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Gaming Dice.
I learned a lot about edges and light and color relationships here.
PAINTING!!! THIS IS A PAINTING
CHAT THIS IS A PAINTING!!!
I went over this post twice before realising. I was like "oh it's just set up like a still life painting, right". NO IT'S FUCKING NOT!
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
ActionAid India
SEEDS India
GlobalGiving
Raise India (Project Tapan)
What article would you recommend to someone just getting into queer history?
It would really depend on the person and what they are looking for in terms of queer history, but how about we do a choose-your-own-adventure type answer!
Are you looking for a look at how we got to where we are today in terms of queer history?
Read: Magnus Hirschfeld or Maryam Khatoon Molkara
Are you looking to find comfort in the fact that queerness has existed throughout history?
Read: Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum or Sir Ewan Forbes
Are you looking to have some of your preconceived notions about queer history to be challenged?
Read: The Golden Orchid Society or Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Does queer history intimidate you because you are afraid of it being a list of tragedies?
Read: The Ladies of Llangollen or Jackie Shane
Do you want to learn about the intersection of queer and disability history?
Read: Lou Sullivan or Victoria Arellano
Do you want queerness that resonates with lesser-known/discussed identities?
Read: Kristina King of Sweden or Zinaida Gippius
Are you looking for more information about names you already recognize?
Read: Sappho or Langston Hughes
Are you looking to be pulled into a rabbit hole of queer history?
Read: Edward Carpenter or Xulhaz Mannan
Are you looking for someone within your region?
Read: Making Queer History by country
Just searching for an odd little slice of queer history to wet your appetite?
Read: Elmyr de Hory or Salim Halali
Just want to know something new?
Read: Bajazid Doda or Geoffrey Bawa
Just looking for a story to grip you emotionally?
Read: Emmeline Freda Du Faur or Zdeněk Koubek
I hope you find something in this list that helps!
Tips for Describing Sensory Experiences
Sensory Focus: describing every single experience is going to overwhelm the reader. instead focus on those that stand out or actually advance the story.
Show, don‘t tell… unless you should tell: yes, usually showing is better than telling, but not everything needs to be packaged in wonderful words and metaphors. if it has no grander impact other than context or setting the mood, you can just say that the character is cold
Narrative Focus: depending on the narrator, the focus might be on different things. This can be influenced by interests, fears, emotional state, experience, ... (For example, someone who enjoys art/architectue/ fashion/... will focus on that particular aspect of their surroundings...)
Noticeable Abnormality: people are creatures of habit, they are unlikely to take conscious notice of things that are the exact same way they always are. Focus rather on things sensory experiences that are unusual; like an unusual scent when coming into a room, unusual heat, a car that doesn't fit into this part of the city, ...
Emotional State: someone‘s emotional state is going to influence how well they pay attention to their surroundings and which details they focus on (For example, someone who is frantic might miss details)
[Prompt Calender: June 24th, Celebration of the Senses Day]
Rocket scientists who leave the rocket industry keep thinking everything is a rocket and it's kind of adorable
"We can honeycomb this to reduce the weight" sweetie no that's going to be twice as expensive to manufacture and we are not launching it anywhere.
"If we use titanium instead of steel we'll save a bunch of weight" baby you need to stop worrying so much about your weight! And maybe worry more about what happens to titanium when you expose it to deuterium plasma.
One of the things I love about watching people make art on the internet is clocking the way they use the tools they know. The way a nail artist makes miniatures is completely different than the way a polymer clay artist does the same thing. How a whittler and a painter approach printmaking.
Consider the ways in which you are a rocket engineer.
*studied process optimization in computer science*
*looks at recipes I have rewritten to simplify and reduce steps*
I was NOT expecting to be called out like this.
oh, i'll just go to the library for one book, and that's IT. just one. like this book here! that looks very interesting. i will take out this b- oh, but this book, now this looks very good too. ... it's unfair of me to choose :( i will just take them both, i can always renew them. now time for me to go and study- oh! what's this? oooh what an enticing blurb! i like this book too. my darling you shall go on the pile. everyone belongs. i can always renew them. and while i'm here.. ... i was looking for a book about- yes! this book! this is perfect! ohh i am so glad im not dead. now i have so many wonderful books. this is plenty :) i don't need anym- oh! look! another book... ... ........ .. . i can always renew them......
