Pact of the Aesthetic ™ @waporlock - Tumblr Blog

Communist Tumblr: I’m gonna ignore almost a century of communist atrocities, disregard real accounts from people who live/lived under said regimes, and tell you with vague, empty words filled with smugness and contempt why it’s the best damn system in the world when applied the right way, without saying how exactly it’s supposed to be done.

#haah exactly you said it better than me #its a childish idea to idolize communism. childish and desperate perhaps #< prev tags. mhm mhm #still keep seeing communism jokes and takes on my dash... sigh #there are some problems u just cant detain

torstherapy

kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.

acutelathos

Some clarifications and an update

biglawbear

This person has more emotional intelligence and healthier skills in navigating relationships than most people

elumish

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

sandumilfshous

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

post-to-poll-pipeline

How old were you when you got your first smartphone?

Younger than 10

10-13

13-16

17-20

21-25

26-30

31-40

41-50

51-60

Older than 60

Never had a smartphone

Voting ended onJul 22

crabussy

after so many frozen pizzas for dinner... tonight I have made miso udon with pan fried mushrooms and spring onion, silken tofu with sesame sauce dressing, and pan fried gyoza. and it cost me half the price of a frozen pizza for this one meal. adulting is tricky but it's so worth it #YAY

crabussy

ridiculously delicious for how cheap it was. $6nzd!

rubythehunter0078

And tommorow night,,,,,, frozen pizza again

crabussy

YOU'D THINK SO. but I bought enough for THREEEEE DELICIOUS DINNERS. and that gives me enough time to brainstorm a different bunch of dinners after that. I will return to frozen pizza on occasion but it will not be so soon

megamindsupremacy

Beautiful dash pull

socialpants

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

dogpuppy

mandywondering

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

dietspam16

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

gregtom

k-simplex-deactivated20241001

Happy Pride

hadesisqueer

Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

hadesisqueer

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

joyflameball

orteil42

I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

orteil42

you are making this so difficult

intosnarkness

Mutuals if you’re the pope you have to tell me or it’s entrapment

pawbeanies

guards !!!! take them to the Dungeon !!! no not the. not the Sex Dungeon. yes. the Regular Dungeon sorry i should've specified

daggersoliloquy

hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit

ironwoman359

Her “disappearance” was also greatly exaggerated, she was under a lot of stress from the public and had just caught her first husband cheating on her, so she fucked off to a spa treatment hotel and checked in with a fake name as a “patient” claiming to not remember anything about her past. She kept up the illusion of mystery for most of her life, claiming to not know anything about what happened during that time, but in her twilight years she alluded to the fact that “of course I just ran away for a bit, wouldn’t you want to do the same?”

90ssuperheroes

Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.

forgotn1

Oh! I actually know what made these look so iconic!

The backgrounds for the entire series were done on black paper, a first for any animated show. It's Batman, which means everything is at night and incredibly dark. So, the majority of the backgrounds were going to be black anyways and using black paper would cut down on the time it took to create all of the backgrounds. Adding color over the black paper instead of the traditional method gave it a much more stylized look that helped make it iconic.

It also forced some other creative choices, such as using an airbrush to do all of the background art. During the early testing, they found that using an airbrush was easier to apply paint with than a paintbrush and that it looked better. Airbrushing let them be more experimental with painting techniques, such as the spattery fades you can see in the "Bane" and "Deep Freeze" title cards above or the soft, deeply shadowed face on "the Last Laugh." The overall effect of airbrushing on a black background is a much darker, moodier vibe than could be achieved with a traditional approach.

They cared very deeply about the art of the show and how they were going to create it. It wasn't just about the story or the character. In the words of co-creator Eric Radomski: "As opposed to making shows just to sell toys, we've made quality films."