#also dont remove the caption

[dandelion-roots]

No matter what you do, you just can't shake him off, can you, Chūya?

[lyrics: Florence + the Machine | id in alt]

EDIT: I made a whole ass janky animatic to this song, enjoy!

[volivolition]

DAY 4: DRAMA - Put on your prettiest face for the masses!

gonna start adding silly captions actually. [POINTS ACCUSINGLY] MELTY FUCK (AFFECTIONATE)!!

[formulafanfics13]

lestappen sextape leaked !!!!! everyone is traumatised. espacially their grid kids. but they dont regret it and plans to leak another

scuderia sins - CL16 & MV1🔥

Masterlist

summary: when a Charles and Max sex tape leaks, the F1 world grinds to a horrified halt. Drivers are traumatised. Team principals are scarred. Oscar and Ollie can’t sleep. But Charles and Max? They’re thriving — and already planning a sequel.

warnings: crackfic, accidental sex tape leak, Max and Charles are chaotic lovers, implied exhibitionism, group chat meltdown, secondhand trauma, drivers in denial, everyone suffers, mentions of therapy, no actual smut written out, just consequences of it

It happens on a Tuesday. A random link drops on F1 Twitter. No caption. No context. Just a 47-second clip.

Two sets of hands. One breathy “Putain, Max,” followed by a low, wrecked, Dutch-accented “faster, baby.”

The camera wobbles. The lighting’s suspiciously good. Max’s tattoo is unmistakable. By the time the FIA wakes up, it’s too late.

CHARLES LECLERC AND MAX VERSTAPPEN SEX TAPE LEAKS — F1 IN SHOCK “I didn’t mean to film it vertically,” Charles tells press “We looked hot, no?” Max adds

The paddock is traumatised. The grid group chat explodes.

lando: IS THAT MAX????

george: Please tell me that was CGI. Please.

pierre : that man moaned in French. i’m gonna puke.

oscar : I watched 0.2 seconds and screamed into a pillow

ollie : I want to go home

zhou: they used the helmet cam angle. i’m not okay.

alex: is there a way to erase my brain with a DRS flap

charles : it’s art also Max looked incredible

max : thanks baby x should we post the other one?

lewis: NO. NO YOU SHOULD NOT.

christian horner: I’m calling your fucking mothers.

Toto Wolff pretends not to see it.

Fred Vasseur opens a bottle of wine before noon.

Guenther Steiner screams “I TOLD YOU THEY WERE FUCKING” in the Haas motorhome.

Oscar Piastri doesn’t speak for three days. McLaren PR reports he is in a state of “quiet processing.”

Ollie Bearman has to be physically removed from his engineering sim. “He was muttering about the Ferrari fireproofs and crying,” a witness reports.

At the next race weekend, Max and Charles arrive together. Holding hands. Wearing matching sunglasses. Looking like they just fucked on the plane.

They don’t deny it. Don’t apologise. Don’t even flinch when they’re asked.

“I mean, we looked good,” Charles shrugs.

“Very cinematic,” Max adds.

“What would you say to fans who are traumatised?”

Charles smiles. “They’ll survive.”

The fans don’t know what’s coming.

But the grid?

The grid fears it.

[thechatsiders]

IF THEY HAD INSTAGRAMS

Rest of the Gang

Two Bit | @ tw0bit.2.0 , 100k followers

public account

holy shit why is he lowkey famous? its cause hes an alcoholic

he posts reels of his drinking

is insane

all his photos are insane and atp even his fans are telling him to get sober

once posting a normal photo of him smiling and holding a fish on a trip and there wasnt a beer in site, freaked everyone out. ( "hes planning somethings guys check the news" )

2.0 in his name because his original account got banned

Steve | @ jacob_randle, 14 followers

private account

very few posts, and they are just random cats he passed on the street or cars he thought were cool

hates posting on media, is more of a viewer

follows the max limit of accounts you can follow

he likes watching those car crashes, sends them to every one of his mutuals

Dallas | @ dallas_tucker08 , 8 followers ( the gang + tim curly and buck )

private account (AND THANK GOD FOR THAT)

lacks internet safety knowledge (he's still a little rat from NY in this au, only got access to the internet when he ran off to Tulsa and Mrs. Curtis bought him a phone. )

has terrible filming skills, but records fights and posts them (he gets so mad when they get removed and pony and johnny just laugh at him)

every once and awhile he takes a photo and posts it that people are convince he must have done so on accident (photos of his wall that are from a weird angle, no caption either)

his other photos are memes he stole from others (the kind that middle aged men post on facebook and say "i dont care if you guys get offended, im just speaking my truth" and twobit LOVES them)

Johnny | @ ilikepussy_andcats , 47 followers

public account

he didn't know what to do for his username, and doesn't care enough to change it

rarely posts, mostly selfies (he has no idea why randoms follow him, but he doesnt care enough to remove them or go private)

sends those "send this to your bestfriend" posts to everybody

mostly follows and interacts with accounts that post animal videos (like cats, but he also likes bunnys. theres also this account that posts reels of fish at aquariums and he loves it)

[homosexualhooligan]

*insert witty/clever caption here*

Well, here are my two favorite prints from the other day. im a big fan of the linen texture in the paper.