#and the librarians are like “why not six more?” and i think that's very based of them (OP's very correct tag)
#the librarians don't mind when you take many books?#I'm always a touch worried when I go to the counter with yet another stack of books that reaches my chin (tags from @lotus-ignis)
I know you're not the only one wondering this so: Nope! We don't mind! High circ stats - aka, people checking out things - is how we prove we're useful and worthy of funding.
Anyway, if we did want to slow folks down, libraries are very capable of setting a limit on the number of books people can check out at one time (ours is 50). Most modern systems will automatically stop you if you try to check out over the limit, so if that hasn't happened? Keep going. You can do it. We believe in you. (Don't worry about getting judged if you hit the limit, either. If that happens while a librarian is helping you, they will simply let you know with a knowing nod. Who among us has not been there...)
Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!
Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.
Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was...60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can't tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.
Okay I have had multiple people ask, so here are the useful websites that me and Beryl used to muddle our way through:
Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)
Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household's experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)
Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)
Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don't even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I'm very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)
Privacy International's guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)
You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don't know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I'm bad at following directions (and it's kind of complicated if you've been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider's configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I'm not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.
Also!! if you've never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here's is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.
(And here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights for digital privacy, free speech, and innovation, if you, like me, were presented with cold hard data about your personal internet usage and suddenly realized that our internet is fully a dystopia. haha.)
After a few months with pi-hole, I recently switched to AdGuard Home. It was recommended/is co-promoted in a pi-hole discord server, and it seems to be blocking a bit more successfully/consistently for me than the pi-hole did.
I also use Blokada on my phone when I'm not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).
It all takes some setup and tinkering, but I highly, highly recommend taking steps to clear out some of the internet garbage and protect your info.
because gifs just wouldn't do this line delivery justice
anyway, go watch cinderella's castle on youtube right now
Funnily enough, this is actually the post that made me go and watch cinderella's castle
this image came to me in a dream
In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"
We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines
We will be feeding our grandchildren strawberries and raspberries we grew in our gardens, dragging them along to the farmers' markets for tomatoes and eggs and goats milk and pickles and pecans and salsa and sunflower seed butter and jars of honey, as they complain and drag their feet because Gramma always stands around talking to people for like an HOUR
and we will say "When I was YOUR age, fruits and vegetables came from a supermarket and they were bred to get shipped 1000 miles in a truck and sit on shelves for weeks, and they tasted so sour and watery it was like eating paper compared to these ones. It wasn't even legal in some places to grow your own food"
and they will roll their eyes like yeah yeah just because everything was miserable in the 20s doesn't mean I have to have a smile on my face standing in the hot sun while you listen to that one guy talk about his bees FOREVER
But they will go, because there might be baby goats.
Since I made this post, dozens and dozens of people have left tags telling me that it was the first thing today that made them want to continue living, that it was the first thing that made them consider that they might be okay years in the future, that they might grow old, that it was the first and only post of its kind they'd ever seen—the first post that boldly predicts a future where we make it.
And many other people have been just spitting, foaming at the mouth fucking FURIOUS. How dare I have the audacity to imagine a future where things get better?
Don't I know how BAD things are? Am I not aware of the TERROR and DEVASTATION of climate change and fascism and biodiversity loss? How dare someone be so bold, so callous, as to imagine something other than misery and suicide. How dare someone suggest it will get better. How dare a person propose that there is a future where we will be okay, in the face of so much terror. Hasn't she seen the abyss opening its jaws before us?
Well? What do you think?
Do you think I've seen the abyss?
Sparkle on! It's Wednesday! Don't forget to be yourself, Jerma!
Every now and again someone reblogs this and I am haunted by the fact that almost every big name streamer and jerma himself and notable voice actors and apparently the fucking spongebob squarepants art team have referenced this picture I made and I only have 4k notes on it
Taken by Artemis 2😁😁😁😁 Look at that shit!!!! First time seeing the other side of the moon!!!!!
I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?
Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.
Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).
But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?
The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:
They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣
That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.
That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.
