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[magnetictapedatastorage]

Death passes in front of a moon

drawn in microsoft word 1997 (in 2026) using flowchart shapes, details under the cut

revision number is how many times I saved, I think.

these cannons are meant to be the kind that shoot "building sized" shells. they can angle up and down nearly 180 degrees, as well as verrrryyyyy slowlyyyyy slide as far as halfway up the hull. the giant gears are slightly visible against the moon's glow, i guess the inner mechanism on the gun itself for sliding would be a worm gear. the outer one for angling is a front-facing gear (the striped shape next to each barrel).

between the cannons is a mechanicus enclave. that cog may not look like much, but it is fucking 3x2 units. that is Nothing. thats like. Zero space for activities. word 97 does NOT like letting you do fucking anything at that size, least of all curves or god forbid cog teeth! im proud of getting it to look even close to recognizable. i tried to give the ol' omnissiah some eyes, but literally couldn't because there is no way to make a shape small enough for him not to look like a sad crying puppy and that's just not the vibe i was going for.

so. the fucking aq-- get out of here clippy!

much better. on the left, a wip aquilla at 9 units tall, the scale i used to draw it freehand for my first attempt. the orange small one is the final, on the right you see that final rescaled and with outlines turned on to show off the construction of it. my god it was a pain in the ass, even TRACING it from the source. did you know there is NO LAYERS PALLETE in word 97? the only options are keybinds to move something up or down by one layer, or to the top or bottom of the entire image. that fucking aquilla is like 35 layers by itself. imagine. just imagine. haha. i have no fucking idea how the program didn't crash when i resized it. by the way the view would reset to the top left every time i deleted a single shape. fun!

oh and to get spiky rooftops and window peaks, i had to use ovals like an animal. that prevented me from putting them near the edge of the moon, because the ovals are of course only one color.

anyways i'm very proud of how this turned out! it was a lot of fun despite my complaints haha. i really wanted to capture the menacing nature of a void ship :)

[massoflesh]

Martin Johnson Heade, Gremlin in the Studio I, ca. 1865-75

[desertmarble]

I think in retrospect one thing that will be historically notable about the 2020s is the use of online smear campaigns against powerful women. Like it’s extremely frightening. So many of them also were quite literally funded by men who were angry about “getting MeTooed” and wanted to ruin a woman’s life the same way.

[desertmarble]

The most frightening part is what happens when you discuss these women or overhear discussions about them in real life. The internet moves on, sometimes like with Amber Heard it even course corrects. But you bring up these women’s names to your coworkers or your aunt or whoever and they wrinkle their noses. Isn’t she a terrible person though? And you can’t really convince them otherwise, not fully. That’s the goal of these smear tactics, to create a big poison mushroom cloud that EVERYONE inhales and once the normies log off you’re marked forever, even after your name is cleared a week later.

Men figured out that calling a woman’s morals into question (whether warranted or not) and then buying a bunch of bots or goading mentally ill freaks to act hysterical about it does tarnish a woman’s reputation exactly the same way that serious sexual assault and violent crime cases tarnish a man’s.

[enki2]

[apisashla]

I scrolled back as far as I could on the tag for “The Cask of Amontillado” and I still can’t find a single reason why everyone’s posting about it all of the sudden

[whythebigpaws]

Look a little bit further, in the very back

[maxxie-or-smth]

everything is getting worse and thats why it's SO so important that we have fun and hang out and play and im being serious im being unimaginable amounts of serious

[nevver]

Once upon a time in the West, Brett Allen Johnson

[magnetictapedatastorage]

island in a pink sea, drawn in microsoft word 1997 in 2026. details under the cut

its all in using shapes to add or subtract from chunks of color. here i made it so adjacent shapes are contrasting colors, breaking the illusion:

i actually forgot to color-fy half the hole (the half with the "view of the sea" showing through it! i was fooled by my own illusion 😅, but its just a few triangles, you get the idea.

here it should be even easier to understand:

for completeness, a hollow version:

[magnetictapedatastorage]

56 minutes, 52.1 kilobytes

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i acquired a copy of civ 6 and its crazzzzyyyyyyy how much better it runs than civ 5, even running 6 absolutely raw compared to using multiple optimization mods on 5. very impressive optimization!

[rfsnyder]

Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), Notre-Dame, 1909

[satwcomic]

If you mirror Italy through the center of the Earth, you almost exactly get New Zealand. In position, size, and shape:

[onevoltperoctave]

are you a feminist who wants to start going to the gym?

exercising and weight training can be a powerful form of feminist praxis. being able to assist other women, particularly our disabled sisters, is a powerful ability. similarly, we can work together to challenge patriarchal expectations surrounding the physical strength of women and encourage future generations of women and girls to view strength as something to be proud of. most importantly, in a patriarchal world where women's health is often tossed aside, it's crucial that we take care of our minds and bodies and refuse to sacrifice our health in the name of patriarchy!

this is a masterpost of general advice for those who are new to strength/weight training and may not have been taught the basics earlier in life!

each link below will take you to a post where i walk through the basics of each topic!

how do i pick a gym?

how do i build a workout plan?

the basics of gym etiquette

the basics of nutrition

please know that i am not an athletic trainer or dietician. i am a professional coach for youth and adult sports. i teach strength training to my athletes as well as conditioning/training for other athletic orgs near me. if you decide to work with a trainer and/or dietician and their advice conflicts with mine, take theirs! (and also maybe tell me so i can improve for my students!) i follow all of my own advice, but those guys have degrees in this stuff and i do not.

happy lifting!

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i should make a slit drum...

[amilta]

Not all men are rapists. Some are rape apologists. Some are rape excusers. Some are victim blamers. And some, are silent.

[petersolarz]

Splits. 2014

[petersolarz]

from the archives

[gobbluthbutagirl]

look at this stupid ass thread i screenshotted at 5:31am this morning before the mods of r/baseball nuked it