#maybe it'll help someone

[robinsnest2111]

idk if this'll be of use to anyone but when I had to get through absolute shit times on my own I imagined a pocket version of my friends on my shoulder (or by my side in general) following me through the day, keeping me company, cheering me on and it actually helped a bit. the shit times were still absolute garbage but at least there was this little spark of happiness imagining my friends cheering me on, even if it was all just made up

so... feel free to imagine a pocket sized version of me cheering you on and keeping you company through whatever miserable shit you have to make your way through (if you want/need)

[i-am-a-fish]

every once in awhile someone's going to see you being happy, doing normal cool shit and they're going to get like, REALLY mad at you. it might be a boss, a family member, really anybody who thinks they have authority over you. but listen to me, you might be on this site right now, trying to take your mind off of some shitty interaction or whatever, and maybe you're here to try to feel better.

I'm here to say that everything's going to be okay. if a miserable little creature tries to make you sad for the sake of making you feel sad, don't give em that power. be happy unapologetically, do things that you know are kind and right, don't allow shitty people to get into your head and make you think depressive thoughts.

you've got this shit and I hope you enjoy your scroll

[solarpoweredbirds]

i think the thing that gets me sometimes is like. i'll find myself thinking "well things can't be all that bad, because these good things are happening" and like... i gotta remind myself that life is more complex than that. in very very few situations will absolutely everything be bad and for nothing. the good things are important, yes, but i shouldn't be using them to discredit my own worries (or let it reduce my motivation).

[sergle]

btw while I’m still being annoying, my favorite example to bring up in the “hygiene products that you can just pick up off the shelf at the store can have KNOWN carcinogens in them” conversation is coal tar. This one’s still crazy to me. It’s used in anti-dandruff products for its “anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties" but it’s also LIKE. a hazardous substance... but it can still go in your shampoo bc “aww but it’s only SOME poison, it’s not like, a LOT of poison, so we can still sell it and it’s ok”

[shining-latios]

little splatoon 3 salmon run observations/tips? I have made in my time playing (and also splatoon 2 I guess for applicable bosses) - if you fully ink over a flipper-flopper’s ring, no salmonid attacks/passive abilities will be able to re-ink the area until the flopper either is killed or recovers from stun, this includes missiles, steelhead bombs, steel eel trails, and the ink trails lesser salmonids leave behind from moving around. meaning it creates a temporary small area where you can swim freely without having to worry about rogue ink trails slowing you down

- at least in my own experience, drizzlers will typically aim their weather-bomb for the player that’s closest to them when they begin to take aim, meaning that if you are right up against a drizzler when it begins to take aim, you can use this to your advantage to CHOOSE where it aims its bomb, which also means you can just make it shoot it off into the ocean or another unoccupied area of the map where it will do minimal harm to other players

- a stinger will (usually) aim for the furthest player away from itself, meaning if you’re on low tide and want to give your teammates a break from rogue stinger fire, head to the back and for high ground as a way to draw their fire to you in an area where it’s less crowded and easier to dodge (and off of your pals)

- steel eels, for obvious reasons, cannot follow you up fish stick posts. steelheads also have difficulty aiming their bombs at you if you’re on top of a post and will usually just stand there staring at you instead of trying to attack you (UNLESS they’re on equally or near-equally high ground to you). that’s it. that’s the tip.

Some additional weapon tips:

- e-liter can one-shot steelhead bombs, steel eels, slammin’ lids, scrappers (only from behind), and unmasked flipper-floppers. it can also INSTANTLY pop a griller into its stun animation with a direct hit

- dynamo roller is able to run over cohocks without them needing to take chip damage first, prioritize rolling over flicks if you find yourself cornered by lesser salmonids if you get this weapon

- most blasters are able to one-shot stingers by aiming at the middle of their stack, as the explosion will take out the pots both above and below where you aimed. inkjet shots can also take down a stinger in one hit due to the blast radius when the shot connects

