be trans do crime

he/they. somewhere between 25 and 35 ages old.

[chelonautica]

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also TERFs fuck off

[redstonedust]

my number one advice for parents is to listen to your children tbh. and i dont just mean listening to their problems i mean like. when your kid recites the plot of a movie youve already seen or your tells you about what they did at school today or wants to show you their roblox gameplay. youve gotta be invested in knowing your kid as a person or why are you even doing the whole parenting thing.

[warcrimesimulator]

[cryptic-forge]

i got inspired by antique furniture -> decided to try and make a wooden doll.

she is whittled entirely out of balsa wood with a craft knife, and colored with wood dye. the cabinet has miniature hinges made of tube beads and a metal rod, and closes with a magnet. she absolutely should hold a sentimental & important object, but i don't have any that are the correct size, so i just put in some cute trinkets.

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

[kosmogrl]

[fucking-relax]

this is helpful to getting started on anything regardless of what you call it (from this post)

problem solving steps

IMPROVE distress tolerance skill

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

You’ll need the link!

Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?

We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.

[caspercryptid]

I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.

I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.

[wolfsteax]

I humbly offer this contribution.

[redstonedust]

some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

[piglii]

hey real quick can anybody help me find this image that I’ve seen before here on tumblr. it looks like this

the button doesn’t necessarily say “Elucidate the Rapture” but it does say something that’s kind of lengthy and has religious connotations. the woman pushing the button has an expression of indescribable smugness. there might be other buttons on the machine (?) she is pressing.

[piglii]

FOUND IT

[andmaybegayer]

Oh this is only the first image in the Eschatron 9000 Series

[andmaybegayer]

and the finale, because of the Tumblr image limit

[piglii]

thanks this is part of an even grander incomprehensibleness than I could have expected

[a-third-attempt]

I cannot believe that this is a website where you can ask “hey i think i saw a weird image once” and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like “oh yeah that’s the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop series” and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images you’ve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema

[flurgerbla]

I dont think thats the whole photoset…. I found one more

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

But i have no idea when the eschatron 9000 pictures were made or for that matter the original photos that were used to make it

[mckitterick]

this is far more than “random person in 2005ish creates surreal visual narrative” - let’s go deeper down the rabbit hole, shall we?

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”

Crystal Thierry’s (aka the modern Discordia / Eris) narrative lives in esteemed company

[dectech]

here’s what the warning in the image says btw because i wanted to read it but it was too blurry so i had to spend several minutes hunting for a version with better resolution, so I’m posting it here so nobody else has to make that same journey

“DO NOT OPERATE THE ESCHATRON 9000 UNLESS YOU’RE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THE WORLD”

[mckitterick]

also just noticed the labels on the dials on the left side of the device’s control panel:

“MAYHEM” and “DESTRUCTION” are both turned all the way up

[dee-the-red-witch]

As they should be. Can’t make paradise without scrambling a few universes.

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign(s)

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

You definitely don’t get content like this on other webbed sites and apps

[thefrogman]

A new perspective on perspective.

Understanding perspective and magnification really helped me become a more intuitive photographer. But all of the tutorials and online classes I've taken have done such a poor job explaining it. Photography education will often give you a rule and then tell you the effect. But there is no explanation why the rule has that effect.

If you move too close, the face distorts.

This was taken with an ultra wide angle lens. It was almost touching my nose. It's implied that this goofy level of distortion is caused by a wide angle lens. You'll even hear it said "wide angle lenses distort things."

Why? What is the lens doing?

It is said that a telephoto lens compresses facial features.

Why? What is the lens doing?

In both cases, these effects are not some optical quirk caused by the type of lens. The lens isn't distorting the image. The lens isn't compressing the image.

The effects are changes in perspective and magnification.

Here is a quick breakdown that may help.

Perspective only changes with distance.

Magnification is any time you make something larger in frame.

Magnification can be achieved by physically moving closer, zooming, or cropping.

So if you move the perspective closer, you also magnify.

But you can magnify a perspective without changing distance by reducing the field of view via zoomier lenses or cropping.

Put simply... if you move, that's perspective.

If something gets bigger in the frame, that's magnification.

Perspective changes our perception of distance and geometry.

In this example, I move closer and farther to some basic shapes to show how they distort.

A close perspective exaggerates distance and shapes. Near things look bigger, far things look smaller. But if you take a far perspective and magnify to equal size in frame, distances and geometry remain more stable and less distorted.

If you've ever taken any art classes, you may have learned about the vanishing point where all angles converge off into the distance.

Buildings are not the only thing that has a vanishing point. They just have simple geometry, which helps you observe the effect.

This close perspective of a dog is no different from the buildings.

Something without perspective is called an orthographic projection. This is where all angles are parallel forever—with no vanishing point.

As you move farther away, a perspective projection appears to be almost orthographic. And if you magnify that far perspective, it looks similar to an orthographic cube.

