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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
shanastoryteller
fmanime

i think edward elric entire military experience can be summarized as john mulaney’s “horse loose in the hospital” bit

fmanime

there is a CHILD ALCHEMIST LOOSE IN THE STATE MILITARY!

NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE CHILD IS GOING TO DO, LEAST OF ALL THE CHILD!

HE’S NEVER BEEN IN THE MILITARY BEFORE!

ink7blot

They interviewed a man who once saw a baby in a restaurant.

WE’VE ALL SEEN A BABY IN A RESTAURANT!!!

THIS IS A CHILD. LOOSE IN THE MILITARY.

thecassinator

@dalethesjtoddler

philosophy-and-coffee

And then, for a second, it seemed like maybe we could survive the child, and then, 5 miles under the capital city, an evil homunculus was like, “I have a huge transmutation circle and I’m going to kill everyone to become god!” And before we could say anything, the child was like, “If you even fucking look at Amestris, I will punch you to death with my fists. I dare you to do it. I want you to do it. I want you to do it so I can take my unresolved daddy issues out on you, I’m so fucking crazy.”

captainlordauditor

This post was written by Roy Mustang

ebonyheartnet

Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, just surprising. Like, “Today the child did alchemy without a transmutation circle,” and everyone is like, “Huh, I didn’t know he could do that.”

somethingmissingthiswaycomes

The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the child at all. Those are the days when everyone is like “I think the child has finally calmed down,” and then the child is like “I just uncovered a government conspiracy. I went in that secret lab and snuck in there with my tiny body. I have a tiny body, but don’t you tell me that, or I’ll fuck you up,” and you’re like “That’s what I thought you’d say, you tiny fucking child.”

And then for a second we’re like “Maybe the government will fire the child,” and the child is like “I have dismantled the government.”

burntreads

And its like, I didn’t know he could do that, that shouldn’t be allowed no matter who the child is.

marichromatic

Some people are like “There should NOT be a child in the military”

And I’m like “Well WE’RE WELL PAST THAT”

Some others are like “If there’s a child in the military, then I can do human transmutation with my daughter!”

And we’re like “Well those two things DON’T ADD UP AT ALL!”

are flat earthers just denying that the Pacific Ocean exists
whats their explanation for the high number of asian immigrants on the west coast of the us

do they just think that for some reason the other side of a flat earth is the most desirable place for asian people to live

i really want to know this

56.05% of Hawaii’s population is Asian 17.38% of California is Asian Washington is 10.91% Asian That’s the three states with the highest Asian American populations And guess what? They’re all either on the west coast or in the pacific ocean
wildflowerwoodsworld
thepromiscuousfinger

Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?

beardedmrbean

reblogs have always been in short supply for artists, sadly, but it's hitting the shitposts and even the cat pictures lately.

Gotta keep getting the word out that reblogs are good and keep people posting new material that will be passed around for the next 12 years

mornington-the-crescent

They’re used to other social media sites, where the only equivalent of reblogging is straight-up content theft; so the idea that you can put someone else’s stuff on your page and have it not be a bad thing is a strange experience for them.

They’re likely also used to an algorithm recommending content based on what they hit “like” on, so they probably think that that’s how this works, too.

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readingbeneaththestars

Promise?

wildflowerwoodsworld
ins0mnia-an0nym0us-au

since y’all didn’t respond to my well thought out post. have some memes calling y’all out, as well as a link to my other well thought out and written post. i’m tired of seeing people complain about their dash being dead, when they only like shit. reblog or shut up - LINK

for reference -

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oasisofpassion

notes missed the point entirely

chaotic-queer-disaster

to add: lots of users who migrated from, like, twitter or tiktok think reblogs are reposts–THEY’RE NOT THE SAME THING. Reblogging is good. the person who posted it still gets notified for all the notes and still gets credit for everything; now their work is just spread!

LIKES DO NOTHING. They’re nice, and it’s good to know someone likes your work, but… likes. do. nothing.

slashpalooza

👆👆👆👆🙌🙌🙌

lucia-safuriajin

I never thought about it, now I see the point

technologyvoid

F I N A L L Y

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phoenixyfriend
autistic-af

I don't care what people say. Drinking water is such a horrible experience if it's not ice cold and drunk immediately.

It can taste funny, smell funny...filtered or not.

I HATE drinking water because of this!!

cinnamon-and-whitenoise

My husband says "water doesn't have a taste". It absolutely does! Even the most neutral of waters has a taste and that taste is Water. We argue about it sometimes lol

autistic-af

Hubby gave me a cup of water for my pills last night and I grimaced cuz I could taste that it was from a slightly warm tap. I told him it tasted like heat. It wasn't hot. But I could taste the heat like bubbles.

