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wizard tip of the day: buy locusts in bulk and release them just sort of wherever
Wait, that's...that's EVIL!
yeah youโre right sorry. NEW wizard tip of the day: buy WOKE LOCUSTS and release them into a queer-owned deli shop. WOKELY
Thank you! This is why I come to Tumblr! For education. Truly the free marketplace of ideas. Quick question though, is this still evil or...?
I adore how utterly incongruent any of my ads on tumblr are with any of the things that are actually in my feed. Like they're almost completely unrelated to the entire multi-faceted vibes of tumblr, let alone what any individual one of us is likely to have actually curated. It's so funny! It's beyond "SILENCE, BRAND" and more like "Brand...buddy. What's happening there, lil guy?"
Folks, sometimes I like to log onto a roleplay site in order to roleplay because I enjoy playing roles.
Among the many dickheads, there are some polite, interesting and creative people who want to collaborate on something fun and I am excited to approach them and to have them approach me but HOOOOO BOY are >90% of them not looking for roleplay.
Overall, I like these people. I respect their art, I enjoy their company and I try to compromise with them. They ask to plan scenes and that makes sense. They say they like to know about body language and other non-verbal cues. Me too! They talk about how they enjoy little insights that you wouldn't always get to hear when interacting with someone IRL. I like this too! They explain how context is fun for a story and establishing a scene and some surroundings adds to their fun! I'm happy to hear that as I feel the same way!
We then proceed to have wildly different opinions about how best to proceed. I'm aiming to put X words per hour into an INTERACTIVE series of posts. They are aiming to write one poetic piece of prose. They would prefer it if after an hour of "play" we've written 2 posts each and they are each of literary significance.
That's fine! I catch your drift! I thoroughly disagree that this is roleplay though.
Imagine watching a D&D series and seeing these professional improvisers get deep into character...and they pause intermittently and stroke their chins before giving five minute long monologues! I'm not saying it'd be bad, I bet there are people who could work wonders in that medium. Roleplay it fuckin ain't.
Everyone's going to be different so compromising and/or stepping out of your comfort zone will be good (if not essential) for creative collaboration. Presupposing one medium's superiority over another is not only not essential but is, in fact, FUCKING stupid. I'm sorry but when you come to me - a person looking for roleplay - and tell me you feel we should do multi-paragraph play that follows a pretty detailed plan, you're a sonnet-writer trying to collaborate with improv actor as if they're doing improv wrong. The purported classiness of your form does not invalidate the visceral immediacy of mine. Yours is a deep exploration of a person's soul. Mine feels like actually being a person. Yours is not "played" like a "role" and your connection is that of an author to their novel's protagonist. Mine is roleplay. I play a role like an actor plays a role or a TTRPG player plays a role or an improv comic plays a role.
This is not gatekeeping, it's semantics. If you like collaborative fiction, more power to ya. I'd love to read what you've written one day. In the meantime, if you want to experience interactive play where unexpected stuff happens, come and try Roleplay with me!
People keep talking to me as if what I enjoy doing is a lesser form of roleplay and their multi-paragraph version is what I should really be aspiring to! They imply, suggest or outright say that if I wrote more it'd be deeper.
K. Maybe.
When they say that it doesn't feel like deep roleplay without this...nah, mate. At this point, it just feels like a wild self-report about their inability to have meaningful relationships with people. So you're saying two-way, IRL-speed conversations where you can't read someone's mind or have all their body language described to you don't feel deep? When people reply to your first sentence before you've carefully planned and poetically delivered your desired three-to-four sentences, you find the interaction unsatisfying? I'm sorry to hear that. It must be a debilitating problem in your life! Please don't bring it to the place where I wanna have fun roleplaying.
If you tell me that your post where your character replies to mine, displays some body language, internally reacts to the pattern on the wallpaper, has a flashback to their childhood and then says something else is better than saying your first thing AND LETTING ME FUCKING REPLY TO IT LIKE HUMAN PEOPLE DO... then you are going to get a negative reaction. No, I won't agree to disagree! I'm sorry but you are not roleplaying and your attempt to gatekeep ME out of MY INTERACTIVE HOBBY while you do a completely different one in my space is not welcome. This is extra ridiculous because most collaborative fiction writers are completely welcome despite not really doing the whole roleplay thing...almost like being a judgemental arsehole or not is the main criterion for being welcome.
It's not like I'm turning down the opportunity to include body language, internal thoughts, background details or subconscious motivations. I just see them as tools to be used sparingly. At the end of the day, I love a long post from time to time. I like it when, at a moment where things need to be described in detail, they are described in detail. I also feel that, in roleplay, it's pretty rare for this to be necessary!
