#ramblies

[foldingfittedsheets]

My manager brought a tray of sandwiches to the store from the training we went to. On Monday.

It’s Friday today. No one put it in the fridge.

I came in today and was like. What is making the mattress store smell like rancid meat.

Turns out it was the rancid meat.

I was alone in the store until noon so I couldn’t run the trash out. My backup walked in and went, “What reeks?”

The rancid meat.

I texted the work group chat: ...so it turns out that when you leave unrefrigerated lunch meat out in the break room you can cast "Rotting Meat" which is a second level necromantic smell- I mean spell.

This was the source of many laughs and the smell has finally been removed. The doors are all wide open to cleanse the evil.

[bluberimufim]

Levia being Behemo's ideal self means Behemo is a trans woman: so obvious it's not even subtext, already explored by the fandom, we've known it for years

Levia being Behemo's ideal self means Behemo wants to be a psychologist: revolutionary, untold implications for his character and the lore, as of yet unexplored

[cottoncandysprite]

Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet

[gelatinorifice]

I’m gonna break into your house and kick u in the BALLS 100 time. Be ready.

[tokkimins]

oh. Well that’s not right.

That isn’t what he said. Like AT ALL.

The difference here to me is huge and it’s bothering me to hell because I’ve been waiting for this scene to be animated for YEARS.

“Your survival” “raising you” “snatching you away” — all of these phrases emphasize Ciel’s life in a way that prioritizes ‘Ciel’ in that equation.

The manga’s translation, on the other hand, positions these phrases in an objectifying tone: “Your life” “cultivating it” “robbed of it”. Concern isn’t so much about ‘Ciel’ but rather his life. It’s Ciel’s soul that is of greater consequence to Sebastian at this point.

When Sebastian’s making that calculation of distance in his head, it’s out of fear of being robbed of his shit. He doesn’t imagine Ciel being physically put in danger;

he just sees him in the clutches of someone else.

The musical tone of this moment also just feels so dissonant to me man… Like this isn’t a triumphant “I’ll protect you” moment — this is a creature defending its hunt. Ciel is literally being reminded that he is indeed still a meal in the eyes of his protector. How scary is that?

Well not nearly scary enough if you’re crunchyroll apparently. I mean, “raised you?” Like ok mom.

But y’know, if you take Crunchyroll’s version of the translation with the tone of the score, it reads a lot better than if it kept to the og translations ig. So maybe I shouldn’t complain at all. Maybe I’m just being a stinker.

[valenrixo]

Thinking about sub guys who like hair pulling

It’s been an hour or two and you two are still making out, his thighs wrapped around you as he straddles your lap. Soft coos and moans come from his pretty lips as you almost devour them.

Your hands some how make their way into his hair which seems to make him needier. You pulled away slightly to see his expression which made him whine at the loss of your tongue. He pushed forward trying to capture your lips again but you pulled him away by his hair.

Something clicked inside of him that he didn’t know he had as a strangled and needy moan slipped from his lips, it had been the loudest you heard from him. Your eyes widened for a second before you grinned.

“Oh?” You hummed cupping his face in one hand. He couldn’t look in your eyes from embarrassment, his eyes almost fluttered close as he waited for you to tug his hair again.

“Puh..please…” he almost whimpered out as his gaze flickered up to you. Such a cute sight you couldn’t help but give in to his new found desires.

01

[bardnuts]

keep calling your friends. Keep spending time with your friends. Yes, even if you tend to self-isolate. Even if you're an introvert. You don't have to throw a party--sit on the couch together doing different things, parallel play, read in silence, garden, whatever.

You need it like air. Talk to the loved ones in your life as much and as often as possible. Be intimate. Have deep conversations. Have casual sex if that's your jam. Be yourself. Be present. Be human.

It is essential to your survival.

[the-beard-of-edward-teach]

so. I sent an email to the worlds foremost porcupine expert because i had a question for the fic im planning for a fandom event

and less than two hours later i got a response

all this to say: scientists are awesome and i think it’s nice to email them with questions about their field

[filteredrays]

genuinely there is no studio in the world like larian lmao holy shit

[pompomchihuahua]

Sanemi Shinazugawa: A Man of the Pack

So, everyone has likely seen this image:

Wherein Muichirou likens all of the Hashira (most of the Hashira, poor Giyuu) to animals.