@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out
omg that's cool as heck!!! 🌸
My personal A Christmas Carol adaptation gripe is that Fred is usually glossed over, if not completely ignored, during the finale. Like, I get it: you need to wrap things up quickly, and the Cratchits are important, we all want to know their lives will be better and Tiny Tim will live. But Fred represents a form of reconciliation that's as important to Scrooge as his newfound benevolence.
Fred is Scrooge's only living relative, the only child of his late younger sister Fan, who we see only briefly but who the young Scrooge obviously loved very much. Dickens never says how or when Fan dies, but the description of her as "a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered" leads the reader to presume she died young, and very likely as a result of giving birth to Fred (which would go a long way towards explaining Scrooge's coldness towards the young man). But even more important than their blood tie is the fact that Fred is the only person who has not completely given up on Scrooge.
Scrooge's isolation from humanity and human kindness is near-total when we first encounter him. Complete strangers recoil from his manner. His business colleagues care so little for him that they wouldn't attend his funeral. Bob Cratchit is willing to raise a glass to his employer in the spirit of Christmas, but his family is very reluctant to join in--just the mention of Scrooge throws a pall on their holiday cheer. Only Fred greets his uncle with a smile, invites him to Christmas dinner even though his every overture of kindness is met with the harshest dismissal. Yes, he laughs at Scrooge's sour disposition and miserly ways, but he has no malice in his heart for the old man, only pity--pity for a lonely, empty existence that he makes an effort to brighten in spite of Scrooge's resistance to it. And opening Scrooge's eyes up to that welcoming warmth and compassion is every bit as important as opening them to the humble poverty of the Cratchits.
When Scrooge makes amends with Bob, he is confident--confident enough to pull a small prank at his expense--because at the end of the day he is still in a position of authority and influence over him, even if that influence will now be used to better purpose. But Fred? He asks nothing, needs nothing from his uncle. Despite Scrooge sneering that he's "poor enough" he's clearly living comfortably, and doesn't expect to benefit from his uncle's wealth either during or after Scrooge's life. Scrooge knows he doesn't have a leg to stand on with his nephew; he literally told Fred to go to Hell the last time they spoke, and he accepts Fred's dinner invitation with absolute trepidation. He paces in front of Fred's house for a long time before he has the courage to knock on the door; he refuses to let the maid announce him (which would allow Fred to turn him away without seeing him); he humbly asks to be allowed to stay, knowing he has done absolutely nothing to deserve it, knowing Fred could throw his "I'll see you in Hell" back in his face and not a single person would blame him for it.
But Fred doesn't. Fred welcomes his reformed uncle with open arms and open heart, makes him a part of his Christmas joy as if he'd always been there. And that shows Scrooge that he can accept the generosity of others as well as being generous himself, that the past he cannot change can still be forgiven, that it really isn't too late to live a better, fuller, happier life than the one he had. For Scrooge, such compassion must seem as miraculous as any ghost or spirit.
So let's hear it for nephew Fred, a man so full of Christmas cheer that there's room in his heart even for Ebenezer Scrooge.
You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right
"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.
If someone who follows you dislikes what you post, they can unfollow you. Do not attempt to sand down your personality for the sake of theoretical popularity. You're on Tumblr, nobody cares about that shit.
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A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic.
Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day.
Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.
Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy. Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour.
Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick. Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.
Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.
So I tried this recipe.
And it is GREAT.
It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.
Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt
I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Let’s see how long they last with six people in the house!
Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably won’t do a grocery shopping till the weekend).
The OP version of this has become my go-to cookie for basically all things and I have a whole cohort of friends and colleagues who would murder each other to get them. Haven’t tried any add ons yet, since the base recipe is SO GOOD.
I’ve reblogged this before and I’m reblogging it again because I’m about to make it again tomorrow and I wanted to add my own tale of just how amazingly delicious it. it was SO incredibly simple to bake and with an extra dusting of brown sugar on top and served warm and soft they gift you with the taste of the nectar of the gods when paired with a small glass of milk. this image is from when I first made them a couple years ago:
GO. MAKE THESE !!!!
Needed to make a dessert in a hurry to bring to Thanksgiving, and this recipe worked excellently. I did not have the right kind of sugar for the topping, so instead I used a packet of lemonade powder, which gave it a nice citrusy zing.
Gonna make these tomorrow
Look!! Like a Christmasy post and get a snowman!!
I got a pumpkin!!!
Oh Tumblr!! Never change 😌