Is there not beauty in the unknown? Is there not verisimilitude in lively exchanges? Is brevity not the soul of wit? Does it not evoke your curiosity and engagement when a character in a film, play, rpg,etc. reveals themselves through their interactions with other characters? Do you not delight in having swift feedback on your character's words, actions or expressions? If not: ok...you're not looking for roleplay then! Depending on how much or how little you make that my problem: either fuck off entirely OR I wish you good luck in your creative journey!
To those people out there who I know will say "Wow, you can't write a multi-paragraph post in nice prose and do it quickly and interactively? Skill issue!" Yeah? Can't you write short, roleplay posts and make them interesting? Can't you express your character without a small essay? Can't you trust that a short post of yours gets its point across? I can! Maybe I don't have lesser skills but different skills! On the other hand, maybe it is a skill issue on my part. Unlike you, I'm not here to develop the skills of an author. I'm here to
and masturbate.
Oh, and to further make my point, it took around 25 minutes to write all this. Do you think that if we had a little chat about this, it would have taken this long? Do you think I would have been going at 40-50 words per minute? No. Obviously. I'd have spoken/typed quicker and you'd have understood quicker. Turns out interaction is really good for communication! Who knew?!
Folks, sometimes I like to log onto a roleplay site in order to roleplay because I enjoy playing roles.
Among the many dickheads, there are some polite, interesting and creative people who want to collaborate on something fun and I am excited to approach them and to have them approach me but HOOOOO BOY are >90% of them not looking for roleplay.
Overall, I like these people. I respect their art, I enjoy their company and I try to compromise with them. They ask to plan scenes and that makes sense. They say they like to know about body language and other non-verbal cues. Me too! They talk about how they enjoy little insights that you wouldn't always get to hear when interacting with someone IRL. I like this too! They explain how context is fun for a story and establishing a scene and some surroundings adds to their fun! I'm happy to hear that as I feel the same way!
We then proceed to have wildly different opinions about how best to proceed. I'm aiming to put X words per hour into an INTERACTIVE series of posts. They are aiming to write one poetic piece of prose. They would prefer it if after an hour of "play" we've written 2 posts each and they are each of literary significance.
That's fine! I catch your drift! I thoroughly disagree that this is roleplay though.
Imagine watching a D&D series and seeing these professional improvisers get deep into character...and they pause intermittently and stroke their chins before giving five minute long monologues! I'm not saying it'd be bad, I bet there are people who could work wonders in that medium. Roleplay it fuckin ain't.
Everyone's going to be different so compromising and/or stepping out of your comfort zone will be good (if not essential) for creative collaboration. Presupposing one medium's superiority over another is not only not essential but is, in fact, FUCKING stupid. I'm sorry but when you come to me - a person looking for roleplay - and tell me you feel we should do multi-paragraph play that follows a pretty detailed plan, you're a sonnet-writer trying to collaborate with improv actor as if they're doing improv wrong. The purported classiness of your form does not invalidate the visceral immediacy of mine. Yours is a deep exploration of a person's soul. Mine feels like actually being a person. Yours is not "played" like a "role" and your connection is that of an author to their novel's protagonist. Mine is roleplay. I play a role like an actor plays a role or a TTRPG player plays a role or an improv comic plays a role.
This is not gatekeeping, it's semantics. If you like collaborative fiction, more power to ya. I'd love to read what you've written one day. In the meantime, if you want to experience interactive play where unexpected stuff happens, come and try Roleplay with me!
People keep talking to me as if what I enjoy doing is a lesser form of roleplay and their multi-paragraph version is what I should really be aspiring to! They imply, suggest or outright say that if I wrote more it'd be deeper.
K. Maybe.
When they say that it doesn't feel like deep roleplay without this...nah, mate. At this point, it just feels like a wild self-report about their inability to have meaningful relationships with people. So you're saying two-way, IRL-speed conversations where you can't read someone's mind or have all their body language described to you don't feel deep? When people reply to your first sentence before you've carefully planned and poetically delivered your desired three-to-four sentences, you find the interaction unsatisfying? I'm sorry to hear that. It must be a debilitating problem in your life! Please don't bring it to the place where I wanna have fun roleplaying.
