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check out my webbed site

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learning a lot about Harry Potter

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in light of Cohost shutting down next month I am maybe going to start using Tumblr again

I will probably be both aggressively following and unfollowing people for a little bit.

I am also refamiliarising myself with stuff and going through all my settings and XKit settings.

There is something I haven’t found either in Tumblr’s own interface or XKit Rewritten’s settings though: Is there a way to disable reblogs on my feed from specific users? i.e. is there a way to make it so that if a specific user makes a new post (or a reblog with stuff added other than tags) that I will see it but if they reblog something I won’t?

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last year I followed along Dracula Daily with three different versions of Dracula at once because I’m insane

I ended up making this infographic about the differences between the translated versions I read and the original.

It’s also on my website along with as an an Irish-language version of the infographic.

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Hey I’m making a podcast about The Ring now with @jenheadjen

I'm reading the original Ring novel and it's a crime that some of the adaptations left out the best thing about the cursed video tape in the original book: The end of the tape itself has instructions on how to avoid being killed by the curse but a bunch of shithead teenagers taped over it with an advert as a joke.

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fool, you think that you can stave off the march of entropy merely by embracing the path of the machine? rot does not come only for the flesh

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Snolf real

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Good news! Tumblr is adding a “reply all” function!

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What if the reason that Dracula says “to live in a new house would kill me” is because it would have plumbing and there would be running water going through it all the time?

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Texture, The Ring: Terror’s Realm (2000) for Dreamcast

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MSCHF are also the crowd that just released that dating sim that helps you file a US tax return.

Disconnected Thoughts on Art Reproduction:

Hokusai's Great Wave fascinates me because, unlike almost every other artwork in that bracket of fame, it was never a bespoke piece that was only later reproduced. It was a commercial print right from the start, and while versions of it can be identified as belonging to different print runs, there is no meaningful 'original' aside from the long-since-discarded printing plates.

Even better, this state has been imposed on artworks that were once unique. In 2021, the art collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol sketch at auction for $20,000, made 999 meticulous forgeries of it, shuffled them to destroy any record of which was the original, and sold each piece for $250 as Possibly Real Copy of 'Fairies' by Andy Warhol, by MSCHF.

As with many smartass art collectives, MSCHF's projects range from eye-rolling to kinda clever to brilliant, but I think this is their magnum opus. It has exactly the kind of unwieldy literal title I adore. The original work has been arguably destroyed, but in a way that Warhol would applaud. It's the most pointed way to ask art buyers, do you care about the actual artistry of the work or just the bragging rights of owning the original?

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Artistic domains where reproduction is trivial are often prone to the Superstar Problem: Why would I listen to the world's 50th-best cellist when I can stream all the Yo-Yo Ma I want just as easily? NFTs were pitched as a solution to this, marking the original or master copy of a natively-digital work to let it retain value. But even if the crypto market didn't have its own 2008 every few weeks, I don't want fine-art auction houses to be the future of digital art, especially when there are already plenty of existing ways to mitigate the problem. A fursona, a tabletop-game character, a niche Blorbo, etc. are all bespoke value-adds that enable a much greater range of artists to get commissions. But these require a culture of art fans who don't care about flipping it at Christie's, often overlapping with fannish cultures where plenty of artists operate at all experience levels.

I don't have any tidy conclusions for this, but I just want to say that an earlier version of this process - "paint me a biblical scene, and put me in it to flex my wealth and piety" - culminated in one of the funniest artworks I've ever seen, Francisco de Zurbarán's Christ Crucified (With Donor):

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I posted it to a Discord server and the reviews are in

It’s everyone’s favorite 1998 platforming game hero, Glover!

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I enjoyed Goncharov for the most part but the ending is really weird? Why did they go with this??

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