All those mildly condescending posts about how people need to have physical hobbies where they create things with their hands instead of just doing stuff online or whatever are annoying because they're 100% right. I cannot stress enough that the fastest way to stop caring about ridiculous internet discourse when you're stressed is to do something productive and creative irl that has absolutely nothing to do with fandoms or shipping or whatever.
werewolf by night + tumblr text posts | jack russell edition
i do not at all mean this in a perjorative manner, but i do think it’s important to be able to consume a piece of media and go, “i’m not the audience for this” and be able to just walk away
there doesn’t have to be something wrong or “problematic” about something for a person to not like it. personal taste is personal taste. but something not doing it for you doesn’t mean it automatically has to be wrong or bad. it’s just not for you.
There’s been several times when I’ve watched a thing and been like, they clearly did what they intended to do, and did it well, and I don’t want any part of it. This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art.
“This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art” is a wonderful line, I love it, I feel it in my soul
too good a take to be left in the tags
Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: “It’s beautiful but I don’t like it.” And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it meant to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism?
- Sarah Ruhl, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write
apocalyptical beasts from the book of revelation
Meanwhile, on Twitter:
Brain farts, a thread
Reblogging this once again because, once again, it made me laugh.
its always some fucking day in some fucking month in some fucking year isnt it
God I hope the future is kinder. I hope that they have it figured out better. I hope people don't have to work so much for so little. I hope there's time to explore passions and interests and skills. I hope people get the support they need. I hope the people from the future look back at our problems and are bewildered by them, like I'm confused by how they used to put poisonous lead in make-up, just... "how did they ever think that was okay? How did they live like that?" I hope the cruelties and hidden poisons of our world are one day so distant that they're used as fun facts in trivia games. Please be kinder, future
Hellgoat -Project II Infos:
fully posable with LED in eyes and candles which imitate a flickering effect
Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
https://libgen.li/ scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines you may otherwise lack access to
https://sci-hub.ru/ research papers and books you may otherwise lack access to
https://archive.org/ a very large collection of all sorts of media, notably out of print books. by using the wayback machine you can also access new articles which may be locked behind a paywall
all of these sources are free means of access, though some may be blocked by certain ISPs
I met Carrie Fisher exactly once at a convention, and when I met her she immediately bought a poster from our booth with the words “Hey Assbutt” on them with the intention of sending it to Harrison Ford for his birthday.
I’d like to think of that as the epitome of how I’d like to have met her and honestly wouldn’t want it any other way.
Apparently Fisher regularly went to cons and would spend hours in Artists’ Alley buying bags worth of art, to the point where you could track her path around the con by watching artists freak out on Twitter over the fact that Princess Leia just bought their stuff.
Carrie Fisher was a goddamn treasure.
Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane
futuremoji
Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you
futuremoji
I’m not about to kinkshame a whole aquarium but
carry me into the sunset, my cephalopod prince
friends, you don’t understand. This ad campaign was goddamn HUGE. They bought out the entirety of multiple train stations in Boston with these. There are so many more, and they’re all this same beautiful combination of questionable/amazing.
This is the best thing in my life
theorizing-puppet
Great, now we gotta kinkshame the cephlapods
1) the cephalopods have done nothing, these adverts were made by humans, do not blame these innocent creatures for the things that make you uncomfortable.
2) Jellies are not cephalopods they’re medusozoas
3) …ngl i really really love cephalopods i think they’re fascinating and octopodes especially are SUPER THRILLING to me because they’re so fucking smart, and I would feel, frankly, honored to be embraced by an octopus.
…It’s just occurred to me that I am possibly part of the target demographic for this ad campaign.
to be honest there has never been a fictional character i’ve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i don’t want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? what’s my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking.
don’t hide this in the tags that’s exactly it
Dance, puppets! Dance!
One of life's biggest cons is how often one task turns out to be several smaller tasks in a trench coat.
Hey runners (and walkers)! Thought this might be helpful :)
Shoelace Voodoo
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The heel slipping one is awesome if you have to wear orthotics because it stops them from slipping round inside your shoe
Oh! I’ll have to try this
oh my god. oh, oh my god. the wide forefoot one… oh my god bless you you beautiful hero
Ian’s Shoelace Site – https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ – is the page for all these lacing patterns and more.