Ive decided to leave the wolf eel as it is, im really happy with how it turned out. the most ill do it define the pectoral fin a little more.

Im leaning further towards removing a lot of the texture from the sharks belly, its too busy and i dont think it matches the rest of the piece.

realizing the top text is crooked

🙃 oh well ig 🙃

once this is cleaned up, ill do another round of prints with it. i was also thinking about printing them on some shirts

[skreebs]

Thinking about the ableism toward Jouno in the BSD fandom and it genuinely pisses me off so badly I want to hit people. I’ll be perusing the tag and looking at stuff and then I’ll see some random pop ups for AO3 and get shit like this

Now I don’t 100% know the context of this screenshot, for all I know this fic could be about him before he lost his sight, but either way it got me thinking and thinking got me angry and being angry means i need to complain. Jouno is already pretty shit blind rep, I’ll be honest. He’s the basic stereotype of “blind character has super senses because they’re blind” but can we give blind people literally ANYTHING else??? jesus christ. I’m pissed how BSD writes his blindness so as per usual I had to attempt to fix all of that myself, but attempting to fix it and removing it entirely are NOT the same and one is VERY MUCH SO WORSE. Again, not talking about this fic specifically but other ones I’ve seen that do this, or those “Jouno if he could see” edits. Spoiler alert, blind people can open their eyes.

I dont know why BSD and every other piece of media is so adamant on not giving visually impaired and blind characters white canes and just giving them "super senses" to get around it. It’s incredibly stupid and abelist to portray stuff like this. Disabilities are not super powers and thank GOD they didnt make that his ability but they still gave him that aspect and I guess it can be excused with SOME lore stuff like maybe he got really good senses from his surgeries but it just sucks that it happened that way at all? And then they don't even touch on how horrible having incredibly hightened senses to the point you can HEAR blood would be?? can you imagine hearing everyone internal organs around you 24/7 EVERYDAY? No one talks about that at all. That would be so fucking overwhelming its genuinely insane. Jouno is such a dear character to me, but genuinely when I remember him in canon without any of my headcanon explinations it’s just really sad that all I can say about him as representation is "well.. it could be worse".

I know there’s going to be at least one person saying “theres good blind rep in other shows though!!” Yes! I know! I’m super glad about that! But ignoring the bad ones doesn’t help much. You need to point out the issues to get good results. Recently, and by recently I mean about 17 hours ago, I watched/listened to the first episode of Daredevil, once with audio descriptions, and then after I watched without AD and had captions. I’m super glad that things are more commonly getting AD—it’d be a bit pathetic if the show with a blind main character was not accessible to blind people—but even with Daredevil, Matt still falls a bit into this stereotype.

Don’t get me wrong, seeing a character with a white cane has me absolutely elated, but from the single episode I’ve seen and what I’ve heard, he apparently also has some sort of super senses, and I know in the first episode he can hear heartbeats. I think super senses as a power is fine, but it’s just the fact they always give it to the blind characters. I, myself, am not blind, nor am I really visually impaired, I just wear glasses. However, as someone with a special interest in disabilities and also as someone that is disabled in other ways, seeing disabled rep fall into stereotypes over and over just really bums me out sometimes.

I think Daredevil is great so far from this one episode, I’ll probably be looking at more of it, but that is definitely just one gripe I have with it. I think Charlie Cox putting a bunch of effort into the role with the method acting and talking to people in the blind community and just all of that is amazing, I love to see that in anything, it’s just urrghh that it’s so hard to find a blind character that doesn’t have some kind of insane superpower senses with things. It reminds me of when characters with autism are so frequently portrayed as geniuses or their autism is only acceptable if it helps the neurotypical cast with “gadgets” or something. I dunno. Hard to explain, it’s 11 at night and I’m tired. Just don’t be ableist in any fandom or in real life. I shouldn’t have to even point out why this shit is disgraceful.

