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Made this last year and bringing it back
Fun fluffy animes that I loved
This is basically a list of animes that helps get over or deal with the trauma inflicted by various animes. At the moment, I guess fellow JJK fans might need this, and prolly AOT fans on November 5. Have fun watching
Haikyuu
Short Synopsis: Determined to be like the volleyball championship's star player nicknamed "the small giant", Shoyo joins his school's volleyball club.
Episodes: 85 + 5 OVA
The worst thing that can possibly happen is either the 3rd year students graduating or you being unable to support a specific team (nah cuz bro how do you pick and root for one? I end up being happy for the team that won and depressed for the team that lost)
Two movies are coming up soon
Highschool Babysitters
Synopsis: After the sudden death of their parents on a plane crash, two young brothers named Ryūichi Kashima (a freshman in high school) and his younger brother KotarŠ(a preschooler) are left orphaned and having no place to call home. The chairwoman of the prestigious Morinomiya Academy offers to take the boys into her care, giving them a new house and free tuition, on the condition that Ryuichi helps out with the school's daycare center while also attending normal classes during school hours.
Episodes: 12 + 1 OVA
Note: Plane crash seems sad but trust me, its only mentioned in the first episode, and the rest 11 is just fluffy goodness. Nothing can prepare you for the cuteness.
Cells At Work
Synopsis: One newcomer red blood cell just wants to do her job. Between bacteria incursions and meeting a certain white blood cell, she's got a lot to learn.
Episodes: 31 + 7
A good mix of science and entertainment. The episodes dont have to be watched in any specific order.
Mr. Osomatsu
Synopsis: The everyday lives of identical sextuplets who cause mischief.
Episodes: 75 + special eps + movies
Has a good amount of 18+ jokes, but its not too overwhelming. It doesnt necessarily follow a plot, and each episode is usually two different stories combined. So, skipping episodes should be fine. Also, it features very popular voice actors for the sextuplets (Geto's VA, Gojo's VA, Levi's VA, Koro sensei's VA, Erwin's VA and Haku/ Sugawara's VA), Iyami (Obanai Iguro's VA), Totoko (Shoko's VA)
The Vampire Dies in No Time
Synopsis: The story follows the famed vampire hunter, Ronaldo, who receives a job to destroy the supposedly invincible vampire lord Draluc and rescue a human boy he allegedly kidnapped.
Episodes: 24
Note: Its a hit or miss, the running gag is used constantly and gets tiring at times, but the overall anime is a good watch. I personally loved John the Armadillo
Buddy Daddies
Synopsis: Assassins Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa meet Miri, a girl looking for her father on Christmas Day. Kazuki, Rei, and Miri unexpectedly end up living together.
Episodes: 12
May get dark at times, so I wont guarantee that itll be a smooth sail, but we get a wholesome conclusion so you can count on that! Otherwise VERY fluffy
Blue Lock
Synopsis: High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best and most egoistic striker in the world.
Episodes: 24
Isnt exactly true football, but yeah. The anime is pretty fine. It doesnt exactly go under the fluffy anime like i mentioned in the title, but you can check it out if you want.
Free!!
Synopsis: The story is centered on high school student Haruka Nanase, a gifted swimmer. After encountering his childhood rival, Rin Matsuoka from Samezuka Academy, he and his friends revitalize Iwatobi High School's swim team.
Episodes: 37 + specials and movies
This anime to me, personally is what haikyuu is. A great comfort anime which knows how to make the viewer connect with the characters. I dislike it when the whole anime gets reduced to just fanservice, like guys lets look beyond that and actually enjoy the plot.
Life Lessons With Uramichi Oniisan
Synopsis: From smoking and exercising to nihilistic outbursts, everyone's big brotherĀ UramichiĀ always brings up the not-so-moral side to hisĀ life lessons
Episodes: 13
This one is very real and relatable in many levels. Theres a lot of screenshots and panels available online, so you can check a few out before watching!
Obey Me
Synopsis: Brothers Lucifer, Mammon, Leviathan, Satan, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and Belphegor are among the most powerful demons in the Devildom, serving as officers on the student council at the Royal Academy of Diavolo (RAD). However, being avatars of the seven deadly sins, their behaviors often tend toward the extreme. Their everyday antics belie their high status and fearsome reputations among others of their kind. When viewed behind the scenes, the members of this family are more lovableāand laughableāthan they first seem!
