#they can only do so much damage

[amplexadversary]

Just to clarify, a bunch of little groups cooperating with a common goal in mind is usually perfectly bengin, and necessary to get anything to happen, ever.

Having one biiiiiiiiiiig group though, that sets off alarm bells.

#it's not that I think they're inherently bad either it's just there is more opportunity for one big group #(they= big large FORMAL group of anyone. like political or economic association for doing of things) #to make a dumbfuck move that makes waves everywhere else and makes life harder both within and without the group #people aren't evil so much as we desperately need safeguards against both our own idiocy and from one-off dick moves #I trust 12 different unions communicating and throttling an industry much more than say one that encompasses the entirety of CA #you just cannot meet everyone's needs if you're that BIG anyway #you need little variations #Frankly I trust 50 little churches more than like. the lumbering beast of say catholicism #because if one of the leeetle ones accidentally gets some jackass stealing from the charity jar or whatever churches have I'm not religious #they can only do so much damage #where if some bighat says the wrong thing you get a fucking mob because people think they need to go with the group #ignore morg #the bad opinion zone #doubt the US would have lasted as long as it has at this size without having separate states (even still we have our scary moments smh)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it is. so weird to me that I'm having to say this again after a real-life cartoon supervillian already once ran for president on a platform of hatred & fascism and won, but.

it's November, please fucking vote

#not a shitpost #serious post #this election cycle will DETERMINE what legislation gets passed #it will DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF ABORTION RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE AND OTHER LGBTQ+ PROTECTIONS #the supreme court plans to destroy as much progress as possible and that means we have to rely on congress to protect those rights #which they can only do if the Dems control the senate and the house #we are in FULL BLOWN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE here #especially because it is still somehow perfectly possible and actually probable #that the festering pile of garbage in human form who recently tried to overthrow the government will end up back on the ballot in 2024 #we still haven't recovered from 4 years of trump and if we don't show up at the polls it is perfectly possible we will get another 4 years #vote this november to protect basic human rights #and vote in november 2024 so we don't have to survive another 4 years under trump #because many of us--the most vulnerable of us--won't survive. and many many more will suffer #vote to protect yourself and your neighbors. vote to protect those who most need protection. #vote because it is the right thing to do #vote out of kindness #and vote out of spite--because billionaires are spending insane amounts of money to prevent you from voting #so tell them to get fucked and vote anyway #do it out of spite and do it out of heart and do it out of rage and do it out of love #show up #us politics

[lunarharp]

when an obsessed orufrey person plays ace attorney for the first time in a while

#witch hat tag #orufrey #you know those times when the defendant is still in shambles at the end of a case because it was not a clear-cut thing #but you get to present one Special Sentimental piece of evidence that proves not all is lost #qifrey's breakdown would be like... he turns up calm and pleasant like dahlia kristoph gant etc but very quickly: #well first he's hiding his scar so you have to use the bracelet and also you find out about the seal on his hat using that. #eventually he is throwing water that comes out of nowhere like that coffee prosecutor guy. and his cape starts billowing #the more he breaks down his neck thingies start coming undone btw. To represent his descent into guilt and his LIES becoming undone. #course as the player i have already used my magatama and seen his 35894 psychelocks. but theyre those BLACK psychelocks #representing his repressed memories taken by the brimhats. also his glasses shatter out of nowhere when you keep presenting evidence #and tartah's testimony etc. and the player is like UHH this guy is A PUPPET MASTER but coco's heartfelt testimony commands the tone #and of course he's someone who has been twisted and damaged by trauma like adrian andrews. the mastermind is of course the brimhats #only me with my magatama knows that... only i can do it. It has to be me..... #just like how as the reader i can see everything about qifrey and i can hold him dear as much as i judge him #whereas if i were oru things would not be ok unless memories can be restored and mentally ill decisions can be illuminated #WELL ANYWAY !!!!! what i appreciate about ace attorney is its ability to mix silliness with seriousness #i cant usually make jokes about serious heavy heartbreaking stuff in witch hat because it is all very intense emotions for me #but i appreciate ace attorney's mix of sincerity and psychological pain and the inherent silliness to being a character in a situation #so.....Get Iguin on the stand. Now. BAILIFF.. TAKE OFF THE MASK #i would most love to be able to prove qifrey's eyesight is failing. hed be like I have no reason to pursue the brimhats (smiles pleasantly) #and it would be like You're lowering your gaze.. proof that the court lighting is too harsh for you..! #his glasses would crack at that moment btw. I used apollo's bracelet and saw the glyphs on the glass. #I know all about u. and i will save u

