#confuse don't abuse

[ilovehumanssosomuch]

Shout out to Tumblr for finding the sweet spot of "confuse, don't abuse" prank for all of us this April 1st. We shall boop each other just to show that we can!

Also getting a badge for booping someone for the first time is pretty fun too

#boop #i love humans so so much #confuse don't abuse

[ssshh-im-a-secret]

One of my favorite ways to confuse people is by telling them time.

Except, instead of going off intervals of 5's, 10's, 15's, or 30's, I go off dozens. Because, fun fact, an hour is 5 dozen minutes. And people hate it when I do this.

#time #hilarious #funny #relatable? #prank #confuse don't abuse #lol #ways to annoy people #half an hour is 2 and a half dozen minutes #please try this #I need to know how people react #funny pranks #prank ideas #prank everyone

[shittyarsonist]

i was given the responsibility to write the quote of the day on the whiteboard and my classmates made fun of my handwriting so now i strive to mildly inconvenience them by either writing quotes in latin or sanskrit or traumatising the icse students by quoting shylock from mov

"The villainy you teach me i will execute"

#i have no friends #shakespeare's wife was hot #the tears of icse students #icse #confuse don't abuse #merchant of venice #shylock deserved better

[spinning-rock-machine]

I've just hidden 100 tiny plastic ducks around the house. Now it's just waiting until my dad and sister come home and watch the chaos unfold

#100 tiny plastic ducks #prank #confuse don't abuse

[uwudonoodle]

Told my husband there was a bad leek under the sink.

#april fools #april fools day #prank #nice pranks #confuse don't abuse #leek #funny #things with faces #angry eyebrows #I gave them a diabolical face #because they're a bad leek #leeks #don't let this one leek fool you leeks are great #leeks the underrated onion #I did not eat this particular leek though

[ravenramblingrandomshit]

hot tip for writers (specifically ao3, but if the shoe fits...)

when ppl hate comment on your fic, just reply:

"aww ☺️ you like my fic enough to leave a comment?? tysm!!!"

if they continue being a dick,

get em

but i guarantee at least some will be so flabbergasted they just won't comment again

#fic writers #fic writing #fanfiction authors #archive of our own #hate comments #confuse don't abuse

[theholymuffintin]

So here the plan fam: we share this as much as possible all over till one of those scrubbing bot/s writes an article/s. Then we just watch the chaos as people start to try and forcibly go against algorithms that are, in fact, never going away.

Don't just share it. Let's start talking about it on other sites we use as if it's actually going to happen. Make other memes. Make fake screenshots. If the scrubber A. I. 's don't write articles, start doing that too.

#algorithm purge #confuse don't abuse #let's not get to carried away

[horreurscopes]

thirty & flirty & thriving / shower drains HATE them

#horreurart #death note #spent an hour slapping some color on this several months old sketch because i really like it but i don't think it's ever getting finished 💀 #anyway where's morgan's Mello Is Fine posting. because he is. fine. look at him. he works out #also please note i tried to give mello stubble but i hated it so much i got rid of it. sorry im too much of a lesbian. i'm sure he'd #look properly rugged but i can't pull it off #anyway local hot goth who is aging like milk due to severe substance abuse in his youth + his ethereal elfin boyfriend of confusing gender #because mello is Fine near's hair gets done because in this universe he is not grievously depressed (: it's yaoi so i get to decide the #complex ptsd's been [REDACTED] out of him (it has not) #thanks for coming to my ted talk #meronia #near #mello #near dn #mello dn #mihael keehl #nate river #near death note #mello death note

[uncanny-tranny]

You know... it's okay to trust your body. If you are separated from your body to such an extent you feel you cannot trust it, I truly from the bottom of my heart empathize and feel grief for you, but you can trust your body.

It's okay to listen to your body and to heed what it is telling you. I wish you (and your body) well wherever you go. You deserve the peace of mind to feel able to do what you want.

#positivity #mental health #mental health support #gentle reminders #this is something i struggle with myself so that's why i said i empathize (well... i guess as much as you CAN empathize) #(because even if you have gone through the same thing... it's not going to look the same as somebody else going through that) #(and while it can be valuable to express empathy it doesn't mean you truly 'get it' from the other person's point of view) #i struggle sometimes not to feel like my body is fucking with me because sometimes i expect it to function at bare minimum #or i just assume that when it is in debilitating pain that it's just... somehow to fuck with me and i am cognizant that this isn't true #i am cognitively aware that the body isn't Specifically Designed to have a Fuck With You mode even if it feels like it #but my experiences with disabilities and general unwellness made it easy for me to alienate myself from my body #in order to preserve myself i felt the need to separate myself from every flaw (or 'flaw') i have #so when people are confused about why you could mistrust your /own body/ it's stuff like this that can somewhat illustrate it #i think we don't really talk about this but i think it's more common than i would assume #(mostly based on the There Are Eight Billion People principle) #hm making this also makes me realize that abuse absolutely plays into how i mistrust my body. hm. #mistrust in your body feels like self-protection and self-preservation in this weird and almost twisted way (at least in my experience) #but then you start mistrusting *everything* and nothing feels... GOOD or NORMAL anymore #i'm going to play mahjong about this 🫡👍

