#maybe i’m just old

[fierceawakening]

This by the way is why I don’t love the term “risk aware consensual kink.”

Like I don’t think anyone who uses it is unsafe or bad, and I’m not gonna refuse to deal with somebody because they like that term. I just can’t parse it.

A young woman who enters into a master slave TPE with an older gentleman who has a lot of clout in the community (kink or larger or both) is likely AWARE that it’s possible he can use the idea of total control to abuse her without repercussions.

But does she expect it? Probably not. Or she’d pick someone else.

“Aware” means nothing. It’s whether you accurately assess the risk, and whether you are of sound mind when you choose a high risk.

Aware ain’t shit.

It also troubles me when people say they don’t use the expression safe sane and consensual because they’re not sane.

Like dude, sane doesn’t mean not mentally ill. It means aware enough of what’s going on to take responsibility. If you’re telling me you’re “not sane” and also that you want to top me, the hell exactly is supposed to make me think you’re ready to do a scene with me?

I know it’s just me nitpicking but it’s never quite sat well with me.

Like I get the vibe that people are so intense about the (correct) idea that mentally ill people should be able to do things that they’re (hopefully inadvertently!) pole vaulting into saying “I don’t even have to have a conversation with you about how my mental health affects when we should and should not play. I just need to inform you I’m sick, so you’re Aware.”

And I’m like.

What. Why this.

#maybe I’m just old

[sanjisblackasswife]

why the fuck everytime i go on tiktok it’s new lingo being made

first we had

red and green flags now we have beige flags

What in the blue fuck is a beige flag.

#i hate that app #maybe i’m just old #and not hip w the kids #still tho😒

[sketchydragon12]

Why isn’t there a difference in getting 4, 14, and 8 hours of sleep? I feel like I should feel rested at some point, but I’m still tired

#questions #why am i tired #no sleep #maybe I’m just old #I want to feel anything other than tired #aaaaaaa

[godddamnbranman]

does sex even sell anymore? I feel like I’ve seen it all..

#maybe I’m just old #maybe I’m just bored #maximize all the pleasure #nothing can make it better #sometimes I don’t understand what I say #so it’s fine if you gotta get away #music #toro y moi

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

#autism #neurodivergent #adhd #fun facts #GOD I’m such an idiot #anyways now a 10 year old is out there looking up swear words online and it’s all my fault :( #I got so excited by the fact that I knew a fun fact #that I didn’t stop to think that maybe not everyone knows that fun fact for a reason :( #it’s like explaining how to successfully bury a body at a book club #or explaining the dangers of Scientology to your sister’s boyfriend the first time you meet him #or debating gay sex positions with your best friend in front of your mom #no matter how much I wish to be a beacon of knowledge in this world #sometimes there are things others just don’t want to know #and consciously that’s valid but the autism ? I does not care

[gothneighbor]

Ngl to you lads 18 year-olds with porn blogs still feels uncomfy

#manda talks #I will not rb from an 18yo. that. feels illegal still #20yos even make me uncomfortable #maybe I’m just old

[onlyzizi]

i don’t care who you are. you will not get me to prefer “dewy clean girl” makeup over my “2015 grunge matte” makeup.

it’s just soooo much better (for me).

#maybe i’m just old #2015 tumblr #grunge #makeup

[necromancy-savant]

Tumblr brackets are like the Netflix top 10 for my country in that they make me wonder what planet everyone else is living on

#it’s like I’ve literally never heard of any of these things much less the characters in them #maybe I’m just old #we need brackets for nerds who like pretentious classic literature

[davidtennan-t]

It’s been pointed out that during the end scene, fourteens waistcoat is completely undone, showing his inner layers - it had been done up by one struggling button before this… because fourteen was hanging on by a thread… now he can let go and open up

#or maybe I’m just reading too much into this slutty old man’s waistcoat #pahahahaha #david tennant #doctor who #fourteenth doctor

[nicolinocolino]

this site is becoming unusable to me i’ll read or watch something on my own time and become invested and then come here to check the tag and it’s full of takes i vehemently disagree with to the point i wonder if i read/watched the same thing

#maybe I’m just old

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

It’s not that Jason forgot, per se.