[pineconnie]

I DONT LIKE THIS !! THIS IS FRIGHTENING!!! Also that caption appearing while Wato is panicking as if nothing is happening out of the ordinary is so freaky!!! I love this it’s so spooky

In other news Wifies answered more QNA questions on discord and one of my fav answers was

Question; how do you feel about the Parrot and Ashswag marriage?

Answer: BAD HORRIBLE THAT CANT BE

And he also said that Dean was planned to die the whole time and joined uu knowing he would die after three episodes 😭. And that we should be scared for doomsday. Also that Wato is the only one who joins the uu server outside recordings and is apparently removing shorelines??? -👁️🦜

KWW LORE IS SO GOOD ITS LIKE HORROR WITHOUT THE INTENSE FEAR

LMFAOOOOOO SO TRUE THAT CANT BE ✊✊ i love wifies qna so much that’s the funniest one ever

WGAT THE FUCKKKKK WHG WOULD THEY DO THAT TO HIM ☹️☹️☹️☹️ IM KILLING MYSELF DEAN COME BACK PLEASE at least let him be in other mc story stuff he sad such a good character

omg uu wato ???? what r you doing ????

[owlyflufff]

not to drop a litle negativity here but I saw a haikyu ship poll to which personally, I don't mind if you like other main ships over bokuaka

if you like iwaoi more than bokuaka? that's valid! because it's your preference

kagehina over bokuaka? also valid! because again that's your opinion and I can respect it and so on for the other main ships

although in the very least, don't downplay/twist the canon material to prove that your ship is superior TvT. Furudate-sensei didn't canonically state that bokuaka were written to be foils to each other, both of them being each other's greatest inspiration in the OFFICIAL character sheet and have a well written dynamic for you to oversimplify what their dynamic amounted to at the end of the series.

for context, the haikyu ship poll that sort of spread caused tension cause they added extra captions like asanoya being a flop ship, iwaoi inventing love over bokuaka and the likes to which they also tweeted this:

personally I can respect op for liking iwaoi over bokuaka because that's their opinion + I love iwaoi chaotic childhood friends my beloved :'<< but for their argument to not give a proper reason/ water down bokuaka's dynamic is really saddening

so instead of cooking op since the quotes on the tweet are doing it (and I personally don't like starting/insulting anyone cause it just adds fuel to the flame than any actual progress) I'll just drop an actual list of evidence as to why this is wrong:

"They had like 5 moments"

bokuaka had more moments than solely 5 moments as op states and to make it fair I'll be removing bokuaka main moments this would include: iddle fleeting thought, we are the protagonists, give me your 120%.

It's important to note that most of bokuaka's main moments are found in Fukurodani's respective match. However if we remove these 3 pivotal moments than it still manages to disprove they had only 5 moments because bokuaka had a severe number of moments prior to this which would include the following:

a. Training camp arc: naturally bokuaka's introduction, bokuto doing a killer spike and immediately choosing to ask akaashi if he saw it, and of course the most well known moment of bokuto receiving an emo mode and alaashi not only knowing how to solve it but also that he knows bokuto's weaknesses, instills it in his mind

b. Post Training camp arc: albeit briefly, bokuto and akaashi were shown to which bokuto swears that he's been praise and akaashi brushes it off. despite being a brief moment, it shows alone that bokuaka hang out together in lunch or they are each other's company

c. Land vs Sky: it's been a while since I watched this so my apologies if my memory is rusty but I remember nekoma'a attempts of shutting bokuto down to which akaashi noticed + motivated bokuto

d. Nationals arc: this one naturally has the most but to simplify and at least show they had moments would be the little interactions they had throughout karasuno's matches, "THAT'S OUR TSUKI" "He's not ours Bokuto-san", akaashi being worried for bokuto and asking him to go back into the hotel due to the flu only for bokuto to bring it up again later on meaning he remembers akaashi's words, and naturally the entirety of the mujinazaka match that showed their backstories, established firther that bokuto cares about akaashi just as much and is attentive of him and the growth of their characters not solely as a pair but as individuals

With this, tell me then, did bokuaka only have just 5 moments? Even if you take away the moments bokuaka are most known for, there's still a SEVERE number of moments the two of them shared.

And dont get me started on timeskip because that's for the next point-

"bokuto never mentioned that man out of highschool?"