Episodes: 24 + 1
It's based on a popular otome game, and can be watched as it is even if you havent played the game. The basic idea is that theyre based on the 7 sins, so their personalities are really amusing. As for the plot, its pretty wholesome.
Play It Cool Guys
Synopsis: Despite their distinctive personalities, Souma Shiki, Hayate Ichikura, Shun Futami, and Takayuki Mima all have one thing in common: though naturally clumsy, the four disguise their embarrassment from tiny slip-ups by maintaining a composed demeanor. However, it is actually the guys' airheaded natures that makes the girls' hearts throb. No matter what happens in their daily lives, the boys do their best not to lose their cool!
Episodes: 24
Each episode is barely 10-13 minutes, so it just doesnt feel enough lol. Most of their slip ups are relatable and could get a chuckle from the viewer. The art style is a little different but its good. Definitely worth watching, once or even multiple times.
Tanaka Kun is Always Listless
Synopsis: For high school student Tanaka, the act of being listless is a way of life. Known for his inattentiveness and ability to fall asleep anywhere, Tanaka prays that each day will be as uneventful as the last, seeking to preserve his lazy lifestyle however he can by avoiding situations that require him to exert himself. Along with his dependable friend Oota who helps him with tasks he is unable to accomplish, the lethargic teenager constantly deals with events that prevent him from experiencing the quiet and peaceful days he longs for.
Episodes: 13 + specials
Not gonna lie, Ive wanted to act like Tanaka. The characters are lovable and the anime is worth giving a try. An underrated gem. I personally loved the school festival episode.
@satoruukisser hope this helps!
Today it's the only day you can reblog it
youāre hearing it more and more
Spotify Premium ad: āImagine playing music without interruptions! Infinite skipping! Replay the song you want! And even do it offline? No ads! Whatever songs you want! For a small monthly payme-ā Me: *nods, turns off Spotify and turns on my MP3 player and does all the things they offer, but for free and with songs they donāt even have*
For those of you who might not know how to do any of this:
To convert CD audio into mp3s, you just follow the steps here
To play mp3 files, you download an mp3 player like Winamp here and away you go
On mobile? There are plenty of free mp3 players for your phone available, too, so check them out
You donāt need to be tethered to an online streaming service for your music. Be free.
You can also rip audio files from youtube and find files all over the internet. It is far easier to come across great and lesser known music if you dont limit yourself to spotify.
Hereās a tutorial on how to get the music and playlists you like with unlimited listening/downloads. This is a free way to do it that I believe is a balance between cost, time, and pros & cons:
If you have the CDs, it will be easier to rip them. Most music managers include this feature and you will have all the track information loaded into the file. There are also pirate websites where you can download entire albums with their metadata attached, but there could be risks associated (I would worry more about viruses than lawsuits these days, though). Deciding a method for acquiring music is a balance of the required time, the alternative costs, and other pros/cons like supporting the artist or taking the risk of pirating sites.
1. Find the song on Youtube. YT has pretty much every song at this point, usually in comparable quality to what you would get on a streaming service.
This is great if you already listen to music on Youtube, but there might be a better method for going direct from Spotify, though this will work either way. The main downside to this method is that official music (and even lyric) videos sometimes have non-music portions so you might have to listen to the whole thing to be sure. SponsorBlock will highlight non-music sections for most artists, so if you have it installed you can tell at a glance if this is the case.
2. Download the audio from YT. There are many ways to download YT videos completely for free. Itās probably against the YT terms of service, but youāre not going to get sued.
I like y2mate for downloading YT videos (or their audio in mp3s) because itās a simple, ad-free website. You just paste in the URL for the video you want to download. Sometimes itās laggy and you have to come back later, but usually after a few moments the video loads, you select your download quality (the highest), and then save it. For easy file management, download everything in folders for the Artist, and then sub folders for the Album, and name the MP3 file the āsong nameā.mp3.