But between smuggling a toddler out of the League of Assassins, trekking halfway across the world, and finding a suitable hiding place that’s also child friendly… well, it kind of slipped his mind that he’s supposed to be… dead.

Something that comes back to bite him in the ass when he takes Dami out for some ice cream and just so happens to run into non other than Brucie-fucking-Wayne

#look I’ve found a new fave trope and it’s Brucie Wayne having to keep up his act while internally LOSING HIS SHIT #Jason isn’t very into the whole revenge thing here #his mind is 85 parts ‘keep Dami safe’ 5 parts ‘kill joker asap’ and 10 parts ‘avoid bats at any cost’ #Jason doesn’t know who Damian’s father is #dealer’s choice if Jason establishes himself as Dami’s dad or older brother #his build certainly makes him look old enough #if you don’t look at his baby face lol #Jason runs into Brucie and goes straight into survival mode #Damian who is very observant for a toddler immediately clocks Brucie as THREAT based on Jason’s reaction #Brucie blue screens and desperately tries not to lose Jason in the crowd #jason is absolutely trying to lose Brucie in the crowd #while clutching Damian like his life depends on it #for all he knows it does #the visceral terror that your pseudo dad will take away your little brother/baby #Bruce who just wants to know if he’s hallucinating again: W A I T #jason who is terrified of being put in Arkham for killing people: no FUCKING WAY #hm maybe Jason plays the ‘I’m not Jason’ game again #it’s not gonna hold for long #but Bruce absolutely thinks that Damian is Jason’s bio child for a while and he’s on the WARPATH #Jason was sixteen when he died and never showed any interest in dating so literally every red flag is waving in brucie’s mind simultaneousl #or maybe Jason manages to get away and all Brucie is left with is the memory of his supposedly dead son #running away from him #and clutching a tiny kid #prompts #jason todd #batfamily #Damian wayne #batdad #brucie wayne

[noxcheshire]

I kept thinking of little baby man Phantom and the potential of Danny being an actual baby of the Infinite Realms. However, he’s more snake teenager than itty bitty Little Baby Man edition, cause I think it’d be so funny to just — imagine this teenage snake curled up in a summoning circle, obviously having been taking a nap and looking up with his big green, sleepy eyes and Constantine just stares and freaks because, “THATS A WHOLE ASS BABY, PUT IT BACK!”

But they can’t because apparently the summoning was more of a ‘knock knock I’m a babysitter’ and Danny’s ghost parent decided that this was the perfect time to have some time for themselves if Heroes were so willing to take care of Danny for a little while.

Another take — mainly in reference to a different post about Klarion actually just being a toddler of the infinite realms with no ideas on how to human and thinks him fighting with heroes is just a play date — zooms into the human realm where the heroes are and just goes, “Hey I’m dropping my baby sibling onto you guys cause my dad got mad last time Danny got hurt by the humans I hang with. So here you go, I’ll pick him up later.”

A teenage snake Danny is dropped into a hero’s arms where he mainly grumbles and then shifts to better take a nap. Klarion drops the baby essentials at them with no further explanations other then “here’s their favorite blanket, if they get fussy taco them; here’s the baby milk make sure it’s -200 F, they have an ice core, etc.” and then just DISAPPEARS after leaving what amounts to a month old infant in human heroes care.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dcxdp #danny phantom #dp x dc crossover #danny fenton #dp x dc prompt #Klarion: so here’s a baby for you to babysit :) #heroes: YOU CANT JUST LEAVE A BABY #Constantine: I’m not going to DIE BECAUSE SOMEONE TRANSLATED A CHILDS PLAYPEN INTO SOME LITTLE PRISON #Constantine: you fools this baby will make and break us #Danny who does the cat tongue thing and sleeps #Danny is a baby but for the comedic effect he still looks like a teenager but no legs and all snake #idk who dad is but they sure as hell are gonna be big as fuck #Klarion is Danny’s brother either way #Klarion is 6 years old #is the baby powder just pure kryptonite? #maybe #all supers are weak against Infinite Realm baby milk #yes it’s going to be funny if a super tries to get the baby powder and immediately drops #Danny will fuss if he isn’t held immediately #he will also fuss if he isn’t fed on time and will make it everyone else’s problem #dying wail is still a thing and the heroes are absolutely floored when it first happens #heroes: THE BABY IS DYING?! #Danny: GIVE ME MILK! >:(

