Everybody keeps saying BTS fans will show up to kill me for saying I don’t like BTS that much but I’ve yet to see any.
Rararara how DARE you not like my blorbo blah blah etc
There, that should either satisfy them or jinx you, lets see which it is.
Can currently living real people be blorbos? That feels weird to me.
The American music industry is quite bad don’t get me wrong like yikes however in my opinion the Korean pop industry is even more extreme. They basically make children do 16 hour work days for the chance to get turned into a money generator with no visible pores that might not get to keep a fraction of the money they’re making for their record label and the South Korean government.
I can’t change any of that though so you know. Bubblegum pop in my ears.
hey, can anyone help me? I’m a little lost. I’m supposed to have an owner. like, i’m certain of it, there’s no way i’m supposed to exist without belonging to another person, but i can’t find them? i can’t find anyone who owns me right now. which doesn’t seem right. so if someone could come along and decide that i’m theirs that would be really nice. thanks <3 ^_^
You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this
as a child being told “the moon controls the tides” with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you’re talking about magic right now? okay. fine
sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn’t ready for “the sun is a distant gorilla”. thank you NASA
I come from a culture that has no nudity taboo - nudity is not considered inherently sexual, or somehow traumatising to witness. What that means in practice is that there is a clearly drawn line between sexual and non-sexual nudity. There is nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a sexual context, and nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a non-sexual context. However, it is 100% inappropriate to be nude in a situation where it is not obvious from context whether this is sexual or not.
I’ve seen random kids who briefly escaped from their parents bolt across a public park buck-ass naked after they were playing in the water fountain and their parents were in the middle of changing their kid from wet clothes to dry clothes when the small nudist escaped. Changing your small kid’s clothes right there in public is ok because there is obviously nothing sexual about a child whose clothes got wet. But although people will have baby pictures of their kids in the bath or just running around the house like that because sometimes little apes hate clothes for some reason, it’s considered common sense to not share those pictures on facebook mom groups and such, because you have no way of knowing who’s seeing them, and that blurs the line of context.
It all boils down to the clearly defined context. Bathing nude in the same sauna with five of your co-workers at the office christmas party? Clearly nonsexual, therefore completely fine. Your friend-with-benefits inviting you to come over and opening the door in nothing but a doggy collar and the most porn-scented perfume? Clearly sexual, therefore completely fine. A woman checking her breasts for lumps in the gym lockers just before or after a shower? Clearly non-sexual, therefore completely fine.
But if you went to the bank today and there’s some guy who walks in and immediately strips naked, doing his banking business wearing nothing but a deep smile and being clearly very content with this situation, you have no way of telling whether he’s getting kicks out of this or not. There is no contextual reason for him to be nude. Therefore, that is inappropriate.
Then you go home and post on tumblr - as one does - going like “there was some dude completely fucking buck-ass naked in the bank today. That was fucking weird and I wish he had not done that.” And someone immediately swoops into inform you that actually nudity is not inherently sexual or inappropriate, and there are cultures out there that have no nudity taboo. It’s not fair to call somebody a freak for something like that, maybe that guy was just finnish.
Everyone on this webbed site keeps telling me that my incredibly yellow walls are “skin coloured” and that my incredibly warm lights “should be replaced with warm lights” so I’m trying to find a function in my phone that will let me turn off the colour correction it does that sucks all the yellow out of everything. I have not found one, but what I have found is that my phone camera has a setting specifically for food. What corrections does it need to make to photograph food specifically? I have no idea. But that’s… there.
Here is my wall as “food” btw
I’m quite mad about this because this setting somehow coincidentally solved most of the colour correction problem. This is almost the wall colour. It is blurry (presumably food is expected to be photographed at close range), but six of one.
It’s a craft room, it should be inspiring! Skin and blood are inspiring! I’m a biologist leave me alone.
The walls are this colour
Not only is that swatch also skin color, it’s basically my skin color. Held my wrist up to my phone screen and the similarity was striking. I could use this for foundation color matching if I wore makeup
Yes but it’s a healthier-looking skin colour than the previous photo that was getting called skin coloured. It’s skin with some blood behind it.
Now I’m picturing you painting house paint on your body
Read about my normal and functional spaceship to absolutely destroy your sleep schedule
This happened to me with their (now finished) serial novel Curse Words, and then their (currently unfinished) story Charlie MacNamara, Galactic Ace when I caught up to Curse Words while it was still in progress.
Simply put, it’s just a thing that happens when it comes to reading Derin’s stories.
