Jun 8 · 2025

you-are-another-me:

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(via areistotle)

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    • Apr 24 · 2025

    strixposting:

    vorzani:

    Tbh it’s really problematic that Tenneth has associated someone from a minority group like mewlythorne with stealing like some people need to steal like they’re literally neurodivergent?? Especially when you consider the problematic connotations that tree people have with stealing(!), not to mention the kleptophobia(!!)…in this essay I will

    Where is the essay OP 👀

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    • Sep 18 · 2024

    boycritter:

    boycritter:

    thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

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    CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

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    • Sep 18 · 2024

    mmelete:

    syn4k:

    burning text gif maker

    heart locket gif maker

    minecraft advancement maker

    minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

    windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

    FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

    image to 3d effect gif

    vaporwave image generator

    microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

    you’re welcome

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    (via stevespookington)

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    • Jul 3 · 2024

    rielzero:

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    Ohh, so I was looking at my storage and found these! I originally shared them on twitter before yeeting the platform. Anyway, feel free to use! Art memes for your oc :D

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    • Jun 7 · 2024

    iraprince:

    gonna show u guys a little opalescent highlight hack i threw together today

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    rainbow gradient above your main figure (i usually have all my main figure folders/layers in one big folder, so i can clip gradient maps + adjustments to it!). liquify tool to push the colors around a bit. STAY WITH ME I KNOW IT LOOKS STUPID RN I’M GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS

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    THEN: set it to add/glow (or the equivalent in ur drawing program), lower the opacity a bit, and apply a layer mask. then u can edit the mask with whatever tools you like to create rainbow highlights!!

    in this case i’m mostly using the lasso fill tool to chip out little facets, but i’ve also done some soft airbrushing to bring in larger rainbow swirls in some areas. it’s pretty subtle here, but you can see it better when i remove the gradient map that’s above everything, since below i’m working in greyscale:

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    more granular rambling beneath the cut!

    Keep reading

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    • May 14 · 2024

    thehmn:

    I’m legit surprised that I haven’t seen more ray cats in fiction.

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    If you don’t know, one of the first ideas for how to keep people away from nuclear waste 10000 years from now was to create a breed of cat that would change color if it got near radiation and create lore and songs to go with them that would be remembered long after people forgot what nuclear waste was the same way people still have thousand of years old religions that tell us to do stuff but we forgot why. They made a song for them and everything.

    One, why haven’t they showed up in more futuristic fiction? Two, why have I never seen a ray cat furry? Three, why did they pick an animal that is THE MOST likely to wander off instead of one we have more control over like horses or dogs?

  • 4081
    • May 8 · 2024

    medusasbush:

    a tweet that reads: "me listening to 'too sweet' by hozier when i don't really drink, don't like black coffee and go to bed at 10" over a gif of a dancing womanALT
    Obviously, TikTok can’t take 100% of the blame for this. The “maybe the curtains are just blue” type has existed long before TikTok came on the scene and will haunt high school English classes long after it has faded into irrelevance. But I do think the way TikTok engages with–and to some extent determines who is successful within–the music industry has played a key role in exacerbating this new style of musical analysis (wherein there is none). When the only part of a song people engage with is the trending clip on TikTok, the ability to grapple with what it’s actually trying to communicate gets cut off at the knees. It’s like writing a book report after reading one chapter of a book.ALT
    Each video plays the same clip and features people reenacting the same literal meaning of the lyrics, and it starts to seem like the song is genuinely about a man breaking up with someone based on how she takes her coffee. “People who think they’re superior for drinking black coffee are so annoying,” my girlfriend (a black coffee drinker) said while the chorus played as we drove. “It would be annoying,” I said, “if that’s what the song was about!” Because, of course it seems like that’s what Hozier is singing about when you’ve only heard the chorus. But songs are more than their choruses, and their narrators aren’t always the singers themselves. The rest of the song makes it clear that the narrator isn’t just talking about their habits, but the conflicting worldviews of both him and his partner, which ultimately can’t be reconciled. Hozier’s explanation for Too Sweet contextualizes it as an alternative exploration of the circle of gluttony (Eat Your Young is the song that made it onto the album in its place), but the way he describes it, both in the short explanation video (with the mention of the phrase “too sweet to be savory”) and through the lyrics themselves, it seems to be a modern illustration of another circle of Dante’s circles of hell: fraud.ALT
    In the eight circle of hell, Virgil, the narrator of Dante’s Inferno, encounters fortune tellers. He finds them with their heads twisted backwards on their bodies as punishment for how they lived in life: for attempting to know what the future held, they’re condemned to an eternity of never being able to see ahead of themselves again. [Verse 1] It can't be said I'm an early bird It's 10 o'clock before I say a word Baby, I can never tell How do you sleep so well? You keep tellin' me to live right To go to bed before the daylight But then you wake up for the sunrise You know you don't gotta pretend Baby, now and then While our world may not be rich with fortune tellers in the sense of someone sitting down and telling you your future, we’re overrun with messages and messengers telling how to live well, live right, or optimize various components of our lives.ALT
    A fortune teller takes your money and gives you a prediction, a wellness influencer signs a contract, gets paid and tells you all your problems will be solved when you sign up for BetterHelp. Do either one of them really know what’s in store for you? Who determined the right way to live? Is there a right way to live? How do you sleep so well? introduces this sickly sweet partner with a sinister layer, hinting at their ability to turn away from the bitterness and complications of life, taking only what they deem good, and not allowing that goodness to be disrupted. This sense of toxic positivity, of being too sweet to be savory, of living by unexamined rules is central to the narrator’s partner, and returns again and again throughout the song. But who wants to live forever, babe? You treat your mouth as if it's Heaven's gate The rest of you like you're the TSA I wish I could go along, babe don’t get me wrong You know you're bright as the morning As soft as the rain Pretty as a vine As sweet as a grape If you can sit in a barrel Maybe I'll waitALT
    Their partner is beautiful, but immature, inexperienced, and intensley regimented in a way that cuts them off from the fullness of the world around them. Their personal ethos is that of the cult of optimization: “Here are people who won’t drink not because they have any particular problem with it but because the data their Oura ring gathers suggests they sleep 7 percent better on nights they don’t, therefore allowing them to answer emails twenty seconds more quickly. Here are people avoiding coffee half an hour before meeting with their personal trainer who charges as much as a mortgage because they don’t want to reward their brain with a dopamine boost that could become habitual, concerning themselves with the precise receptors through which caffeine and dopamine interact. It’s boring. It’s exhausting. It’s not sexy. It might not even be healthy.” Optimization Will Not Save You Our narrator isn’t emblematic of thoughtless consumption or overindulgence, though their habits are presented as such. When they’re in contrast with their partner’s habits however, it starts to become apparent that our narrator isn’t escaping the world through indulgence, but fully particpating in it–including the bitter, uncomfortable parts we’re advised to avoid for a healthy life.ALT

    i found the tenth circle of hell: it’s where your fave blows up on tiktok

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    • May 7 · 2024

    byjove:

    Since you guys like my male name list, here are some vintage girl’s names from old historic documents, recently updated:

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    (Sorry I listed the name origin/individual’s place of birth on some and not others.)

  • 25007
    • May 2 · 2024

    astriiformes:

    astriiformes:

    College friendship is sending one of your friends who’s graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access

    Got a request for some of the recs here, so here’s a short-ish list of some of the reading recs – I’ve made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit

    This isn’t even everything I’ve dug into on the subject, but I hope it’s enough to get folks started on some reading!

    (via necronatural)

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