To put it simply, a good portion of the timeskip arc was the msby vs adlers match, this includes bokuto's appearance who mainly is in the story AT THE START OF THE MATCH. Meaning, there wasn't a window of opportunity for bokuto to talk about akaashi because Furudate-sensei had him and his main focus already at the match, there wasn't any slice of life tidbit as both teams went straight into the match after the bathroom confrontation. It would be very out of place if bokuto mentioned akaashi in the middle of a pretty intense match/it wouldnt have made sense for bokuto just randomly bring up akaashi while he's spiking during the match.

bokuto has in fact made a reference to akaashi during the match/post highschool. When hinata and atsumu unleash a killer spike against the Adlers, bokuto shouted "the first strike is always the most lethal!" (or something similar, I forgot the exact quote :'DD) to which is a nod and referencr to the EXACT same thing akaashi said during the inarizaki match. Not only this but mind you that bokuto shouted this WITH akaashi in two very DIFFERENT places. It implies that bokuto still remembers akaashi or references him and the things they tell each other all the way from highschool

the ultimate evidence is of course the post match because bokuto quite literally meets akaashi again when he gets interviewed. how does bokuto react? big smile on his face and invites akaashi to a meat date later on (I don't even mean to write this in a romantic context because the fact that bokuto wanted to hang out and spend time with akaashi in and of itself shows that akaashi is still relevant and important in his life)

There's so much more evidence to simply say that op's tweet is wrong but it would make this post severely long. Simply, it's one thing to choose, disrespect even, another person's ship but it's another to simply discard canon in the hopes of proving another ship is better.

Bokuaka are so much more than what they're iconic moments dictate them for, I mentioned it once but I'll say it again: the fact that they're not even childhood friends or in different years yet still grounded in a dynamic of trust and respect that carries to the years is impressive and just shows why they're a very beloved ship in the community in the first place.

[valar-did-me-wrong]

Ok, but I dont think this season is the right one for Adar to die...It would be a bit rushed if he dies by betrayl of the orcs and them switching sides to Sauron...Especialy since Sauron also still has to spend time in Numenor which propaply will happen in s3...So Middel Earth still needs its residentual Bad Guy which could/should be Adar and his Orcs...Maybe he grows paranoid and keeps on searching for Sauron and that leads to conflict with the Orcs and everybody else...And maybe more and more of the Orcs that know him personaly will die so when Sauron returns he has the perfect combination of (paranoid) Adar who loses (has lost) control of the situation and Orcs that only know him as their Boss (and at some point was their father)...so Sauron just has to swoop in and take control...

Omg I'm so sorry this got lost in my asks for so long!!

Now, let me tell you my friend that everywhere I go I hear the same thing you said here that "this is not the right season for Adar to die"

It's one of those universal things rn! Sam plays him in such an amazing way that it's almost impossible to not get caught in his magnetism. So yes killing Adar off (by orcs or by Sauron) might bring his narrative to a full (albeit small) circle but it'll not be the smartest move by Amazon!

I also agree with you that, realistically orcs shouldn't side with Sauron instantly after Adar is removed, but sadly I see a lot of people mentioning that it actually might happen in E8!

I'm a bit appalled by this decision of building orcs up to this more than just pawns status in 2 seasons & then instantly turning them into pawns again!

I'd rather hope; as you mentioned, that Adar survives S2 somehow (either healed by Nenya or not) & season 3 is basically repercussions of his hastey war, where he slowly looses his hold on most orcs & we see the orcs slowly get pulled back into Sauron's clutches!

(someone also mentioned that in the end Adar can be left with a small band of orcs faithful to him who fight in the Battle Of Last Allience on the side of elves against sauron; which would be VERY canon & SOOOOO COOOL to watch!)

As for Middle Earth needing another bad guy while Sauron is in Numenor, I am not really sure if that storyline is coming in s3 or if it is a S4 storyline..

(I can go absolutely delulu here & mention that Bear did post a pic of the book Fall of Numenor today, & though the caption says its totally unrelated but I cannot help but think maybe he's trying to pull a Taylor Swift on us?! Is it apparent yet that I've lost ALL my mind over Adar's fate??)

All in all.. I agree, you agree, your neighbour agrees, my grandmother agrees & even some haters agree that Adar just shouldn't die this season!! And I guess Sam must sleep good these days knowing he absolutely won over not only the fandom but it's critics too!!

[holmesillustrations]

Bracket Info!

My starting list was the 700 illustrations included with first publications of each story or novel, this means the initial magazine printing in the uk and us (usually the Strand and Colliers, though other magazines get involved too especially in the later stories) plus the first novel edition if i could find it. I did Not include reprints or translations, but it might be fun for a later bracket if people want them!

I tried to get the best quality image available for each one but some are just not online unfortunately.

