Person-Next-Door

you have stumbled upon my small blog...welcome expect fandoms, writing, social anxiety, little life stories, cute animals, and mild fun p.s. yes the background color is dodie yellow and yes the accent color is Night Vale purple and yes I know my blog look a mess but do I care... ̶a̶ ̶l̶i̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶t̶ ...no INFJ - pisces - bi - Gen Z my art blog: https://artist-next-door.tumblr.com/

[cosmic-stardust-ghost]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

before yall ask, this can’t be a print because copper on black paper is a NIGHTMARE to scan

[theory-ov-everything]

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202]

wow

[kindfoxes]

a trio of witches and their familiars

[lost-dazed-andconfused]

I love how each are representing all three colours for their hair dress and fox. Like love it so much.

[leave-her-a-tome]

(source)

Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

[sepdet]

Morguefile - tons of good photos

[zivyx-deactivated20200628]

Witch Tip

the-eye.eu is a huge public database that has countless free PDFs of all sorts of occultist books and grimoires. Go forth and read.

[mahigxn-deactivated20200629]

It’s a really good source for lots of older occult texts, in multiple languages too.

[30-minute-memes]

I Hear That’s Good

[8bott]

AM I HAVING A STROKE?

[nyamafriend]

The synchronized “jOHN MulANey” absolutely destroyed me

[bitatulipa]

MUHLANEE

[hellsite-yano]

'He can't keep getting away with this!' meme but it's me and I'm talking about Apple

[cottoncandysecretlair]

If you ever want spicy insider info on apple, I hate all their products but I work in their customer service

[hellsite-yano]

Go on

[cottoncandysecretlair]

We have a whole bucket of issues that we acknowledge and know about but we can't acknowledge that to any customers or even offer repairs because Apple doesn't publicly admit to it.

The iPhone 7's speaker likes to go out. We can't do shit for any customer with this common and known issue.

Sometimes the iCloud just eats people's data for no reason and we have to go fuck with the account to make it come back.

If you forget your password, there's a chance that you'll have to go through account recovery even if you have the appropriate two factor verification code, because no reason. Account recovery takes anywhere from 2 days to 3 months to get you back into your account.

I've legit had to tell people that it's expected behavior for them to have no access to their account for over a month because they committed the crime of signing in on a new iPhone.

We have an internal article about devices being slowed down by updates, and the article basically tells you to shrug and say the phone's old.

To factory restore an iPhone you have to use iTunes (erase all content and settings is not the same thing), and if you use iTunes on a Mac you're basically screwed because 90% of the time you'll get an error. It legit works better with Windows but we can't say that.

WITHIN MY OWN WORKPLACE they try to make us use safari on our macs for official work websites, but they don't load. We have to use Google Chrome to get anything working.

Our internal program to facilitate screen sharing with macs and phones hasn't worked properly in over 3 months, and to this day I can only use it max a couple times a day despite being required to offer it on every call.

We currently take all calls on a proprietary program made by Apple that is a buggy mess. It constantly crashes and causes issues. Sometimes the customer data doesn't load in correctly despite the information we enter being correct.

We can't edit customer profiles so if you change your phone number, the profile when you call in will never be changed.

Our system is based on the same framework as the one Apple stores use, but we can't see anything the apple store enters.

When you call an apple store it directs you to the call center. If you need to talk to someone in the store, we put you on hold, call the public facing number that you just called, and then say "Manager" to the automated system.

[hellsite-yano]

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

Pride jean jackets

[ohth-moved-deactivated20191101]

[spookihope]

“uhHA”

[killorbekillian]

“You know, they say - they say you can’t joke about nothin’ today, and they say, ey, you can joke about whateva you want, you just gotta be - you just gotta be willing to offend somebody. And I am willing to offend somebody! So here comes my offensive joke: Uh, what do you call, uh, a man? …Stupid! Ah-haaah!”

[cheagin]

If you don’t think “spellbook shoulder holsters” is the coolest concept ever then get out of my face.

[isleofapplepies]

One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman, “You can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says, “Why? Because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that effect and the guy replies with, “No, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender-specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as an irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.

[mentethemage-deactivated2018122]

huh.. never thought of it like that

[marchysmusings-deactivated20211]

But, what if the male character isn’t sexist? I meam…their fictional sure but…I’m not sure how to phrase this

[fandomsandfeminism]

Its not a question of the character themselves- its how the writers are portraying them. The way this trope plays out, the whole moment revolves around the woman looking foolish for assuming that there is sexism happening. She is characterized as being irrational, jumping to conclusions, even insecure. While the dude is characterized as the calm, rational one.

It is a trope that specifically works by taking a woman standing up to sexism and saying “haha it wasnt actually sexist at all! Isnt calling out sexism foolish and silly. Thats what you get for assuming that men are sexist!”

[f1rstperson]

I have the same reaction with homophobic jokes set up like this. Like the whole “you can’t marry a woman”, “why bc you think its wrong” “no we haven’t found you the right dress yet silly!” Or stuff along those lines.

