One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

do you ever have such a monumentally bad brain day that you just take away its mic?

like...... buddy, you are producing insanely bad thoughts today and believing them, I'll take it from here, get off the stage

I don't know if this is asked in earnest or just a thought but since I'm waiting for my therapy session, here it goes

The method I worked out for myself is to pretend that there's this personal assistant (Barbara) to my brain. The thoughts and emotions are clients who either come to pitch an idea or to demand attention from the boss.

Most are important and relevant thoughts; but sometimes they come at the wrong time (if I wake up at night worrying about a task I just imagine Barbara in her pyjamas groggily telling the thoughts to come during office hours).

And some clients (mean thoughts, false beliefs, anxiety jabs) I just imagine as panicked or rude customers that need to be treated as such. You are not getting audience with the boss until you can state your purpose calmly and clearly. If you insist on being rude, I'll throw you out.

It helps you separate yourself from the thoughts and gives you time to evaluate if they need to be acted on. My therapist loves Barbara

Over the next few months, I will be working on the final major phase of the AO3 Demographics Survey 2024 project. The aim of this phase is to publish as much of the survey data as reasonably possible so that it is available to future researchers.

In order to do this ethically, this requires anonymising the data set. Since I am not a specialist in this, I would like to ask that if you have particular knowledge or expertise on the best practises here, please get in touch with me to discuss. If someone you know is an expert, please consider sending this post their way!

The best way to get involved is to join the project discord server: https://discord.gg/aAfmPVS9

However if you do not use discord or prefer not to join the server, I am happy to discuss the topic via Tumblr messages to this blog.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

Watson writing The Three Garridebs, published in 1924: "For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain."

Sherlock Holmes, who has been taking Watson out to concerts, dinners, and vacations since 1881: "What the fuck?"

i should wake up and automatically be restored to full health, that's how sleeping should work, what is this horseshit

*waking up with a sore neck* where are my goddamn spell slots

The baker‘s Konel Bread in Tokyo and she‘s amazing

At a crossroads with mama

Not to start discourse but I will be forever mad that every time I go into the Goncharov tag I see people complaining that they watched the movie expecting a soft queer romcom about pure cinnamon rolls and instead they got a complex and violent film about deeply flawed people where everyone dies.

By all means, engage in fandom however you choose. But don’t blame the source material for not being consistent with some random fanon on tumblr. Kinda wild to get mad that the movie about violent, morally dark grey criminals has violence, crime and moral greyness in it. You know? Also, imho given the time this movie was made, the queer coding was daring; this is NOT an example of queerbaiting.

the woobification of ice pick joe is an absolute blight upon this fandom. also, to your last point – god i'm so fucking sick of younger queers calling properties from pre-2000 queerbaiting. how are you going to call a movie from 1973 queerbait when homosexuality was literally fucking illegal in the majority of states? if you're engaging in a historical period at least try to have a basic grasp of what you're talking about :/

#like i'm sorry but you're going to call goncharov queerbaiting?? you know how many states still criminalised homosexuality in 1973???#fuck off with that#queerbaiting implies an inherent malice by the creator. if your creator really earnestly wants queer people to be included#but isn't able to bc of censorship/studio pressure/fucking LEGALITY then it's not queerbaiting!#christ alive i can't with some people via @ebenelephant

Nothing but facts here. I am begging people to spend a few moments learning about the historical and cultural context in which the film existed.

And listen, to each their own; I'm not here to police the fandom. But oh my godddd the crimes being committed against Ice Pick Joe hurt me so much. I don't even go in that tag anymore because every time I do I just become the real life version of the 'look at how they massacred my boy meme.'

What do you mean he's a soft boi who loves gardening and did nothing wrong? He did everything wrong and that's great. He and his ice pick are out there living their worst lives and we love that for them. Also, you do get that the bowl of black roses on the table in the background of that one shot is a reference to the Sicilian mafia connection and also foreshadowing of his own fate? Right? Right???

Jacek Yerka, Eruption 

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

i like tumblr because occasionally i’ll be recommended a 12 year old post that depicts something so absolutely my shit that it makes me believe in art again

Hi, I'm looking for people willing to participate in my BA research. It is a survey about how being in fandom influences motivation towards learning English.

If you have some time to spare, English is not your first language but you are more or less actively involved in any fan activities in English, please take a moment to help me (I would also appreciate it if you shared the link with your friends that could help 😉)