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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Today's Document
noise dept.
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
occasionally subtle
Cosmic Funnies
Kiana Khansmith
Mike Driver
we're not kids anymore.
oozey mess
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
RMH
Monterey Bay Aquarium
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
NASA
Keni
Origami Around
d e v o n
todays bird
seen from Ireland
seen from United States
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seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Brazil
seen from Malaysia
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@lighthouseinabottle
my fellow trans people: all of the answers are in the river. you just need to go to the river and everything will make sense. a lake or ocean are fine substitutions. find the water and go to it. bring your friends. go alone. have a beer.
this really spoke to me, as a trans hippie shut-in.
find the water and go to it. 👍
#Please little bird
I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.
My lord I need you to make up your mind, where the fuck are we going
my lord i think we're lost
my lord????
Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:
On-Going Project. Folders were empty.
Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.
Stuff. You are killing me smalls.
Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.
Some previous “winners”
Miscellaneous Old Stuff. *long sigh*
Other Idiocy. Honestly, this one was fitting.
(R) Man Claws. I have so many questions. Like, SO many
Keep for historical reasons. Neat.
Unprocessed Internal Provenance. Or how I answer the question “so what brings you to therapy?”
•••Possibilities for 2005••• you can really feel the optimism, which almost makes up for the pile of nonsense
Dogs Against Drugs. Ok McGruff.
The Lawsuit. Because in a series of legal files for an org over 100 years old, I am sure there is only one.
Other Crazy. Not to be confused with “other idiocy” which is already in this thread.
Okay but “Unprocessed Internal Provenance” is legit chilling.
you will NEVER be able to guess what this post from the official US government consumer product safety commission was in response to (under the cut)
*Scrolls past*
*reluctant sigh*
*scrolls back up*
*rebogs*
[ My ass tried to paint a glass object… never again [probably a lie I’ll probably do it again] ]
Original Image under the cut
OH IT'S TRIED TO RECREATE A GLASS OBJECT VIA PAINTING NOT FAILED TO ADD PAINT TO GLASS
HOLY SHIT
Something I need to be reminded of often. Yes, I'm very lazy and also have executive problems up the wazoo (the difference? laziness is fun), but the cultural expectation of being productive every waking moment isn't healthy either. And the business of feeding ourselves is especially fraught these days.
This is the same topic and screenshot that gave some of my chudliest chud haters such a meltdown after I posted it myself once, they raged at me for days and one by one dropped off of Tumblr forever. This subject kills idiots.
based on what we've found in Pompei the majority of roman citizens in the city got their food from fast food places like this
from a cultural perspective a roman's typical daily schedual after work would look no different to a modern day worker commuting home and swinging by a fast food joint for chinese, kebab, or a pizza on the way as they unwound before bed
Human life remains the same down through the ages just as much as it changes
my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba
Fun story my Great Great Grandma left Germany in the 1920s because she had family in the US and could get citizenship pretty easily and once she was over in the US she then smuggled over 15 jewish families out by forging family documents so now my aunts are currently in the process of trying to tell the real ones from the fake ones because my great gran just died and there are legally over 100 surviving descendants but we know that math is a lil screwy.
Sometimes a family is you, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandkids, and the 15 Jewish families you helped smuggle out of Nazi Germany.
And your tuba
Gift by Zezhou Chen
“No Prometheus-looking motherfucker is coming into my town and offering me a fucking stick! You’re lucky these old fuckers are holding me back, I swear to God!”
ok but pLEAAAAAAAAAASE scroll down and see the process gifs
i’m losing my mind over the original sketch for this
the real star of this piece
Okay but this applies to all of this artist’s drawings apparently because
(look at the wolf specifically)
y’all i love this??
Inspirational tbh
I love how the dude with the stick in the original sketch is giving them the middle finger
brb the whole discord in an uproar at the UNCONSCIONABLE results of Mister Global 2022
seriously though, MR. SPAIN?!
Mr Spain vs the runner up Mr Vietnam. Like. How the fuck?