I’ve been reliably informed by many, many readers that these stories are specifically crack for ADHD people who usually have difficulty reading and I HAVE NO IDEA WHY. That’s such a random demographic.
Congratulations, you did invent time travel after all! Unfortunately, instead of the Soviet moon conspiracy thing, all it’s good for is warping your readers several hours into the future.
Bed is overrated, grab a snack to munch while you read.
This is evil. I have to sleep before my exam, but I’m really curious now.
(I’m barely a few paragraphs in, I’ll be able to stop in time, right?)
of course it’ll be fine
oh hey this post is finally on my dash!
checking in to say i read the normal spaceship story all in one night last september & then immediately sent it to my mom like HI HELLO PLZ READ THIS SO I HAVE SOMEONE TO TALK TO ABOUT IT PLZ.
Unfortunately I don’t trust myself so I don’t dare click that link. Yet. I can tell you’re gonna get me eventually
If you click it and read it now you’ll no longer have to resist and you can save energy later
I’m like 30 chapters in and it’s consuming my brain
reblogged this six days ago with something about being on chapter 9, I know I was on chapter 51 four days ago, it’s now 2:19am and I’ve been reading for two and a half hours straight, current on chapter 90. sharing this post again to tell everyone to please read the thing bc it’s been so long since something has kept me reading until I’m literally seeing the word art shadow effect behind every letter but that’s the current state of my vision (yes I am stopping for the night after I post this but):
emphasis on the fact that this is an approximation because I am making this with my compromised vision so that now looks tripled which makes me think I did the visual effect right to make you see what I see right now
anyway read the damn story
I love that you took the time to make this effect to show us instead of going to sleep
it is 2:20 a. of the m. and I have to arise at 7:4tyfucking5. I’m reblogging this for later. I WILL NOT click the link.
Might as well keep going then. It’s the only responsible way to make sure you don’t oversleep. If you run out of story, there’s another one in progress now.
My perfect thick idiot son, Calvin, who has never done anything wrong in his entire life except today when I let him climb my young redbud tree and he went to the highest branch and wedged himself in the crook of it and wouldn’t budge and he’s so big I was afraid that he might break the branch so I had to get a stepladder and get him down while the neighborhood jays that come by for peanuts whenever they see me in the yard freaked out and sat screaming on the fence to warn me that there’s a snake very near me because I’m obviously too stupid to see it and clearly in mortal peril.
This was intentionally manufactured by Facebook. Facebook implemented it’s “accountability culture” starting with its rule about only using your real name and photo on its service and encouraging you to disclose other information in your profile, and from there it just got normalized. It was entirely to gather data for advertising purposes, but now we associate that level of openness with “accountability”. Entire generations are now being raised with this as the norm. Privacy is no longer a priority, or even really seen as an option.
This is to your detriment. Your privacy protects you from predators of all kinds. You really should be guarding it carefully. Disclose what you feel is important on a case by case basis, but even your mental health status and beliefs are exploitable by big business and small-time bullies and abusers alike.
Even if you’re not overly fussed about what people know about you, just understand that not everyone has the luxury of feeling the same. Some people have stalkers and abusers they’re trying to evade, or don’t want to attract new abusers into their lives by being that vulnerable and open again. Some people have extreme social anxiety. Some people are protecting other people in their lives. Some people just don’t want their grandmothers to find their smutfics. Some people are Internet privacy advocates who keep their details private as a political statement and as a matter of principle.
You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours. You are allowed to just be an anonymous username until you feel safe to disclose more.
You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours.
This! Bring back handles! Let me decide when im ready to tell you my IRL name.
“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot
“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.
“you are functionally a conservative” is such a good and clarifying insult
Literally right after I saw this post, I saw another post in a discord chat for BOOK EDITORS in which an outspokenly liberal editor talked about how Nabokov should have never been published because he wrote about p*dophiles and described women’s bodies in ways that made her uncomfortable. She described his writing as “objectively terrible” and said she wanted to burn his books. And other editors were bringing up classics they didn’t like and talking about how they wanted to throw them in the trash. This wasn’t like a light “unpopular opinion!” conversation. This was actual book editors talking about how books should be destroyed and censored.
There is something so scary and toxic in global culture right now. The revival of fascism is influencing everyone’s mindset and approach to art, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
I see far more books being censored today than when I was a kid. Librarians handed me The Catcher in the Rye, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Animal Farm when I was literally 8-11. My mom would never have taken a book away from me. I read everything from the Tao Te Ching to the Qur'an to atheist texts under my desk at school. Teachers thought nothing of it or encouraged it. Books seemed universally acknowledged as sacrosanct to me.
