#platform-zero

[dos-security]

[CIVILIAN ALERT – PUBLIC NOTICE: UNCLASSIFIED]

We are aware that some individuals have reported using Line 7 – Novarail, departing from Platform Ø.

Please be advised:

The Novarail Transit Line was never constructed.

Platform Ø does not exist in any registered transit hub.

Passengers who recall boarding are advised to check their timepieces and confirm the current year.

If you find yourself arriving at your destination before you left, do not attempt to correct it. Proceed with your day. You are now part of the correction field. Report any leftover transit tokens, especially if stamped [NO RETURN].

We repeat: There is no Line 7. You are not late for anything. You were never on the train.

[sholmeser]

starting a collection

[badgalsasuke]

[navree]

Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.

Kamala 2024!

If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.

But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[lumiilys]

Favourite thing about tumblr is that it’s our space. I really enjoy Bluesky but there’s always this little voice in the back of my head going “but what if David Jenkins sees this? What if Rhys Darby sees this?” And it’s nice to have somewhere to retire to where they can’t see me 😌

[nyancrimew]

yknow on the one hand im glad 500k people on tiktok have seen my article on brg in screenshots and have learned about the account, but on the other hand the description of the tiktok doesn't even mention my websites url and i have like 20k views on my site. like idk a few more people seeing it on my site and seeing the donation banner at the bottom might've been nice for my horrible finances this month.

[devileaterjaek]

[joshconfirmed]

50 collective likes and I'll finish this piece from January

[nugatorysheep]

lmao can we stop pretending like my stevencest art is some huge secret. literally everyone who follows me on all of my socials knows what kind of content I make. They know that my stance on shipping is that I don't care what people do so as long as it's tagged. I've never been secretive about this fact. This is not some smoking gun

Newsflash for the people unaware, there's a 60% chance any half-decent artist you've seen in this fandom has made some stevencest or gregpearl or stevinel or aged-up connverse whatever other 'bad' content you can think of, and I would know because I've seen it. Almost every creator still kicking it around here is a fucking freak, they're just in denial or pretending not to be

[robo-dino-puppy]

revisiting childhood memories

[wellfine]

Hey I found ur art uncredited on tik Tok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMreQSnaw/

They said they "found it on Reddit" so they just decided to steal it and post it ig?? Ugh!!

Wow, that's a whole other repost to the one I thought it was going to be, lol. It's been reposted to TikTok once before, and I'm also not surprised this person got it from Reddit, where I doubt I was credited either.

At the end of the day I appreciate the heads up but there's nothing I can really do about it. The most helpful thing anyone can do is to leave comments on the reposts to provide credit,* because if artists ever try and comment then we pretty invariably get attacked. Don't be mean or aggressive, that just builds their animosity towards the artists, but I do think people respond positively to outside pressure to do the right thing 🤷

*Remember to make sure there's enough context - eg. something like "art by @ landegart on Twitter" is more searchable/useful than "artist is Landeg" to someone on TikTok who has no idea who I am haha

[allidrawscomics]

Reminder that I do still make fun stuff but it's all over on Bluesky @/AlliDrawsComics and @/AlliAfterDark. Did you know you can subscribe to me on Patreon without subscribing to a paid tier? I'm getting into the habit of posting my public art there too! Heck I even made a Cara account this week if you prefer gallery sites. I'm so sorry to have to jump around so much. I definitely wish I wasn't pressured to because I sure would like to spend my mental bandwidth on drawing my OCs instead.

[borninwinter81]

DIY budget cyber/industrial outfit - first time in public!

I made a couple of previous posts about this dress here and here, as well as the matching collar, and I thought it would be fun to show how I styled it when I wore it for the first time on Friday. Honestly I was a little concerned it would just look dumb, but when I tried it with the full makeup and shoes I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it.

Apologies for the abysmal photo quality, especially in the first image. I don't have a good camera and I wanted to try and show the full outfit. That blurred mirror selfie is the only head to toe picture I got.

I didn't mention in my other posts but in addition to making patches for the dress I also nipped in the seams so it fit me better (it was my size but kinda shapeless, and I wanted to give myself a waist). This is very easy to do with almost any dress, skirt or top, you just put the garment on inside out, pinch in the side seams so they fit the contours of your body (try and do this equally on both sides) and pin them together. Safety pins are best so you don't accidentally hurt yourself.