Looking very respectfully at Mr. Vietnam
I mean personally I was in favor of Mr. Peru and Mr. Nigeria but I can fully agree Spain can get out of there.
Tbh mr spain looks like a piece of art compared to britain and cuba’s costumes
SE asia brought the thunder
Alright you guys I found all 33 of them, and it seems there’s three schools of thought for the costumes: Just Some Guy (tends to be more traditional or modern clothing), Slutty Halloween Costume, and Balls To The Wall Batshit Insanity. I can’t pick a favorite, so here they all are in alphabetical order by country:
(By virtue of there being 33, which doesn’t split into groups of 4 evenly, Vietnam gets to be the big photo.)
What a beautiful, majestic lineup.
Honestly if your Mister Global costume doesn’t include a huge fucking weapon what the fuck are you even doing there
Is me Japan wearing pants or not? Or like something covering him besides the what seems to be a loose jacket?
wtf is wrong with mr france
Forget france, what is going on with mr usa
I’m getting whiplash at how quickly these outfits are making my head spin. Some are gorgeous while the rest are just…questionable at best.
Honestly, there should be scholarship on how drastically differently masculinity within the anglosphere is viewed and valued based on the juxtaposition of Mr UK and Mr USA alone.
My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw
Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)
Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)
Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)
Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)
And a bonus:
Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County
The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others' lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it's all hormonal and there's no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.
"Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now."
Hell, half the time you don't even need to smuggle. You just show mama cat a little squirming squeaky fluffy jellybean and she's like "oh shit I totally forgot that one thanks!"
We'd get litters in at the shelter sometimes where there'd be like four kittens 6 weeks old and a random 2 week old and we'd all be standing there going "Mom, you stole that one. That's not yours." And mama cat is like "fuck you, finders keepers"
I still think the most devastating enshittification I've ever seen has been picrew. One of the few dress-up game websites left that's not flash-based and it's become DRENCHED in ads. You can't open the home screen without being blasted by at least three or four ads. You can't open two picrews in a row without watching a video ad first. When you have a picrew open the ads cover up the different options and sometimes even stack on each other so you have to hit like 2 or 3 different x buttons to get it to go away, only for more to appear seconds later. Evil world
It got worse - they added a subscription service
WHAT
For once I can be the one to promote alternate sites, my time to shine has finally come
Now I will say I do use an adblocker so I can't say how many ads all these places have, but- Here's some other places you can go to dress up little characters on your screen!
meiker.io - A free dress-up/character creator tool/platform filled with a TON of neat little games. There ARE ads on this site unfortunately but imo they aren't overwhelming (and from what I understand them running ads helps keep the site free, so). I've been using this site off and on for years already bc most games are fullbody instead of headshots, which I find more helpful w oc creation, and I can say in my experience it all runs extremely smoothly :) of everything here this site is the most similar to picrew
DollDivine - One of the classic dress-up game websites. Not only is it still up but it is actively being updated with new games, and the owner has been working to try and transfer the old flash games into a program called Ruffle so that they can still be played. Most of the games that I played when I was younger are already back up and working again thanks to this. DollDivine is also the host site for the games featured on Rinmaru Games back in the day so if you were like me and lived and breathed that site for most of your pre-teen years, you will be delighted to know that many of those games were saved here! :D
Azalea's Dolls - Another classic one that is still running and still being added to! If you like Disney/fairytale-esque dress-up games you will love this website, they have some BEAUTIFUL games. They have also been transferring many of their old games into Ruffle, so a good chunk of those will be working again too.
PastelKatto Games - A site owned/managed by one of my personal favourite developers back in the day. While the creator has moved on from publishing their own games they still update the site with other games every so often, and the catalog of games they created over the course of the last decade or so is absolutely worth your time. The range of options they would give to players for characters included a wide range of skin tones, vitiligo, missing limbs + prosthetics, scars/burn marks, and more. Plus their art is also just really, really pretty.
