Holy god in hell, how long has mobile had a dark mode?????
So mad i've only found it now. Anyway, go to settings and scroll down to Color Pallet, that easy!
While you're there, there's also settings in like Dashboard Preferences that make mobile so much better, like turning off "best stuff" and turning on timestamps
going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise
after the initial shock of being plunged into the icy cold lake of seeing my childhood action figures caressing each others sweaty chests in a gentle, hidden moment after a battle, i’ve been able to get my wits about me and realize that yeah, i’m kinda with it
Marvel Comics #1000: We’re Calling Him Ben
I feel this is an important addition. He saves so many people on a regular basis that this just keeps happening. And he feels so much for his uncle that the answer is always the same.
…. This hits different when you realise he’s canonically Jewish
Can you please elaborate ? I’m curious as to what it means
You can read a pretty good summary of it here, but as (most likely) Ashkenazi Jews, PP probably follows the minhag (custom) that says “that by naming a newborn child after a deceased loved one, the soul lives on through the child.” (Quoted from the site linked above.) And given how his Uncle Ben died, it just makes it all the more sadder tbh.
another fine distinction is that the soul isn’t thought to be reincarnated, it’s that the memory of the loved one is kept alive and more good deeds in life can be inspired by (and thus partially attributed to) the dead. ‘may their memory be a blessing’–the memory of the deceased is honored, respected, and who they were is retold as inspiration to the next generation.
ben’s memory is a blessing. that’s extremely jewish. spiderman is inspired not just by the shame of his death, but by the moral teachings he’d given peter in life. and his name given to these babies is another part of it: babies named in spiderman’s honor are also very honestly and truly named in his honor, and continue to be blessings to the world.
it’s very joyous, i think. very sweet.
So the thing about oceanography is that people take it thinking that it's marine biology, which it VERY MUCH IS NOT. Oceanography is basically a combination of geology and meteorology and climatology and chemistry and physics because this world belongs to the oceans and we're just living in it but the OTHER thing is that every professor who teaches lower division oceanography knows their students signed up because they thought this was a class about how cool fish are and THE THING IS every professor who teaches lower division oceanography ALSO THINKS FISH ARE REALLY FUCKING COOL and wants to talk about it and that's why, after learning a whole bunch about wave physics and current temperatures and plate tectonics I get to watch three lectures in a row about cool fish are to finish out this class.
This is, for the record, at least my third oceanography class and I have loved every one of them. If you're in college and you need to take a lower division physical sciences class, oceanography is usually a safe bet because it's fun and it's interesting and the professors don't make you do a lot of math and you get to watch videos of terrifying waves and get radicalized about climate change.
Not kidding about that last thing, btw. I decided this professor is my favorite when one of her lectures diverted into a rant that started with "And it's bullshit! Bullshit! Exxon knew forty years ago and lied to us" and ended with her talking about direct action.
A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.
Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.
These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.
Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.
Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.
The world is becoming colorless, why?
you can look at any folk culture around the world, past or present, and find the use of the entire color spectrum. humans are drawn to color, it holds emotional symbolism but it also reflects the land we live off of. I consider it like a celebration of life and our place in it
the problem is that we aren’t actually allowed to belong to the places we live. houses and entire towns are shells meant to be as plain as possible for the next renter, buyer, or investor. the more generic it is, the more consumers it can be sold to. And when you have a country that’s biggest population doesn’t have a distinct sense of cultural identity it will be reflected and mass produced without much complaint
people getting joy from the minimalist gray aesthetic is not the same as the estrangement this country is making between people and place, one of the most fundamental relationships humans need to survive (and be happy while doing it)
Films depict middle ages as devoid of color but it's the other way around.
It's all about perceived resale value.
There is a perception that a high value item (car, house) won't be worth its regular market value if it is any color other than neuter whites, almonds, greys or black.
Hell, I was selling a house and the baby's room was painted in a very VERY faint purple. So faint that none of the real estate agents noticed it (or mentioned it) in person. It only became an issue in the photos, which were of course altered, that they over-saturated making the real color look cartoonish. So I "had to" repaint; the real estate agents reaction to KILZ-2 untinted white was almost orgásmic in their approval.
LITERALLY some of you don’t fucking know what “disposable income is” like i cannot stress ENOUGH that someone who was able to get animal crossing on day 1 of launch or a ps5 preorder that is still only working minimum wage job and/or cannot pay their rent on a monthly basis is NOT your enemy bruv they are NOT “the rich” like PLEASE cement that in your head.
had to share @rykhafirehand ’s tags:
thank you for boiling off capitalist propaganda to get down to the essence of economics
i’d like to add: you are SUPPOSED TO HAVE DISPOSABLE INCOME.
you are supposed to have enough money for toys and games and vacations. that is what the citizens of a normal and healthy society should be buying without stressing out about if they’re gonna be able to afford to live the next day. you’re not just supposed to have ‘a little bit’ or ‘if you save up’ or ‘sometimes you can treat yourself’, you are supposed to have disposable income, and plenty of it.
the ten commandments
Maybe the problem is us, maybe it could be us together ❤️
hand in problematic hand
One of my favorite visual gags in comics is when a character say something harsh towards someone, and it shows as the speech bubble piercing them like a spear, like the words are actually physically hurting them. Especially when it's done multiple times in a row, it left like they were fusilladed.
