just some dudes havin fun :)

I would like to formally thank everyone in the notes for actually being funny

The beginning.

actually IIRC this was the first photo with a specific type of camera or equipment  “cos THE progenative shitlord of  cat memes was Harry Pointer. And around 1870 he decided that Au Naturelle  photos of cats weren’t gonna cut it, and started doing shit like this: 

then he realised HE COULD CAPTION THEM

and thus the dignity of the feline was forever destroyed. 

The first cat memes. 

Someday we will find cat memes painted on the wall of a cave

For the moment, we have pottery shards:

And they are GREAT pottery shards

When you remember the anti-vax movement

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

I will always reblog this.

This made my heart get all tight and hot or maybe it was my stomach or like all of my organs. <3 <3 <3

I found it again!

My home will be a home with no loud anger, no explosive rage, no slamming doors or breaking glass, no name calling, shaming or blackmail. My home will be gentle, it will be warm. It will keep my loved ones safe. No fear, no hurt and no worries. I may come from a broken and twisted place but I will build something whole and safe. I’ll sing in the shower again, cook with a smile and dance in all the rooms. I will heal.

You know that dumb “Class” thing Last Stand introduced and then never did anything with? 

Like how Charles and Erik are both class 5? And Jean breaks the scale?

I feel like Kurt would be a class 1, because while his power is useful and cool and whatnot, he doesn’t really have the ability to affect the world around him, absorb/inflict a lot of damage, or anything like that. Magneto could literally rip the earth apart, but I doubt even with someone like Apocalypse boosting him Kurt could do anything like that when his ability is teleporting. Teleporting just isn’t an offensive skill. 

Kurt is a support class. Not an attack or defense or tank. 

He’s just the guy that goes “poof”. Most of his mutation is physical. I wonder if he ever feels out of place because his friends are more powerful, are more capable of stopping bad guys, are more useful.

I wonder if he ever feels like the walking taxi, or the one who gets told what to go retrieve and then retrieves it. I wonder if Mystique tells him that he doesn’t have to have a weaponized mutation to defend himself or his friends.

I wonder if they spend a lot of time together one on one to hone Kurt’s fighting skills, so he can feel more effective. I wonder if Kurt becomes really good at using his teleportation to his advantage, instead of using it to escape enemies, he learns how to use it offensively. Not that Kurt needs to, he’s a pure. But it would probably make him happy to contribute to the team a lot beyond “Kurt take us-” or “Kurt go get that-” or “Kurt get us out of-”.

I can think of one way he can definitely use it offensively, and I’m pretty sure it’s canon.

He can teleport inside people.

Kurt would never do that 😦

He could teleport inside people, teleport sharks inside people, teleport people up and drop them, and grab them and rapid teleport to exhaust them before killing them. With swords. Because he’s a badass.

Well, X2′s version was badass enough at the start of the movie–badass assassin. His abilities may not be earth-shattering (unless he moves key pieces of tectonic plates)–but I think Kurt can hold his own against any mutant with the right training. Also, if X-Men:Evolution’s idea that there are nasty creatures inhabiting the dimension he bamf’s into, it’s possible he could use those things to his advantage by simply leaving his portals open to cause mass destruction and death.

Not sure what Azazel in First Class was classified as, but he seemed pretty up there with his preference of teleporting with people way up there and dropping them from the sky–Kurt could totally do that.

Also, the whole “Kurt retrieve this” line made me think that he’s the X-pet or something. “Golden Retriever” becomes “Indigo Retriever” LOL!

Kurt can indeed be very lethal with his teleporting ability only, as seen in the comics:

Rapid teleporting (in X-Termination, Kurt Darkholme notes to himself how he almost killed himself with rapid teleporting, because he’s not young anymore).

Surprise assassination attacks, as when you hear or see him, it’s already too late. Not to mention that he has no physical limitations for his position for the teleport attack, as he can crawl up on walls and ceilings, and teleport to any spot he can see or has seen previously - and now with Bamfs, he can teleport to any location/position freely.

His furt absorbs light and makes it easy for him to hide in shadows, which makes him even harder to spot - and thus more dangerous.

He doesn’t need to touch you to kill; he can throw and drop objects at you immediately after teleporting.