Today, I want to discuss why Sanemi being described as a wolf is particularly insightful and apt.

But first, let's take a look at wolves in nature, specifically on the nature of sibling relationships between wolves and how they relate back to Sanemi. In this analysis I'm gonna pull out a lot of terms like Alloparenting, kin selection, and cooperative breeding, but bear with me and I'll do my best to explain everything! (I may have abused my college library for fandom purposes, oopsies!)

You've probably heard by now that the classic "Alpha wolf" pack structure that was popularized in 1970's is very much a misrepresentation of actual wolf packs in the wild. Actual wolf packs are often made up of closely related individuals with one main breeding pair. This main breeding pair produces offspring, which then become members of the pack and participate in future hunts as well as future child rearing.

So! A "pack" is really just a family unit. Most are made up of the parents and all their offspring.

Now, you've probably heard the phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child."

If you have, congratulations! You now know the concept of Cooperative Breeding in a nutshell! Basically, cooperative breeding is a social structure characterized by alloparental care. Alloparental care is any form of parental care performed by an individual towards young that are not its direct offspring. Such as...

...an older sibling raising their younger sibling.

Alloparenting is actually incredibly rare among mammals, with only about 3% of species exhibiting this behavior, the most famous of which being humans and wolves.

This is because it is a form of altruism, wherein an individual sacrifices something for the benefit of another individual. In the case of wolves, this may be food, time, or other resources as siblings will take up feeding, warming, and guarding duties while the alpha pair and other siblings are on a hunt.

Sanemi is a family-oriented man. His entire character is driven by family (and yes, this does include the likes of Masachika and Kanae, which I will discuss later).

His early life revolved around raising his siblings. When they passed and he was forced to kill his mother, his life shifted then to revolve solely around Genya, his remaining pack.

What I find interesting is the way Sanemi looks at the world through a lens of family orientation. Close friends are not simply "friends," they are family, and thus, pack. For example, Masachika became an older brother figure to him. In signs from the wind, when he was becoming Kanae, he looked at her the same way he would look at his mother. Even the way he views Tengen is through the lens of an older brother figure.

"He often acts like an older brother."

He talks to Shinobu "since she's Kanae's little sister." (thus, in a way, extended pack).

Hell, even his annoyance at Giyuu makes more sense when put into this light. Putting aside his glaring inferiority complex (and really, we shouldn't because it does play a huge role into why he hates Giyuu), we see that Giyuu very much plays into the "lone wolf" archetype. Something that very much goes against the pack-oriented nature of wolves.

Even calling Giyuu a lone wolf is a bit of a misnomer. Wolves leave the pack with the intention of starting a new pack. Thus, lone wolves are actively seeking companionship, something Giyuu is very much not doing (at least not consciously).

It clashes against Sanemi's very nature as a man of the pack. This "I'm not like the rest of you," shtick. It not only implies he's somehow above them in Sanemi's mind, but it also defies the natural order of how Sanemi perceives the world.

Despite his brash attitude, his openness is rated at 60% and he's often depicted within the inner group of the hashira.

He's not a social butterfly, but he is by no means a loner. Just look at how well he gets along with Obanai!

So, returning to the wolf analogy, we know that Sanemi is a pack-oriented man who places the survival of his family above all else. Let's talk about why wolves are so invested in their family members survival.

It's a concept known as Kin Selection.

Kin selection is where a trait is favored by the success of the individual's relatives that possess it and successfully pass it on.

Think of it like this: You share approximately 50% of your genes with your full sibling (with identical twins sharing 100%!). You also share 50% of your genes with your parent. You share just as much genetic material with a sibling as you would with your own child.

Theoretically, your sibling's success is also your success genetically.

This is, of course, a hotly debated topic, however.

