Photopea
EZgif (gif editing)
3D Gifmaker
MakeSweet
Capcut (video editing)
Flixier (video editing)
gandr.io (limitless collage maker)
Remove Background (clear cache on this specific website to use repeatedly)
OTHER
Ventscape (Anonymous Venting)
Samplefocus (Audio Sample Library)
Splice (Free Audio Samples)
Video Game Music Archive
Radio Garden (Radios all over the world)
I recently played a fantastic browser game, and wanted to share it with Tumblr.
Half-Earth Socialism is a game released in 2022 (based on the 2022 book of the same name) in which you are put in charge of saving the world from climate change. The game is playable via desktop and mobile web browsers, and also available on Steam.
The conceit of the game is simple. In 2022 a global revolution overthrows both state governments and market capitalism, putting you in charge of long-term and high-level economic planning.
Playing the game is complex. You decide which technologies, policies, and infrastructure projects to pursue, and where the world should get its electricity, fuel, meat, and produce from. Directing resources and implementing changes costs you political power. You need to make sure the global leadership council doesn't factionalize against you. The global populace make decisions and regions change their needs, both spontaneously and in reaction to your decisions...
... and the planet is falling apart beneath you.
As a fan of management games and Flash games, this was a fantastic find. It's not an easy game, and I think most people will fail on their first run. Luckily, it's not a long game either.
The game clearly has an agenda and obviously wears its politics on its sleeve. Criticisms of the book itself are also fair criticisms of the game's message. Whether or not you agree with the lionization or dismissal of the various social changes and technologies presented will be decided by your personal opinions. None of the factions are objectively good, and l noticed subtle (and not so subtle) jabs at all of the ideologies involved herein. Ultimately it's a good thought experiment. The game impressed upon me the scope of the challenge we face as a global society. But also, it offers a semi-realistic path forward. The game left me energized to face the future.
P.S. The game's name ultimately comes from biologist E. O. Wilson's 2016 book Half Earth, which proposes leaving fully half of the earth a human-free nature reserve, and spawned the Half-Earth Project.
The Creator's Guide to Comics Devices is OPEN!!!
comicsdevices.com
An online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
Happy Halloween! I'm really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet.
This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn't have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn't comics?
I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. I love reading, making and thinking comics. However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. This is true for many of my peers. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don't have a robust system of language. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. If there is language specific to comics, it's either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals.
The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition!
* The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It's not final, nor will it ever be. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. Translations, comics examples, etc. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this post or submit an expression of interest on this page.
Have fun everyone!!
(Now time for me to melt x_x)
One very important note on the immense value of the Internet Archive that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
It crawls major newspapers like the New York Times multiple times per day.
For anything other than one of those scrolling updates breaking news pages, you can access it from the Archive usually within an hour or two of it being published. No paywall. You want international news? You got it. Opinion? That too. Recipes? It's all here. Page not yet archived? There's a button for that and now you got it.
There are various paywall-evading extensions and tricks out there, but they don't always work. This does.
welcome to theinternetarchive, where i document my journey scrolling through archive.org. it's my favorite pastime.
here are some helpful links:
FREE FILMS AVAILABLE ON THE ARCHIVE (LETTERBOXD LIST [with all/updating links])
+ subtitle extension info in case you need them and they're not included
how to get print disabled access (to be able to borrow the books public rights have been revoked from)
ways to search on the internet archive
subscribe to GAZE: A Newsletter About Film theory (free)
instagram.com/theinternetarchivefan
PSA tag sorting for dates is: century if pre-1900 (i.e. 1700s, 1500s) and decade if post 1900 (20s, 00s, 90s, etc.) there's three decade exceptions (1910s, 2010s, 2020s).
popular tags:
photography
paintings
objects
magazines
more niche tags i love:
bee ottinger <- documented the la lesbian house c. 1971-3.
california <- photographers don seimens, shuck chan, california labor school students, merton doss
Masterlist Of Black Focused Resources: Art And Writing Addition (1)
Good Skintone Coloring Tip
More Skintone Tips
Skintones And What To Do For Black Characters
Coloring Scars On Dark Skin
Skintone Sheets
How To Draw More Accurate Blush On Dark Skin
Coloring Tips On Palms
Skintone Tutorial
Lighting Dark Skin, Part One: Color and Identity
Lighting Dark Skin, Part Two: Lighting a Flat World
Skintone Coloring Tips
Coloring Skintone
Skintone And Black Features
Humanae
How To Paint Dark Skin
Naylissah
The Mightyz0
Tip For Picking Darker Skintones
How To Draw Dark Skin
Tip For Drawing Vitiligo On Dark Skin
Tips To Get Facial Features To Pop On Darker Skin
Kupa's Guide To Skintone When Using a 3D reference
How To Avoid Whitewashing Undead Characters Of Color
Lips Tutorial
Guide On Drawing Biracial Characters
Creating Black Characters
Tips On Drawing Black Lips
How I Draw Lips
Drawing Black People 101
How To Draw Black People
Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are Black and Indigenous people of color
Rendering Dark Skin
Anti-Whitewashing Tutorial For Pale & Pastel GIFs
How Not To Whitewash Screencaps
A Guide On Coloring Poc In Edits
How I draw Black Hairstyles!
