*live life for yourself

[coolxatu]

its crazy when you think about how tumblr works because unless you follow someone that interacts with the inner circle of core users it really is a barren wasteland out there

[brw]

[id; a tweet by nathan bernhardt @jonberhardt: "why do marvel movies do so much stuff in CGI surely they could have just had wardrobe-" makeup and wardrobe is a union crew. the CGI animation sweatshop is not. it really is that simple. end id/]

[adhd-hippie]

This is probably why Cats was a CGI nightmare. Rather than higher a costume designer to re-imagine the leggings and fur hats for a modern audience. Which would have required hiring union work people to make the hundreds of costumes they'd have needed they just CGI ed some cat fur onto their actors.

Did the CGI team do their best and give it their all, probably. But they shouldn't have been hired. They shouldn't have been put in a position of making costumes and worlds and extras, and, and, and. They should have been hired for what CGI is best at, special effects when physical special effects aren't possible and the rest should've been left to physical craftspeople.

There's nothing wrong with CGI when used sparingly and married with physical effects and costumes to enhance the realness of the world but when you plop some actors in morph suits on a green screen set and just replace everything with CGI your movie sucks.

Compare the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and you'll understand what I mean.

CGI people deserve a union, deserve respect, and deserve not to be treated as an isnta movie factory. They deserve to be allowed to hone their craft and dedicate time and energy to creating the kind of world-building effects we all know and love.

[hatin]

i wonder if i will still use tumblr in 5 years

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

The (un)funny thing about this (seven year old) post is that seven years ago the internet was such that one could reasonably imagine that in 5 years there would be other, better platforms that would make tumblr sort of outdated and cringy. Now the alternatives to tumblr are Corporations Spying On You, Absolute Hellhole Of Discourse Over Tumblr Screenshots, Corporations Spying On You, Tumblr Posts But In Video Form While Corporations And The Chinese Government Spy On You, That Platform You Signed On After The Titty Ban Spread Mass Panic And You Never Used Since, and reddit

[amidstsilence]

[whiskeyxfluent]

[sapphicazzie]

daniel radcliffe calling out j.k. rowling on her bullshit is big dick energy

[wakingfromthewater]

One thing I have not seen mentioned in light of this statement, perhaps because it's just well known or perhaps because it's been forgotten, is that Radcliffe has dealt with this before. About 10 years ago his friendship with a trans musician named Our Lady J became known to the tabloids. They immediately published sensational articles calling her a transvestite and a drag queen (she was not), and speculating about the nature of their relationship. He responded to insinuating questions by simply being aggressively positive about what a great musician and good friend she was. They did at least one interview together for a queer magazine. This at a time when trans people were even more marginalized than now, and when he as an actor was finishing Harry Potter and under a lot of pressure to ~manage his image~ as he transitioned to an adult career.

TL;DR - Radcliffe has a record of not just saying nice things, but supporting trans people in his life.

[speciesofleastconcern]

[morrak]

My first biology professor had an ‘inadequacy drawer’ full of things to remind him he wasn’t, in fact, the dumbest and laziest person to ever exist. It was mostly Darwin, notably these two bits:

‘But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.’

‘I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids and today I hate them worse than everything.’

[funkyness]

“I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired: I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”

-Charles Darwin on a letter to his cousin

[rhube]

Charles Darwin: unexpected depression hero.

[sophiamcdougall]

I knew about “I am very poorly and very stupid and hate everybody and everything,” but not the others. 

“I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees” is A Mood.

[anima-beata]

My favorite Darwinism: “I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects”.  Hits me right at the center of my hyperfixated soul.

[fatehbaz]

[degasdad]

do you guys have a story in your head and when you’re bored you just add more to it and continue from where you left off

[castleriggcircle]

I was surprised to discover that there are people out there who DON’T do this. How do you keep yourself from going crazy in classes/meetings/religious services/etc. where you have to at least pretend to pay attention?

[chat-chouage]

the other day i started writing an office romance but i quickly remembered that i have no idea what working in an office is like

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202]

as opposed to your vast personal expertise in romance?

[chat-chouage]

[thepoisonroom]

writing a cover letter is just like: here is my worksona she has no mental illnesses and hates breaks! i would like to larp her for 40 hours a week with full pay and benefits

[jpinesart]

so did you lay in bed blasting fireflies by owl city as a kid staring up at the ceiling while imagining running away to a happier place bc you grew up on fairy tales and make believe stories since you didnt really have the best social skills due to undiagnosed neurodivergency and thus didnt have a lot of friends so you spent all that extra time you had induldging in fictional stories and then grew up believing maybe one day youd get to go on a magical adventure like those stories had so youd spent so much time just longing for an escape and to go somewhere you understood bc you didnt understand people but you did understand all those stories you read or are you normal

[normal-downloadfailed]

[rebelwhodoesntknow]

Either neurodivergent people need to stop being so relatable or I need to go to the doctor

[animusrox]

Holiday Knights The New Batman Adventures

[really-fucked-up18]

[defjamvendetta]

[rainnecassidy]

This is such a good article though

The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.

“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”

It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled. 

Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.

“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”

In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.

Here is a link to the paper that the article is talking about

[mhalachai]

My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas. 

Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.

[drst]

I hate this entire concept so much.

[kelssiel]

the creators of this monstrosity are exactly what you would expect

(source)

[saxgoddess25]

Elf on the shelf is fucking creepy and there’s no way I’d allow one in my house if I had kids.

[thesschesthair]

I thought for ages it was just a ‘fun & new’ Christmas toy/decoration and didn’t find out until last year that it came with a 'game’.

Why on earth anyone would want to put that kind of unnecessary pressure, stress and anxiety onto a kid is beyond me. 

Talk about creating extreme paranoia…

[katie-dub]

Listen, there are so many issues with that bloody elf. It creates extra pressure for parents at Christmas because every day the elf needs to do something new and entertaining. It re-enforces a worldview that says poverty is naughty and shameful, because if only bad children don’t get gifts then obviously those whose parents can’t afford gifts are bad. (I realise that kids in this position won’t have the elf, but shouldn’t those in a position to buy this be teaching their kids compassion for all? To help their fellow man? We specifically do not tell our kids that Santa only brings presents for good children because… Well I don’t want them to only be good for profit.) And of course, All Of The Above. We’re already working hard to teach our kids that mistakes mean they’re growing and learning and trying their best, and we don’t need a fucking toy to come and take that from them.

[bettedavisgf]

it is so interesting to me the “gen z humour” is obviously sooo influenced by tumblr despite most of gen z probably being too young to have spent much time on tumblr at its peak. like it’s known that 2020 twitter is literally 2015 tumblr but like 2020 tiktok is also 2015 tumblr the world is literally just stuck at 2015 tumblr

[softteddybear-deactivated202111]

gay culture is sitting in a chair and immediately finding a way to get your feet off the floor