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Probably goes without saying, but I just got tagged in the comments. Be safe out there!

time spent loving will never be time wasted. even if that love ends. i have to believe this or i will go crazy. signed by. girl

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isolating the vocals on the last verse of Once In A Lifetime reveal many dark secrets

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fyi that rough cut right in the middle of a “same as it ever was” isn’t my doing, that’s in the actual mix, somebody apparently needed to stitch that last bit together right in the middle of a word

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Me alone in my house at 2:37 AM

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IM GONNA CRY WHAT RHE FUCK

#talking heads #I do love love the once in a cheesetime parody and it just adds to this in a way

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this too shall pass but the fuck was that for

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#i always think about how beautiful it was for ryan coogler to cast buddy guy as older sammie #i often think about how people like to espouse the idea that we are "so far removed" from jim crow and segregation when creatives like buddy are still alive #a lot of the activists and figures are still alive! #idk the fact that he's living proof of the continued effects of chattel slavery on black americans is so bittersweet because he remembers such atrocities but he's also able to bestow wisdom and history for art pieces like sinners

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Ryan Coogler said in an interview, btw, that part of why he thought of Buddy Guy was because his uncle loved seeing him – he'd get dressed up and go see him play live when he got the chance.

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My grandfather's grandfather was born a slave. I believe he lived to see freedom, but still.

Which means my grandfather's father was a sharecropper, which is within my family's oral history for why the [surname] family property and farm is the way it is and has been in the family for so long.

My grandfather died at 96 years old at the turn of the century.

Sharecropping as we know it today ended sometime in the 1930s-1950s depending on the state. Not only was my grandfather a sharecropper's son- my grandfather was a sharecropper himself during his early adulthood before he left home to join the military and later became a preacher.

My grandfather marched with Martin Luther Kin Jr and educated my father on black politics and activism. My father just turned 71, the same age as Ruby Bridges, the little girl who sparked the mass desegregation of education. She was born in 1954. There exists a photo somewhere of a little boy on a man's shoulders in the crowd at one of MLK's public events. That's my dad.

That's how close this is to the current era.

I said that once as a teenager on a forum. I was mocked and told that I am either way older than I claimed to be or that I am way off in my estimations because slavery was long ago. Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Civil Rights movement itself, that is in recent enough memory to be evident in the lives of those who are alive today. My grandfather's grandfather- I'm just 5 generations removed from slavery.

Buddy Guy is 89 years old. My grandfather would be 122 if he was still alive today. That's how close this is.

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Blinkie Resource Masterlist 🌟

I just finished the Blinkies page on my Neocities, and it includes links to as many blinkie templates and resources as I could find, so I want to share it on Tumblr as well!

Find Blinkies:

#blinkies - Tag on my Tumblr for blinkies I've reblogged

@blinkiees - A lovely artist who's made a fuckton of unique blinkies!

Geoblinkies - A searchable blinkie index of over 6000 blinkies with image descriptions

@blinkie-reblog-archive - A Tumblr blog saving blinkies from deactivated users

Blinkie.wiki - A searchable blinkie project that currently has over 3000 indexed. Includes things like usage rules from modern creators. Follow at @blinkiewiki

Resources To Make Your Own:

blinkies.cafe - A modern (2021-now) blinkie generator website with TONS of templates, fonts, and sizing options! (Here's a visual example of some of the fonts.) You can also follow the creator here on Neocities or at @graphics-cafe

Canva Blinkie Template - A free template I made to streamline blinkie making! Canva is an online image editor with thousands of free stock assets, so this means you can punch out blinkies very quickly. Most of the blinkies by me were made this way.

Myblinkie.commentslive - An older blinkie generator, formerly called commentslive

Blinkie.suppi - A web archived blinkie maker from 2009 that actually still works! Sort of. You drag images and were expected to screenshot your finished blinkie.

Tutorial on making blinkies in MS Paint

Aesprite - A pixel art program! Usually, I don't rec things that aren't free, but Aesprite is very high quality and used by a lot of pixel artists whose work I love, so I'd say it's worth the $29.99.

Templates by Cathy - Large and uniquely shaped (heart, butterfly, etc) blinkie blanks from 2009

Lisa's Graphics - TONS of categories of big templates with dollz on the side/top, from 2009

Tiny templates - I don't think there's a name for this kind, but these are tiny templates for the blinkies that only have a few decorative blocks on the top/side, from 2009

Christmas template

Gold, rose, sci-fi templates

Bald eagle

Pastel lava lamp patterns

Seamless zigzag patterns

Over 100 Monster Energy blinkies and templates

Dog walking

Ocean/beach

Atypical dysphoria

Several transparent borders

Plate with fork and knife

Purple sparkly rocks