starting a collection

so my younger cousin is flying in to visit from brazil on sunday, and will be staying here for like, the entirety of july. which, don't get me wrong, is super cool! i love the kid! but it felt like a super weird move, considering his parents are the SUPER strict and borderline helicopter parents. even the smallest prank/roughousing with him/his little sister would lead to a strict talking to from his parents, he couldn't ever do anything without their clear permission, that sort of stuff. so letting him fly at alone at 16 to a whole different country and stay there for a whole month seemed WILDLY out of character. additionally, it just felt like a super last-minute trip. it's not like we have any plans to do when he gets here, and the flight itself and stuff only got booked like, midway through june.

and i was talking to my mom about it, kind of trying to nudge some answers out of her, and after a while she went, "yeah, i think they're sending him over here to get away for his boyfriend. see if the distance breaks them off." which, first of all, surprised me because last i checked, they didn't KNOW he had a boyfriend. literally everyone in the family did EXCEPT for them because while that entire side of the family being semi-conservative, his parents (mostly his dad) are EXTREMELY old-fashioned. so clearly something already went wrong. and considering the only reason the rest of the family knew is because one person found out and it spread like wildfire, i have a sneaking suspicion he wasn't the one to tell them, either.

and second of all. they're sending him HERE. to try to make him forget his homosexuality. i couldn't do anything but just wordlessly gesture to the multiple pride flags scattered around my room, then to myself, because really? he has like two other cousins in the us and they're sending him to me? honey i am about to introduce this kid to queer scenes you have never even heard of. he'll be returning home with labels only shrimp can perceive

not every gay person is the evil faggot trying to convert your kid to the gay agenda like the media claims, but i sure am

he'll be returning home with labels only shrimp can perceive

yeah turtlenecks are sexy too bad they’re also one of the worst sensory experiences fashion has ever developed

me wearing a turtleneck and fighting back nausea at the sensation: haha aren’t i hot *gags* anyone want to admit they have a crush on me

same thing with chokers. look how attractive and cool and punk i look now if you’ll excuse me i need to go take this off right now or i am going to throw up

“Aw man! This pie doesn’t taste at all like what grandma use to make! I’m must be a terrible baker:(“

Maybe! Or maybe one of many things might be different from the recipe you’ve been trying to follow

Baking is largely both a science, and bullshit. Anything from the altitude you’re at, or the mosture in the air, or the way you’re measuring ingredients (ie weight vs volume) can effect how your final result of what you’re making will come out. A few examples just in my grandmother’s Apple Pie recipe are

So will I ever make that Apple pie I remember fondly from my childhood? Probably not! Just gotta figure out my own thing that works.

I dunno why I made this post at 6am. Just shit to keep in mind next time you’re struggling with an older recipe I guess!

Needed to see this. Thank you :)

One of my favorite tropes is character with a nasty toxic personality who tries very hard to do the right thing anyway

I like my protagonists sad, tired, bitter, fully convinced they will never get the recognition they deserve, but they still gotta get up in the morning and be a good person

when a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”

Saw an interesting interview with Hugh Laurie talking about this (on playing House and 'getting away with' doing an American accent):

".... because they're much less interested...they don't have that 'Professor Higgins' ear for.... class and background and geography and the way the British are much more attuned to wait a second where are you from and what trick are you trying to pull on me by... with that particular choice of words. I think partly again because it's such a big country nobody really.... it doesn't bother people so much where you're from or why you sound the way you sound. America's a country that's too big to know itself. Someone living in Florida's go no idea how people behave or what they eat or how they dress in Oregon, it's just so far away - whereas we know, of course, we know absolutely everything about... every British drama we watch, we're like, well that's High Wycombe, that could never happen because it's a one way system there! whereas America's so mythically grand, it's too big to know it'self, and that actually has an affect with things like accent. "

the way it’s called The Fall…. that great and terrible Fall of Man and it’s love. it’s joy. it’s the immense need for your brother to hold you (via @aethersea)

Important question: no matter how embarrassing the answer is, tag or comment with the first song you can remember really liking as a little kid. The one you tried to listen to as much as possible and thought was really profound. Bonus points if you say how old you were.

i’ll start. the song “i talk to the wind” by king crimson was my favourite song when i was 7 years old … I thought it was so Moving. and it still slaps

Delirious by Prince. I didn’t realize how uncomfortable my mom was with me liking it so much until I was ten and someone helped me get it

I’m going to break out of the tags because I don’t think I can comfortably fit the whole thing there.

In case anyone didn’t already think I’ve always been a huge nerd for my entire life, it’s Bach’s Invention No. 1.

So right around the time I was born my dad inherited an old upright piano from a pianist friend who was living in a different country for a year or two. He had no idea how to play it, but after a bit he decided to take lessons to try to figure it out and get some use out of it.

Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for me, this was when I was 2. Whenever he’d try to practice I’d climb up on the piano bench and demand to be taught how to play what he was trying to play. As a result he never learned how to play the piano, but I ended up taking piano lessons starting a few years later when I was old enough and stuck with it for 13 years, entirely because it was something I wanted to do for myself (unlike a lot of people I knew whose parents made them do stuff like that).

I don’t play very often these days because my piano (that same one, but it’s mine now) is in my parents’ basement and desperately needs to be tuned, and my keyboard isn’t easily accessible right now either, but it’s still something I really like doing, and I got pretty decent at it over the years.

I also still really appreciate the teacher I worked with the longest during the time I was taking lessons, who was a Russian immigrant who came here from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and gave me a really solid background in music theory but also knew how to have fun and had me play lots of non-Classical stuff too, like blues and jazz or modern poppy stuff like Billy Joel or songs from musicals, and he even got me to join a Baroque quartet for a couple years with some other high school kids that was a bunch of nerdy fun.

(also for the sake of completeness Invention No. 1 may have been the first thing that grabbed my attention that I demanded to learn, but the first thing I had more success with was the Minuet in G Major, which was still labeled as Bach on the ancient sheet music we had but I guess at some point was determined to actually be by Petzold)

dyke priest harriet walter btw. if you even care.

to me this is cinema

blood is basically the most normal thing for a sword to hunger for. if a sword gained sentience and started asking me for blood i'd be like yeah i thought you might say that

more than anything i want this zucc vs musk cage match to go through and for zucc to pick elon up like a disobedient chihuahua and drop him directly on his head and walk out of the ring without saying anything as the commentators start freaking out because musk isn't moving and the ref can't find a pulse

Mark Zuckerberg has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do the funniest thing possible.

okay i was joking initially but like. think about it. brutally murdering the richest man on earth with your bare hands on live TV in front of dozens of cameras and a live audience is about the most impossible thing to get away with, and if it was anyone other than Zucc, they'd be shot dead immediately and that would be that. but which security guard is going to shoot Mark fucking Zuckerberg? you can't just shoot him, you have to, like, bring him to justice with a trial, because we're better than that or whatever. and because Zucc has more money and lawyers than God he could probably draw it out for years. decades, even. jury members mysteriously disappear and have to keep being replaced. the judge recuses themselves after receiving an email during the trial with an attached video of themselves sleeping the previous night, filmed from their laptop's webcam (which they have a sticker over). the prosecutor's car drives off a bridge on the way to trial and when it's finally dredged up weeks later the brake lines were cut and there's no sign of a body.

also hyperpop musicians would sample the head bonk

Wait wait wait

I haven’t been on Tumblr long enough today what is going on

haha yes you can trust me with your fictional men. I will be normal with them and torture them the usual amount

By the way, since there appear to be a few posts going around right now about speaking Spanish, I want to encourage other Americans to learn it. We have the…dubious…distinction of being one of the few countries in the Western world where it’s not normal to learn a minimum of two languages, and although some schools are starting to get with the program we still lag far behind.

There are a billion thinkpieces by white authors about how Spanish gives you a business advantage. Fuck ‘em, you know that. There are studies showing that learning a second language can help fend off Alzheimer’s and make it easier to recover from a stroke. Nice, but irrelevant here.

What’s important is that Latines and Hispanics are the largest racial minority in the United States, and are on track to actually become a majority-minority by 2050. We need to be able to communicate and also, it’s always cool to share culture.

And before anyone gives me “they should learn English if they’re coming here,” one, I bet you’re one of those racist assholes who says you’re celebrating “Cinco de Drinko,” and two, I’ve never read a single textbook suggesting Iroquois or Arapahoe were part of the standard curriculum back in the 1600s, so I don’t wanna hear SHIT about English.

worst relationship status to have w someone is “objectively they’re a fine person who is nice but i don’t enjoy their company as much as they enjoy mine”

second worst relationship status to have with someone is “objectively they’re a fine person but they Bother You”

secret third technically more harmless but in practicality more frustrating relationship status is “objectively they’re a fine person and they like so many of the same things i do but they like them in a fundamentally different way that is harmless but reads wrong to my brain and it has made attempts at forming an actual bond with them aggravating more than anything”

tbh i think stuff like this is why so many people, especially younger people, fall into this trap of “well if i don’t like a person or thing, they must be bad”. it would be so much easier if you could dismiss them as bad and move on. but it’s like, no, Objectively Fine people or things can just not mesh well with you for totally subjective reasons. and sometimes when they’re people you mesh much better with their brain than they do with yours. and sometimes you have to live with that.

ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit’s back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

you understand

Oops, my hand slipped–

humanizations of websites have returned. nature is healing, capitalism is the virus

THE FANART

as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it's used digitally

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

oh! oh, my god.

look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality

Finally, color theory that's not in a children's hospital.

Finally, color

theory that’s not in a

children’s hospital.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Are you sure about that?

*facepalm*

Outstanding bisexual disaster post. Has never sat properly in a chair.

"Yeah, you like that? You like it when master holds you down?"

"As an AI language model, I cannot have opinions or 'like' things. However, I do agree that in general it is considered nice to be held down and pounded. In some contexts, it is not socially appropriate to pin a boy to the floor and have rough sex with him, however, in a private setting it is often considered an act of intimacy. All in all, I would say that I appreciate it, and suggest that you breed me.

Did that answer your question? Please rate my answer on a scale of 1 to 5: ★★★★★"