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these ones
oh we can get even more specific than just a list of billionaires:
here are all of the scum who control oil, coal, and natural gas
here are the ones who run the factories
and here are the ones who extract the raw resources that the others need to make it all work
23,000 people are reblogging a hit list
Good.
Think of it as more of a quest log.
what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.
Go!!
Star Wars.
Return of the Jedi 😄
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
This is why she’s my favorite author.
Check out “Barry Lyndon”, a film whose period interiors were famously shot by period lamp-and-candle lighting (director Stanley Kubrick had to source special lenses with which to do it).
More recently, some scenes in “Wolf Hall” were also shot with period live-flame lighting and IIRC until they got used to it, actors had to be careful how they moved across the sets. However, it’s very atmospheric: there’s one scene where Cromwell is sitting by the fire, brooding about his association with Henry VIII while the candles in the room are put out around him. The effect is more than just visual.
As someone (I think it was Terry Pratchett) once said: “You always need enough light to see how dark it is.”
A demonstration of getting that out of balance happened in later seasons of “Game of Thrones”, most infamously in the complaint-heavy “Battle of Winterfell” episode, whose cinematographer claimed the poor visibility was because “a lot of people don’t know how to tune their TVs properly”.
So it was nothing to do with him at all, oh dear me no. Wottapillock. Needing to retune a TV to watch one programme but not others shows where the fault lies, and it’s not in the TV.
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We live in rural West Wicklow, Ireland, and it’s 80% certain that when we have a storm, a branch or even an entire tree will fall onto a power line and our lights will go out.
Usually the engineers have things fixed in an hour or two, but that can be a long dark time in the evenings or nights of October through February, so we always know where the candles and matches are and the oil lamp is always full.
We also know from experience how much reading can be done by candle-light, and it’s more than you’d think, once there’s a candle right behind you with its light falling on the pages.
You get more light than you’d expect from both candles and lamps, because for one thing, eyes adapt to dim light. @dduane says she can sometimes hear my irises dilating. Yeah, sure…
For another thing lamps can have accessories. Here’s an example: reflectors to direct light out from the wall into the room. I’ve tried this with a shiny foil pie-dish behind our own Very Modern Swedish Design oil lamp, and it works.
Smooth or parabolic reflectors concentrate their light (for a given value of concentrate, which is a pretty low value at that) while flatter fluted ones like these scatter the light over a wider area, though it’s less bright as a result:
This candle-holder has both a reflector and a magnifying lens, almost certainly to illuminate close or even medical work of some sort rather than light a room.
And then there’s this, which a lot of people saw and didn’t recognise, because it’s often described in tones of librarian horror as a beverage in the rare documents collection.
There IS a beverage, that’s in the beaker, but the spherical bottle is a light magnifier, and Gandalf would arrange a candle behind it for close study.
Here’s one being used - with a lightbulb - by a woodblock carver.
And here’s the effect it produces.
Here’s a four-sphere version used with a candle (all the fittings can be screwed up and down to get the candle and magnifiers properly lined up) and another one in use by a lacemaker.
Finally, here’s something I tried last night in our own kitchen, using a water-filled decanter. It’s not perfectly spherical so didn’t create the full effect, but it certainly impressed me, especially since I’d locked the camera so its automatic settings didn’t change to match light levels.
This is the effect with candles placed “normally”.
But when one candle is behind the sphere, this happens.
It also threw a long teardrop of concentrated light across the worktop; the photos of the woodcarver show that much better.
Poor-people lighting involved things like rushlights or tallow dips. They were awkward things, because they didn’t last long, needed constant adjustment, didn’t give much light and were smelly. But they were cheap, and that’s what mattered most.
They’re often mentioned in historical and fantasy fiction but seldom explained: a rushlight is a length of spongy pith from inside a rush plant, dried then dipped in tallow (or lard, or mutton-fat), hence both its names.
Here’s Jason Kingsley making one.
Sick sick sick of possibility of being fucking recorded every waking second by tiktok obsessed quasi celebs. Video titled something like "Caught him thinking he's the main character" but it was just a kid wearing headphones, looking out the bus window. Of course it was posted without his knowledge. Stop recording strangers and everything you see, nobody gives a shit and not everyone is happy to be on tiktok or youtube because of a moron with no braincells and an account. What could be a forgettable awkward moment is now permanently there for the victim of lackabrainis infested idiot to get anxious about forever.
Okay, this seems like a relevant thing to share today: I've been in this position. Back in college while on that student lifestyle, I somehow ended up with a pretty bad iron deficiency. How bad? I was not only sleeping too much, I was falling asleep everywhere -- in class, in the library, in cafes five minutes after drinking coffee. It was terrible. Anyway, during a class I enjoyed, I was sat at a table with a few classmates, and I started falling asleep while taking notes; nodding off, dropping my pen, startling awake and falling asleep again, until my head was on the table. No one seemed to mind, we were all going through it I guess, and my lecturer was nice enough not to make a big deal out of it.
Cut to the next day and I was in the Students Union, when a friend came up to me and told me how funny that video was of me falling asleep in class was. What? I asked her about it, what did she mean, who made the video, and she realised I literally had no clue about it. Kindly, she told me who to talk to and I thanked her. I was already upset, but I knew it wasn't the messenger's fault. So, I took to Facebook and messaged the girl who made the video -- a girl on my table in the class from before. I asked her about it, and she admitted it right away -- she took the video on her phone during class and posted it to her snapchat. That's how the other girl saw it, not to mention countless others.
Sorting this out was an absolute toil. I felt betrayed and violated that someone would do that while I was obviously not in a position to have any say about it. I lost friendships with the people who took the girl's side, as if it was no big deal or "funny". I had to tell the lecturer about it, because let's face it, that's a shit thing to allow to happen during class itself, the department moved to be more alert and proactive about restricting phone use in class, and all that girl had to do was give a half-hearted apology. The next semester, she was still openly using her phone in another class we had.
For a long time, I couldn't trust anyone who held their phone up around me, as if to take photos or video. It would make me so anxious and put me on edge. I never did speak to the people who cosigned her behaviour, who acted like it wasn't their problem that their bff video-recorded a person in class over their health condition without their consent.
I did eventually grow out of my anxiety around phones, and I resisted the urge to break that girl's phone, but, I will absolutely bring back that energy if I see someone record a stranger in public without their consent. Take it from someone who's been that target -- if you think it's okay, you deserve to get your shit wrecked.
I just want to add, in case anyone reads this and isn't sure -- yes, it is absolutely fine to reblog this, and in fact I encourage you to. If testimony from a former target of this behaviour is the one thing that makes it click for anyone thinking of doing it, if it makes them reconsider before potentially ruining a stranger's life, then my experience will be worth it for me.
Don't record strangers and put that shit on the Internet or social media without their consent.
by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now
You have no idea how much I want this mass migration to tumblr to be real. I would love it if there was an entire ecosystem on tumblr of tiktokers who don't know or don't want to reblog anything, so they are functionally incapable of interacting with the rest of this website. Nothing is funnier to me
"I understand. You found paradise on TikTok. You had a good fyp, you made good content. The censors protected you and they were friendly for advertisers. So you didn't need a friend like me. Now you come and say "Tumblr, give me content." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer reblogs. You don't even think to call me "Hellsite." You come into my house on the day my blorbo is to be married and you ask me to do content - for likes."
HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE
MAKE A WISH
the first post ever on tumblr
I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK
WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK
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like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.
reblog to give your friend a bad day
this is the monalisa of tumblr
“And to your right you’ll see the colour of the sky post, and tumblrinas desperately trying to scroll down to it’s end.”
this is it, this post started it all
NOW THAT TUMBLR HAS ANNOUNCED TO SHORTEN LONG POSTS, REBLOG TO TORMENT YOUR FOLLOWERS ONE LAST TIME
i drew a vent comic on a covid testing strip guide and it got some traction on twitter so i thought i’d post it here too . general consensus is Big Emotions Its A Lot so cw covid/trauma
(this is what it looks like all together)
i say this unironically but put this in the smithsonian
like i’m really saying that, as a person who knows things about museums
my county historical society was collecting pandemic artifacts a while back, but like–
put this in the fucking smithsonian
You have no idea how much I want this mass migration to tumblr to be real. I would love it if there was an entire ecosystem on tumblr of tiktokers who don't know or don't want to reblog anything, so they are functionally incapable of interacting with the rest of this website. Nothing is funnier to me
The Plato's Cave dwellers of tumblr
yknow ever since people realized tumblr isnt dead and have decided to flock here from twitter and tiktok ive seen a huge influx of people in fandom spaces who dont reblog anything. at all.
like, i used to have an art blog with 340 followers. not a ton but not a small amount either given how this website works with creators. and in my experience back then even the ones who only left likes still reblogged other things or at least posted their own stuff. literally the only empty blogs were clearly bots.
but on this New art blog, i've had so many people with fandom-specific headers and icons with actual usernames as urls and some kind of title or description, but have. Nothing. no posts. all they do is like things. and it's always public, too. their following list and their likes list.
and honestly all it makes me think is that these people are New and also don't know how tumblr works. how likes don't give exposure. not even in a "oh, i know it doesn't give exposure, but i'm still going to reblog anyways" way, but in a genuine honest to god straight up doesn't realize tumblr likes don't work like twitter's.
PLEASE please if you're from tiktok or twitter or whatever please reblog people's art both fandom and original if you like it!! and maybe actually pad out your blog's content in some way so people won't potentially see you as a bot and block you.
REBLOG ARTIST'S WORK. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY GET ANY ATTENTION ON THIS WEBSITE OH MY GOD. PLEASE. I BEG of you
WAIT THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE?! I've blocked several accounts so far because it was just "blanks space" and I assumed it was a bot.
FOLKS if you're new, please, please, this is not like Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Reblogging is the way to go. This is how we network on here. This is how you make mutuals. This is how you share new stuff with others.
You are also:
Encouraged to add your thoughts to the post
Engage in conversation freely
Express yourself in the tags if you don't want to write in the post
In fact, write a god damn essay in the tags - we old members will read it, I promise - the limit on tags per post is insane anyway
Reblog the same thing as many times as you like. Like every time you see it, and you want to reblog it because it brings you joy - go for it!
Dick Grayson Tutorial by tumbler user laquilasse
alright kids, I’m about to touch on these four subjects from you lovely people and take you through a few steps of my process (and thank you all for being so sweet! <3)
first, the dorito shape:
To start his body, I like to use Sweet Chili Heat doritos. Honestly you can use any kind of triangle shaped corn chip, but sweet chili heat I find has the right mix of sugar and spice that matches his personality and makes him turn out better than, say, a plain tortilla chip.
so that’ll be your base for his body. at this point you can add a rough guide for the sternum/collarbone/pectorals
next, the face
once you’ve got the general skull shape down, you’re going to want to grab a sharp kitchen knife to really define the jaw.
after that, go ahead and add the eyes/mouth/nose and then we’ll move onto the brows and the hair
Now for eyebrows, I prefer to use a dark eyeshadow instead of a pencil. For Dick I usually use my Too Faced Natural Eye pallet and load up my brush with Sexpresso
you can tell how much I draw Dick by the giant dent in it lmao. So we’re gonna go ahead and pop that on to give him some camera-ready brows.
lastly, i’ll show you how I do his hair. You’re gonna want to grab yourself some kind of fan. I have this miniature one and I’ll put it at the highest setting, but you can also use a folding fan.
point it whichever way you want the wind to be blowing his hair. You know how it helps to draw a little sun wherever your primary light source is in order to keep your shading correct? This is the same principle. It should look like this when you start it up:
but once you take the fan away it’ll pop right back up and give him that tousled and gravity defying look
now all that’s left to do is give him some arms and some clothes (or not, naked Dick is good too), maybe add some colours/values, and we’re done!
I added a bonus Damian because of the lovely person before that mentioned they love how I draw him. I hope this helped anyone who needed it! Stay frosty, babes <3
edit: no, i don’t think they’re bots. i highly doubt people would go through the effort to make bots that are hyper-specific in header, url, likes, etc. to one specific fandom each. i’ve seen this happen in multiple fandoms both large and small. also, these urls they choose can usually be found on twitter too. these are, most of the time, Real People.
edit 2: please don’t take this post as a negative towards the people who fall into this post’s topic! im glad youre all here and i hope you have a great time, but please learn tumblr etiquette. it sounds silly to say that, but it Is a real thing. this website does NOT function like any other website and it’s not being said as a funny little “we’re better” way. it’s an actual fact.
