#this really is a hellsite

[apollolewis]

Okay these bot's are getting out of control. Like they've popped up in the tarot tag, fear and hunger tag, Chainsaw man tag, and the card captor Sakura tag. What is their problem does anyone actually click on them instead of just blocking.

#tumblr bot problem #bots #spam bots #card captor sakura #chainsaw man #csm #fear and hunger #this really is a hellsite

[adrift-in-thyme]

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it! I’m thankful for y’all <33

#this really is a hellsite #but I’ve found some super nice people on here #and I’m so thankful for it #love y’all /plat #trin rambles

[randomlygeneratedusername2]

To add on to my famous Thick-stick thick stick post, I drew link

#yall have made me famous for what most people are interpreting as a dick joke #this really is a hellsite #also this took me 15 minutes dont expect good proportions from me #tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of Zelda #art #drawing

[hellfirenacht]

WHY DOES DESKTOP TUMBLR LOOK LIKE TWITTER NOW I HATE THIS

#nacht post #this really is a hellsite

[eddies-ashtray]

-@billybluboy

FOR REAL THO why is [tumblr]’s formatting so hostile??? You try to post a fic and it’s like “here’s the same paragraph 3 times in a row. as a treat :)” “oh you wanted to edit your fic after you’ve pasted it in? we’ll only let you control one paragraph at a time. we are so efficient :)”

it’s genuinely distressing like i’m about to cry istg!! it’s so so mean. i just wanna post my fic about this dead fictional character :( PLEASE TUMBLR I WORKED SO HARD ON IT for like two months!!!

#ask #this really is a hellsite #and not in a fun way #currently the third paragraph has been moved to the top of the post #and copied thrice #and then a bunch of paras have been deleted?? #this is the worst

[booksdogsmagicandmore]

“Based on your likes!”

No the fuck it is not. Wtf tumblr???

#this really is a hellsite #hellsite #tumblr #tw suicide #tw sui ideation #cw suicide #cw sui ideation #also please use content warning tags people

[nighttimescribbles]

💌

(I swear I’ll respond to you on discord asap! In Bulgaria now :3)

😘😘😘😘😘

Send me a "💌" or a "🖋" and i'll write you a lil note ❤️

#asks #moots #badly wanted to post this with the writing vid #bec i've been obsessed w them lately and wanted to have a crack at filming my own #but bumblespace wont let me??? #ive tried for hours to post #😭😭😭😭😭😭 #this really is a hellsite

[burnt-out-eldest-daughter]

This article trying to explain this site in the wake of the hilarious trolling of the checkmark thing might be the funniest thing I’ve read in a while:

Because, heh, this tracks:

#tumblr #staff #am I genuinely tempted? maybe #it’s both petty and funny they’ve really figured out their base huh #hellsite affectionate #also the crabs #important blue internet checkmark #i lol’d

[methinmycoffee]

The Tumblr Bro-Down, being put on by @spinthetags (sp-in-the-tags) is so interesting because the sorts of characters that Tumblr users value is extremely different to the kind that the general South Park viewing population values. I mean, I didn’t need a scientific study to tell me that but it’s still interesting. Cartman is out already. Tweek is still in. Bebe made it to round two, even though she got defeated by Henrietta Biggle which I’m a little mad about. And Craig is on track to defeat Butters in about ten minutes. Life is wild on this side of the internet.

#south park #sp bro-down #this really is a hellsite #the best kind of hellsite #and none of you better go vote for Butters to make him win #Craig deserves some recognition #nervous for the Tweak v Broflovski matchup coming up #I hope Tweek pulls through #that would put him and Craig against eachother though #and that would be detrimental to my mental health #but so would Tweek loosing #and so would Craig loosing #and so is no new episode today

[spellbird]

"Illumination Legend of Zelda isn't real, it can't hurt you!"

Illumination Link:

#i had to make him i had to do it #but at what cost #anyway i really dont want them to make this movie #if zelda were to ever be made into a movie like this #either the animation needs to be done by studio Ghibli #or we are using the CDI zelda timeline/games ONLY for Illumination's version #loz #legend of zelda #the onceler #illumination #meme #edit tags ahead: #i both love and hate how this is my most popular post on this hellsite #i wish my art got this amount of attention lmao

[greetings-inferiors]

Yes, hi, what's happening to reddit? I usually check some fandom news there but everything is private/blocked now? I have an account and not even that allows me to enter?

