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bigandtired-deactivated20250405

introducing the loplambs 💕💚 part sheep, part rabbit, part wonderful

ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s this twitter account of a japanese hero mascot named dentman who went viral recently due to this tweet

but yeah he saw the tweet. and his response went viral as well (which is how i found his account)

and he just has like. hourly posts reminding you to brush your teeth

oh and his rival? his name is mr. mutans. whenever dentman posts he makes a post of his own, ofc

but THAT’S NOT ALL. literally while making this post i found a THIRD ACCOUNT that’s all about taking your meds

safe to say i’m losing my mind

anyway the point of all this was that people are ALREADY beginning to draw them ship art 😭

and the reactions are everything

I CANT ADD ANY MORE IMAGES BUT TRUST ME THIS IS SO FUNNY one of the replies said “so candy guy is into it but

toxic one-sided dentman yaoi wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but it DEFINITELY IS NOW!

coffinwoodx

UPDATE: dentman has a bunch of old youtube videos with a whole vtuber avatar i’m in tears

i love u dentman

that-house

I love you Dentman

theshehulkproject

Some D&D party is out there playing the coolest campaign ever.

nonasuch

I saw this when it was posted! Some highlights from the comments:

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

themself

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

westenra

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

lunaescribe

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior.

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.

muchymozzarella

this post was written in 2021 and has never been more relevant

nickyandmikey

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

nickyandmikey

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

irrelevantlyvalid

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

chokolattejedi

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

executeness

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

ramshacklefey

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

jbbartram-illu

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

eregyrn-falls

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

foone

okay I'm hacking on the House MD DS game. it's nice of them to include a cast option in the credits, in case you bought the game without knowing the show.

foone

That was easy. Good news: text is very, very injectable.

foone

So, here's a bit of info about how the DS works: It has two GPUs, one for each screen. Each screen can show 4 separate background layers, and one sprite (object) layer. So that's a total of 10 layers, across two screens.

But you can also copy from one to the other, at the expense of lower framerate. So some games that do stuff like render 3D on both screens do it by having the main GPU (which has the 3D graphics functionality) render both screens, which means the framerate has two be half, as you're doing twice the renders.

So here's House MD DS, with all layers enabled:

And here it is with the 1st background layer of the main GPU turned off:

Yeah. For some reason this game DOES NOT AT ALL use the layer system of the DS, and renders ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING into the background layer 1 of the main GPU, then copies that onto the second screen. What the hell? Was this made by some company that had never touched a DS before?

foone

I thought it just might be the dialog screens, and the other gameplay sections use layers and sprites and such...

NOPE! works exactly the same.

foone

all the images are just PNGs. They implemented a PNG loader on the DS and just load them at runtime.

This is a prank, right? this game isn't real, one of ya'll just made it up to troll me?

foone

THERE'S A PANTIES SORTING MINIGAME?

foone

I don't even need to extract all the portraits: they're just in a folder called "layouts\ui\avatars"

foone

well I still need to extract the font, I guess..

MOTHERFUCKER!

(also: all the sound effects are just WAV files)

foone

this image is labeled "bottom.png".

No comment.

foone

the game has all the screens defined as XML files for "layouts".

each one has a group of polygons defined in it, and the <layout> element has an attribute called "num_ploys".

THIRTEEN YEAR OLD TYPO DISCOVERED

foone

yep, there's a panties sorting minigame. watta hell

foone

WAIT

The font is shaped the same, but it's 1-bit, not the several-bits that the game's font is! SO IT'S WRONG! so I actually still have to do some work!

foone

motherfucker. it IS the right font, they just set all the colors to the same. It's palettefucked. Easily fixable.

foone

I decided to skip the font image so I could just use my existing methods (aka AVFE*) which'd give me widths as well, and then I finished that.

but then I realized something:

these two shades do not match. This font is SEMI-TRANSPARENT. oh no...

* Automated Visual Font Extraction, my patented** method for extracting fonts from games

** not really

foone

Look at this background. Look at how it's got, like, smooth gradients and shit.

Now let's compare to the actual game:

It looks like shit.

You can especially see on the ground between the medical thingy and the bed. It's because the DS has a limited number of colors and is converting this file at runtime. That's right, the first image is the actual texture that the game is loading... it then has to down-convert it to be able to display it at all.

