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Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
we're not kids anymore.
#extradirty
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@eternalparadisearchive
sometimes you look at someone’s art and you know EXACTLY what’s going on and you’re like
(I would like to emphasize the “non-judgemental” portion of the caption)
You know what? I’m also gonna REBLOG this and ask directly.
If anybody sees this and wants to tell me in an ask (anonymous is always open), I’m EXTREMELY curious what vibes y’all have picked up about me in my art
patreon request that i got EXTREMELY SELF INDULGENT WITH….. id been wanting to draw this reunion scene ive had in my head for a while so here we are :’)
Life after Ohtori Part III.
Supermarket sure is a meeting place. This was funnier yesterday at 2 am, I swear.
Life after Ohtori Part IV.
I told you they are neighbours by accident. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Guys actually made the cake by themselves but their kitchen needs reconstruction now.
Literally any other colour would’ve been a better choice guys.
I’d like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.
im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me
red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂
Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but If you want, here’s a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out “The Designer’s Dictionary of Color” by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something
Xoxo
-Designer
What isColor Theory? Color theory is a term used to describe the collection of rules and guidelines regarding the use of color in art and de
I think y’all are missing the point here.
You can theorize to Nebraska and back but that doesn’t change my immediate reaction which is that someone is literally dragging a corpse around
I like that the presumption here is that “No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth” rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to “this is a hospital and that looks like blood”
like, color theory doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and sploches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway’s floor, an infographic won’t override the viewers’ instinct.
this post is the perfect summation of tumblr’s reading comprehension and critical thought abilities
Reblogging because there’s a lot of new people on here and you need some context for the jokes.
Help a newcomer, reblog Children’s Hospital Colour Theory
Do you mean to tell me this thread started only seven years ago and not in, like, 2011 when everyone on Tumblr was children??
some thoughts on photography and memory in utena:
on the wall in nemuro memorial hall, there are pictures of real people. i'm not sure who they are, but i assume they're of people involved in making the show. either way, they're obviously not real; in the close-up shots of them, they change into pictures of the black rose duelists and other imagery from the show. i imagine it's there as a fun detail by the creators, but also to show how weird and inconsistent reality itself is in the black rose arc.
as for the black rose duel images themselves, it's possible that they are literal as i've talked about in a previous post, but what i think is more likely, is that utena noticing them is a visual representation of her connecting the dots of what's really been going on in this arc.
when mikage brings up the idea of memories and eternity, we see the picture on the wall behind utena, of her at her parents funeral. and behind mikage we see one of his own defining memories.
a pretty clear line is being drawn between memory and photographs. in fact, memories are so important to mikage that photographs are his black rose duel symbol. it's the one he keeps of mamiya and tokiko, altered to look like anthy's disguise, just like his memories are. through mikage we see both how memories of the past can keep you trapped in it, as well as the malleability of these memories. let's look at everybody else:
saionji has a framed photograph of him and touga as kids on his desk. he values their friendship, or at least the memory of how it used to be. he idealizes the time touga was less cruel (or maybe just the time saionji wasn't aware of his cruelty.)
miki doesn't have any literal photographs of kozue or the sunlit garden, though his memories of them are often framed as such. he also keeps a picture of anthy amidst his sheet music. she is his idealized memory now.
juri has the locket of course, inside of which is a cutout of shiori from a picture captured in the moment that ends up defining their entire relationship. is this the version of shiori that juri idealizes? not really, but she is fixated on her resentment of shiori's percieved cruelty, just not the cruelty of taking the boy away. juri keeps this photograph closer than anybody else does with theirs, but she also keeps it hidden. this could mean she treasures her memories the most out of everyone, and is also the least open about it, although i'm not sure i believe the first part.
nanami has the photo-album of her and touga; she idealizes her relationship with him, as well as their childhood. when she makes the connection that touga is adopted, the photos are scattered all over her bed, probably to represent her emotional state.
touga doesn't keep any photographs from what we see, which makes sense with everything we know about him. unlike the rest of the council, he doesn't have any idealized memories of his childhood. but he does use akio's camera, so let's talk about that.
the camera is, much like the car, a tool that only akio is shown to own (although, wakaba does mention a photography club in episode 34.) like the car, it is used to facilitate his grooming (specifically of touga and saionji when he takes those shirtless pictures with them.) and, also like the car, he offers to lend it to touga, to make him feel more like an equal part of the whole thing. unlike the car though, touga accepts the camera.
the photoshoot scene in episode 37 has a transition where the camera shutter sound effect is played over the previous scene. over the shot of utena and anthy holding hands after confiding in each other about akio. i think it's to show that he's always watching, and that they can never truly be free of him as long as they're in ohtori.