[lovl3igh]

defending young alicent for hiding the truth from rhaenyra while blaming nyra for being mad about it is wild to me, bc what do you mean "alicent was just 15 yo, rhaenyra is a bitch", she was 14??

#and it works both ways #if you can understand young rhaenyra then why don't you see alicent was manipulated #yes alicent shouldn't have lied but she was a confused teenager #get over it #young alicent defender #older alicent is a different story #being abused doesn't allow you to become the abuser #targaryen #house of the dragon #asoiaf #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #young rhaenyra #young alicent

[aingeal98]

Having Bruce and Cass and the Robins thoughts and they're a bit messy and jumbled so bear with me.

Idk how to explain why the Bruce and Cass messed up but loving dynamic is so much more appealing to me than his toxic relationship with his other kids but I guess it's because the entirety of Batgirl 2000 understands that Bruce is not a perfect parent. His flaws and virtues are both deliberately and carefully written and his relationship with Cass is so layered and it makes it so that I can both laugh and cringe, appreciate the sweet moments and rage at some of his more shitty moves. It's not perfect but overall the writing is just GOOD, and there's enough material to form a solid core of understanding even when their dynamic grows past Cass's solo run. This is Cass and Bruce and this is how they tick and no writer has been able to thoroughly screw that up no matter how hard some of them were pushed to by editorial.

Compare that to how he's written with his other kids, where every writer has their own version and some have him be a perfect dad and others have him be shitty and frame it as "He's got this darkness in him" while another group of writers have him absolutely brutalise his kids or neglect them or gaslight them for angst all while knowing the kids will never receive any sort of narrative justice for this because he's Batman and he's the big flagship hero. There is no single run you can point to and say yes this here showcases the heart of the dynamic between him and Tim or him and Damian, no single run so good that all other comics about their dynamic use it as their basis for this bond between father and child. There is no consistency and no communication or understanding between writers or even an attempt to pick up what the other puts down. Batman comics will have him be a good parent or a bad parent but either way it will be all about Him. Batfamily comics tend to have him just be absolutely awful and then a few months later they have to pretend it never happened because the main bat books want to make him a good parent again.

It's all shock value that rarely lasts past the arc and writer. When Tom Taylor has Dick hug Bruce and call him dad I'm remembering that time Bruce beat him into a bloody pulp or backhanded him across the face and Dick never got to call him out on it. But we're not meant to be thinking about that in Taylor's run because this is a Good Dad Bruce comic. Taylor's Bruce and Dick dynamic is completely different to the New 52 dynamic the same way that dynamic is different to Wolfman's which is different to the original Batman and Robin. And that variety can be a great thing when it comes to comics but the downside here is that you can pick Bruce's "good dad" comics or you can pick his abusive asshole comics but you cannot find the middle ground that Batgirl 2000 hit because (controversial opinion I guess) it doesn't exist for the batboys and no writer has successfully managed to pull all the different comics together and create one.

Fans have tried. Fans have pieced together a decent narrative from the mess of inconsistencies, taking the moments of almost cartoonish abuse and the moments where Bruce is shown to care, and forming the image of a complicated and nuanced abusive parent from it all. But the great thing about Batgirl 2000 is you don't have to do all that effort of trying to make the happy fluffy hero batman and the edgy punches his sons Batman fit into one character. The writing does it and does it in a more realistic fashion too, which is saying something considering the big Bruce and Cass emotional fight is solved by Bruce letting them both get drugged and fight bloodlusted. I do think there are moments when it hypes Bruce's bad parenting up a tiny bit but compared to the absolute mess that is the writing of say, Bruce and Jason? It's just so much easier to actually engage with. Being on the same page as a narrative instead of chafing against it is just a much better way for me to read comics.

That's not to say there isn't any kind of narrative and canon dynamic for Bruce and the Robins. Tim's Robin run, Dick's various runs, UTRH, Batman and Robin etc. Just that for me none of them hit that balance Cass and Bruce's dynamic succeeded in hitting during Batgirl 2000. And to be fair it's harder to hit that balance when you're working with characters who have been through the hands of so many different authors before landing on your doorstop. UTRH probably comes closest but unfortunately everything that came after that did manage to shake the emotional foundation utrh set up to the point you can look back on it and wonder if Bruce cared about Jason much at all, despite the writer clearly not wanting it to be seen that way.

Not sure how much sense this makes but to me it's the difference between a bad parent Bruce I am actually interested in engaging with and a bad parent Bruce where I just want the kids to team up and knock his teeth out.

#dc #cassandra cain #batfam #bruce wayne #dc rambles #This is a very long and very rambley ramble. Sorry if you've made it to the end and are confused #I'm not sure if I had a point or if I was just thinking aloud #And I'm sure others will disagree with me here #But this was mostly me trying to tease through why I can accept comics making Bruce a good dad to Cass #And enjoy it fully. Whereas with the Robin boys I'm like hmm OK #but are you going to address any of the messed up stuff he put them through just last month #“he cares and he's not good at it but he's trying (but jury's still out on how successful his attempts are) " #Vs “he cares and he's good at it PYSCH he needs to be locked up on child abuse charges! Wait jk! it's batman he's a hero don't worry.”

[midnight197]

I encountered two Slugpups in my Hunter-Playthrough xD I named them Camouflage and Ghost.

I found Cam in Outskirts and Ghost in Shaded Citadelle. Since at first glance it looks like, Ghost doesn't have a face (but he just has really bright eyes) I imagined him being blind xD Which kinda fits since you can't see anything in Shaded anyways xD

I was dropping them off with Moon and since there were Scavengers on my way to her, I headcanon them getting adopted by their Tribe.

Hope you guys like it!

#Rainworld #Rainworld OC #Rainworld Slugcat #Rw #Rw OC #Rw Slugcat #Slugcat #Slugcat OC #Slugpup #Rainworld Hunter #Rw Hunter #I abused Dev-Tool to get the Pups to Moon savely #I also had to backtrack to get the Pearl #since I dropped it in Shaded to be able to carry the Pups AND a Light #I don't regret it tho #they're save now #I was so confused when I stumbled upon Cam tho! #I was entering a Shelter and I saw that Green thing that looked like a weird bug at first! #After sheltering it suddenly was on my back and I was like ??? #Till I noticed outside that it was Pup! #I'm the best Parent lmao

[bitchthefuck1]

I will never understand the fanfic impulse to take characters with thee most coo coo bananas codependent/nuanced/toxic/insane relationship and turn them into love interests #1 and #2 in a generic romance novel. like what is even the point anymore

#i don't just mean 'bad' relationships that they're trying to romanticize or sanitize; this happens all the time with 'good' relationships #with some funk or flavor to them where they sand off all of the things that actually make them interesting and compelling #and you're just left with this bland ball of nothing like they're generic couple no. 4 in a clothing ad #like girl why are you even here then?? what was the appeal for you that made you want to write about these people in the first place??? #you've taken all the flavor out??? #it always reminds me of that one screenshot someone took of a tag on a succession fic that was like 'logan is a good dad au' and its like #okay well why are we here then? like that changes so much about the characters and the story (and also like the entire point #the show is making about power and abuse) that you might as well write about literally anyone/anything else bc you're sure as shit #not writing about these characters anymore #and like. there's nothing wrong with enjoying bland or formulaic romance i'm not gonna find you and come to your house #but if that's what you're into then why do you even like these people??? #to be clear i don't mean 'take them and place them neroses and all into a suburban home to watch them chew the wallpaper and #confuse their neighbors' that's completely different

[vellichorom]

Hey I have a genuine question and I dont mean it is a mean way at all. This is me being actual confused /lh

In ur pinned post it says:

"abuse-glorifying whatever freak people by ANY other name are NOT welcome here."

But you have shown a deep care for goreguts and have talked about how unhealthy it is and hold them in a light that really doesn't seem to be not glorifying their relationship? Maybe I've read this all wrong or something but it was something that kinda bothered me when I read ur pinned. Again, I ask this question in a genuine way and mean for no feelings to be hurt, sorry if it does though, im bad with that kinda communication

Highlighting ( again ) that Goreguts is unhealthy, NOT abusive.

They're impossibly, mutually co-dependent & neglect to see the other's fatal flaws or the flaws in the relationship because they're all the other has now, but are otherwise happy & content to be together. They're also freaks who kill for mutual recreation, but ultimately don't mean the other actual, malicious harm beyond what they can't themselves enjoy. Unhealthy & strange, it didn't start off great & I certainly don't recommend it, but not ABUSIVE.

Now, every abusive relationship is OBVIOUSLY unhealthy but not every unhealthy relationship is outright abusive; it's often complicated, or not great for one reason or another, but not to be held to the same comparison standards as an objectively abusive relationship just because there's negative aspects to it.