I love messing with the medium.
J.K. Simmons playing J. Jonah Jameson in every timeline has to be one of the funniest running gags ive seen in a movie. anyone can be Spiderman but there can only be one J. Jonah Jameson
Sorry, I don’t care that Netflix shows are delayed, I’m catching up on anime from 1989.
I'm over here re-watching Farscape for the 10th time I'm all good
I can’t believe that I’ve never posted this here– this is a thing. An important thing. If you are learning Hebrew / know Hebrew, please check this out. Let’s help this movement to grow.
Fabulous resource
Imagine if you locked Light and Patrick Bateman in a room together. They would be having the most generic conversation but you wouldn’t be able to hear it over the sound of their overlapping internal monologues. There would be a few seconds where their monologues both play in sync to say something misogynistic.
good evening reddit users, welcome to the website. not seen one of these that tells you how to make this website bearable so here goes
starting off with dashboard settings you want to turn off endless scrolling (it slows down the website after a while of scrolling), turn off shorten long posts because one of the main things about this website is the total lack of a character limit (as an alternative to this setting, you can press j to skip to the next post on the dashboard if the current one is kind of long). turning on timestamps is convenient because it allows you to check when a post was made (don't get me wrong: this website absolutely LOVES reblogging old posts, but there are times when it's worth checking if a post has very old news in it)
turn off best stuff first right away. one of the main reasons cited for joining tumblr is because "there is no algorithm". this is not entirely true, we have one but we routinely turn off anything algorithmic that staff adds. turning off best stuff first means your dashboard will be reverse chronological no matter what, and turning off based on your likes and stuff in your orbit will get rid of the rest of the algorithmically-recommended content that appears on your dashboard
following tags is nice because you will occasionally see posts with tags you follow sprinkled into your dashboard. this is considered good because it's almost always recent, I personally recommend turning on include followed tag posts and just following a bunch of random tags that you think could be interesting (characters, media, topics, whatever)
this one's a more personal thing but I would absolutely turn off any community labels because tumblr staff has recently been just putting a bunch of random posts under this despite being entirely sfw. if you ACTUALLY want to filter content, then go to filtered tags:
unlike the community labels which are put arbitrarily by staff, tags are put on by the actual users and so you can MUCH more reliably filter out content you don't want to see by putting filtered tags. this also works for any kind of content unlike the community labels, meaning you can just filter out stuff that you don't want to see (a particular character, a particular piece of media, a certain topic, anything you want really)
turn on custom theme immediately. the standard view of tumblr.com/url will give people who are not logged in a forced login wall, meanwhile url.tumblr.com will not. by doing this you also get access to your post archive at url.tumblr.com/archive, which lets you look through your posts more easily (the search function is awful). the main benefit of this, however, is that you get to have a custom look to your blog: going to edit theme brings up a menu that allows you to customize your css, add pages to your tumblr blog, etc. all very useful stuff
it's also worth taking the time to consider whether or not you leave your liked posts and list of blogs you follow public (most people have likes turned off, following is also commonly turned off but I personally don't care about others seeing who I follow)
turn off the let people blaze your posts. blaze basically allows you to pay money to show a post to a random group of people by paying money, suffices to say that allowing others to blaze your posts without your consent will inevitably lead to one of your personal posts getting blazed by some prick and now hundreds of people have seen it
asks are one of the main ways of interacting with blogs so absolutely turn them on. whether you allow anons is your choice, anonymity allows people to say nice things without feeling embarrassed about how everyone knows who said that, but it also allows people to send hateful stuff with no consequence.
submissions are like whatever. I personally leave them on but in my 5 years of having this blog I've been submitted to twice.
to close off this post I'll leave my personal thoughts on reblog etiquette:
that's all I have to say on this subject. have fun on our glorious website
edit: oh yeah also unfollow staff. it will make you look normal 👍
oversharing online is so important cus like what if someone needed to know that
reeling back in disgust every time i remember that my favorite media is also consumed by the greater public and not only my small group of incredibly correct and incredibly autistic mutuals
Some people might wonder why one is censored and the other isn't.
Remember that the Hulk is a mutated human, while Thor has ass-guardian physiology.
Hey Devin, can I ask a quick question?
Yeah, of course, what's up?
How much do you think it will hurt when I bite all ten of your fingers off?
The first five will probably hurt a lot. On the other hand...
NASA putting mice in zero-g environments is one of the funniest fucking tests anyone has ever done and I hate having to hand that to them. Put those beasts in a situation.