Not every wolf is interested in starting their own pack. Let's talk about 0'6, the most famous wolf in Yellowstone. Specifically, let's talk about her mate's brother, 754M, who, instead of starting his own pack, followed his brother, 755M and joined his pack instead where he went on to help raise his pups as an uncle and served as a sort of third pack leader.

Which, is reminiscent of Sanemi's stance in the main story. His dreams are for Genya to find a "mate" and have "pups" of his own and build his own pack. And while Sanemi has no plans of being there physically, he plans to spend his life fiercely guarding Genya's pack, much like 754M.

Once again, however, the validity of kin selection among wolves is a a bit of a hot bed among animal behavioralists and evolutionary biologists, but it is applicable in this case to Sanemi.

Sanemi very much does not care for his own success. He says himself that if he should die, he would die with a sword in his teeth, taking out as many demons as he can while Genya has a bushel of kids.

Sanemi being described as one of the most family oriented and surprisingly altruistically loyal mammals is one of the most apt metaphors Muichirou could have chosen for him.

Everything from how Sanemi views the world to how he operates to even his appearance and tenacity can best be described as wolf-like.

Including, me thinks, the fandom's tendency to demonize him. Wolves are one of the most misunderstood animals out there and lately a lot of light has been shed on the beautiful creatures. With the Infinity castle movies so close to releasing, I think the same shift in perspective will be coming for Sanemi soon as well.

Now to link my sources! Hoo boy. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here.

[imustbenuts]

🙃 jfc we have a audio blasting bot swarm problem on this hellsite.

hi person who is seeing this post by searching for your tag of choice. have u seen the above shitheads and tried to report on sight bc they were blasting some video with autoplay? is your search now not working?

native tumblr blocking is breaking your endless scrolling search. apparently too much posts being excluded from the load results in the load failing, so if you reported and blocked these guys, thats whats causing it. 2nd post im making for those who might not have seen my 1st post due to the aforementioned reasons.

heres how to get the functionality back until tumblr mods gets off their ass to cleaning up the mess on desktop.

get firefox with any adblock that allows for custom blacklist/filters. im using firefox with Ublock Origin. so get this if nothing else.

go into the settings of your adblock plugin and slap the following line in the blacklist/filter. it will kill any dailymotion embedded videos too btw. remember to hit Apply Changes or Save or whatever equivalent thats present in your adblock.

https://geo.dailymotion.com/

so something like this:

now all the botted videos will be broken and unable to load. no more audio blasting. but it will look like this:

make sure the bots are unblocked so the search function actually works. again, too much blocking somehow breaks this hellsite's search bar.

tagging the relevant affected tags these bots are using. in the meantime, Report spam and/or bot but dont block. like this to preserve functionality:

uhhh feel free to spread this and queue it from time to time ig. maybe if we mass report hard enough tumblr mods will actually step the fuck up

...eventually

[foldingfittedsheets]

So I’m auditing a class right now since as an alum I get free classes for ten years after graduation. I’m brushing up my rigging skills. It’s been fun and I like the professor. It’s easy to fit into my work schedule too which is nice.

I was somewhat baffled tonight though when I signed on to Teams no one else joined.

For like twenty minutes. I couldn’t understand why it was so late and no one had hopped in and I finally commented, “Is there no class tonight?”

Another student hopped in and said, “It’s spring break, comrade.”

I facepalmed so hard. I thanked them profusely and logged off.

But completely I forgot about spring break. Retail does not have spring breaks.

[altraviolet]

thinking about this image at 3am

specifically the appeal of it at this time: being big enough, strong enough, and powerful enough to declare you can protect your loved ones and having the means to back it up. being innately physically powerful makes it easier to be brave. this may sound weird but I've never personally thought about TFs as being, like, a power fantasy. I absolutely believe many people do- I just hadn't thought of them like that before

[cottoncandysprite]

Good omens and wwdits premiering a week apart from each other is going to cause a catastrophic fandom moment that might fry the tumblr servers.

That being said ofmd has the opportunity to be the funniest fuckers alive

[bluberimufim]

The best part about people doing lighter versions of NaNo and titling it something like JaNoWriMo is that not a single syllable in "NaNoWriMo" actually stands for "November"