i think it also shows the idea of akio framing the narrative of the show as a whole. he plays a sort of director role in it, in that he directs the events happening, as well as how they're portrayed. it's no coincidence that he is quite literally behind the "camera" in episode 33. like the car, a symbol of akio's power and sexual abuse (which is not-coincidentally also present in all of the photoshoot scenes,) his camera (his narrative, his biased framing of events) is ever-present.
and then there's the most important photograph in the show, the frame it all ends on. the picture utena and anthy took together is, unlike every other photograph, used as a look into their future. the reason they take it in the first place is because utena realizes she has no photos of anthy, which distresses her, presumably because she worries that their friendship might not last forever, and she wants something to remember anthy by. this obviously comes with the risk of making anthy an idealized memory, like every other person put in a photograph in this show, but instead it ends up as a symbol for their love. akio may have set up the camera, but anthy (with the help of chu-chu) manipulated their positions so her and utena could hold hands. she also cuts akio out of the frame, much like she cuts him out of her life in the last episode. she doesn't want his presence to tarnish her and utena's memory anymore (although he isn't completely gone from the photograph either, as he will never truly be forgotten.)
Comic practice + Extra:
Forcible Entry
cdda OC Randy + Qud guy
Lovers walking back to the evac shelter
cdda ocs Jacques/Castillo
Stuff for Laceswap, a collab idea between me and vorenet.bsky.social!
An older Lace in a long-term relationship with Hornet gets swapped in time with her younger self right before her first fight with Hornet at Deep Docks. Now the two Laces have to find a way back to their own times and navigate things with their respective Hornets 👀
& what if hollow knights were friends.....
I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.
Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.
HELLO?
#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????
Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.
If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!
While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).
And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!
*Pushes her old-lady reading glasses up on her nose*
Actually, Michael O'Rielly is only continuing an attack on children's media that was begun during the 2nd Reagan Administration.
Via Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, here's an article from the New York Times about it:
Before then, there were not only Saturday Morning cartoons, there were also weekday late afternoon cartoons (shows to watch after you got home from school, and before dinner). After then, that time slot was filled up with rage-bait talk shows.
(I remember that time. It was not pretty. I credit that era with the seeds of the right wing rage-mongers. Because anger for the views took up a lot more space in the background noise of people's homes, instead of The Bugs Bunny Show and The Mickey Mouse Club.)
this does not fix any of the above, BUT i would ALSO love for more people to start sharing the kid-friendly spaces that ARE out there.
kid-friendly programming used to be On Your TV and Advertised in Commercials, and now... it's not. parents and caregivers aren't always aware of the options. but it's 2025!! there are so many options!!!!! if you know where to look.
PBS Kids is the holy grail for ALL of this, especially for preschoolers and early elementary schoolers. their website has tons of in-browser games, as well as videos. they have mobile apps for a lot of their games, but the main two are the PBS KIDS Video app (full episodes & clips of shows) and the Play PBS KIDS Games app, which cycles through hundreds of games.
if you are an adult and kids ever say 'hey u got games on ur phone' to you, you should download the PBS KIDS Games app. and if you ever need videos to play for kids and you're in a pinch and all you have is YouTube, go to the PBS Kids YouTube channel.
and if you're looking for kid-friendly games and internet spaces, please enjoy this compilation gathered from the 'here are the websites your child visited on their school laptop' emails i get every week:
puzzleplayground.com and mathplayground.com - libraries of in-browser games
Tang Math
Typing Club
Low's Adventures
Red Ball 4
Big Tall Small
Duck Life
boddle - dubious educational value but the kind of site we would have all played on for many hours as kids. they will be making nostalgic tumblr posts about boddle in 10 years. free with a premium option but it's not obnoxious about it (unlike prodigy, which is big on the upsell)
Google Doodles - unexpectedly extremely great resource for fun in-browser games with no ads. my kids love the Celebrating Popcorn game SO MUCH, as well as the game celebrating Jerry Lawson and the entire series (I think of four?) Magic Cat Academy games for Halloween.
Escape from Castle Claymount - escape room-type puzzle game we all did together
Scratch lets kids program their own games in-browser and we LOVE it. there is a community element to play other people's games -- you'll want to supervise that because it's user-submitted content with comments. my kiddo got jump-scared by one.
i'd love for stuff like this to be shared more widely!! and my kids are in elementary, so i'd love to hear about options for older kids + teens, too.
I'd also recommend Doll Divine, Azalea's Dolls and meiker.io for dressup games!! I used to frequent the former two a lot as a kid. The latter is a bit like picrew in that it has user-submitted games, but with usually full-body dolls and fewer ads.
Possibly my spiciest take is that it's actually good to have people you respect and like that have some dogshit takes.
I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.
It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"
I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.
But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON
LET'S ALL GO PISS ON THE POOR
Today’s echinoderm is Protoreaster lincki, commonly known as the red knob sea star. Looks like a mob from a video game!
Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/317468252
The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that
listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.
This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice
