me: [typing post that says "i just remembered i never beat off"]
me, internal: watch out!you say “beat off” here to mean masturbation. However, the phrase “beat off” could also refer to completing a playthrough of “off”, the 2008 rpg video game by mortis ghost! without context, it would appear you were talking about bideo games!
me: whoa….id better be more careful!
gigantic centipede above me: [grows a foot longer]
I just finished a short book on “how to write scary”, since that seems useful as a skill, and man……..the author cautioned not to over-use fear signifiers because that can make a character come off as a wuss, and as an example he wrote a paragraph from the point of view of the most pathetic man possible……and when I tell you I was sweating and shaking reading that. there is something so wrong with me.
👆👆👆
oh I feel bad that so many people are misunderstanding this. I’m afraid that I’m Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary posting again.
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
LINGUINI HAS A RAT ACCENT
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I think you might have your left and right mixed up, my friend
gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you’re charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.
i have seen this post on my dash 7 times now and every time i think more loudly, ‘this is what Batman villain The Penguin’s dialogue sounds like when they let him be fun to watch.’
You can fight AI in indie publishing by leaving reviews.
Seriously.
Ai-generated garbage is flooding the self-publishing market. It works as a numbers game- put out ENOUGH fake crap and eventually someone’s aunt will buy them the ebook as an unwanted gift, and you’ll have made two dollars. This tactic works at SCALE, which means real independent titles are now a needle amongst a haystack of slop.
If you have read a book this year that has less than 5 reviews, your rating is an algorithmic spotlight on that needle.
A one sentence review helps. Really. A star rating helps if you really can’t think of anything to say, but if you can muster up even “I laughed at the part about the tabby cat” you are doing indie authors a favor like you cannot believe.
(Also if you left a review on one of my books this year I am kissing you so softly on your forehead and I adore you)
as a former indie author i cannot express how much even one single sentence review can mean to sales.
so if you care about supporting authors take a sec to leave one!
One of the universe’s great synchronicities is how Dungeons & Dragons podcasts revived popular interest in tabletop roleplaying at exactly the right time for all the ex-Homestucks to be like ACTUALLY this is my tiefling player character without changing a blessed thing.
Is this why there is an overrepresentation of tieflings on tumblr?
In part, yes, though “perennial tiefling player who you’re pretty sure is using the game as an informal group therapy session to work through some sort of gender thing” is a stereotype that pre-dates both Homestuck and Tumblr itself.
A lot of people on Tik Tok have migrated over to the Chinese app RedNote, and the Chinese users are so fucking funny about it. I saw one comment that was like “Welcome, I was the Chinese citizen assigned to spy on your data, I missed you”
My fiancée, @plaidos , is currently looking to relocate with me outside of the UK, where things are becoming increasingly dangerous for trans people every day. Whether it be legislation or day-to-day living, this rampant transphobia has informed our decision to move her out of the country.
We have already taken stepsto do this as soon as possible; I have increased my hours at work, am currently in line for a promotion, and we have recently been able to acquire resources which would allow her to work more often. Even then, the expenses for things such as Visa Fees, travel, housing, and other cost of living expensesare still quite high. This fund would serve as a financial safety net for us, and would help this process go much smoother for us in the long run.
We could really use any assistance you can offer, and we thank you for sharing & donating!
My own housing/home situation has become more dangerous and volatile very fast, and I need to seek shelter elsewhere, soon, for my safety and well-being.
I’ve been eyeing up a few apartments in the area in my current price range and I’m 🤏 this close to getting promoted, which will help me support myself in the long run. Anything donated will be going towards that apartment and immigration paperwork.
