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Have you seen TMNT: Mutant Mayhem and Tales of the TMNT?

No I haven’t and tbh I don’t know if I will. I’ve had my fill of tmnt incarnations over the years to the point where I kinda need a break from it, and this new one just doesn’t really appeal to me that much. 🤷‍♀️

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what are the top five Things you associate with me

characters pairings shows objects jokes memes games etc

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me to my mutuals when i discover a new hyperfixation <3

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you, artist online. somebody has referenced you in conversation irl by your online handle and somebody else knew who you were talking about. somebody has kept up closely with your posts for a period of time like their morning paper. somebody found a music artist because of you, thinks of you when they hear them on the radio. somebody followed you years ago and remembers you randomly even though they can't find you. somebody has screenshotted and saved your posts and sent them in discord servers. somebody has made your drawings their lockscreen, added them to their favorites folder and looked at them when they're going through some shit, has sent them to their best friend and sparked conversation in private chats. your art in particular could be the source of a keen sense of nostalgia for someone. maybe they've even printed out your images using their home printer and taped them to their bedroom wall and they look at it every day and they never even told you. isn't that scary? isn't that awesome? remember this well.

submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known so that you may turn around and see the impact you leave and the light you cast on others.

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So You've Finally Switched to Firefox: a Brief Guide to a Some Very Useful Add-Ons.

This post is inspired by two things, the first being the announcement by Google that the long delayed Manifest V3 which will kill robust adblocking will finally roll out in June 2024, and the second, a post written by @sexhaver in response to a question as to what adblockers and extensions they use. It's a very good post with some A+ information, worth checking out.

I love Firefox, I love the degree of customization it offers me as a user. I love how it just works. I love the built in security features like DNS over HTTPS, and I love just how many excellent add-ons are available. It is a better browser than Chrome in every respect, and of the many Chromium based browsers out there, only Vivaldi comes close.

There are probably many people out there who are considering switching over to Firefox but are maybe putting it off because they've got Chrome set up the way they like it with the extensions they want, and doing all that again for Firefox seems like a chore. The Firefox Add-on directory is less expansive than the Chrome Web Store (which in recent years has become overrun with garbage extensions that range from useless to active malware), but there is still a lot of stuff to sift through. That's where this short guide comes in.

I'm presently running 33 add-ons for Firefox and have a number of others installed but disabled. I've used many others. These are my picks, the ones that I consider essential, useful, or in some cases just fun.

Adblocking/Privacy/Security:

uBlock Origin: The single best adblocker available. If you're a power user there are custom lists and scripts you can find to augment it.

Privacy Badger: Not strictly necessary if you're also running uBlock, but it does catch a few trackers uBlock doesn't and replaces potentially useful trackers like comment boxes with click-to-activate placeholders.

Decentraleyes: A supplementary tool meant to run alongside uBlock, prevents certain sites from breaking when tracker requests are denied by serving local bundled files as replacement.

NoScript: The nuclear option for blocking trackers, ads, and even individual elements. Operates from a "trust no one" standpoint, you will need to manually enable elements yourself. Not recommended for casual users, but a fantastic tool for the power user.

Webmail Ad Blocker: The first of many webmail related add-ons from Jason Saward I will be recommending. Removes all advertising from webmail services like Gmail or Yahoo Mail.

Popup Blocker (Strict): Strictly blocks ALL pop up/new tab/new window requests from all website by default unless you manually allow it.

SponsorBlock: Not a fan of listening to your favourite YouTuber read advertisements for shitty products like Raycons or BetterHelp? This skips them automatically.

AdNauseam: I don't use this one but some people prefer it. Rather than straight up blocking ads and trackers, it obfuscates data by injecting noise into the tracker surveillance infrastructure. It clicks EVERY ad, making your data profile incomprehensible.

User-Agent Switcher: Allows you to spoof websites attempting to gather information by altering your browser profile. Want to browse mobile sites on desktop? This allows you to do it.

Bitwarden: Bitwarden has been my choice of password manager since LastPass sold out and made their free tier useless. If you're not using a password manager, why not? All of my passwords look like this: $NHhaduC*q3VhuhD&scICLKjvM4rZK5^c7ID%q5HVJ3@gny I don't know a single one of them and I use a passphrase as a master password supplemented by two-factor-authentication. Everything is filled in automatically. It is the only way to live.

