#outdated shit

[not-souleaterpost]

Man I wish procrastinating wasn't so easy, but somebody had to do this ancient meme.

[twigs-sprigs]

recent pa au doodles because um um ummmm i'm cooking up some other Stuff in the meantime (silly harumi under cut trust)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Valentine's Day! (and this blog's first post anniversary!)

[the-witchhunter]

I still think it’s really funny to imagine some very basic knowledge the scientists forgot to include while making Kon-El

Has a high school education but doesn’t know how to tie his shoes or what gay people are because his sex Ed was from 1993 when he was introduced

[ace-and-ranty]

Everyone else but Murderbot looks really good, but the voiceover is giving way too much Ryan Gosling.

Murderbot is not funny because it's glib, it's funny because it's dry and deadpan and stressed. It feels to me like it should sound less, "Hey, that's me! >( well, it's true, though, LOL" and more "All SecUnits are pieces of shit". The contrast between Murderbot relentless do-gooding and gentleness and its annoyed, cynical, "fuck all of this, I want to watch TV" internal dialogue is where the fun and the heart is.

[shima-draws]

Finally got new glasses (lenses AND frames!) bc I broke my old pair lol

Thing is I had my old pair for. I don’t even know how long. 5 years maybe? Either way I was long overdue for an upgrade to my prescription and holy SHIT when I tell you my jaw dropped when I put my new pair on. You people see like this? Crystal clear? Every day? You can read signs from really far away? And not have to squint?

When I was driving home today I could see all the way to the mountains I could literally see all the little details of the snow and the trees and I was like YO DUDEEE this is INSANE. People with 20/20 vision you have no idea how good you have it I cannot believe people can see that clearly normally

[matrixonvhsanddvd]

updated self portrait

[tboy-trash]

full on frustration-crying reading a 1938 article warning about the tendency to blame children when they're arbitrarily considered to be "too slow" in learning something -as well as to then categorize them as fundamentally different than other children. and we keep doing the same things. i can't find anything else published by this author but it's wild they had to be the one to point out "if a child is struggling to learn something maybe there's something going on" over the teachers who interact with the kids every day. rare researcher w, in any case.

"When we consider individually the children backward at arithmetic, we find a similar state of affairs. In the senior schools children are found who cannot do ordinary sums because they do not know the tables. At great trouble they are again taught the tables, and in six months they have forgotten them again. To the average teacher there is only one explanation- ‘These children are half M.D.’, and it is very consoling when someone arrives with mental tests and confirms the conclusion. We have examined many of these children and found the explanation to be much simpler. Most of them have had no experience in counting concrete things." - J. Hill (1938) A Criticism of Mental Testing

[gaylittlebillionaires]

girl trying to have a freak-off with me at a house party by saying how insane it is that she reads fanfic about kpop members when i tell her abt political rpf featuring former prime ministers tony blair and gordon brown

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

One thing I find very interesting, as a learner of German, is Isolde's usage of du when speaking to Kakania. In German, there are three main second person pronouns: du, ihr and Sie. The first two are mainly used in informal and casual settings or when talking to people you're close with (with du being singular and ihr being plural sorta similar to english's y'all) while Sie is used in more formal situations (or situations which require some form of formality) such as talking to strangers, customer service or when you're talking to a doctor/patient. Kakania abides by this and uses Sie when talking to Isolde (such as in her speech at the end of chapter 6) but interestingly, Isolde doesn't reciprocate this and instead uses du when conversing with Kakania in German.

This is super fascinating to me because it implies different levels of closeness within their relationship. Isolde's usage of du implies a level of closeness and intimacy to Kakania as Isolde herself saw Kakania as a close friend (most likely due to the fact that Kakania was once of the few people in Vienna who actually sympathized with her and saw her as a human being) but Kakania's siezen suggests a certain level of estrangement or distance between her and Isolde. Of course. this could just be her maintaining her professionalism as doctors normally use Sie when talking to patients but with how things turned out after chapters 6 and 7, I'd like to think this goes deeper than just formality standards.

[skopostheorie]

Did that Friend quiz thing for Twitter but you can all try it too if you want. I fear most will be relatively easy though because I'm so insane on here

[triglycercule]

i'm updating that bullshit mttpoly ship chart i made years ago (like at the beginning of the year 💀) because a little evil birdie seemed to judge me for my OLD opinions

[evelynismahnameboi]

Wanted to see how Tom would look if I drew him with Curly hair, but then I thought, what of he was a new design for an au? Oh I don’t know like- *cough* Opposite day au *cough* And I just thought it’d be pretty neat

[nonsensisystem]

This is completely random and triggered by the most irrelevant post on my dash ever but I am genuinely so upset about how Frozen just straight up infected and took over Norway in the World Showcase in Epcot like I hate it I hate it so much.

Like no the World Showcase was intended to be a showcase of ACTUAL cultural diversity and you've gone and fucking bastardized it with a Frozen filter in NORWAY. Completely stripped it of its historic Norway folklore, the viking vibes of the Maelstrom and the shops and Olaf's fucking winter wonderland whatever the fuck like NO.

When I went to the World Showcase it was because I loved the genuine connections with other cultures around the world. I LIVED in the Asian cultures because it was the closest I could get to my heritage since my mom was so disconnected from it and didn't pass any of it down to me. You don't see Mulan pasted all over China, it has a cultural theater and a garden and a shop full of cultural knick knacks and traditional clothes and traditional food without a Disney-themed whatever name slapped onto it. They have a Chinese acrobatics show in the plaza there that's phenomenal to see!

The Middle East area was so small and on thin fucking ice because it lumped such a huge cultural spectrum into one little space to share but like! The bazaar and such was still a cool experience! Not an Aladdin reference in sight!

Japan has a rotating museum exhibit on culture that last time I was there talked a lot about kawaii culture and the shop had an oyster opening thing that taught you about Japanese pearl exports and a section about kimono and a taiko show and just!

Then Frozen fucking came along and took over Norway and now it's not Norway anymore, it's Frozenland!

It doesn't even stop there, it's spreading to all the other countries too and it makes me so sad! Ratatouille is infecting France and Encanto is infecting Latin America (which is ALREADY on thin fucking ice for similar cultural Lumping problems) and it just makes me so sad tbh...

It's like yes, I know that these films are big representations for particular cultures but I don't think they should be touted as THE representation of their associated cultures in the WORLD SHOWCASE. The cultures there should be allowed to speak for them-fucking-selves...! If you wanted Disney animation franchise stuff, you got that shit in Magic Kingdom or Hollywood Studios or the REST of Epcot where it belonged!

-Kokki

[psielapki]

please don't perceive me as i rework everything fate related.

[noctilin]

are u still gonna post art here after tumblr's partnership with openai and midjourney? :(

truthfully i was really disheartened by the news. this on top of the ceo's recent behavior has left an incredibly foul taste in my mouth. it just sucks since I've been in this site far longer than I've been on any other platform and it's been where i've been most comfortable, now it's making me reconsider staying here at all.

there are alternatives like cohost, sure but i've also made a lot of roots in tumblr which makes it hard for me to leave. if we're just talking about this art blog, i could easily just uproot and be somewhere else. but I've other blogs I've put a lot of effort into putting together and holds a lot of dear memories.

for the time being i think i will stay here, turn off the ai partnership/third-party sharing (i encourage everyone else to do so) and continue to operate as i usually do. i do continue to try and test the waters in bluesky and cohost though, but i haven't had a lot of free time to do so recently