[hoot-alex]

[2peachy]

[loveridden1999]

[hypokeimena]

image: two tweets. first tweet by @/ppyowna reads: born to be a hater but forced to understand where you're coming from. second tweet, by Him @/_ayooluwaleyi reads: It's not an issue for me. I can see where you're coming from, but I can also see that you're an idiot for coming from there. /end ID

[genderkoolaid]

in order to not succumb to sex negative conservatism you have to accept that people will get off to things that are upsetting to you. and you cannot assume anything about what they have or have not experienced, what they do or do not believe, and how they act based solely on what gets them off. even if it's extremely confusing and disturbing to you. there are people who have only ever had heterosexual vanilla sex in missionary with the lights off, who actively contribute to more real world harm than your average fetish artist. kink is not a reliable source of information on someone's moral standing. it just feels good to think that way.

[genderkoolaid]

#conflating sexuality with morality is purity culture working on such a small level we don’t even realize it sometimes

[randomyando]

^^^ an important addendum imo

[strudel-fatpaws-deactivated2025]

op turned off reblogs due to getting harassed over this post but i agree with this too hard .m y post now

[voidfloof]

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I fucking hate it here

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

[cassandraebner]

If a girl is to do the same superman thing where he takes off his disguise, we just look pervy. Not the same effect

[durnesque-esque]

First of all: bullshit.

Secondly: If you are not doing the Linda Carter spin, then you’re doing it wrong.

[bei-fong-appreciation-blog]

how did you do that so smoothly? 

[bumbleshark]

thats some broadway musical shit

[haymitchdrinksfirewhiskey]

But seriously, I think I love you.

[0601254-deactivated20140502]

heck no, i’m callin dibs

[durnesque-esque]

Sorry friend, thatseanguyblogs called dibs first. ;) 

[thatseanguyblogs-deactivated201]

By the way, folks… We’re super engaged. Just fyi. :P

[durnesque-esque]

Well, we never got around to making a wedding gif, but still super-married and loving it. Happy Valentine’s Day!

[durnesque-esque]

[uptownthots]

isn’t it weird how “auditory processing disorder that ONLY makes you incapable of listening to rap” is only found in nonblacks isn’t that an interesting natural phenomenon that’s totally real

[uptownthots]

just like anxiety that makes you Scared but only of brown people on the bus

[uptownthots]

tried to talk big but then the Bus Instinct™️ kicked in and they got scared lol

[hexblooddruid]

Oh my GOD

[randomyando]

yeah nothing says next level intimacy like your husband dropping you off at the store 💀

[sirfrogsworth]

Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.

It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.

One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.

[sirfrogsworth]

It seems my lighting advice has given people a mistaken impression...

[sirfrogsworth]

These outtakes where the flash didn't go off are also AI generated.

I like this spooky dutch angle one.

I was just starting to learn flash and I didn't have all the equipment I needed. Since corgis are quite short, I had to put the lighting on the ground. The off camera flash was on a tipped over lightstand with a shoot-through umbrella to diffuse the light.

But I had no wireless triggers. And the only other way to trigger a flash, is with another flash. So I used the on-camera pop up flash to trigger the main flash.

But I had two issues.

First, I did not want that dinky on camera flash affecting my picture.

Second, triggering a flash with a flash is best done indoors. The flash will bounce all around the room and eventually hit the sensor so the main flash triggers. When you are outdoors, there is no bouncing.

SO... I took a little handheld makeup mirror and angled it toward my main flash. This blocked the dinky pop up flash and sent the beam of light towards the main flash to trigger it.

I was lying on the wet morning grass, holding a camera in one hand, a mirror in the other, trying to aim the mirror exactly toward the main flash, making crazy noises to get Otis's attention, and trying to get the focus point on his face so I didn't get a blurry photo. Also, Otis was much more interested in sniffing things than posing for a photo.

Here is an overhead view that might help explain.

I await all of your comments saying my amazing drawring is clearly AI generated.

Only 30% of the time did the flash actually go off. Aiming the mirror was tricky and I was doing like 8 things at once. I wasn't even sure I got the photo I wanted. But when I came back to the computer there was one that stood out and it is one of my favorites I've ever taken.

