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i’m so upset
I just realized that the reason ghosts say Boo! is because it’s a latin verb
they’re literally saying ‘I alarm/I am alarming/I do alarm!!
I can’t
Recte!
if it comes from the latin word, they’re actually saying “I’M YELLING!” which is even cuter
do they speak latin because it’s a dead language
get out
This is exactly the kind of content I come here for like I want to print this out, frame it and put it on my wall.
guys I think team fortress 2 might be real I found this guy in my fridge and he told me all about it....
i will never, and i mean this, Ever buy a video game for 80 american dollars. this is a core part of my being. i will not be moved from this position
"ooh ahhh inflation" i wasn't paying full price then either; i learned about emulators and indie games like 20 years ago. Never Pay More Than [adjust this quote for inflation] For A Computer Game
I love what they call items at the dollar store like the socks will be called “fashion socks”
the bio essentialism is so pungent in this its giving me a headache like seriously at this point just detransition and terf out youre already at least halfway there in terms of ideology
you haven't unlocked platonic pining yet? wow ok fake yearner
you have to admit it: most if not all animals are very brave. they do a lot of things and dont always know whats going to happen. they have beautiful eternal souls because of this
Do find it weird when people think cis manhood and masculinity is the only true real manhood and masculinity and act like every trans man wants to look and be like a cis man.
Only reason why I’d ever go stealth and present myself as a cis man is for safety. In every other situation I’m open about the fact I’m trans. How I define my own masculinity and manhood. Cis men don’t define manhood and masculinity.
And when you don’t want to be a hypermasculine perfectly identical to a cis man they get mad. They don’t just define manhood by cis men, they violently enforce that definition.
I say I’m questioning if I will ever get top surgery , and before I can even start to explain that my reason is because of the price and the time I need to take off to heal is unrealistic for me in my situation, I’m attacked because the idea that I’m still a man but don’t conform to their idea to manhood is just so horrible to them.
What the fuck
This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:
- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)
- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.
- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)
- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture
- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.
- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)
- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.
What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.
But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?
omf i never thought i'd find posts about alex colville on tumblr, but! he's a local artist where i'm from & i work at a library/archives and have processed a lot of documents related to his art. just wanted to give my two cents!
my impression is that colville did see the world as an unsettling place and a lot of his work was fueled by this general ~malaise?? but in a lot of cases, he was trying to express particular fears or traumas. for instance, this painting (horse and train) was apparently inspired by a really tragic experience his wife had:
iirc she was in a horrible automobile crash, as the car she was in collided with a train. i find it genuinely horrifying to look at, knowing the context, but a lot of colville's work is like that? idk he just seems to capture the feeling you get in nightmares where everything is treacle-ish and slow and inevitable.
Kink isn’t shameful because of the weird sex stuff. That part’s rad. It’s shameful because it is technically improv.
the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.
Begging Chappell Roan to do an Ancient Greek lewk for the ultimate sapphic vibes😭
These designs are an idea l've had for a few months now but only just put onto paper 📝 Patron members can download the hi-res files and wallpapers, as well as see some of my initial sketches👀
Why is the first thing that I see in an Art Gallery in School THIS-
Like-
HUHHHHH???
My "Six weeks until we hear from our good friend Jonathan Harker" post went somewhat viral.
I've had several folks in my ask box and in replies inquire how they can be part of the "experience the novel DRACULA in real time" phenomenon this year.
So here's one of the replies I just sent.
There's two ways to follow along.
If you want to read along, you can subscribe to the Substack and get the entries in your email. https://draculadaily.substack.com/
If you want to listen to the ABSOLUTELY BANGER full cast audio drama [with transcripts], you can access it with your favorite listening platform via https://redracula.live/.
You can also get lots of thoughtful analysis and fanart by tracking the Tumblr tags #dracula daily and #re: dracula.
Hope this helps!
Disclaimer: I am not affilated with either DRACULA DAILY or with Re: Dracula. I'm just a humble bookseller, just another fan, enjoying this annual Tumblr tradition.
“I don’t learn this in school :(“
Hey here’s a question what steps have you taken to increase your education and knowledge since graduating?
12 years is not nearly enough time to teach you everything to know about the world, especially when the starting point is “a says ah” and “1+1=2” and “rain comes from clouds.”
There are people who spend their whole lives in pursuit of knowledge and do not run out of stuff to learn. If you want to be well-informed and knowledgeable as an adult you have to actually make your continued education a priority. The library is free, thousands on online resources are accessible to all, and somewhere near you is an affordable museum or culture center or zoo or art display that can give you information you didn’t know.