[gbrenes]

please please tell me there’s a deleted scene somewhere 🥹

#they walked away and we didn’t see what they said to eachother?! #ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME #istg if this show gets canceled i WILL be suing for emotional damage #like there’s only so much disappointment i can take i’m at my LIMIT DO YOU HEAR MEEEE #the bar for queer rep is in hell #cate x may

[honestlyvan]

Let me be absolutely clear -- the problems with Tumblr will keep getting worse if the disabled minority and the trans people and the people frothing at the mouth at the opportunity to yell at a transphobe, keep @’ing staff and the developers on this site, tell them to kys, because in the meanwhile the transphobes and racists and white supremacists will keep using the actual tools Tumblr provides for blocking and reporting, further poisoning the datasets used for moderation, and encouraging the idea that using the official tools does nothing to basically ensure the only statistically meaningful data available to Automattic is poisoned, poisoned all the way down, poisoned beyond usability.

Hatespeech and bias needs to be reported for it to be considered statstically significant to act on from a developer point of view. Suicide baiting and spamming any of the official means of communication will get you eliminated as a spammer, even if you’re peppering legitimate criticism within your ventpost about how you hate the new thing. You are playing the TE/RFs game.

#van stuff #the biggest reason we don't have an easily accessible 'report hatespeech' button is a) because people misused the old one #and b) because it's not satistically significant enough to be the first thing people want to report #this is like. COMMON fucking knowledge that moderation on Tumblr is 99% automated and extremely cheesable #and you now who are cheesing it? TRANSPHOBES!!! #Like this is not even a 'the developers won't care' kind of thing #this is a 'THE DEVELOPERS NEED HARD DATA TO JUSTIFY MAKING CHANGES' #if the ARE actively malicious then the data contradicting everything they're saying will FORCE changes #and if they mean what they say when they say they value the site for its vibrant culture #then giving them hard data to share with unconvinced people signing off on them having the budget to change things will ONLY help #the whole 'let's yell at staff every time anything happens' is a shibboleth #You're all being fucking exhausting #I want to quit Tumblr because if the userbase is gonna be like this!!! #If ALL I SEE for DAYS ON END is 'staff this' 'staff that' #that's JUST GIVING ME WORSE ANXIETY ABOUT THIS SITE GOING DOWN #'this change is bad for disabled users' YOUR NEEDLESS CONSTANT HOSTILITY AND PANIC RAISING IS ALSO BAD FOR ME A DISABLED USER #WHY DO I HAVE TO BE THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE??? #'Oh staff could make so much money if they only listened to feedback' you fuckers DON'T LEAVE FEEDBACK THOUGH #you just @ Staff and think that that's statistically meaningful data they can use #Fuck's sake #And that's not counting all the times staff *did* implement changes we wanted for years... AND YOU ALL STILL COMPLAINED #WE MODDED TAG VIEWING IN FOR YEARS AND NOW WHEN IT'S OFFICIAL YOU FUCKERS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO TURN IT OFF #Fucking EXHAUSTING the lot of you

[spaciebabie]

if you must use a protein mask/rice water for your hair i recommend using it in combination with a deep conditioner ESPECIALLY if your hair is prone 2 dryness or damaged from heat or coloring

#if your hair doesnt have enough protein it will be dry no matter how much product/deep conditioner you put in #you need the protein so that the moisture you're putting in doesnt just....fall out lmao. #ESPECIALLY IF YOU DYE YOUR HAIR A LOT #also sometimes people's hair get overloaded with how much protein is in a treatment. if thats you just dont use so much you should be fine #kjdfdjf #also you dont needta do this a lot >_> just when its apparent your hair needs it #im talking ta myself dont mind me #i like talkuing about my hair #and its maintenance b/c ppl usually dont grow up knowing this stuff 😭 (at least i didnt) #spacie spoinks #whenever people are like ''my hair has been so dry ever since i dyed it no matter what i do'' im liek...bestie...try a protein mask #of course there is a point where your hair can be damaged beyond repair #if like. you try protein masks (if its really bad try it multiple times but only on your hair wash days) + deep conditioner #and that still doesnt work...baby you aint fixin dat shit 😭😭

[crippleddetective]

who has ever said that in the history of ever. what is cruel about wanting our own fucking exclusive space without able-bodied people in it. for someone with blah blah i drink abled tears or whatever the fuck on your profile, you sure do a lot of abled bootlicking.

