bro quit shielding me from danger with your body you’re going to make the audience think we’re gay
brooooo i’m serious stop pushing me up against the wall when you confront me about how reckless and foolish i am don’t you realize how homoerotic that looks
no bro don’t offer to follow me wherever i may go even to the ends of the earth that’s so gay haha
- eyeballs are an eyeball width apart - ears align with the top of your brows to the bottom of your nose, and are the center-point of a profile view - lip corners line up to the center of each eye - hands are roughly the size of your face - feet are the same size as your forearm - elbows are aligned with your belly-button - your hands reach down mid-length of your thighs - both upper and lower legs (individually) are roughly the same size as your torso (this is all rough estimates for proportion! feel free to add more to help others)
YOU ARE A FUCKING SAINT
- the length of your legs + feet is about the same as the length of your torso + everything above it
- collar bones extend directly from the shoulders
-wrists align with crotch
Hey man, just fyi, a hand is roughly the size of your face with fingers spread, but with fingers flattened it’s about half.
- eyes are halfway up the head, even in art school people are always struggling with where to put the eyes but they never believe me when i say “its halfway up the head”, they’re like, its gotta be higher than that!! its not just DO it you’ll thank me later
man people get really defensive when you suggest using chatgpt for everything is atrophying their brain
no i don’t think mundane busywork is some sacred thing we must do. but i also just… don’t trust AI as much as my own judgment for certain things. AI can’t give me anything that i actually care about
My every attempt to use it (my most extensive testing was on a local model, I don’t want to waste water) resulted in me being reminded that it always outputs the absolute average response to the query that could possibly exist, therefore making it borderline useless for anything at all creative, which is the only thing I’d ever use it for (I do not trust that thing with maths, or basic facts for that matter).
I don’t understand why someone needs this thing and all the excuses and reasons seem like they were made up on the spot by scraping the bottom of the barrel.
man people get really defensive when you suggest using chatgpt for everything is atrophying their brain
no i don’t think mundane busywork is some sacred thing we must do. but i also just… don’t trust AI as much as my own judgment for certain things. AI can’t give me anything that i actually care about
hey btw. being platonically in love is so real btw. having a silly text convo with your friend and thinking “I love you” with every message. studying together in silence and feeling the most comfortable you’ve been in years. having a huge cheesy grin on your face after you spend time together, or even just text for a bit. your worries becoming a little easier to bear when they hug you. worrying about them, wishing you could magically give them all the happiness in the world.
being platonically in love is one of my favourite feelings in the world, and you know what? I’m so grateful that being aspec let me experience this in full. I fucking love being on the aromantic spectrum <3
Indie horror games are either like “You’re on a submarine because you were sent to explore a mysterious pit in the ocean floor and you slowly realize you weren’t meant to resurface” or “Mr. Scrubkus is gonna get you!!!!! Don’t let him get you!!!!” And Mr. Scrubkus is the one everyone talks about
Also Mr. Scrubkus has an unreasonable amount of fanart porn.
Well, it is a bit hard to sexualize the merciless concepts of the creeping knowledge of betrayal and the expendability of workers in a capitalist society
idk if this is a weird thing to get caught up on but one of my favourite parts of Portal 2 was how the logos in the loading screens changed as you progressed through the game and the old areas of the facility.
it was a pretty cool way to establish a timeline as well as a general tone i guess? idk i’m just saying this cause i’m a logo design nerd but I love that they did this
“Look at this video of a child disappointed at their expensive gift! Children are so spoiled these days!”
That’s cool. So, why did their parents upload their small child being upset online? In a public video, shared to the entire video? Why did they even save the recording?
Like. The kid in that scenario could be saying the most entitled nonsense in the world, and if their parents post it online to be publicly shamed, I’d still support the kid 100%. Thinking your child’s life is a toy to exploit freely for #content is “spoiled”; when faced with mommy vlogers, kids should be demanding three PS5s and a new Bugatti, and we should be applauding them for it
This also tends to attract a lot of responses from grown adults eager to fantasize about how they’d “punish” the kid, and. If your power fantasies involve you owning an eight year old (in the metaphorical sense not the Sixpenceee sense) I don’t even know what to say
Also there are a lot of expensive gifts that are really thoughtless. If an 8 year old wants a Lego set and you buy them a model train set and they get pissed about it, you’re the problem.