Bracket Poll

Full Bracket - This is in spreadsheet format because with 256 polls in round 1 and inconsistent image titles i can't figure out a more visual format, but im open to suggestions! I'll make some graphics once we hit the later rounds and there's a more manageable number

Bracket Graphic - From round 3 onwards

Polls All - R1 - R2 - R3 - R4 - R5 - R6 - Quarterfinals - Semifinals - Final Battle

Elimination Rounds (complete)

I filtered out some title banners and space-fillers/formatting-focused illustrations, but getting to 512 for a functional bracket is gonna take some elimination rounds first! Since part of the motivation here is to highlight some of the lesser known artists, i split this up into 30 'Sidney Paget' rounds, and 27 'Other Artists' rounds. These will last a week, but i'll be posting one of each every day (more or less lmao)

After these ill seed the proper bracket based on the elimination votes and we can narrow it down to a winner 1v1!

Poll Format Each poll will have 11-12 illustrations, the poll options are numbered and include a partial caption next to the artist name and story abbreviation (STUD, SIGN, SCAN &c.) Under a read more ill include the full captions, the print source, and a list of the characters or subjects present left to right.

You can see the list of story abbreviations here if you're not familiar with them, and that site also has a lot of publication info/history if you want a sneak peak at the illustrations and artists coming up that you might not have seen before 👀

Paget Eliminations

Other Artist Eliminations

Offensive Imagery and Language

I wanted to give a blanket warning for this bracket: These are drawings by white men in the 1890s-1920s, the vast majority are fine, but there is a handful that portray racist and classist imagery in line with what is present in the stories themselves. I can't consistently warn for these individually out of a list of 700 pieces, but i also dont want to pretend they arent part of this history or set myself up as an authority on which cross a line or not, so ive decided not to automatically exclude illustrations that might be offensive. Likewise, im not censoring any of the captions that are part of images, but will do my best to remove offensive terms where i'm typing them out.

[firesarecool]

TLDR: something, something, pomegranate symbolism.

For those who have the fortune of not being on tiktok (im on there for edit audios that i disassociate to), there was a trend that happened a bit back, that was about pomegranates and how peeling them represented loving someone. (usually how guys treat girls, but whatever)

for example: most people peel pomegranates quickly and messily, which means they hurt the pomegranate, aka their partner.

I sort of understood it, and there was one video that stuck with me where someone peeled an entire pomegranate perfectly. they got out all of the seeds intact and left a perfectly clean, intact shell behind.

Today, i decided to try my hand at it, as there was a pomegranate in the house and it needed to be eaten soon.

It was hard. But, it made me think. So here is my take on the symbolism of peeling a pomegranate.

first off, the pomegranate is a person. Peeling it is getting to know them, coming to love them, having them open up to you. The pomegranate can be any person, any kind of love (my aro ass doesn’t do romance, so platonic love is what i was thinking about).

Peeling the pomegranate is hard, but perhaps the hardest part is the initial opening of the pomegranate. Sure, you could use a knife (i didn’t), but you risk cutting into many of the seeds. I used my fingers and peeled off layers until i got to the first layer of seeds. the shell of the pomegranate is the person’s outer layer, what most people know them as… breaking it apart is hard, and if you rip it completely, you hurt your person too much to fix. peeling off the outer layers is like slowly breaking down the persons walls, until you get to their true self.

Then you get to the seeds. in total I popped around 20-30 seeds, which seems like a lot. But i saved at least 500 (pomegranates have anywhere from 200-1400 seeds and this was not a small pomegranate)

The seeds are delicate, even pressing on them too hard will pop them. When dealing with a person you love, rejecting their inner ideas, their seeds, can break that idea, and hurt the person.

Actually everything in the pomegranate is delicate, and you have to be careful while removing the seeds, as one wrong press can rip off some of the inner skin.

getting into the less obvious things. When i peeled my pomegranate, i tried to be careful in the beginning, but i still broke it a lot and ripped off pieces in my attempts to get to the seeds. I was still learning how to peel the pomegranate with out damaging it. Its okay to mess up when you are learning how to love someone.

and you cant go back and undo what you did, so you have to do your best to learn how to do it right, and be careful in the future. If you dwell on all the damage you’ve done, you aren’t careful in the present.

Some of the pomegranate seeds are going to be bad, shriveled up and rotten. dont eat those. dont force yourself to accept the negative rotten parts of someone, set a clear boundary that you wont eat those seeds.

also, dont be afraid to love. when you eat a pomegranate, the thing that you are either breaking or preserving is the shell. the seeds get eaten either way, so dont put in the effort of taking someone apart if you aren’t going to love them.

