(guy who hasnt eaten today voice) no no im fine its just yknow the horrors. yeah theyre unending again
i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning
genuinely terrifying how adhd will have you be fully aware of the responsibilities you’re neglecting and yet its like you’re being piloted by a super chill hedonistic demon who can’t hear you/doesnt care
My god, that is scarily accurate.
It's them, the Five Guys
very beautiful. very powerful.
just learned the lockpicking lawyer is an actual (retired) lawyer.. for some reason i assumed he wouldn’t be? like it didn’t remotely occur to me that a channel called the lockpicking lawyer would be a lawyer
HE WHAT
I don’t understand how on TV, people can break into homes and immediately find bank statements, passports and super important documents. If someone tried that at my place it would be “I’m sure she keeps her important stuff in her desk. No, wait, this draw is full of pens that don’t work. Aha! This box looks important! Oh, never mind. It’s full of cigarette lighters. She doesn’t even smoke!”
*I* can’t even find my own important documents in my own home half the time. If someone breaks in and instantly finds my stuff they’re hired
Robber, standing in the middle of the room: Now, if I were an anxious, possibly undiagnosed ADHD, bisexual disaster with a really bad memory, where would I put the documents?
with the tags and search officially being completely broken on all platforms (no new posts are showing up in them anymore), now feels like a good time to remind everyone that the only way to help creators is to reblog their stuff. even before the tags were busted most people found new creators through their content being rebloged onto their dash, and now, at least for the time being, that will be the Only way to find and spread things.
Fast reblog is a thing, you dont have to leave comments, you dont have to leave tags, just reblog stuff if you want to keep seeing new content being posted to this site.
and as a final note, with this change likes are officially completely pointless for content creators. up till now they served to boost a posts placement in the tag searches (a post tagged #girl with 40 likes would show up higher in the search than a post tagged #girl with only 10 likes,)
Earth: does the same thing it’s done for 4.54 billion years
Humans:
Happy new year everyone!
alternative clothing stores that aren’t dollskill or kill star (PLUS SIZE FRIENDLY)
Trash Queen (great plus size clothes AND cool accessories)
Sourpuss Clothes (great plus size dresses)
Rebels Market (not super plus size friendly, but do have sizes up to 2XL, great accessories and shoes though)
Tragic Beautiful (sizes up to 4XL, beware some Killstar stuff is sold on there)
Unique Vintage (many many plus size options, perfect for 50s inspired goth/punk looks)
Unif Clothing (not super plus size friendly but they do have L and XL, great shoes and accessories though)
Angry Young and Poor (punk-ish clothes, good plus size options)
Yesstyle (terrible/nonexistent plus size options but amazing Korean/Japanese beauty products and amazing lolita wigs)
BlackMeoww (clothes up to 3XL, great accessories)
Punk Rave (plus size options vary)
Disturbia (British company with sizes going up to American size 16, i think?)
Berserk (Australian company. decent plus size options, as well as accessories and beauty products)
Creepy Co (horror/creepy themed shirts and buttons with a good diversity of sizes)
Kreepsville 666 (sizes usually go up to 3X, and great accessories)
Gloomth (incredible gothic/lolita/weirdgirl fashion that runs up to 5XL, but I bet you can ask Taeden (owner) to custom make to your sizes. I have 3 gloomth dresses that I wear ALL THE TIME. totally worth their price.)
Kinky Angel (yes this is intended to be ~sexy kinky clothes~ but we all know that aesthetic intersects with alt/goth aesthetic a LOT. sizes go up to 4X)
Devil Inspired (the clothes aren’t plus size friendly but the accessories and shoes are so delicious it’s worth a look)
Atomic Cherry (good plus size options!)
In Control Clothing (plus size kawaii clothes)
NastyGem (no clothes but reasonably priced alt accessories)
Also Threadless has good dark tees!
Also Etsy has amazing alt-clothing vendors that do custom sizes and cater to plus size people!
Also let me know if you’ve heard bad things about any of these websites, I will reblog with corrections! Feel free to add any you know of as well!
rotoscopette
Hey I’m going to drop the names of some alt and plus size friendly Etsy shops:
missOctopie (cute spooky kawaii clothes that go up to 3XL ((which means something different in every store so you just have to check)))
Later Operator not clothes but really fun jewelry
Nemons cool dark tees that go up to 2XL in unisex which is 52″ in chest, 46″ in waist.
Gobbolino again not clothes but they’re worth putting on there for their truly outlandish accessories.
KawaiiDressShop which has tons of cute lolita-esque dresses that go up to 5XL
Narcissique Couture does custom sizing on all their clothes
InkedStaind cool goth dresses that go up to 4XL
SophieandHerStore really decadent cool goth accessories like elizabethan standing collars
VrolokClothing a neat goth store that goes up to 3XL in its sizing
I can also do a whole thread on decent plus size/custom lingerie options on Etsy, if anyone’s interested.
disturbia is really good, I have loads of clothes from them
oh also! my friend @wanderingjaye has a shop where she designs all the products herself. she has several themed ranges, my favourites are the witches range and her new Halloween range. she does up to 3xl
check her out, her products are lovely and you can support a small business too ♥️
the person reblogging this from you is rooting for you to have a happy, healthy, and successfull 2022
Lunch ideas
These are actually amazing??? This can really help me eat more??? And are legit good and creative lunches??? THANK YOU IM AAAAAAAAA-
Good for spoonies who like to pre-prepare stuff when they do have some extra spoons
Anyways no weapon forged against me shall prosper and any evil wished upon me shall be reflected back to you tenfold, so jot that down.
