Jenn the mostly harmless

I am made of flesh and bone, handmade, homegrown, child of creation, daughter of decay, lost in thought, but on my way.  queer, zey/zem

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Liver Detox Using One Weird Trick!!! Doctors HATE Him—Greek Man Discovers Secret To Regenerate Entire Liver In 24 Hours!!!

[theoutcastrogue]

Art presented without further comment:

artists (the OP is by Theodoor Rombouts, 17th c) : F. Gordeev 1769, Cornelius Cort 1566, Bernard Picart 1733, Enrico Barberi 1893, Luca Giordano 1660, Grigorij Mihajlov 1819, Jacob Jordaens 1640, Jean-Louis-Cesar Lair 1819, Johann Heinrich Fuseli 1781-1785, John Singer Sargent c. 1921, John Singer Sargent 1921, Kaspar von Zumbusch 1880, Josep Campeny i Santamaria, Juan Manuel Ferrari 1952, Peter Paul Rubens 1610s, Nicolas-Sébastien Adam 1762, unknown (Prometheus Vase) 1867, Pavel Wenig 1892

Aaand switch bonus: "Prometheus Strangling the Vulture" by Jacques Lipchitz (1943)

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

Video game where the character design screen is diagetic and talked about by characters in the game. There is a place you can go to change it at any time and npcs sometimes go there

[maxw-w]

An update to the project planning poster I did a while back, this is the finished product! I forgot to update on it, my bad.

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

[image description: a batik of an animal skull with a flower in the eye socket on a leafy background pattern. The flower has a pink petals and a yellow center, and the skull is done in blues and purples. /end description]

WOW. This is so fantastic! I wonder how many layers of wax this took, was it dip dyed each layer, or was there some dye painting involved? This is both gorgeous and a tremendous amount of work and dedication.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I was so spoiled for friends in Indiana tbh here in Georgia I’m like messaging Facebook sellers like hey I don’t want your used aquarium but you seem gay do you want to hang out

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

Ok, so weird advice no one asked for: if you're living in the south and you don't know how to find other queer people, look for the furries.

In some places in the south it is hugely less dangerous to be out as a furry than out as queer, and so a lot of queer youth end up in the fandom. I also found as a kid in the south that rednecks were less "threatened" by my queerness and less prone to violence if they knew I was a furry before they knew I was queer. Don't know if that still holds true, this was in the 90s and 00s.

That said, you could probably go to Furry Weekend Atlanta and find your people, or at least networks that could connect you to your people.

[teaboot]

You know. I'm not an incredibly athletic individual. But every so often, when the mood strikes, I very much enjoy tearing through the apartment at top speed, taking turns chasing Ollie and getting chased.

There's something so beyond words about playing hide-and-go-tag with a fluffy little guy who will try and sneak up on you the same way you sneak up on him, who will chase you when you run, who totally GETS what's going on and will enthusiastically join in despite having no common language or anything.

And the we just lay on the nice cold floor together like freaks

He's a good boy

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

This is actually one of my favorite things about cats! A lot of cats will do this with you even if you aren't their person! I used this as a way to warm up my roommate's cat when I first moved in.

My favorite technique for this is to make eye contact around a corner. Draw back out of the line of sight, and then peep back at them once or twice, and most cats will come investigate. When they come around the corner, burst off running, looking back at them. A lot of cats will chase you at this point and now you are playing hide and seek! Hide behind doors! Jump over them to run away! They love it!

Another fun cat hack - many cats will headbutt your fist if you put it down at cat head height and wiggle it! Definitely not all cats, but I do this to every cat I meet and it's been a high percentage.

[teddyrocker]

best feeling in the world is when you draw something and you’re so proud of it you have to stop and stare at it every few minutes to remind yourself of its beauty like narcissus with his reflection in the pond

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[badassindistress]

They're already sold out, but Brim & Bobbin make witches hats from duck cloth and I think that's a beautiful idea

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

Now you too can be the man in the yellow hat

[art-res]

 🛑 Stop Working for Exposure (Mathematically)

I'm an artist and medical student, and I use art to help me pay some bills.

I built a free, helpful tool because to help prevent other talented creatives from undercharging, as I really see this a lot online.

It's a calculator with a built in reality check

Input your survival costs and expenses

True billable hours

Get the rate you actually need to charge to hit a 20% (or whatever you choose) profit margin.

It generates the rate, a template negotiation email + final invoice.

Plan to keep this tool free, ad-free, and open to everyone.

🔗 Check your math: fairpaycalc.artres.xyz

If the "Thriving Rate" calculation empowers you to double your quote on your next job, please consider hitting the "Buy me a coffee"button. It keeps the server running and the code flowing <3

AL is creating web apps, art resources, and illustrations

I am an artist and medical student and creator of Art-Res, a blog where I write and curate art resources. Hopefully you find art that bring

[art-res]

Thank you for all who tried/spread awareness of the tool and also to people who tipped, truly touched by the support and it means the world! <3

[prokopetz]

Ancient Mesopotamian steampunk guy wearing a hat with a bunch of levers and inclined planes stuck to it.

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

Tragedy! Born too early for the aeolipiles and vending machines of his dreams.

Aeolipiles are these babies:

(these simple steam engines have been around since at least 30–20 BCE according to wikipedia)

[sammyrobinson87]

Come and support black indie creators

Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl (PILOT ANIMATIC)

Episode 01: "I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl"Aika is excited to start her new, normal high school life. She even makes a new, normal frien

[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[elf-indulgent]

Ken Sample and his cougar character, origin of the fursona.

From "The Fandom" on YouTube.

[xxscary-my-gougarxx]

Here's a couple other really good pieces from him I thought should be included in the post!!

[kosmogrl]

I will probably get through this just like I have gotten through everything before but I need to be really stressed and scared first

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[corpsebanger]

I took your skull off display because my guests kept saying it looked noticeably gayer than the other skulls

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

Dumbass rooky mistake. Should have put it in the middle of the display on a rainbow pillow.

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

Nothing makes you want to go back to a WIP or start some new complex creative endeavor like a to do list of simple but stressful tasks.