Approaching Imagi

1996; they/them; Taurus, Rat, INTJ

[tam--lin]

I don't know what those '90s sci Fi TV writers were putting in their shows but I wish they'd start doing it again

[blujayonthewing]

(via @lalibertalia)

[sourcreammachine]

i’m sorry kink fans but i just can’t see the suffix ‘con’ without thinking it means convention

‘dubcon’ will skrillex be there??

[sourcreammachine]

oh no oh no please not this post please

[wynnyfryd]

reblog to get your bones rattled at the dubious convention

[idolkilling]

Finished commission for @uselesscookies of Annie and Paul from the film adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery! Thank you so much for ordering an illustration—this was super fun to draw ^^

💫 ko-fi.com/idolkilling/commissions

[aurelia-dobre]

According to your logic it's ok to hope that the best team does not win because you personally dislike them for no reason! ok sure!

Yes, this is literally how being a fan of any sport ever works

[yesterdaysprint]

Life magazine, February 1916

[orphiel-deactivated20200602]

today’s “fuck the social construction of gender” moment coming at you from 1916.

[overkillerwhale]

[Text ID titled “A Manly Confession”: I am a man, and I should dress like a woman if I were not such a coward.

That is, I should revel in velvets, in solks and satins, in plumes and ruffles , in rich or delicate colors, in daring and dashing modes, in endless variety suited to my whim, to the weather or the occasion. It would be great fun. It would be an artistic gratification. But I don’t dare.

In the days of knighthood, when men were really brave,they out-dressed the women; but in these degenerate days we do not venture out fancies beyond cravats. No man in modern times has dared to dress as he pleased, except Oscar Wilde, and we buried him with craven hisses.

We men rail at women’s fashion, but in our hearts we know ourselves to be the slaves of fashion, of one dull, deadly, monotonous fashion, which we hate, but from which we are too cowardly to free ourselves. /End ID]

[teaboot]

I just had a physical exam today and I haven’t done the little knee hammer reflex test since I was like four years old so I was just like “yeah it’ll just make me flinch or whatever nbd” but when the doctor actually DID it my whole ass leg fucking launched into the air like I was David fucking Beckham. She didn’t even give me a second to recover either, I was gripping onto the exam table for dear life like “oh my god I’m so sorry” and WHAM she nails the other one. My entire body jolts as my foot flies three feet in the air and she twirls out of the trajectory of a five toe death kick to the groin like a capoeira master and just says “you have very brisk reflexes”. Like miss ma’am with the PHD didn’t just Ratitouille my whole shit. Like respectfully your honour you just played my skeleton like a piano, what the hell

[rhapsodybenny]

[justheretobreakthings]

So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.

Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”

[ohnoitstbskyen]

It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.

Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.

[karmiccollector-deactivated2024]

All Dividers are Feds. Stand united or die separately.

[hazel2468]

ANYONE who is trying to divide our community is a fucking Fed. That includes other queers who like to argue about who is and isn’t “allowed” in our community.

[sioltach]

Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

[zandergb]

[astromechapunk]

This is how it's done:

[cilceon]

And this is how you homage it:

[everydayconman]

Literally less than a year ago we were adding cool spins to it like “Sliding Up Tokyo Tower” how did we downgrade so hard?

[crimsoncadmium]

We even got live action slide

[bellatrixmelody]

The slide in the first post bothers the fuck out of me because he’s using his right leg to slide on the ground.

So, I ride a motorcycle and I know at least the theory of doing a power slide (still cool but you don’t slide nearly so much and you need a pretty light bike to do it most of the time). You have to lock the back wheel until your back wheel looses grip on the road and then turn sharply to the left. Rear wheel slides and the front wheel turns.

But how do you lock the back wheel you might ask? Well with your rear break of course.

WHICH IS UNIVERSALLY UNDER YOUR RIGHT FOOT! How the FUCK is he locking the back wheel, with his shifter on his left foot??? Not possible. The creators of Akira knew it, and so did everyone that homaged it. The post above gets it right even if he’s likely on a slider and being pulled back.

[vespertinecat]

This is why I love tumblr. Where else could I find gifs of back to back tribute references and a perfect explanation of why the above doesn't work and how you would need to do everything to ideally execute to move in question? Thank you for explaining, fellow tumblr friend.

[anonforlackofabettername]

For one the first moment of dissonance is he’s backwards. The original slide has the head to the left side of the screen. Tron up top has it on the right side. It’s an inverse position. You’d think something like that doesn’t matter except as evidenced by the all of the homages who use the same exact angle and placement, it really does matter.

The second moment of dissonance is the camera. All of the example slides including the original are a static camera that lets the subject and motorcycle come into frame from the angle of the camera, blocking our view before sliding away, adding to the movement of the motion. In the video the camera never stops moving. We actually start behind the motorcycle seeing it come at us. That break from tradition of what we think of as the Akira slide adds to the feeling of “you messed up.” Now, I’ve not watched Akira in a long time so I could not tell you what shots are before and after what’s shown in the gifs above. It may be accurate after all. However the extra shot in the clip makes it inaccurate to what we specifically identify as the slide.

