Wish I was a late bronze age girl

I would have my homeland invaded by the sea peoples. I would be lain siege to by the sea peoples. My cities would be sacked by the sea peoples. I would make bronze tools and pottery. My shores would be invaded by the mysterious sea peoples. I would be mustering my armies to fend off the sea peoples.

[ID: Comment by @hedgewitchnecromancer reading "Go live at a cruise ship tourist port" /End ID]

I think it's cute how so many art movements are simply called "new art" to differentiate "not like the old stuff". Contemporary dance. New wave fashion. Pop (literally popular) music. Art Nouveau. Modernism. Postmodernism. Even terms starting with neo- (neo-classicism, neo-expressionism) all are just saying NEW ART. And yet all of these things are now distinctive styles of the past. It's kind of beautiful how humanity never stops outgrowing itself. Art is a state of matter that refuses to sit still, old as soon as it is new, original upon its thousandth performance, new forever so long as there is someone who has not yet seen it, and old the second the artist picks up their instrument again.

New new NEW art (14)(THIS ONE!).docx

The first rule of writing sci-fi is to actually familiarize yourself with the genre conventions so it's not just a fair to middling action movie that happens to be in space. The second rule of sci-fi is get freaky

It is simultaneously true that it’s best to give trans kids puberty blockers if they need them and that if you went through a first puberty you’re not doomed forever like both of these things are true

Kinda like how breast milk is the best case scenario for a baby but if you give them formula they’ll still be fine you know. Like it should always be possible for trans kids to get the care they need but if you didn’t transition as a kid you’re not doomed you’ll still get great results that you want

Like it’s probably better in many respects to transition before puberty but also it’s not too late to transition until you’re dead.

If the only thing stopping you from transitioning is that you didn’t transition as a kid then that’s not strong enough of a reason, bud. Come out when you’re ready but you can still transition very successfully at any time you want.

If you’re a teen in a situation that doesn’t let you medically transition whether because of your parents or because of the laws where you live, don’t lose heart. It sucks that closed minded adults are making you go through that but you’ll still make it there one day and it will be even more beautiful than you imagined.

Some day I'm going to run a trad fantasy dungeon crawler campaign where instead of unbroken ten-thousand-year dynasties, every time the player characters need to interact with the nobility, etc. I use a set of lookup tables to randomly generate the kingdom's current political situation. If the new results are irreconcilable with the old, there was a revolution while they were down in the dungeon and they didn't notice.

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pesident babas extremely popular flagship policy, ECONOMY IS GOOD, is going to prove hard to beat

[ID. Baba is You fan art in the game's pixelated style. Baba, a white nondescript creature with four legs, stands next to the words, "Baba Is Win, Baba Is Pesident". The words are written like the rules in-game. End ID.]

THE ONION OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE

Something that I have noticed is I know almost nobody my age that goes to a food pantry. I know people who regularly run out of money for food and in general have to eat an unsuitable diet because that’s what they can afford and they still don’t go to a food bank, im not sure if it’s because they’re embarrassed or maybe if you didn’t grow up going you don’t know much about it but if you’re financially struggling I really recommend it. And look into other options for food assistance too like community fridges and gardens and other programs that can assist you, where I live Salvation Army pays for an allotted amount of grocery delivery for low income people every month, in the summer farmers take excess produce to the library to be taken by anyone who needs it, etc. There are a LOT of resources for free food that you can look into especially if you are literally not eating because of your financial situation

Btw if you have dietary restrictions you can often let them know and in many cases they’ll prioritize certain items for you

hey where’s that post about how it’s important to be aware before recommending/calling suicide hotlines that They Will Call The Cops On You. i have it saved somewhere but i can’t find it & i want to reblog it today For No Particular Reason

note that Trans Lifeline doesn’t call the police on actively suicidal people so if you’re trans that can be a good resource! and if you’re Catholic, priests aren’t allowed to break the seal of the confessional for any reason, and things said in confession are exempt from all mandated reporting in most U.S. states (and in the ones where they aren’t exempt, they’re mandated reporters of child abuse but not of suicidality AFAICT—still, worth checking your state laws in more detail first, I don’t know the details for every state). you can also go to confession as a non-Catholic but idk how they’d handle that, I never went before converting

