Disciple of Mana in the Country of Whatever @discipleofmana - Tumblr Blog

Keeping an alive tumblr in 2026 is proof of one's sincerity and authenticity - a type of person who enjoys posting for the sake of it with absolutely nothing to be gained....just the enjoyment of curation and self expression untainted by opportunity and relevance

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edgysaintjust

Les liaisons dangereuses illustrated by George Barbier.

sycamorality

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again

hychlorions

from my butter cookie sewing kit 🪡🧸🪡

#fields of mistria

got no rizz

#Peter White be like #hnkna #Peter White #hnkna peter white #alice in the country of hearts #my nonsense #paralives #just me playing viddy games :>

herssian

online numbers can really fuck you up when it comes to your creative work because you're sharing something you worked on with all your heart but it's very important to remember there's actual people behind those numbers. even if it's 1. that's one whole actual person. that's a human being who said "haha nice". that's a connection with a REAL person with a REAL life and REAL thoughts and feelings and experiences. like. damn. that should mean something

#ilu 3 people who like my art :>#don't need more than that tbh

kaiserin-erzsebet

Some day I am going to properly articulate why period dramas have ruined people's ability to interact with historical portraits.

Short version: most historical figures look like pretty average people, because they are for the most part just some guy (gender neutral). They just don't stand up well to casting a whole show of people who are pretty by modern standards.

kaiserin-erzsebet

This is mostly in response to a rather persistent trend of "can you believe this person was considered handsome/beautiful at the time?"

When:

1. The person is not styled in a way that appeals to modern taste.

2. The style of portraiture diverges from photography, so it doesn't appeal to your sense of aesthetics.

3. You're comparing to an actor/actress who is very good looking by modern standards styled in a way that isn't really meant to challenge you.

4. They are average to good looking, but in a normal person way.

Our own media environment doesn't really leave much space for "good looking normal person" which is part of the issue.

sometiktoksarevalid

#sigh

foone

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

very-gay-alkyrion

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

And remember to not make a second account just to test out what works best when verifying your identity

asksanguinius40k

A reminder that we still dont support Age Verification bullshit.

flower-crowns-and-combat-boots

Paywall removed here

hungrymilliek

Aaand here's the link to the project's Github.

A verified tool that works on any potato computer that will let you bypass discord verification - promptpirate-x/discord-id-bypass-tool

#ref #tech dystopia

standandwatchshitburn

why so silent good messieurs

nsfwitchy2

I’m SEVERELY disappointed this post didn’t include the eye witness statement of the mirror crash incident in question

roadtophantom

#the phantom of the opera

lepetitghostcat

Pitiful creature of darkness

What kind of life have you known?

Happy Anniversary Phantom of the Opera the musical thanks for giving us this iconic weird creepy doll

#the phantom of the opera #art

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

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Can vouch for qbittorrent, I was a uTorrent guy for a long time (mostly because I just was too lazy to switch) but yeah the ads and the jank interface and the most recent change to a PWA instead of dedicated local client (which has an even jankier interface than it used to) finally got on my nerves.

Give it a shot, and torrent! Yes direct streaming for piracy is much better than it used to be but I like having my files!

#yohoho #ref

heywriters

As I am currently working in the antique/vintage "industry" an annoying fact has come to my attention...some sellers think antique and vintage are interchangeable words.

Firstly, though only tangentially relevant, their textbook definitions refer to specific things: antique is used to describe the age of furniture and domestic items, while vintage specifically refers to the age of wine.

But for those of you shopping for old books, home decor, clothes, toys, etc., here are some glossary terms so you can discern whether a seller is informed, clueless, or just plain old lying.

Antique

At least one hundred years old, or close enough. The copy of Anne of Green Gables pictured above was published in 1935, making it nine years shy of being a "true" antique but to the savvy collector it still passes.

Vintage

At least twenty years old, and rarely any younger than that—if it wasn't at least twenty years ago, the nostalgia for it likely hasn't kicked in and it's probably still in circulation. The sewing magazines pictured above range from the 1960s to 1970s.

Vintage "Style"

A brand new item that either reproduces or mimicks an old-fashioned appearance. This is a fair business practice as long as the seller is open about the fact that their product is brand new. Two of the tins pictured above are recent* reproductions of discontinued product containers. The one is the center is a legitimate antique.

Antiqued (verb)

Similar to "vintage style" but with more effort in that an item has been made to look very old, rugged, and weathered, often including faked patina or purposely faded coloring. The above photo is of a 1970s decorative wall spoon that was painted to look a hundred years older—antique styles were a huge influence in the '70s.

Retro/Retro Style

Not a reliable indicator of age, but of current nostalgia. If you see this on a product it is likely referring to something unique to its time period, especially short-lived things like toys, jewelry, clothes, and graphic design styles. Currently this word is used heavily on items in the 1980s–2000s range, but also iconic 1950s–1960s styles. The fast food toys picture above are from the late '90s to early '00s.

Other Labels

"Victorian" frequently, and inaccurately, used to label anything pre‐1940s and post-Medieval, rendering it absolutely meaningless in most cases.

"Y2K" gets tagged on anything from 1990 to 2009. This is inaccurate as y2K is literally in the name, "year 2000." Should only refer to the futuristic pop styles unique to 1999–2001.

"MCM" and "mid century" have also lost meaning. Both are derived from a specific late 1940s–1960s furniture and interior design style known as mid century modern, but are frequently misused to describe any item or style ranging from the 1930s–1980s.

"Art deco/nouveau" these are just style names, not indicators of age. Both styles have also had multiple comebacks, so be aware of that if you are looking for genuine antiques.

"Is any of this writing related?" Sure, if you want it to be. I just wanted to talk about words and history, and hopefully help some folk not get ripped off online. Also, don't blindly trust sellers just because you trust the site. Even sites with good reputations can't weed out every phony.

Entire post dedicated to the lady selling Smurf toys from 1980 as "antiques."

Thanks for reading!

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*If you consider the '90s "recent."

All photos were taken by me.

#neat!

I've been treating text messages like an old timey telegram postal system.

#turned of all notifs except for SO and work stuff #only open message WHEN i feel like #respond IF i feel like #and live in peace all day #my nonsense