3. Upload to your music player/manager of choice. The file will currently be lacking metadata (Artist, Album, track number, etc) and will be added to the library as a song with its title set as the file name minus its .mp3 extension. Various music players/managers have different ways to add metadata (usually accessed by right-clicking the song) with varying ease.
iTunes is free and and logical if you have an iPhone, but limited in its capabilities. I do all my management/listening in MusicBee (free for Windows) because of its playlist and management features, as well as having a very customizable interface. You can set it to scan the folders you download music to so it will automatically load things into your library, or do so manually. Once loaded into MusicBee, you can batch edit an entire albumās metadata at once easily with Auto-Tagging. Auto-Tag can fetch the details from the internet and fill in artist, tracks, album artwork, etc and save that information to the mp3 file. You can edit this manually if needed too. Drag and drop the edited songs to any other player you may want to add them to so it can find the files.
4. Now you can use the player of your choice to listen endlessly, form playlists, etc. Some free music managers also have music discovery/recommendation features for expanding your collection.
MusicBee allows you to create playlists with folders, subfolders, and dynamic features. You can export these playlists for cross-platform play on other computers with MusicBee installed. I think the playlist features on MusicBee are better than what is on streaming services. You can create an auto-playlist of your recently-added music so you can easily find the ones that are new and might need need editing, adding to other playlists, etc. I have custom tags for music by LGBT artists, sapphic love songs, and more. I also drag-and-drop these playlists directly into iTunes so I have them on my phone too (you can do this to make a new playlist or just edit/add songs to a current one).
There are many music managers/players, including cross-platform ones with streaming, though they usually have fees for that feature. Because you arenāt streaming the music and rather storing it, youāll need space on each device you want to play the music on, but memory is cheap these days.
You can buy a 2TB external harddrive for less than Spotify or Youtube Premium costs for six months, so having to store the songs isnāt much of a downside. Plus, the song will never āleave the serviceā, you can listen to it offline, etc.
I do encourage people to pay for art, especially from small, independent artists. You have to pay for art if you want to keep it alive, but there is debate over if streaming services are really āpaying the artistā. Alternatives include buying and ripping CDs, purchasing merch or tour tickets (where artists make a lot of their money), etc to support them with something other than streaming views.
ID. a tweet from Don Hughes @/getfiscal dated Feb 18 21. it reads, āStarted imagining paying for Spotify for the next thirty or so years and got a bit dizzy, cancelled a bunch of subscriptions, installed Linux on my computer and then pulled out my old CDs to rip. Going caveman.ā End ID.
Seconding MusicBee! Also, you can use a library subscription to access Freegal, which allows (depending on your library system) up to five free downloads a week. Completely free, actually legal, yours to keep, no DRM or any crap like that.
For indie producers, always check if they have something like Bandcamp! Bandcamp lets you download as well, and has significantly higher royalties going to the actual artists (Spotify pays them⦠very little).
Jsyk, winamp rips cds natively.Ā You can set whatever bitrate you like.Ā Been doing *that* since last century.Ā
Itās that time again:
A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links. Contribute to Igglybuff/awesome-piracy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Donāt forget that you can borrow CDās from your local library! Borrow, rip, repeat ad infinitum!
for playing mp3s on android - musicolet, very customizable, bajillions of options, and you can edit the metadata in-app including album art and lyric files
on firefox - thereās a youtube video downloader add-on that lets you do it from page, though only as video - but most video players have an export-as-audio option
If you have installation privileges, I would strongly suggest Mediahumanās audio downloader which, in addition to scraping youtube audio can also capture from a variety of other sites, is highly configurable, does not rely on a website provider choosing not to become malware, AND downloads/converts the audio in around the amount of time it would take that video to load?
nothing more humiliating than having to turn a light on
Cardan: *brings his ex back to live on the land and then exiles Jude who he married the night before & who just got back from enduring over a month of torture*
Cardan: *does not have any doubts that Jude could possibly misinterpret this situation*
The Cruel Prince Ch.26
OHHH THAT WAS CLEVER CLEVER
Starting a new thread because the other was so long it was making everything sluggish x.x
Tag game: Insert a photo that you already have in your gallery that best describes you.
Thanks for the tag, @kraytwriter!
Tagging all of my followers. Yep, that's right. If you're following me, consider yourself tagged.
Got tagged for my main already, but hey, I'm a follower, I'll do it again.
Tagging @steampunk-archer @ablatheringblatherskite @thefinaljediknight @stargazer-luna. No pressure!
THANKS FOR THE TAG!!