He can stab and beat you with rapid teleporting. Not to mention grabbing and dropping you, or strangling you or breaking your neck - whatever he fancies as a close range attack.

The scariest thing? He can just grab a piece of you and rip it apart with his teleporting.

In short; Kurt’s teleportation can be extremely lethal and handy, but it feels to me like writers don’t really utilize his skills that much but rely a lot on his sword fighting and acrobat skills. Perhaps it is that such manners of fight fit his personality better? But Kurt being useless fighter? Absolutely not. He’s a supportive assassin type, who’s movements you can’t predict. 

You don’t need inhumane super powers capable of destroying a world to be someone you don’t want to make enemies with.

timelapse bc is there anything more relaxing than lovingly rendering ya video game boyfriend at 1am

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everything is gender neutral

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A little update <3

I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!

A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

So grateful for the historical memory and the long view on a phenomenon many of us have come to late, and/or take for granted.

And this is why AO3 generates twice its goal amount in just a few days: they are irreplaceable.

This is the spoopy content you need on your dash

This is so precious I can’t even…

Everybody loves pumpkin enrichment! 

These are great items because they’re fun for the herbivores to each, the carnivores to tear apart, and everybody to roll and throw around. They’re tactile, olfactory, and edible enrichment all in one! 

I believe they’re acceptable on-exhibit enrichment for naturalistic facilities like Brookfield in Chicago, too. 

I think of this time of year as Tumblr’s Annual Pumpkining of the Animals Post.

Read more here:

Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

reblog to save a digital arts major

@asparklethatisblue you were looking for alternative to After Effects, no?

BREAKING NEWS!!!

FYI

MerMay 2019 by Andy Ivanov

“the game” is a sleeper agent activation phrase for anyone who was in middle school between 2006 and 2009 and apparently ppl any younger than that are blissfully unaware of the psychological warfare of the game

Tell me what it is

Tell me what it is

Tell me what it is

doesn’t matter, we already lost

Hello, I´d like to share with you and your followers something I got from a writer in my fandom years ago. They left already but their words stuck with me. I´m going to share the wisdom with you in my own words.

Every time you get notes/kudos, imagine real people standing in front of you. Did you get 20 kudos? It might seem like it´s not much but would you fit so many people into your livingroom? It´s 20 REAL PEOPLE who decided to read your work and liked it. Imagine giving each of them a hug!

Did you get 50 kudos? Giving 50 hugs would take some time but you could give them cookies instead. Imagine 50 cookies. It´s a lot!

Did you get 100 kudos? Go to a mall and count 100 people, you´ll see it´s actually a lot more than you thought when you saw the number.

Did you get 500 kudos? 1 000? Well, it starts getting a bit overwhelming when you imagine such a crowd but it´s AMAZING that you made so many people happy with your writing. And you´d need a living room the size of a cncert hall to fit them all in :)

I did this and you’re so right- it helps!!! I was feeling super discouraged and lethargic about my writing and not at all motivated. So I went to my most popular story (which I think has about 600 kudos and that’s a lot- I know it’s a lot but it doesn’t really feel real sometimes) and just googled for pictures of a crowd of six hundred people. 

That’s a lot of people- that’s waaay more people than I see regularly- and suddenly I feel really motivated to write again because I mean that many people ???? Liked it??? my writing can’t be that bad if they did ???? 

When fandom was still on LJ, I was writing a story that I released a chapter every week for on Wednesdays. Around 250 people read every chapter on the day it was posted. So, I pictured myself going to a small lecture hall every Wednesday and reading to 250 people, about 20 of which would speak to me after the reading (comments) while the rest of the audience clapped and left, seemingly pleased with what I had written.

It was a great way to motivate myself to get the chapters done. “I have to give a reading on Wednesday! There will be 250 people waiting!” 

Sometimes numbers can become just numbers, rather than numbers representing people - but if you can have them be people again, it really puts things in perspective.

Imagine how long it would take if each one of your “Kudos” or “Likes” shook your hand for a few seconds. THOSE ARE ACTUAL HUMANS LOOKING AT YOUR STUFF. Blows my mind every time. Look how many notes this post has. THAT’S AN ENTIRE CONCERT HALL  FILLED WITH PEOPLE.