if you’re not trans or Catholic you might be out of luck—most mainstream suicide hotlines (including the Trevor project) allow calling the cops on you if you’re actively suicidal (although the line for when they do this varies from organization to organization and volunteer to volunteer— it’s overall fairly unlikely ime but it’s a risk). followers feel free to add Suicidality Resources That Won’t Call The Cops No Matter What if you have any

also i’m aware this is very America-centric (<- American who mostly knows American resources and laws, writing this bc of the flood of posts aimed at Americans in crisis due to the American election) but if anyone has details on how non-American suicide hotlines work or the level of risk of cop involvement or forced institutionalization for various crisis options in other countries feel free to add that as well

and I haven’t looked into it much but one of my uk followers says samaritans might be good for the UK!

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(header) Warm Lines that Don't Call the police (/end header)

More resources: InclusiveTherapists.com/crisis

Call Blackline: 800-604-5841, Centers BI&POC, LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens

Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860 (US), 877-330-6366 (Canada), Run by and for Trans People

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: 888-407-4515, Trained Peer Supporters

StrongHearts Native Helpline: 844-762-8483, Centering Native Americans & Alaska Natives

Thrive Lifeline: 313-662-8209, Trans-led and operated

LGBT National Help Center: 888-843-4564

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Underrated character trait: needs glasses. Does not wear glasses.

So many possibilities. Do they not have the means to get glasses? Are they too worried about how others will look at them with glasses? Other motivations for them not to wear something that they need?

Compilation of Mysterious Papyrus Things

Random Strange Facts:

Relationships:

Personality:

Quotes:

Links for additional reading/theories(most links to @batter-sempai, @papyrus-knows, and @queenofdragons6 posts and reblogs): Optimism does not make Papyrus naive Papyrus casually breaking laws of physics  Strange music (or lack of) in Papyrus’s room Brutal kind of guy screenshots Some disturbing connections Some suspicious screenshots Part 3 of a sans theory where the writer realizes Papyrus is ridiculously mysterious Chara and Papyrus similarities–they’re always smiling! Phone call and 4th wall suspicions Papyrus surprising cynicism Sans and Papyrus dynamic speculation Vague Gaster and Papyrus connection Papyrus’s skewed views on what is safe for kids… possible backstory connection? Another compilation of sketchy Papyrus-y things Insomnia and nightmares More on music and rooms Papyrus creeped out by echo flowers Papyrus and Annoying Dog interactions (there are a surprising amount) Sans and Papyrus dynamic speculation 2 Papyrus: treated like a child Papyrus: nasty words with a huge grin The fodder for many an amnesiac theory Papyrus is literally the skeleton in the closet Papyrus battle mechanics and minor Flowey connections The dude is lonely Theory: is Papyrus Gaster? More Papyrus fighting skill plus reality breaking phone call He’s a gentleman Papyrus doesn’t sleep Undertale Q&A/Papyrus’s favorite food Reference–How many lines each character has in the game Debunking Stupid Papyrus 1 – he knows what death is Debunking Stupid Papyrus 2 – the sink height. Strange, but workable Debunking Stupid Papyrus 3 – “solving” the horoscope Debunking Stupid Papyrus 4 – the lab Debunking Stupid Papyrus 5 – pet rock Debunking Stupid Papyrus 6 – spaghetti

Papyrus masterpost! :D

This makes me want to write a sequel for “Pavirus”, oh my gosh.

“ When Flowey attacks the group during the True Pacifist fight, he binds everyone with two vines, except Papyrus–who he binds with four. “

I got fucking chills omg..

Also. I keep forgetting it but:

“ Papyrus’s dialogue shakes on a consistent basis when no one else’s does “

This was one of the things I noticed when I first became suspicious of Papyrus, but I would like to point out that there’s two other characters who have shaking text like Papyrus’.

Undyne the Undying.

And Flowey, when he has absorbed the human souls before he turns into photoshop Flowey.

@forgettable-au

Funny that you mentioned me here because I literally reblogged this on my main account like 4 hours ago lol

You know what, I’m gonna share it around here too, because you all need to know about the weird Papyrus things to understand some of the things I’m doing with this AU hehe

Spreading the knowledge everywhere, I need more people to be crazy about Papyrus

I had a dream that I started seeing posts on tumblr about the "the pool water update." It was some new change to the site, being rolled out gradually, that people mostly didn't like.