Now I can’t find any adults who don’t hesitate or want to make exceptions when it comes to censorship. Even the most liberal social activist librarians I know go, “well except for book X…”
Functionally conservative. It’s so important to have the language to express that.
one of my top ten french behaviors is that i find it deeply jarring to see croissants (as a whole) be considered as “pastries”. a Pastry is an éclair or perhaps a millefeuille or lemon tart or macaron. it is colorful and sugary and generally dainty (not always) or indulgent (not always). croissants (including chocolate/almond croissants) are Not! Pastries. but carmine, you cry! what are they then? VIENNOISERIES. like wien. you know. the city. we stole them from the austrians like a william years ago. no yeah no it Is a stupid name. still not a Pastry however,
the humble Croissant will sate you in a pleasant but ultimately useful way. it is an Efficient and Unexpensive helpmate for hungry children after school and lovers who want to treat their beloved to a breakfast deserving of the name after a beautiful night and tired grownups who want to find a Reliable and Unexpensive reason not to Kill Themselves and get them through the day.
the frivolous Pastry will be bought and consumed by Relatively Moneyed Workers on their Company-Subsidized Lunch Break, Families who visit their In-Laws on Sundays, and Lovers wishing to Court their Beloved in an Ambitious and Elegant Manner,
I understand the value of artistic liberties but what exactly is Yugio’s haircut supposed to be. I’ve wondered this since childhood
Yes yes yes its just supposed to look interesting and cool, it’s not supposed to translate into the 3D space, but if it did what would it be
As we can see above, this haircut:
Is dark in the back, blached in the front
split into minimum two groupings: Body and Bangs
Spiked in the back, likely with the use of gel or styling mousse
Obviously this is an anime, and as other features such as eyes, ears, and legs are exaggerated I feel it is safe to interpret the length of hair as exagerrated as well.
This is a convenient assumption because otherwise, spiking shoulder-lrngth hair into seven (minimum) rigid vertical spikes would be impossible to maintain.
Assuming a real-life Yugio haircut could exist as inspiration got this style, I imagine a haircut that is either short and spiked in the back with natural bangs, or long in the back and textured with shorter bangs to frame the face. Either way, either the front is bleached, or the additional blond spikes in the back could be interpreted as highlights throughout the darker, perhaps natural hair.
Given these criteria, I have narrowed the possibilities dow to these three hair styles:
For research purposes please enter your interpretations to the poll attached below
So there is a definitive answer for this, according to the people I know who Cosplay Yugi/Yami of Yugioh and style wigs for it: They start with No-Bangs Bobcut , Dye it the appropriate colors but in the same pattern as “That Thing” (AKA ‘White bangs") above, usually by applying sucessive layers of warm colors (yellows, then reds, then warm blacks), and then Gel into a Hyper-Karen Bob.
So it’s a Red-shift-White-Bangs-Hyper-Karen-Bob cut-and-color, and that’s one hell of a mouthful, so it’s fine to just call it a Yugioh for short.
I think I may have a guess for this
Yugi and Atem have slightly different hair, with Atem having a more extreme version of Yugi’s hair. However, it is important to note that there is likely no actual physical difference in Yugi and Atem’s appearances. His close friends, before finding out Atem existed, simply noticed that Yugi seemed more confident, not that he got taller, voice changed or hair changed. So that might not be diegetic, but a difference for the audience’s sake.
It’s also worth noting that anime tends to exaggerate things, particularly hairstyles. So in reality, Yugi’s hair may be less like this:
But more like this:
This is a bonkers haircut for a shy, quiet, goody two shoes Japanese schoolboy to have
That’s cus he’s goth!
He wears chokers and stuff. He’s shy cus nobody talks to the weird goth kid who loves gaming.
It’s actually Visual Kei, though there was definitely overlap between the goth/punk subcultures and the Visual Kei world! The author was pretty openly inspired by the Visual Kei culture of the 80’s and 90’s, which has many many hairstyle examples that are similar to what Yugi wears:
The show itself had many collaborations with Visual Kei performers and bands, too, so it’s pretty obvious how the series takes inspiration from the culture aesthetically as well. You can see it in some of the fashion choices, too, not just the hairstyles, as well as how visual kei took cues from and overlapped with goth and punk styles as well:
It’s the costume designer in me, but I always think it’s important to remember and reference the period and location something was made when you’re trying to figure out why it was designed the way it was, and how to realistically recreate it.
