Occasionally Artistic

25//She/Her//🇷🇴🇬🇧//I really like animation I guess

[grox]

[omghotmemes]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

The way the machine pauses like “should I do this?” before it draws the circle

[bluethealpha]

You can’t forget this one either

[songsofwaterandnight]

Ok yeah I did not expect kill stealing in tic tac toe

[pcktknife]

[pascal-0840]

I love grindr images like this, they're so awesome sauced

[littlegreenfag-deactivated20240]

How could you forget this classic?

[implalazz]

[gin-juice-tonic]

I cant resist uploading mine before bed

Happy 10th birthday, Gravity Falls!

[googifs]

Astronaut Mark Kelly smuggled a gorilla suit into the ISS, without telling the rest of the crew

[unclefather]

Winston

[papasmoke]

Winston

[gay-jesus-probably]

My favourite incident like this was the Skylab 4 mission, where the crew arrived at the empty station, only to find several people already inside, to their great alarm. Upon investigating, they realized the intruders were wearing the Skylab 3 mission patches… and were also just dummies the Skylab 3 crew had made and left there without telling anyone, specifically to fuck with the next team.

Can you imagine entering a supposedly empty space station and seeing this? Fucking terrifying. I love it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I’m just impressed that, in an environment where weight and available resources are so carefully accounted for, people still find windows to pull bullshit like this.

[vickisigh]

Red Velvet RED FLAVOR! (≧∇≦)/ 

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[vickisigh]

gonna start rb'ing old rv art i’ve done over the years to celebrate their recent comeback! 💖💗

updated shop

[escuerzoresucitado]

[teathattast]

This is a rest post. Feel free to rest by the fire and regain your strength before venturing below

[spritespi]

“aren’t you tired of being nice” no!!!! i’m tired of everyone else being mean!!!!!!!!

[iapislazuli]

Owning a black cat is awesome because you’ll leave the bathroom and The Shape will be waiting for you

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified:      g a   ac  cat    a         ca       ’     a   t    at      a   T     a            a t  g         

Closest match: Raphanus sativus genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Radish

[deez-no-relation]

Is owning a black cat awesome? Sure. But is it rad? Kinda rad. You know.

[queersona]

therapist: cunt dracula is not real and cannot fuck you.

cunt dracula:

[queersona]

[jojo pose] count dracula. [different jojo pose] nice to meet you. [jojo walk cycle] alexa, turn down the music! [the obnoxious music doesn't change volume] mr harker

[virtualgirladvance]

Cuntula

[cop-disliker69]

[sprachgefuehle]

"That sounds like a good idea......."-"Is there something bothering you with the idea?"-"No, the idea is GOOD.....🙂"

[biteswhenprovoked]

Can someone explain this to me?

[cop-disliker69]

Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.

And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.

So an old person could type something like:

how are things going with your “boyfriend”….

and what they mean is

How are things going with your boyfriend? [Im so excited for you, sweetie, and I wanna hear about it]

But a young person would interpret that sentence as

How are things going with your so-called boyfriend…. [I say, while seething with contempt for him and possibly for you too]

[kaispeakshermind]

The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

[radio-silents]

I call this one “cartoon mentors who went hard af from tv shows that disney didn’t deserve”

[achronalart]

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

[mydonkeyfeet]

Art conservator here! I did part of my master's degree on Perkin's mauve dye (which he named mauveine) and it's a violet purple, not quite so magenta as that first dress pic. I got to do chemical analysis on an actual 1856 sample of the dye! And the sample I dissolved and painted out on paper most resembled Pantone 266, which apparently translates to hex #7329b0. Mauveine is significant because it was THE FIRST synthetic dye ever made.

And it was actually quite fade-resistant! Much moreso than natural dyes. People in the 1920s would have known about their grandmothers' super bright colors, because those dresses were still folded up in the attic or still in scraps in patchwork quilts, and their grannies were right there to tell them (just like my 2020s niece recently tried on some 1960s dresses that belongd to my mom). And the word magenta has kept its meaning, even though it was also an aniline dye of the same era (and might be the dye in that first dress, aka fuchsine). So I don't know why the word mauve came to mean a muddy pale color, but I don't think it's because later generations were ignorant about historic dye colors. Apparently the color name "mauve taupe" was first used in 1925 for a muddy purple, so maybe that was the start of the shift.

PS, mauve is named for the French word for the mallow flower (probably this one, Malva sylvestris). I love it.

[mydonkeyfeet]

PS! (Sorry-not-sorry, I just really love mauveine history), read more about Perkin's mauve here! And look at this dress dyed with mauveine. Gorgeous! I can barely imagine how amazing that time must have been, to see previously unattainable brilliant flower colors on fabric. We're so used to having fabric in absolutely any color we want, but there just wasn't any purple dye like that ever before.

PPS (SORRY AGAIN!) I was curious about that first dress, and I searched around and found that it was listed on another tumblr as being mauveine, but that was incorrect. The dress lives at the V&A and they describe it as being a magenta dye, but they don't identify which dye. But also, the first picture posted here appears to have been color enhanced compared to the V&A's photos. Go and look, it's gorgeous.

[achronalart]

Thank you so much! for your additions to my old semi-informed post that for no reasons I can discern (I am a tiny account) went viral.

This is a fascinating addition that gives it way more context. I wish I had known it when I made the OP, especially given the views it's been getting.

Now I wonder if people in the 1920s thought mauve was that washed out grey-violet because of the fugitive nature of printer's inks?

Or maybe it was just one of those things.

Anyway, thank you so much. This is really interesting!

[mydonkeyfeet]

Hi again OP! By the mid-late 19th century, most printer's inks were just as stable as fabric dyes, or even moreso. Some were also aniline dyes like the ones used in fabric. Maybe someone in fashion started hyping a muddy purple as the cool new mauve and soon everyone was talking about it, like how "millennial pink" got invented. I think more fashion/design history research is needed, which is not my forte.

[fanonical]

gotta give credit to gravity falls for having a cartoon explicitly set during the summer but going

“hey we wanna do a halloween episode” “but it’s summer” “the town has a regional not!halloween called summerween fuck you”

[orangechickenpillow]

I just want to bring to everyone’s attention that summerween is june 22nd ok bye

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

Reblogging this so that nobody misses Summerween

[glumshoe]

My father and I play this… game… in which we both pretend to be attempting to assassinate each other. When we serve the other food or drink, we’ll adopt the most suspicious mannerisms and wording possible, as though the food were secretly poisoned and we are eagerly waiting for them to eat it and die.

The other player pretends that they know their food is poisoned, but must feign ignorance and try to come up with subtle excuses not to eat/drink it without seeming rude or directly confronting the other about the attempted kinslaying.

Wholesome family bonding.

[glumshoe]

Last night my father brought me “a nice tall glass of ice water” and stood there watching me closely as I sipped it. I pretended to swallow, at which point he threw his head back and laughed maniacally.

While he was laughing, I spit the entire mouthful of water that I’d been holding in my mouth onto his shirt, patted my chest, and said, “Oh, dear, Father; I’m afraid this water was just too cold. I need to let it warm up. Why don’t I make us some… tea.”

[glumshoe]

Another thing we do is imply that we have set lethal traps for each other.

“Goodnight Father,” I’ll tell him (because Father with a capital F is the most sinister and threatening thing you can call your dad). “I hope you sleep well tonight. Very well. It would be a shame if something… disturbed you.“ In response, he’ll make an offhand remark about needing to Google the upper age limit for sudden infant death syndrome, or he’ll bring up my “inheritance” and the possibility that he might have worthy bastard children somewhere. 

My mother does not like our game.