[overcrowded-camp]

the weirdest thing about the general astarion discourse in the bg3 fandom is that he does actually suck. and astarion fans seem to forget this all the time but he sucks ass. he’s a shitty guy. he’s lame and a loser and rude and kind of stupid and a bad person if you let him get away with it. that’s why i like him.

maybe it’s the blorbo glasses that make people forget about it or maybe it’s the infantilization of grown adults who’ve been traumatized but i see so much fighting about him that boils down to “he’s a shitty person!”/“no he isn’t, he was tortured for 200 years!”. and the answer is that he was a shitty person, got beaten half to death, and then got tortured for 200 years. he sucks and is also a victim. can we fight about something more interesting please.

#it’s just. so boring. idk maybe i’m getting too old for this stuff #astarion

[kyurochurro]

caught a cold yesterday so I rewatched a good old childhood fav of mine, which also included another robot buddy I love! here’s data with wall-e cus why not :D

#churro art #my art #digital art #fanart #illustration #star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek tng #data soong #lieutenant commander data #i dedicate this to the wonderful user who asked that I draw more data!! THIS IS FOR U HOMESLICE #i was listening to the WALL·E soundtrack a lot for this ofc and I like the track define dancing a lot :D #maybe it’s just me but I like to think that that song could be a wonderful theme for data :P #gosh drawing Star Trek characters never gets old #i feel like every time I draw one again it just gets more fun and delightful for me :D #LIKE I LOVEDE HOW THIS DATA CAME OUT #HEHEHE #now. if only I could figure out Picard and riker… #anyways queuing this for the morning after as it’s 1 am and I’m still sick :P #i

[whumpacabra]

Writing Accessibility PSA

Please avoid using long strings of characters as line breaks in your writing - these are not screen reader/TTS friendly!

Every ‘°’ will be read as ‘degree’ - can you imagine how long it takes to read out a string of 25? Let alone more complicated combinations of characters (eg. imagine listening to TTS read out ~*~ |°| ~*~ multiple times per line break)?

A good rule of thumb is to stick with short, 2-3 character line breaks (eg. I don’t find — or *** too egregious to listen to). Your readers can tell there’s been a scene change whether you use two or twenty em-dashes, but if you use twenty, some of us might have to listen for 30 seconds to read the next scene. If you’re more concerned about aesthetics, you can insert an image of your aesthetically pleasing line break with alt text simply reading ‘line break’ for accessibility.

Don’t feel bad if this is something you’ve never thought about before - now you know better and can make your writing more accessible moving forward!

I would like to invite any other screenreader users to add their own thoughts or preferences to this post. We’re not a monolith and there’s a variety to how different softwares interact with repeating character strings and images with alt text, so there’s bound to be some conflicting opinions on what I’ve suggested above. Let’s try to make the stories we share accessible for everyone :]

#writing #accessibility #line breaks #linebreaks #screen readers #tts #text to speech #whump community #<- applicable to any digital writing but tagging for my own reference. as this is my whump blog. #maybe I’m old but back in my day there was a little kerfuffle about how many people kept using complicated character string linebreaks #on ao3 which has a native line break you can insert via html #I don’t know if you can still do that on tumblr desktop with all the changes recently so I’ve been sticking to my trusty — #this is all in good faith no harm no foul and I’m not a cop so do what you want with your linebreaks. #I’m just putting this out there because it wasn’t something I really thought about before using a screenreader myself

[scvlly]

Wow, honestly, letdown

#maybe I’m just old