the most life-changing customer i’ve ever had at work was a guy who came up to me and my coworker when we were at cash and said ‘hey kids…. wanna see something?’
and I said sure because why the fuck not, i’m here for a good time not a long time, and this motherfucker pulled a railroad spike out of his pocket.
A GODDAMN
ANTIQUE
RAILROAD
SPIKE
It was a fucking foot long chunk of steel that weighed about five pounds on its own so i was like ‘huh….. neat’
and he said ‘wait. there’s more’ and he took out a screwdriver. inlaid into the head of the spike. ‘things aren’t always as they appear’ he said as he unscrewed the bit and pulled out of this goddamn railroad spike
a statue
a tiny, tiny golden statue stood on the base of this flathead screw. it was a tiny golden man standing next to a tiny golden flower with gemstones in the petals. the whole thing was smaller than my thumbnail is tall. it was detailed enough that the tiny man had facial features. it was amazing.
‘oh my god,’ i said. ‘how long did it take you to make that?’
‘here’s a word of advice,’ he said, ‘never answer that question when people ask it. it devalues your work. you’ll get faster and better at things, and be able to make more art in less time. they don’t need to know about the process, just the product’.
and he left and that’s the one artistic piece of advice i definitely wanna hold to.
don’t tell people how long it takes to make shit.
I love that advice! Especially since, as a storyboard artist, that would be a great way to drive the production managers absolutely mad.
Does anyone remember the time George H.W. Bush puked all over the Japanese prime minister’s lap???
Barbara Bush trying to protect the grace that the Bush family never had to begin with
YES
Specifically, bushuru means to vomit in a situation where it would be socially humiliating to do so. So vomiting in the safety of your own home? Not bushuru. Vomiting while walking down the aisle at your own wedding? Bushuru.
That certainly tops Bush Jr getting shoes thrown at him at an Iraqi summit 😂
I want.. more voltron content (fics mostly) but I don’t want to look for it… I’m so tired….. please.. rec me some good stuff, ie fics, blogs, artists/writers to follow,,,
There’s a weird fandom phenomenon I think where people constantly seem to parse Lotor as a rich person used to luxury.
Like… we have never seen Lotor complain about the low standard of literally anything put in front of him. he was functionally homeless between s4e3/Black Site and s5e4/Kral Zera and spent most of that time actively a prisoner. He tells Allura about how after Zarkon exiled him to the edge of the universe, he spent a long time trawling through ancient ruins in inhospitable places.
Lotor’s resourcefulness, tenacity, and the fact that he’s pretty much never surprised by people treating him horribly would all point towards someone who’s tenacious, scrappy, and the last thing he really pays attention to his his own appearance. Yes, he’ll probably make an effort to be clean if he can possibly afford it, but, even his hair, that he’s overtly cultivated and wears long- Throk clips a piece of it off during s3e1/Changing Of The Guard and Lotor seems to not even notice.
So like… where’s the fanart, AUs, etc. exploring Lotor as someone pulling together what he has from almost nothing? Where’s Lotor who hasn’t really gotten the resources for his signature armor yet so he’s just making do with whatever pieces he can find and he’s been basically living out of this crumbling Altean city without active infrastructure, water only clean if he can boil it first, and the only power he can get to run things is if he patches things either into his suit or his ship? Lotor whose standard for “somewhere to sleep” always, on some level, includes “well, it has a roof this time.”
Like it feels like he’s visually pretty and at the point he shows up in Changing Of The Guard he’s got enough resources that he has regular access to a shower and because he talks elegant and looks clean people assume he’s never had to struggle when, frankly, it’d be hard to point to any particular section of Lotor’s history that he wasn’t obviously struggling for resources before he was able to scrape enough together to do things like the colony and his personal cruiser- none of which are standard imperial designs, which make it clear he didn’t exactly have the empire’s help creating them.
lance: has an arc about finding confidence in himself without being the one who gets all the glory, learning to find his place as someone who lifts other people up because not everyone can be leaders and that’s okay. he’s still important and complete and amazing
y’all: here’s my 2k long meta on why black paladin + main character lance should and will happen
Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.
I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)
One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.
More info over the days to come.
The plan is, broadly:
1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there
2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.
3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.
4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.
Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.
There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.
The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons – maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.
If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.
Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.
(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site – that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)
If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.
If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.
(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)
If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.
Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.
Thanks for tagging. I’m a bit sceptical though. An open minded community site with millions of users that functions like tumblr? Yet nobody knows the name of it. ok. I’ll let it surprise me.
Kari Izumi's Tblr Backup 