Proton Pass: An open source free password manager from the creators of Proton Mail. I've been considering moving over to it from Bitwarden myself.

Webmail/Google Drive:

Checker Plus for Gmail: Provides desktop notifications for Gmail accounts, supports managing multiple accounts, allows you to check your mail, read, mark as read or delete e-mails at a glance in a pop-up window. An absolutely fabulous add-on from Jason Saward.

Checker Plus for Google Drive: Does for your Google Drive what Checker Plus for Gmail does for your Gmail.

Checker Plus for Google Calendar: The same as the above two only this time for your Google Calendar.

Firefox Relay: An add-on that allows you to generate aliases that forward to your real e-mail address.

Accessibility:

Dark Reader: Gives every page on the internet a customizable Dark Mode for easier reading and eye protection.

Read Aloud: A text to speech add-on that reads pages with the press of a button.

Zoom Page WE: Provides the ability to zoom in on pages in multiple ways: text zoom, full page zoom, auto-fit etc.

Mobile Dyslexic: Not one I use, but I know people who swear by it. Replaces all fonts with a dyslexia friendly type face.

Utility:

ClearURLs: Automatically removes tracking data from URLs.

History Cleaner: Automatically deletes browser history older than a set number of days.

Feedbro RSS Feed Reader: A full standalone reader in your browser, take control of your feed and start using RSS feeds again.

Video Download Helper: A great tool for downloading video files from websites.

Snap Link Plus: Fan of Wikipedia binge holes? Snap Link allows to drag select multiple hyperlink and automatically open all of them in new tabs.

Copy PlainText: Copy any text without formatting.

EPUBReader: Read .epub files from within a browser window.

Tab Stash: A no mess, no fuss way to organize groups of tabs as bookmarks. I use it as a temporary bookmark tool, saving sessions or groups of tabs into "to read" folders.

Tampermonkey/Violentmonkey: Managers for installing and running custom user scripts. Find user scripts on OpenUserJS or Greasy Fork, there's an entire galaxy out there of ingenious and weird custom user scripts out there, go discover it.

Browsing & Searching:

Speed Dial 2: A new tab add-on that gives you easy access to your favourite sites.

Unpaywall: Whenever you come across a scholarly article behind a paywall, this add-on will search through all the free databases for an accessible and non-paywalled version of the text.

Web Archives: Come across a dead page? This add-on gives you a quick way to search for cached versions of the page on the Wayback Machine, Google Cache, Archive.is and others.

Bypass Paywalls: Automatically bypasses the paywalls of major websites like those for the New York Times, New Yorker, the Financial Times, Wired, etc.

Simple Translate: Simple one-click translation of web pages powered by Google Translate.

Search by Image: Reverse search any image via several different search engines: Google Image, TinEye, Yandex, Bing, etc.

Website Specific:

PocketTube: Do you subscribe to too many YouTube channels? Would you like a way to organize them? This is your answer.

Enhancer for Youtube: Provides a suite of options that make using YouTube more pleasant: volume boost, theatre mode, forced quality settings, playback speed and mouse wheel volume control.

Augmented Steam: Improves the experience of using Steam in a browser, see price histories of games, take notes on your wishlist, make wish listed games and new DLC for games you own appear more visible, etc.

Return YouTube Dislikes: Does exactly what it says on the package.

BlueBlocker: Hate seeing the absolute dimmest individuals on the planet have their replies catapulted to the top of the feed because they're desperate to suck off daddy Elon sloppy style? This is for you, it automatically blocks all Blue Checks on Twitter. I've used it to block a cumulative 34,000 Blue Checks.

Batchcamp: Allows for batch downloading on Bandcamp.

XKit Rewritten: If you're on Tumblr and you're not using whichever version of XKit is currently available, I honestly don't know what to say to you. This newest version isn't as fully featured as the old XKit of the golden age, but it's been rewritten from the ground up for speed and utility.

Social Fixer for Facebook: I once accidentally visited Facebook without this add-on enabled and was immediately greeted by the worst, mind annihilating content slop I had ever had the misfortune to come across. Videos titled "he wanted her to get lip fillers and she said no so he had bees sting her lips", and AI photos of broccoli Jesus with 6000 comments all saying "wow". Once I turned it on it was just stuff my dad had posted and updates from the Radio War Nerd group.

BetterTTV: Makes Twitch slightly more bearable.

Well I think that's everything. You don't have to install everything here, or even half of it, but there you go, it's a start.

