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i love to 👍 i'm a thumbs-upper in real life and online

peak of simplistic silent communication to me

I’m sorry im on my Anthy Himemiya bullshit again. I just love her so much. Because at first she seems like the ultimate perfectly feminine damsel in distress. The ideal princess. She’s totally subservient, totally docile and submissive for everyone to project their desires onto, the beautiful Rose Bride that serves her prince. And she’s so perfect, but isn’t it awful that she’s completely at the whim of whoever she’s engaged to? Doesn’t it make you want to save the poor princess? She’s perfect for the role. She’s there to be desired, chased after, rescued.

AND THEN. And then you start to see the cracks in her and realize how profoundly fucked up she is. How manipulative, how cruel, how unapologetically goddamn weird she is. She’s been trapped in this awful cycle for so long that it’s completely killed any hope she might have had of being free, any faith she might have had in other people. She’s bitter and mean and drags anyone who gets close down with her.

And even then, after all that time, after initially getting sucked into the same old spiral, Utena manages to break the narrative, and the hardest, coldest heart in the world can’t help but love her.

The ongoing conflict of Puella Magi Madoka Magica is that Homura has a self-destructive knight-savior complex but only specifically for the girl she has a crush on, but unfortunately for her the girl she has a crush on also has a self-destructive savior complex for Every Living Thing On The Planet Earth. So they are doing a constant back and forth of "I am going to save everyone" > "No, I am going to save you." > "No, I am going to save everyone." over and over again with increasing stakes each time until we've reached a cosmic scale and they're both smashing planets and becoming abstract concepts instead of just making out with each other. Tragic yuri. Many such cases.

in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

Just use Firefox.

The more people who use Firefox the better! It's got versions for the desktop, android, and iphone, all free. In addition to ublock origin there are thousands of addons. You could also consider using one of Mozilla's paid products, such as their VPN, or donating to the Mozilla Foundation, in order to ensure they're able to keep going.

Not to be Old on main but I remember this exact thing happening in the late 90s and early 00s. I remember it very well. Microsoft pushed out all the browser competition with Internet Explorer, at which point both browser and web innovation stagnated for years because why fix something that's broken if everyone is using the broken thing anyway because there are hardly any other options. If you want to know how bad it was, Internet Explorer did not have browser tabs and it certainly did not have any sort of adblock. And everyone just lived with it.

I am watching the exact same thing happen with Chrome in real time today and that's why I always reblog these posts and sometimes am extra annoying and add on to them. I don't want to see it happen again because it sucked. Please use Firefox. Use it on mobile too (it has browser extensions!!! Including ad blockers!!!) And reminder that Edge/Brave/Vivaldi are all built on Chromium and you should not be using those either. Those browsers will show up as Chrome on tracking analytics and it does not help the overall project, which is showing web developers that Chrome is not the only browser people are using.

One thing I really love about seedy anime websites and YouTube mp3 converters is like. They actually do what they say they’re doing. But they WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. Like it’s almost just a greeting at this point. I try to extract a song from a YouTube video and it says free VPN installer tonight perhaps? Free VPN installer tonight queen? And I say YouTube-mp3 converter you sly dog, you know what I’m here for. Show me the goods. And YouTube-mp3 converter says ahhh you got me, no getting one over on you. Thought it was worth a try tho. Here you go king x

Reminder that I run an ad free yt and other video siye downloader

You dont need to use sketchy sites

baby ribbon seals

still thinking about refaat alareer. we know now that refaat was assassinated by israel for a joke he made about the false (and ridiculous) israeli claim that a "baby was baked in an oven" on oct 7th

i can't stop thinking about how he was targeted for this joke. on the one hand you could argue, as many fascists and genocidal freaks have, that israelis wanted him dead out of grief or righteous anger that he was mocking their dead children—but the thing is by the time the order was given to kill him (we know he received a call informing him that he was a target around two days prior to his assassination) it was already well-known that this claim was false. no babies were baked in ovens on october 7th. there was a child thrown into a bakery fire in front of his father during the nakba in 1948, but that's besides the point.

