Stop the world, I want to get off.

AKA insaneorange/ponkhan. An Advertising Arts graduate who can't draw anything that isn't Batman. Mahilig din matulog. Tends to post strange things when there is too much blood in his caffeinestream. Arnis. Eskrima, if you will. Martial Arts. Illustration. Video games. Art. Occasional Photography, Random crap. If symptoms persist, insult your doctor.

[citrusmalicious]

Man, I know i'm in a weird place in my head when I wander back onto tumblr. This place represents a very painful part of my life. Ah well, there's always the pretty pictures.

[pitbolshevik]

it actually annoys the shit out if me when people act like ww2 isn't something that you need to learn about anymore. like no actually that's all still very important sorry

[pitbolshevik]

like yes the guys who just salivate over which weapons killed the most people are fucking weird, no argument there, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know about the various war crimes committed by literally every country involved. it's all still very much relevant, the 1940s wasn't really that long ago, all things considered.

[citrusmalicious]

Also, taking the effort to learn WW2 from multiple sources, because I have run into so many skewed versions of WW2. The number of people from the US who think the Philippines owes so much to the US for example, when majority of our damage was caused because of the US colonizing us/by the US directly. Y'know why nothing remains of historical Manila? US bombs. Just sayin'.

[lafayelle]

COMMS ARE OPEN!

I thought it would be fun to offer commissions where the subject has to be seated- just your little guy! Having a sit! Email me at [email protected] with 'commission' in the title if you're interested! (I'm down to draw anything (furry, mechs, etc-) but please no nsfw!)

[lafayelle]

DOWN TO $60! girl help I have bills.

[typhlonectes]

[sighinastorm]

We owe it to our commitment to the truth, to not interfere in the story. That is the choice. The moment we act, we are involved with creating the story, and as we become a part of it, it becomes partially about us, and the truth then may never be known. Actors cannot be unbiased. Actors become targets. RIP spaghetti belongings.

[konoko]

“alone”

pros: alone 

cons: alone

[transarsonist]

Reblog this post to bonk your mutuals with an over-sized hammer that goes *squeaka* and flatten them into a cartoonish pancake version of themself

[blorb-el]

[warcrimesimulator]

Cat with unusual markings posted to a Thai Facebook group.

Anyone seen anything like this before?

[rorytelling]

This is an ancient coat pattern that has mostly died off. This cat just got very lucky genes.

[hockeydiva]

[brucietales]

i want a series that’s like the office but the justice league watchtower. showing the tower as a working office. like a comedy showing our heroes dealing with same office shit they experience as civilians. 

j'onn sending out memos about proper request and use of the teleporter. “no you cannot ask to be beamed to your day job when you are late.”

they all have their own spaces for admin work. the senior members share a huge room with they each get a desk. clark complaining about his missing stapler, again (barry used it and it’s on hal’s desk)

senior league members usually do the most damage so they should complete an expense report every week. late expense reports mean they get extra monitor duty. everyone hates monitor duty. every lantern’s expense report (except john) is late. they’ve got monitor duty for a while.

booster gold’s expense report is never on time. thanks green lantern.

league members get a shared fridges for the food they bring in. guy gardner one day yells “WHO THE FUCK ATE MY PUDDING AGAIN I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL FIND YOU” it was ted.

there’s a post it note on the community pantry door:  “please replace the oreos you get from j'onn’s stash thank you”

the watchtower is ISO certified several times over. everyone hates it. the days leading to and after the audit is hell. the finance department don’t really get looked into, but they have the scariest eyes on them: batman’s.

the watchtower is one of the most advanced medical facilities on the planet. the staff there. they know everything. the nurses gush every time clark comes up there to ask how everyone’s doing, because duh superman is a ray of sunshine.

alcohol is not allowed on the watchtower. it is however, allowed in league functions and team building activities on earth. dinah has to bring an already drunk ollie home an hour after the party starts.

please feel free to add.

[certainwoman]

social media made politics worse… i swear people will read one feminist text or a sociological text (actually they might read summaries of them) and just overuse the terms to mean just anything they want. good example is just constantly referring to the male gaze in film or photography analysis. using the language of abuse for failed incompatible friendships. using the term of emotional labour to mean being nice to people around u. thinking social capital refers to just having tons of friends. it removes the onus from the power individuals hold, it actually strays away from any fundamental political changes. i mean reading takes time, analysis is always meant to be nuanced and actually kind of hard… and political activism is far more than having a twitter account. 