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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Hey artists be honest whats your favorite specific thing to draw

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Figures that I couldn't actually finish this on christmas BUT IT'S OKAY! Better late than never ig. ^^;

Anyways, I hope you all had a good Christmas! I don't think I've ever drawn the main cast all together in one drawing but seeing them together fills me with so much joy. ;w;

Characters shown: Teresa (top left), Sheridan (bottom left), Naomi-Paige (middle), Elijah (top right)

Brushes Used:

- 💖 Sheri’s Basics 💖 (Link in tree)

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OTP: Superhalo

So ah

That Superman 2025 trailer.

That's happening.

I legit haven't been this hyped for a movie in a long time and good lord I am PRAYING this it's good. I am PRAYING that Clark's written well. I PRAY he gets treated with the love and respect he deserves. And I pray that they don't do anything stupid. I WANT THIS MOVIE TOBE GOOD SO BADLY IT HURTS.

IF THEY DO CLARK DIRTY I WILL RIOT IN THE STREETS.

So ah

Yeah

Lego batman dipped my toe in the pool.

But the Superman trailer hecken picked me up and threw me in headfirst.

I guess it's time for me to enter my DC era. Let's go.

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I hope you have a good day, and God bless!

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basic things you should know about your main characters

how is their relationship with their family

what are their beliefs, if they have any

what is their motivation (preferably something unrelated to their love interest/romantic feelings)

who were they raised to be vs. who they became/are becoming

what are their plans for the future, if they have any

how they feel about themselves and how it affects their behaviour

how do they feel about things they cannot control

and last but not least: Why is This Character the Protagonist??

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I think at some point in time we need to sit down and start explaining to artist who want to make a career out of art that there are FAR more options than just "living off of commissions" and "posting my art online and praying I get paid for it".

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Man…just…

Words cannot describe how much I hate that instagram is basically just tiktok all over again and all the bad habits and problems I had bc of tiktok are also a thing on insta at this point. It’s all the same. It’s all the damn same and I’m so tired of it.

I hate that so many artists from DA moved over there. (Like why? All they do is give the artists who post to their platform the middle finger anyway.)

I hate that it’s one of the options I’m having to consider bc idk if I should post to DA anymore.

I hate that it’s the only other website with even close to the same amount of people and exposure DA once reached.

I hate that it’s objectively unfriendly towards artists and is now addictive to the point of mind numbness just like tiktok was.

I hate that I can’t even reset my reels recommendations so that things can start over and steer in a better direction that doesn’t exhaust me with humanity.

I hate it. I hate it all. Tiktok and shortform content has rotted our brains and poisoned social media/the internet forever.

Take me back to 2010 please I beg.

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Akira Kurosawa

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Do I have any idea if making use of this blog to actually post more of my work is a good path to take? No. But dangit ya never know of you don’t try.

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I’ve been in a christmasy state of mind lately now that I’ve got my decorations up so this sorta happened over the last couple of days. Kinda symbolic of remembering what this holiday is for among all the fun and craziness. I’m really pleased with how it all came together. :>

Brushes Used:

💖 Sheri’s Basics 💖 (Link in Bio)

🎄 Christmas Set 🎁 (Work in Progress)

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Gavrielle took a long, slow breath as she stared down at the three teenagers, the anger and frustration rushing through her like an unruly explosive, ready to detonate at the slightest push. She carried with her a strong, unidentifiable wind, one that billowed the curtains and rattled the hinges on the door; and a bright, divine light that stopped each boy in their tracks at the mere sight, the radiance of colors stunning them like rodents. The sound of her impatiently tapping her arm with her index finger was the only thing to break the tense silence, her stare boring into the three children as if about to smite them where they stood. She truly didn't have the patience for this today...it had been a hell of a week even without all the demonic chaos going on, and the last thing she wanted to do was come here and be someone else's parent. But she had a job to do and she couldn't rest without stopping it at the source first, and these three kids just happened to be both stupid and unfortunate enough to be part of that process.

"I'm going to extend grace and not yell..." she started, her voice booming in the dark room despite it's dangerous calm, "...but I will require you three to hand over those stupid cult hoods and go apologize to your parents."

Gav hates demons.

She hates dumb teenagers who try to summon demons even more.

Makes her job infinitely harder than it needs to be.

(Crossposting from DA bc I'm trying smth new. Testing things out here to see where I wanna land, please bear with me.)

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