#as for the product itself ...

[a-polite-melody]

The fact that a cis man who considers himself a trans ally and posts things like “I think there needs to be more trans women in the world” will make a post saying “I’m glad I’m cis so that I don’t have to be associated with trans men” and that’s not seen immediately as the transphobia it is and has trans people liking it shows just how dire the state of trans discourse on tumblr is.

[bittysteam]

Last night at work I got called to the paint department and I was helping a young couple and they ask me what is good paint thinner and I went to tell the mineral spirits or designated paint thinner products

And then they proceed to tell me they used ACETONE on ACRYLIC OUTDOOR PAINT and it turned out like cottage cheese and I kinda stared for a moment and just said "Yeah that will do that since acetone is typically used for clean up and stripping rather than thinner-"

They said they looked it up on Google's Gemini Ai........

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth Donmar Warehouse, December 2023 - February 2024

Photographer: Marc Brenner

[sleepnoises]

i am not quite just tracing my reference photo. i did desaturate it, eyedropper the grays, and use them to shade my sketch (which itself was half from sight, half traced). then i put some gradient maps on the gray sketch (blue for background and floor, orange-green for tiger). no markings on the tiger because i still haven't put my reference maquette through a glaze firing yet. and of course this will be warped in unknowable ways whenever it is rendered again in acrylic paint

[drusill-a]

[WWDitS finale spoilers]

Aside from the obvious – the gross shipbaiting and mocking naive viewers who dared to believe an m/m dynamic could be treated as anything other than the butt of the joke – my biggest issue with the WWDitS finale is that it’s an ending that could have made sense… but at most after s2. Back then, we were still watching a story about characters who didn’t share any particular bonds (except for Nadja/Laszlo) and who were entirely static, unaffected by the things they experienced.

The thing is, the creators themselves realized you can’t build a long-running story on that formula – eventually, the characters had to evolve at least a little, and their relationships had to deepen so viewers would have any reason to root for them. And so Guillermo’s position in the group began to change – first, he earned their minimal respect, then a very solid place, until finally, in season 5, all the other characters had reached a point where they didn’t even hide that they genuinely cared about him a lot. The same happened with Colin, who at first was completely left out by the other housemates but gradually earned an equal spot in the group and developed that stupid yet sweet bond with Laszlo (erasing those memories was, imo, one of the writers’ biggest mistakes). Laszlo showed himself capable of empathy, which he proved again in s5 by helping Guillermo, and even Nadja, who used to completely disregard everyone’s feelings, had several moments in later seasons where she openly cared – at least in her own way –  about the others.

And of course, that’s how we got the romantic subtext between Guillermo and Nandor. Over all those seasons – from s3 up until s6 – I was certain it was a classic will they, won’t they dynamic that would end with them getting together. I just couldn’t believe the writers would spend the last 4 seasons making their relationship more equal and showing Nandor’s journey to realizing Guillermo genuinely mattered to him, only to do nothing with it – or worse, regress them back by three seasons. But the late s6 Nandor’s “no homo” attitude has very little in common with the Nandor from seasons 4 and 5, who was openly pining and lusting after Guillermo.

From Guillermo’s perspective, this ending is an absolute tragedy – even the end of the previous episode gave him much more hope. Maybe he’d lost his lifelong dream and still hadn’t found a new purpose, but he had found a family and a place in the world, with a potential chance to build something meaningful with Nandor in the future. I don’t understand why this episode had to undo all of that – to show us that none of his friends really listen to him, that the power dynamic with Nandor will always be uneven, and that ultimately he wasted 16 years, and no one would really care that much if he left. Considering how great Guillermo’s development was, especially in gaining confidence from s4 onward, this ending feels so unfair and insulting to his character.

