#What is Time Theft

[imaginable-horror]

The Leverage universe is so funny because why is being an insurance investigator equivalent to being a Sherlock Holmes

[lazylittledragon]

so uhhhhhhhh. not to be cryptic and bitchy on main but congratulations to everyone in my messages for like 5 months on being right i guess

[deoidesign]

Doing master studies the only way I know how: Stealing them and making them my guys.

(Barberini Faun)

(The Fallen Angel - Alexandre Cabanel)

(Covent Garden - William Bruce Ellis Rankin)

[cirrup]

Going through my drafts that I’ve avoided because I wrote many of them while recovering from wisdom tooth surgery and many of them are indicative of such a state of mind but this one…

This one is special.

[blakbonnet]

Gifmaker's challenge : Reblog this post with one before/after gif just to show people the work it takes to make even the most basic gifs. I'm not even talking about beautiful colouring that a lot of gifmakers put time into, this is the bare minimum editing I'd do for a scene like this 🫶 Gif making takes so much time and effort (and sometimes, funds for external hard drives and screencap software programs and legally getting PS) so I would just like people to see how hurtful it is when gifs get reposted on Twitter and here 🥲

Tagging @bizarrelittlemew @cobbbvanth @seance @djarin @yenvengerberg @michaelsheens @saltpepperbeard @ofmd-ann and any other gif makers out there who want to participate

[turtleblogatlast]

Big Mama must have lost some serious standing in the yokai underworld because it’s gotten apparent that she keeps being beaten by a small group of teenagers and the occasional rat man, and when it’s not them then she’s taking L’s from her own schemes working against her.

And in the ensuing power vacuum, the Hamatos accidentally become the most feared crime family known to all the big bads of the Hidden City.

After all, they’ve publicly outplayed Big Mama multiple times, a couple of them have taken out the heads of two of the most well known criminal organizations, one took out Heinous Green, two are responsible for the destruction of Witch Town, they have ties to both the infamous Baron Draxum and Captain Piel, they won the Doom Dome death race, they’re Battle Nexus Champions, they’ve displayed insane feats of power and defeated impossibly strong enemies, most of them have been to jail, and they regularly mingle with humans.

You can just imagine the notoriety they’d accumulate from word of mouth alone.

[1tsstargaze59]

I had this idea for an Inside Out AU at work where Anxie and Fear work at a haunted supermarket that's open 24/7 and they always get the late shifts and get to be the horror protags they were meant to be. The others appear as customers and shenanigans happen XD

Any thoughts? Ideas?

[veggiecorner]

Food for thought but what if the house in Hateno was just Zeldas at first? Link wanted to give Zelda a place to stay where she can rest without being reminded of her duty every 5 seconds (which was why staying in Kakariko didn't work) and he knew he's not the type to sit around and rest. He does want to stay by Zelda's side however, but also felt awkward about living with her. So he does this thing where he just checks in with her every few weeks/months but travels around doing tasks for the people. Whenever Zelda wants to travel he's immediately by her side, but once she's back in Hateno he's just "...okay see you later......" and leaves. Zelda wants to tell him to stay a bit longer, but is too uncertain to break that boundary between them. Also she doesn't really want him to feel like he has to stay by her side. She wants him to have his freedom.

But suddenly him being gone for 2 months becomes 6 weeks...then it becomes 1 month...then 2 weeks....then a week...and one day he walks up to Zelda and just says "...can I stay over for the night?"

And so the house in Hateno starts to feel a little less lonely from then on.

[phoenixyfriend]

Totally the Real Jango

Have another time-travel concept:

Clones go back in time. Run into some Mandos, most probably the Haat'ade. Subsequently LIE THEIR ASSES OFF. Specifically:

Sheer, bald-faced lying that they are are Jango himself from the future, relying on the pronounced age but identical DNA to sell it.

Any questions of fact that they get wrong regarding current and recent status with the Fetts or with Jaster get explained away with 'it was decades ago,' because they look like they're fifty, and this Jango is Twelve or something.

@jebiknights offered:

I can't decide if baby Jango would be really impressed with "older him" or extremely "unimpressed." Also potential hilarity for Jango to be POSITIVE that the person couldn't possibly be him but DNA checks out and all the adults are like "nah Jango is just being a brat."