Finally.

That video i was talking about? the one that stuck with me?

its bullshit.

pomegranates aren’t perfectly clean on the inside. naturally they have color, stains from the juices of seeds gone bad, stains from the growth of seeds, the color is proof that that pomegranate was alive. The person has been living.

And yes, sometimes those stains are from people who have treated the pomegranate roughly, but the pomegranate was not broken open by them. You can’t always know what your loved ones have been through, and you cant undo their pain. but you can treat them with gentleness while you have them.

the caption of the video, by the way, was “it’s not hard, just takes patience.”

again, bullshit.

it is hard. but it’s supposed to be. you cant have a meaningful relationship without putting in effort, without hard work.

anyways! thats my take on the pomegranate symbolism.

In case anyone was curious, heres the end result of my pomegranate escape. first is what i managed to keep intact, second is the waste, third is all the seeds i saved. (i didnt save the rotten seeds, and a couple fell on the floor, so i didnt save them either. those are in the waste bowl)

[fivewholeminutes]

Im very new to st and all ive seen today is chaos. Wtf happened if you dont mind answering

Hello there anon! I don't mind at all 💖 but what a time to be new to st, aw man. My condolences. (I am mostly kidding. But also, not really.)

First things first, i promise you, it's not always like this. Generally we're way more chill here on tumblr. I can't vouch for other sites, but if you don't want their identities spoiled and be around very chill people, stay here. Avoid pinterest and google and, for your own mental health, tiktok and twitter. (First two will guarantee an identity reveal and former two will guarantee that + psychic damage.)

Back to the drama!! So, you probably know they're anonymous. And VERY adamant on staying this way. If you check their very first interview or the voice messages from the 2023 US tour, you would see what i mean. Their identities are not important, their art is.

But. Some entitled little shit found their anonymity is a personal insult to them or something. So they decided to publish iii's birth certificate and some other personal info + there was something about them wanting to stalk iii (i really don't know the details, because i got rid of my twitter account a few months prior, but it was definitely vile behaviour). And it's. Not a very legal thing to do. I mean, if you're really curious, you could google them and find their identities in less than 5 minutes, no extremely personal info release needed. What i am trying to say, this is the 21st century, you're not some kind of sherlock to find personal info about anyone, no need to boast. Or, you know. Do illegal things to prove a point, because you feel entitled to someone's identity.

So, as a result, iii deleted and/or made his socials private (the ones related to his st activity, anyway). It is not the first time he did that, because people were getting too straightforward or rude before too, just not on that scale. It all happened a few days ago (2? I have no perception of time passing, sorry). It was understandable, he got doxxed, he did what had to be done to protect himself. Another drama started when the main band account removed all its posts on instagram today and changed the description to "nothing lasts forever". Which is a catchphrase they use from their very beginning, so it is not a worrying thing in itself. However, the circumstances have made people believe the whole band will disband (not dismember, alex, do not write dismembered AGAIN), because of the invasion of iii's privacy.

However, in the end, i believe the consensus is that since they have changed their masks for the Wembley show and had the "new era" captions (+ other bands tend to do that too), the insta post purge is just a PR tactic before the new era's introduction. Which i am prone to believe, really. They are mysterious, sure, but if something is happening (like iii needing to leave the German rituals in December because of personal reasons), the band notifies the fans about it. So if they were to disband, or iii was to leave, they would just communicate this. They didn't, so we're waiting for their next move, whatever is might be.

But i don't think they're going anywhere. They have finished their trilogy with the latest album, so Wembley was the best way to end it all, as a finished project. It didn't happen. They already have 2024 tour dates announced, so we know they're not done. So it's all fine, just unfortunate timing/their legal team telling them to do that/their way of showing they're done with annoying people/just a new era's insta purge. Or something else, which they would soon inform us about, if they want to.

All we can do is wait for more news and keep supporting them in our own ways. And not stress about it 🖤

[thousandheadeddolphin]

An overly detailed analysis of the scp foundations adopted son, the backrooms

Due to the fact that I have no control over my interests, ive decided that im gonna post cringe and start writing a minimum 100 word (50 for subrooms) review of every single backrooms level (or at least as many as I can get through before the hyperfixation burns out). And before we can actually get to the meat and potatoes, we gonna discuss the universal quality cap contained within the very premise of the modern backrooms (more under the cut)

The history of backrooms is like, pretty simple, and actually kind of similar to how scp started. Some guy posted an imagine with the caption:

"If your not careful and noclip out if reality in wrong areas, you'll end up in the backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, and endless backround noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hindered million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in.

