.

lindt's genius defense is that they are going to stop saying the whole thing about being expertly crafted with the finest ingredients, so nobody can complain about the heavy metals in their chocolate anymore! and that makes it okay. source: trust me bro

(now please drop the lawsuit thanks)

consumer reports test results of a bunch of different chocolate brands <- original report being referenced

even more chocolate brands that were tested for heavy metals

imagine this. you advertise yourself as "the coolest dude around". your whole persona is being "cool" and "chill". and then one day, you burn someone's house down on purpose. they inevitably sue the shit out of you. and your defense is that you will stop calling yourself "cool" or "chill" so nobody can reasonably expect that you will not set things on fire, because fire is hot, which is the opposite of cool and chill. and therefore everything is fine now and nobody can be mad at you anymore.

that is lindt's defense here.

So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they're called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS.

They have concluded, I think, that it's some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I'm 90% sure I'm going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.

Of course it's a prey animal it fucking eats GRASS

While I can’t fault your reasoning on robot taxonomy, apparently we’re both wrong:  Arwen, as much as she is a high-prey-drive animal, is foremost, a herding dog, and has decided that the Lawn Roomba is a SHEEP.

What happened is the lawn roomba belongs to the guy that does most of the maintainence on the neighborhood park, and he had it out grazing on a different section of lawn when my parents came down for a walk and Arwen was siezed by 200 years worth fo Kelpie Instincts, rolled out of her Harness and proceded to herd the shit out of this tiny, oblivious robot.  

Everything was on display- mock-stalking, intimidating eye contact, barking, running in front of it to try to get it to balk, the scariest barking she can muster (which is actually.  pretty scary if you’re not used to Loud Dogs), looking back at my parents for directions.  or rather, looking at my Mom while Dad tried unsuccessuflly to capture her.

After about ten minutes they realized she wasn’t biting it, and decided to let her play Sheep Simulator 5000 for a while. She eventually figured out that 

Conent that this was apparently some kind of blind, deaf and particularly stupid sheep, she could now manage the robot by smacking it if it got too close to the creek bed or fence for her liking, and was eventually content to sit on the highest point of the field and Supervise (TM) it.

“Hey.” Said Roger, owner of the robot. “Do you think if I put the ramp down she’ll herd it into the back of my pickup?”

Arwen was mostly asleep in the afternoon sun as roger put the ramp down but woke right up when mom Whistled, then pointed at the truck.  She immediately went after the robot and did something that wouldn’t have occured to me, an allegedly more intelligent being: the robot is roughly triangular, and when it hits an obstacle, will change direction so that one of its other sides (rather than points) is now the ‘front’.  So to get it to move in a straight line in the direction she wanted, Arwen would smack the two sides of the robot that she didn’t want it to go in in quick sucession, and got it across the field, over a small hill and up the ramp as fast as it’s clumsy little wheels could go.

“I didn’t know you had a fully-trained sheepdog!” Said Roger

“Me either.” said Mom.

So Arwen now has a Semi-Weekly Appointment to play with Sheepbot.

I just saw a completely different one of your posts that happened to mention Arwen and my brain went "could it be the Arwen with the lawn roomba friend?!" and then spent 10 minutes finding this.

I had only seen screenshots and have literally retold this story to friends bc it's just so wholesome, so this is a very fun moment for me lol

I am the destroyer of BIONICLE

Do not dare cross me

BIONICLE: "Hello, I'm Takua. I felt aimless and lost in life, constantly feeling like an "other" in my society for reasons I couldn't quite explain. It turns out that I had to go on a journey of radical self-discovery that involved me repeatedly refusing an identity I felt didn't belong to me because it felt like too heavy a burden for someone as wrong as me, as well as me coming face to face with the embodiment of the darkness inside all of us, who urged me to give up the journey. In the end I accepted who I was and underwent a transformation which made me different from those around me, yet brought me into a new community of others like me, and I found within myself the strength to face the burdens that came with that new identity, finally facing my demons."

Also BIONICLE: "We, the former Toa Metru, also underwent radical transformations, ones that caused the government and the police to hunt us and view us as criminals, and brought about strange new emotions and feelings we didn't know how to process. Through it all we worried that there was something wrong with us, that god had made some mistake. In the end we realized that god was in fact on our side, and that there was nothing inherently wrong with us."

Also also BIONICLE: "Gender is inherently arbitrary, and even though they are literally hard-coded to follow gender roles and archetypes, the Matoran break said roles and archetypes all the time. As do other species like the Vortixx, who were quite literally designed as a species of nurses, with all the gendered tropes that implies, only to instead develop into a ruthless matriarchal society of arms dealers. Almost as if ideals of gender don't apply. Ga-matoran are were even made to be women because of the idea that water is inherently gentle and caring and feminine, but not only do characters like Dalu, Hahli "The Barbarian", Helryx, and Tuyet show that this is false, Gali both speaks of and shows that water can be just as destructive and forceful as any other element. That's not even going into matoran of other elements who act in ways we would consider "feminine", or characters like Tamaru, who actively show traits one would expect of another element."

This guy: "wHy WoUlD yOu PuT tRaNs ShiT In MY BiOnIcLe!?"

Ugh fuck me

All I can think about is library AUs

Gonna write up some stuff for several things

Because I’m having writers block on OFNE so here we go

Keep reading

Good lord it’s the original idea for the bionicle college library AU. Why the fuck was Matau in IT.

Forget that, why is Pohatu studying medicine. Buddy if you hate studying this is probably not the field for you lmao.

… wait, I’m in no position to talk. I gave Iruini a medical degree.

Best I can figure is I was trying to put him into sports medicine or something but yeah i could’ve picked literally anything and chose medicine. Why.

Also the fact that Pohatu and Kopaka are already dating kills me. Where’s the pining

I do love that Vakama is the one giving romantic advice. He’s perhaps not the most qualified in that area. It’s very in character that he wants to help though Also I presume you put Onewa on cataloguing mostly to torture him.

Cataloging probably keeps Onewa from scaring off the library patrons, so 🤷‍♀️

Foolish boy. Don’t you know anything about Fantasia? It’s the world of human fantasy. Every part… Every creature of it is, a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.

THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984)

i'm genuinely having so much fun writing a jock protagonist. can't believe i never tried this before. all these years i've been limiting myself needlessly

i've created an extremely elaborate magic system based on linear algebra and not once does the narrator ever explain how it works. he doesn't know. he doesn't care. that's nerd shit. he is going on a lad's night out and if you try to tell him anything about equations he'll put his fingers in his ears and go "lalalala"

i feel it's important to add that my other protagonist is an academic and does know how the magic system works, but he doesn't get a POV chapter until halfway through the story. which means that over the course of 40,000 words we gradually build up a solid working idea of this world and its laws, as understood by Jock Protagonist - and then it switches to Nerd Protagonist, who's like, "just so we're clear, he was wrong about basically all of that."

This is genius