- every kind of roller EXCEPT the carbon roller can one-shot chum by just rolling over them, if you have a roller during a glowfly round, just stand in one place with the roller DOWN (preferably in an area the salmonids running at you can be bottlenecked easily) and gently nudge forward to clear out the chum while waiting for goldies

- the tenta-brella chute does enough contact-damage to one-shot both smallfry AND chum. if you’re cornered with this weapon by lesser salmonids, keep the chute open as much as you can until you can get to safety (this, like rollers, can also be used to protect your team during glowfly rounds)

- a fully charged shot from the grizzco bow will do as much damage to cohozuna as a shot from the egg cannon does, so if you’re able to, save power eggs for taking out other bosses rather than using them on cohozuna if you’re given this weapon and just hit him with charged shots instead

- common knowledge I know but explosher is able to take out flyfish bins without the use of a bomb, in addition, the crab tank’s cannonball and a shot from the inkjet gun can also do the same thing in a pinch

[nguyenfinity]

Every time I draw Mamagi it does AoE damage (I am also in the area of effect)

Lighthearted bonus:

[it-is-only-a-novel]

My friendships happen because we are in the same place at the same time, over long periods of time (school & work). Because, we are there together, and can pass the time together, and have time to get to know each other.

Usually they are nice people, that are kind to me, and reach out to me, and in turn I want to be plesent and kind to them. Sometimes, we like to text back and forth. I don't like meeting with them outside the context where we meet. Nothing personal, but I need quite time by myself.

But, when we don't meet regularly, it fades. If this is a relationship that has had time to form, we might have some contact, probably a text here and there. But really not much. I still concidered them friends for a while, but after years of not talking, I don't really anymore.

And, I don't think I miss them. They are nice people, and I wish them well, but I don't miss them. I do miss the idea of friends. Of people to spend time with and talk to. But, not the people. I do wish sometimes that I had a person or two, to talk to. I don't miss them, I miss the idea of what a friendship could be.

Sometimes I do wonder if I should reach out. But I never do. It's been so long, and I don't really want to. And my anxiety tends to take over. I don't want to insert myself where I'm not wanted.

These experiences and others have led me to call myself aplatonic. I like these people, but the friendship fades, and I don't feel a desire to continue. My experience is impacted by my being neurodivergent. Perhaps I'll discuss it in a future post, along with my trouble forming the friendships to begin with, which is why I've only ever had very few.

[unforth]

The last couple hundred years have seen society, especially wealthy, western societies, increasingly distancing themselves from the visceral, immediate experience of death. Death is to be hidden and shunned, grief to be pushed aside and made brief. This has been made possibly by improvements in health care, but also by the ever-growing emphasis on the nuclear family and the greater space between people and the sources of their food.

On a smaller scale, as we've had more space to store belongings - as homes have grown and the number of people living within them have decreased - it has been easier for people to acquire and retain belongings over long periods of time. This has led to phenomenon where people buy things they absolutely adore...and then do not use them, as they have the space to store them and they've grown afraid of the damage that will be done to their things if they use them.

Though the second is of course on a smaller scale, the lose of a beloved object still involves a grieving process, and therefore is a less severe analogy for the loss of a loved one.

I posit that the two phenomena are in fact that same phenomenon: that a fear of loss of all kinds, the limiting of space for experiencing loss in our lives, and a dissipation of the skills that enable one to grieve loss in a healthy way, have resulted in our current culture where it is safer to ignore death, and safer to preserve our favorite objects unused, than it is to risk loss.

In this essay, I will...

[cellbitupdates]

🟩 Dos mods do Cellbit/🟥 From Cellbit's mods/🟨 De los mods de Cellbit:

🟩 Voltaremos quando o Cellbit voltar de Los Angeles/🟥 We'll return when Cellbit gets back from Los Angeles/ 🟨 Volveremos cuando Cellbit regrese de Los Ángeles ❤️

🟩 O que provavelmente será amanhã ou no final desta semana. Na segunda-feira ele mencionou que poderia tentar entrar no QSMP para conhecer o novo criador coreano Jungryeok, mas ele não disse nada definitivo.