Any little bit helps– and if GFM doesn’t work well for you, my paypal is here.
every software is like. your mission-critical app requires you to use the scrimble protocol to squeeb some snorble files for sprongle expressions. do you use:
libsnorble-2-dev, a C library that the author only distributes as source code and therefore must be compiled from source using CMake
Squeeb.js, which sort of has most of the features you want, but requires about a gigabyte of Node dependencies and has only been in development for eight months and has 4.7k open issues on Github
Squeeh.js, a typosquatting trojan that uses your GPU to mine crypto if you install it by mistake
Sprongloxide, a Rust crate beloved by its fanatical userbase, which has been in version 0.9.* for about four years, and is actually just a thin wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev
GNU Scrimble, a GPLv3-licensed command-line tool maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which has over a hundred different flags, and also comes with an integrated Lisp interpreter for scripting, and also a TUI-based Pong implementation as an “easter egg”, and also supports CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, XLSX, and even HTML files, but does not actually come with support for squeebing snorble files for ideological reasons. it does have a boomeresque drawing of a grinning meerkat as its logo, though
Microsoft Scrimble Framework Core, a .NET library that has all the features you need and more, but costs $399 anually and comes with a proprietary licensing agreement that grants Microsoft the right to tattoo advertisements on the inside of your eyelids
snorblite, a full-featured Perl module which is entirely developed and maintained by a single guy who is completely insane and constantly makes blog posts about how much he hates the ATF and the “woke mind-virus”, but everyone uses it because it has all the features you need and is distributed under the MIT license
every software is like. your mission-critical app requires you to use the scrimble protocol to squeeb some snorble files for sprongle expressions. do you use:
libsnorble-2-dev, a C library that the author only distributes as source code and therefore must be compiled from source using CMake
Squeeb.js, which sort of has most of the features you want, but requires about a gigabyte of Node dependencies and has only been in development for eight months and has 4.7k open issues on Github
Squeeh.js, a typosquatting trojan that uses your GPU to mine crypto if you install it by mistake
Sprongloxide, a Rust crate beloved by its fanatical userbase, which has been in version 0.9.* for about four years, and is actually just a thin wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev
GNU Scrimble, a GPLv3-licensed command-line tool maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which has over a hundred different flags, and also comes with an integrated Lisp interpreter for scripting, and also a TUI-based Pong implementation as an “easter egg”, and also supports CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, XLSX, and even HTML files, but does not actually come with support for squeebing snorble files for ideological reasons. it does have a boomeresque drawing of a grinning meerkat as its logo, though
Microsoft Scrimble Framework Core, a .NET library that has all the features you need and more, but costs $399 anually and comes with a proprietary licensing agreement that grants Microsoft the right to tattoo advertisements on the inside of your eyelids
snorblite, a full-featured Perl module which is entirely developed and maintained by a single guy who is completely insane and constantly makes blog posts about how much he hates the ATF and the “woke mind-virus”, but everyone uses it because it has all the features you need and is distributed under the MIT license
every software is like. your mission-critical app requires you to use the scrimble protocol to squeeb some snorble files for sprongle expressions. do you use:
libsnorble-2-dev, a C library that the author only distributes as source code and therefore must be compiled from source using CMake
Squeeb.js, which sort of has most of the features you want, but requires about a gigabyte of Node dependencies and has only been in development for eight months and has 4.7k open issues on Github
Squeeh.js, a typosquatting trojan that uses your GPU to mine crypto if you install it by mistake
Sprongloxide, a Rust crate beloved by its fanatical userbase, which has been in version 0.9.* for about four years, and is actually just a thin wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev
GNU Scrimble, a GPLv3-licensed command-line tool maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which has over a hundred different flags, and also comes with an integrated Lisp interpreter for scripting, and also a TUI-based Pong implementation as an “easter egg”, and also supports CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, XLSX, and even HTML files, but does not actually come with support for squeebing snorble files for ideological reasons. it does have a boomeresque drawing of a grinning meerkat as its logo, though
Microsoft Scrimble Framework Core, a .NET library that has all the features you need and more, but costs $399 anually and comes with a proprietary licensing agreement that grants Microsoft the right to tattoo advertisements on the inside of your eyelids
snorblite, a full-featured Perl module which is entirely developed and maintained by a single guy who is completely insane and constantly makes blog posts about how much he hates the ATF and the “woke mind-virus”, but everyone uses it because it has all the features you need and is distributed under the MIT license
also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!
