[walonvaus]

my briefly-revived-blog mission of going back through all of my 60,000 likes (since 2013...?) has been completed and i don't see this queue being active aside from the very rare artisanal Poast.

for art, @kradeelav is the most stable/active outside of my personal blog rss feed itself, dreamwidth will have the long form text posts and actual life updates y'all would probably be most into, and for general fire emblem shitpost quarantine-ing, @dirtyoldmanhole is surprisingly still relevant.

tata, live well ~

[fire-on-fuel]

Vau and Mird were, often enough, two halves of the same creature. Referred to by name but only spoken to directly when no other options remained. The 'yessir's of basic interaction bled themselves out of being words, in that way, the same way Vau himself stopped being a man and became a collection of shapes to track the movement of. Kamino's fluorescence always cast him distinctly, white bouncing off black from top to bottom in angular relief. Stealthy colors weren't much use in that place; instead the block of dark seemed to solidify him. An apex predator demanding attention. Mird liked to pace, and snarl, and slobber, but Vau just stood and watched. The man had very few nervous ticks- he would tap the fingers of his right hand, but nothing you could see from the training deck. We were the prey. It was his duty to watch and ours to wait, and not drown in cortisol doing it.

Recount of mandalorian training sergeant Walon Vau by an anonymous commando of Leth Squad; transcribed from helmet audiofile

[sovietpostcards]

Wedding in Azerbaijan, photo by Lev Borodulin (1959)

[alteredpanel]

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

A silhouetted Dione in front of Saturn imaged by Cassini on December 20, 2010. This image captured from 263,000 km away. The bands on the left are Saturn's rings.

Credit: Jason Major

[walonvaus]

Fans of old anime graphic design would like this recently-updated archive :)

[walonvaus]

there is no way to say this without sounding like a gigantic pretentious prick... with that knowing caveat in mind (it's not personal, just Brain Worms). i've gotten to the point where i insta-block anyone on here who uploads vertical videos and honestly i'm self aware enough to realize that's a sign i probably need to wind down activity here.

[transparentfossil]

fossilized teeth

[leninthesixth]

folks you need to understand that the eradication of trained artists and designers is a much, much, much bigger threat to arts and culture than IP laws.

[leninthesixth]

why do you think is it that every movie poster the same collage of a bunch of faces? why does every website made after 2015 look the same and rendered unusable by the same ugly pop ups? why does it keep getting harder to differentiate the apps on your phone? Why can't the back of the book just fucking tell you what the book is about?

look I'm a graphic designer. when I started studying design I had clear career goals. I spent like, thousands of hours on studying effective visual communication, psychology, history, grid systems, color theory, typography, print and digital design techniques, accessibility like whatever I believed would make me better at design I poured myself into it.

and within the span of like. five years maybe. 90% of design work disappeared. By the time I graduated there were basically no graphic designers. After 2012 Every company decided that design itself is trivial and true designers should know how to code. And manage social media. And do video editing. And copywrite. and this. and that. and. and. and. and as previous generations of visual designers and illustrators retired, the people who had the luxury of putting all their time into developing specific set of skills, they were replaced with tech grifters and designers who were forced to learn a dozen different skills and were at best mediocre at everything.

my job is not threatened by AI automation because it has already been ruined by automation through canva and bootstrap. and no one even tried to put a stop to it because good design is hard to understand and easy to imitate. so people started to imitate the visuals of previous good design and thought that was all there is to design. and after 10 years of copies of copies of copies we're all asking each other: "why does everything look the same"

now illustrators fear the same will happen to their field. and some of them want stricter copyright laws rights, because there is nothing else that can protect their work. "theft" is the only legal protection they have. and yeah, IP laws suck. but it's better for them to defend their labor using shoddy laws than not at all. and if you allow unimaginative grifters to displace artists from the few creative fields where they still work you won't even have a reason to worry about IP laws.

[taraxippos]

Getting moved by these three paragraphs where this guy describes briefly experiencing Horse Enlightenment in the aftermath of a kink scene where he was forced to run for an hour in hoof boots via his body being tethered to a treadmill by nipple clamps (with bells).

[walonvaus]

that moment in elden ring where the game LOCKS you in a room with a random ass jumpscare fade-to-black cutscene to get anally fucked by a storm knight in the pitch black dark is still lowkey the funniest shit ever

[dailyclassicart]

Andrew Wyeth - "Osborne Hill, Crows in a Landscape" (1943)

[walonvaus]

minor ASM spoilers as of 131, gunter/corrin shippers would probably find this hilarious

i cannot believe it is now a whole-arc PLOT POINT that shuri's having to get legal advice from a lawyer that basically boils down to 'everyone can see my insane romantic endgame chemistry with my (step)son how do i not get in trouble with the church's morality laws for incest shit lol'

looooooool lmao

god i really want a gunter/corrin fic with this :D

[walonvaus]

(135) OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

edit: shuri i think you might actually beat corrin on the 'how many quantum levels of incest are you on'

[walonvaus]

minor ASM spoilers as of 131, gunter/corrin shippers would probably find this hilarious

i cannot believe it is now a whole-arc PLOT POINT that shuri's having to get legal advice from a lawyer that basically boils down to 'everyone can see my insane romantic endgame chemistry with my (step)son how do i not get in trouble with the church's morality laws for incest shit lol'

looooooool lmao

god i really want a gunter/corrin fic with this :D

[walonvaus]

A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.

sincere reflection & thoughts from a former pirate site host. i enjoyed his reading list.

[yourneighbortoasty]

pygmalion (taneisha johnson, age 12) and sasuke uchiha

[queenlua]

There is no single element that comprises this quality of care, the striving towards excellence and mastery. But, as Bernoulli said when he received an anonymous solution to the brachistochrone problem that turned out to be Isaac Newton’s, “I recognize the lion by its claw.”

[. . .] We are being overrun by mediocrity and sloppiness, we are trying to fight against it, and yet, no matter how good the models and ecosystems around them get, I find myself more and more wanting software that I know is written with humans at the wheel - we are still better at reasoning, at aesthetic judgment, at architecture.

The best code is no code, programming still sucks and always will, and yet, I find myself still searching for the claw, the mark of mastery. Because that mark comes from people who want to reach other people directly. I want to see the claw, because if there is a claw, it means there is a living, breathing lion on the other side of the screen building the software that elevates us and binds us together as a community of software engineers.

—"I want to see the claw" by Vicki Boykis