Gid

he/they/she 🦇 20 smoking in the shower

[7cigfigs]

sorry i love cigarettes and i love vaping and who knows, i might love zyns too.

[7cigfigs]

read 24 pages of a study in scarlet and i have characterized holmes as a weird little freak. none of that haughty bbc stuff he’s just a guy with a special interest in crime.

and also love watson who’s like “i can’t handle too much excitement” and then boom rooming with sherlock holmes so now he’s in crime scenes and shit being like “this man had crisp dark hair” like okay buddy.

anyways the mental illness in that house must be crazy yall victorian men and your “fits”

[7cigfigs]

at the risk of sounding stupid, when people write tmnt smut, are these characters…turtles ??? turtle people???? do they fuck with a shell???????

[7cigfigs]

okay if you think about it, in season 4 if-then-else finch says “anyone who looks on at the world as a game of chess deserves to lose” is foreshadowing the final showdown between greer and finch/samaritan and the machine.

[poetry-written-in-blood]

• On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated. This is the match in the powder keg that ignites World War I.

• Soldiers living and dying in horrific conditions and in close proximity to one another means that diseases spread very quickly.

• One German soldier in particular contracts jaundice and is removed from the battlefield. This soldier is Conrad Veidt.

• Veidt is permitted to act in the army theatre until his condition improves and he is fit to return to battle.

• In 1917 he is deemed unfit to serve and is discharged from the German army.

• Conrad Veidt returns to the theatre and goes on to have an illustrious career on both stage and screen, gaining stardom by playing major roles in pictures such as Different From the Others (1919), the first pro-gay film known to exist, with Veidt as the lead; and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), widely regarded to be the first true horror film, with Veidt as a major antagonist under the villain’s control. He is one of few silent film stars whose careers last through the advent of sound.

• In the late 1920s, Veidt travels to the United States to star in a few films for Universal Pictures. One of these films is The Man Who Laughs (1928), in which he plays Gwynplaine, the titular Laughing Man, who was surgically disfigured as a child to set his mouth in a permanent grin. This film is adapted from Victor Hugo’s 1869 novel, L’Homme qui rit.

• On April 25, 1940, the Joker makes his first appearance in the debut issue of the comic book Batman. It is generally accepted that the visual design of the Joker is based directly on Conrad Veidt’s appearance as Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs (1928). This is supported by the Joker’s creators, although their accounts of the Joker’s creation differ.

• The Joker goes on to become one of the most popular characters of all time, joining the ranks of characters of myth, legend, literature, and modern media whose stories will likely be retold and remembered until the sands of time have buried the bones of humanity forever.

• Enter tumblr user @the-muppet-joker (aka Croaker), who not only kins (mainly) the Joker and Kermit the Frog, but is also in a relationship with both of them.

• Tumblr user and YouTuber @strange-aeons makes a video delving into the twisted mind (and blog) of the Croaker.

• Croaker is angered by this, and so they schedule a duel to the death at @dashcon-two.

• They duel. Strange emerges victorious and is knighted by the Ball Pit Queen. Croaker dies and the funeral process is speedrunned with a heartfelt rendition of “Man or Muppet” performed by The Musical InterDudes. The singers held signs with individual letters spelling “KUNG POW PENIS”.

TL,DR: The Croaker owes his existence to jaundice and the 1914 assassination of an Austro-Hungarian noble.

And also Victor Hugo.

[hungry-skeleton]

Why isn't "too scary" a good enough reason to never drive a car

[redstonedust]

what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

[redstonedust]

and it is imperative that it ends with killing the better version of yourself with your bare hands btw.

[7cigfigs]

plato is just yaoi .

[garykinglovebot]

the world's end memes (1/?)

[huntmavs]

Mission: Impossible is THE franchise

[7cigfigs]

pinterest alternative

so in the morning of a random thursday a few months ago, i tried to open pinterest. at that point, it had been a while since i've last used the website, which is why it took me by great surprise that my account has been deleted. as of a few days ago, i found out that my account is back. this is after numerous appeals which seemed to have gone nowhere.

not to sound dramatic, but this whole ordeal was very stressful, and i've decided to stop keeping all my eggs (references and pictures and memories and all that) in one basket (pinterest).

the mass banning of accounts isn't the only reason why you should too, ditch pinterest. consider the rampant advertisement and AI-generated content that your recommended page is absolutely flooded with. consider how easily this can all happen again. collecting images on pinterest is no longer sustainable.

here's what i've done to migrate myself off of the platform:

download images from my account

i used WFDownloader, which is a bulk media downloader, to capture and download images from my boards. this also sorts out and downloads any new pins from your boards from your last download, if you would like to keep using pinterest and just want to have a backup.

this is completely free to download and use

here's a detailed tutorial from the creator

move to a different platform

i've checked out both cosmos and refern and ended up really loving refern. it's a website built/designed by an artist named jaks (@ jaks024 on twitter).

if refern interests you, i urge you to do your own research and try it out, but here are some of my pros and cons after using it

pros:

you can use a browser extension to capture the images on your pinterest board and directly transfer them to your refern page as a batch

the website itself is simple and doesn't take very long to get used to

it allows nsfw content, which is convenient if you are an artist who collects images that contain some nudity for reference

no ads, and no AI content

a built-in function that lets you make mood boards and reference boards, similar to PureRef

a "study" mode so you can practice drawing references within a certain time

a tagging system, and you're able to edit the metadata on your image

edit images directly in refern (brightness, saturation, contrast, flipping and rotating)

cons:

because of how new the platform is, the image discovery and suggestion isn't as strong as some other platforms

when you transfer images from your pinterest board, it doesn't transfer the metadata along with it. the link for the source of the image will be your pinterest board

refern's free version gives you a limited number of folders and enough storage for about 2,500 images. upgrading to pro is a one-time $29 payment, which i paid for since i see myself using this site for the foreseeable future.

tldr: pinterest has been going downhill, start backing up your images and/or try out other sites -- i recommend refern

[justarandomart]

did i do it? did i do the meme right?

[7cigfigs]

TikTok - Make Your Day

[leghorned]

party 4 u / the social network

[7cigfigs]

i neeed to see a party 4 u edit for markwardo please i need to see it

[coelii]

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

[coelii]

I’d just like to point out the growth in this post has mostly coincided with elon’s public spiral downward and I’d like to think we’re all a small part of that

[coelii]

bro can’t think because he’s just got a rager of a migraine 24/7

[fiannaai]

yes I would like to give elon musk my menstrual pain. I think he deserves it

[jupiter235]

Reblog to also give Elon Musk your menstrual pain.

[supermanstoddlerleash]

i've got some chronic pain he can have. hope he enjoys his fucked up knee

[ddeerlybeloved]

kinda fucked up that im not a tv show character or like a 14 year old's oc Because i would've been really really good at that