Reddit is changing their policy so they every thousand api requests they charge money. This means that third party apps, moderation tools, and other various things just won’t work anymore, since these things rack up thousands of requests very quickly, they’d just be unsustainable to run.

This cost would be average out to a dollar per month per person using third party applications, like an alternative app, text to speech, moderation tools, etc. Reddit has millions and million of users, most of which would be affected.

For example, Apollo for Reddit, a popular third party alternative to the Reddit app (which I used myself, seriously the Reddit app is abysmal) would cost $20MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO RUN. Given the app is developed by one guy, that legitimately puts him out of business.

Moderation would get even worse than it already is, as moderation tools use the api to effectively moderate, but now it’s at a cost.

The reason why this change is happening, is because the API can be used to collect data for AI, and, to quote the CEO, “the Reddit corpus of data is really valuable” and he doesn't want to “need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

So, once again, AI and capitalism is ruining things for everyone else.

This is a change that is created solely to make money without thinking for a second about the millions of people it would effect. This lead to 7000 of the most popular subreddits blacking out for 48 hours in protest, and I’m pretty sure it crashed the whole site. The voice of the people has definitely been heard, now it’s just time to see if it’s done anything.

Edit: I got something wrong! Thanks to all who corrected me! No thanks to the anon who was an asshole about it lmao

It’s not that Reddit is charging that’s the problem, it’s that it’s charging way too much, is way too short of a deadline to change it, and spez is just an asshole lying about the Apollo dev. Still a shit situation! Just not exactly for the reasons I said. Look into the reblogs for people who know more!!

#it’s a really shit situation and I feel bad for the redditors #ask #ask answered #text post #Reddit #Reddit blackout #tumblr #hellsite #not this hellsite for once #Reddit refugee #long post #AI #capitalism #grrrr #196

[beif0ngs]

Buggy the Clown || Anime vs. Live Action comparison shots 

#One Piece #opgraphics #One Piece Live Action #Buggy #Buggy the Clown #OPLA #oplaedit #Jeff Ward #*mine #good on 'em for keeping this iconic scene in lmao #but didn't care for how they changed it to Luffy having the idea to separate and lock up Buggy's body parts #when it was actually Nami who thought of the idea in the manga #like she STOLE and tied up Buggy's body parts like the THIEF that she is #why tf would they change that sheesh 🙄 #ANYWAY i can't believe that the OPLA turned Buggy into the most celebrated and hated character here on this hellsite #i mean i need y'all to know that he is really just a dumb pathetic loser clown whose true strength lies in riding off others' coattails #and while i'm still not a fan of the live action i did surprisingly enjoy Jeff Ward's performance as Buggy

[thebisexual-disaster]

Ok um...why is the greatest mafia movie of all time goncharov trending?

#goncharov #this is what gaslighting should be used for #like we really made an entire movie out of hearsay #and people ask me why i love this hellsite #like dude we have this movie of course #spiralling sanjana

[delcat177]

Okay can we just look at this for two seconds please, for July Disability Pride Month if nothing else

This is the image description box.

When you click on an image to describe it, do you know where the image description box goes?

That's right! ON TOP OF THE IMAGE, SO YOU CAN'T SEE IT.

I believe in modern science and the ability to make this window movable. Like, this is a known technological marvel, dragging windows to one side.

Could we please for the love of God have that? I can't speak for anyone else, but it would make actually using this accessibility feature a LOT easier, it's just good UI sense

Thanks to anyone receiving this voidscream

#july disability pride month #disability pride month #accessibility #always allow accessibility #we will all need it someday #tech #up too late fixing shit #i love this hellsite #but #fix it pls #thank you #also it is really really hard to find and click the buttons that are meant to be in image corners if it's a short screenshot #ie a line of text #although my own accessibility settings may have something to do with that #del's eyesight is poor #eye trauma is really personal to me ok #tia

[bluespiritshonour]

here's 18-19 year old aang sketches. been hearing aang is ugly discourse—no he ain't. he was just 12.