I don’t care that the thing was expensive, if you didn’t ask or ignored what they wanted, that’s on the parents
A lot of people seem to not realize (or care) why kids want specific things, and also that kids don’t get what money is. They haven’t had it beaten into them yet that they’re supposed to like expensive things more than less expensive things. What they find enjoyable may have nothing to do with how expensive it is, and that fries the brain of well-off parents who care about things primarily as status symbols. The notion that someone could be happier with something that cost $20 than something that cost $2,000 infuriates them on a deep subconscious level
It’s also limited by parent’s lack of knowledge about tech, so they can’t understand why someone who wanted a Switch would be upset if they get a PS5. It’s more expensive, so clearly it’s just the same thing but better in their mind. They don’t know or care that their kid really wanted to play Mario and that they can’t do that on the PS5, so they process it as ungratefulness
Kids also don’t have a huge amount of experience in anything, and it’s a parent’s job to teach them. This sounds incredibly obvious, doesn’t it?
Before a family Christmas celebration, when all five of us happened to be lounging around together, I announced we were playing PRESENT PRACTICE. I wrapped a toy frying pan in a muslin cloth and handed it to a child, who unwrapped it and mimed amazement. The older children and their father were all awarded points for their simulated appreciation and the baby got points just for learning to unwrap something. On the second pass we all leveled up to making a grateful comment in reaction to the particular gift, such as “this will go in my collection of frying pans” and “now I can cook one very small egg.”
For the six year old, I very seriously presented the important and tricky case study of unwrapping a large exciting box to find a single pair of socks. The child suggested a reaction of “this is great, how surprising! But,” their face changing to seriousness and the tone of giving the giftee useful feedback for the future, “I’m not very interested in socks.” They explained the utility of passing on this feedback. So, this being present practice, I received this reaction with the grace and thoughtful attention of an award-winning director, and we discussed how we would leave that part out for our more sensitive audiences.
The children also traditionally give small cheap or handmade presents to their family members. Each parent takes each child secretly in hand to prepare a present for the other parent. The six-year-old also has access to the PTA school shop, where the PTA purchase small shitty items (scented candles, bars of soap, cheap socks) and sell them to the schoolkids for £1.50 each, and wrap them on the spot. The 6-year-old carefully squeezes the value from the £10 we give them for this purpose, and squirrels away their mysterious bag of wrapped gifts like it’s a state secret. The three year old is given “pocket money,” and taken shopping. There is now emotional investment in giving; we whisper together quietly about how much people will like the gift. The three year old frequently whispers hotly into my ear about the item they chose for their grandmother (a tissue cover, lmao). The children, therefore, watch adults carefully when their own offerings are unwrapped and admired. When they see us reacting with amazement and gratitude to their gifts, it maps that pathway and lights it up. It also teaches pretty early on that giving is actually supposed to be rewarding, and is a more reliable source of cheer - as you can always control the feeling giving, while getting is tiresomely at the whim of an external giver, isn’t it? And it reinforces that a certain degree of social performance is expected.
Present Practice is a fun game to play so the kids do it to each other. It’s a funny trick to play on a parent, too. You can hand a parent something hilarious, like a potato wrapped in toilet paper, and see them try to do a Level 3 reception on it (“this will be my favorite ever potato,” I say mistily, “how did you guess what was in my heart?”)
For high-pressure present-opening situations, you can just sit back and watch, really. Even when I had to let them open USA-grandparent Christmas presents over Zoom AT the house of the British Grandparents. The children spontaneously decided to receive presents in the guise of angels. I was giving the kids wild thumbsups from behind the camera as they warmly enthused over the sentiments in the cards before even looking at the gift.
Does it sound artificial? Well, they have fun, and they’re kind, and they love giving and receiving. They’re nice and well behaved - and people love to give them presents. It’s all social performance! and you’re expecting super high-level software to run on Kid Hardware, which is like trying to program Plant Pathology 101 onto a border collie! Kind of an unfair expectation on the framework, mate!
I’d suggest the first port of call is literally - teaching kids how to get presents.
Aww it looks like present practice trotted around the world getting notes when I wasn’t looking! That’s so nice guys
Tumblr needs a feature that will let me sort through posts from before a certain date.
Like yes, this is my special interest. I’ve seen the top few thousand posts with this tag sorted by both “latest” and “top”. I don’t need the stuff recently posted or trending.
Due to inflation or whatever, the number of genders has decreased to only half a gender. And no I’m not sharing it with the rest of you, I don’t even have a whole gender to call my own.