He just stared at me and walked away. 😂

remusthedroid

Sometimes, and i dont know why, but sometimes water randomly tastes like dirty sock water. Its gross and makes me gag. Water definitely has a taste and the taste varies and its annoying and gross.

autistic-af

My husband: It's just water. Water has no taste.

The entire Autistic Community: Fuck water!

mental-illness-bingo

My doctor told me a few years ago (before my autism dx) that "if you can taste water, you're probably hypersensitive to the metals and minerals in it. Let me guess, every single different place you get water from, maybe even different sinks in your house, it all tastes different, right? Yeah, you're tasting minerals that normally people can't taste. I can't really blame you for not drinking water when it probably tastes like licking rocks. The only thing I can really do to help is suggest you flavor your water with mio or powdered mix" and I would *not* be surprised to find out that autism increases your likelihood for sensitivity to that taste!

babyspacebatclone

Wait, not everyone is hypersensitive to the taste of the temperature of water????

……..

Oh my Stars I have hypersensitive taste.

azzandra

I thought everyone could feel that water tastes different depending on whether the tap is set to cold or hot? Is this a less common experience than I thought?

wildflowerwoodsworld
veeaziel

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every day i am percieved™️

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

timeywimeywerewolf

I feel understood 🥰

accursedsith

Well now I know why I haven’t touched a book in ages

readingbeneaththestars

I love how I learn things from Tumblr that I can then fit into my existing understanding of myself.

mneiai
longclawshilt

I just want to remind people that Jon Snow is the ONLY person in Westeros’ history to be born of a union between the two most magical and important houses in the series. He is Stark and Targaryen, ice and fire. Duality is such an important part of his storyline so you can’t strip it away and say he’s just Stark or just ice.

And let me remind y’all that Jon Snow is full of magic. To say that he’s not the chosen oneᵀᴹ because he doesn’t have magic in his storyline is flat out wrong and not compliant with the actual cannon. Not so Friendly reminder that he: can warg (he’s one of the more powerful Stark wargs), has superhuman strength, gets prophetic dreams, is surrounded by magical creatures (some of which are said to be of legend and nonexistent), has an invaluable magic sword (and will mostly get the ultimate fantasy sword ᵀᴹ), has two (!!) fantasy wizards obsessed with him, lives on a magical ice structure (which the narrative says is his, in a very possessive way), is claimant to a magical title, and he’s definitely probably the subject of multiple prophecies and legends. I want to remind y’all that due to his dual parentage, Jon is the only one among the main characters who is able to harness different Valyrian and First Men based magic abilities. He’s already exhibiting some of these powers and will continue to gain more abilities until the story ends. I keep seeing people write out all the magic in his arc (just so they can make their faves look better) and it’s the most annoying thing. Stop 🛑 it!

You don’t have to like Jon, but you also shouldn’t try to rewrite basic cannon. What you want isn’t what’s in the text. Those are two separate things. You may not want Jon Snow to be the chosen one, but friends he is. Whether people like it or not, Jon Snow is a special snowflakeᵀᴹ, and y’all will have a much easier time coming to terms with that and moving on.

mneiai
spocktheestallion

for a tragedy the iliad is pretty funny. compiled some of my favorite things about it (not in chronological order)

- patroclus barely speaks for most of the book but EVERYBODY loves him. like he’s literally the entire greek camp’s precious meow meow. the ORIGINAL sweet little meow meow. even the GODS are sad and feel bad when he dies. even HOMER loves patroclus, always calling him “faultless patroclus” “my patroclus” “gentle patroclus” “sweet patroclus” WE GET IT. achilles, briseis, menelaus, ajax, literally every member of the greek camp is down ATROCIOUS for patroclus all bc he’s just one Really Nice Dude. just one very Sweet and Polite Fella. one Extra Special Guy <3 his whole narrative purpose is simply to be everyone’s special little scrunkly

- in one of the MANY passages where achilles is lamenting about how sad it is that patroclus is dead he promises patroclus’ corpse that he will have many deep-bosomed trojan and dardanian women weep for him. he tells his dead buddy “i will get the absolute THICKEST hoes with the BIGGEST mommy milkers for your funeral” honestly? id be honored

- all the arguments escalate so quickly. an old man very politely appeals to agamemnon to pretty please give his daughter back and offers him a huge fortune for her and agamemnon calls him a crotchety old bitch and tells him he’ll fucking kill him if he ever sees him again

- that same old man is a priest of apollo. you know, the plague god? anyway priest calls in a favor and apollo curses the greeks with a plague