Take the garment off and draw a smooth line with tailors chalk connecting all the pins, then sew along that line, either with a machine or by hand. Turn right side out and try it on again. Provided you're happy with the fit, trim away the excess fabric. You may need to be careful if it's a fabric that could fray - I usually go over the seams again with a zig-zag machine stitch to try and minimise this. There are also products you can buy like fray-check. If in doubt, or there isn't much excess fabric you could just leave the seams untrimmed.

The length is a little out of my comfort zone so I wore gym shorts underneath to help myself feel less exposed and reduce the risk of flashing - I tend to do this with any dress or skirt that's above the knee anyway.

Continuing the budget theme, rather than buying any new accessories (again, cyber stuff is mega expensive) I looked through my wardrobe for items I already had that might work.

These goggles are not the usual kind of cyber goggles, but they matched everything else I was wearing. I was given them by a friend who was getting rid of them ages ago so they cost me nothing!

I really didn't feel like making and wearing cyberlox, so instead I just got some yellow hair elastics and did a ponytail.

I made these arm warmers about 12 years ago. You can probably tell that they began life as a pair of skinny jeans. To cut down on the amount of sewing I needed to do I used the existing hem and seams. After cutting them to a length I liked I did the pinch and pin thing to make them fit to my arm, and put in zips along the outer seam to make them easier to put on. As it turned out this wasn't necessary because the fabric is stretchy enough that I can pull them on and off. The zips add a nice bit of visual interest though.

I ripped a hole in each one for my thumb, and I had a pack of extra large hook-and-eyes, so I sewed the "eye" parts down them and added some old bootlaces. I've never been 100% happy with this decoration, but I haven't had any inspiration on how to change them in the last 12 years.

I wanted a necklace in addition to the collar, and couldn't think of anything more appropriate than this. I originally got it for a cosplay, Vasquez from Aliens, and with the big yellow industrial loader from the end of that movie which Ripley uses to fight the Queen alien... it seemed there was kind of a connection there.

I once met Jeanette Goldstein whilst dressed as Vasquez and told her she was my childhood hero and she signed these tags, but unfortunately most of the signature has come off when I was cleaning them.

Lastly, the boots. As with any goth outfit the footwear tend to be the most expensive, particularly if you want ridiculous platform heels like these.

When it comes to footwear, I really would not recommend any alternative brand names like Killstar, Koi or similar. They're often terrible quality, the heels will snap, the soles will peel off, zips will break. In my opinion the only decent specifically alternative shoe brand are New Rock (even they're lower quality than they used to be in the 90s) and although New Rock do make heels I wouldn't wear them often enough to justify spending £200 on a pair. I prefer flats the majority of the time!

The brand of these is Funtasma, and I believe they are intended for use by pole-dancers, meaning they're decent quality and will be up to a night of dancing in a club. I took a change of shoes along with me to put on at the end of the evening but they are surprisingly comfortable for the first few hours.

I got them about 15 years ago on sale, and at that time they were around £40. Not cheap but not super expensive either, and I've definitely got my money's worth out of them. I had them re-soled once with special toughened soles that have extra grip so they're safer to walk in, but that's it. One time I even did the 3 mile walk home at 2am in 6 inches of snow wearing these because I didn't want to wait hours for a taxi (an occasion where I did not take a change of shoes!)

So, not your standard cyber outfit, but one that gives my own spin on this look (which should be the goal with any fashion style - a guideline to create something unique, not a rulebook that you have to follow 100%) and was put together super cheaply. The only new things I bought were the dress, fabric to make the patches, and a pack of multicoloured hair elastics.

[proxentauri]

owahhh as promised my fanart of the wonderful alt jesse designs created by @lostinthewoodsomewhere !! please check out the original lovely art here. i hope the parts i filled in were what you had in mind!! :)

yeah like everything else i post this turned into fuck around and find out with funky colours. i think my art life got a lot better when i realized i didnt actually have to make colours realistic i could just make them look cool

[devileaterjaek]