pro-tip if ur a teen or aspiring artist: stay the fuck away from tiktok. tiktok is not the place for your art. your art is not content to be sold. don’t listen to art youtubers advice if they dilute being an artist to stats and algorithms. trying to make a business or career out of art is actually something that takes a lot of experience and consideration to go into it is Not an inherent facet to getting started/expressing yourself as an artist. conflating art = selling something/working a job is the fastest fucking way to ruin it for yourself i am so serious. find communities that share your artistic interests make friends and share your art there. be indulgent and creative and experimental. you deserve a period in your artistic journey that is purely selfish and fostering of your growth. don’t let capitalism take that from you yet
Tumblr’s added some ruidimentary search operators, one of which lets you search by blog, and it actually turns up posts, unlike the search bar on a blog itself. It recognises quotation marks now, too.
You just have to make sure you’re searching on the actual “search” page, it still tries to take me to the “tagged” page and I have to manually change the URL.
BUT, you can actually find a post on someone’s blog now. Just don’t start from the blog you want to search
ive found that partially treated mental illness can sometimes look to uninvolved onlookers like faked mental illness.
“someone who really has pOCD would be disgusted and horrified at their intrusive thoughts” or maybe i’m in therapy & am going by the books, being radically ambivalent to my intrusive thoughts instead of wasting energy mentally washing my paws of sin. i’m not going to perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed.
“I won’t perform my rock bottom for you for the sake of being believed” is going straight into my permanent storage holy shit
Your bio says that ai voice overs are not allowed, does that include (example) tools like text to speech for people who are dyslexic, have vision problems or can’t/won’t read paragraphs that long? As in listening to the text rather than reading it, as private use? Love your content btw :3
Using built-in accessibility tools in your device, like your mobile phone’s narration or window’s narration tool is fine. If you go to the ‘Accessibility’ setting in your device, you have a couple of options to use. When I have difficulty I use that, I use 'Zira’ for my voice personally but that’s just a preference
Tried to make a rough painting of where all the buildings are in Trod, though I still might expand it (for a third time) and keep adding on because it’s missing some structures, and not enough homes. Or maybe a complete redo idk I don’t like it yet
Tiny close ups:
Plus some of the building names:
Don’t take this for certain I may still change some things ksdghkls
The people in the top three spots on Forbes’ billionaire list—Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg—will have prime seats at President-elect Trump’s inauguration next week. NBC News, citing “an official involved with the planning of the event,” reports that the three tech billionaires will be sitting together on the platform with other high-profile guests, including Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Bezos and Zuckerberg’s companies, Amazon and Meta, have each donated $1 million to the inauguration, while Musk spent more than $250 million to help Trump win the election, reports Reuters.
COTL / TROD AU Reference Sheets and OC refs that I made a few months ago and have been using but forgot to post. The cloaks on Narinder and Lamb, and heights and clothing of the bishops are semi-outdated, but the OC height sheet is accurate.
+ Joon, Grekimar, and Jayen refs. There’s character lore and relationship info for them under the cut, I’ll get to the rest of them eventually:
People don’t actually grow out of their emo phases. People are forced out of their emo phases by employers who get a raging boner over controlling how their employees dress, cut their hair, whether they mod their bodies and so on
How many beautiful emo men would we have if not for the tyranny of the 9-5. How many strange goth women are trapped inside the performance of a clean girl aesthetic because she needs to be able to eat. How many people are wage slaves when they should be punks?
Also I’m smarter than all of you guys who were forced out of your emo phases because I went to 7 mile and bought a wig for normie cosplay and no one has clocked me at any of the job interviews I’ve been to. I go to the interview in long sleeves and I wear a brace on my wrist to cover my hand tattoo and pretend to have sprained it until they give me the job. life hacks.
Oh also this is why a lot of people dressed alt on social media during the pandemic and then stopped. They’ll say it’s because they were bored and they think it’s cringe now. They’re liars it’s actually because they had to go back to work and were made to feel cringe by the lame ass office culture