#i really wanted to take part in zukaang bingo but the urge to art struck me a little later #i still might make something else later #enough art for now #i'd try to participate in maiko week but i'm not sure #it's smack in the middle of end semester exams #ink blot #avatar fanart #avatar the last airbender #atla #artists on tumblr #fanart #avatar aang #why did i never use the pencil brush before?!?! i seriously have a personality flaw where i just don't explore stuff. #can you believe i've been using the same fucking brush for lineart ever since i started digital art? #anyways! i don't know how the pencil brush would feel like if i go for colours but this is impeccable. #I have more control over stuff and i love the result #so #i have promised myself i'd be fucking off this hellsite because i have a huge backlog of work that needs to be done #and i'm presently suffering from “can't help but art”. so #yeah. y'all would probably see me around maiko week. byeee! #if i deprive myself of drawing for too long it bursts out of me like this where i do nothing but draw #not healthy at all

[redwinterroses]

There’s a cherry tree in the middle of the redwood forest.

False isn’t sure what to make of that. She shifts her grip on the staff in her hand, its pale glow reflecting faintly off the fresh snow. She’s come out here for resources—the vault altar is demanding logs, and these giant trees are an easy source—but the incongruous sight of an enormous, blossoming cherry tree sending pink petals wafting on the frozen wind…

She wonders if this is what fish feel like, when they see a lure.

“Hello?” she calls, her voice echoing off the trees. The world stands in permanent semi-twilight here, and the deeper shadows hide the mobs that will venture out come nightfall. A sneak of creepers is bedded down in a sweetberry bramble just on the other side of the clearing, and False tenses when the lead boar lifts his head, but he apparently doesn’t deem her worth stalking so early in the day. 

There is no other reaction to her call.

False is of half a mind just to head back home and farm her own dang trees. It’s not like the vaultar is picky about the kinds of logs—she could just as easily grow up a bunch of birch and throw those in there. But that will take so much longer… not to mention she’s not sure if there are even enough saplings in her storage.

She unhooks her enchantment-glittered axe from her belt and pauses to mentally poke at her mana reserves. Plenty high. Whatever’s lingering near this tree, it can hardly be worse than what she deals with on the daily in the vaults. Overworld dangers are barely a challenge anymore.

The logic of that doesn’t change the uneasy feeling that buzzes over her skin though. 

Venturing further into the clearing. False’s gaze traces up the trunk of the cherry tree, following its branches to where they terminate in lush bursts of pink and white blooms. A sweet smell drifts on the wind. She wrinkles her nose, reminded of compost piles and fermented spiders’ eyes. 

The tree’s branches stretch long and low—a canopy of their own, heavy with flowers and dark, glossy leaves. The space underneath is filled with falling flowers and a fog of pollen, the air moisture-thick like a lush cave.

Lifting one hand, False catches a falling petal on her fingertip.

It sizzles as it touches her skin, stinging and buzzing like live redstone.

She hisses through her teeth, shaking her hand and letting the petal fall to the forest floor. “What the heck?”

Another petal tumbles past her face, and she watches it with narrowed eyes—right until it fizzles out of existence a few pixels above the forest floor.

“Glitch,” she mutters. “That’s… not good.”

Iskall needs to know about this—it could be a bug from one of the new updates, or it could be something deeper in the code, but either way: this glitched tree is a problem. She’s probably lucky it just stung her.

She reaches for her communicator, raising it to take a pic of the cherry tree.

“Oh, hi there, False!”

False yelps, spinning around with her axe ready to swing.

Gem is standing behind her, a wreath of cherry blossoms tangled in her hair and antlers, leaning casually on a tall staff of blooming cherry wood. Her smile is wide, and sap flows over her fingers, pale golden, dripping down her arms to leave dark spots on the faded denim of her overalls.

“Gem!” False lowers her axe. “Oh my gosh, you scared me. I didn’t know you were doing Vault Hunters.”

“Hm?” Gem raises one eyebrow, and for a moment her eyes flicker to red and then purple before settling back on green. “Oh—I’m not doing Vault Hunters, False.” Her voice is amused, almost chiding.

“Oh.” False feels unexpectedly small—which is impressive, considering she’s nearly half a block taller than Gem. 

More of the glitched petals fall, resting on Gem’s hair and slowly melting into it like snowflakes. The brief moment of relief when False had seen Gem’s familiar grin is fading into something like the sensation of freefall. 

“What’cha up to?” Gem asks, and her face blinks from one expression to the next like a bad video message. Her clothes are blue—no, green—no, bloodstained and grey—no, blue. They’ve always been blue.

False takes a step back.

“Uh, not much…” she glances up at the redwoods. “Just doing some… resource gathering. You know.”