When I got the pool water update, it turned out that when you opened up tumblr it would fill the room you were in with chlorinated water, up to the level of half an inch below your power outlets.

So to use tumblr you had to hold still, because too much movement would cause ripples that would rise to the outlets and electrify the water and kill you.

I had mixed feelings about the update. I got some pool noodles and it was nice to float around my bedroom whenever I checked tumblr. There was a trend called 'tranquilityposting' that I enjoyed. So not all bad.

There were a lot of blaze posts on dream-tumblr selling amulets that nullify electricity damage. Also, @max1461 claimed to have developed a 'posting technique that causes uncontrollable thrashing in 60% of tumblr users,' and was demanding a cash ransom to not use it

deltarune fans if undertale came out in chapters:

no no you don't get it the echo flowey theory is terrible. papyrus and flowey friendship truthers only have that sans conversation highlighting "flower" in yellow as evidence FOR the theory, and literally everything else AGAINST it. first of all, it just doesn't make sense. flowey lives in the RUINS, and, quote, "unless you're a ghost or can burrow under the door," you can't get through. flowey CANNOT have talked to papyrus. (and, no, the glitch where he randomly pops up behind you when you exit a room doesn't count as him "leaving the ruins".) he was a JOKE character, okay. just because he talks after the toriel fight doesn't mean he's actually going to matter at all. either way, what, is napstablook the queen now just because they can go in and out of the ruins? (that was a joke. if you're a ruins queen truther you're actually stupid. the only reason people think the queen could be in the ruins is because they like the toriel is asriel's ghost theory but don't like the logical inconsistencies.) is it so hard to realize that undyne is very OBVIOUSLY being set up as the papyrus echo flower??? (see: the flower giving papyrus flattery.) either that or nice cream guy, which i personally don't like but unfortunately makes a lot of sense. (see: flattery again.) literally i don't CARE that papyrus calls the echo flower "flowery" that isn't FLOWEY it's FLOWERY. STRAIGHT UP A SEPARATE NAME ENTIRELY. flowey is SUCH a red herring you people are so stupidddd

Yeah, if undertale released in chapters it would probably result in similarly frustrating arguments about theories like in deltarune.

Heck, even them being aware of Asriel existing is technically accurate bc the room you sleep in in the ruins is called Asriel’s Room in the code so people would definitely be arguing about that even though Asriel isn’t brought up in-game until New Home. People would definitely know he exists but they’d probably have much less to go off of. They’d argue about his role and how significant he even really is.

Another thing i could see people arguing about if Undertale only had like 2 chapters out and Chapter 2 ended right between Snowdin and Waterfall is the whole thing with the game never really making it explicit that “Asgore” and “Mr. Dreemurr” are the same person at this point (Asgore’s full name is only really revealed during Undyne’s speech) especially since Toriel and Papyrus describe them in two absolutely different ways. There’d probably even be a camp of people who think that “The queen” mentioned by the shopkeeper, “King Dreemurr”, “Asgore”, and “Toriel” are four entirely separate characters. There might be one or two theories theorizing that Flowey is somehow connected with the king and queen due to his “Ill be the prince of this world’s future.” line, but who knows.

Gaster arguments would (possibly?) still happen because the Wrong Number song and the Sound Test fun events are both located during the Snowdin section of Undertale, although I think fun events in general were added later on in the games development so maybe not. And even if they were there the arguments would probably be less about his role or relevance and more about “who even is this guy” since the Gaster followers wouldn’t really even be there to provide context.

I think there’d also be a lot of speculation about Undyne just in general and what kind of character she is. (Although maybe not, considering how little speculation we ever got about Queen before Chapter 2 released, everyone would probably come to a consensus on what they think Undyne is like and settle on that.) There’s probably be speculation on Asgore’s motives for wanting to kill humans as well.

But yeah a significant amount of theories would definitely be way off the mark for a lot of reasons that a lot of deltarune theories are probably way off the mark.

(But even then there was that one person who managed to predict the nature of Toriel and Asgore’s relation to each-other based solely on the name of Asriel’s room in the 2013 Undertale demo, which is impressive.)

hey guys we can all agree its like, incredibly sad and fucked up when a trans man feels like he has to apologize for being a man, right. like even jokingly. it’s very concerning that people have created an environment where a trans person is expected to be apologetic about their identity, right.

Hey, if you need digital hugs, come tell me. I have infinite.