Just a little obsessed

don't mind me

[20thcenturystarlet]

New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

[thepeelingrenoir]

The fact this isn't a painting is a testament to one of the greatest feats of set design and production I've ever seen.

[thepeelingrenoir]

My god just look at this! The lighting, set design, photography... I've just never seen anything like it.

[jammerific]

I think this is the first time I've ever been wowed by "this ISN'T a painting"!

[the-real-seebs]

wow, yeah, that... that looks very obviously like a painting. i can't even imagine how you get a set to look like that.

[roach-works]

look at how the costumes are a mix of reflective satin and gauzy folds and chunky gilt ribbons and feather boas. the human figures *blend* into the painterly background, because their clothes and hair are constructed to have *brushstrokes*. that's absolutely magnificent.

[syn4k]

burning text gif maker

heart locket gif maker

minecraft advancement maker

minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

image to 3d effect gif

vaporwave image generator

microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

you're welcome

[mmelete]

[jasper-rolls]

remember that sasuke figurine that could hold up like literally fucking anythign

[pooplex-deactivated20140101]

[atomicpowered]

And my personal favorite

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[figmentof]

cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see or however they say it

[rosegoldenatlas]

My wife (ao3) went to war (down for maintenance) I don't know how long she will be gone (10 hours she's gone for 10 hours) but alas I shall continue to live with our children (downloaded fics) that she told me to take care of during her leave. I already fear the worst in her absence, what if this is like the last time she left us? (the great ao3 shutdown) where che came back battered and bruised and shot? (the DDOS attacks) I know she is strong and many accompany her to battle but I already am lonely without her beside me. Please come back, my lover.

[kodaksnacks-blog]

[997]

and she picked just the right song

[saltcircle5558355298234432204-d]

whhat the f

[mentethemage-deactivated2018122]

today I learned you could figure skate on roller blades

[angelicdevil]

This kid is KILLING it!

[a-dumb-bitch-apparently]

I’ll be back in going to go watch Every single video about this subject

[spiritsonic]

Been meaning to do this for years

[redbuddi]

Artist for the official sonic comics ^

[kimmycup]

*scrolls past*

*reads caption*

*scrolls back to reblog*

[bogleech]

this is like just a fourth of a whole musical medley addressing that you can’t live like the simpsons anymore. harsh :(

[kisselexy]

DID MODERN SIMPSONS JUST DROP A WELL PRESENTED TRUTH BOMB

[asteroidtroglodyte]

YO WHAT THE FUCK THE SIMPSONS REALLY JUST LAYING IT ALL OUT THERE

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I appreciate that they actually got Robert Reich to participate (although I imagine he was easy to persuade as his whole shtick is this kind of thing)

[hoodiegal]

Jesus, the end.

“I get it, you’re saying I’ll have a tough time finding a job like my dad’s.”

“No, no, kid. I’m saying you’ll never find a job like your dad’s, and you’ll have a tough time finding something significantly worse.”

[soft-butch-cassidy]

I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

[hellsw0rth]

Anyone missing a heavy stone/concrete Dalek?

[dilfdyke]

the complete saga

[cidthecoatrack-blog]

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

[siyurikspakvariisis]

an article on the subject for the curious:

Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again

"We're pretty much seeing everything we had hoped for, and that's always good news.”

[donthitanybody]

Tomska going hard on Twitter again.

[aroorchid-slenderwoman]

Reminds me of the veggie tale twitter post

[walmart-the-official]

the what

[aroorchid-slenderwoman]

[hepalien]

Hey rarepair shippers, I'm about to change your lives.

The AO3 Primary Ship Search add-on for Firefox (it's called AO3 First Tag Search for Chrome) adds this little checkbox to the AO3 advanced search page

And if you check the box, the search only returns fics where the pairing you entered is the first one tagged. This is better than the otp:true operator imo because it will show fics with secondary/background pairings too as long as your preferred ship is the main one.

You can even use the add-on in Firefox or Kiwi browser on Android mobile.

Have fun 😘

(more ao3 tips here)

[bump-of-whump]

Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

[buspir-deactivated20230127]

the notes are broken 😂

[calvin-reads-problem-sleuth]

Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes. 

[lookitsmorefandomtrash-deactiva]

WAH

[rowan-a-boat]

How???

[becauseplot]

i know it doesn’t work for everyone but holy fuck the way a shower can just change your day completely. my skin is clean and my clothes are fresh and my hair is cool on the back of my neck and i think everything is going to be okay, actually.

[fellshish]

Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

[constitutionalweasleymonarchy]

If AO3 had a slogan

[ao3commentoftheday]

[adjit]

I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented.

I feel like every time I see a post addressing someone’s shitty behavior the post also takes the time to mention that they’re not even good at [x] anyway. And that’s just not always true? Equating being good at a skill as being morally good is just not necessary. Someone can be a fantastic writer, can have a beautiful singing voice, can create breathtaking artwork, and still be a horrible person.

I know part of this is probably just the instinct to dislike everything about a person when you dislike them, but I also think this mindset leads to people defending creatives way past where they should, because if bad people create bad art, then if this person creates art that I like and resonates with me, then they can’t be a bad person!

And you know. That’s just not true. Those two things are simply completely unconnected and I think it’d be healthier if we all started disconnecting them in our heads.

[big-blueboy-scout]

You must kill the voice in your mind that tells you that good art is only made by moral, upstanding people. The most monstrous people you have ever met are capable of art that would make you weep. It is the contradiction at the heart of the human experience.

We create to create, not because we are good or bad. We critique the worldview and beliefs forwarded by that art, but the craft of the art can still be excellent.

Creation is not ethical or moral. It is human.