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♦: While I appreciate the influx of more intriguing questions to us, I must refrain from showing you the answer to this one I am afraid.

♥: DEM GUYS AINT SHIT

♦: When Boxcars saw this question, he proceeded to write what seemed like a 3 page investigative journalism piece on how 'HUNK RUMP IS A BIG BAG O DICKS' and other reasons why it was a non reputable establishment, how they denied him work in years past, etc.

♥: I GOT A BETTER ASS THAN DEM ♦: By the third page he had started his 5th bottle of Bacardi and was rambling about he should start his own 'hunk rump' type establishment. He also attempted to make us film him to start said establishment.

♥: YOU GET OVER HERE YER GONNA BE IN MY MAGAZINE

?: Oh my god no go away please!

♦: I appreciate the effort you all put in to making these questions, but please avoid sensitive subjects like that. I assume you do want some form of response here, however, so I will placate you in from what I can tell is the standard Tumblr way; a cat doing something meaningless

 and gay men.

Enjoy. ((Art credit to This guy ))

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♠: fucker cant appreciate a goddamn leather jacket (( Come on Tumblr you GOT THIS ))

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♥: THAT WOULDA BEEN A HELLUVA LOT FUNNIER IF YOUD ACTUALLY POSTED A PICTURE ASSHOLE

((Eppy here. Yeah, for some reason, that derped. It's a lot funnier with the picture, I assure you. Problem is, for some reason, Tumblr showed it on the queue but not in the post. Fuck you, Tumblr. I'll get Jules to repost it when she comes home tonight - until then, I've just deleted the post.

Also, I'm reposting the thing Julia posted below about Aki-Con. Unfortunately, I'm worn the hell out from my first week on my new job and I've got schoolwork to do, so I won't be there. Make sure you go to give Slick and Droog your love, though. ;p))

((Also, This is Julia. Slick-AKA Luke and I will be at aki con today and tomorrow! Give us a shout out if you see us!))

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( Hi guys, Deuce here! I’m sorry I haven’t been active on the blog. However, this is really important! My university is doing something very wrong, and we need all the support we can get. Please, just give this a quick read and reblog to spread the word. I’d really appreciate it. Thank you guys for being so great! )

I would like to tell you all what has happened to me this past week

And how my own college has literally screwed me over entirely. 

I have been having panic attacks caused by my depression and anxiety. On Monday I had the worst panic attack of my life, and attempted suicide. Obviously I failed (because Tylenol can’t kill you just ruins your stomach and liver) Rae had found me in my room and took me to safety and security on my campus who then called an ambulance and I spent the rest of that day at the hospital.

Usually after my panic attacks I feel fine and this time I realized that I needed to seek help. At first my college (Seattle Pacific University) seemed very ready to help; when I came back to campus they had me meet with the student councilor who I really liked and once I had finished talking to him I really felt excited about meeting with him and talking things out, and figuring out if I should start medication. 

My school still made it clear that at the time they wanted me to stay off of campus till things were resolved. They had told me that they still had to decide what would be best for me; though at this point I was under the impression I would be returning to classes by Monday.

The next day I returned to campus to talk to the RLC’s who are the resident life staff. Here is the mission statement of the RLC’s:

Provide a residential community founded on Christian faith         and values.

Provide residential housing facilities that are safe and welcoming.

Train and supervise student leaders.

Offer co-curricular programming according to student developmental needs.

Operate a fair and just disciplinary process.

Advise residence hall councils.

I went to meet with one of them, and they had told me that they decided that the best thing was to put me on a medical leave, and not come back till spring quarter next year. Also if I want to come back I am supposed to have met with a therapist on my own time and money.

So instead of having free therapy from my school and easy access to medication they think that dumping me is better. 

This school was so important to me and getting a degree was my top goal at the moment, but because this school sees me as a liability rather than a person that just needs some help they are literally putting my life on pause. 

They continued to tell me that they really did care about me and what was best for me, but they probably didn’t know who I was until this Monday. Even my mother who has known me for 20 years agreed that this was a horrible decision. 

I now have to move out by tomorrow and find a new place to live. 

They have put my life to a screeching halt. 

I’m being torn away from my school and my friends, and basically being expected to get all the help I need on my own. 

This school says they care, but basically they are telling me I’ve screwed up, slapping me and sending me on my way. 

And if you were all wondering, I refuse to return back to this campus in the spring. 

So yeah. I just wanted other people to hear how this school handles students who really need help. 

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♠: jesus fucking fuck get the fuck off me droog you fucking son of a sl-

♦: You will behave in public, or I'm breaking out my second cue.

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♦: Not enough for my tastes.

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♥: ...

♥: I DONT THINK SO

♥: FOR ONE IM BIGGER THAN HE IS

♥: AND I GOT THIS NICE HAT

♥: AND MY STACHE IS BETTER LOOKIN

♥: AINT NO WAY HES LIKE ME

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♣: WELL, YA SEE...

♣: SOME PEOPLE ARE WONDERIN' WHETHER IT'S ROBBERS OR RAPPERS I MADE RUN! THAT'S MY LITTLE SECRET, BUT THERE WERE DEFINITELY SIX OF THEM.

♣: A COUPL'A BIG BOOMS AND A GOOD CANING ALWAYS DOES THE TRICK!

