#so i'm finding solutions

[queerstudiesnatural]

sometimes watching tv is good :) i've been watching home decor and home organising shows for the past couple of weeks, and today is my very first day of summer holiday (perks of being a teacher) and i immediately started reorganising and cleaning up my home

[ministarfruit]

simon blackquill peaking at age 17 is so funny because it's only downhill from here, buddy. enjoy it while it lasts

[virtualcarrot]

[DE] musing abt the limits of superficial acab discourse and the way fandom deals with moral discomfort, I guess

“ACAB”, “the only happy ending should be leaving the RCM”, “you’re a terrible person if you draw/write these characters enjoying the sort of corrupt cop stuff that they canonically do in-game” discourse is killing meeee

God forbid you don’t performatively remind everyone that you do hate cops, actually; and god forbid that you don’t find that True Healing and Happiness for Disco Elysium’s characters can only be achieved by leaving the force.

Metas could be written about how Kim and Harry are actually deeply flawed people who enjoy wielding some form of authority in a way that they actually feel best working as cops

(is it healthy? no. is it Good™? no. Is it true to their character? this is where media interpretation comes in)

Metas could be written about how that doesn’t mean ACAB isn’t real, that just means they’re the kind of shitheads (that we, the players, still love) who enjoy being cops

Metas could be written questioning the amount they’d have to change to adapt to a life as civilians, how much and what kind of a push they’d need to go for it,  if it’s change they could even manage, if they could financially survive it, if they could find fulfillment in any other career, at their age

But no. Why waste time on that instead of easy slogans. I mean, we like them, these characters, and we don’t want to feel guilty for liking them, because what does it say about us, then, that we like flawed cops?

(nothing it says nothing it says we played a good nuanced extremely well-written game that skillfully made us like the sort of character whose past actions include sequestering some woman and beating a dude into disability. that’s what it says. i’d even argue that discomfort is part of the point)

[maburito]

I've been stuck on a level in Metroid Fusion for 2 days but I'm being so brave about it and not looking up the solution

[crunchworldsupreme]

There are Other Things on The Internet Than Reddit

Here's a Lego forum

Here's one for CDs

Here's one for Bionicle

Tech Support and Repair

The blog I used to set up a virtual machine

Anime Anime Manga

Like, anything technical

These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head and is nowhere near an exhaustive list of just the forums that I have personally used to find valuable information. This isn't even including wikis, independent archives, blogs, magazines, etc etc etc.

Reddit actually isn't the only place on the internet to get information it was just the easiest :)))) The entire rest of the internet didn't die because you stopped using it. :)))

I've never found it anywhere near as helpful as any of these other sources, largely because of the low barrier for entry, lack of specialization, and dogshit culture. People who spend all their time on sites you've never heard of actually know more about the shit their website is dedicated to.

[nell0-0]

Just a wip, but I found it cute so here! ^^

[antisocialxconstruct]

good news: it is real 👍

bad news..... it is so so small 😂😂

tell me in WHAT universe this is an XXL..... I might still be able to style it somehow but I am a little disappointed it isn't the slouchy sweatshirt I was dreaming of. Trials of online shopping I suppose

[bumblingbabooshka]

"Everything you went through was meaningless." [St Voyager S3 E7: 'Sacred Ground']

[uncanny-tranny]

There is a difference between a hypothetical worldview and the way that worldview actually applies to your real world. It's easy to come up with theories because you don't necessarily need to test them on your community (and, to be fair, some theories would be impossible to test in the world we live in currently).

That is why it's important to interact with your community directly in any way you can. That's why local politics are important. That's why school board meetings can be so important, that's why supporting local businesses can also be so important, and rallying with your community members can be so important.

Theories are the simple part. We can all think of scenarios and come up with solutions. But humans are messier than the simple solutions we tend to come up with, and that's not a flaw. That is a feature. Embrace this, and do what you can not only for yourself but for your community, too.

[x-i-l-verify]

It absolutely kills me that all this time - all. this. time. - c!Dream was just trying to SAVE the entire server! All of them! Every single member! Even the ones he hated! He knew that if they kept on this path, everyone would die! Everyone would spend who knows how long just rotting in their own limbos, alone, forever, and he refused to accept that. There had to be another way; he needed to fix it, fix the server, make everyone immortal, reset the server so that everyone would be friends again, something, ANYTHING, because nothing else compared to that utter, crushing loneliness, not people seeing him as a villain, not torture, not death itself, nothing. It didn't matter what he suffered so long as they could all find peace and happiness and health again together in the future. No more death, no more pain. Just existing together in simpler times where they could be friends again and stop dividing themselves and stop fighting (oh, so much fighting).

And he was willing to utterly destroy himself if that's what it took to save them. To not be alone. To have the time to try and fix things. So he would play the part of the villain they all thought he was. They'd thank him later, when they finally understood. He would give them forever, and they’d see. Someday. And surely, surely, with time...with time... he could be someone who isn't the villain of everyone's story. He could just be himself again. That Dream who was lost and who so desperately wanted to be found.

