I legit wrote up a whole thing about dwarf beards and the different types of braids (they have three distinct genders and some smaller variations of non-trinary genders that are less common but still recognized) and how the braids indicate like a whole host of things beyond gender including marital status, preferences of partner, and whether or not they wish to raise children with a potential mate, and it was awesome but then something happened and i lost it and i will be forever sad.
Conversely, elves did not know what A Gender fucking was until they met humans. They only have one pronoun, and it causes a lot of confusion to outsiders. This is why it’s hard to tell the difference between male and female elves – they don’t give a shit about separating the two.
This is so so cool. I love elves just, , not knowing what a gender is.
humans, meeting elves for the first time: are you… man or woman?
elf: i am elf?
human: no i mean what gender are you
elf: *gesturing wildly to themselves* elf???? ELF??
the most obnoxious part of the holiday season is commercials that try to sound like ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas and have a dinky xylophone playing in the background while the narrator tells you in rhyme to buy a Ford
it’s native american heritage month in the us, and there’s been a lot abt finding out abt and researching the ppl who’s land you’re occupying, which is rly important, but how abt you take the next step and buy some indigenous-made products?
here is the link to beyond buckskin’s buy native list, which lists companies and etsy stores owned by indigenous ppl on turtle island.
it’s great to learn abt the past and all, but it’s incredibly important that you also make sure to support living indigenous ppl, not just during november, but every other month of the year as well.
For those unaware because staff isn’t saying it
Tumblr was deemed too full of inappropriate content to be allowed to be downloaded from the app store.
It has this “inappropriate” problem because of rampant porn ad bot accounts. The old solutions were bots to detect image sets with nsfw content, the automatically enabled safe mode, tag filtering for mobile, and wide takedowns of nsfw bots based on words used (that’s why their messages are full of numbers and symbols, to evade this)
Tumblr released their own bot supposedly capable of wiping the ad bots, but it’s taking down many popular blogs, possibly due to sheer amounts of posting or sheer amounts of ad bots in their notes. This bot was likely rushed to be put out.
You are more likely to be accidentally flagged if you post external links, as well. If your acct is taken down you CAN get it back, but it’s a pain. E-mail tumblr support for help with this. It takes down side blogs with the main ones.
I’ll be halting posts for about a week or until this problem is fixed.
Seeing soft clothes in a store
brain: touch it
me: no
brain: you must touch it
me: okay
‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
– John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
The fermata suggests the indicated notation (in this case, a rest) is to continue at the discretion of the conductor. When the chosen conductor arrives, Alfred Schnittke will rise again.
Normally I don’t like bringing this up, but: Tumblr is making it increasingly difficult for writers and artists to get their posts to show up in tags and searches, meaning that our fics and art are being exposed to fewer people.
Yes, it’s still possible to get posts to show up, but in the case of the search function, it’s only if they have no links – not even links to other Tumblr posts. For people like me who include links to other chapters in my fic so readers can get caught up on chapters they might miss, this is a huge problem. I basically have no choice but to include those links, or else I would make things massively inconvenient for my readers.
So why am I telling everyone this? Because this means reblogs are becoming more and more important to creators. With posts so difficult to find in searches and tags, reblogs are one of the few other ways for people to find new artists or writers.
You’re under no obligation to reblog my stuff, of course, but I want to put it out there why reblogs are so important to those of us who write/draw/create content.
(Also: While I’ve personally verified the stuff that’s going on with searches, I have no clue what’s going on with tags. Some of my stuff is showing up there, some isn’t, seemingly with little correlation to the links included. So tags might not be quite as strict, but they do seem to be less consistent.)
I’m genuinely not trying to guilt anyone into reblogging my shit with this, but it’s still bizarre and awful.
Parking sensor via Shitty_Car_Mods
if anyone on this website even vaguely implies that this car is shitty i’ll rip the shingles off of the roof of your house. every last one. Look at the chickens they have little bowties and everything
Stop making fun of people’s jobs. It doesn’t matter if someone is the ceo of a business company, doctor, fry cook, retail worker, janitor, teacher, whatever. They’re doing what they gotta to to support themselves, and it’s none of your business.
i agree with almost everything in this post except i will absolutely and relentlessly make fun of CEOs
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