Here's an article on it from MIT news, if anyone would like to read further!

@torchflies

staying close w people long distance really is about the mundane stuff. i get texts like “made quesadillas” “spilled mop water all over the floor :(” “lady on the bus has not one not two but three tiny dogs in her purse” andits like wow. i love you more than words can express

happy 100k to the realest post ive ever made

From The Helsinki Affair, by Anna Pitoniak:

“One day, as he was texting her about the shortstop the Yankees had just traded, he thought: Why am I boring her with this? She doesn’t care about the Yankees. And then he thought: I’m telling her this because I love her.”

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

Art vs STEM is a lie created to stop us from turning on the real enemy: business and economics

Arts vs STEM is a lie, the computer that put us on the moon was a loom of woven wires, our space suits were made by hand sewing, we need chemistry to mix paint and we need biology to raise the sheep who make the wool we spin into yarn and crochet or knit or weave and the world is beautiful

Reblogging as a science enthusiast and an artist

so uh,, i made a ship bingo,,,

w/o colour under cut

@pscentral event 16: pride colors ↳ Keeley Jones + bisexual colors

I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

Art thieves already hate it:

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

Sushi Studios on Instagram / Etsy

underrated trope: “i’ve lost my memory and idk who you are but i just have this feeling that i’m supposed to trust you”

This - but the feeling is absolutely, completely, 100% wrong.

Person 1: “I don’t know what it is about you…I just know that I can trust you.”

Person 2, their actual, literal worst enemy: “Excuse me, what?”

Cue enemies to friends to lovers speedrun.

As much as I adore these two, Steve and Nat will always be my favorite brother-sister pair.

Anyway

Tony and Natasha having inside jokes that leave the Avengers confused

Natasha asking Tony for relationship advice because she doesn’t know how to be in a proper relationship

Tony getting Natasha a kitten for her birthday

Natasha and Tony going shopping together

Tony and Natasha knowing deep dark secrets about each other and trust each other with them

Natasha and Tony having gossip night with wine

Tony and Natasha watch ballet and project runway together

Natasha knowing the different meanings of Tony’s body language and tries to plan her day around it when it’s obvious to her that he’s sick/sad/pissed off

Natasha teaching Tony how to use the washing machine and where dishes go in the dish washer

They have a game like hide and seek but with a spy twist

Natasha and Tony being the brother and sister of the avengers

send me a pairing and one of these and i'll write a mini fic

inspired by this

24. things you said when we were alone 25. things you said in front of other people 26. things you said in writing 27. things you said through a closed door 28. things you said in the dark 29. things you said in the rain 30. things I wish you’d said 31. things you said right before goodbye 32. things you said right after hello 33. things you said from across the room 34. things you whispered in my ear 35. things you said at the top of your lungs 36. things you said but didn’t mean 37. things you said through someone else 38. things you said when I was (you were) sick 39. things you forgot to say 40. things you interrupted me to say

headcanon #35

Tony never filled in the hole that the Hulk made (with Loki’s skull) in the floor of his penthouse. He instead glassed over it and installed a plaque next to it that reads:

“’Smash’, by Hulk”.

Bruce was embarrassed at first, but Tony’s acceptance of the Hulk really helped him to come out of his shell and embrace his ‘other half’ later on.

Tony Stark has been on Sesame Street

Tony hates public appearances, they’re all fake pr crap but SESAME STREET?! 

Sesame Street didn’t think they’d get him but it wouldn’t hurt to ask, right?

Tony showed up beaming, he was so fucking happy. He dropped them enough money to run for a year.

He loves Sesame Street. He loves Bill Nye. He plays a recurring role as himself on Cyber Chase.

He appears for free on any kids’ science show that will have him because he knows that will boost their ratings and get kids to watch.

Tony donates to underfunded schools. 

Tony unironically judges science fairs.

TONY LOVES SCIENCE AND WANTS EVERYONE ELSE TO LOVE IT TOO

so when Wakanda opens it’s borders? When he meets Shuri?

He pulls her aside and says ‘I know this tv show that you should be on. They’ll love you there.’

@allofthefeelings

the tags, though

#Sesame Street

#Avengers

#Tony Stark

#Okay but please also consider:

#Stark Industries producing educational videos

#starring Tony Stark and a bunch of puppets and explosions

#there is an archive of outtakes with Tony talking shit to the puppets and them giving as good as they get

#but the parts that they share with the public are hilarious but wholesome

#like wholesome enough to be appealing to young kids

#but weird enough to also be appealing to stoners

#Pepper tried to steer him in the direction of educational but you can actually SEE when she said fuck it

#it’s the year Tony and the puppets learn about helium

#and they end up making Tony a jacket of balloons that lifts him six inches off the floor

#seven weeks after they film that he ends up in Afghanistan and thinks about what it would mean to fly

#anyway the next year Tony shows up with ideas and Pepper doesn’t say a word against them

Official cover of Shuri #1, by Sam Spratt. Out this October! #BlackPanther

#can people stop hiring paul bettany to be ice cold and whispery  #and hire him again to be A HYPER CON ARTIST STAND-UP EMCEE AGAIN  #pls and thnk u

I will also accept fire-eater.