#cpunk #cripple punk #cripplepunk #this is fucking ridiculous #fuckin ‘anyway you fucking insane people’ are you serious #who has ever swid anything like that #ever #in this community #wanting an exclusive phys disabled only space isnt fucking ableist . go and make your own punk space if you care so much about this. #idc #just because mental illness/disability has physical symptoms does NOT make it a physical problem. #my boyfriend can be bedridden by his depression that doesn’t mean he’s literally physically incapable of moving #in those moments its a mental block not an actual physical block. its still mental #even if it affects him physically its still mental #ykwim #same goes for mental disabilities as a whole #which may i add i have A Multitude of so dont come cruing at me about being an exclusionist #i have Literal Brain Damage do not fucking try me #but. YKWIM #phoenixonwheels

[icewindandboringhorror]

I find it kind of silly that so many of those "time based life rule" sayings are like ~deep serious guidelines~ of some sort, but then there's that one other Well Known Rule that's just like "hrmm can I eat something off of the ground or not"

#the duality of human condition.. two biggest concerns in the modern era are attempts at self fulfilling productivity #and also 'if i drop my sandwich can i still eat it :(' #Also while capitalism is often linked with/the source of hyper productivity culture - note that I do not mean the images in that context #'meaningful to you' does not have to mean 'productive within a capitalist system'. The point is not 'every waking hour of every day #must be spent in the most societally productive grinding mindset hyper efficency mode possible' but more like #if you've always wanted to learn french ever since you were a kid and you think it would be fulfilling to you (just because you like it #absent of any larger purpose like using it for a job/monetizing it somehow/etc.). and you've just spent like 5 hours straight on tiktok #or something mindlessly scrolling the internet. maybe someimtes it'd help for your own personal fulfillment in the long #run to try to - the next time you have 5 spare hours - work on learning french or something that is actually significant to you #as a person and that you'll be glad you worked towards. instead of weeks and weeks passing by and feeling you have nothing to show for it #or etc. AAANYWAY. The images/rules themselves are also NOT the main point of this post. More just the juxtaposition of them together #and the fact that 3 of them are serious seeming while one is so mundane it seems silly in comparison. #BUT even though they're not the main point . I still didn't want it to come across as if I was like promoting or buying into capitalist #productivity culture propaganda or etc. I don't find productivity tips like this inherently bad as long as they're kind of divorced from #those ideas. I think it's still important in life to have goals even if those goals exist outside of the typical expected framework. #I mean that's actually part of why a culture of chronically exhausted overworked deprived people is damaging because if you #'re forced to spend 85% of your waking time working at some job that is perosnally meaningless to you that brings you nothing that #youre only doing under threat of starvation and houselesness and etc. then of course you don't have much time for hobbies or things you car #about and of course you'll feel more aimless and personally unsatisfied and like life is not fulfilling or interesting. #Productivity and efficiency is GOOD actually. as long as it's able to be directed in ways that are actually meaingful to the community or #individual and bring some sort of feeling of fulfillment or progress or accomplishment and working towards a person's personal ideas #of happiness whatever those are. rather than just working away aimlessly so some guy you don't know can buy a 20th house or etc. etc. #ANYWAY.. lol.. Me overthinking things perhaps.. probably not as likely #that people see the silly little cat images and go 'WOW EVIL you must be a capitalist grind culture lover' like its pretty clear #thats not the point... but... just in case... lol.. I loooove to over clarify things that don't actually need clarification

[weedlekaart]

i can not even get to one boss in act 3 this time and i think i majorly fucked my deck :/ it wasn’t so hard the first time i played and im only replaying to unlock endlessmode on my deck but this suuucks

#and farming robobucks for upgrades takes forever if i can only beat like two botfights at a time #(& barely have any cards thay do more than one damage) #probably went too fast cause i didnt plan ahead so much #inscryption spoilers #inscryption

[kurozu501]

I see you got Astolfo to 120! Congratulations!

Thanks! Your message made me realize id forgotten to post about it on here. After a long struggle with bond points i have finally perfected my paladin. He is level 120. His skills are 10/10/10. His append skills are 10/10/still need more servant coins for this last one but it doesn't matter bc its just a random bit of anti rider damage. He is Np5.

It's

Your Friends Astolfo.

