the void sings

she/her | mid-20s | not normal about TMA | icon by @octos-art-blog | Tolkien side blog: @sindar-princeling

[ryebreadgf]

just learned americans have different standard paper sizes than everyone else. what do you MEAN you don’t have A4 as the standard. what do you mean your standard paper size isn’t even the same size as an A4. apparently it’s like. ’letter’ and ’legal’ and whatever else. help!!!

[ryebreadgf]

this is so scary

[huggingtentacles]

That has to be false. That's misinformation hold on

[huggingtentacles]

holy fucking shit

[hydro-dragon]

So I work in engineering; and always wondered who used these weird “A” sizes I’d see in large printer settings that I’ve never seen any company even have paper in stock for. Now I know.

And now I have to be one of those obnoxious US Americans because WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU USE THESE WEIRD UNEVEN DIMENSIONS!? Even in metric most of the “A” settings are an annoying ratio! 210x297mm? 594x841mm!? What’s the point of using such small units of measurement if you’re not going to make sensible sizes!?

[psychuan]

because the largest standard paper size is A0 which is exactly one square metre of paper with an aspect ratio of the square root of two. this gives us a nice simple measurement of area for the paper as well as allows us to do the halving/doubling magic. A1 is 0.5m², A2 is 0.25m² etc.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The halving/doubling magic that psychaun refers to is the fact that you can get each paper in the series by cutting the previous one in half. I fold some A4 paper in half, I have an A5 booklet. I tape two A4 pieces together along their long side, I have an A3 piece. Each piece of paper is half the area of the previous and half the width of the previous' length with a length the same as the previous' width. The aspect ratio is exactly the same for every size. This makes it very easy to resize things, fold things inside each other, and calculate the size of paper you've never used before based on its name. "I can resize this to fit any other paper size because the aspect ratio is identical," "I can fold a standard size in half to get the next standard size down" and "the area I'm working with can be multiplied up to fit into a metre squared without any messy fractions of leftover paper" are all far more practical considerations for a paper size than "the millimetre length of this paper size isn't a round number".

[earhartsease]

fyi there are also B sizes in paper, which fit in between the A sizes - less often used but good for book covers and stuff

a Bn size is the mean between An and An-1

and then C sizes for envelopes, such that a C4 envelope fits an unfolded sheet of A4 etc

[prismatic-bell]

....this actually explains a lot about some of the stationery I get from other countries, though.

[bettyrightnow]

i think you guys need to go back to consuming art for the art’s sake rather than for the sake of the review you’re going to post on the internet later

[girlballs]

god it would be awesome if the human brain could just ignore an upsetting thing instead of constantly wandering back to it for no fucking reason

[clytemnestraaa]

the idea that kink is somehow safe from critique and prejudice or harm is so fucking funny. ah yes bodies, desire, and power, three things that have famously never been utilized in harmful ways. great news everyone yes we are all existing in complex systems of oppression and violence BUT!!!!!! it’s on pause when we are horny

[gghero]

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “Outer Wilds” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw an object exit a white hole before entering its corresponding black hole

My buddy Chert pacing: the sun is lying to us

[json-derulo]

for sale: Baby Shoes Stylish Infant Boy Girl Unisex First Walker Shoes Toddler Walking Crib Shoes Lightweight Non-Slip Sneakers For 6 9 12 18 24 Months Baby Shoes New With Tags New In Box Excellent Condition Never Worn

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[sempegzrd]

[ceeejus]

finished outer wilds recently so i'm making some stickers for c2e2

[ilona-art]

Several Outer Wilds works, both done personally and for a friends Birthday. Very lovely game. Still need to gather my courage to play the DLC though...

[lavialacteazzz]

[hibernationfibres]

✨Pattern now live!✨

Thank you all so much for the enthusiasm for this project!! So many people asked if there was a pattern, so I got to work. The pattern is now complete and available for purchase :D

Ravelry: £6

Etsy: £7 (to compensate for fees)

Update: price increased as I realised how far I've been undercharging 😅

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[heartfairy]

I would love to unclench my jaw one day

[fangs4faggots]

i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g

[elven-child]

the key to enjoying tumblr is to every now and then see a take so bafflingly stupid and so terminally online that you're forced to remember this too is a bubble filled with many people whose opinions are very very wrong

[willgrahamscock]

ai fatigue

[willgrahamscock]

ai books, fanfics, ai google assist, ai short form content, ai summaries, ai memes, ai artists

[averyfortshire]

I cant even go and see some street food trucks without their damn menus having AI images on it. you have a camera. take photos of your goddamn food. I would rather see a photo of the most weirdly lit burger than the fake monstrosity you're showing me.