Heh
No pressure tags: @gangst3rswife @the-old-fashioned-girl @youjustfeelthemforever @offendedteaspoon @choasuqeen @raouls-fine-horses @darling-gemini
Thank you for the tag!!!
No pressure tags: @excusemewotdidyousaytome @spaghettiwithnachos13 @ineffablelunatic @ginevralinton @literary-lesbian @ticcywhaleshark @hollow-ghost-fire and anyone else who wants to join
It's gotta be this
Tagging @captain-parks, @sydneyinfection, @tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine, @at-1800-hours, @spineless-lobster and anyone else who wants to join in. No pressure as always!
Thank you for the tag!!!!
Iāll tag @natjennie @thatgordongirl @journal-number-3 @gaslightgatekeepmeepboss @its-a-hare-pom-pom @spotforme @iwillstabyou and anyone else who wants to join! (No pressure ofc)
Thanks for the tog dude!
I tag @marinah2oblue @ensign-ancic @glowinggreeneyes-e @sonnet-of-anarchy no pressure ofc
Thanks for the tag! It's definitely this one
Tagging @mellowmanatee @noknoknonsense @tom-bakers-scarf @studyin-scarlett
I love you, thanks for the tag. I think itās just gotta be this one, honestly.
@peacocksapphire @dazsquirrelhead @i-probably-sleep-too-much @goodonecap @iamnotmereally @reigenfunnybones @uygfiug @castiels-slinky @audreythree @imdayyydreaming no pressure of course! also I would tag everyone if I could but then Iād have ten pages of people, so if you see this and you want to join then feel free to do so :)
Thanks for tagging me <3 This was a difficult choice because my gallery is 99% pictures of my cats and screenshots of stuff I want to look up/watch/read later
@rainbow-person @somethingintheforest @r2y9s-notartblog @euphoric-cha0s @not-equippedforthis @milquetoast27 Thats everyone I can think of off the top of my head, but anyone who sees this is welcome to participate. Also, no pressure at all, do what you want <3
thanks for tagging me >:D if I had to put my status in a (non-gnome) image, I'm feeling like this
I'm tagging @miles-wrightworth and @maybe-a-gatto-or-a-catto !! anyone else feel free to participate too ^_^
hell yeah ty for the tag hmmm lets see here
im a silly little guy and a Phoenix Wright kinnie and this stupid gorgeous keychain explains that perfectly
@tamagozz @razzbaby @cherrisodaa I CHOOSE YOU!
honoured to get chosen ciel š«” cant think of an image that rlly represents me rn but this is my fav one currently
@otomeroids @strawberii-symphonii gang idk how this works but i choose u guys!!
HII TAMA idrk how these work eitehr but this image is LITERALLY me
umm for tags lets see ..... @ankabut @poor-lonely-whitey @purachinam ? no pressure btw ^_^
thank u basil š„
here's me... ALL MY FELLAS (bum mumumumum)
no pressure tags :> @dual-destinies-tu-patron @adventure-line-tm @mettatonsbestie @meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-m
I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD? HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF PROBLEM.Ā
good news, you can! the companyās called Tonyās Chocolonely and their entire purpose is to make slave-free chocolate and reform the chocolate industry.
https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%27s_Chocolonely
Whole Foods carries it. If you donāt want to support an Amazon-owned company, World Market carries it. You can also buy it directly from the company.Ā
Itās the best chocolate Iāve ever hadĀ and itās 100% slave free. Tonyās Chocolonely works really hard to push for transparency within the chocolate industry and actually has and is following an action plan to eliminate slavery within cocoa production. Theyāre good people who make good chocolate.
A list of slavery-free chocolate companies:
Aldi
Aloha Feels Chocolate
Alma Chocolate
Alter Eco Chocolate
Amano Chocolate
Askinoise Chocolate
The Beach Chocolate Factory
Belicious
Black Mountain Chocolate
Cacaoteca
Caribeans Chocolate
Castronovo Chocolate
Charm School Chocolates
Chocolate Cartel
Chocolat Celeste
Chocolate Tree
Chocolate Troubadour
Choconat
Coco Chocolate
Compartes Chocolates
Dandelion Chocolate
Dark Forest Chocolate
Denman Island Chocolate
Divine Chocolate Co.