what i can't stop thinking about is that refaat was then targeted not for mocking a dead baby, but for his disrespect. he refused to patronize israeli victimhood. and why should he? by the time he made that joke, on october 29th, over 7000 palestinians (including 3000 children) had already been killed by israel. israel had already burned, suffocated, crushed and decapitated 3000 palestinian children, hundreds of whom were under one year old.

its kind of crazy to me that people think this joke was off-color or inappropriate. it wasn't. there was no baked baby. it was simply propaganda. the children killed on october 7th would not be enough to justify the palestinian children who had already been and would be killed, and therefore the story needed embellishment to explain the horror to the israeli psyche. no baby was baked but perhaps it felt like a baby was baked. the important thing is that everyone needed to feel like a baby was baked because they need to get rid of palestinians, so whatever it takes to convince people that that is necessary, then it must be said and respected and repeated ad nauseam. people more generous than i have suggested that israelis who made these claims had first responder trauma. sure. but airing that first responder trauma, paying for ads to prominently display it across social media, editing videos and infographics with these claims, and reprinting them into magazines turns this trauma into industrialized propaganda that is incitement to genocide. that is not only worthy of criticism but necessary to criticize.

refaat refused to entertain that. he called bullshit on a bullshit claim. if anyone has a right to do that, it is palestinians who cannot afford to entertain the pearl-clutching of israelis who say they fear genocide so they can perpetuate genocide. israel demanded sympathy for their hypothetical baby, while by then they had already killed eight NICU babies and left four more to slowly die abandoned in their hospital beds. and they knew this. the idf knew it was slowly and swiftly killing palestinian babies, they knew the hypothetical baby wasn't real, they knew refaat was joking, and they just wanted him dead anyway. they would've likely killed him with or without the joke, but without the joke maybe it would have been in an airstrike on a whole building, or an airstrike on an entire refugee camp, or an errant sniper, instead of a targeted strike on his sister's apartment.

in truth refaat wasn't killed for his ridicule, nor for his disrespect. he was killed because he was a palestinian who dared to ridicule and disrespect israel. israel strives to isolate palestinians in this, to make ridiculing and disrespecting israel an unacceptable, 'palestinian' trait. but if palestinians are killed for ridiculing israel, then ridiculing israel is honoring these victims. it is israel that makes a mockery of itself by instituting a land grab in the name of its victims. in ridiculing israel, we honor those victims too. some of them deserved a better country, one that did not seize their death as a gleeful opportunity to murder ten thousand children. it might be said that israel can't take a joke about its useless propaganda, but it mostly just can't take the idea of a palestinian existing. it's oversensitive like that.

refaat had already lost his home and his family to israeli bombing in 2014. they could not take disrespect from someone whose family they had killed, whose childhood they had ruined, whose freedom they had limited, and who—for two months before his death—they had starved, terrorized and beseiged. in this aspect, refaat was no different to any other palestinian.

above all, israel can't take the existence of palestinians who never forget that it is a colonizer, a villain, and a tyrant to those it has dispossessed, and can so clearly and succinctly declare it to the world. and so israel finds it easy and correct to kill them. to many israelis, this too is "israel defending itself." israel is only defending its reputation—an honor killing, if you will.

ironically, of course, killing a poet is so pathetic it becomes its own joke. a nuclear superpower got ratio'd on twitter so it deployed an airstrike and killed his entire family, including his sister's children. haha! next time we'll make sure to dutifully repeat the propaganda of the only democracy in the middle east with sufficient respect.

refaat's body, along with his family's, are still under the rubble. they cannot be retrieved due to the siege on fuel, the sniper fire on emergency rescuers and the lack of heavy machinery.

but in the end, the pedestrian predictability of military regimes, colonizers and fascists who love killing poets, artists, satirists, academics always loses. they forget that in doing so they have granted each poet immortality, and given every word they have written eternal life. that includes "with or without baking powder?"