God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you"

The concept very quickly caught on, because even retrospectively, the concept is really good, and then people started to write about. And at this point, it varies very, very heavily from scp. Because scp-173s whole premise doesnt crumble like a sandcastle upon any elaboration.

Ill blaze through this part simply because its by far the most common criticism of the backrooms and im not getting ad revenue from puffing up a video about it. You cant add entities or other humans because the vagueness of the final line and also ruins the isolation inherent to the original passage. You cant add more levels because that gives the person somewhere to go and makes the person less trapped, you cant make your levels death traps because thats just not scary, and you sure as hell cant make them safe because that removes the looming threat of death (this last point also applies to lucky o' milk and almond water). But personally, I dont think that talking about this helps the writers, or even gives us a better feel for what these writers are doing wrong, so instead im gonna focus on the main problem with the backrooms

The writing style is contradictory with the material presented

Since the backrooms popularity boom happened congruently with the one for liminal spaces (which ill just use interchangably with "eerily empty nostalgic space, even though the original definition just describes one thats transitional) even the most recent levels try to invoke this sort of setting. This within itself, is great. Theres a lot of room for very personal, intimate horror, especially when combined with isolation. Guess what they tried to do with it?

They jacked scps writing style, which for those not in the know, is intentionally written from a dry, neutral voice. To describe a setting meant to invoke one of the most personal emotions one can have.

Beyond this, articles, as evidenced by their often dubious writing quality, are written by teens who are far too young to have experienced that kind of nostalgia, so a lot of the articles end up not being able to fully capture the feeling, even if they werent written like a courtroom report.

To summarize, the premise is just kind of limiting within itself, even detached from any disloyalty to the original premise of the backrooms.

anyhow Im releasing the first review tomorrow

[boozois]

i hope this doesn't come off as rude or anything but im just curious, how do you make your art, i just found your account and it looks awesome, im just really curious about the process honestly:3

not rude at all! it's actually a pretty simple process, but i'll explain as much as i can

so i'll find a background, usually these are photos on liminal space communities that are newer. sometimes i take photos myself and use that. i look for really dark photos, and specifically photos that are gonna work with the angles i have.

that leads into the next part, which is choosing a photo of a borzoi to mess around with. i usually choose this based on what picture i have. that way i can have an easier time editing it. so i select the picture based on lighting, angle, and also the quality. i try to use high quality images, because (1.) it's better to have more to work with than you need, and (2.) it's what works best when removing the background. you can do this manually on ibis paint, but it's so much easier to do it with a website. there's a lot that'll turn your image into a transparent png.

once i got all that, i put it together. i do this all in ibis paint x. i put the dog a bit higher than it is realistically, and extend the features. sometimes i add different heads or other attributes. i change the lighting by adding different colors and blending. i use a few filters, including color balance, blur/zoom, and unsharp mask.

while i'm doing this, i like to make a little story up about the new creature i made. then i use the captions to kinda tell it. there is actually a little bit of "lore" around some of the dogs, and there's repeat characters. i like this part of it the most, this was why i originally made this account. it's just hard to keep a character, plus i dont operate a side blog and dont want to. world building has always been the coolest thing to me and this is a super cool way to practice it. this account hasn't even been here a year and i've learned a lot.

anyway, thanks for asking! having lots of fun and it's cool to see that people are interested in what i'm doing.

[aubabiwilson]

web workshops 1 + 2 notes

session 1 -

Step 1

Show them Front End vs Back End of test site...

Step 2

Get them to their own URLs

Step 3

Get them logged into Back End - /wp-admin

Step 4

Get them to open Front End in a new private browser / incognito window

Step 5

Settings > General

Site Title - Their Name

Tagline - Something relevant or blank (SEO)

Do not change Wordpres or Site Address… Explain why.

Also do not change admin email… Explain why

Save Changes

Step 6

Appearance

Add New

Upload Theme

Choose File > Lay.zip

Install Now

Activate

Step 7

Dashboard > Updates

Update Wordpress if you need to

Update All Plugins

Update Lay Theme

Step 8

Appearance

Menus

Menu Name

Tick Primary Menu

Create Menu

Step 9

Projects

Trash - Hello World

Add New

Edit the title

Explain Gridder

Add Images

Alt Text

Title

Caption

Description

Arrange images

Add Title to Text

Add Text

Add Feature Image

Publish

Step 10 

View post

Look at how the image and site title bar interact

Adjust set frame top = 60px

Update

Step 11

All Projects

Duplicate Post

Edit Copy

Step 12

Edit the title

Edit the permalink

Edit the images and Upload new ones

Edit layout & text

Remove Featured Image

Add new featured image

Update

Step 13

Projects > Categories

Edit Work

Add Project Thumbnails

Adjust frame if you want

Update

Step 14

Appearnce > Menus

Categories

Add Work

Save Menu

Step 15

Pages

Trash Sample Page

Add New

Add Text

Set Frame to match others or mayber give it more?

