Home and Hearth

[kaijuyuri]

star wars fans really just make anything up

[byjove]

I’m not Glup Shitto-ing you. He has a sexstache and everything.

[starwarsheritageposts]

star wars heritage post

[tomthanx]

Happy Pride to Biggs Darklighter

[cowardsexual]

stratt and grace and the rest of the phm science team running on 4 cumulative hours of sleep at an unscheduled conference. dimitri and lokken are trying to explain a new complication in the hail mary's fueling system and the resources necessary to iron it out but they keep getting interrupted by government officials butting in until grace (who doesn't even look up from his laptop and checked out of the conversation two days ago) snaps "we raise our hands to speak"

complete silence for like 3 seconds. the french prime minister sheepishly raises his hand and stratt smiles for the first time that week (grace buries his entire face behind his laptop screen for wont of a better option, like jumping straight into the sea)

[turing-tested]

doing research on people's preferred formats for how restaurants have their menus displayed online and i'm including responses to the post to send to my boss but um. i don't think i can include this specific response

[turing-tested]

[turing-tested]

I regret to inform you all but my Google drive name at my job is Dirk Strider because that is also my real life legal name in my life

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

It's really funny that redditors convinced themselves that the stupid Tiananmen Square copypasta is going to get chinese people forcefully disconnected from their internet service or something while the UK government will get your ass if you complete the sentence "Soldier F is ___" and has actively worked with google and with social media websites to censor posts or search results about Soldier F

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Like 90% of the shit people make up about China is actually true for the UK

[crionic-dubs]

Explainer: Why can 'Soldier F' not be named?

A man charged with the murders of two men and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in 1973 will not stand trial. Who is 'Soldier F' and w

David Cleary, mass murderer, aka Soldier F, named in Ireland's parliament. - Village Magazine

Deputy Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú, referred to Soldier F by his real name, David James Cleary, in  Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament, y

[kropotkindersurprise]

In case the links ever go down, Soldier F is David Cleary, a British paratrooper.

He murdered two Irish people in Derry, occupied Northern Ireland, who were demanding their civil rights on what was later called Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972. He wounded four more. In total 13 irish demonstrators demanding equal rights were murdered by British paratroopers that day.

[tsunade]

has sasuke ever actually won a fight. im being serious. has there ever been a fight where sasukes opponent did not go easy on him or end up self-destructing. has there been a single fight where sasuke didnt end up laying on the ground, passed out, or hospitalized while im at it

[tsunade]

[pancakeke]

[surfacage]

fugaku: perpetually Unimpressed (except with mikoto probably)

this au is tagged law & order UCHIHA EDITION

[butchyena]

ive been doing a lot of youtube recipe binging lately so i was recommended this video and i was like fuck it diet soup why not

and it sounded pretty tasty so after the vid i scrolled down to see what people thought of it, and i just really need to share with you all what the comment section is like

and for the one that broke me:

[joedizzlefoshizzel]

[honestmagpie]

I laughed so hard I gave myself an actual headache oml

[dnd-apothecary]

i laughed so hard at this comment

[safety-p1ns-deactivated20220116]

This is Sugar Free Gummy Bears 2

[yendeena]

Royal Trio Gold Foil Photocard ✨

Preorders currently ongoing until Feb 13 (domestic and international). More info under this post

For any inquiries, please contact me on Bluesky/Instagram (same @) 🙇‍♀️

[posts-from-a-darker-timeline]

daddy is coming home again kids

[elodieunderglass]

I beg our fucking pardon

[bubobubosibericus]

wa-

[bubobubosibericus]

what value

[ahollowyear]

This site is actually immensely valuable and yet impossible to monetize. It is in fact priceless.

[birklurks]

If this post is true, hopefully Mr. Karp will acknowledge the market reality that tumblr alienated at least 1/5 of its users (if not more since the publishing of this cited article) after instituting that ridiculous NSFW ban and reverse it. 

[weedplantar]

pro tip, if you’re ever feeling overwhelmed or upset for no reason, check the holy trifecta

have i eaten?

have i had water?

have i showered?

these questions will literally change your LIFE. if you’re feeling icky for no reason, there’s a 90% chance it’s one of these.

[callsigndreadfrost]

This tag is way funnier than it has any right to be.