Marvel movies have completely eliminated the concept of practical effects from the movie-watching public’s consciousness
banjobutch
Not just practical effects just like. Basic set design lol
How… How do they think sci-fi was done before CGI?
Really badly? Do you remember sci-fi before CGI? It was shit. And don’t say Star Wars because they went back and fixed that with CGI later.
*big sigh* *puts head in hands* heathens who’ve never watched pre-MCU sci-fi movies OR the unedited Star Wars movies, my beloathed
So first of all, most people agree that the majority of the “CGI fixes” in the Star Wars original trilogy (excluding minor visual/sound effects like lightsaber colors and blaster sounds) are unececssary, extremely conspicuous, and/or bad. This is not news to literally anyone older than about 20 who has consumed Star Wars content on any level. There are quite literally two very famous ‘despecialized’ fan projects explicitly dedicated to un-doing all of the shitty “fixed” CGI effects while simultaneously restoring the OT in HD.
And yes, I do, in fact, remember sci-fi special effects before CGI was the foundational cornerstone of moviemaking. It was not, in fact, shit:
Also, ironically I can show you by….*gasp* using fucking Star Wars, of all things. Welcome to the Tatooine pod race set of The Phantom Menace, which was not, as popularly believed, CGI’d but was instead a fully-built miniature set:
Yes, they built the entire set as a minature, built life-sized pod racers for the actors, then spliced the two together using digital effects. Yes, they did such a fantastic job that people think the entire set and scene sequence was basically completely CGI’d to this day. You’re fucking welcome for undervaluing the time, effort, and talents of set designers by implying that set design and practical effects inherently mean things will look like shit.
madmollcosplay
CGI also ages really poorly. What you think looks incredibly realistic now is going to look terrible in a few years. Just look at the original vs remastered Star Trek. They “restored” Star Trek around 2006 and replaced a lot of the practical effects with CGI, and maybe it looked ok in 2006, but it looks so bad and fake now.
You can see a video comparison for one episode here: https://youtu.be/ruPVTPCavdM
In the 60s they built a whole model of the Enterprise, complete with blinking lights and beautifully sculpted/painted details. It looks stunning! Then they replaced it with that horribly smooth and fake looking cgi ship.
Just look at this beauty
You can see the model at the Air and Space Museum in DC
Unfortunately the remastered version is the only version available to stream, but you can still find DVDs with the original effect.
made in 1968 and still stunning 2001 A Space Odyssey
the designers worked with engineers at NASA to make realistic futuristic special effects using models and matte paintings no computer effects at all! - and incidentally inspired David Bowie to write Space Oddity, later performed in space by astronaut Chris Hadfield
The CGI of the original Jurassic Park may not be aging well (though arguably still better than some), but the practical effects will always look stunning.
I want to talk fantasy.
This shot was achieved with splicing and green screen.
This wild-looking shot (and similar manipulations) was famously achieved by having a professional juggler in a duplicate of Bowie’s jacket and gloves sitting behind him, basically with Bowie in his lap, doing the handwork while Bowie kept his arms behind the juggler. You may have seen a game based on this on Whose Line Is It Anyway.
This? Wires! Splicing! THE CGI TO DO THIS DIDN’T EXIST YET! (The juggler is hidden under the cape. If there’s a scene where he’s wearing a cape, that’s actually probably why.)
And this? This heartstopping shot?
This does appear to be from the version with CGI—
—CGI THAT WAS USED TO ERASE THE SHADOW FROM THE PRACTICAL EFFECT.
The shot itself hasn’t changed. The lift itself was done with wires and Bowie was given some propulsion with an air cannon so he could make that turn at speed. A minor amount of CGI was used in the 30th anniversary to “touch up” the work done in 1986, and one of the things they did was to remove a shadow on the wall from one of the wires.
How about this?
You don’t know it, but you’re looking at a practical effect. In real life, the Ruby Slippers are almost orange. That luxe, rich ruby color showed up on the film as black when the shoes were the correct color, so the costumers adjusted the actual costume to give the color they wanted.
A MODEL OF A HOUSE SHOT INSIDE A NYLON STOCKING ATTACHED TO A FAN.
MAN IN A COSTUME.
HORSES DUSTED WITH COLORED GELATIN.
And this? This is where it would’ve been useful to have CGI. Margaret Hamilton got really badly burned on the steam doing one of her entrance/exits, and ended up in the hospital. THIS is what you use CGI for.
You come into my house and insult practical effects?
I’ll just finish off by reminding you THIS IS ONE, TOO.
That last one, iirc, was there was a double in a sepia-toned costume, and the interior door and wall there was painted brown, so when it was lit and shot it all appeared to still be in the sepia tone of the Kansas scenes, and part of why Dorothy stepped back out of the frame was so the double and Judy Garland (in the proper blue-and-white costume) could swap.
You are correct. The double’s name, by the way, was Bobbi Koshay.