I feel like the writers’ biggest mistakes have been forcing a return to the status quo after every season. After the breakup in s3, the characters should have stayed apart for at least an episode or two. Colin should have remembered that Laszlo raised him, and they should’ve kept their funny, fucked-up father-son relationship until the end of the show. Guillermo should’ve been a real vampire for at least a full season—or, in my opinion, permanently—because, as it turns out, the writers had absolutely no idea what to do with his character once he lost that goal. Relationships that had evolved shouldn’t be randomly reset by a couple of seasons just because the writers couldn’t be bothered to put in the effort to write anything new for them.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too – if the writers were so dead-set on giving us an  ending that says “nothing in these characters’ lives matters, and nothing will ever change,” they should have made the show half as long and spared viewers the trouble of getting invested in character and relationship arcs that ultimately went nowhere.

This is a comedy show that was supposed to make people feel better. After this finale, I feel mocked by the creators for believing that the queer ship they sold me for 4 seasons had a chance of being treated equally to an m/f ship. I’m also sad because the characters were regressed and left stuck in eternal limbo, and generally I feel ridiculed because the writers openly made fun of us for getting emotionally invested in the story they wrote for us.

And maybe the biggest crime of these last few episodes was that they weren’t even remotely funny—so you can’t even say they prioritized comedy over character development, because it failed on that front too.

[fazcadeemployee69]

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[cecoeur]

it's hell on earth to be heavenly them's the breaks, they don't come gently

[nafixabae]

Rate his punch 😉🐾

[sea-changed]

The Brutalist script + art

George Grosz, Cafe 1, c. 1920s // Saul Leiter, Untitled (100193), 1950-1980 (detail) // Jerry Opper, Abstract Fireworks, 1940-1950s

[bluberimufim]

The coolest thing about opera is that most of them have existed for actual centuries and people have just run out of normal ways to stage them. You either do something boring and predictable or you go off the fucking rails.

We've all been in this enclosure so long we've started losing our minds but we don't want to leave. In fact we want to see how much crazier we can get.

[greater-than-the-sword]

If you're the owner of a 50+ year old franchise then maybe it might behoove you to put out quality content that makes you the beloved leader in your domain so that people will want to keep buying your stuff even after public domain hits it, rather than churn out overpriced schlock just because no one else has the right to harness a household name so that people will try to get away from you the second they're legally allowed

[goregfx]

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[francesderwent]

sadly I think tumblr is the proof that even if you un-fuck the algorithms and build the force-for-good social medias that people like Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin advocate for, ones that don’t collect data in order to laser-target ads and don’t use an algorithm to keep you scrolling forever and don’t eventually trend towards recommending polarizing content because that’s what keeps people’s eyes on the screen longest—even if you do all that, our brains weren’t meant to process information this way, and reading a bunch of short-form posts one after another is addictive already and will drastically damage your attention span. you will grow more and more dependent on forms of leisure that allow you to completely switch off, and more human forms of leisure which require something from you will start to seem like work. you will find it harder to sit still and read a book. you will find it harder to think creatively beyond the brief and noncommittal ideas strung together into a post. you will become more reliant on public validation of your careful image-crafting to tell you who you are, you will find it harder to sit with your thoughts without making them part of your performance.

[bishonenspit]

twitter fujos exist in this bizarre yet somehow insanely ignorant state of fear mongering that everything gay will somehow get censored out of this anime despite zero solid evidence of that being a risk at all. the manga was gay why the fuck would the anime not be a faithful adaption of that. are all of you stupid? genuinely asking. i have yet to see an intelligent passing take had about this series yet. nobody can comprehend what this series is about to the point where they seem to believe they're inventing the queerness in a story where it's one of the primary points of development

[robinmage]

i know a lot of people are trying to put ivan and till's relationship and feelings into a clearer perspective but i think yall r forgetting that like. they were put into anact garden as children. their whole lives theyve only known other children and alien overlords. theyve probably never had an adult human to look up to. its only natural that the relationships they have with each other exceed the titles and definitions we're used to, because the conditions of their lives are fundamentally different than ours.

[good-wine-and-cheese]

IT ARRIVED.....beloveds ♥️♥️♥️