floating in a most peculiar way

Allie Kleber's reblog blog (art tumblr = therewerenoturtles). Comics, art, fandom, history, social justice and random things that I like (or don't like). Currently, there's a whole lot of Steven Universe. Also: comic recommendation tag = 'comic rec'!

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh....some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[20th-centuryghost]

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

[labelleizzy]

Artist reference! Writer reference!

[remnantglow]

HI EVERYONE GUESS WHAT. i finished my murderbot animatic :)

[evermore-fashion]

Alexander McQueen Pre-Fall 2013 Collection

[shaelit]

Journey complete

[spaceodditee]

I cannot cope.

[thecollectibles]

Mermay 2020 by Solene Chaudois

[danleetodd]

Brazilian street artist Herbert Baglione has somehow managed to make an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy even creepier with his paintings of shadows. 

The way Baglione’s ‘shadows’ creep out from disused wheelchairs and lurk ominously on the walls makes it easy to imagine that they belonged to the tortured souls that used to inhabit the place. 

The work is part of Baglione’s ‘1000 Shadows’ project, where he paints silhouettes on floors and walls. 

(via)

[currentsinbiology]

Octopus and squid evolution is officially weirder than we could have ever imagined

Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.

In a surprising twist, scientists have discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.

This is weird because that’s really not how adaptations usually happen in multicellular animals. When an organism changes in some fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation - a change to the DNA.

The findings have been published in Cell.

Olga Visavi/Shutterstock

[realcleverscience]

Really interesting short read for those interested in evolution.

[eight-times-nine]

stupid non-cephalopodes: evolve through a relatively stable updating of genetic matrices

grand cephalopod savants: biohacking into the nature mainframe and leaving eldritch comments in the engine’s source. what the fuck is a “stable release”

[spaceodditee]

@kgoldschmitt

[cjjoughin]

Hey guys, I’ve been dealing with a lot of bad news lately and am looking for some fun distractions. I’d like to maybe try my hand at sketch asks/answers (specifically for my comics/projects). Can’t guarantee speed but I think it would be good practice so if anyone wants to throw any my way go for it.

I will also accept pet photos.

[tarnishedsparrow]

Nyx and Nyla send love and support. And so do I. ♡

[cjjoughin]

Adorable~ Thank you

[artistsmorgue]

Hope this dummy helps. 

[cjjoughin]

God those are some good faces. Thank you~

[spaceodditee]

My lazy son sends his love.

[sunflowerseedsandscience]

REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.

[fuckeverythingbecomeapirate]

“Any ideas for the new park sculpture?”

“How about a giant, metallic octopus attacking a rook?”

“Perfect.”

[amemait]

Octopus takes Rook

[nbandtransmascblogging]

The thing is, it’s not unfair to ask people to tag for triggers.  I’m triggered by pictures of people kissing, and asked a friend to tag for kissing once.  But I said, hey, I know this is a really specific trigger, and if you don’t want to tag for it I get it.  It just means I can’t follow you because you post this a lot.  But no hard feelings.

But when people ask us to tag our identity as a slur, they are not just asking us to tag for their trigger.  They are making a statement about the validity of our chosen identifier.  They are saying that what we call ourselves is inherently harmful.  They don’t say “can you tag for the word queer” they say, “tag for q-slur.”

And never once has this request to me been polite.  Never once has someone said, “if you aren’t willing to do it, I get it, I’ll just have to unfollow.”  It’s a demand, not a request.  It’s a demand that we accept their statement that our identity is something negative.

So like, if you’re traumatized by the word queer, that’s fair.  There are people out there who have the same trauma with other words that aren’t slurs, like gay.  But it is not fair to go on a crusade against everyone who uses the word queer.  To bully us into accepting that it’s a slur.  

And if you’re traumatized by certain words, then look into an app that will block posts that use those words, or block out those words.  It doesn’t make sense to ask people to tag for a word when there are so many options that will allow you to not see the word at all.  The only reason to be belligerent about tagging for the word queer is because you want to push your agenda on someone else.

[aibidil]

Why ‘female-presenting nipples’ matter

When I was 10, my mom made me wear a bra and it felt like a punishment for being different.

When I was 10, I took the bra off when changing for gymnastics and accidentally dropped it in the school hallway. A teacher picked it up and said, “Oh, this must belong to you” and handed it back to me in front of everyone. I quit gymnastics.

When I was 11, I thought maybe the boobs would be okay so long as they didn’t get any bigger than would fit in my hand, so I kept measuring it, but they did.

When I was 12, I started wearing two or three sports bras to smush them down, until one day a classmate said, “Are you wearing two bras?!” while laughing.

When I was 13, a boy told me he wanted to squeeze my boobs “until they popped.”

When I was 14, I got cast in a play as an older character and a classmate told me I got the role because I had boobs.

When I was 17, my mom told me to return a swimsuit because it would be too distracting for my boyfriend’s father.

When I was 21, I got properly fitted for a bra and everyone felt the need to tell me how much better my boobs looked.

When I was 26, I got pregnant and my immediate fear was that my boobs would get bigger.

When I was 28, I got shamed for trying to feed my screaming baby in public without a cover.

When I was 28, people asked me “why are you bothering to use a breastfeeding cover?”

When I was 30, people gave me weird looks that I wasn’t yelling at my kid for putting their hand on my boob.

When I was 31, I avoided going to the beach or pool because I didn’t want to have to deal with boobs in a swimsuit.

When I was 32, I got asked, again, “why don’t you get a breast reduction?”

