#justgravythings

gravy, she/her, not straight. // two sips from the cup of human kindness and I'm shitfaced, just laid to waste //

[tracle0]

If you see this post, back up your writing

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[rogerdeakinsdp]

Cinematography by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) directed by Joel Coen

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

[gay-jesus-probably]

Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

[anachronic-cobra]

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

[crazykuroneko]

A Note from IWTV S2 Writer A. Zell Williams

Read here:

Fan Appreciation Daze

How a show's fans lifted my spirits years after working on the series.

[afterthemovie]

rupture by kate kretz, 2018 (crowdsourced grey hair from people who have experienced profound loss hand embroidered on cotton)

[folly-of-alexandria]

J.K. Rowling posting Upskirt shots of trans women makes clear what we've always known.

Rowling believes that she has a right to commit sexual violence against women she believes don't deserve rights or safety.

Her response to receiving criticism on posting said upskirt was to essentially argue that the trans woman had it coming and as was basically asking for it because of what she was wearing.

There is no daylight between Rowling and the average shitheel rapist.

[jame7t]

I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

[gravything]

today I have learned that Downstairs neighbors like metal.

and WWE.

—not at the same time. they’re playing metal music videos on an projector outside, and earlier I heard the mom rave about a WWE event they went to recently

[gravything]

the metal thing is real! Downstairs Dad is whistling the guitar solo! it’s not like they just decided to watch it because what else is even on

[jadeharleyinc]

oooooh i got plany of disk space

[goldensonata]

Murderbot's Pterrible Pterosaur Ptorment

nobody tells you this but youre genuinely just allowed to draw yourself as a giant creature doing some jurassic park type shit to your favorite characters. im revolutionizing the self-insert game

[fuckhugeoctopus]

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

[gravything]

today I have learned that Downstairs neighbors like metal.

and WWE.

—not at the same time. they’re playing metal music videos on an projector outside, and earlier I heard the mom rave about a WWE event they went to recently

[slittlelady]

The face she makes when she realised the curse is broken is hilarious, she’s really like OH, I’M FUCKED

[soapy-birblover]

I was inspired by the black-out poems made by @playing-with-colors and decided to apply it to the locked tomb series!

Palamedes my beloved

[names-0]

[wordfather]

just found out that accidentally in love by counting crows was literally made for shrek. they didnt just choose it. it didnt exist before. they asked counting crows to make a song for shrek 2 and thats how we got one of the best songs ever made. insane.