Said negative aspects I highlight regularly regarding Goreguts, as MUCH as I may highlight the many better parts of the relationship.

WHICH you can discuss! & I will! At the behest & interest of myself, my sibling, others, we're fleshing out & exploring this complex & multi-faceted relationship, which includes touching upon EVERYTHING, including the better, more positive parts of the relationship - which Goreguts still retains a lot of for still being unhealthy. That much you CAN still discuss while also while also acknowledging it's obviously not the best relationship overall & still stating as much.

Which I do. I certainly don't beat around the bush with this ship & will eagerly tell you or anyone that they kind of suck together ( at least within the canon default ), but I'm not going to tack an addendum saying as much every time I say something positive about the ship or hype it up to any degree or joke about it, nor should I have to just to convey that I'm not glorifying it or the more questionable aspects of it.

I'm genuinely sorry if you took any of the silly shenanigans OR positive highlights my sibling & I do with this ship as glorification, but that's not the case, nor is it intended to be whatsoever. So I hope this ask clears things up a little bit.

#anonymous #inbox #TSP blogging #GoreGuts #also goreguts IS an unhealthy relationship at it's core but that's not all i'm going to dwell on either #nor what all it's about or should be strictly defined as #NOR SHOULD YOU DWELL when diving into a complex relationship of any kind because then you're just doting on the bad. & not really #* exploring any of it & what makes it so complicated #& again i think it's important to acknowledge that if not for the circumstances of their canon they'd be fine & healthy #it's stuff like that you ALSO want to acknowledge before dismissing this ship as ' abusive ' #or watering it down to strictly ' it's bad / it's kind of bad ' like no #like there's so much to consider here you know? #I GET THE CONFUSION so i'm sorry for this long winded tangent but i kind of don't appreciate the few labelling it as abusive #& then calling it a day. it's more complicated than that

[upsidedog]

truly not that deep, not that big of a deal, no ill will, but posts along the lines of “lumax is the most healthy couple in stranger things” are super common and i kind of really don’t like them.

more than anything it just feels like a blatant misread of their relationship. like they definitely aren’t toxic or anything, but they are literally broken up in season four, they objectively have things they need to work on. and that’s fine btw! that’s part of what makes them interesting! easily one of the my favorite parts of lucas on the line was lucas contentiously failing to understand max’s grief and feeling resentful towards her because he couldn’t. this was because despite his frustration he still loved max, he still tried to connect with her. he will never fully understand her grief, he will learn how to accommodate it eventually, but even by the end of season four they aren’t really there yet. and that’s special, that’s interesting, that’s a flaw in their relationship worth exploring. it’s kind of like by ignoring their flaws you’re saying there’s nothing to be discussed, when really they are like one of the relationships most worthy of discussion.

#stranger things #lucas sinclair #max mayfield #lumax #i'm not very good at presenting my thoughts in a way that makes sense so i hope this is legible and like not condescending sounding bc i #know that 'healthiest couple' does not necessarily mean healthy or perfect - just comparatively healthy to the other ships - i seriously do #not have any ill will for posts like that objectively they were just a vessel to talk about lumax more than anything #i also like don't even think lucas not understanding max's grief is a personal failing - they're just like. in a bad situation. you can't #really understand someone grieving their abuser if you haven't like been a victim. not to mention billy hurt lucas too. he's allowed to be #upset and confused #just a psa idk

[yardsards]

tfw one of your fav fics got added to a private/unrevealed collection so you can't view it anymore and you forgot to download it so you might never get to reread it again :(((

#eliot posts #why would you do that instead of orphaning it or making it anonymous?????? #ughhh i always forget to download fics #at least it was just privated and not deleted so it might come back? #part of me wonders if it was actually an accident cuz sometimes how collections like that work can be confusing to authors #and i don't see the logic as to why someone would do that on purpose? #i wish i could ask why to get my curiosity satiated at least even if they don't end up making the fic public again #but i can't do that without like. commenting about it on one of their other fics. in a completely different fandom #and i'm not gonna do that cuz i reckon it'd just make the author real uncomfortable and i don't wanna do that #but like. it is gnawing at me nonetheless. #it appears to have only been privated for a week or two (after being available for several months prior) #so like hope is still very much there of it coming back #i once had a fic get straightup Deleted for months and the author disappear without a trace only for it to get reuploaded out of the blue #but yeah. reminder to dowload your fav fics! ao3 is not as permanent as you may think #god the fic was just. SUCH a good take on going no contact with an abusive parent and it delighted me to read #actually. i know it's a longshot but if any of my followers fastidiously download fics #do any of you have a copy of a toh fic called ''out of the blue'' abt amity and her family? #i would give you my firstborn for it #which means nothing considering i am not having any biological children but you know