when she was still my best friend god was twenty seven feet tall
yeah and this is straycatj, the popular tumblr cat. see that's landlady, she adopted him a few years ago when he kept coming to her house for food. sometimes he runs through paper doors so landlady gives him the "funny face penalty" as you can see in this photo
Stop it! Stop it!! I'm embarrassed! Where is my dignity!? Lowyer! Is there any lowyer!?
internet search tips on how i sift through junk or mischaracterizing content when looking up visual animal references:
- Use the scientific name instead of common name for less false ID (especially if you want to see real wolverines or jaguars instead of the x-men or car maker)
- Instead of “baby“, try “juvenile” or a more species specific term (bird=chick, bovid=calf, carnivoran=cub, etc..)
- If it’s a rarer animal without many results try searching its name in a native language, it’s usually on wikipedia
- Search the scientific name in inaturalist for multiple party verified ID sightings with locations
- Searching “skeletal” in place of “skeleton” gives different results and usually less products
- try adding “zoo” to your search if you want to look at over-exploited viral species like otters, foxes, primates, or exotic cats. there can still be shady zoos but it weeds out videos of animals in people’s living rooms
- Add “vet” if you’re searching for reference on how large/small an animal looks next to a human instead of exotic pet vids. vets and zoos can be very fond of sharing educational pics of an anesthetized animal’s cool features or a huge paw/teeth besides a human hand. vet visits for beloved zoo animals also tend to draw the media so there’s many articles written for them and in general i just love learning about weird vet procedures on exotic animals, 10/10 rabbit hole.
- “Morph” or “mutation” tends to give you more legit resources on animal variations instead of photoshop edits.
- Even though i know there’s a difference I also find that searching “leucistic” just gives you less fake stuff than the more commonly known albino or “white___” unless its a very common mutation. same with “dilute” instead of blue and such.
me: (distractedly asks someone to work on a quick task for me)
the tiny wei wuxian in my pocket: aren't you forgetting something?
me: ah! my thank you's and i'm sorry's! thank you, customer service yiling patriarch :>
tiny wei wuxian: live your life so you will have no regrets! ( ´ ▽ ` )b
Bocchi the Rock! fangame that opens with Kikuri Hiroi waking up alone and apocalyptically hung over in a trashed hotel suite with no memory of the preceding 72 hours. There are at least three separate ways to game over without ever leaving the starting room, one of which involves trying to retrieve your bra from the ceiling fan, flubbing the skill check, and dying instantly.
respectable
tags via: @boccher
CSP Pencil Brush Sets!
Part 2 because I still have more!!
I found the texture in the thumbnail here really cool. That's all.
Thought the thumbnail and preview were cool as hell. Once again texturesweep!!
This one's similar to one from the last pencil post, but this one feels like it's at the intersection between pencil and pen if that makes sense. He's a little inky.
This is a massive pack that's 120 clippy or so but I got the free trial version and have been using it for three years at this point. I definitely recommend this person's assets. And yes this is charcoal but I think charcoal and graphite pair well together so close enough.
We're getting kind of repetitive at this point, but these have a wide range of textures/grain levels and shapes so you could definitely find at least one here that works for you.
Let’s salute potato!
if you think about it. it's really funny in a fucked up tragic way that aisha told taylor brian went to go live in a cabin. like she really lost everything. she really lost everything and just hit the Fuck It point in life. like sure, i'll tell taylor that, fuck it. she really looked taylor straight in the eye and straightfacedly went "Yes. My brother, Brian, is still alive. He went to live on a nice farm upstate. He has lots of fresh grass to run around in. They feed him every day. He has all the punching bags he could ever punch for when he's feeling angsty and emotionally repressed. He gets to fill out taxes and apply for mortgages on a regular basis as enrichment. They let him listen to his Linkin Park CDs as loud as he wants. He even has his sad rebound girlfriend with him. He's free and happy on the farm upstate." it's like taylor's pet hamster got ran over by a car but nobody wanted to tell taylor because if she found out she would go stand in front of a moving car herself except instead of a hamster it's brian. and instead of a moving car it's jesus. and taylor BOUGHT it. she BOUGHT it. she really thought her hamster didn't get squished. she thinks her hamster is off playing board games in a fucking cabin. taylor really sees aisha going [clenches fist] i hope this fucking sucks for scion. because of when my bro... (stops bc she realizes taylor is right there and doesn't know jesus threw the sun at brian) and taylor's still like. Ah yes, when he got Bonesawed :) I'm sure you're not bringing him up in response to seeing jesus for any particular reason! He's happy and free upstate :). it's SO fucking...😭 taylor brian and aisha man. Man.
LIKE TO KILL HIM. REBLOG TO KILL HIM. LOOK AT THIS POST TO KILL HIM. ACKNOWLEDGE THIS POST TO FUCKING DECIMATE HIM
This is my impression of Taylor's inner monologue whenever she gets to describe her entire team in arcs 1-12 and she struggles to comment literally anything on Alec because he is barely anything more than a place holder at this point but the text still pretends that the relationship she has with him is comparable to the ones with any of the other three Undersiders.
discords new username update is literally just “what if we got rid of privacy & safety & the fun of name changes! cuz numbers are so hard :(” and it is making me physically violent
good advice.
I’ve read the notes and I still genuinely don’t understand the issue here.
We’ll still have perfectly customizable display names so we can put our pronouns and stuff. We’ll still be able to personalize a nickname for each server. We’ll still be able to change our usernames up to 2 times per hour, so it shouldn’t affect our ability to escape malicious stalkers. And there is no obligation to use the same username as on our social media.
None of these features will be locked behind a Nitro subscription.
I’m begging people to explain here. Is there a big issue that I’m completely blind to, or did nobody bother reading the FAQ?
the usernames now must be completely unique and are separate to display names; aka the same as most socmed systems right now. that’s annoying on its own because discord is not a socmed. it’s a messaging app. anyway this means even if you can change them whenever you want, you shouldn’t, because it opens up your name to being stolen. this also means url hoarding can be a thing on discord now. this also means that people who don’t like to change their name because they want it consistent across platforms can be forced to if they don’t want to be stalked for any reason— and then, should their new name be found; they will have to do that again, potentially eventually running out of any names they even like having. sure, we’ve all had to make names we didn’t like that much on social media before— but discord is not a social media, not to mention they literally had a perfectly good system before and are just deciding to change it.
this also means that anyone besides the FIRST person to have a common name now must change their name, regardless of how attached to it they were before. because it’s going off of seniority.
there’s also the fact that there was practically no good reason for this change. the statistics discord mentions in their announcement of the update are misleading at best and at worst completely untrue. i also struggle to understand the purpose of forcing 9999 people to chose an entirely new name just because that 10000th person wasn’t able to get it too. “only 9999 people can have this name, which seems unfair! so instead of adding a number to make it 99999 or something, we’re going to take away numbers, so now only 1 person can have it!” does not seem like a well thought out decision to me.
as i understand, it also means that only people with latin characters for names can make their usernames, and people without will have to change their names. i’m not going to even go into why that’s dumb.
in short, it’s going to be a huge hassle and inconvenience for many many people, and actually dangerous for other people. and even if it wasn’t, there really is zero good reason for this change besides the homogenization of the internet, which personally i am avidly against.
at least, this is my opinion. i hope it doesn’t come across as harsh.
[ID: a screenshot of tags reading: "remember when a bunch of people unsubbed from nitro en masse because of the nft shit and they backpedaled" and "unsub and make sure you tell them why if you have nitro." /End ID.]
pressed against the heating vent with TWO big pillows
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