[euchariis]

don't mind ren he is right where he wants to be

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’m very excited for my latest craft experiment, where I rhythmically slap sale rank oil paint onto a canvas and I see how long it takes to dry so that I can finally touch the paint textures I stare at so longingly in museums. 12 hours in, still wet. I am beginning to think this might take longer than I thought which you can imagine is quite a burden, as I am absolutely horned up to rub this paint.

[andhumanslovedstories]

You guys sound like you know what you’re talking about but I’m gonna touch it every twenty minutes just to be sure

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’ve put this canvas to age in the basement like a fine wine, along another recent masterpiece of mine “I put the paint on me hand and I slap the canvas like a bongo”

[andhumanslovedstories]

Paint slapped on 6/9, as of 6/22 (I mean actually it was a couple days ago but I didn’t fully check the dryness then so I can’t be sure):

It is rubbery feeling and the peaks of paint move when you flick them. The texture is not at ALL what I expected tbh and it makes me excited to try a different experiment, thick brush strokes, you know, those mad thicc ones that swirl real good

Here’s an additional shot with my coffee cup for a further sense of scale so people will understand that these canvases are small and therefore stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me

I don’t know shit about art but isn’t this like a great example of art that pushes the boundaries of what art is? Like you’ve got your canvas with paint on it, but your reason for putting the paint there is totally different than why most people put paint on stuff. It’s like a study on texture or something.

[mazarinedrake]

Agreed, this is really cool and also I love the fact that you really wanted to touch some paint, so you just went out and bought a bunch of paint and made your own painting for touching purposes. That’s striking me as really really cool right now for reasons I can’t entirely articulate. 

[electronicgallery]

For reference: Really thick paint on a piece of art is called impasto. Another really fun way to do it is with a painting knife: you can make each stroke SUPER SMOOTH like cake icing, but with visible, touchable texture between the strokes.

More impasto:

art by Jan Ironside, who does THICK IMPASTO FLOWERS THAT I SO WANT TO TOUCH

[phoenix]

You LITERALLY sat down to watch paint dry…

[jhelenoftrek]

Museums should have stuff like this on display JUST so you can touch it. With a sign like, “Feel me up! I won’t alarm!”

[ms-demeanor]

make good art

[flip-this-table]

Only thing about thick impasto is that the paint can get a bit sharp sometimes. Like, I’ve cut my hand on dried impasto paint because the paint stroke was that pointed. -.-;

[ganymedecatamitus]

Every reply on this post is delightful

[nimthirial]

sorry this is not relevant at all but ive seen this post many times and EVERY SINGLE TIME “ stop sending me asks about my supposedly gorilla sized hands, you bastards, you rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me” makes me spiral ive never laughed so hard thank you

[ratknight]

[letsmovetomoon]

- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Voung.

[catchymemes]

[vtmb2spoilers-deactivated202112]

hope u dont mind me keeping ur tags because ur right:

[weaselle]

this was very similar to my experience with speed, i suspect because I have (undiagnosed) ADHD. My friends kind of acted bat-shit on it, but for me it was very similar to the above post – suddenly I could just… do things. No more spending two hours “about to take a shower”. I could just think, “oh I’m going to go get in the shower now” and then boom! I’d actually get up and do that! Amazing. So getting ready for work? That was no longer the depressing difficult process that somehow always ended in me being late. Once at work? Happy to be there. My customer service smile was genuine. And it was very similarly cheap too! hell, $20 could last you a whole weekend.

I mean, there was also a certain physical and emotional … glow. It just felt good, as if you’d spent a whole week getting the perfect amount of food and rest and then been hugged by your best friend. It felt like looking down at the final exam and realizing you were definitely going to get most of the questions right. If you’ve ever seen the movie Limitless, it was a lot like his first experiences with that drug.

Sure the comedown was a bummer. And there were a few negative effects, but they were subtle.

But sure enough, you have to start taking more and more to achieve the same state. $20? That’ll last you a couple hours i guess. And the thing is, when you take 4x as much to feel the same positive effects, you do still get 4x the negative effects. And then 8x. And then 16. And while the positive effects last less and less time, the negative effects last longer and longer. Suddenly you realize you are not who you used to be.