It feels like someone setting up to punch you and then you duck and the person goes “haha, i wasn’t gonna punch you at all, why would you duck? You shouldnt just assume someone’s gonna deck you because they have their fists up.”

[randomslasher]

…huh, wow. 

[tomhardysteeth]

have i ever told y’all about the greatest moment of my academic career

i was a freshman in college and i had this history teacher who was ~edgy~ and his hotness level on ratemyprofessor was off the charts and he was the first teacher i ever heard use the word “fuck.” anyway he would do this thing every so often where we’d have a “quiz” and the first two questions were always really easy and the last one was hard - they were all similar questions, and the point was to show what you learn about history and what you don’t. 

so one day he’s like okay kids time for a quiz and the first question was who killed abraham lincoln. the second question was who killed JFK. third question was who killed william mckinley. 

we all take a few minutes and write down our answers, and then the teacher asks the questions again so we can shout out the answers. everybody answered the first two with really no problem.

now, keep in mind that this class was at 9 a.m. and i was exhausted All The Time during my freshman year of college so i sat in the back in my sweats and never said a word and the teacher definitely had no clue who i was. 

so you can imagine his surprise when he asked the class who shot william mckinley and without missing a beat i said, “czolgosz,” pronounced correctly and everything. 

my teacher froze and in a very stern voice asked, “what was that? what did someone just say?”

i repeated: czolgosz.

my teacher: “who said that?”

i raised my hand, and my super cool history teacher glared at me. he then asked me how the hell i knew the answer. he said that in the TWENTY YEARS he’d been teaching this stupid class, nobody, not A SINGLE PERSON, had ever known the answer to that question.

i then had to quietly explain to a room full of people that there’s a musical called assassins and there’s a song about czolgosz shooting william mckinley at the great pan american exposition in buffaloooooooo (in buffaloooooooo)

[kamicokrolock]

The arts are important.

I shocked a teacher once because I could recite the preamble to the US Constitution (got bonus points to), She asked why I’d taken it upon myself to memorize it. I had to explain it was in a School House Rock song….

[sparringwoodpecker]

I shocked church with my ‘math skills’ when they were asking how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a year, now how about minutes in a year - and I call out five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes without pausing to think, cos Rent

[housetohalf]

Once aced a religion class pop quiz that asked me to list all of Jacob’s sons since they’re the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. The one and only time I’ve been thankful for Andrew Lloyd Webber. I even got points for getting the birth order correct.

[archivistofnerddom]

My little brother got extra points in a social studies class once for knowing “O Canada” in its entirely (we’re American and grew up in Maryland, for context) because my older sister went to undergrad in Maine and her acapella group learned the Canadian National Anthem could sing it whenever the hockey teams played Canadian teams.

Who says the arts don’t have real world benefits?

[ignescent]

When i was in high school, my history teacher asked what historic technology caused the biggest alteration in military tactics. I answered stirrups, and explained that the ability to brace against the horse to use a weapon and the better maneuverability vs a chariot created the entire concept of cavalry, which led to modern tactics, etc. The teacher said I was the first student to ever give that answer and that I was basically correct, and then asked where I had found that out. I then had to explain I had read it in a Star Trek novel.

[animation-is-my-life]

My APUS teacher in HS made a deal with all his students: if you get an A on the first test of the year, your lowest test for the year gets dropped. He said he almost never had students get A’s on the first test.

I was one of 3 kids in APUS my year to get an A on our first exam (all three were in my class because we were NERDS). When the test scores came in he called the tree of us up to his desk and said he’d never had THREE kids in the same class make A’s on the test and that either we were REALLY smart or REALLY good at cheating (we sat in 3 of the corners of the room so we weren’t copying off eachother or anything).

I don’t think I ever told him that I got an A on the first 2 tests because one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid was Liberty’s Kids and I had the series on DVD and literally watched it to study for the test.

[sauntervaguelydown]

You know the thing about the songs part of this is that humans have been using poetry and songs to remember large numbers and historical facts since the dawn of time, and I honestly think it’s insane that we don’t value that as a culture anymore to the degree that teachers are surprised by it

[oribiys-remade-deactivated20200]

everytime i move i crunch like popcorn

[battenna]

and everytime we kiss i swear i could fly

[onceiwashere]

i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers

[onceiwashere]

i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i

[pimentogirl]

Oskaar!!!!!!!!!

[anxietyproblem]

[facts-about-bisexuality]

Fact: Bisexual women and lesbians used to give each other violets to symbolize their love in the early 20th century, referencing a poem by Sappho. Gay and bisexual men used to wear carnations, a trend started by Oscar Wilde. Gay and bisexual communities have always been intertwined, sharing in each other’s love and struggles and creating history together. 

[here4rizzles]

Carnations are red Violets are blue But both used to mean I’m so gay for you

[lavendermoon-tea]

reblogging for the most romantic poem i’ve ever read.

[startreklesbian-deactivated2020]

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma