Votam

22, they/he

[ultrainfinitepit]

Trixic Angel - final version. Flat colors, transparent background, linework under the cut.

Read the FAQ and follow the campaign: Pride Angels.

[sweetneapolitan]

Hii!!! Here are some terms for relationships that include nonbinary people/define nonbinary attraction

Diamoric: Considered an umbrella term referring to attractions experienced by non-binary individuals that cannot be described with language such as same/similar or different/opposite gender, such as "straight" or "gay".

Trixic: Describes a person with a nonbinary gender identity who is attracted to women. Or a relationship that includes a nonbinary person and a woman.

Toric: Describes a person with a nonbinary gender identity who is attracted to men. Or a relationship that includes a nonbinary person and a man.

Enbian: Refers to a relationship between nonbinary individuals, or nonbinary people with attraction to other nonbinary individuals.

Sources:

Diamoric is generally considered an umbrella term referring to attractions experienced by non-binary individuals that cannot be described wi

Describes a person with a nonbinary gender identity who is sexually and/or romantically attracted to women.

Toric

[veronicas-junk-and-stuff]

Crack your local egg today

[nooodlesartstyle]

1) banger comic, everyone go hit a like

2) probably not the intention but i got whiplash when i saw it in cafe fox tale’s video because that looks like my sona?! or at least when my sona had purple hair-

[guiltfactory]

coffee shop au with canon-typical violence

[merelyspecters]

@fallingappleshurt your tags are not staying in the tags

[cinemantagonist]

it’s a good thing we don’t encounter tasque manager until after noelle “world’s biggest lesbian” holiday leaves the party because i don’t think she could be normal about it

[thatsbelievable]

[votam]

@snowfall-at-dusk

[niyarest]

see the premise of "if you struggle brushing your teeth, just do it in the shower" relying on logic of "you might struggle with teeth but surely you shower every day right? right...?" is just so hilariously wrong it's asinine that it's one of the most popular such advice

[traumatechthaumaturge]

DAVE: ok so heres the thing

DAVE: boulevard of broken dreams is actually a pretty good song

DAVE: bear with me on this im on some cultural deconstruction shit

DAVE: the problem we had back on earth was twofold

DAVE: the first and more obvious problem was that you heard it all the god damn time

DAVE: american idiot was a really good album

DAVE: it was a really popular album

DAVE: but green day was so full throatedly anti george bush and so vulgar about it to boot

DAVE: that if you were a radio station with any interest in cashing in on that popularity you were pretty much restricted to like two songs off that album

DAVE: and wake me up when september ends was too somber to be truly catchy

DAVE: so boulevard became the radio's bread and butter

DAVE: and so you couldnt escape it

DAVE: but at the same time it made you keenly aware of how much of a pussy everyone in the fcc was

DAVE: now that would be bad on its own but it also just kinda happens

DAVE: radio would find a cash cow of a song and milk it for all it was worth sometimes decades after the fact

DAVE: and they had always been pussies

DAVE: but thats where the second problem came in

DAVE: see the thing about green day is that they don't half ass anything

DAVE: and american idiot was an album about the faults of america

DAVE: which is the kind of thing centrists in any era really dont like for you to be honest about because it forces them to think about real problems

DAVE: so they have to act like they arent real problems

DAVE: so anyone complaining about them becomes a whiny and or performative asshole

DAVE: boulevard is a song completely devoid of irony and was hated because of it

DAVE: and for a long time the popular contrarian thing to do was make fun of it

DAVE: of course popular contrariansm and true contrarianism are very different

DAVE: completely different motivations moved to further hatred for their similarities

DAVE: so as a true contrarian one is motivated to subvert everything those fucking posers do

DAVE: of course the natural impulse is to listen to boulevard ironically

DAVE: similar to the kind of thing we did with rick astley

DAVE: but the thing is that wouldnt actually be fair to the song because

DAVE: and this is crucial

DAVE: it genuinely is a good song

DAVE: but you cant just listen to it normally either

DAVE: because then you arent doing enough to separate yourself from the clueless masses who dont realize theyre jamming out to an album thats dissing the president whose knob theyre slobbering over

DAVE: now if youre a punk rock fan or even just a fan of green day i probably sound pretty stupid right now

DAVE: and i will admit that i and my legion of countercultural warriors are not immune to stupidity

DAVE: because the the solution was obvious

DAVE: the problem only exists because the radio stripped the song of context in the first place

DAVE: boulevard was always meant to come after a different song entirely and its a song thats honestly a better fit for american idiot than the song american idiot

DAVE: and so this is the origin of one of the divine decrees

DAVE: as sparse as they are immutable

DAVE: that you are allowed to play boulevard broken dreams

DAVE: but only if you play holiday first

[meckamecha]

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[kuromi-hoemie]

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.

Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO

I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Turn off user tracking: enabled

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled

Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled

Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled

Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled

Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Allow Cortana: disabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

[meckamecha]

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

[shrimpblaster]

I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.

As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech's debloat tool on it.

Having Fun with Technology

It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.

[squeakitties]

dwarves would be enthralled with midwestern casserole dishes

[squeakitties]

dwarves would go apeshit over tater tot and cream of mushroom soup hotdish

[positivelyqueer]

”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!

[jaseroque]

Please view Hokusai's gradual working towards The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, over a period of 39 years.

An early exploration of the themes Hokusai would keep coming back to is Spring in Enoshima, done in 1793 when he was 33. The wave is small and there are no boats, but Mt Fuji is clear in the background, and Enoshima is in Kanagawa, so we are clearly beginning to work towards something here.

A second pass, eleven years later in 1803 when he was 44. The title of this one begins to get more familiar: The View of Honmoku Off Kanazawa. It has a towering wave over a smaller boat, but Mt Fuji is not present, and the boat is considerably larger and has a sail. But the feeling of danger in the wave and the smallness of the boat are here, and of course the general composition is definitely recognizable.

This is A View Of Express Delivery Boats, done in 1805, merely two years later at age 46. Here we find the wave and the boats almost exactly as we'll find them in The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, though Mt Fuji isn't present, and the location is uncertain. And it's a good picture! The wave is threatening, the boats are small -- but the feeling of "ocean" isn't really there yet, is it? It's unlikely this picture would have become a classic for the ages. But that's okay, there's still time.

And here we have it, a full 26 years later, done by Hokusai in 1831 at the age of 72. The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, one of the most recognizable pieces of art in the world. The boats are there, the mountain is there, the wave is there, and the FEELING is there. He did it! He reached the apex of his ongoing motif and theme!

Or did he? Because the whole point of a motif is not that you're striving to get to the perfect version of it, the one idealized image you carried in your head all along, and when it is done, you are also done. Hokusai is on record at the age of 73 saying he'd only just begun to feel like he was learning how to draw things properly, and that "if I keep up my efforts, I will have even a better understanding when I was 80 and by 90 will have penetrated to the heart of things. At 100, I may reach a level of divine understanding, and if I live decades beyond that, everything I paint — dot and line — will be alive." He had drawn The Great Wave, but he didn't believe he was finished -- he thought that he was still just beginning to get started.

And he wasn't finished with his ocean motif, either. Please check out his Mt Fuji At Sea, done in 1834 at the age of 75.

It's all there; Mt Fuji, the ocean, the wave. The boats are gone, but replaced with birds, flying with the wave instead of fighting against it. It's not as famous as The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, but that's not what motifs are for -- each successive work does not have to surpass the previous in terms of success, especially in terms of external success. They're there for you to keep playing with, keep remixing and re-experiencing, for as long as you think you have something to say.

[virtualgirladvance]

[prokopetz]

I've seen multiple people who don't actually know what a precision puzzle platformer is cite the 2D Sonic the Hedgehog games as examples of the type, and now I'm trying to imagine a true precision puzzle platformer with Sonic the Hedgehog's fuckass aerial physics. The mental image is... stark.

[fancifulsuggestion-retired]

hey, you!! you look really cute today! you look really cute everyday!!

[nb-stuff-blog]

Nonbinaries who happen to be amab and identify as demiboys are handsome and great and so, so valid. All demigenders are amazing, all demiboys are great, all amab nbs are brilliant.

[sunshinemoonrx]

HUH?

Most cop thing I've ever read. what the fuck are you talking about. The posts you're looking for might be on this website but we won't show them to you???

[sunshinemoonrx]

I'm sure all my settings are set to "yes show me mature content no don't filter anything" what are you TALKING ABOUT

[sunshinemoonrx]

the posts are ON THE WEBSITE. I can't search dirty words?? am I five??? is this club penguin??? when I get you

[noticesghosts]

What the hell

[noticesghosts]

What is going on

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

just so you know, if you completely ignore the search feature on the website and just type "tumblr.com/search/term" into the address bar, it bypasses all of this. broken-ass website

[mikufanclub]