“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll
I crack up every time at seeing that runestone.
Thats literally how mythology happens btw
Thats literally
how mythology happens
btw
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Enough with the fucking “what if humans can eat alien poison and it’s just spicy to em hurr hurr hurr ” crap! That shit’s Trite and Cliche! It’s American exceptionalism but for species! It’s 2024, for fuck’s sake! What if humans can’t eat alien junk food? What if humans can’t eat alien delicacies? What if anything they try is so incompatible with their chemical makeup it ranges from the insipid to the deadly? What if some substance that to them is innocuous or even vital is a human instakiller? What if sipping alien lemonade has a 99% death rate? What if human-alien cultural exchanges are always incomplete because they literally can’t eat each other’s food?
The sodium chlorate I drizzled on my fish and chips might burn Schlorp and the prion proteins in her starberry slushy might give me scrapie. Schlorp will never know fish and chips and I will never know starberry slushy. Isn’t this a tragedy. Isn’t this something we should fight God about.
What if aliens have art expressed through a medium that humans are fundamentally incapable of experiencing. At least without technology. What if they see in a different range of light and have paintings we can’t ever fully experience. What if they have supersonic or subsonic hearing and their music just kinda hurts to hear or is completely inaudible. What if, like many animals in our world, they just don’t have the specialized brain bits to read things like rhythm or pitch and are unable to ever experience ANY of our music fully. What if they experience olfaction in a different way and have arranged “"scent”“ artworks that provide a deep and nuanced artistic experience that we can’t discern fully due to our weak ass little bitch noses. What if they’re electro sensitive like some sea mammals and they have symphonies of shocks and sparks that we could never see the way they see it.
Never not thinking about the trans woman I met in a gay bar in a town I’ll never go back to who said “gender roles are like chains, fun to use in bondage scenarios but largely irrelevant in daily life”
ceos when the minimum wage is raised by one dollar (previous minimum wage was the most they could pay without going bankrupt and starving)(died in the desert)(desert death)
“xyz DNI” blocking people is YOUR job, sorry. You cannot ask the world to simply move around you, you have to take control of your online experience or you will be fucking miserable forever. Most people don’t read your bio/pinned/carrd before touching the posts that cross their dash anyways.
Also maybe worry less about if someone who likes something you hate clicks on your tumblr post. I promise it is not that fucking serious.
Also-also if you have this DNI because your friends/moots said or implied you have to otherwise you’re somehow Bad and/or will be punished by them if you don’t, that’s kind of fucked and maybe you need less controlling friends.
I know you feel ethically helpless on this bitch of an earth but I promise you, telling people with certain fetishes or god forbid media interests not to interact with your posts is doing less than nothing to make the world any different, but it IS stressing you the fuck out to be worried about if the clicks you get on the internet are coming from someone who likes to imagine The Wrong Fictional Characters kissing.
For the love of god, shipping is not that fucking important. I promise you, whatever the fuck you think you know about someone based on what they ship can be determined by the shit they actually do in the real world about real things that actually happen.
Media consumption is not activism and fandom is not the battleground upon which Ethics And Morals will live or die. It is playing pretend. Please please please get some perspective
“xyz DNI” blocking people is YOUR job, sorry. You cannot ask the world to simply move around you, you have to take control of your online experience or you will be fucking miserable forever. Most people don’t read your bio/pinned/carrd before touching the posts that cross their dash anyways.
Also maybe worry less about if someone who likes something you hate clicks on your tumblr post. I promise it is not that fucking serious.
Also-also if you have this DNI because your friends/moots said or implied you have to otherwise you’re somehow Bad and/or will be punished by them if you don’t, that’s kind of fucked and maybe you need less controlling friends.
I know you feel ethically helpless on this bitch of an earth but I promise you, telling people with certain fetishes or god forbid media interests not to interact with your posts is doing less than nothing to make the world any different, but it IS stressing you the fuck out to be worried about if the clicks you get on the internet are coming from someone who likes to imagine The Wrong Fictional Characters kissing.
For the love of god, shipping is not that fucking important. I promise you, whatever the fuck you think you know about someone based on what they ship can be determined by the shit they actually do in the real world about real things that actually happen.
Media consumption is not activism and fandom is not the battleground upon which Ethics And Morals will live or die. It is playing pretend. Please please please get some perspective
