Inside The Indescribable Hat

The teenager was asked to write a short scene or draw a short comic using a comedic trope from a list on a handout in their HS American Lit class. They chose to do the comic …

the Bard will never die.

and this comic is fucking genius.

A NOBLE KITTEH

;-;

I NEED SOMEONE TO HUG XANTHE

GIVE THEM ALL THE HUGS

Also

Constantine can be a good guy sometimes <3

between this and @tredlocity’s Space Dread i’m delighted by the idea gaining traction that deadnames don’t work for magical purposes

Of course <3

If magic requires someone’s true name to work then a deadname would be useless for such a spell <3

mr president another dril tweet has manifested itself into reality

Second reblog later in the afternoon. I am looking expectantly at my followers

Yamask’s Revenge

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Previously: Sad Litwick & Phantump comic 

Being knowledgeable of history is such a curse in this society because the US built the most expansive rail system to ever exist in the fucking 1800s without computers or bulldozers and then TORE IT ALL UP so Henry Ford could make more money to fund his antisemitic press side hustle. Because we devalue history both at an academic and societal level, because we're taught to believe state mythos instead of looking at the source material, people as factually wrong as Sunny Butch there are given positions as "experts" for nothing more than lying out their ass in a politically convenient way.

Britain used to have an EXTENSIVE Trolley Bus network, just about every major town and city had some form of trolley bus, clean, quiet, zero emmisions busses (OK the power stations themselves were coal fired)

(All pictures taken at Sandtoft Trolley Bus museum, check it out if you're ever in Lincolnshire.)

But do you know why we don't have them any more?

Before the government nationalised everything the transport companies generated their own electricity, they ran a clear profit over Internal Combustion Engine busses.

But when everything was nationalised the transport authorities had the power stations taken out of their control so it could all be made part of the national grid. But this meant that the transport authorities now had to buy electricity at profit-making rates, so their own revinue proceeded to freefall, and ICE busses became more profitable. I will never not be enraged that British government shortsightedness (or sabotage, I shan't rule it out) got rid of a perfectly viable, flexible, clean form of public transport

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

How the fuck does his have less than 200k after setting the internet on fire for months

Wow there’s some fucking bullshit going on in the replies here. Moderate your fucking spaces on the internet, kick racists and other bad actors to the kerb or you risk losing everyone else. This guy has the right of it (scroll up to top).

Quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices

For anyone who can’t/won’t read that twitter thread, it’s by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) and it says: 

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.” And i was like, ohok and he continues.

“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.” And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

[ID: Screenshot of a tweet from @/AmazonChique that reads ‘Pathfinder FB fan group banned all racist members. The next week, they saw a drop in harassing & threatening posts of ALL kinds. From the mod: “I encourage every community to quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices. Get the rot out and you’ll have a healthier community” End ID]

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty And peace treaties are not unilateral. They have obligations running in both directions.

You are not bound to tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate you. Nor should you tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate people who are tolerating you.

Thank you for sharing this everyone, for image IDing and all of it, thank you.

always have a “bad vibes” rule. your discord server is not a democracy and no one has the “right” to be there.

There’s an Irish legend about a giant jellyfish called Muirdris and the story goes that this king saw it, and because it was so horrible, his mouth moved to the back of his head for some reason but he also somehow didn’t realize this and everybody kept him away from mirrors and lied to him that his mouth was in the normal place.

what

You’re missing the best part though.

The only reason the king saw the jellyfish in the first place was because he asked some faeries for the power to breathe underwater and they’re like “ok but you can’t swim in the loch right by your castle,” to which the king replies “THE HELL I CAN’T” and almost immediately breaks the one rule he was given.

WHAT

oh damn, okay, so literally last night i was talking with friends about how unrealistic the golden horse in tears of the kingdom is and how it feels like they were just trying to one-up the white horse in breath of the wild, and then i run across this post, do a tiny bit of looking, and—no really gold horses are actually literally a real-world thing!

I remember reading about this breed in horse books. They're indeed very very old (over 3000 years old) and come from the deserts in turkmenistan. The way their hair is built helps them with the extreme temperature changes in the desert.