Finally, and this is the thing that pisses me off about it, the shots break the 180 rule.

The rule states that the camera should be kept on one side of an imaginary axis between two characters, so that the first character is always frame right of the second character. Moving the camera over the axis is called jumping the line or crossing the line; breaking the 180-degree rule by shooting on all sides is known as shooting in the round.

It’s not a big thing and action does it all the time but since this is a clip the immediate breaking and in fact looping around the bike to break it is disorienting and does not heighten the action but instead minimizes it. The Akira slide works because it’s one movement and one angle. Looping around the bike the way the camera does feels unnatural, doesn’t work, and doesn’t match the original animation the clip is trying to pay homage to.

Note: This is the only clip I’ve seen of this movie that wasn’t trailers so in context it might be fine. As an out of context clip of an Akira slide like montage above it just doesn’t work

[femmenietzsche]

@argumate

[argumate]

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[theothin]

United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, United States. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered as N1819U) serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine's fan disk, which resulted in the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died during the accident,[a][3][4] while 184 people survived. Thirteen passengers were uninjured. It was the deadliest single-aircraft accident in the history of United Airlines.[b][5][6] Despite the fatalities, the accident is considered a good example of successful crew resource management, a new concept at the time. Contributing to the outcome was the crew's decision to recruit the assistance of a company check pilot, on board as a passenger, to assist controlling the aircraft and troubleshooting of the problem the crew was facing.[1]: 76  A majority of those aboard survived; experienced test pilots in simulators were unable to reproduce a survivable landing. It has been termed "The Impossible Landing" as it is considered one of the most impressive landings ever performed in the history of aviation.[7][8][3]

[essie-essex]

Fields of Fortune: The crash of United Airlines flight 232

On the 19th of July 1989, a United Airlines DC-10 bound for Chicago was rocked by a massive explosion…

Linking to this article by Admiral Cloudberg.

[lynati]

Good on her to not only have a clear goal at that age, but to clearly have gotten her parents on board with helping her get the education she needs to achieve it.

[feuvyper]

inspired by this image of a panic attack during a CT scan

[bejeweledblondie]

When I tell you I was pissing my pants laughing at this.

“This wallpaper is so cute, we could live here” ME IN A NUTSHELL I have ADHD (I’m medicated for it) but when I’m off it this is me 😭

[duckielover151]

I've seen this specific part of this show so many times and never pass up a chance to rewatch it. Definitely one of my favorite comedians. He's a great storyteller.

[redstonedust]

put rainbow laces on all my shoes recently which is fun and sexy but has the side effect that i have gotten multiple "i like your shoelaces" from strangers and like. i cant NOT "i stole them from the president" in return. just in case. but its recieved mostly awkward laughs and looks of confusion. embarrasing myself in public out here over my damn shoelaces.

[pcos-and-endo-awareness]

If you haven’t heard, today PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome has been renamed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. This change reflects that this is not a reproductive “problem” but a whole body disease.

[leahstuff]

For reference, from the WHO website:

(Text: PCOS affects an estimated 10-13% of reproductive-aged women. It is estimated that up to 70% of women with PCOS worldwide do not know they have this condition.)

[laziestgirlintown]

The Lancet link about shift to PMOS. Spread this to everyone who works in health care now. People with uteruses and ovaries are in agony - yes, the whole body suffers a crisis every fkn month - and health care should help

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Something important not yet mentioned: there is evidence that PMOS is not sex specific. AMAB people can have similar metabolic and hormonal symptoms as AFAB people (insulin resistance and weight gain, high levels of certain hormones, reproductive issues, and early-onset male pattern baldness), particularly those closely biologically related to AFAB people who’ve already been diagnosed.

It’s not an official diagnosis yet and more research needs to be done. But acknowledging that it’s a hormonal and metabolic disorder, not solely a problem with ovaries themselves, is a big step.

[bitchesgetriches]

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Delicious. We love to see it.

[tobaeus]

@ralfmaximus

[ralfmaximus]

Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch — and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.

I love stories like this.

[tacofriend]

Get peer reviewed!

[lierdumoa]

[yearling-234]

Thought you yall should see this

[ultraviolethorror]

since snap benefits are being threatened i wanna share the single resource i can atm which is the woman behind Dollar Tree Dinners. for years now she has consistently provided filling, healthy recipes that really push the envelope on good meals from dollar tree ingredients. especially since next month will involve lots of family meals regardless if you celebrate the holiday, people should be pleased to know she puts together videos showing how to make a holiday meal on a budget.

dollar tree dinners on tiktok

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[queerforscience]

I'd also like to recommend Cooking on a Bootstrap. They're UK based, but many of the ingredients are available in other countries as well!

COOKING ON A BOOTSTRAP

by Jack Monroe, bestselling author of 'A Girl Called Jack'