The obligatory art blog

[animentality]

[horreurscopes]

there's this phenomenon i've noticed on youtube which i dub "man math" which is when men STEM-ify hobbies/activities/art forms in order to make them more masculine. it's very noticeable in the cooking video sphere where there's an endless stream of videos made by men along the lines of "the SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN best way to cook an egg" (and dgmw, i watch them and find them helpful, but the observation stands), but i notice it also in the way men approach ceramics (a lot of focus on mold-making and slip-casting to perfection, basically reinventing one man mass-production rather than play and discovery), tailoring/sewing/knitting/textile art, gardening and other nature-oriented hobbies, interior decor, furniture making and woodworking, journaling/planning/productivity, even drawing and painting, there's always some man math angle to it that although interesting it often strikes me as some sort of overcompensation to move away from the inherent vulnerability that comes with art making and once you notice it it's literally everywhere

[horreurscopes]

[ellisillus]

Hoo hoo!

[c3rvida3]

Fish & Chips

[mengjue]

Ūropi (Europe)

Ūropi, also known by its indigenous name “Europe”, meaning “wide-gazing” or “broad of aspect”, is a small continent first discovered in 1806 by Moehanga of Ngāpuhi, although indigenous Europeans had been living there for many thousands of years. Modern researchers believe the indigenous Europeans originally migrated from the Middle East, and over time split into separate tribes or “kingdoms,” with many retaining their ancient rangatira (called “monarchs” or “nobility”) to this day.

While many see Ūropi as timeless and exotic, indigenous Europeans have actually adapted well to the modern economy, often exporting cultural products like baguettes and vodka, the former of which may be recognisable as the basis for bánh mì.

[aberrant-angel]

hey isn't that the place where River Gulu is

[cheesycottagecheese]

I have got to find that it sounds hilarious

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

I found the mockumentary!! It's called Das Fest des Huhnes (the festival of the chicken), and you can watch it English subtitled here!

[liyniia]

The "Breath of the Wild"ification of games nowadays (particularly first party Nintendo games) is legitimately one of the most frustrating trends in all of gaming imo No, I don't want my Metroid game to have shrines in a big wasteland with nothing in it to be more like BOTW. No, I don't want an open world Mario Kart if the actual track design is going to suffer because of it. And certainly no, I don't want games that would work fine if they were linear (or even just open zone instead) being open world for no particular reason. Legitimately it is hard to play any game that comes out these days because everything must be a giant open world with small mini challenges on the map because "Well Breath of the Wild did it! We can too!" No! Stop it! Genuinely please stop! I'm tired of every game being open world! Limitations on what the player can do or where they can go can be a good thing! I will take cohesive level design over massive worlds that have nothing to do in them!

[queenofbraves]

[spector]

ALSO FOR SOME REASON. AT THE END OF MY DEAD MONEY SLIDES. THERE WAS SOMEONE YELLING 'WATCH OUT'?? IT WAS SUBBED AND EVERYTHING?

[spector]

im crying apparently its a bug ?!?!!? WITH NO EXPLANATION POSTED??

[wordfather]

being made by vitro fertilisation (IVF) is so funny. my parent didn't have sex, my parents conducted an experiment with a scientist. my humble beginnings can be traced to a petri dish. some person i dont know clocked in to work and then just made me. i was made in a lab and i didn't even get any cool powers or anything. im just a girl that has to work 9 to 5

[wordfather]

a tag mentioned how likely it is for ivf to produce twins and it reminded me of the fact that i ate my twin in the womb. so maybe my secret power is eating people

[thememedaddy]

[kat2107]

Let me tell you a story.

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

Do not trust ChatGPT or any other so-called AI ever.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[shamebats]

[soft-october-night]

Christmas movies really need to show the reality of Dec 27, when the girl boss protagonist who just quit her high paying City Job to spend the rest of her life in small town christmasville with the dude she dated in high school for a couple of months is trying to find dinner at 830pm and has to face the reality that not only is there no good Chinese takeout in a 20 mi radius, but every restaurant in the county closes at 7:00 p.m.

[devilishdescent]

go to your ass > options > security settings > toggle "kicked" to on

[sapphic-gengar]

[lastoneout]

you know how people say soup is round and so it's messed up to put it in a square tupperware? that's how I feel every time I see a square watch

[autistic-speedbump]

[therottenkingsreckoning]

curious what your thoughts on this are then

[lastoneout]

It says guess bcs you're more likely to actually figure out what time it is that way.

[awkwardgaydude]

How do you feel about Qlocktwo?

[lastoneout]

You know given my dyscaculia this is actually easier for me to read than a regular analog clock AND it's giving old school cheesy secret agent vibes so I think it's so ridiculous that it loops back around to being cool again. Still, wish it was round.

[awkwardgaydude]

Okay this one I think you will probably like then

Reveal by Projects

Super easy to read

[cowdogpaws]

I have an addition:

[lastoneout]

[scarletpiano]

"How do these clocks make you feel?"

[bearsmart]

Someone brought me this beauty for a battery change a few months ago

It wraps around your wrist and it's probably the coolest watch I've ever seen at work

[lastoneout]

That's actually the coolest watch I've ever seen in my entire life, thank you for sharing!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[conarcoin]

hate when motherfuckers try to talk to me about AFAB Experiences and how "we were all raised as girls 🥺" like brother i was socialized as a weird thing. i didn't have a "girlhood". don't talk to me

[conarcoin]

i was not included in the Girl peer group. i was also not included in the Boy peer group. i was in the freak peer group that consisted exclusively of autistic dudes and trans eggs of both directions and the one girl who thinks she's a vampire 😭

[conarcoin]

it's always in a thinly veiled way of trying to make me ally myself with them against trans women on basis of our "shared afab experiences" when closeted transfems were the people i was confiding my darkest secrets to at 14

[tlirsgender]

I do like to think Spock visited the human side of his family on earth for special occasions and such growing up. And yes I am once again thinking about the Spock bar mitzvah post. But maybe also for like holidays sometimes... cousins' weddings whatever. The specifics aren't important. What matters is Spock's extended family cooing over their "little spaceman". While he's just standing there like o_o

[tlirsgender]

The smallest spock you've seen in your life, white knuckle gripping amanda's sleeve: Mother I Am Overstimulated