Katification

Call me Kat. 28. She/they. Demipan. Anxious nerd. Confused about most things.

[softwaring]

made a pride flag using landscape photos ive taken <3

[revcleo]

[hamfistedbunvendor]

🫡

[crabussy]

somebody took a photo of me while I was sitting on the rocks out at sea. what. am I just an unusual bird to you people. teehee okay hold on let me pose hold onnnnn

[crabussy]

I was a little majestic with my hair flowing in the wind. but I also had one wet pant leg and wet shoe because of The Sea which I think deducts a few majesty points

[crabussy]

me: oh shoot someone's taking a photo of me! quick! pose casual yet fabulous but also don't make it too obvious that you've noticed!!!!

her: wow I look good in this selfie. lol what is that guy doing is he stuck. spaghetti for dinner tonight maybe

[what-even-is-thiss]

Why are fallout 4 companions of all people so judgmental when you pick up junk? Don’t they know that in this universe you can turn two wrenches and a carton of cigarettes into a fully functional mattress?

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think it’s confirmed in universe that these workbenches have some kind of mysterious properties because they can clear rubble that heavy machinery can’t get rid of.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you break into that dlc vault or whatever the overseer tells you that the workbench can clear out the rubble. She’s had access to operational heavy construction equipment down there for over 200 years and she says that the rockslide was too much for it to handle.

And yet the workbench can clear the rubble in seconds. Same thing happens at the castle when you break into the armory with the minutemen. The workshop can remove rubble that Ronnie Shaw can’t figure out how to get rid of.

I’m just saying if they can do that, it must be something about the workbenches that allow us to make fully functional gas powered generators out of cigarette lighters, old cans, and lightbulbs.

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[crazy-pages]

In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.

This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

[cumaeansibyl]

Not an exaggeration. Gamergate led directly to the redpill/incel movement, which white supremacists exploited and colonized. Not to say that most of the white men in those movements weren't already racist to some extent, but that wasn't an active part of their politics until white supremacist recruiters came along and convinced them that the women ruining their videogames were part of the conspiracy to destroy the white race.

That's a very brief summary but you can go back step by step over the past decade and see how they did it.

[heedra]

so far one theme of the 30s for me has been realizing that literally every human being on earth who appears completely cool and collected and together with it at first glance has some threshold past which enough known information about them will shatter that mystique completely. i don't even say this negatively or pessimistically it's just been helpful to keep in mind that we're all like that.

[malevolentcafe]

Happy pride to black trans people in particular I know it can be tough out here with how often the image of what and who counts as always seems to never consider us

[scrixels]

My summer project for myself is to make a collection of 16 of these embroidered thimble rings (called kaga yubinuki), these are my first 2 ^^

[scrixels]

using this as an opportunity to add this link to this post too:

Thank you for coming back to my blog after so long a leave (again).  I plan to update my blog at least once a month but as you see it has be

really clear, written instructions that explain the why as well as the how. there's a lot of beautiful, simple designs on her blog as well!

[the-moonlight-witch]

This is still one of the greatest things ever made.

[marichromatic]

[harpsi-corpse]

The cards see all.

[tofupixel]

Hello, Tofu! If I am mistaken, then please ignore me, but I think you once said you were willing to make pixel art tutorials? If so, may I ask for one with clouds?

The way you draw landscapes is simply breathtaking, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't look up to you as a beginner pixel artist! I look at your art in awe and genuinely hope to one day make a piece as beautiful as yours ˆˆ

If you're not making any tutorials, then please ignore me, but do know that I love your art :-)

Have a nice day/evening/night!

wahh thank you!! i will think about it but honestly i dont think you need another tutorial other than the one jubilee @8pxl made here, this is basically the gold standard lol and most people including me just do her style ... if you want another style lmk!

but i did do some clouds studies years ago which i found quite valuable, if you really want to learn i think that can be a great place to start, and also learn more about all the different types!

[pitchburgh]

saw someone trying to roast this guy on reddit but all the comments were just like "fuck off, that's based"

nature is healing

[augustdementhe]

FUCK YEAH.

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[ibenology]

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

[zmpl]

[charlemane]

i think the luckiest moment of my life - at least, the luckiest moment i'm aware of & can remember - was when i poured HOURS of wrist-grinding labor into nålbinding baby socks with no pattern & vague measurements pirated off a machine-made baby sock, and they turned out weirdly long and skinny. and then the baby was born with such weirdly long and skinny feet that the only socks that fit him were the ones i made. what a very specific little lottery to win.

[geopsych]

Pictures from this morning and a passage from Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum that I was thinking about as I walked.