you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers

get creatured idiot

oh thank fuck i thought i was never gonna get creatured

???

Writer: I don't think there's a pronoun for it but what about one of the 400+ fungus genders?

Tumblr Migration 2: Reddit Boogaloo

We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what's happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.

What's happening?

Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.

In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.

Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?

Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don't worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.

What do us Tumblr users do?

Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site's culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.

I'm new from Reddit, what do I do here?

CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.

Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don't mistake you for a bot

I'd like to add some more information about what killing the API does - it's not just killing third party apps.

Essentially, Reddit's CEO has decided to make the API paid access - if you haven't paid, you can't develop anything. What we've heard from one of the more popular unofficial apps, Apollo, the pricing with be 0.24$ per 1000 API calls. In other words, for a massive app like Apollo, they will have to pay Reddit 2M$ per month. Reddit is absolutely mental. This means two things - either the apps will have to start charging their users (a sure fire way to force more users onto the free Reddit app), or the app itself will just have to cease working.

Even if they charge their users, it's very unlikely that the costs can be covered. Even accounting for the fact that unofficial apps will have less users, they'd essentially need to change by API calls + potentially profit for the developers themselves + app maintenance, which most users won't pay and those who do will still be limited by some amount of API calls.

With all this said, who does the disappearance of the unofficial apps hit then?

Firstly, it hits the general user that dislikes the official Reddit app. I personally don't mind the official app, I find the UI of other apps that I've tried worse than the official, but the unofficial apps often provide more customisation or options, each having their custom theme. They also often have a better working media player than what the official app has - the official one is awful. They often provide many other options that even the official app lacks.

Which brings me to my next point - there is close to 0 accessibility options on the official app. If you are blind, you won't be able to use Reddit any longer. Reddit claims that apps focused on accessibility will be exempt as long as they are non profit. The issue there is, many will likely be unaware of those apps. In addition, how is being focused on accessibility defined? Could Reddit remove an app if they deem it "unfocused on accessibility"? There is no transparency. There isn't even certainty that they will decide the clause itself.

Outside of accessibility, third part apps are also heavily used by moderation teams. I have not modded on Reddit but I have modded on other apps - the tools you use can make or break it. Removing access to these tools will make Reddit a much more unstable environment, especially when you are used to a certain tool. It can significantly mess with the work flow of certain subreddits, especially the bigger ones.

All in all? Reddit is messing up big time.

The answer to that

Astronaut sculpture from an ex-physicist (Source/Credit)

they're an ex-physicist because they decided not to follow the laws of physics for this one and the physics society kicked them out

i dont think the sages are distinctly aware of everything their avatars are doing, but i imagine some things probably bleed through

i love acquiring new sounds for my vocabulary. ough. oughghghgh. ough,,,,,. weh! wehhhh. lkjghslkdfjghsdjghs. hhhhhhhhh. hrgngnggnhghghghghgh,

i know this is the autism webbed site but it’s not gonna go that big, right?

YOU PEOPLE CAN’T DO THIS TO ME

Foiled!

Today I got to go on one of our runs to more rural shelters to help relieve overcrowding there. We ended up bringing back 21 kittens and 10 dogs. So fun day. But this morning, while I was getting stuff together in preparation for the 90 minute drive…. This happened.

Excuse you Tiniest Opossum, but you are NOT allowed to escape through the front bars of the cat carrier we were housing you in. I’m going to put you back.

“NO!”

I am going to catch you and put you back and you have no say in this matter.

“NO!”

Catching you and putting you back now.

“NOOOOOO!”

Aaaand back you go. Let go of the purple towel and go in the cardboard box.

“Noooooooooooo!”

Happy 5 year Opossumversary!

Happy 6 year Opossumversary!

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 

trans women r literally so cool theu get tits AND a prostate?? i thought only markilpler could do that

i need 2 stop posting after taking my sleep meds jesus christ

hey guys we don't have to rb this post. like we can keep it to ourselves. we can let this post not be rbed.

COW BAT COW BAT COW BAT

It’s not the most popular but it is the most important post I’ve ever made

@xekstrin

Their nemesis

Echium wildpretii, also known as Tower of jewels 😮

Echium wildpretii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the Canary Islands, Spanish archipelago. It mainly grows in the subalpine zone of the ravines of Mount Teide, a volcano on Tenerife island. The common names are tower of jewels, red bugloss, Tenerife bugloss or Mount Teide bugloss.

It is a herbaceous biennial plant that reaches between 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) in height, with an erect inflorescence that bears red flowers. The plant produces a dense rosette of leaves during the first year, flowers in the second year, and then dies. It blooms from late spring to early summer in Tenerife.

📷 Julian Quintero

It sucks that people are treating the Reddit blackout as a joke or assuming it's impotent rage over a minor decision bc it's Reddit when like. No, a tech company shutting down access to their API by forcing third-party devs to pay completely unreasonable fees ($12,000 per 50 million API requests, which to the largest third party clients would be tens of millions of dollars) and in the process destroying both accessibility apps and moderation tools is Bad Actually

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fucking look at this shit though

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

amazing

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

This is getting better and better.

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

Old movies had the best special effects

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

@jurassicparkandrecreation

@shepfax

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

This post just gets better and better with time

...There I was, veritably myself again.

This life is a F*CKING NIGHTMARE

I love everything about this. 

gonna start signing all my messages and posts with this (っ’-‘)╮ =͟͟͞͞🍋ﾌﾞｫﾝ but with a situationally relevant emoji

for example. i like frogs (っ’-‘)╮ =͟͟͞͞🐸ﾌﾞｫﾝ

Can you make him throw this 🍍

as you wish

(っ’-‘)╮ =͟͟͞͞🍍ﾌﾞｫﾝ

Great! Now can you catch something for me?

yeah ok

(っ’-‘)っ

Here you go!

(っ;-;)っ💖=͟͟͞͞

(っ💖)っ  ah.

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Please find other alternatives for BH because they're ATROCIOUS.