- to address this, achilles decides to resolve it by calling all the greeks together and passive aggressively going “HM! i WONDER what could have caused a PLAGUE! it’s almost like we OFFENDED the PLAGUE GOD somehow. now WHAT could WE (cough agamemnon) done to offend the PLAGUE GOD?????” all in front of agamemnon

- zeus spends most of the book desperately trying to keep the gods OUT of the war. then once he’s finally had enough he just calls them all together and says “go nuts” and then they do

- artemis talks shit on the battlefield so hera calls her a bitch, steals her bow, and beats her with it. artemis then goes back to zeus and cries

- polydamas says to hector “hey you killed patroclus and achilles is gonna be fucking pissed. we should probably go back to the city while we can” and hector calls him a bitch and tells him to stfu. achilles then chases them back to the city and hector decides to stay outside and get killed by achilles instead of going in with the rest of the army bc he didn’t wanna hear polydamas say “i told you so”

- diomedes is about to fight with a guy called glaucus but then they realize their ancestors were friends or something so they decide not to kill each other, and diomedes says “hey! why don’t we even trade armor! :) just as a show of friendship! :))” and glaucus is like “yeah sure!” and gives diomedes his really nice gold plated armor while glaucus gets diomedes’ shitty plain bronze armor

- achilles makes a bitchy comment to his horses about leaving patroclus to die and the horse momentarily gains the ability to talk just to tell achilles it wasn’t THEIR goddamn fault, tells achilles he’s gonna die soon, and then goes back to being a normal horse.

- zeus with his daughters: oh child ❤️ oh my dear ❤️ oh there there i didn’t really mean it ❤️ sweetie why don’t you go help the greeks?❤️

- zeus with his sons: “ares you fucking donkey”

- everyone calling paris a stupid coward bitch every time they see him. all of troy fucking hates him. hector fucking hates him. helen fucking hates him.

- paris getting dressed up in fancy armor and prancing to the front lines going “i’ll fight ANY of you greeks!” and menelaus (the guy whose wife he stole) goes “alright bet” and paris nearly pisses his pants and tries to hide but then his brother hector calls him a piece of shit and tells him he hopes he dies and makes him fight menelaus. menelaus promptly ROCKS HIS SHIT. literally starts dragging him by his helmet like a rag doll, would’ve killed him if aphrodite hadn’t teleported paris outta there (BOO)

mneiai
soufre-de-paris

GUYS THIS IS AMAZING

SERIOUSLY

6000 YEARS

STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS

STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW

STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME

STORIES

soufre-de-paris

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GUYS LOOK AT THIS

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

GUYYYYYSSSS

dwarven-beard-spores

“Here’s how it worked: Fairy tales are transmitted through language, and the shoots and branches of the Indo-European language tree are well-defined, so the scientists could trace a tale’s history back up the tree—and thus back in time. If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might), for example, chances are the story can be traced back to the “last common ancestor.” That would be the Proto-Western-Indo-Europeans from whom both lineages split at least 6800 years ago. The approach mirrors how an evolutionary biologist might conclude that two species came from a common ancestor if their genes both contain the same mutation not found in other modern animals.” 

sopih

How do they control for stories that were borrowed, which almost certainly happened?

gacorley

“ Unlike genes, which are almost exclusively transmitted “vertically”—from parent to offspring—fairy tales can also spread horizontally when one culture intermingles with another. Accordingly, much of the authors’ study focuses on recognizing and removing tales that seem to have spread horizontally. When the pruning was done, the team was left with a total of 76 fairy tales.”

This article doesn’t say how, but I bet those methods are in the paper.

science-of-noise

For this, they used a library of cultural traits for each culture a fairy tale occurred in, and then measured the likelihood that trait t occurs in culture c due to either phylogenetic proximity (inheritance) or spatial proximity (diffusion), using autologistic regression:

(Autologistic regression is a graphical model where connected nodes have dependencies on each other, except instead of an undirected graph, ALR is a special case that requires sequential binary data and assumes a spatial ordering.  In this case, the binary data are the cultural features).

Cultural traits states are generated using Monte-Carlo simulation and phylogenetic or spatial influence are fitted as local dependencies between the nodes in the graph representing cultural traits.  I can’t find this in the paper (though it may be mentioned in the citation of the method they used), but presumably if the spatial influence exceeds the phylogenetic influence by a certain threshold, the trait is removed.

The full paper is here.

elenorasweet

THE GRATEFUL ANIMALS IS OLDER THAN DIRT!!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!

greenjudy

happy to reblog this version with paper attached!

dduane

Story… survives. :)