#i wish i was making this up

[yesloulou]

max verstappen: a very consistent man

#a driver. an aquarius. a chirlie #lestappen #max verstappen #charles leclerc #f1 #* #*** #pics #fun fact in the second one lando actually said to him: are you guys gonna (let me in) #and then charles gave him the look and max had to apologize #i wish i was making this up

[incorrectbatfam]

Batfam as the weirdest Tumblr asks you've ever received?

Dick: the person in my DMs who kept insisting I'm Jewish even after I told them I'm not

Jason: the tirade that felt like it was ghostwritten by the Joker. I posted it but Tumblr's search engine was designed by squirrels

Tim: the QAnoner telling me I'm a media insider pushing Biden's leftist agenda after Tim came out (I wish)

Damian: the person who sent me a picture of their dog. That was nice. I really needed that

Duke: the person who asked if I'll ever consider taking commissions. They were polite about it but the answer is no

Cullen: the person who wanted me to promote their Batfam x Danny Phantom Wattpad fanfic

Stephanie: shoutout to everyone who asks me how I'm doing. I won't unload my problems onto you but I appreciate it

Cassandra: I think someone tried to send me emojis but they came out as squares

Barbara: someone who came pretty close to guessing where I live based on how I speak

Harper: apologies to everyone asking for the batfam as anime but I saw 2 episodes of Death Note and that's the extent of what I know

Carrie: the commenter I reported for being under 13. I'm sorry but Tumblr has an age limit for a reason

Kate: the person who asked my opinion on a Black Widow jacket they found. They're just biker jackets but it's the thought that counts

Alfred: maybe I'm old and out of touch but why do people keep sending me my own posts?

Selina: anyone who's tried to flirt with me. Not spambots, actual people who developed a parasocial bond

Bruce: pretty much every PSA, signal boost, GoFundMe, etc. I'm not doing that to my followers

dishonorable mention to all the neckbeards. why are you on tumblr?

#i wish i was making this up #does this mean i'm popular #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #duke thomas #cullen row #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #barbara gordon #harper row #carrie kelley #kate kane #alfred pennyworth #selina kyle #bruce wayne #batman #batfamily #batfam #batbros #batboys #batgirls #batkids #batsiblings #batman family #dc comics #ask #anonymous #personal

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

A miHoYo gacha game with no POC characters using the blonde haired white guy character as an allegory for indigenous folks is pretty fucking tone deaf, not gonna lie.

#Honkai Star Rail #HSR #Honkai #HSR Aventurine #Aventurine Honkai Star Rail #I wish I was making this up

[blood-orange-juice]

Ok, so I've just created an algorithm that perfectly mimics human behaviour when processing pictures in a certain way. With a single exception.

It can't stand crosses.

#creating an artificial vampire was not on my 2023 bingo #*sigh* #I wish I was making this up #AI truly behaves like the fae #imagine adding crosses to your art to protect it from whatever abomination I am going to create with it #eldritch AI

[theagentace]

friendly reminder that they share the same voice actor

#i wish i was making this up #for the record i’m only referring to cpi gary and hikaru’s english va #club penguin #gary the gadget guy #ouran high school host club #hikaru hitachiin #todd haberkorn #club penguin island

[vespidphoenix]

Finally ate my fortune cookie from tonight’s dinner. The fortune reads, “This is an extremely favorable day, just perfect for romance.”

I look at the time on my phone. There is less than an hour left of this ‘extremely favorable day’.

Then I remember that I am reading a Zosan fanfiction. Today is ‘just perfect for romance’—just not mine. 😭😂

#mundane fundane #one piece #one piece live action #zosan #one piece fanfiction #in which I am chronically single lmao #this is all happening five days before Valentine’s no less #i wish i was making this up

[liesmyth]

One of the most #jock things about me is that I have a whole folder on my phone full of videos of myself at the gym that I took years ago for form check purposes, and they all have titles like “feb 9 good mornings set 3” and “BAD SQUAT brace more next time”

#I wish I was making this up #elle.txt

[rivkae-winters]

Warning for criticism and what I’d consider some harsh to outright mean words:

So I’ve just been made aware of the project known of as ‘lore.fm’ and I’m not a fan for multiple reasons. For one this ‘accessibility’ tool complicates the process of essentially just using a screen reader (something native to all I phones specifically because this is a proposed IOS app) in utterly needless and inaccessible ways. From what I have been seeing on Reddit they have been shielding themselves (or fans of the project have been defending them) with this claim of being an accessibility tool as well to which is infuriating for so many reasons.

I plan to make a longer post explaining why this is a terrible idea later but I’ll keep it short for tonight with my main three criticisms and a few extras:

1. Your service requires people to copy a url for a fic then open your app then paste it into your app and click a button then wait for your audio to be prepared to use. This is needlessly complicating a process that exists on IOS already and can be done IN BROWSER using an overlay that you can fully control the placement of.

2. This is potentially killing your own fandom if it catches on with the proposed target market of xreader smut enjoyers because of only needing the link as mentioned above. You don’t have to open a fic to get a link this the author may potentially not even get any hits much less any other feedback. At least when you download a pdf you leave a hit: the download button is on the page with the fic for a reason. Fandom is a self sustaining eco system and many authors get discouraged and post less/even stop writing all together if they get low interaction.

