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Started using phone time to read library ebooks instead of scrolling and it’s made me back into the crazy voracious reader I was at age 12. i’ve been averaging a book a day this week. everyone delete your social media and get your ass on libby

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Happy National Library Week!! A great time to ask everyone you know if they have a library card.

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So Hyrule Warriors The Imprisoning War when Nintendo?

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All this discourse over who does "painting with light"

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

And it's BEAUTIFUL

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The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (Приключения Пингвиненка Лоло)

Soyuzmultfilm/Life Work Corp/Sovinfilm/Aist Corporation, 1986

[censored dub]

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Reblog if you’re cool with being a boop dump for people needing those badges.

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Reblog if you’re cool with being a boop dump for people needing those badges.

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Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

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Feel free to archive.

Storm's Coming: A Game of Fish

2-4 players

It's your last chance to stock up before the Winter storms arrive, so everyone else has their nets down too. No one knows when the storm's going to hit, but it's soon. Can you catch enough without sinking?

Each player has 1d4. Every day, they roll their die and collect the outcome in fish. At their turn's beginning, one can choose to return to shore, but when they do, every other player gets one more d4 to roll the next day. After every player has rolled and collected, a d10 is rolled, and the outcome subtracted from 100. The days continue, with the next end-of-day d10 roll being subtracted from the previous day's total, until that value reaches 0 or all fishers have left. When the total reaches 0, any fishers who have not returned to shore lose all of their fish…and their lives.

Variations: Back next year- Any fisher that does not catch at least 40 fish or return before the storm hits is out, remaining fishers play again without them until none remain (or whenever). Cooperative- Combine fish catch, but if the total is less than 40 per surviving fisher, everyone loses.

Tumblr 200-Word RPGs 2023

Last November, we did an informal game jam for folks who wanted to write something for Writing Month, but would prefer to write fewer than fifty thousand words of it. You can find the complete list of participants for that event in this post here. There's also an off-Tumblr archive of entries whose authors gave permission for them to be preserved here, if any of those links turn out to be broken.

Last year's collaboration went over well enough that I thought we might dust it off again this year. To be clear, this is just for fun – it's not a curated jam, and nobody's judging winners or handing out prizes..

If you'd like to throw your hat in, just follow these steps:

Step 1: If you're unfamiliar with 200-word RPGs, read a bunch of last year's entries (linked above) or browse the 200 Word RPG Challege archives at https://200wordrpg.github.io/ to get your brain-meats properly configured.

Step 2: Write your own 200-word RPG. If you're not sure whether you have 200 words or not (and with RPGs it can genuinely be difficult to tell!), you can use the word counter at https://200wordrpg.github.io/wordcount to check.

Step 3: Reblog this post and append your 200-word RPG.

Step 4 (optional): Please indicate in your post whether you're okay with having your 200-word RPG archived off-site for posterity – if you don't say anything one way or the other, I'll assume the answer is "no".

(As before, as a courtesy to anyone who's creeping the notes, please restrict non-200-word-RPG commentary to replies and tags until November 2023 is over – let's make the actual games easy to find!)

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Making this one of my first reblogs. I might not use the feature nearly as much as I should, but even I can tell how important it is to the site.

Tumblr reblog chains are in danger.

It seems that the staff is actually going to go forward with their decision to remove reblog chains, where reblogs will basically work like regular comments on other websites.

This doesn't just make the site completely unusable, it removes the soul of the community that has managed to build up here over the years, and that I'm so happy to have recently joined.

It makes impossible the creation of great posts where many people build up a single thing, until it is a gem of expressed human creativity.

There will be no more world heritage posts, no more messing around with your mutuals, no posts worth remembering.

There will be no more Tumblr, and the Tikblr or TumbTube or whatever monstrosity is born from its corpse will soon die, as is probably the best. And then there will never be another place like this on the internet, no place anymore to run to, no more fun, no more community.

I recommend a simple course of action. When these changes get imposed upon us, stop using Tumblr. Get your mutuals' discords, your favourite artists' websites, and leave. If the Tumblr we have once known returns, we well too. If not, better let it die quickly than suffer a long and painful decline.

I beg you to reblog this, for the more people see it, the higher chanses are for this to work.

And add something, so we can show them what Tumblr is really for.

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Oh, just a couple of warning signs from Grand Canyon National Park. A lot of folks have gotten themselves in trouble because they think upside-down mountain climbing in the high desert is easier than it is.

(CW: vomit)

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cool! i wont! no clue what that means!

text: Down is Optimal, Up is Mandatory. DON'T be like Victor!!!

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This is not just a heinous mischaracterization of American food, it's just so hilarious what op thinks is bad. It's like challenging Americans to a food duel, then showing up with a Nerf sword.

You fool. You absolute buffoon. You think that you can hurt us like this? You think that you'll put people off with Grits, a grain staple that defines much of the Southeast? Do you also think you can scare people away from Japanese food by saying "oh no, there's rice?"

Biscuits and gravy! You fear the joyous marriage of fluffy baked good with a hearty gravy, sometimes enriched with the addition of sausage? I bet you're too scared to sop up your soup with bread too.

The Twinkie, I will allow, is something unnatural. Every bit as unnatural as Coca-Cola and Impossible/Beyond "meats." The Twinkie is an abomination in the same way that Frankenstein's Monster is: a defiance of the limitations of the natural world. Only unlike that deadbeat dad of a medical student, we fully embraced our abomination, and could not wait to introduce him to the rest of the world.

It's obvious that you tried your hardest to steal the scales, too. UNSEASONED meatloaf? I'm sure there are those who serve it that way, just as there are those who serve pasta with no butter, sauce, or salt. But do you judge all of Italian cuisine based on that? Besides, the seasoning is where it gets interesting: my go-to was always good old fashioned ketchup. Doesn't that sound so much worse than "unseasoned," at least on paper?

Honestly, though, you could have gone so much harder. Where's the livermush? The pickled pigs' feet? Scrapple? Any of those magnificent gelatin dishes from the fifties? And I'm not just talking about the kind of stuff that you make because you can afford it, either; a decent chunk of those "high-concept" gastronomic experiences are right here in the good old US of A! I wouldn't touch one of those with a ten-foot (three-meter, for you European cowards) pole!

I bet you're one of those clowns that says root beer tastes like toothpaste. Please, say it ain't so.

I can't lie: I've never had Watergate Salad, and I'm not enough of a chocolate purist to look down on American chocolate. If I've ever had boiled peanuts, it's been too long ago for me to remember. But this? This is a fight you cannot win.

Grits my beloved. Biscuits and gravy, you are perfect. Twinkie, my beautiful son. These Internet fools... no, that's too cruel. We all fear what we don't understand. It's OK. Maybe someday they will come to understand the depth of their ignorance.

But if you ever go after my beautiful foods again, I will not break eye contact with you as I pan-fry two slices of bologna, put them between two lightly-toasted slices of bread with some cheddar, and serve you the fried bologna sandwich that represents all that terrifies you so much. Eat up; it was made with love. Just not necessarily for you.

Inspired by that poll coming for British food, have an alternative.

Shout-out to @sigh-the-kraken for suggesting American delicacies I wouldn't want to touch 👍

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