It was the best combination of monumental effort, great discomfort, perfect foggy sunrise light, and just pure luck.

Unfortunately, people like me who use advanced sculpting light techniques are getting accused of using AI more and more. Not really sure what to do about it—other than show the 30 awful photos it took to get the good one.

My 80s sunglasses photo and spoon photo get called out the most.

But it's just good old fashioned gradient lighting which has been used in product photography since the days of film.

So, no need to be suspicious.

[hollowedskin]

Photography like sirfrogsworth's is what the fucken AIs were TRAINED on.

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[catmask]

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

[daftpatience]

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

[arirna]

[gaylor-moon]

Welp.

[secondbeatsongs]

Hey, real talk though? If you're in the USA, right now you need to call your representatives. 11.8 million people could lose health insurance because of this, as well as a lot of other shit going down, so speak up.

Go to 5calls.org, put in your location, and make the calls. Do it after business hours if you're worried about actually to a person, but do it.

We're running out of chances with this, please please do this now, while it's still possible to stop this.

[partlysmith]

Due to the amendments made, this is going back to the House to be voted on again, so yes, you should still call them.

I'm not great at talking to people, and I can't express enough just how easy 5calls makes this process. The longest call I've had with them took 3 minutes. That's it.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

not to be disrespectful but i do genuinely think everyone who has worked toward creating and passing that bill should commit suicide

[moveslikekeithrichards]

to be perfectly clear i think a lot of politicians should commit suicide for a lot of different things. im not Exclusively angry about just this one. im just so, So sick and tired of stupid, selfish, spineless people whove never been scared a day in their lives deciding they have the right to say who lives and who doesnt, within the us and around the world. i havent had any kind thoughts in a long time and i wish upon them a thousand times the suffering they choose to inflict on the rest of us

[capacity2]

Okay but seriously… China gagged the whole world with this everybody else just pack it up it’s over

[capacity2]

Christians THINK the cross is iconic but only bc they shove it down everyone’s throat I can sense the desperation. They even put a tortured emaciated man on it just to get attention it’s really gross and manipulative. meanwhile the yin yang symbol speaks for itself you don’t even have to explain it you can tell what it’s saying just on sight! It’s visually a story on its own. and if I’m being real the cross wants what the ankh has when in the wise words of ice spice it’s not even the fart.

[uss-edsall]

I say this as a military historian:

Operation Red Wings is, like, culturally the most emblematic thing I know of the global war on terror

Navy SEALs hijack a mission that a marine battalion cooked up because they went “this sounds like a special forces mission for special forces!” Then they royally fuck it up so bad that only one man survives of the original team, and a quick reaction force is shot down during landing. Eleven Navy SEALs and eight Army special forces aviation crewmembers are killed. The surviving SEAL is rescued by local Pashtun and then located by the original battalion that was supposed to do the mission anyway.

Said SEAL publishes a book two years later describing his experiences, in which he claims his four man team had a valiant and heroic final stand against hundreds of Taliban insurgents. In 2013 it becomes a movie, depicting the doomed but glorious deaths of his teammates under the inevitable weight of Taliban numbers.

In the eyes of the American public, the story of the ‘Lone Survivor’ is a famous one of American sacrifice, where American boys died against an unstoppable onslaught to protect you and yours from The Terrorists(TM).

Reality:

[thepoisonroom]

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

[elmerseason-deactivated-deactiv]

[meteortrails]

part of the reason I think it’s so sad that we collectively write so few stories about unrequited love is bc I feel like there’s very little public acknowledgment of how much it sucks to be the one somebody is in unrequited love with??? and not in a way of like, oh they’re crossing boundaries or putting expectations on me or whatever. becoming close friends with someone and then finding out they’re in love with you and you don’t love them back the same way is heartbreaking, bc a) someone you love is in pain and there is literally nothing you can do about it, and b) it usually means that whether you like it or not there’s going to be distance in your friendship that wasn’t there before as they try to get over you. idk man I just feel like we’ve all discussed the tragedy of loving someone who doesn’t love you back quite a lot and very rarely discuss the tragedy of finding out the way that you love someone just isn’t enough.