When I was 33, I watched a 5yo girl get shamed for running around in sweltering heat without a shirt on and had to reprimand a bunch of tween boys who thought it was okay to shame her for doing something they do all the time.

When I was 34, my kid kept patting my breast and saying “Mommy’s squishy breast!!” They will never see me express any shame about tits, because I want them to have a different mindset than I had. Yes, boobs are nice! They’re squishy! They’re fun! That’s the end of that.

I’m 35 and no longer give a fuck. I don’t care anymore. As a teenager my tits were covered in stretch marks. They’ve been engorged with milk. My nipple changed shape with pregnancy. Give it another couple decades and my breasts will probably be all wrinkly. It’s sexual when I’m using it sexually. I don’t fucking care, and I won’t be ashamed anymore. 

Every time a policy or cultural hangup treats people with breasts differently, it fucks us over. 

Tumblr’s new policy makes an active choice to participate in this culture of shame. By classifying “female-presenting nipples” as explicit material, Tumblr has taken a stance that any chest or breast that differs from a male default is worthy of shame and unavoidably sexual. The idea that breasts are shameful and unavoidably sexual is exactly what fucked me up for so much of my life.

Stop shaming people for having bodies. 

[lettersbyelise]

I’ve been seething in rage thinking of this all day and @aibidil put into words what was reeling in my mind.

Our bodies are not porn.

[angrylittlesliceofpizza]

hey @staff

[cybunni-deactivated20180924]

100 years of butches

[star-anise]

Basic Dreamwidth for Tumblr users

For people who want to use Dreamwidth, but are totally confused about how it works!

What is Dreamwidth?

Dreamwidth is a social media platform founded in 2009 after Strikethrough

It’s made out of a heavily-modified version of Livejournal code

It’s based around producing your own original content, and seeing original content other people post

The site is owned and run by fans and aims to provide creative people with an Internet home

Getting around your account

Your journal is like your “home”. It’s where you keep your stuff. It’s got different parts:

Recent Entries: View your posts in chronological order

(yourusername.dreamwidth.org)

Profile: Your “about” page

(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/profile)

Archive: See your posts as a calendar

(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/archive)

Tags: See all the tags you’ve used and go to their posts

(yourusername.dreamwidth.org/tag)

Memories: Like the “Likes” feature on Tumblr

You also have a “Reading” page (yourusername.dreamwidth.org/read)

This is like your Tumblr dash

It’s where you read entries from your “circle”, the people and communities you’re subscribed to

You can customize it a lot with filters and control who you see when

Finding new things

Listing an Interest in your profile is like getting listed in the phonebook. This is opt-in, choosing to say, “Yes! I’m really into this thing! Consider me a person who blogs about it!

Content Search is the more powerful way to search through the blog of everyone who’s opted into it, so you can look for everyone who’s posting about a certain thing right now. However, you’ll have to wade through a lot more junk.

Communities are Dreamwidth’s social hubs. They’re places where a lot of people can share content they’re interested in and talk to each other. Unlike Tumblr tags, they’re managed by specific people and have rules, so people behaving badly can get kicked out.

Paid members can see the Network page, which shows entries from everything everyone in your circle subscribes to. It’s a great way to discover new stuff and also learn what awful taste some of your circle members have

Latest Things is a direct firehose of EVERYTHING PUBLICLY POSTED TO THE SITE, HOMG

Privacy controls?! That’s a thing?!

You get to choose who sees your posts! You can make your posts public, private, or “locked”, which means only people you’ve added to your access list can read them

When you add a new person to your circle you can choose to subscribe to them, to make their posts show up on your Reading page, and/or to grant access, which lets them see your locked posts. You can do one, the other, or both!

Likewise, communities can make posts viewable to members only.

You can also create custom access filters, to allow only some of your access list to see a post.

Banning someone means they cannot leave you comments or send you messages. There are more advanced tweaks to make sure they never show up on your reading page if they post to a community you subscribe to, or remove them from the comments on a post.

Comments

The comments to a post are where the real fun happens.

Comments are sent to the email of whoever you’re replying to. They’re a real conversation. You’re not shouting into the void–you’re talking back directly to the post’s originator and other commenters.

You can edit your comment so long as it hasn’t been replied to, and you can delete your own comments.

The originator of the post, and administrators if it’s a community, can delete threads, or “freeze” them, leaving them intact but preventing anyone from replying to them.

You will add new skills to your resume

Dreamwidth leaves a lot more “backend” open so you can customize your experience to a huge degree. However, this means learning or using coding languages like HTML and CSS

The comment box on entries does not have a built-in text editor, so you will have to add your own HTML if you want to add <i>italic</i>, <b>bold</b>, or <a href=“http://websiteurl.com”>links</a>.

There are lots of cheat sheets and informative guides around, like HTML on Dreamwidth and Dreamwidth-specific markup tags

[earthstory]

Flags

I have had 3 mineral posts flagged as adult content today. They contained a tourmaline, a muscovite, and a galena. On Friday I had 3 fossil posts flagged as adult content, including a fossil fish, a fossil tooth from a mastodon, and a Tyrannosaur vertebrae. I’ve submitted appeals for each. This has been getting worse over the past month, apparently most of geology content is now only for adults. 

[shanlonwrites]

Apparently you can’t get your rocks off on Tumblr anymore. 

[vrabia]

i am contractually obligated to congratulate you on this reply

[ommanyte]

Truth coming out of her well (with female-presenting nipples) to shame everyone