If you tell me that your post where your character replies to mine, displays some body language, internally reacts to the pattern on the wallpaper, has a flashback to their childhood and then says something else is better than saying your first thing AND LETTING ME FUCKING REPLY TO IT LIKE HUMAN PEOPLE DO... then you are going to get a negative reaction. No, I won't agree to disagree! I'm sorry but you are not roleplaying and your attempt to gatekeep ME out of MY INTERACTIVE HOBBY while you do a completely different one in my space is not welcome. This is extra ridiculous because most collaborative fiction writers are completely welcome despite not really doing the whole roleplay thing...almost like being a judgemental arsehole or not is the main criterion for being welcome.
It's not like I'm turning down the opportunity to include body language, internal thoughts, background details or subconscious motivations. I just see them as tools to be used sparingly. At the end of the day, I love a long post from time to time. I like it when, at a moment where things need to be described in detail, they are described in detail. I also feel that, in roleplay, it's pretty rare for this to be necessary!
Is there not beauty in the unknown? Is there not verisimilitude in lively exchanges? Is brevity not the soul of wit? Does it not evoke your curiosity and engagement when a character in a film, play, rpg,etc. reveals themselves through their interactions with other characters? Do you not delight in having swift feedback on your character's words, actions or expressions? If not: ok...you're not looking for roleplay then! Depending on how much or how little you make that my problem: either fuck off entirely OR I wish you good luck in your creative journey!
To those people out there who I know will say "Wow, you can't write a multi-paragraph post in nice prose and do it quickly and interactively? Skill issue!" Yeah? Can't you write short, roleplay posts and make them interesting? Can't you express your character without a small essay? Can't you trust that a short post of yours gets its point across? I can! Maybe I don't have lesser skills but different skills! On the other hand, maybe it is a skill issue on my part. Unlike you, I'm not here to develop the skills of an author. I'm here to
and masturbate.
this is going to be a generalized take, so please forgive me, but women are an underrated enforcer of femininity.
Iโve noticed this with hairdressers. multiple times Iโve gone to lady hairdressers and said โcut it all off,โ and theyโve gone โhmm alright,โ and basically just trimmed the split ends. meanwhile I can go to a dude and say โhey, can you make my hair slightly shorter?โ and heโll go โon it boss,โ and shave me bald.
twice now, Iโve also had lady tattoo artists add pink to femme up a tattoo, despite that not being on the initial design.
god, also thinking about this brought back a memory. my mom once threw a fit because my shoes were โtoo masculineโ (they were black womenโs flats), saying that Iโd upset my dad and ruin the formal event we were going to. I wore the shoes, my dad didnโt give a shit.
I dunno. it just feels like the misogyny is coming from inside the house sometimes.
Women are absolutely half of the enforcers of femininity
"Can't wear the same outfit you wore at the last party" I say to myself. "People will judge me!"
It's possible I was the only person who ever would have had judgemental misogynistic comments about wearing the same outfit twice but if anyone else would have...do we think it would have been men?
Would any men have noticed? Would any of them have considered it in any way negative if they did?
The haircut thing really speaks to me because I've worked up the courage to go for short hair a few times and only once has a female hairdresser done what I asked first time.
And, um... why did it require courage? I thought men would have a lot more to say about it! I thought that would really be the one where sexist twats call me a dyke and feel threatened. I thought a grandparent or teacher or some dickhead man would have made a comment. I live in a place where I KNOW some men will have had some negative judgements about it but guess who were the only people to ever verbalise anything and try to make me feel like I'd made a mistake... was it men? Was it fuck!
Here is your mission.
TSLA hit its all time high of $488.50 on 15 DEC 2024. To reach of a price of $114.00 would be a 76.7% drop. That's huge, right?
Yeah well, when I checked the price just now (12 MAR 2025 @ 1:31 PM EDT), TSLA is currently trading at $250.85. That's down 48.6% from the high.
Babes, we're already nearly two-thirds of the way there.
TSLA $114.00. I believe this is where I say 'like to charge, reblog to cast.'
let it be so
Weed is not tremendously bad for most people most of the time but in a crowd of 100-1000 people, someone has schizophrenia or some other psychosis-adjacent situation that is not gonna go well with weed. It's a mind-altering substance that can be inhaled. Get a grip.
One of many situations where a stupid rhetorical question's potency is entirely deflated by giving a one-word, yes-or-no answer and a very simple explanation. "Remember whe-" Yes. It's a matter of fucking record. Yes we do know exactly what happened.
Another favourite of mine is defeating the slippery slope of "what if this crazy thing you support leads to THIS extreme and absurd strawman nonsense" by replying with "Great question. I'd immediately stop supporting it and campaign against it."
