#and it fucking worked

[kyriathanatos]

I'M FINALLY A TRUE HELLDIVER!!!

#100%'d #Helldivers 2 #I'm so proud #the way we got the final achievement was for moonlily to melee me as i jumped #and it fucking worked

[orangechickenpillow]

I love how Ryan thought "What do I hate more than anything? Ghost hunting in scary places" and then he saw Shane and was like "that guy thinks ghosts are baloney and won't shut up about it" and then he.... decided to make a ghost hunting show with those ingredients

#and it fucking worked #and now theyre the best ghost hunters in the world #and its been almost a decade and they havent stopped #what are the odds #bfu #buzzfeed unsolved #buzzfeed unsolved supernatural #bun #shane and ryan #shane madej #ryan bergara #the ghoul boys #watcher entertainment #ghost files

[magicfootballstuff]

you’ve gotta laugh because everybody’s been asking how arsenal are gonna give all their attacking players game time and speculating what the best combination of attackers will be but i don’t think anybody could’ve predicted that the answer would be for jonas to just play all of them at the same time like he did in the last 15 mins of today’s game

#our defence ain’t it so he subbed them all off and replaced them with forwards #and it fucking worked #arsenal wfc

[qulizalfos]

redditors watching byler tumblr invade their website to vote against mileven on a poll

#byler #invasionofredditgate #mike wheeler #will byers #and it fucking WORKED

[ssaseaprince]

The fact that I regularly rely on the thought "if Hannibal Lecter can do it, so can I" as motivation may be a bit concerning, but it works, so that's all that matters.

If that unhinged little gay man can become a doctor, so can I.

#obviously not in regards the crimes and cannibalism #but when i was getting my emt liscense and freaking the fuck out about if i was smart enough for it #this is literally told myself #and it fucking worked #i passed my exam the first try #this mindset is going to get me through premed i swear #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal nbc

[its-not-a-pen]

#HI. it's me. im guy #romance of the three kingdoms #pour one out to zhang fei for doing the “tie branches to horse tails” + bluff move properly #this is literally so funny plot-wise. zhang fei is set up as this brick ham who solves every problem with his fists. #vs cao cao. chinese moriarty. warrior-poet who edited the Sun Tsu's Art of War. his name is synonymous with the devil. #this brick ham fucking COUNTER-COUNTER-STRATEGY'D the king of counter strategy. he had literally 20 men. #and he PSYCHED HIM OUT by making him believe there was an ambush. #a few years later zhuge liang would do the exact same thing with sima yi (same war btw) #BY OPENING THE CITY GATES AND PRETENDING THEY HAD AN AMBUSH #team shu han literally went: ok team cao wei is a bunch of neurotic overthinkers. we got the power of friendship and psychological warfare #they can't predict our strategy if we have no strategy! GO TEAM GO! PUT SCARECROWS IN THE BOATS AND A DEAD GUY IN COMMAND! #AND IT FUCKING WORKED

[no-schedule-crepescule]

Goal: Make everybody jealous of my sense of fashion

Sense of Fashion: A single, massive, blanket sized hoodie

#And it fucking worked

[m4gp13]

Kronos getting Luke to headline the army is like when studios get one really famous actor on their cast that they put in all the promotional material to get an audience in even if the character is just shoehorned into a fringe role.

#percy jackson #pjo #luke castellan #he was the army's pinup boy #and it fucking worked

[wingsof-fire]

and i doubted my own power? for what?

#i did my first hex #which i don’t take lightly #and it fucking worked #baneful magic #witchcraft #fire witch

[mychlapci]

my favourite thing about g1 is how none of the autobots give a rats ass about how dangerous their battles are for the humans that tag along. do u think they just never bothered to really learn how humans work besides the obvious so they assume that while small and squishy they're still as durable as cybertronians. or are they like a fun passive uncle going "eh they can take care of themselves im sure its fine" and carry on shooting at each other without a care

#like. in tfp the bots are constantly trying so hard to stop the humans from coming along on missions #but in g1 spike was out there throwing rocks and shit at the decepticon high command willy nilly #and it fucking worked #g1 autobots were cool uncles who let you do whatever you want as long as it's fun #they're enablers for sure #sorry ive been watching g1 lately. gotta talk about it #i cant fucking believe spike is out there disarming feared warlords with rocks. he's really making a name for humanity isnt he #transformers

[sunflowermp4]

KENSTEW WARRIORS RIIIIIIIIISE

#HE PLAYED THE FRIEND CARD #AND IT FUCKING WORKED

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

#spilled ink #warm up #“why did u tag it warm up” bc i wrote it off the cuff while drinkin coffee lol #btw the 30 dollar buy in for the dog walking is bc they pay the organizer a small pittance so she can #run fb ads and stuff and like she does put in a lot of work i don't mind paying her #but that's exactly what im fucking talking about like. #ppl can't afford to volunteer their time anymore and we all understand it!!! everything costs money for everyone! #like we didn't have to use to say ''do you mind paying me back for the stuff we ate'' #we used to be able to afford to feed our friends once in a while!!!

[haroldhighballjordan]

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.

#the best part of all is that I also knew the ex boyfriend because he worked at this place my friend was the manager of #and I texted my friend like ‘yo have you heard about this cat situation’ #and she was like ‘I swear to god if one more person asks me about this fucking cat’ #it was the drama of the century #the whole city was up in arms over this cat

[8pxl]

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

#ai #tumblr ai #midjourney #openai #protect your creative efforts and don’t let them profit off your work!! #fuck tumblr they specifically said months ago they’d NEVER sell user data yet here we are #AND after the ceo has been harassing trans users like wtf is this fucking site becoming #tumblr news #tumblr #tumblr update #anti ai #support human artists

[thatrandomblogsays]

Annabeth: I, a child, had to earn Thalia’s love, that’s how the world works! I have to earn my moms love. Love is transactional, you gotta be worthy of it first silly :)

Percy, listening to this on the train

#STOP TRAUMATIZING THIS CHILD PLEASE #this is what it’s like when you were raised in a loving home and you find out your friend wasn’t #but they don’t know they weren’t #so you’re like um hey that’s fucked up and sometimes a crime? #you tell them parents are supposed to love you as is without earning it and they don’t believe you #you can hear the therapy bill racking up #annabeth chase #Percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo series #pjo tv show #mine #adding on to my tags because some people are debating if that’s how love works #love is meant to be a mutual exchange and something that grows over time between two people as their bond grows #whereas how Annabeth says it #in my opinion at least #she had to do XY and Z to be worthy of thalias love before receiving it #like with her mother #she has to be amazing before Athena is proud of her #vs Athena being proud of her just for being her daughter #that being said I’m not hating on a traumatized child having potentially negative and toxic patterns #more pointing out the comedy of the scene from Percy’s perspective who has a good grasp on healthy vs unhealthy relationships

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

#i think its cute #they took the mars rover approach #humanizing the space craft making it cute making us (me) project emotions onto it #the soviets also used imagery of laika in propaganda a lot #which is pretty fucked up imo #but if i grew up in the soviet union that shit wouldve definetly worked on me lmao #the narrative of a heroic little dog going to space and being honored by the whole country #as cruely wrong as it is its very appealing #the soviets knew what they were doing man they didnt reveal how laika really died until like. the 2000s #bc they knew people really cared about that dog #they liked the narrative around her