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the reason theres only 1 moon is because if there were 2 moons then it would look like boobs were floatin in the sky and everyone would be too horny to live and all the humans would just die

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throw it back my scarab

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"why is EVERY song about love" I'm begging you to dig just a tiny bit deeper, there's literally thousands of songs that aren't love songs. You don't even have to look for the most obscure underground artists ever, the fucking Beatles of all people have a song about a guy who kills people with a hammer

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ichthyologists in 1938:

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come back my scarab

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one of my favorite underappreciated details about the ace attorney series is the fact that Edgeworth canonically both

has a debilitating phobia of elevators

has an office on the 12th floor

meaning that the only logical conclusion is that he hoofs it up and down 12 flights of stairs every day of his life for a combined 24 flights a day and thus most likely has thighs so toned they could crack a watermelon

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Dude you gotta meet my friend I love him and his company makes me happy

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When I tell you I have been trying to find this file for the past three years I'm not kidding LOL. The screech I let out, I started this painting of Riley and Abby when I started out at KI! Over lunch today I've been painting over it with Riley's official design and Abby's final outfit.

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inspired by that one animation

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everyone drop out of college and quit your jobs we are losing our best fandom bloggers to the machine of capitalism

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banger post ngl

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chucks this at you and runs

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special defense

does this count as anything ???is this art

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i avoid printers at all costs but deep down i think i should've been a printer. life so easy. i sit there all squarelike and when someone has a minor task for me i goFUCK YOU

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Making a Digital Visual Timeline (in Python)

I have been on the hunt for a digital timeline I could easily use to store pivotal dates on and see the distance between them, as well as keep track of which events are in which story. And ultimately, I couldn't find a single website that satisfied me, so I made my own program. And swag bitches don't gatekeep, so I'm sharing how I made my timeline, in case anyone is running into the same struggles.

All you need to get started is any sort of program where you can write in Python (I use Thonny but anything that runs Python 3.10 works), and then import the Matplotlib library. If you use Thonny, this video tutorial is super short and straightforward. If you use something else, no doubt there are other video tutorials on how to import libraries on your given platform.

Then, copy in this code, making sure not to miss any indents or capitalization. I wanted to copy-paste the code directly into the text, but Tumblr doesn't register indents, so you have to copy from an image, sorry.

If you run this code as is, you should get this scatterplot.

Under the cut is further explanation of the parts you can and should change in order to make the timeline your own.

The Dates in the square brackets [] on lines 9 and 14 are formatted as Year/Month/Day. So if I wanted to make a point on September 2, 2009, I'd write it as [2009, 9, 2]. Each date must be enclosed in its own square bracket and separated by a comma.

The captions on lines 10 and 15 can be whatever you want, just keep them in quotations, and keep each quote separated by a comma. I like writing the date on the caption as well just for ease of reading.

Importantly, the number of Dates in any group's DateList line has to be equal to the number of Captions in the Captions line, but there can be a different number of Dates and Captions between groups. (So like, Ex1's DateList and Captions both have 4 items, but Ex2's DateList and Captions both have 3 instead.)

The YVals on lines 11 and 16 can be any number (though keeping the numbers relatively low, like from -5 to 5, is better). These just determine how high or low the dots appear on the timeline, if you want to keep different plots visually separate.

There is a LOT of freedom of choice for colors (lines 12 and 17) in Matplotlib. I recommend using the CSS colors, because you just have to write the name in quotations.

You can make more than 2 groups, and you can change the names of the groups. But if you do, you have to also adjust this part of the code below:

Whatever you name your Ex1 and Ex2 lists, put them into here. Additionally, you have to keep the lists consistent. If for example, dateListList was [Ex1_DateList, Ex2_DateList] and CaptionsList was [Ex2_Captions, Ex1_Captions], the code will either encounter an error or graph the wrong captions to the wrong dates.

Lastly, you can edit what parts of the graph appears using these 2 lines to control the X-axis and Y-axis of the plots respectively. You have to keep both pairs of parentheses for each line.

These numbers are relatively small because I chose small numbers as the example Dates. When I use this code for myself, I often switch between a view of (1950, 2050) to see roughly everything in the modern era, or (400, 2400) if I want to see some of the older historical events I've included as well.

These are just the parameters you HAVE to adjust to actually control your own timeline. You can ABSOLUTELY do more if you want to (just make sure to save backups :P). And if you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Happy timelineing!

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