“you should be at the club” no I should be snork mimimimi honk shoooo zzzzzz right now

hey i just saw your post critiquing a societal norm. well, i like doing everything that society expects of me and i was actually raised in an empty 8x8 cube for the first 18 years of my life. i am the only person to have ever been raised in a vacuum and i came out with all the behaviors expected of my age, sex, and origin without ever having seen another human being before. so. maybe keep that in mind next time you post, mkay?

The comic is based on a scene from the chapter “The passage of the marshes”

"internet historian's alt-right anyways" "great day to have never liked james somerton" "never even heard of illuminaughtii before this lol"

that's great buddy but don't go around thinking you're immune to this. if you're not looking for plagiarism, you likely won't notice it unless its egregiously obvious. hell, you've probably consumed plagiarized content without even realizing it. even hbomb pointed out that these people disguised what they presented pretty well as long as you didn't try and dig deeper. don't come away just thinking of this as a callout piece, take this as an important lesson about vetting your sources. if googling scripts in quotes was enough to expose the original, we should all start doing that shit!!

do i really need to explain what this is about.

trying to draw while watching the new hbomberguy vid was a bad idea because for the entire second half i was like this

JADE SHREDDING A TIDAL WAVE OF 4TH WALL ON A SURFBOARD MADE OUT OF PROSPIT

REBLOGGING THIS FOR HER BIRTHDAY BECAUSE ITS THE JADE IMAGE OF ALL TIME

I'm not the first to mention this, but one bit that I thought was really clever in Steven Universe is the ways in which the show subtly justifies the cartoonism of the principle cast always wearing the same outfit for ease-of-animation purposes. The gems are a gimme in that they're all hardlight-projections, and even before that's solidified as a plot point they're otherworldly and superheroic enough that you don't really think to question it. But Steven canonically just owns hundreds and hundreds of those star shirts, which are leftover merchandise from his father's fizzled-out career as a rock star. Into which you can read a whole bunch of other stuff if you really want to, right? And I do want to. It's reflective of Greg's misplaced optimism that he got hundreds of those made in the first place, and it's a benign but visible example of how Steven's life is shaped by the knock-on effects of decisions his parents made before he was even alive. He's got his mother's superpowers and he's wearing his father's shirts.

Taking this afterthought I had out of the tags- I actually checked the wiki to make sure I wasn't imagining this, and yeah, most of the other human characters have at least subtle changes to their character models in each episode, but special attention to Connie, who's got a different outfit basically every time she shows up, and moreover actually has a notable shift in the kind of outfit she prefers as the series progresses. She's got room to evolve and explore aesthetically in a way that Steven doesn't, because as much as she's "part of his universe," she has somewhere to go home to. She can clock out. She has other stuff going on in her life. And Steven literally isn't visibly aging for the first two seasons and change because he doesn't know that he's supposed to.

A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

The psych nerds found out ages ago that punishments that make the child think for a few minutes (about one minute or year of age until they're tweens) is much more helpful to develope social intelligence and understanding than punishments which prevents thinking, like the ones that involve pain. In fact, corporal punishment encouraged lying, extreme reactions, violent outbursts, go figure, they don't trust you.

all my advice about using real athletes to learn drawing bodies beyond hard abs, and my particular pref being wrestlers, also applies to women btw. you can draw women who r strong and not an hourglass shape. fucking do it.

kris statlander, rhea ripley (look at her SHAPE), willow nightingale, ruby soho, these r just four off the top of my head that have obvious musculature and different body types. skye blue and julia hart have more slim cheerleader style bodies as well, i REALLY wanted to put emi sakura who is fucking STOUT (adoring) in this post but i couldn't find a good demonstrative pic, the list goes on

DRAW DIFFERENT BODIESSSSSSSS

who up feeling stressed and nervous and a little bit frightened

and the crowd gets scared 🔥🔥💯☝️☝️‼️‼️🔥💯

Historical reproductions should be more widely available. I want an ancient Roman shrimp ring more than anything.

I DON’T want the real thing. I want an affordable reproduction I can wear places and make people ask “what’s up with the shrimp ring?” and I get to explain that nobody really knows. It was just a fun fad 1900 years ago.

Ancient Roman seafood crime boss making you kiss his shrimp ring to swear loyalty