do thir, dileas fein

Where's that confounded bridge? Secondary blog for my even more innate ramblings and faltering sanity.

[tlirsgender]

Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"

[tlirsgender]

[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext

[adamtotscomix]

[shamebats]

Tiktok post by @ fenjaminfranklin (he/him).

[natequarter]

bigotry against left-handed people is inherently the least funny form of oppression because it makes right-handed people go lol isn't it stupid that we used discriminate against people based on something so ridiculous? as if skin colour, culture, weight, disability, religion etc are somehow sensible and logical things to discriminate against. then i go outside and make a fool of myself because all the tools are right-handed and no one thought to provide me with tools i can use.

[luxiomahariel]

i simply do not believe evil is stored in the penis nor the he/him pronouns nor the masculinity nor the testosterone

and that makes all the radfems come out of the woodwork to harass me

[waffled0g]

Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong so let’s fix it

If you weren’t here for part one, lemme sum it up real fast:

Okay, all up to speed? We’re being served 80s throwback stuff with the serial numbers scratched off, re-labeled as yo totally 90s. What we’ve got now isn’t completely wrong, but I’m telling you, there’s so much gold left unmined.

As we saw in part one with Memphis Milano, these things get messy. Trends don’t start and end neatly every ten years. The first wave of 90s throwback attempts focused on the early part of the decade, and nobody since really pushed to represent the other seven years. Well, if you really wanna do something, I guess you gotta do it yourself.

I have suggestions. Get your flannel ready, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.

Keep reading

[waffled0g]

Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong and I hate it

Couple years ago I saw these two board games at the store back to back. Well, not saw them per se, but ya know. Spied them out of the corner of my eye. And for a moment without reading the text, I couldn’t tell you which was which decade at first. Funny. Either they were in a rush to get these out the door or they wanted their throwback trivia game boxes to look uniform. I didn’t think too much of it.

Only, from then on I started seeing it MORE. Every time someone markets a 90s or 80s throwback…

Goddammit they’re identical! What??! How did we let this happen? As a 90s survivor and a designer, this drives me up a wall.

Look, I know I’m late to the party to complain about “the 90s look” when we’re just starting to get sick of the Y2K nostalgia train. But c’mon, the 90s were not The 80s: Part Two™ 

Trust me when I say that we weren’t all wearing neon trapezoids up until the year 2000. The 90s look being peddled is so specific to the tail end of the 80s and an early early part of the 90s - a part of the 90s when it wouldn’t stop being the 80s. This is Memphis design being conflated with the wrong decade.

Keep reading for a long ass graphic design history lesson and pictures of old soda and fast food.

Keep reading

[mikkeneko]

"this is DEFINITELY written by AI, I can tell because it uses the writing quirks that AI uses (because it was trained on real people who write with those quirks)"

c'mon dudes we have got to do better than this

[mikkeneko]

I am big AI naysayer but I think making it into the latest of a series of unprovable accusations that you can use to harass anyone who annoys you slightly for any reason is literally the worst way to push back against its encroachment into our spaces

[mikkeneko]

#the only AI quirk I believe is the use of the em dash (—)#just because it’s a pain to properly type out and real people really don’t use it that often

hey so. not meaning to pick on you for this, but:

there are various types of word processors or other text inputs which will automatically convert -- to —, meaning its difficulty in being typed out is irrelevant

there are a lot of people on tumblr, including in the notes of this thread, who have actively said that they use the emdash in their writing

the whole point of LLMs is that they train on real people's writing; they are not just randomly picking characters from the US-ASCII charset to include; AI would not generate text with emdashes if its training base did not also include writings by real people that used them

this is exactly the sort of thing I'm saying is a problem. people saying that they think they can tell that something is an "AI quirk" because "real people" don't use it, because their personal experience does not encompass its usage

[angelbabymikaa]

“tattoos are going out of style” they’ve been around for a thousand years im sorry you’re conservative now get well soon ig

[angelbabymikaa]

i meant “a thousand years” as more of an expression but hell yeah 5000 years is cool as shit humans are all connected

[bastionkeeper]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Lean into the funny idiot archetype so that when you’re unexpectedly hypercompetent at something they give you The Look where you can see them reexamine their entire perception of you in confusion, respect and no small amount of fear, and when you keep playing funny idiot they will be forever wary of you. Let them find out, incidentally, that the jester keeps a knife under his hat, and never figure out how to deal with that because they won’t abandon their boxes.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i keep mine in my fanny pack :)

[gvalesdraws]

Sinner

[miraerufu]

THE GREEN KNIGHT

[luntfontanne]

Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]

[ospreyonthemoon]

I can't believe people have been performing macbeth for 401 years and we still haven't run out of sick poster ideas

[demilypyro]

Found out from this tweet today that there are 5 always sunny characters, not 4.... I literally thought the two white guys in the middle (not Charlie) were the same guy. they look identical. I just thought he shaved sometimes

[demilypyro]

I thought they were both Mac I have never heard the name Dennis

[ghostly-rantings]

dennis is the shaved one, mac (the bearded one) is in love with him

[demilypyro]

Oh...... Mac could do better.

[abrandnewshadow-deactivated2025]

05/23/1998 hottopic.com

[dradelcra]

Guys, Netflix is going to make a modern day adaptation of Dorian Gray and they're making Basil and Dorian brothers

[see-arcane]

oh god

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ Series: Everything to Know about This Upcoming Special Project on Netflix

Learn everything about the upcoming Netflix adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It's real

[linguisticparadox]

Oscar Wilde did not do TWO YEARS HARD LABOR for y'all to call Basil "Dorian's artist friend" and make them BROTHERS

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

It blows my mind that we could get Basil and Dorian full on kissing on screen and very heavily implied sex off screen in 2009. And now we get them as brothers? When Basil being in love with Dorian is the thing that drives the whole plot?

I'm not saying that we're backsliding, but this is the state of adapting gay Gothic literature. And it's depressing.

Even if you haven't seen the 2009 movie, I promise you that if you spent time around a certain fandom in the last decade, you have seen Ben Barnes in that movie.

[wike-wabbits]

Rabbits between the staves. Cambrai BM 125-128, c. 1540-50