Ramblings of Me

A Canadian, quite heavily sponsored by the letter 'A' (an Asexual-ish Atheist Adult on the Autistic Spectrum). .

[eclecticace]

Hey, Storiarts is giving away the $349 worth of they're beautiful literary goods this month! Entering is easy and totally free :) https://wn.nr/dqTUdn

[aspergersissues]

[madfendiva]

From The Punk Rock Autistic

[anonymous-ivplay]

Just coming here to say that Elon Musk being autistic doesn't negate him being a billionaire asshole

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Random thought at 33...

I get Asexual vibes from Chris Evans.

[hayscodeviolation]

Every Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Dance Number “Shall We Dance” in SHALL WE DANCE (1937)

[gabrielokun]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Read more here:

Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.

[awsomelink]

Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

[socialistexan]

Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere

Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects

Lightzone to replace Lightroom

Inkscape to replace Illustratr

Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

[hopesterling]

reblog to save a digital arts major

[fallnangelcreations]

Reblog to save an artist.

[pen-scribbles]

oh jEEZ

[doomslug]

I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.

- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration

- Krita for painting

- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.

- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.

- Open Tunez for animation.

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I’m 33...

I want to meet someone...but don’t want to put any effort into it.  And that’s not gonna change. 

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NCIS Fanfiction: Swan

Title: Swan Author: Me Relationship: Gibbs/FemDucky Warnings: Discussion of abortion, ageism, graphic depiction of violence, Swearing

Story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/25144879

Notes: First NCIS fic, posted link here for the hell of it.

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[fuckyeahgranadaholmes]

“When I came out of the asylum, the person who collected me was Edward Hardwicke. He took me to an Italian restaurant. I had a pasta and a glass of red wine. He then drove me back to my home where we sat and had a cup of tea. It was Edward Hardwicke. He is one of the loveliest people, and I suppose he is the best friend that any man has ever had….in life. Which is after all how Doyle describes Watson.”

- Jeremy Brett

[whatsdifferentincanada]

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90s Rewind Tour Concert - Echo Beach, Toronto,Ontario - September 8th, 2018

Whigfield

Prozzak

AQUA 

(Featuring a “Muchmusic video dance party” between sets featuring all 90s music)

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Toews: My boyfriend must be top of the line, organized, graceful-

Kane: Hi, I'm Patr- [trips over air, falls on his face, spills water all over Toews's potted plant falls, spills dirt all over Seabs's head]

Toews: I want this one.

[classiccinemacentral]

Margarita Cansino aka Rita Hayworth

[mynhljerseys]

John Tavares