“Cool!” Gem giggles, and stands up straight. False tenses, but Gem only spins around her staff and waves a hand at the glitched tree. “I didn’t realize this was an occupied server—are there many people here?”

There’s a buzzing in False’s skull, and she blinks rapidly. A muscle twitches under her eye. 

“Um…”

“I guess it doesn’t really matter.” Gem lifts one hand and grabs one of the lowest branches of the cherry tree. She really should not have been able to reach that.

Swinging herself up with the lithe, effortless strength of a cat, she perches on the limb and stares down at False. The grin is gone from her face now, and she looks down at False with bright eyes.

“Etho’s not here, is he?”

False opens her mouth to answer, the words yes, of course he is, I can take you to him heavy on her lips… And with effort, she swallows them back. 

They taste of sweet rot.

“Why... why doesn’t what matter?” she asks instead.

Gem stares at her for a long moment, expressionless. The flowers woven through her antlers are growing of their own accord, twining up to caress their brethren in the branches overhead. 

Then she smiles broadly, flashing teeth that nearly glow white in the dappled shadows. “Oh!” she exclaims. “No reason! I’m only passing through, is all.”

“You’re not… you’re not sticking around?” False tries—and mostly fails—to sound disappointed.

“Naaaaah…” Gem stands and walks along the branch, as secure and balanced as if it were a stone floor. The flowers in her hair flow along behind her, sliding from the branches and falling like a cape down her back. “Worldhopping is easy. Staying in one spot is way harder.” 

False watches the flowers move and swirl, their smooth, strange motion ensnaring her attention. The buzzing is back, too. Like bees, drunk on honey and sleepy in their hive.

“World hopping…?” she manages. “With admin commands?”

Gem’s laugh is as brilliant as a knife and as sharp as a spark. “False!” she crows. “You say the funniest things.”

False laughs. It seems appropriate. She isn’t sure why.

“Anyway,” Gem continues, fading into one patch of blossoms and reappearing on the other side of it. Her eyes are sprays of cherry flowers now. Her antlers are branches. “Anyway, cherry trees are all the same. They make it easy to get around.”

“That…” doesn’t make sense, False wants to say. But her lips are heavy, and coated in sticky sap. Maybe it doesn’t really matter.

“Oops! Behind you, False!” 

Gem’s chirped warning is flaked in glee, and False turns around, as slow as if her feet are buried in soul sand.

The creepers she had seen—the entire sneak—are standing behind her, pink flowers blooming from their eyes. 

“Oh no.”

The boar’s blinded head snaps toward her voice, hissing. He starts to aggro, bioluminescent streaks flashing from his snout to flanks in increasingly-swift pulses of light.

“See ya in season ten, False!” Gem cries out cheerfully.

The axe drops from False’s nerveless fingers, trailing strings of sap. She smells the inescapable stench of burning gunpowder, overlaid with rot.

“...Dangit.”

[FalseSymmetry was blown up by a creeper]

~*~

Jerking upright in her own bed, False swipes wildly at her face, trying to smear away tree sap that isn’t there. 

“What the heck, Gem?” she exclaims at her empty base. Her voice falls flat, swallowed up by the sky that surrounds her builds. The clock above her head ticks impatiently, and she huffs in frustration, pushing up out of her bed. All her tools, gone—her levels, gone... and after all that she still needs those logs for the vault. 

Grumbling, she starts pulling backup gear from various chests, trying to cobble together something that can get her back to the redwood grove before her items despawn—assuming they hadn’t all been obliterated by a second or third creeper explosion. She glances at the vaulter, and freezes.

It’s been completed. The crystal floats gently atop the stone pedestal, gleaming with an inner light. 

And, tumbled at the base of the vaulter—abandoned, more than was needed to fill the crystal’s requirements:

Half a stack of cherry logs.

#falsesymmetry #geminitay #red said eldritch gem rights #let her be cheerful and scary too she deserves it #also there needs to be more Vault Hunter fic in the world. and more False content. #this was inspired by a post of some enormous redwood trees I saw the other day with teeny tiny people at the base of them #along with Gem's tree building -- the cherry trees in her hardcore and s9 builds #and the headcanon from hc8 and empires that she's a worldhopper #anyway this is the first thing I've really written in (over?) a year so... I'm quite happy about it. #might polish and put it on AO3 later but for now it's just for the hellsite <3 #redwinterwrites #oh also excuse for creeper/minecraft worldbuilding yaaay XD