#my boy can kill any non archer boss borrow him for anything ppl #class advantage is irrelevant when you are this strong #and yes even tho its just random anti rider damage i AM going to eventually unlock and max that last append skill #fate grand order #fgo #astolfo #gangler #this level grind took so much work tho theres no way im doing that again lmao #all my other faves can stay level 100 #unless they finally do a HF collab and give me 5 star actual sakura herself that's the only way id be dragged back to this grind

[traitorsinsalem]

this is a funny as fuck dialogue option for when you're playing a dead-birth-parents-rogue who just so happens to be mixed. get gathened idiot.

#succ speaks #i just think it's funny that wotc constantly has NO idea how to handle half-elves from a mixed lens. #as much as i WOULD be happy that larian devs were there to say 'hey man people can be proud of their mixed heritage' #it's just funny as fuck to me that the first time i'm seeing this line is with mo fucking gathen. #the only funnier option is 3. this bitch is withering away there's nothing sexy about him unless u ask his actual party's paladin(s) #baldur's gate 3 kind of sucks especially early on but it's worth it to me to be funny while playing with friends who know this character #'hmm. i can't seem to recall what happened to elturel.' [finished the descent into avernus adventure path. was one of the adventurers.] #'the zhentarim? i think i've heard of them somewhere' [is a zhent ardragon with specialties in legal dealings and investigations] #the running joke is that he got mind flayer brain damage after a stat scramble and cannot find the right people for the life of him #this is so funny though. imagine i just became a small local hero and some nice girl i helped one time says she'll sing a song about me #and she's like 'what should i sing about' and i'm like. 'how about my mixed heritage.' LMFAOOOOO that's so out of pocket #like my friend is so curious and wants me to choose it because he wants to know what alfira's even going to DO with that like ????

[valeffelees]

only bad thing about being in a fandom where one of the characters canonically has wings is the painful lack of classic wingfic. where is my everything's the same but people have bird wings watford au where one day baz notices simon hasn't been grooming his wings bc of an injury to his ribs so he sits on his bed and makes a whole fuss about how "i'm not doing this to be nice, snow, your wings are just a travesty to look at" and then proceeds to carefully and lovingly tidy his feathers in drawn out silence while they both pretend grooming someone else's wings isn't one of the most intimate things you can do for another person. will this heartbreak never end

#i have an old wingfic that never left the zero draft stage and it was suuuper fucking plotty #simon was still the chosen one in it but not in a weird sex magic kinda way like he was just home grown like that so no humdrum #so lucy is alive and he grew up with her and the mage (and they have a dog!) (simon named her ''little simon'' lmfao) #meanwhile baz isn't a vampire but natasha still died when he was five bc ok i don't know how to explain the lore behind this #bc it has to do with a skeevy blackmarket trade involving human wings like it was kinda dark ngl #but the long and short of it is that baz and tasha are kidnapped and tasha is killed keeping baz safe but baz's wings are damaged #pretty severely and so one of them never grows to full size and it leaves him flightless #n e way simon and baz don't get on bc the mage is still the mage and the old families are still the old families #but they are roommates as usual #and half-term their eighth year pitch manor is raided by blackmarket poachers and mordelia is kidnapped and the whole grimm family is #in shambles so baz goes right to simon about it and there's this reverse of the simon-showing-up-at-baz's-door scene #where baz shows up at simon's door a complete WRECK to ask for help getting his sister back #and simon is like. why are you asking ME for help? #and baz is like. bc you're the only one i know who can #and then they fucking steal one of the mage's cars and hit the road [so good right now by fall out boy starts playing] #and then it's just kind of a normal mission fic about them finding mordelia and saving her life and baz falls out a very high window #and simon catches him etc. #i love wingfics so much #sighs wistfully #i think i need to be alone w my gdocu for while #valen and the void

[realbeefman]

started wearing Actually Supportive sneakers everywhere because house wears sneakers and i’m a silly little fanboy who thinks he’s the coolest dude ever and suddenly realized that my knee and hips no longer hurt??? thank you gregory house for tricking me into taking better care of my body

#i used to be a ballerina so i generally am a bit achy #which is normal and i do exercises to combat the damage i did but yknow. ballet permanently fucks u up no matter what u do #u only have so much cartilage lmao #and so i just assumed it was run of the mill achy pains but??? it doesnt hurt anymore??? and i can walk and RUN with no significant pain?? #i literally went on a jog yesterday for the first time in like a year bc i felt that good. WHAT THE HELL. #house md

[dravidious]

Typing Tips That I Stumbled Upon Randomly:

The Ctrl key lets you jump between words really quickly. If you hold Ctrl and press the left or right arrow keys, instead of moving your cursor 1 character you'll move it a whole word; if you want to edit that word that's 3 words back, you can just hold Ctrl and left-left-left, and you're there.