[spectrearia]

so I'm probably speaking to the void here and I know tumblr isn't really the place for this, but I genuinely need suggestions or help regarding video editing software.

windows decided to be Awful and completely erase the video editor from my PC with one of the more recent updates, and also changed the photos app to be way worse?? I'm having really bad issues with trimming my videos now; they end up looking insanely washed-out in the trimmed versions but I NEED to trim them in order to cut down their file sizes because I'm running out of space to store my game recordings;;;

does anyone know of any good (preferably free) video editing software I could use for windows 10 that can allow me to trim videos easily?? I'm wary about what software to download because I don't know what's actually reputable out there.

this is genuinely a big problem for me because I love recording game sessions and the ability to properly trim my videos was something I relied on a lot. if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them

[darkeneddawningmain]

I live! And I'm writing a fic

Hello, everyone! :) I've re-started the process of moving this blog over to a side blog (@darkeneddawning) when I have time. End goal is to have all my art and stuff from here over there, so my main blog (this one) can be used for everything. The side blog will be where I post new phandom art and stuff.

Hopefully the transfer isn't too confusing for everyone. If you want to follow me to see my phandom art and stuff, you might want to wait until my side blog is all caught up, or you'll be spammed with me reblogging all of my old art over there for the next while. I'll announce on this blog when it's done and wait at least a week so people have time to unfollow this blog if they don't want my reblogs of everything I like to clutter up their dashes.

But I'm too impatient to wait until I'm done with that before I start posting again, so here's a blurb from the DP x DC Circus Gothica crossover fic I'm writing! It's going to be a while before I can post it since I've got a lot going on and I'm a very slow writer so far, but I'm hoping posting about it will keep me motivated to continue working on it :)

It's not a very long blurb, but I'll put it under a read more anyway (along with a synopsis of the fic):

Fic synopsis:

Wait, but if I’m mind controlled, and you’re mind controlled, then who’s catching the evil ringmaster??

Jason wasn’t expecting to join the suspicious circus he was investigating on Dick’s behalf, but a day in found him planning a heist with his new posse of co-slaves. At least getting in on the action gave him the answers he was looking for, as well as some others to questions he’d forgotten he was still asking.

Or: A new circus rolls into Bludhaven, trailing a history of too many pilfered towns to be a coincidence. Dick asks Jason to look into it on account of Dick’s circus related trauma. Jason was expecting to find evidence, not a one-way ticket to minion town, or a mysterious boy who somehow calmed the insatiable waters of the pit. Who is this boy, and what can he teach Jason about himself?

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Though he felt compelled to come, he didn’t know what was wanted of him now that he was here.

“This area is off limits to guests. Can I help you?”

That reaper kid from the performance, head attached, was looking at Jason with a raised brow. The same Red color that was swirling around Jason’s brain occupied the kid’s irises. Now he was up close, Jason could see how the kid’s stage eyeliner was only a slight enhancement to the genuine dark circles under his eyes. With those in addition to the gaunt hollowness of his cheeks, the kid looked like he hadn’t slept in years.

Jason smiled. It wasn’t a natural smile, but the Red liked it. “I’m here to, uh… cross over to the dark side?” That was all the Red was giving him to work with.

Reaper kid squinted at him, then drew back in surprise. “Woah, I totally thought you were human. Is that a disguise?” he asked, walking up to Jason.

“Disguise?” Jason glanced down at his body like it would clue him in to what reaper kid was talking about. He looked plenty human to himself. “What else would I be?” Was this important to the Red’s mission? Red was starting to feel a little more impatient.

“Uh, you know,” the kid gave a dismissive hand wave, but clarified: “Dead?”

[meyerlansky]

a problem that i frequently have is i will be interacting with person x and they will say to me, "i did activity y and it made me happy!"

and i will think to myself, "i would like to be happy. i will do y as well."

and i will do y

and it will not make me happy

and not only will i resent y for not making me happy, but i will also resent x for deriving joy from y when i could not!

[randomrottmntscreenshots]

I found a program that gets rid of duplicates, so it should be original content 99% most of the time now :]

[dawntheduckrb]

I'll stop posting wips eventually but it's been five days since I've said anything and I don't want anyone to think I'm dead/dying/stuck in a ditch and withering away, so here's 10% of the reason I disappeared (the duck is stuck in rendering hell) (and my little baby laptop is screaming at me every time I open up this file)

I might still be mostly lurking for a little bit so please be patient with me in the meantime 🙏🙏

[athenasparrow]

you seem so happy and confident all the time. how do you do that? are there things that make you real mad or frustrated?

Hi anon ❤️ I think it's less that I don't experience negative feelings and more about how long they hang around (not long!).

Here are some things that have PISSED ME OFF in the last couple of weeks 😂:

1. A brown avocado 🥑 😭 (I eat a LOT of avocados and am quite good at picking them. Haven't had a brown one in over a year). IT IS PURE DEVASTATION!

2. My sex toy died right before I finished 🙄 I don't think I need to explain why that's a bummer 😂

3. My Bluetooth speaker dying mid-vault songs 😭 and then refusing to charge quickly. I had to sing and dance at suboptimal volume. Taylor's voice is meant to be enjoyed at full range!!

(I spy a theme: I need to be better about charging appliances 😂)