They're tough, with high endurance and intelligence, friendly and sensitive.

it also made me very sad at one point one of the kids said her dad was being hateful towards drag queens and that he had a very skewed/incorrect view of what a drag queen was and wouldnt listen to her and told her she was “too naive” when she tried to explain

and i replied “if i remember correctly when youre at this age it seems adults will wave off any of your life experiences even if they lack their own because they refuse to see those younger than them as their own people” and EVERY SINGLE KID AT THE TABLE turned and said EXACTLY

and i was like. oh. so i wasnt alone in that. but also. i dont have to BE that. im not doing that. im listening and actually talking to them. i hope that there are older people in their life doing the same.

um. i dont know how to say. please listen to the children in your life. its true sometimes youll know better but, often times they have perspectives we may miss and dismissing them hurts everyone in the end. we have so much we can share and learn together.

this is absolutely fucking pathetic now every single fucking streaming service is gonna start doing this shit. all y'all had to do was not watch Netflix and let it flop for a few months and they would have given up

This is very misleading, and that's on purpose.

The data they're using, at least the data that I saw, was from a four day period (May 23rd - 27th) before the account sharing ban went into effect on the 1st of June. They're doing this to try and convince people there's no real means to fight back against them.

Here is the data I was talking about.

And a close-up so y'all can see what I'm talking about.

Notice the sharp drop that came immediately after the spike in new subscribers? Also, notice how they had to cut it off almost immediately?

Don't let them fool you into thinking it's futile to fight back.

Elon Musk’s attorneys are immolating themselves as we speak

Hey, not that I think Tumblr users will, but don’t fall for that first guy’s bullshit. Elon Musk has fired 6,000 or so people since taking over Twitter per his own claims. So the allegation is that roughly 13% of them were fired for being a member of a protected class by putting (per the Behind The Bastards two parter about the suit last week) people who had used family leave or required disability accommodations at the top of the “To Be Let Go” list. So it’s actually really, really easy for the CEO of a sizable corporation to discriminate against lot of people in a short period of time if they treat layoffs as a purge of the undesirables. Which Elon Musk allegedly did.

The lawsuit also argues that Elon Musk the person and Twitter leadership have become so intertwined as to effectively be one-and-the-same, which isn’t usually how things go. Like, Dave Thomas was the CEO and face of Wendy’s for years but wouldn’t have been *personally* liable for corporate actions (to my knowledge, IANAL). But the ex-Tweeps (yes, that’s what they call themselves) argue that since the debt Twitter is in is the debt Musk took on to buy it, since he brought in personnel from his other businesses to consult on firings without hiring them or paying them as Twitter employees, et al, that Musk has effectively shredded what is called “The Corporate Veil”. TL;DR: Elon Musk is an asshole and idiot.

I mentioned it before but it is very striking to me that as of the last tumblr update, there are now no (0) ways to open someone's desktop blog from a dashboard post. like you can't access the url dot tumblr dot com page at all now unless you already know it exists. imo this seems like a canary that personal blog pages will be gone very shortly, which would suck, since to me that is one of the only good things this site has going for it

Correction: you can still open the top-level URL.tumblr.com link from someone's avatar on the dashboard (so, someone you follow). Actually, I should specify. Here's a post on the dashboard with seven ways to access a post:

So you can access the custom blog, but not a post on a custom blog, despite the plethora of links. Very annoying.

No, here’s the worst part: you can indeed get the link of the post you are clicking on and view it on the person’s custom blog!

IT’S JUST ON THE FUCKING MEATBALL MENU TIMESTAMP INSTEAD FOR SOME REASON I DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS SITE

fucking. why.

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What the fuck

This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:

- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)

- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.

- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)

- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture

- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.

- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)

- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.

What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.

But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?

omf i never thought i'd find posts about alex colville on tumblr, but! he's a local artist where i'm from & i work at a library/archives and have processed a lot of documents related to his art. just wanted to give my two cents!

my impression is that colville did see the world as an unsettling place and a lot of his work was fueled by this general ~malaise?? but in a lot of cases, he was trying to express particular fears or traumas. for instance, this painting (horse and train) was apparently inspired by a really tragic experience his wife had:

iirc she was in a horrible automobile crash, as the car she was in collided with a train. i find it genuinely horrifying to look at, knowing the context, but a lot of colville's work is like that? idk he just seems to capture the feeling you get in nightmares where everything is treacle-ish and slow and inevitable.

Jesus Christ.

Idk about this one boys, Cookie Monster always refers to Cookie Monster's self as "Cookie Monster".

no he doesn’t. he refers to himself as “me.” elmo’s the one that talks in third person. that’s the joke. elmo doesn’t use pronouns and cookie monster is blue. how dare you assume i made this post and didnt know my fucking sesame street history. christ

technically it probably should be “Of course cookie monster has blue hair and pronouns.”