Even more useful in my opinion, if you hold Ctrl and press Backspace you'll delete the entire word you're on. That's just really nifty because a lot of the time when you're deleting you want to delete the whole word, so this is much faster.

Also, idk how well-known this is but holding Shift and moving your cursor will make you highlight any characters you move over. That's useful on its own, but combining that with Ctrl lets you quickly highlight whole words or sentences, so you can easily copy+paste them. You can also hold Shift to edit any selections you made with your mouse or something.

Also it took me too long to realize that the Home and End keys are actually really nice sometimes. Home takes you to the start of the line you're on, and End takes you to the end. Hold Shift while doing that and you can highlight the whole line. Very nice for programming. Also holding Ctrl and pressing Home or End takes you to the top or bottom of the page, but I barely use that.

A similarly useful key that I also overlooked is the Delete key. It's like the Backspace key, but it deletes the character in front of your cursor instead of behind it. Just like with Backspace Ctrl+Delete lets you delete a whole word in front of your cursor.

Also Ctrl+A lets you highlight the whole page.

Also even when you're not typing and instead just browsing a web page or something, you still technically have a cursor; if you click a piece of text, then hold Shift and press the arrow keys, you'll start highlighting text.

Practice Exercise: Click on the t in this word, then hold Shift and press left and right on the arrow keys! Now try holding Ctrl+Shift while you press the arrow keys! Hold Shift and press Home or End! Hold Shift and use your mouse to left-click on different spots in the paragraph and see how your selection changes!

#original #i had to use microsoft excel for the first time today and it SUCKED i had NO IDEA how to do ANYTHING #and i though “this is probably so much easier if you know the keyboard shortcuts” #and then i realized how much Secret Knowledge i have that make typing and stuff way easier #so i figured it would be nice to make sure my followers can also make typing faster and easier #also i wrote the practice exercise before realizing that most people use tumblr mobile lol #also there's some weird details that i didn't include #ctrl+backspace only deletes the part of the word that's behind the cursor #so if you're in the middle of a word it will only delete part of it #also ctrl+arrow keys sometimes doesn't skip a whole word #like with apostrophes like in “you're” sometimes it will stop at the apostrophe #depends on the text editor you're using #like on my favorite text app Notepad ctrl+arrows will always move past the whole word without stopping #except it DOES stop at hyphens like “ha-ha” but idk whether hyphenated words are technically separate words #oh FUCK yeah i spelled separate correctly without even slowing down or thinking about it! i'm learning! #it'd be really funny if all this stuff is just common knowledge and i posted the equivalent of “dark souls tip: attacks deal damage”

[makeitlookdecent]

"stop being overly afraid of status effects."

hey look at my map

#arknights #arknights arene #arknights doctor #hello i ran outta PO to roll for mr. chongyue so im. doing msq maps. #i want you guys to know my first event i played /was/ the first run of undertides on the en server #i only did like 3 or 4 stages back then but i had. not lvled units so the. nervous damage. really scares me. #thats also why is3 scares me and the shipyard map(i hate the shipyard map) #god the; sea brand;; #it scares me (affectionate) #ANYWAY my Lumen is max lvl m9 now!!! with module!! #( i mean. his mod is s2 rn but;; im kinda broke since i lvled him instead lol) #also i looked and i see no fanart or offical art of arene's arms how far down does his oripathy go???? #fun fact! i love like having my doctor like this cause i can practice drawin other units without feeling like #“they would not make that face” or “somethings off..” because thats the point #cant be a perfect copy lol #oh i hope ppl dont mind me drawin my. strange doctor so much;;

[tomwambsmilk]

Hate to break it to you guys but shiv drinking alcohol won’t kill the baby it’ll just give it moderate to severe brain damage. I know this because I have two siblings with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder who have brain damage so severe they’ve never cognitively developed past the age of 12 despite currently being in their 20s

#I’m not trying to be a killjoy I see the humour in the jokes #but I do feel kind of weird about it. just. #FASD can ruin lives like….. it’s not really a joke #did you know a disproportionate number of people in prison have FASD? #because one of the major things it affects is impulse control #anyways. I’m not trying to call anyone out or anything because I know people don’t know #I’m just saying I feel weird about it bc it’s so personal to me #and like. I love my sisters so much but it’s made their lives and the lives of everyone around them so much more difficult #and it is frustrating because it was avoidable #succession spoilers #that said if this is the only time shiv drinks it’ll likely be mild brain damage #I’m just saying. it won’t die either way