3. Maybe we shouldn’t put something marketed as turning smut fanfic into audio books on the IOS App Store right now. Maybe with KOSA that’s a bad idea? Just maybe? Sarcasm aside we could see fan fiction be under even more legal threat if minors use this to listen to the content we know they all consume via sites like ao3 (even if we ask them not to) and are caught with it. Auditory content has historically been considered much more obscene/inappropriate than written content: this is a recipe for a disaster and more internet regulations we are trying to avoid.

I also have many issues with the fact that this is obviously redistributing fanfiction (thus violating the copyright we hold over our words and our plots) and removing control the author should have over their content and digital footprint. Then there is the fact that even though the creator on TikTok SAYS you can email to have your fic ‘excluded’ based on the way the demo works (pasting a link) I’m gonna assume that’s just to cover her ass/is utter bullshit. I know that’s harsh but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.

I am all for women in stem- I’ve BEEN a woman in Stem- but this is not a cool girl boss moment. This is someone naive enough to think this will go over well at best or many other things (security risks especially) at worst.

In conclusion for tonight: I hope this person is a troll but there is enough hype and enough paid for web domains that I don’t think that’s the case. There are a litany of reasons every fanfic reader and writer should be against something like this existing and I’ll outline them all in several other posts later.

Do not email their opt out email address there is no saying what is actually happening with that data and it is simply not worth the risks it could bring up. I hate treating seemingly well meaning people like potential cyber criminals but I’ve seen enough shit by now that it’s better to be safe than sorry. You’re much safer just locking all your fics to account only. I haven’t yet but I may in the future if that is the only option.

If anyone wants a screen reader tutorial and a walk through of my free favorites as well as the native IOS screen reader I can post that later as well. Sorry for the heavy content I know it’s not my normal fare.

#it’s especially insulting the way this is marketed as solving a problem when the solution already exists #ableism #lore.fm #terrible app ideas that shouldn’t happen #serious #accessibility #screen readers #lore.fm should not launch #accessibility tools that are inherently ableist in design #I wish I was making this up

[allthebooksandcrannies]

My sister-in-law and brother were talking about potential baby names this weekend and were trying to come up with good middle names to go with Diana. She asked if there were any good Greek mythology names to go with it, and I start listing "Iris, there's Penelope but I've got dibs on that one," "Athena" my brother chimes in, "yeah, and then there's Artemis but that's basically the sa—"

"Oh! Artemis! I like that one!" she chimes in. "We could do 'Diana Artemis'!"

"You— You want to— You're gonna name your kid Moon Moon?"

"Oh Moon Moon, that's such a cute nickname idea!"

So pray for Moon Moon y'all...

#i wish i was making this up #i apparently need to send her more memes bc she had NO idea i was referencing something #my brother and i just started at each other in agreement to never explain bc that would be hilarious #plus I think our shared Percy Jackson hyperfixation came to play #percy jackson #greek mythology #artemis #moon moon

[masculinemiracles]

IM GONNA SCREAM

based on @cottagedeer 's golbaby D20 abomination scale....

#I wish I was making this up #mpreg #male pregnancy #simon petrikov #mpreg art #Nova Petrikov

[jewvian]

A user here who claims to be, and I quote, a "Jedi apologist" (the fuck?), defends Hamas' slaughter of Jewish children and babies.

That's very Anakin coded. Very psycho vibes.

#text #antisemitism #i wish i was making this up #but these are the nut jobs of tumblr dot com! #the nut jobs of the very fucked up liberal left of recent years! #god these gen z idiots are gonna take office in so many countries in the future

[beauregardlionett]

Cree, at the very end of c2e13: Lucien? the whole table: !!!!???? Liam: that’s just the first layer of the onion! there’s eight more names underneath! me, who has already sat through this campaign: NINE!!

#cr #c2e13 #m9 rewatch #liam o'brien #taliesin jaffe #lucien #mollymauk tealeaf #you honestly cannot write this shit #i wish i was making this up #critical role

[iamthekaijuking]

…

You sure about that???

#jk rowling #transgender #trans rights #Rowling is friends with fascists #i wish i was making this up #but the video goes over it #also give Shaun’s stuff a look it’s pretty good and he’s a great guy #Youtube #I’m tempted to blaze this

[sprucestairs]

I stg if I have covid for the THIRD FUCKIN TIME-

#Literally #I wish I was making this up #First got it mid-late 2022 #Got it for the second time just before Christmas (& honestly only felt 100% again around new years) #& now I might have it again #Also fun facts that I'm certain are completely irrelevant: #Autistic people have a higher chance of immune system disorders than most people #And Literally 0% of people in my local community wear masks! #They've all just accepted its 'going to be around forever'! #Not like there's numerous safe and effective vaccines! #The last 2-3 of which I highly doubt anyone has even got! Hell no one in my direct family even knew about em until #Another family member bought them up! #N e way. #I'm in hell #Though there's likw a 90% chance it's just a scare #& my sore throats just from sleeping w a fan on & window open in mid march

[glutko]

A roleplay blog reblogged one of my posts and added a caption. I take a look.

The blog's muse is the younger sister of famous composer Chopin, who died of tuberculosis as a teenager (the sister, not Chopin).

Epic

#not corruption #i wish i was making this up

[absyyynth]

according to wildbow i am canonically a practitioner. i've also been gainsaid by him. it was bullshit if you ask me

#wildbow #i wish i was making this up #but no.