…technically this only works if there's one clone, unless the second clone is Boba or Omega, or both, posing as Themselves but selling the clone-is-actually-Jango gambit for reasons.

In my mind it's one of the clones that got scarred up enough that if one of Jango's childhood scars is missing, it's explained away with 'well half that leg is synthskin grafts anyway, so who the fuck knows when the small scar got replaced with a Big scar.'

Which is. Most of the clones that survived that long.

So much of the ploy is reliant on Boba feeding information to whichever clone this is (Wolffe or Rex, probably) about his dad in order to sell the bit, but like. IDK why he'd even be cooperating. Just that he is. For the bit. And some scheming.

Boba's already an adult if the clone in question looks fifty or sixty, which means Jango is following him and Omega around with stars in his eyes. Jango thinks future him is scary, but future kids are badass, so he's gotta figure out what kinda cool bounty hunter he can be, even if the future sounds like hell in a handbasket.

But the IMPORTANT PART is that Boba is uncomfortable as hell due to. uh. lying to his dad. and also the fact that bb Jango does not know, at all, how complex all the feelings that he and Omega and the older clone hold towards dead future Jango are.

Jaster is kind of happy/excited to see them all, but the fake future Jango is... not very friendly or familiar with him? Which he's upset by until Boba says "you died when he was fourteen, so um. I never even got to meet you? And I guess he doesn't know how to feel about it" which is a great way to lie with the truth.

I don't want Boba to be too old, but the age difference needs to make sense with how old they look. Early twenties for Boba would be mid-forties for the other clone?

And stress added a bit.

And they can drop the odd joke about how Jango 'aged well' and looks younger than he is.

(If the time-traveller clone is Rex, they are definitely being stalked by a former Jedi who is really weirdly fond of staking out in trees.)

By the time the double aging actually shows, they'll have hopefully come clean and/or skipped town (whatever their actual goal is).

[lizardsfromspace]

So I got a new phone that doesn't have a headphone jack since none of them do now and I only have wired headphones so I went to get a pair of bluetooth ones, since earbuds are trash that is a bad feeling upon my ears, and I found them on the bottom level of a store where they were not only in plastic cases, but set up so you literally couldn't pull them off the hook at all, so you need staff assistance, which I almost always just turn away from without buying anything bc I don't want to bother anyone, but also the store only has self-checks and they're overseen by a skeleton crew on the first floor, and I saw zero staff besides them and there was no "summon a crew member" button, so my two options were to wait forever for someone to pass by or try to sway the like three people upstairs to abandon their post and come downstairs to unlock it for me, and anyway I just ended up buying some socks and still don't have headphones for my phone and now I understand why people play their music out loud everywhere bc they took away our headphone jacks and everyone only had jacked headphones and buying unjacked headphones appears to be theoretical in nature. The socks are nice though

[hookedwayfinder]

Fandom Etiquette

Some unspoken rules of fandom communities on Tumblr (aka fandom etiquette) for people new to Tumblr.

If you post AI on your blog, prepare to be blocked by a TON of people. Why? AI shits on artists. The majority of people on Tumblr respect artists. If you share AI art on your blog, a lot of people are going to block you, which is probably not what you want. So don't post AI! (Same goes for reblogging AI shit).

Do not steal art from artists. Reposting art is usually frowned upon and if you wish to do this without people getting mad at you, credit the artist by name and link. For example, "This is drawn by Bob on Instagram - link to instagram here" If the artist if already on Tumblr, just reblog their work, don't repost it!

Do not redraw art from fanartists without their permission first! And if you do get permission, credit the original artist in your post, if not, people will think you are a thief and you will once again get blocked by fandom regulars. (redrawing official art from the fandom you're in is usually ok and a great way to learn. Learn to differentiate official art from fanart.)

Pinterest is the den of thieves. Great for finding a ton of lovely artworks with no way to get back to the original artist. Do not follow their example. That's not what anyone wants Tumblr to be. If you've got 50 fanarts saved on your pc and wish to share them with tumblr while you don't know the original artists? Then don't. That's the answer. Don't share art if you don't know who the artist is. Or learn to reverse image search.

Tagging is a way to communicate with the fandom about what you post on your blog without it afterwards showing up in reblogs. You can tag with character names, fandom names, ship names, and also personal tags such as "my fic" or "my art" - so that people checking your post can verify that it's made by you and not just stolen from someone else. Use tags to clarify if art or fic is yours when you post it.

Posting fanfic recommendations is usually a good way to make friends and earn yourself respect if you're not very creative yourself. Drawing fanarts or making edits for said fanfics will earn you god-status. Answering asks or posting meta or headcanons are other things you can do if you're not very creative otherwise.

Be careful sharing gifs and edits that you did not make yourself, even in-between your essays. Once again, it is technically theft, though I think most people view it as a lighter form of theft than art-theft. Crediting is still usually appreciated. Sadly a lot of photoshoppers accept this type of theft as part of the deal.

No matter which rule you broke in the past, you can always learn to do better. When in doubt, ask around in the fandom what you should do with a specific thing you want to post. Making a mistake does not get you kicked out of the fandom necessarily, so don't sweat it, just do better.

Even if you try to be a perfect fan, you will at some point break a little fandom etiquette here and there. You might reblog an AI art by accident... Share an image that was edited without you realizing it... Use someone else's gif without credit... It's ok. We all make mistakes. As long as you respect the fandom in 99% of your posts, nobody's going to cancel you for that.

This is by no means a conclusive list.

[kivaember]

the relativity of simultaneity - Star Wars Fic, Darth Vader time travel AU

Title: the relativity of simultaneity

Rating: Mature

Characters/Pairings: Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padme Amidala

Tags/CW: Time Travel, Alternative Universe - Time Travel, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Anakin Skywalker is a Disaster, Darth Vader is a Disaster, Dubious Morality, Unreliable Narrator, Canon-Typical Violence, Fix-It of Sorts

Summary:

He turned slowly. The window was polished enough that Vader could see his reflection. Anakin Skywalker, blood-soaked and wild-eyed looking, smiled back.

Vader’s path was clear.

He had to kill Anakin Skywalker.

or;

The Force boots Vader back to during the Clone Wars, with only one year left before Anakin Skywalker falls.

Vader, of course, chooses the most deranged course of action.

[johnnystruant]

Palworld Experience Thus Far:

- Died via getting my shit wrecked by a Deer

- Got attacked by 5 "Depressos"

- Saved an off brand Clodsire and watched as he danced around in his little hot tub.

- Rode on the back of a Not-Lycanroc

- Found the neatest hybrid of Goodra and Meganium

- Got attacked by Not-PETA

- Started building a bed. 4 Sheep helped with their tiny little hammers

[saintly-shenanigans]

the hecc is all thiss

no. no way. no way right this cant be what she chose to do with teh phone are you REAL

HVEH BSGXHHXSVZ. CACKLING.

ARTI YOU FOOL. YOU HAVE GIVEN ME FAR TOO MUCH POWER >:3

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

i tend to be resistant to psychoanalytic explanations (full disclosure - undoubtedly part of my resistance is that i struggle a lot with any kind of abstract thinking and so find them really, really hard to follow and never quite feel i understand the argument completely) buuuuuut reading eric lott talk about the pleasures of the minstrel show for its audiences as being in part about providing access through the imagined Other to a regressive childlike (“pre-oedipal” if you must) experience of uncontrolled libidinal excess that is ofc simultaneously controlled through its displacement onto its racialized target…….. i do feel a lil bit like maybe i’m having a bit of a lightbulb moment about edgelording as a phenomenon and about the present edgelording of american culture

[flying-cat]

Every single day I'm seeing like 7 different types of breaking news and it always feels like this

"BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK HAS MURDERED 70 ORPHANS IN NEW YORK CITY WITH THE REASON THAT THEY WERE INFECTED WITH THE WOKE MIND VIRUS"

Me and any other NORMAL person: That's really fucked up you can't just kill orphans

Trump and Elon's ass kissers: KILL MORE ORPHANS! KILL MORE ORPHANS! KILL MORE ORPHANS! ELIMINATE THE WOKE MIND VIRUS! THEY'RE INFECTING THE GOOD LITTLE WHITE ORPHANS WITH THEIR WOKE MIND VIRUS! (They don't want to directly say that the other orphans just weren't white and that's why they had the "woke mind virus" apparently)