Five tips On Drawing Black People’s Noses
How to Draw Black People Part 1 (Intro) | All of the Basics
Tips For Coloring Black People | How to Draw Black People
How to Draw Curly Hair | How to Draw Black People
Why Black Artists and Creators are Important
How to Draw Black People with Copics/Alcohol Based Markers
How to Draw Black People Part 5 | Nose and Lips
How to Draw Headwraps | How to Draw Black People Part 6
Whitewashing In Art And How Colors Work
Quick guide on coloring deeper skin tones
Coloring palms
Let's not have history repeat itself | Skin Tutorial 2025
[Tutorial] How to Draw Black Anime People - Part 1
What is Racial Caricature?
How To Design Black Hair
How To Critize A Black Character While Avoiding Racism\Bias
Why The Disposable Black Girlfriend Is A Problem
How the “Angry Minority” Trope Gaslights People of Color
The "Undateable" BIPOC Co-Star
Black Hair Pack! | Black Hair! 2 | Black Hair! 3 - CLIP STUDIO ASSETS
How to Render Dark Skin
Oil painting process
Dont be afraid of Dark Skin
Painting Dark Skin Tones
Anatomy: Skin
Skintones for POC companions in Dragon Age
How to draw lips for Black/Dark Skinned people
This is what colorism in media looks like
white authors….can we stop the bad POC rep in fiction
Why Black Villains Matter
The Sassy Black Woman Trope
Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan
Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)
the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews
Hawai'i - IWGIA
Syria - Amnesty International
Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)
Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)
Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report
Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations
Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations
West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch
Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd
Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR
Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me
Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank
Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International
Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights
Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF
Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News
Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)
Reblogs with Links / From Others
Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia
Libya
Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2
Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)
Rohingya (Myanmar)
More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution
From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi
From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)
From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis
West Sahara conflict
Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)
Interest in greek mythology rises anew with the new number of retellings and adaptions...and misconceptions all around...
Claims like "that never happened" or "that's the roman version" are around a lot...but even if you wanted to learn more, where would you even start looking? Where do you begin your research for your next fic, or next discussion? Well...That's for you!
Here is the Post as DOCs to share outside of tumblr (gets updated)
Here's a list of source names, links to access them, maps, family trees & more
Where to access the texts:
ToposText
Database, interlinks all names and places, has almost all sources translated, can find all name mentions of place or character in the sources, has a map with the places
Perseus Collection Greek and Roman Materials (and Scaife Viewer)
Digital Library, nearly all main greek and roman sources, including OG language text and dictionary for those languages (is instable at times, try coming back a few hours/days later and it should be up again)
Theoi Greek Mythology
Database, has summary posts for individual heroes, creatures, gods and events, as well as many translations, has a search function
Most of these places have older translations for the epics, poems and hymns (with older language), places like Poetry In Translation and https://www.gutenberg.org often have newer translations available for free, though…with a bit of digging most translations even recent ones can be found online :)
Comparing several translations is also good if you want to make any arguments about what a text says without being able to read the text in the original language, does the text really say that or is it just this translation?
It also doesn't hurt to research a little about the author of a work as well to get context for which time and sociopolitical and personal situation they were writing in (it helps to do a quick search into the history of ancient greece too, i.e. epic writers writing during the 7th century BC had different agendas than playwrights of the 5th century during the persian wars, athenians during the conflicts with sparta, or later hellenistic writers after Alexander the Great)
Wikipedia: CAN be used, it's a good starting point, but check the sources cited as much as you can, rather than believing what the page itself says
Links to Maps
Ancient Greece Maps – Ancient Greece: Φώς & Λέξη
User:MaryroseB54 - Wikimedia Commons
Cyowari - Professional, Digital Artist | DeviantArt
Some of the Realms of Greece in the Heroic Age by Yaulendur on DeviantArt
Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Trade, c. 1400-1200 BCE: Empires, Merchants, and Maritime Routes of the Ancient World - World History Encyclopedia
Translators:
Translate to Ancient Greek Online
https://logeion.uchicago.edu
Wiktionary
Ancient Art
Resources
Harvard Art Museums
Family Tree:
(Compiled by a friend, not exhaustive) - Note that there are often various different versions of lineage for many characters, so this only represents ONE of many possibilities)
Family Echo
Final Note
These things should not be gatekept, its time to share them freely
I wish I could offer even more sources via academic books and papers but I fear this would exceed my abilities considering the vastness of the topic of Greek Mythology! But this is a starting point :D Have fun!
Google Scholar has a lot of secondary sources (scholia commentary & theories), books about history, society, politics, flora & fauna, religion, culture, etc. of the time both of history and mythical history…if you have a friend in academia with university access (if you don’t have it yourself) you can ask them to check if they have access to the papers/books otherwise hidden behind insane paywalls, because a LOT of them are available as pdfs!
I also wish I had more visual/audio sources but this is smth I cant change :") I'm sure there's some good videos on youtube out there...somewhere x)
Feel free to contact me if you have more sources you want to add or any links don't work
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