This means that the death generator is going to accidentally LOOK BETTER THAN THE GAME ITSELF

foone

annoyingly they didn't define the shadow-color with a distinct color. They just used a specific palette index. So I can modify it to make it useful... but then I have to somehow do dynamic palette manipulation on 142 PNG files which have different palettes.

That's not going to be fun. Palette support is a fucking mess in most image editing programs/image manipulation libraries.

foone

So I hacked some new backgrounds in and overwrote some images, and it turns out that they've done all of this in a very weird way:

There are 32 colors per avatar, except the avatar actually has 256 colors. When loaded, they're converted so that some of them have alpha transparency.

Why they did this, rather than just using PNG's built in transparency? I don't know.

Left is how the sprite renders on a white background, right is what it looks like in the sprite file.

foone

OKAY I wrote some code to fix the transparency. Here's all the avatars

foone

BTW check out @plorpl's two posts that got me looking at this game:

Today I offer Tumblr real, undoctored screenshots from the House MD DS game, free of context: Special awards go to: "Would you still lov

More info (and insane screenshots) from the House MD DS game for those who want to know. Way, way too much info under the break!! The game

foone

okay the death generator is done!

The Death Generator

guerrillatech

beaniebaneenie

For the record, this is not just shitty for anyone who needs wheels to get around.

This would be HELL for my cane.

I don't use forearm crutches, but I suspect it would also be hell for that type of mobility device.

Same for walkers.

Same for anyone with limited vision.

Almost every single instance of hostile architecture meant to gentrify a place or keep out "undesirables" ends up hurting disabled folks too.

And that's intentional. Because disabled folks absolutely fall under the "needs extra time/care", unless the companies can get away with it

headspace-hotel

Wtf is the problem with skateboards to begin with

lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers

Skateboards let people have fun outside without spending money (except occasionally on upgrading the board). Oh, and some people just hate teens congregating for any reason.

theconcealedweapon

Adults complain that "kids never go outside nowadays", meanwhile the reason is because adults would harass them whenever they do.

flagellant

Hey so this post is actually extremely inaccurate.

Thanks to a follower of mine pointing it out it was discovered/shown that those latticeworks are actually for water retention placed in key parts of the park, Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City. They are not meant as walkways and as can be shown in the above picture there are clearly accessible pathways which are the actual paths.

While hostile architecture is always very much a thing to be on the lookout for, sadly sometimes we just gotta remember the ancient texts:

mari-lwyd

Reblogging because I'm fairly certain I blogged this previously and the new info ABSOLUTELY needs to be shared! We really need MORE architecture like this in concrete jungles to help allow water to return to the ground instead of into the sewer system.

noodle-the-queen

leebrontide

The utter relief when you see something inaccurate and you’re scrolling going no…no! And then just when you’re about to have to resign yourself to writing a response or pretending you never saw this you see it’s already been handled.

land-of-blitheness-and-catharsis

oh man i never told you. recently we went to the albertina art gallery and in the contemporary wing we saw this painting, “nacht der skorpione”

and we were fucking blown away by it, like audible gasping from everyone, it’s almost as tall as the room and incredibly expressive and impressive

and after having walked around looking at the work of 99% male artists and their endless studies dedicated to The Female Form for so goddamn long my very first thought upon seeing it was “this was painted by a woman”, so i walk closer and sure enough, i was right, her name is xenia hausner.

and then i look at it for a moment longer and my chest swells because these are intense characters with internal lives and that is what makes them attractive and my second thought is “this was not painted by a straight woman”

and i mean i can’t say anything for sure but i looked her up and

and nobody else picked up on this in the original painting? when i told them they were like “what, why, because of the masculine (???) brush strokes”? they were not shaken to their very core by the authenticity of it? what i’m trying to say is gaydar is extremely real and straight people extremely do not have it.

crjdedicated

i found another one and i’m about to spend the rest of my evening staring at this painting

swagfulcatcowboy-deactivated202

this is her btw

st-just

Happy Petrov Day, everyone. To celebrate, try to follow his example and not end the world.

theamazingsallyhogan

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as “the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war” for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. The incident was unknown to the public until it was revealed shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the satellite-based early-warning system of the Soviet Union reported the launch of multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles from the United States. At the time, tensions with the U.S. were on edge, and high officials of the Soviet Union, including General Secretary Yuri Andropov, were thought to be highly suspicious of a U.S. attack.