Finally one night I met a woman at work… you know when you meet someone and you can tell they’re a meth addict? Like, they’re not even using anymore, but you can tell they’ve done a lot of speed? I met this woman like that, only I recognized all those signs of long term meth addiction as advancements of attributes I was already exhibiting. I could see I was already a few miles in on the path she had taken, like late-series Frodo looking in a mirror and seeing Gollum stare back.

So I quit. Which is its own post. But yeah, my experience with speed wasn’t that it made me feel euphoric, but rather that it increased how good positive things felt, and decreased how bad negative things felt, and made me feel happy to do normal everyday things, which usually I am not. But then it slowly devolved into a nightmare maze I was already in the middle of, like a frog in a slowly heating pan suddenly realizing the water has somehow become deathly hot.

[bunjywunjy]

Do you have any blessed facts laying around? Today was :( need a :)

unlike rabbits, a baby hare can run, fight, or flee almost immediately after birth.

[faboo978]

Fresh out of the womb, ready to fuck shit up.

[lavendarjevil]

look at his gotdamn attack pose in the 2nd, this man will NOT hesitate

[lost-wicked-artist]

born and raised in the art of kicking your ass

[xenosagaepisodeone]

in retrospect, video rental stores *would* probably still exist today in some capacity had it not been for blockbuster. the nostalgia for the blockbuster browsing experience undermines the reality of how aggressively the chain snuffed out smaller video rental stores and would eventually become notorious for its abusive late fee collection policy once there were no significant competitors standing. the rise of streaming is often attributed to blockbusters demise, but what’s not often recognized is how netflix’ earliest (and most successful) marketing tactics were in fact advertising the absence of the aforementioned terrible late fees as opposed to the convenience of not having to go to the store. I was actually surprised to find out how much of blockbuster’s demise can be attributed to spiraling out of control as it attempted to manage viacom’s ever increasing debts than to the fact that people just naturally gravitated towards streaming (which is not to say that it wouldn’t have happened eventually, but).

[quoms]

see also: borders / barnes & noble with bookstores. amazon’s original pitch was probably more “look how convenient!” than it was “look, you can avoid the awful sterility of the inside of a barnes & noble!” but it’s interesting that with its aggressive tracking and tailoring of recommendations amazon is having machines do (in an impersonal and invasive way) what the staff at a local, non-chain bookstore would do, which is match their selection to your preferences

[lew-basnight]

Barnes & nobles and Borders raced against each other, across the country, to oversaturate the bookstore market. This isn’t paranoia or conspiracy — it’s the same fucking model Starbucks used. Oh, your community supports three bookstores? We’re going to open five, until the little indies go under. Then we’ll close four of our own (sorry not sorry staff, enjoy competing with each other for a handful of positions!) and now you have no other choice. Movie rental chains did the same thing.

And then all these huge chain retailers have the fucking gall to weep and whine as amazon proceeds to wipe them out, and now I live in a small city where you just… can’t get stuff. If you don’t want to use amazon, if you don’t have a car to drive out to the big box on the highway, you literally can’t buy a pair of socks or an ice pack. No more pharmacies, no more bookstores, no more video or music stores… if this was plants and not retailers you’d call it monoculture, and you’d raise an alarm about how prone to catastrophic collapse monocultures are.

[lynati]

Ohhh that last line.

[larathia]

*waves a little flag* Not that you’re wrong or anything. (I do miss Waldenbooks, man, I miss them, little third guy between the two bigger chains) but there is someone still here because no one but the big guys remembers they’re there at all.

Libraries, yo.

There is one (1) used bookstore in my town. It focuses on pricy books, dedicated local history books….stuff people WILL pay big for.

There is one (1) video rental kiosk. (Redbox.) It covers the, shall we say, Rated R market.

Everything else goes through the library. Used books? We got ‘em. We got so many we regularly have sales that amount to “you can have a whole bag of books for free if you just take them out of here”. We have rows and rows of movies. We have new releases, too. We also sell used movies. We do have late fees, alas, but you actually have to make a solid effort to make them crippling and we don’t send collection agencies after you even if they are; you just can’t check them out anymore until you’ve paid them down and really, 99 percent of our patrons can manage this okay, even the most absentminded.

Amazon wants to compete with us, too - the ‘kindle unlimited’ stuff. But when it comes down to it, you still have to pay for Amazon. A library card is still free.