🟥 Which will likely be tomorrow or later this week. He mentioned yesterday that he might try to log onto QSMP for the new Korean creator Jungryeok but didn't say anything definitive.

🟨 Que probablemente será mañana o más tarde esta semana. El lunes mencionó que podría intentar entrar el QSMP para conocer al nuevo creador coreano Jungryeok, pero no dijo nada definitivo.

[avarkriss]

i dusted today.

the alarm to clean went off, and i got up and dusted until the 20 minute timer went off. turns out in that time, if i'm focused, i can do nearly the whole upstairs.

it's such a little thing, but we have to be kind to ourselves, you know? even if you little thing today is just getting out of bed, or brushing your teeth, or breathing for another day, we should be proud of ourselves.

maybe it really does get better

[imagine-nerd]

[sleep-nurse]

sometimes i wonder why i've always felt the constant need to post art everyday and then i remember it's because i've always had this fear of being forgotten. of returning back to nobody, just like how i used to be before i made my tumblr main account. taking a 1 day break is painful (despite the fact that it helps a lot when i do it) because i feel like everybody will instantly forget about me, so i view myself as nothing more but someone who is here to produce content

[acecroft]

your gifs are soo pretty and crystal clear 😭 you don't have any sharpening tutorials by any chance? 😇 i feel like even with the best quality gifs they don't turn out as sharp as i want them to sometimes

thank you! i don't have any tutorials, but i do sharp just like most of gifmakers here i think: smart sharpen - basic, setting by default, amount 10%, radius 10, remove gaussian blur, more accurate. then add more smart sharpen - basic, setting by default, amount 500%, raidus 0.3 (if i make big gifs most of the times i prefer add more sharp, so just do 0.4), remove gaussian blur, more accurate. that's literally it, no magic really

huge part of how good end result will be is how good of a video source you have in the first place, anything else than 1080p is gonna be meh. tho some 1080 files aren't good enough either, like if it's video from YT or from streaming sites (like netflix, their quality is often atrocious)

[flawedvictori]

iunno how to express this so yall are getting just, the thought comin off my head. but being abused for so long and then getting into safe spaces where im allowed to have a personality beyond ‘subservient’ genuinely feels like I woke up in a sports car hurtling down a road with no memory of picking this car or choosing this road, and I’ve been spending the last few years just getting the car pulled over and now I don’t know where I want to go or how to get there, but I sure am realizing that what seemed like an impenetrable, powerful sports car is slowly burning and held together with duct tape and spite, and the spite feeds the fire.

so now I gotta take it apart and build the car I want out of pieces that I never saw to begin with, find a path, find a direction, find a new fuel, all just to get back on the road

But people are stopping and helping, their hazards are on and I’ve got time, even if i dont know how much. just gotta build da car.

Shouldn’t rush, but don’t feel like I can take my time, either. It’s scary.

The most painful thing to think about is like... what if they only liked the sports car? The person I never was, or was and can’t remember. What if the only people who cared stop caring once I’m me? It’s all fucked and just keeps swirling around my head, but hey, at least I’m working on the car.

[queencryo]

Is there anyone in your life that you hate, but you still can't find it in yourself to wish them harm?

Maybe you recognize under the dislike that they're a good person, and thus still want them to be happy? Maybe you think everyone deserves to be happy? Maybe they're not even a bad person, you just know you hate them for personal reasons.

If you were given the choice, of giving this person a happy life or a miserable one, would you give them a happy life? Would you be upset that you're choosing happiness for someone that you hate?

Please take a moment, and think about this with me. And remember, I love you.

[waveoftheocean]

put together a couple of wip progress stages for fun!! it’s always wild to see what a piece looked like in its beginning stages vs how it turns out in the end