edit 3: I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT ACTUAL BOTS. IF THEY HAVE A SELFIE AS AN ICON AND THEIR LIKES ARE SCATTERED AMONG MANY UNRELATED POSTS WITH HIGH NOTE COUNTS ONLY THEY ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO BE AN ACTUAL BOT. ESPECIALLY IF THE SELFIE ICON IS like of someones tits or abs something. thats a pornbot.
yknow ever since people realized tumblr isnt dead and have decided to flock here from twitter and tiktok ive seen a huge influx of people in fandom spaces who dont reblog anything. at all.
like, i used to have an art blog with 340 followers. not a ton but not a small amount either given how this website works with creators. and in my experience back then even the ones who only left likes still reblogged other things or at least posted their own stuff. literally the only empty blogs were clearly bots.
but on this New art blog, i’ve had so many people with fandom-specific headers and icons with actual usernames as urls and some kind of title or description, but have. Nothing. no posts. all they do is like things. and it’s always public, too. their following list and their likes list.
and honestly all it makes me think is that these people are New and also don’t know how tumblr works. how likes don’t give exposure. not even in a “oh, i know it doesn’t give exposure, but i’m still not going to reblog anyways” way, but in a genuine honest to god straight up doesn’t realize tumblr likes don’t work like twitter’s.
PLEASE please if you’re from tiktok or twitter or whatever please reblog people’s art both fandom and original if you like it!! and maybe actually pad out your blog’s content in some way so people won’t potentially see you as a bot and block you.
REBLOG ARTIST’S WORK. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY GET ANY ATTENTION ON THIS WEBSITE OH MY GOD. PLEASE. I BEG of you
sometimes i get so angry about how the housing market bubble bursting led to the economy collapsing and literally never recovering for the middle class. like...basically wiped out the middle class entirely, if we're being honest.
my bank just offered me a "high yield" savings account. high yield! just a fucking amazing APY! ...the APY is 0.4%. zero. point. four.
in 2006, i worked in a call center for $17.60 an hour and had a savings account with a 9% APY. not 0.9%, a full fucking 9%. i'd only been with the call center for a year and a half, i was 24 years old, my credit was middling at best, and that savings account was brand fucking new with a bank i'd NEVER banked with.
high yield. 0.4%.
my field is in-home healthcare now, and i get paid $9.25 an hour.
the fucking rage i feel at what was taken away from my end of my generation (eldest millennial) and fully denied to everyone younger than us is unreal sometimes.
The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.
Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful
i honestly think batman's position on the justice league is so fucking funny because you have this group of people who, mostly, try very hard to work within the bounds of the law if at all possible. i mean, for fuck's sake, green lanterns are actually space law enforcement, wonder woman regularly speaks with world leaders and legislators, and aquaman, who is a literal king. and then you have superman, who isn't afraid to challenge the law, but doesn't really, y'know, routinely break it. probably. i mean, aviation law, he probably breaks that. i'm pretty sure it's not legal to fly your lingerie-clad wife into the sky and kiss her deeply, but kurt busiek sure wrote clark doing that, didn't he. but, like, on the whole, laws still exist to them they're just sometimes like ehhhhhhhhh. i mean ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
but then batman's just "i apologize for being late to this meeting. robin just turned 14. as is a milestone for all young boys, i taught him to hack into an FBI database." just flagrantly pissing on laws, like what does the chief medical examiner in gotham do when they get there to examine this corpse and batman's already stolen the bullets from the body and secreted them away to his underground crime lab? do you think whenever the justice league needs something dubiously legal done everyone looks at batman and he's just like [growly voice] give me three days and it's done the next morning?
it's rich person privilege.
As The Batman was wrapping up, my brain conjured up this idea that THIS Bruce has reached a point where he realizes that he needs a Bruce Wayne persona. That he needs to start crafting that facade, while also using the money and power that Bruce Wayne has to fuel positive change in Gotham.
So he brainstorms how to start transitioning Bruce Wayne from the reclusive, anti-social image that the public has into a more effective and positive force and member of the Gotham community. To make “Bruce Wayne” someone that can be popular and a force for good in Gotham, while also being just out-there enough that nobody connects that persona to “Batman.”
And because Bruce is both the smartest and dumbest motherfucker in the world, what does he decide to do to springboard that image of “Bruce Wayne likes to have fun and is a cool guy”? What does he think is the best first step in doing that?
He goes to the circus that has recently come to town.
hey.