Yugioh is very obviously of its time, and that’s a good thing! Take a dive into learning about the period subcultures and you’ll find lots of cool things there, and a lot of insight into why your favorite things were made the way they were, too. :)
Cheek: a round dull pain that clocks your entire head in a different direction. It’s painful and throbs but the main effect of a punch to the cheek is how jarring it is. You feel it in your mouth, your teeth. And no matter how you position that punch the knuckles will always hit the jaw and cheek bones adding a frame of sharp pain in which the redness will be painted.
Temple: getting hit on the temple pushes your head to the side rather than turning it. It’s disorienting because it leaves you very off balance. It essentially feels like a bad pressure headache, like when you have a sinus infection on a plane, but in one spot and on the outside. It’s sharp in the middle and radiates outward and even after the initial impact it pulses like an earthquake epicenter. It easily causes long lasting headaches and is the most likely of these examples to cause a concussion.
Eye: this is a weird one. The fist doesn’t fit within the eye socket so either the knuckles on the brow and cheeks bones protect the actual eye or they don’t. The former option gives a full spreading pain below the eye which results in the classic black eye look and a sharp pain on your brow similar to hitting your shin on the couch. The latter option, well bad things can happen when a hard fast object makes direct contact with your eye but for the sake of this it feels like a vacuum bc the concave shape is being covered and pressurized. The eye feels pushed back and pulled forward all at once. It doesn’t necessarily hurt that bad for that long unless the punch was meant to do damage. I’m fortunate to say I don’t know what it would feel like then.
Nose: remember that prank kids used to pull where they’d line up their hands with their nose, push them in one direction and crack a knuckle at the same time to pretend to break their nose? Yeah that’s what it looks like when someone punches you from the side in the nose, except it’s someone else’s hand and your nose makes the sound instead of their knuckle. It’s just like breaking any bone where you hear it and feel the action if it being done but that moment of shock blankets you for a split second until all the pain comes rushing back. It’s sharp and needlelike and can give you black eyes just to add insult to injury. If you get hit in the nose from the front it’s like the uncomfortableness of when you have to sneeze but can’t. Except that feeling took all the steroids and is now using your face as a punching bag to express its roid rage. It crackles outward like static electricity under your skin, your eyesight gets fuzzy and you can’t tell if it’s because you’re tearing up, it’s hard to open your eyes, or you’re momentarily stunned and blinded. Just know it’s all three. I find that this one knocks the wind out of you the most. Gotta remind yourself to breathe just don’t try to do it through your nose.
If you really want to know what this feels like I’d suggest joining a mixed martial arts because they’ll teach you correct form and power distribution and you can spar with pads and actually hit each other.
I’d also recommend learning what it feels like to punch someone in the face. It’s much more fun and pretty damn cathartic when they deserve it.
i was just being stupid but these descriptions are actually so well written i could feel them lmao bless
Well, thanks for “being stupid,” because this is a great ref for writers.
i consider making and spreading “i’m just a girl” “girl math” “girlfailure” content and rhetoric to be a form of misogynistic hate speech. like what else can you call repeatedly linking womanhood to failure and stupidity
Can you just call yourself a dumbass and be done with it
Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡
- In 2014, the developers at Monolith Productions created Shadow of Mordor, a Tolkien game, where you played as a random ranger (the guys Aragorn ran with for a while) who gains the power to revive from death by Celebrimbor.
- The game featured a brilliant game mechanic called the Nemesis system. If an orc killed you, not only would that orc remember you, they’d be promoted within Sauron’s army gaining new abilities and commanding their own squads. If you defeated an orc but failed to kill him, that orc would remember you and seek personal revenge. Some promoted orcs would gain rivalries with others and infighting could occur.
- Shadow of Mordor became famous for the Nemesis system, as players saw the rest of the action game as a distraction from the real game: operating from the shadows to build the career of their favorite orc nemesis and create a true archenemy to have a proper showdown with. Sabotaging other orcs, purposely dying to their nemesis to hone the ultimate enemy, etc.
- Shadow of Mordor was a resounding success. Monolith returned 3 years later with Shadow of War, featuring an even more complex Nemesis system that allowed players to recruit and train their own orc army and even send them to infiltrate Sauron’s orc army. Enemy orcs with experience vs the player also start learning the player’s habits and attempt to counter them in battle.
- Shadow of War wasn’t received as well as Mordor, but the improved Nemesis system carried the game. At the time, many were convinced the Nemesis system would be a major step forward for enemy AI in games when more developers would learn how to replicate it.
- That doesn’t happen, because parent company Warner Bros filed a patent for the Nemesis system in 2016, two years after Mordor, and was granted the patent in 2021, making it legally risky for other game developers to attempt to create their own Nemesis system equivalent.
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