But the far perspective still has a vanishing point, it just takes much longer to converge.

This video game allows you to play with perspective or orthographic projections.

The near cubes look very different. But the far cubes have similar geometry.

Why does a close perspective look distorted? Why does a far perspective look nearly orthographic?

This all has to do with the relative distances from the point of view of the observer. Let's move on to the real world to help explain this.

Perspective distortion is caused when the lens is very close to a subject. Only wide angle lenses have the field of view and the close focusing distance to get close enough to create severe perspective distortion.

Despite erroneous claims of eyeballs being like 50mm lenses, humans actually have a decently wide field of view. If you hold the end of a long cylinder close to your eye, you will see the same geometric distortion and dramatic vanishing point. When people are accused of misjudging the size of... cylinders, it's possible they just had a very close perspective that exaggerated geometry.

Perspective can alter our perception of size.

So the lens gives you the ability to *see* the distortion, but it doesn't *cause* the distortion.

Image 1 is taken a few inches from the subject with an ultra wide angle lens. It is magnified by moving closer.

Image 4 is taken from much farther away. It is magnified by using a telephoto lens.

Why does his left ear disappear in image 1?

It's a simple case of obstruction. The cheek is literally in the way at that near perspective.

If I stand very close to this wall, I cannot see the walkway to the right.

The walkway is physically obstructed at this close perspective. I can't see around corners.

But if I change my perspective…

Light needs a clear pathway to the point of observation.

Why does his ear seem to grow larger and larger as the perspective changes?

If you'll excuse my bad drawring...

In the top example, the lens is only 2 units away from the nose, but it is 6 units away from the ear.

The ear is 200% farther away than the nose.

In the bottom example, the lens is now 30 units away from the nose and 34 units away from the ear.

The ear is now only 14% farther away than the nose. The relative distance is less exaggerated.

Distant ear percentages are hard to visualize. What if I moved only my nose 200% closer?

If we upscale this concept, it can be easier to understand.

(My examples are going to be shitty smartphone photos taken at night with my trash bins. I'm hoping you will forgive that. If I had more energy, I would have taken better photos with more appealing subjects.)

These two trash bins are only a few feet apart. The black trash bin represents the ear. The blue trash bin represents the nose.

If I take a photo from a foot away...

From this perspective, the black bin is roughly 80% smaller than the blue bin. The blue bin is very close to the lens. The far bin is several hundred percent farther away from the lens. So it takes up a very small percentage of the frame.

So, big nose, tiny ears.

What if we magnified this perspective?

Note the little box on the house far in the background.

If we crop the image and thus magnify the same perspective...

That little box looks much bigger. But this "telephoto" field of view does not allow us to see both trash bins. The perspective hasn't changed, just the magnification.

I am making something small in the background much bigger. The distant perspective makes the object more orthographic. And when I magnify that perspective, it appears more compressed, more flat.

This is a digital crop of a wide field of view. A telephoto lens is essentially an optical crop. It magnifies the perspective in the same way. The advantage of an optical crop is that it maintains all the detail. Whereas a digital crop throws away a bunch of pixels.

A magnification of perspective is often referred to as "lens compression." This is an inaccurate legacy term that causes much confusion. It would be more accurate to call it "perspective compression," but it is very hard to change terminology in photography education.

The lens is not compressing the object. I used a very wide lens and just by cropping after the fact, I was able to get the same perspective compression as if I had used a telephoto lens. The wide field of view makes far away stuff very tiny in frame. So we struggle to notice the flatness. It isn't until we magnify the distant object that the "compression" becomes more apparent.

What if I wanted to make the nose and the ears about the same size?

I'd need to change my perspective.

Now both trash cans take up roughly the same amount of space in the frame. They are still the same distance from each other. But from this perspective, they are both about the same distance away from the lens.

And now, let's magnify this perspective.

When you magnify a perspective, you magnify everything in the photo. The house behind is bigger. The light in the far background is bigger. Everything looks more orthographic. More two dimensional. And so it has that "compressed" perspective.

And because the perspective is from farther away, the percentage distance from the lens is much smaller. The black trash bin went from being 200% farther from the lens to 10% farther from the lens. The distance and geometry become less exaggerated.

Now let's line up all of the trash bins from both near and far perspectives and magnify them the same amount.

Look at that cute little guy.

How can we use this knowledge in a practical way?

By changing your mental model to perspective rather than the focal length of the lens, you can take control of how much perspective distortion you allow in your photos.

Let's use the humble selfie as our example.

Smartphones typically have a main camera with a wider field of view. And when you fill the frame with a face, you may get some unflattering perspective distortion.

I know that this distortion is not caused by the lens. It is caused by the camera being really close to my face.

So if I hold the camera farther away and change nothing else...

My face looks less distorted. However, it is taking up a much smaller area of the frame. But since modern smartphones have pretty good detail, I can just crop. I can magnify this farther perspective.