Petrov checked ground-based radars which had not detected a launch, noted that the warning system had detected only 1-5 missiles instead of the hundreds that would have been expected in the event of a first strike, and chose to mark the system alert as a false alarm. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack, which would have probably resulted in immediate escalation of the Cold War stalemate to a full-scale nuclear war and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had indeed malfunctioned.

While it is highly probable that if Petrov had reported this incident to his superiors they would have come to the same conclusion, it was a point in time when many people feared that the Cold War might become hot. Andropov, the new Soviet leader, was considered weak by the US president Ronald Reagan, and the Western countries were deploying new missile installation in Europe to counter existing missiles in the Eastern Bloc. This fear of nuclear war meant that at this time the peace movement in most western countries reached one of its highest levels.

(source)

fipindustries

Happy stanislav petrov day

filmgifs

— If the meds were switched, then when I got them mixed up, I… I accidentally switched them back, so… I gave Harlan… — The correct doses, yes. But not accidentally.

KNIVES OUT (2019) dir. Rian Johnson

connie-banana

I love this moment, not just because of the twist, but also because Marta has been dying the whole movie with not only fear and grief, but guilt at having caused the death of her patient, her friend.

For Benoit to take the time to reassure that this was not her fault, in way that is so kind and so clear, was lovely.

“You are a good nurse.” You can tell when he says that the he truly understands what is paining her the most. Just beautiful.

thelittleblackfox

I have so much love for this film, and for the moment following this where Benoit tells her that, if Harlan had listened to her, he would still be alive. The blame is taken from her, in the kindest possible way, by someone she trusts. After all the goalpost moving and ‘ah, gotcha!’ and obsession with spoilers in cinema over the last decade, with characterisation abandoned and plotlines left unresolved, knives out is a kind film. It isn’t obsessed with tricking you or catching you out, just wants you along for the ride

seekingidlewild

I love Benoit Blanc in this scene so much. I mean, he’s a great character throughout the film, but this was the moment I thought, “I will watch as many movies about this character as Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig choose to make.”

I am so sick of the trend of making intelligent male characters callous. And despite his veneer of slow Southern affability, Benoit Blanc is almost diabolically clever. So throughout the movie, I assumed he was toying with Marta, enjoying her discomfort because he found her suspicious. I thought he was another brilliant, heartless detective in the BBC Sherlock vein. But look at him in this scene. He practically has tears in his eyes because he’s so moved by Marta’s goodness, and I love him. I love this movie. I can’t wait for the sequels.

pitch-pork

#he loves Marta! #like YES FINE he knew from the beginning she was involved lol but also #he knew from the beginning she didn’t kill anybody #he’s like YOU’RE THE ONLY BITCH HERE I RESPECT

trollprincess

And after seeing “Glass Onion,” YOU’RE THE ONLY BITCH HERE I RESPECT is his mantra and that’s why he’s the BEST.

maveyek

What is this genre of games called because i know for a fact that so many people share the same liking / interests towards at least 2 of them

And they all go SO fucking hard, like story wise and visually I need to find more of these kind of games

maveyek

The decision has been made, this genre of fucked up games for mentally ill people is called eurofuck

maveyek

And to those of you asking -- I'm adding all the other suggestions here! Sorry about that, I just picked the most popular ones currently haha!

The criteria for a game to be considered an eurofuck is pretty loose overall:

either set or made in Europe

worldbuilding or general misfuckery / misery that matches the energy of a miserable [ eastern / northern ] european living in the deglamorised version of Europe.

Not afraid to make their games unapproachable or offputting, and also visually unique

Usually low-end device friendly [ my janky computer can play all of them and that says something! ]

Explores themes around beliefs and religion, and tackles ideologies without being overly onesided -- as in not only showing the both sides of one particular thing

Tackles the importance of the past / history & its impacts throughout these games

Sooo it caters to people who were victims of catholism and conservativism, and as expected many queer people enjoy these, they're like comfort games.