VeggieStudio - If you like anime-esque games then this is the site for you. Their catalog may be quite small, but all the games on this site are beautifully drawn. You may recognize their style if you played any Rinmaru games, as they did the art for a few of those back in the day.
Most of these sites mainly feature games that center around female/feminine characters, but there ARE games where you can make guys/masculine characters as well. But just a heads up in advance. None of them are hardwired for pfp creation either, so if you're looking for that you might not find a lot here. But otherwise, def check these sites out! The flash purge hit dress-up game communities HARD but people have been working to keep things running in some form or another ever since the news dropped. It's been rough, but all has not been lost and a lot of the old games I used to play are now playable again! :D
also this is insane but like. GaiaOnline is still up and the economy is recovered enough that it's actually very achievable to just get stuff by playing pinball and taking your daily rewards.
BALL OF FIRE — dir. Howard Hawks, 1941
I’ll just repeat
holy SHIT. did they add distortion to a cello?? it might just be the bowing technique, or vibrato, but in any case, that crunchy sound is delicious.
listen, if guitar can be used in a rock band, any string instrument can. in my experience, violin is often suited better to a role more similar to lead guitar, just because of the instrument’s range. but CELLO. i don’t even play cello, but man, that thing is versatile. (also the easiest to do vibrato on. yes, i’m jealous.) it’s got a wonderful range that can easily take on a higher pitched solo riff, or a constant rhythm backup part. (i know viola fits into this equation somewhere but i rarely see them featured in ensembles like this. sorry, violas.)
string instruments all have generally the same structure: strings (duh), a bridge (the place where they’re anchored), a nut and tuning pegs (to pull the strings taught so they produce a particular pitch), a neck (to hold the strings down to refine the pitch), and a body (for the sound to resonate through).
the biggest difference between “rock” instruments and “classical” instruments is just a few structural changes and the manner in which they are played.
guitar (and bass guitar) have frets, while a standard orchestral string instrument does not. the frets are those little metal things that go down the neck of the instrument. without them, you have to get A LOT more precise with your finger placement if you want the pitch to be right. it also means that the string is being held in place by a strip of metal, instead of flesh, so that changes the sound a bit.
electric instruments (including electric violins and cellos, which are AWESOME) have major changes to the body. since the sound is being amplified by Magic Computer Things That I Don’t Understand, the body doesn’t have to resonate the sound as much. it’s why electric guitars are so quiet without an amp.
plucking vs bowing. this, my friends, is where the magic happens. to make a string instrument make sound, you have to make the string vibrate somehow. guitars are usually plucked, picked, or strummed. (all pretty much the same thing - you pull the string to the side a little bit, and then release the tension.) but string instruments can also be bowed by pulling some sort of fiber (traditionally horse hair) across the string, and the friction produces sound. to produce enough friction without an inhuman amount of strength, you have to cover the bow hair with rosin. (it’s refined tree sap. please do not lick it, crush it up and snort it, or use the dust to draw pictures on your friend’s shirt. (yes, i’ve personally witnessed all of these.)) the reason you don’t typically see bows used on guitars is because the bridge is flat, instead of rounded, making it more difficult to get the right angle.
so basically, the reason that a cello seems weird in this context is because we’re just not used to seeing bowed instruments do this. bowing creates such a different sound, but the main structure of the instruments is so similar that it actually makes a lot of sense to me why we’re seeing more bands use classical string instruments.
and before anyone gets mad about guitars and violins clearly NOT being the same thing, let me explain it like this. (i swear it’s related just bear with me.) have you ever seen a photo of a dolphin embryo? or an elephant? a bat? a pig? compare it to a human embryo. we know that when all of those things grow up, they will be very different. but looking at them in such early stages of development, it’s much easier to see how they are evolutionarily related. pretty cool, right?
sorry for such a long winded explanation. my mom is a music teacher and i’ve been playing instruments literally since kindergarten. i just rarely get to talk about the mechanics of it all and it makes me so happy to finally have a reason to.
In case anyone is wondering, the band is apparently The Happy Fits.
