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guys WE CAN DO THIS

i did my part 🫡

i did my part 🫡

He could defeat her.

sord...........

oh reigen, we’re really in it now

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

here's some advice for people new to tumblr i haven't seen around our parts yet... a very, very common current scam on this site to get some money out of folks is as follows:

You receive a message like the below, asking for a signal boost for a donation post pinned on their page; this is almost always for a pet.

You check their page and it all looks legit. They have an icon/pfp, a bunch of reblogs rather than an empty blog, the pinned post has candid cat/dog/etc photos that look convincing, and there's a link to a normal looking gofundme in a lot of cases, with similarly realistic photos. They didn't even ask you to publish the ask specifically, they just want you to consider reblogging.

…but if you scroll down far enough, it turns out there's only like a week worth of random reblogs, no real other posts and no interaction with anyone else on the site. Which isn't in and of itself an issue- everyone joins Tumblr at SOME point- but maybe a red flag?

Inevitably, when you reverse image search the pet photos, they were nabbed off instagram or facebook or twitter or something. It's a scam.

I was getting 2-3 of these a week at one point, and all of them were convincing, probably because I doubt any of them were bots. this is a really common scam but not nearly as easily spotted as obviously automated phishing attempts; don't publish or donate to these. they're hoping your sense of sympathy, generosity and even guilt will override your suspicion at a rando asking you for money. delete 'em.

i just bring this up because i'm seeing a couple people in tf fandom getting these asks and going 'hey, signal boost!!!'' and while it's a very kind impulse... yeah, it's overwhelmingly scams, folks. sorry.

found my stylophone so obviously had to play this :p

TIL that the English word “Lord” in the sense of the head of an estate comes from an Old English word of Germanic origins, hlāfweard, later hlāford, later lord. 

Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread. 

HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI. 

Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual. 

Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online. 

Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.  

Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.  

if you replace random letters in a word with numbers or symbols, this does not ‘protect people from being triggered’

if someone is triggered by the word ‘rape’, seeing ‘r@p3′ is not going to somehow evade their trauma responses and make them completely fine with the concept. they still know what fucking word that is.

you have done literally nothing except make your text annoying to look at, REALLY annoying to hear from a screenreader/text-to-speech program, and made it difficult-to-impossible for people who genuinely are For Real Triggered just by seeing certain words or concepts under discussion, no matter how vague, that they have to blacklist and avoid it, because now they have to try to guess every fucking homestuck 1337$P3@K ass alternate spelling you can come up with

please stop doing this. it is so stupid. think about it for three seconds and realize that seeing a word without the vowels in it is not going to prevent someone from comprehending the meaning of the word if the word itself is a trigger, and instead just use the fucking word so they can blacklist it. thank you. this has been a psa.

Timelapse of acorn growth into a small oak in six months

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

you've been hit by

WARNING: EXTREME WHEEKING CAUGHT ON TAPE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

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literally my favorite type of tweet

my three beautiful daughters doric ionic and corinthian

Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

the fine folks in my patreon discord did NOT want me to have an easy time drawing this dragon

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

Quick Tip

If you get an ask to reblog someones pinned post, check the following with timestamps on their blog:

First reblog

Pinned post

Overall posts

If the following is true, then you've likely found a scam:

Blog is a week old/hours old

No recent updates after pinned

Posts reblogged seconds apart

Replies turned off on post

Ask box closed

If replies are open, some are removed

Alternatively, you can tumblr search to locate any existing warnings as well since these blogs spam asks. Feel free to check my blog as I try my best to archive these scam blogs and their posts.

If your still unsure, you can also use these links

Pet donation scams

Donation scams

Scam asks

Finally, a community day for one of my favorite Gen5 Pokémon!

It will be held Oct15 from 2pm to 5pm local time. Evolving it into Chandelure during this period gives it the Charged Attack, Poltergeist.

Event bonuses are:

3x XP

2x Candy for catching Pokémon

2x chance for Trainers Lv31 and over to get Candy XL from catching Pokémon

3hr Lure Modules

Snapshot encounters with Litwick

One additional special trade (You can make 2 that day)

Trades will require 50% less Stardust

I'm going to Badwill. The evil thrift store.