Here's the list mentioned by you guys, thanks for all the suggestions:

Where's Lila

Inscryption

Frostpunk

Stalker [ or S.T.A.L.K.E.R ? ]

Planescape: Torment

Return of the Obra Dinn

Darkwood ‼️ very recommended

Cat Lady

This War of Mine

Rule of Rose

Darkest Dungeon

campyvillain

the current thing trad losers are losing their minds over is one singular dude on reddit that refurbished and hand painted a grandfather clock and they keep saying the guy “ruined its value” or “threw thousands out the window by vandalizing a precious heirloom” and let me just say as someone densely familiar with the world of antiques, there’s a 99% chance that this clock was a mass produced reproduction and there’s a 100% chance that clock is not as valuable as ppl think it is. when people hear the word ‘grandfather clock’ they’re always gonna assume you’re talking about something that was handmade in a woodshop by a jolly old man when rlly repros take up a waaay bigger slice of the market far more than any handcrafted items. and besides people will repaint or redecorate these ‘oh so sacred handcrafted items’ every day there’s a huge market for them. it’s the same reason why people like long furbies or dolls that have been customized to have like gore mouths or something. this is literally like watching a bunch of pretentious farts make a mountain out of a molehill. also the clock is kinda cool if I’m being honest

campyvillain

this is what’s got them so mad. like the dude didn’t destroy it or anything, just made it more interesting to look at. when I see this I don’t go “this man is a danger to society because he RUINED a precious antique” i just think to myself “huh that’s actually some very impressive work with patterns, getting all those intricate geometric shapes done with just paint must’ve been hard work and it looks cool and the colors really pop” but idk maybe that’s just because I’m not completely deranged

safetytank

more clock pictures from the original post:

and the plain wood surface before painting:

msaprildaniels

Anon posts the rare good question on 4Chan.

brendering

I saw in the comments that 'no one enforces' the loitering thing, so please know that over 10,000 Americans are accosted by police every year for "loitering", and many of these situations end in injury or death. The crime of "loitering" itself has incredibly racist roots, and today still serve as a blanket excuse to harass marginalized (usually poor and/or Black) communities. (TW in this post for text mentions of anti-Black violence, visuals of arrests)

For example, these two men were arrested while waiting to meet with a real estate broker. A white witness at the Starbucks said staff had no issue with her sitting there for an hour under the exact same conditions, but as soon as PoC came in the staff treated them completely differently:

Sadly, accusations of "loitering" have led to deaths. Amadou Diallo was shot at 41 times while unarmed. His neighbor had called the police on him for "loitering" in his own neighborhood:

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/05/nyregion/officers-in-bronx-fire-41-shots-and-an-unarmed-man-is-killed.html

"Loitering" isn't no big deal, and if you think no one enforces it that only means it has never been weaponized against you. For other people it has been a literal death sentence.

awaywardmind

new genre concept: soft apocalypse

the world as we know it has ended and mother nature starts taking back what’s hers. there are no zombies or cannibals or murderous bandits. the most valued members of the community are those who know how to garden and farm, sew and weave, treat wounds, work wood or build with bricks, cook from scratch.

people bond together to begin rebuilding instead of killing each other. everyone teaches each other whatever they do know and works together to figure out the stuff none of them know. books become incredibly valued resources because they’re often the only way to learn critical information. if someone is elderly, disabled, or otherwise unable to work at the same level as most of the community, they’re taken care of by the others, not told any sort of “survival of the fittest” bs.

as the generations ware on, communities begin expanding into small cities. some of the settlements even find ways to repurpose solar or wind power on a small scale and have electricity in some of their buildings. storytellers wander the countryside telling tales of the old world in return for some hot stew or a place to rest for the night, and the mythos of the new world start to incorporate elements of the past. the only thing that remains constant is that humans survive, and they do it by working together.

aughtpunk

MAY I INTRODUCE YOU TO YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU

A CHILL AF MANGA ABOUT A ROBOT LADY RUNNING A COFFEE SHOP DURING THE DECLINE OF HUMANITY WHERE EVERYONE IS SUPER NICE AND HAPPY AND IT’S JUST REALLY LOVELY

IT IS LEGIT ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCI-FI WORKS AND A HUGE INSPIRATION FOR MY WRITING

IF YOU LIKE A QUIET END OF THE WORLD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT BLESS

xxtc-96xx

a non dystopian future would be a nice change of pace for once XD

running-with-toast

guys this is one of my favorite manga of all time, also a major inspiration for me in terms of tone and themes, please read it you will love it also it is gay