[olderthannetfic]

A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

[lingwenboobs]

reblog to tranquilize the person you reblogged this from

[beecreeper]

2am thought: A tarot deck made up of Gary Larson cartoons

[beecreeper]

The Magician

[beecreeper]

The Tower

[madamecricket]

the fool

[meridianowl]

four of swords

[nudityandnerdery]

The Hanged Man

The Devil

The Lovers

[normal-horoscopes]

The Chariot

[twelfthhaus]

someone needs to show this to gary larson

[apas-95]

i’m going to fucking explode

the spacex all-private inspiration4 mission (which is being run as a reality tv show) is using apple watches for its biometrics. they’re flying in a space capsule with all the equipment and controls stripped out to make it look smooth and pretty, in spacesuits designed by a marvel costume designer instead of engineers, wearing fucking apple watches for biometrics

the ship’s built like a fucking tesla and it uses a fucking touchscreen for controls

[horsecrash]

op’s not the only thing that’s going to explode

[roguekriger]

Okay I sent an ask to my mutual about this because we’re both Aerospace Engineering students, myself specializing in Astronautics, but y'know what fuck it I got nothing better to do and I just wanna go over some of SpaceX’s…design choices.

So completely ignoring the whole issue with privatizing space travel and Night Sky Clutter with the whole OneWeb/Starlink issue, SpaceX makes very questionable and sometimes outright idiotic design choices. With the Dragon Capsule alone, the decision to remove virtually any form of manual control and to have all of your inputs be done via touchscreen is just…not smart. At all. The suits they wear are purely designed for aesthetic and lack any form of personal protection and seemingly lack any form of life support or survival equipment. For comparison, the LES and ACES suits all include some form of limited life support in the event that your mode of transportation has a critical failure while also being pressure suits or at the very least partial-pressure suits and carry multiple survival aspects such as parachutes, inflatable life rafts, and other tools to help an astronaut survive and be recovered from emergency landing sites that will usually be in the wilderness. The SpaceX suits, well, we don’t KNOW what’s in the suit because Musky boy won’t tell us. It’s privatized, what do you expect, they care more about keeping their tech to themselves than safety or transparency. It’s claimed to survive a “vacuum chamber” just fine but no actual test results have been shown. Musk himself claimed that the suits are an improvement from the old LES and it’s replacement the ACES suits because it’s sleeker and with a cool white design. Now lemme say something on this, there is a fucking reason that the old suits are bulky and orange. Why? Because they’re pressure suits with survival equipment and life support built in. They’re not sleek because how the fuck are you gonna fit air bladders, a parachute, survival kits, aid kits, and air systems on a sleek suit? That’s why the old suits were bulky because they worried about the SAFETY of the wearer not how fucking cool they look. Also the orange? Y'know why they’re orange? So we can fucking seem them if they end up stranded in the ocean or wilderness after an emergency landing. In fact, one veteran astronaut who flew on missions STS-129 and STS-135 compared the suits to the old Soviet Sokol suits. Now I don’t know how many of you know about Sokol suits, but these are basically backup “everything has gone to shit” suits. However even the Sokol suit contains some form of life support which is more than can confidently be said about the SpaceX suits.

And beyond just this photo we also have Elon insisting that satellite casings and thermal control systems be painted BLACK because it makes them look cooler but here’s the thing, the reason satellites typically have white, beige, or gaudy ass chrome foil covering is because the sun is a hot motherfucker and electronics, and well electronics my friends, don’t like heat. Guess what black does? It absorbs heat, well technically visible light but whatever. So we put light colors and reflective covering on satellites and components designed for space so they can reflect heat and try to keep them cool. SpaceX on the other hand has to include more intense cooling measures because their idiot leader follows the rule of cool which ironically makes things less cool. Oh and there’s also the whole issue with the first rocket blowing up due to fuel sloshing which, I should add, is the first thing you learn not to do and how to AVOID in any form of aerospace engineering so, y'know, the fact that their rocket suffered from that is, well, telling.

Anyway this got a lot longer than I intended but fuck it man and fuck Elon, and fuck SpaceX for thinking Star Trek aesthetics are more important than, idk, the entire collective knowledge we’ve gained about space travel and flight safety.

[pangur-and-grim]

you’ve all seen cat no banana….. here’s cat no tablet pen

[pangur-and-grim]

oh ye of little faith

[theflashisgone]

I’m guessing that person is concerned about her gummy appearance. For anyone wondering, Pangur had most of her teeth extracted to treat a condition called gingivostomatitis. As she is a well–cared for pet cat who doesn’t have to shear bite-sized pieces off of prey items, and can instead eat cat food that’s already bite-sized, she doesn’t actually need her teeth to eat.

[pangur-and-grim]

oh yeah, poor girl had to go through two operations in 2016 to get all those teeth out! thankfully her fangs can stay (though they’ve slipped slightly in the gums, making them appear longer) but the teeth further back were dying in her mouth as her dumb weasel immune system attacked them. 

this is after her first extraction - you can see how red/sore the gums were around those rear teeth

2016 Pangur was so skinny due to her painful teeth, it was honestly scary

but in 2020? a chubby gummy vampire who delights the masses with her smile

[phil-the-stone-art]

the holiday mood is rewatching a new hope & remembering how much i love these clowns