Step 16

Appearnce > Menus

Pages

Add About

Adjust Order

Save Menu

Step 17

Text Formats

Changing default will change all we have done

Alternatively we can set up new Headlines or Characters

Step 18

Lay Options

Webfonts

Add Fonts - You can use google fonts but check licences use regular and adjust weights in Text Formats

Step 19

Pages

Add New

Name it Footer

Set Background to black

Add white text - copyright name 2023

Centre it

Publish

Step 20

Lay Options

Footers

Add Footer for all…

Step 21

Look at the size of the Footer…

Pages

Footer > Edit

Set Frame 0 all round

Ctrl click on text

Spaces & Offsets

2% in above and below

Update

Step 22

Alternatively you can adjust the gridder defaults

Lay Options > Gridder Defaults

Frame Top in can be changed from px to %

Save Changes

Step 23

Customise - Over 250 settings to change within the Theme here

Site Title

Text, Image, HTML > Image

Select File

Upload Media

Choose testLogo.SVG

Adjust Width > 100px

Look at position

Space Top > 0px

Publish

session 2 -

Step 1

Look at how the logo scales and positions when on mobile / responsive

Spacing is added for the mobile

In Chrome

View > Developer > Developer Tools

Use the Select element tool to see where the spacing is being added

@media (max-width: 600px) {

.mobile-title {

top: 12px;

}

}

Adjust the value it developer tools to find what works best. Probably 6px in this instance.

Now we know that we can customise the CSS

Customise > CSS > Mobile CSS

As we are adding the CSS here we dont need to worry about the @media query

.mobile-title {

top:6px;

}

Publish

Step 2

Adding a contact Form

Plugins > Add New

Search for Ninja Forms

Install Ninja Contact Forms

Activate

Edit Contact Me

Emails & Actions

Edit the settings on “Email Notification”

To change to your email address.

Done

Publish

Copy Shortcode

Step 3

Add this to the footer

Pages

Edit Footer

Add section above

Ctrl Click on section - Set Background Colour for section

Remover Gutter between

+ More

Add Shortcode

Paste Shortcode

Scale Content

Ctrl Click on the Shortcake Element - Set HTML Class and ID

Give the ID the name “contactMe"

Save

Update

Step 4

Check Pages - Contact Form should be on the bottom of the site, just above the footer

Step 5

Lay Options > Custom CSS & HTML

Here you can see all the custom CSS and HTML aspects - you can also add more complex things here.

Custom <head> content

<script>

var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); 

window.laytheme.on("newpageshown", function(){

$j("#contactMe").hide();

});

</script>

Step 6

Check Pages again - If you have done this correct - the contact me form should be hidden

Appearance > Menus

Add Menu Items > Custom Links

URL = #mailForm

Link Text = Contact

Add To Menu

Save Menu

Step 7

Lay Options > Custom CSS & HTML

Custom <head> content

<script>  

var $j = jQuery.noConflict();

window.laytheme.on("newpageshown", function(){

$j("#contactMe").hide();

$j("a[href*='#mailForm']").addClass('mailForm');

$j(".mailForm").click(function() {

$j("#contactMe").slideToggle(1000);

});

});

</script>

Step 8

Check Pages - Now when you click on Contact the contact form should toggle in appearance.

Step 9

Knowing the above allows you to create a very flexible site / customised site.

Useful Links

w3schools.com

stackoverflow.com

google.com

[chipcunt]

fucking hate when a normal recipe video pops up but the caption is "flat tummy recipe lose fat now". leave ME ALONE. ALSO KETO PEOPLE LEAVE ME ALONE AND STOP STEALING PEOPLES NON KETO RECIPES AND VIDEOS AND REMOVING THE WATERMARKS (IM GENERALLY SO THANKFUL TIKTOK ADDS A WATERMARK WHEN U DOWNLOAD VIDEOS THANK YOU MULTIBILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION XX). I DONT KNOW WHAT THE SCAM IS HERE, BUT I FEEL LIKE THERES ONE.

one time i got a video of a bread bowl filled with pasta captioned keto. that was really funny. couldnt tell if it was a joke or a grift. those keto people will take anything, they dont care if there are carbs. theyre busy scamming probably.