Eating Evolved
Eat Your Hat
El Ceibo
The Endangered Species
Equal Exchange
Fairafric
Forever Cocoa
Fresco Chocolate
Fruition Chocolate
Gayleenās Decadence
GEPA Chocolate
Giddy Yo Yo
Grenada Chocolate Company
Grocerās Daughter Chocolate
Guittard
Habitual Chocolate
Hagensborg Chocolates
Health by Chocolate
Hilo Shark Chocolate
HNINA Gourmet
Honest Artisan Chocolate
Hooray Ā Tuffles
Ithaca Fine Chocolates
L.A. Burdick Chocolates
La Iguana Chocolate
Lake Champlain Chocolates
La Siembra Cooperative
Lillie Belle Farms
Madecasse
Malagasy
Maverick Chocolate Company
Max Havelaar
Mayan Monkey
Mayordomo
Mia Chocolate
Montezumaās Chocolates
Nayah Amazon Chocolates
Newmanās Own Organics
Purdyās Chocolate
Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company
Ombar
OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate
Original Hawaiian Chocolate
Parliament Chocolate
MontevƩrgine
Patric Chocolate
Plamil Organic Chocolate
Potomac Chocolate
Pure Lovinā Chocolate
Rain Republic
Rapunzel Pure Organics
Ritual Chocolate
Samaritan Xocolata
Sappho Chocolates
Seed & Bean Chocolate
Shaman Chocolates
SibĆŗ Chocolate
Solkiki Chocolate
Sweet Earth Chocolates
Sweet Impact Fudge
Sweet Riot
Sun Eaters Organics
Taza Chocolate
Terra Nostra Organic
Terroir Chocolate
TCHO
The Chocolate Wave
Theo Chocolate
The Original Chocolate Bar (Houston, TX)
Tobago Estate Chocolate
TONYāS CHOCOLONELY
Vivani Chocolate
Vosges
Wei of Chocolate
Xocolatl Chocolate
Zotter
Taza chocolate is really goodĀ
This is super important! Slave child labor is used in many many cocoa farms from big name companies like Nestle and Dove. Here is a good link discussing it:Ā http://www.foodispower.org/slavery-chocolate/Ā .
Ā And here is an easy score card to see who the worst offenders are/who to avoid most:Ā https://www.greenamerica.org/end-child-labor-cocoa/chocolate-scorecardĀ
found these on twitter that might be helpful to all rpers who want to make sure their themes and carrds are accessible to all
consider this for themes as well
Many TUMBLR users need to learn this
PSA
if you are doing any kind of design meant to reach large numbers of people, download a colorblindness filter (i use CVSimulator, its pretty simple and free) and use it religiously
i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors
āred and green are opposites š„°ā cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a childās finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit
ok i canāt explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like
with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, donāt distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing
is it too much to ask
gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that
cohesive but still contrasting
This kind of talks about color and composition
This is a bit about landscape specifically
Values & composition
Contrast in composition
Balance in colors & values
This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones
Cohesion within compositions/lighting
"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!
This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!
Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process
With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)
thanks this is super helpful! /gen
oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources
https://annas-archive.org
https://sci-hub.se
https://z-lib.is
https://libgen.is
https://libgen.rs
https://www.pdfdrive.com
https://library.memoryoftheworld.org
https://monoskop.org/Monoskop
https://libcom.org
https://libretexts.org
http://classics.mit.edu
https://librivox.org
https://standardebooks.org
https://www.gutenberg.org
https://core.ac.uk
Iām sorry friends, but ājust google itā is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if itās not ads itās just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of āTOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSESā like⦠what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
Time to drop some links again.
ā https://searchmysite.net/ Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.
ā https://search.marginalia.nu/ Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that arenāt usually at the top of the list.
ā https://www.worldcat.org/ Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)
ā https://scholar.google.com/ Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. Itās still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.
ā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If youāre searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.
ā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines A list of academic databases and search engines.
ā https://tineye.com/ Reverse image search alternative to Googleās. Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally havenāt used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)
I don't think I could be trusted with shapeshifting powers bc I would just turn into a bear and attack things with my claws at any minor inconvenience. it would be my go-to solution for everything
They listen to Avril Lavigne together
guy who makes a spreadsheet to figure out if his crush likes him back