♣: THERE'S A REASON THE MIDNIGHT CREW GETS EVERYONE'S JIMMIES RUSTLED WITH FEAR.

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The OOC side of askirlmidnightcrew!

((Eppy here!

I've got a post queued up for tomorrow sometime - just waiting on our Deuce to supply her dialogue. In the meantime, I figured I'd post this announcment:

We've got an OOC askblog! We get a ton of asks that aren't necessarily appropriate to answer on an IC askblog, and we get the occasional ask that we can't answer on the askblog for one reason or another.

This new blog isn't necessarily for announcements - we'll still be doing those here. What it is for is so we can screw around a bit and interact with the fans in a public setting. It's also so we can post "behind the scenes" stuff, some insight on why we aren't answering particular asks yet, and things like that.

Feel free to follow us here: http://askoocirlmidnightcrew.tumblr.com/ - and who knows, your ask just might show up on there if it isn't right for here. :D

Also keep in mind, we've got the askbox closed over there. We'd rather not juggle too many inboxes, and we've got plenty of asks in this askbox anyway. When we post over there, we'll probably be posting the same way we post here - make a screenshot of the ask, post it as an image, and then roll with it. From that perspective, nothing will change with how you interact with us.

Thanks for listening, and sorry we've been slow at posting - I've been consumed by homework lately, so I've been forgetting to post stuff. Julia has her computer back though, so she'll be back to doing the .gifs more efficiently somewhat soon!))

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♦: We would never do something so frivolous and childish. We are grown men, and we will not stoop to such a degrading level. ♣: YUP! THE BIGGEST, STRONGEST, AND SAFEST!

♦: Nothing wrong with a bit of safety, of course. Big vehicles have trouble seeing the little guy.

♣: CAN WE GO FOR ICE CREAM AFTER THIS, DROOGIE? ♦: Don't call me that again. ♦: And yes, for you.

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Smiles.

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(Is there anyway you guys can make your wonderful gifs bigger? We want to see your beautiful faces better.)

((This is an easy, but unfortunate answer.

tl;dr version: No, not really. :(  Read below for a "brief" explanation of why.

The problem is that Tumblr has a 1024KB limit on .gifs - if they go above that, they won't animate properly on your dash. You need to open them separately, and that's just kind of a pain in the ass.

There are three* ways I can think of to reduce the filesize: scale the image down, crop the edges of the image, and reduce the palette used for the .gif images.

Reducing the palette doesn't actually do as much as I'd like it to, and if you go below 128 colors it starts to look like ass anyway.

Cropping the edges helps greatly, and that's what I do after I've scaled the converted video from 720x480 to 240x160.

Scaling is really the best answer, though. I can knock 2MB off an image by scaling it down.

I'll sit down with the next video and see if there's a better "happy medium" than 240x160, but you're simply not going to get them too much bigger than that.

* There technically is a fourth way to reduce the image size - make shorter .gifs. It's really hard to get a meaningful action into a 1-second .gif though. So I could either post largeer-but-disjointed (and therefore crappy-looking) .gifs, or the small ones that actually show smooth and coherent action.

-Eppy

(p.s. - I might actually use my own blog and outline how I make .gifs for the hell of it. If any of you have a better idea on how to convert them, I'll be happy to listen to them!))

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In honor of all the people using today as an excuse to drink.

♠: i like my liquor like i like my knives

♦: I need something with a kick to keep up with these morons.

♥: HELL YEAH

    BOTTOMS UP YOU PUSSY BASTARDS

♣: FINALLY! I'VE BEEN NEEDIN' A DRINK FOR A WHILE NOW!

♠: strong as shit

♦: I burn the pain away with vodka.

♣: BOXCARS MAKES THE BEST LEMONADE.

♠: i chug fuckin jäger

♥: AHHHHHH 151  

♣: CAN I HAVE SOME MORE, FELLAS?

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WAIT FUCK, YOU BITCHES ARE ALL FROM WASHINGTON? ARE YOU IN THE PUGET SOUND AREA?

(( I'm assuming this is the anon from earlier today, once again. Yeah, basically. Rae and Eppy are, but me and Julia are much more North, in Shoreline.

-Luke ))

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Are you all wastucks? because that would make my life

(( As a matter of fact, yes, we are! Me and Eppy were two of the original members, and Rae and Julia came into the picture sometime in the summer.

-Luke ))

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♥: CMERE YOU SONS OF BITCHES

♠: fuck fuck fuck shit shit god fucking fuck dammit lemme go boxcars

♦: I forgot what this special brand of group-based pain felt like. I don't like it... but it feels like home. Is that cracking in my chest what family feels like?

♣: OH BOY, BOXCARS HUGS!

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♣: HEY SLICK, WHAT ARE WE POSIN' FOR? SLICK, YOU GOT SOMETHIN' ON YOUR FACE.

♠: i aint got shit on my face now shaddup and look at the fuckin camera deuce

♦: I hope this comparison picture meets your approval.

♥: I DONT LIKE HAVIN MY PICTURE TAKEN

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♣: GEE, WHY'RE SO MANY PEOPLE SO CURIOUS ABOUT ME? I WASN'T GONE THAT LONG, WAS I?

♣: SOME OF YOU TALK FUNNY.

♣: THE BOYS TOLD ME THERE AIN'T NO OTHER DEUCE. THAT'S TRUE, AIN'T IT...?