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Calamus Currentis
@plumadesatada
Take up the pen, for there is no heaven and death is soon.
There's something so sad to me about how Gurathin spends the entire season so distrustful and on edge, about both the survey itself and SecUnit, because how can anything involved with the Company have good intentions? But the second Leebeebee tells him Mensah is dead, he immediately breaks down sobbing. Leebeebee had no way of knowing whether her plan even worked and for all he knew, she could have been lying. He could have held out hope Mensah survived or that Leebeebee was lying about SecUnit being dead to get them to cooperate, but no. Instant despair. Because since when has the universe ever been kind? When has idealism ever triumphed over corporate greed, or good over evil? Why wouldn't his favorite person die at the hands of someone using violence for their own gain? What else is new?
It's so much easier for him to believe in deception, violence, and tragedy than to even entertain the idea of a stranger acting kind, because to his experience that's just what the world is. Mensah, and by extension, the PresAux team, are anomalies. Cruelty is the norm, kindness an outlier. And what's really sad is how many times he's right. No wonder he cried when SecUnit left. He finally realized he had found someone who both understood and defied what his trauma had taught him.
Gurathin let me love you
Ok, so I saw this post and decided to illustrate it with gifs.
Exhibit A. Gurathin's immediate reaction after hearing Mensah is dead. No denial, no bargaining, just instant acceptance. He doesn’t even question whether Leebeebee might be lying.
Exhibit B. He's so devastated by the news he literally started leaking from the nose and then sobbing. At first I thought it's because of the pain, but now I beilieve OP is right.
Exhibit C. Gurathin's reaction when he sees Mensah alive and well. This is the face of a man who has just witnessed the resurrection of Jesus.
ship dynamic:
Character A approached Character B in an "enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation but it turns out that no one has ever approached Character B for an alliance before and they are now super smitten with Character A and even more invested in being "allies" than in defeating their shared enemy.
Character A: we will make our enemy regret being born! 🥂
Character B: omg we??? 👀
so i’ve been reading the book.
Jun 19
I don’t know if this will be any good, but either way I feel like I should have been getting ads for this instead of tampons and betting agencies.
Jun 19
hey wanna know a secret
Read more
yeah what is it
its behind the read more button
nothin there
Jun 19
Yahoo deletes my porn but leaves me this.
Jun 19
starting a compilation
Jun 19
Link to the article
We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.
I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.
prev tags is a good tl;dr of what scanning means
Jun 19
Visas being denied to players and their families
Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv
Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs
Deporting african referees just because of their nationality
Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages
And all this just in the first week....
Jun 19
you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:
that last one is literally a LOOK
yes!
but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:
AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree.
Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)
This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.
Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…
…and his Minister of the Interior.
A Type B-15 steam locomotive…
Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…
The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…
…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.
Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.
Nice hat…
look at this shit. look. at. this. shit. it has fifteen thousand notes. what does it mean? why does a picture of the pin k panther with a to do lis that makes NO SENSE have fiFTEEN FUCKING NOTES. WHY. my mom could make better posts that this shit. what even. fuck tumblr.
looks like someone doesnt know what to do. to do. to do, to do, to do, to do, to dooooooooooooo, dodododododo
Jun 19
Did you know? Tumblr DOES have a post length limit. Strangely, though, it's based on how many blocks of text you have. Supposedly this implies that you can have any length post so long as it's one block of text? Very strange, will have to investigate further.
Two limits! You can have a maximum of 4,096,000 characters in 1 [one] tumblr post. I would work out how many combinations this is, but 26^6,000 is already considered to be "Infinity" by most calculators, and a program I wrote threw an error code.
26^95,000 is already over 134,000 characters long - which would take 33 different text blocks to convey via tumblr. Whenever somebody says we're running out of posts, don't forget that tumblr is needlessly designed for MASSIVE amounts of information [no matter how detrimental it may be for mobile phones].
There are SOME works of fanfiction which are lengthy enough that you couldn't fit the whole thing into one tumblr post, but this is enough to fit Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy in it about 14 times over.
Don't hide that in the tags
The Lord of the Rings is generally my go-to measuring stick for "long-ass pieces of text", so I must additionally point out that, if written out optimally, about 2 full Lord of the Ringses would fit into one Tumblr post, apparently.
Though I'm not certain if that character count includes spaces, unfortunately, as I got that figure by googling "how many letters are in lord of the rings" and came upon a TikTok that counted the number of letter characters in LotR in order to figure out how many Spaghettios cans would be needed to re-write the entire thing, if one were to cut and paste each individual letter from the cans blackmail-letter style.
For those curious, the numbers are 2,261,081 letters in LotR, which calculates out to 8,795 cans of Spaghettios needed, which would cost about $12,225.
What a way to start my day. The internet truly is a beautiful place.
Hey! Guy who programmed most of the core pieces of the editor here!
So, those are the theoretical limits, yeah. But in practice, the editor is not even close to be optimized to handle these kinds of huge posts: there is a point, far far away from the size of the lord of the rings, that your browser would just crash.
So if you are planning to post long fanfiction, or anything, you better work on something that's optimized for long form (locally, or some alternative to Google docs) and then post in chunks.
So no, Tumblr is not designed to support these massive posts. It's theoretically possible, but that never was a real scenario we were trying to support
Editor crashes? No problem, I'm sure you can do that through the API though
I'm honestly very curious of what it would happen if someone tries something like using the API to post the entire Lord Of The Rings. I would assume the request would timeout, but it would be a cool test to run. Anyway, if it works, anyone trying to reblog that post would just insta-kill their browser :D
Jun 19
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Jun 18
due to popular demand you can now stream the Slur Song for free without Spotify, using my new streaming service slurify.co
Pretty amazing that the website dedicated entirely to streaming slurs is somehow more ethical than spotify
Incredible but ngl I miss the one with the party-er beat
Jun 18
my relationship with dragon age as a series is so twisted it’s like my ex-husband i divorced in the messiest way possible but i still have feelings for him nobody knows me like he does and we have occasional passionate love affairs still but also i daydream about killing him in his sleep quite often
hes lying next to me in bed my hands are shaking closing around his throat i cant see through the tears
