#@deez-no-relation

[continuants]

taking this out of the reblogs of my last post @deez-no-relation because I think it's important and its own thought.

There isn't any place similar to Tumblr on the internet. Here and now is the last shreds of an internet that was, an internet that could exist without monetization. An internet that lasted through so many ~pivots to video~, an internet that is text and gif and photo first. An internet that is driven by serendipity and the impetus of the user to do the searching, the digging, the work that is just handed to you by algorithms on other sites for the purpose of better advertising to you.

The best part about Tumblr is the reason why it can't monetize and I have been hitting up against this wall for literal years. There's magic here because it's one of the places that hasn't been overrun by ads. Every social site's business model relies on those midrolls, prerolls, in between story slides, because the money is what keeps them running.

Someone joked about making Tumblr a UNESCO World Heritage site and honestly? That's where my brain goes, too. Tumblr is a library. Tumblr is a museum. Tumblr is a third place. Tumblr is where people can go to be inspired and go feral over shit they love and indulge in passion and process their shit. How do you monetize that safely?

@taylorswift honestly this is your moment to bankroll Tumblr and save the internet (just kidding....) (unless.....)

[lvl10blvkmage]

[spaceghostswim]

this Joji instagram story has been living in my mind rent free since the BALLADS era, i quote it so much and then have to show them this 💀 i hope somebody out there connects to this like i do... (also ain't he such a cutie in that suit with the bouquet??)

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

OK you have piqued my curiosity. What is Malevolent?

oh i'm so glad you asked :D

malevolent is a horror podcast based on lovecraftian mythos by harlan guthrie, who not only writes, edits, soundscapes, and composes the entire thing, he also voices every single character, by some force of alchemy i don't claim to understand.

the show is about arthur lester, a 1930s private investigator who is english but lives in arkham, massachusetts. he is simultaneously the saddest, wettest cat you'll ever meet, the most terrifying badass with a thirst for violence, the hugest cunt, and the kindest soul who refuses to give up on hope no matter what.

it opens with arthur (temporarily) unable to remember who or where he is. he's completely blind. a voice speaks to him, gentle but totally inhuman. the voice is inside his head, and tells arthur that his eyes belong to it now. there's a dead body at arthur's feet.

there's only so much i can explain without big spoilers, but basically, a book was sent to arthur's office, and when arthur opened this book, an entity from another world was released into him, where it took control of his sight. the entity can't leave of its own volition, and in fact isn't sure who or what it is either. they have no choice but to work together to figure out who sent the book and why, if they ever hope to be able to separate again.

things, of course, aren't that simple. arthur is now wanted for murder, and as arthur starts chasing leads, otherwordly things start chasing him back, including a powerful elder god known as the king in yellow.

arthur spends a month in a coma after being stabbed; when he wakes up, the entity - who has been awake and alone the entire time - tells him that the kind nurse who spoke to them every day called them 'john doe' and the entity... rather liked the sound of it. he asks to be called john.

arthur and john are both incredibly stubborn assholes who fight and bicker more often than not, who both tend to lash out and hurt each other when they're angry or afraid, but as they're forced to cooperate, as john learns about humanity through both arthur's eyes and arthur's extensions of kindness, they grow to care for each other. they grow to trust each other, even after they've betrayed each other.

they grow to love each other. it's explicitly not romantic and never will be, by harlan's statements, but it's also explicitly love. (i will die on the aromantic arthur hill.) they grow to become one whole, fucked up, multiply-divorced, utterly devoted symbiotic being, no longer desperate to separate but to keep each other. they are the dearest, most codependent, most bitchy, most beloved of friends.

truly terrible things happen along the way; the podcast definitely is not for the squeamish. arthur is more scar tissue than not by now, and really should NOT still be alive after how many times he's been punctured. it's genuinely quite scary at times, and genuinely heartbreaking in others.

but i think its key message is that no matter what we've been through, we must cling to hope with bloody fingers, and we must keep going, even if all we can do is crawl. no matter what we've been before, we decide who we're going to be today, and no one gets to tell us otherwise. love and self-determination is what will save us.

and just from a technical standpoint, i think the podcast is brilliant. because arthur is blind, john has to narrate what they are seeing and doing, which also allows us, the audience, to 'see' what's happening, and lets us feel like we're in arthur's shoes. when john gasps in horror at what he's seeing, we feel the same dread as arthur, because we don't know what's happening until john describes it to us. harlan's voice acting is truly astounding, both in the emotion he can convey and in just how many dozens of voices and accents he's able to pull off, often without listeners ever realizing it's all the same person.

another fun element is that because harlan is a big ttrpg guy, he allows patreons to actually vote on arthur's choices in the podcast, and he adapts the story to follow those decisions. (in some early episodes, this was represented by a rolling dice sound effect.) he does have a story planned, and set to end in season 6 (we're currently in season 5), but i think that level of audience participation is pretty cool.

so yeah, that's the thing i've been obsessed with for months! if you can't handle scary or gross situations then it probably isn't for you, but otherwise i very highly recommend it. 🫶

edit: i forgot that there's a trailer!

[roosterbox]

I honestly think you’re the nicest person on Tumblr, had to tell you that!

🥺🥺🥺😭

Omgggggg no, what???

That's one of the sweetest, kindest things anyone's ever said to me! I'm legit tearing up, man!

Thank you! Sincerely 💖💖💖

I'm hugging you in my thoughts - I hope you can feel the squeeze!

[tuxxydo]

🚫🚫IF WILSON MAKES WAYLON CATCH FEELINGS FOR ANOTHER WHITE WOMAN I'M GONNA END UP ON THE FUCKING NEWS BROHEMIAN🚫🚫

[normystical]

mannn throwback to this photo

throwback to all the effort i put just for one single tumblr shitpost

...honestly needs its own post at this point. too iconic bro

[rlyehtaxidermist]

hate that the scientific name of the balata/bulletwood tree is m. bidentata. all natural chewing gum pumped from biden's tatas

[kuronell]

…I didn’t ask for any of this… maybe I wanted to be a potoo, nobody asked me if I wanted to be a potoo before I was thrust into this mortal coil D:<

[spaghetti-spider]

Happy birthday, Pastarachnid! 🥳

Thank ya

[1lostone]

I'm not proud, but me.

How many other people thought about the fact that Ten wasn’t wearing underwear after that bi-generation

[medialpest]

[metrosexualcyclops]

I HATE MATH SM GIRLLL STOP GIVING ME THESE GRAPHS

[keen-bean]

remember when people vocabulary consisted of deez and nuts

[luxthestrange]

TWST Incorrect quotes#708 Game Club

Game Club+Yuu...D&D game

Idia*In a British accent*Whats your name?

Yuu: PETE...PETE NUT!

Idia: Oh my gawd!...I think we might be related!

Yuu: Are we related?

Idia: I'M HAZEL NUT!

Azul*Is laughing around the table at the ridiculousness of this*

Yuu*Gasps at that*HAZEL NUT!

Idia: Oh mah gawd-

Yuu: ISH GRAMMA NUT STILL AROUND?

Azul*Leaning on Your shoulder for dear life laughing*P-PFF-

Idia: SHE IS BELIEVE IT OR NOT!~SHE'S STILL KICKIN' AROUN'

Yuu: Nuthin' can ever kill graaaamna nut!

You three lose it in fits of giggles and laughter till-

Azul: And then there was that weird uncle no one wanted to talk about...his name was DEEZ-

Yuu*Swallows snort and shakes head*...Dis...nut

Idia: Dis and Deez the twins-THEY WERE...

Idia*Shakes head horrified and traumatized making you two laugh more* We don't talk about Dis and Deez-