And when you compare the exact same framing from the near and far perspective...

The only variable I changed was extending my arm. It's the same wide angle lens.

You'll notice that the farther perspective made my head look bigger. I have a big head, that's fine. But this demonstrates another common photography fallacy. It is often said that 85mm lenses are the best for headshots and portraits. The idea is that compressing facial features is more flattering. But if someone has a big noggin, a telephoto lens may actually exaggerate their cranial prowess.

For people with larger or rounder heads, you may need to test different perspectives—different distances—to find a balance between compressing facial features and not exaggerating their head. 50mm might be more flattering for them.

I think photos of myself with a magnified distant perspective overwhelm people with the size of my dome and the luxuriousness of my mane.

At 85mm, the camera has to be farther away and it gives that imposing orthographic effect.

But at 50mm, I think my head feels a bit less... Megamind.

If you have a small or slender face, you may look best at 100mm or 200mm—because longer lenses force the camera to be farther away.

You can test what perspective works best for your head shape and facial features. But try not to think of it in millimeters. Think about how far away the camera is. This works even with a smartphone. You just place the camera at different distances, crop all the photos so your head has the same framing, and figure out which distance flatters you the most.

And then if a photographer is taking your picture and they seem too close or too far away, you can nudge them to the appropriate distance. And that distance will dictate what lens they need.

I hope this perspective of perspective gave you perspective on how to think about perspective.

[thefrogman]

My health has not been great and so I was working on this post since October. But it feels good to finally have it published. Hopefully you don't mind if I shove it back into the timeline to give it another chance with the algorithmic gods.

Some additional perspectives on perspective...

Perspective is not just a technical decision. It can be used artistically as well.

A close perspective gives the viewer a sense of intimacy. As if they are occupying the same space as the subject.

The lens has a wide field of view, but the photo is taken quite close and your perception feels that subconsciously due to the geometric cues.

What I call "common perspective" is based on the distance we are most comfortable when interacting with other humans.

When people say a 50mm lens is closest to the human eye, they are actually talking about this socially accepted distance. Our eyes have a wider field of view—so it isn't that our eyes match a 50mm, but rather the perspective the lens must use to fill the frame with a person's face matches our common comfortable perspective.

For headshots, photographers will typically move a little farther back than the common perspective and then use a slightly telephoto lens to magnify it. This still gives an intimate feel while flattening facial features and flattering proportions.

As I mentioned, it is important to consider head size and shape when using this farther portrait perspective. For big heads it can help to move closer and zoom out a bit. For slender faces you may want to move farther back and zoom in.

A far perspective with a wide field of view gives a sense of the environment. The space the subject occupies becomes a secondary character in the composition.

A distant perspective that is magnified can create an "observer" effect. As if the subject is being viewed from afar. This is great when you want to give the composition a feeling of isolation.

This is also why super telephoto paparazzi pictures can sometimes feel extra unsettling or invasive.

You can use perspective distortion to play with exaggerated size and geometry. A close perspective with a wide field of view can create some really fun and creative compositions.

And another cool perspective effect is to shoot from a low angle. This is often how "power poses" are photographed. You angle the camera slightly upward from below the subject's eyeline and it gives a sense that they are towering over you.

This can be subtle...

Or exaggerated...

In summary...

Close perspective is intimate. Common perspective is comfortable. Portrait perspective is flattering. Far perspective with wide field of view is environmental. Far perspective magnified is isolating. Ultra distorted perspective can be fun and creative. Low perspective can give a sense of power.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Young men today being SHOCKED and APPALLED that the girls they're dating are reading dark romance like the closet in my grandma's spare room wasn't totally chockers with Mills and Boon books when I was a kid. "Our generation is RUINED because the young women are reading NASTY PORN" if you saw the shit 50 year old women were reading in the nineties you'd hurl.

[catnippackets]

every so often I think about how important it is to recognize that some stories work the best in certain mediums and that movies are not the end all be all ideal form of media that we should all hope to be elevated to. sometimes movie adaptations are good but sometimes they’re a disservice to the story. some stories are made to be experienced in the form of a video game and the same effect would not be had if the same story were to be adapted into a movie. sometimes an analog horror series is the perfect way of telling your story and it would lose what made it special if it were made into a movie. sometimes a story is meant to be a comic book and it wouldn’t be as fun if it was a movie instead of something you could read. please please please please please recognize that comics and youtube series and video games are just as good as movies and turning them into movies has the potential of ruining the impact of the story that’s trying to be told.

[kingcatnine]

reminding everyone to wear sunscreen because the sun is a deadly laser: 😁😊

having to spend 10 minutes slathering yourself in grease just to safely be outside in the sun for 20 minutes. because the sun is a deadly laser: 😐👎

[abigailspinach]

[anasabdin]

The Night We Used To Know

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