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i get asked regularly for photos of jpeg and it honestly feels like this every time

i have been informed of how foolish it was to post this without an actual photo of her. my apologies. i present: miss jpeg 🤲

greeds

Orufrey + love to the point of invention

brick-match

Major pet peeve in my own life is that the brick and mortar on the porch columns of my apartment don't match the rest of the building. It's not something most people would notice at first or maybe at all, but it drives me crazy.

The brick on the building is an old sandmold standard-size flashed burgundy brick and a plain buff mortar in a flush joint. If I were to match these, I would use Belden Brick's Belcrest 740 bricks. Those aren't available in standard size, but the modular size they're made in will work because it's the same height. (Matching size exactly doesn't really matter for columns or other projects where the brick isn't going to be laid directly into the existing brick wythes (in fact, the bricks on the columns are a bit longer and a bit less tall than the bricks on the house)). I'd match the mortar with Heidelberg's Old Colonial, the go-to for matching older structures, from their Flamingo colored mortar series. Heidelberg's premixed Old Colonial could also work.

The brick on the columns is just over 8 inches long and just under 2 1/4 inches tall, so it's a weird size. They may have been "seconds", meaning the factory screwed up and had to sell them at a discount. That would explain the mismatch -- mighta been a 1970s Landlord Special. Nonetheless, they're beautiful bricks. A rusty brown color with ironspot texture ("ironspot" is somewhat literal: the clay and/or shale is mixed with actual flecks of metal, usually manganese these days I think, that melts in the kiln and makes a sort of glaze of freckles on the surface of the brick!), laid with an almost-matching red mortar.

These bricks have to have been discounted, because it shouldn't have been at all difficult to match the brick on the existing building. The reason for the red mortar evades me; colored mortars are usually more expensive than plain mortar. More traditional colors like Old Colonial are popular enough to be not much pricier than the plain grey. Idk why tf they woulda done red, except maybe to hurt me personally.

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

this is exactly the type of rant i signed up to tumblr to see

the-haiku-bot

this is exactly

the type of rant i signed up

to tumblr to see

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

bat-incooking-school

I cannot stand when comic artists draw boobs at angles that don't match the angle of the character's torso, or are well past how a human body could possibly move.

What? You've never actually seen a pair of boobs before and you're not sure how they work? You live on a genderbent Themysicra so you've never seen a woman at all? Do you think your audience has titty object permanence problems? If you don't depict both titties they'll think one just stopped existing? All comic publishers have strict policies against looking at reference photos? You subscribe to the Ancient Egyptian belief that if you don't depict all the body parts the character might enter the afterlife with only one titty?

Make it make sense!

softichill

I think abt this tiktok all the time

thesadcyborg9million

Diversity hire bryson ur absolutely slaying

the-knitting-pirate

Still have to knit the collar and both sleeves, but this is going to be such a cool sweater.

assiraphales

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts

#project hail mary

assiraphales

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts

prettiestpear

doomsday-dj

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

homunculus-argument

was thinking about the struggle with fashion advices and choices and options,,

one thing that has being bothering me and encroaching on genuinely pissing me off is how so many suggestions and inspirations are... infantilizing? like, im on pinterest and look for hair inspirations. what it shows (even if i add For Adult Women): hairstyles id do on my 8 year old niece.

inspiration for [style] office attire: office siren. "casual" office attire that is actually what id expect an intern on their first job, still using teenage fashion because they havent learned what they like or look good on or havent realized yet that they're the ones responsible for buying their own clothes now that theyre working. impractical clothing that only works for influencer's 5 second tiktok shot.

there was a time (and im not going "the good old times" here, its just an objective observation) where there was a clear divide between child clothes and teenage clothes and adult clothes that has been lost somewhere on the way. id say it's the enshittification of clothing and fabric quality and the cult of youth, but really it can be so annoying.

also goes for alternative ways of dressing: you want punk that is also comfortable? gotta shell out extra money for natural fibers and possibly sew it yourself (like youre procrastinating on doing (not throwing shade)) because all you're really gonna get off of the shelf is shitty plastic that is hot, that looks bad, and that will go bad in a few months.

the struggle to find ways to incorporate a style into adult life without looking like you're trying to cosplay an aesthetic is ridiculous

Yeah, the divide between "teenager clothes" and "adult clothes" that was definitely a clear thing still when I was a teenager is just gone these days. And it goes both ways. 14-year-old girls are dressed and styled like adult women, and adults can't find clothes that look tidy, professional and adult. I mean I dress like a post-apocalyptic junkyard cattle rustler in a shitty steampunk Tim Burton movie, but that's a personal choice that I am actively making.