#I LOVE ROTARY PHONES

[colorpuzzled]

does anyone fw him . the ringer

[stoppingo1k]

and here's some progress shots. hot tip if anyone needs to make shading that looks alright in a pinch just use gradients. go ham on gradients. you can't go wrong with more gradients

[dinosaurwithablog]

There was an art to being a switchboard operator. They were some of the best multi taskers ever. They connected every call that came into a business manually. It was fascinating to watch them work. Another lost art. Alas and alack

[multiversal-stims]

One day I will go back outside and see her ok

Rotary phone stimboard for me hehe

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[desolatehands]

i need to share the commission i got of my inkling, i love my little guy. my little man

[dizzyditzyboy]

I remember a while ago I was at a flea market and one of the stores there had a bunch of beautiful vintage technology in there, and some of them were old rotary phones, one of them even dated back to the 1920's

My favorite one was this one fancy princess style type rotary phone, y'know the ones with the long neck and smaller round base and it was the pretty light green color! I haven't seen a rotary phone in person in probably a very long time, if i've ever seen one in person at all. Being able to feel one and turn the dial of one myself was waaayyyy better than just listening to videos of people doing it! I felt like I met the love of my life <3

But sadly I couldn't afford it and had to go home phoneless but I haven't stopped thinking about it since

Maybe one day if I'm lucky I'll be able to go back and buy it and that phone won't just be a nice memory anymore

[fragiledate]

☎️ call me when you lost 📞

[triptychofvoids]

Hi! Yes the anon with weird interests is back. I know ive been here a couple times, and i might be overstaying my welcome, but i like talking to you/medic/whatever i should call you ;-;

I found a pretty blood colored stone, a bleeding heart flower, and a Flame-Breasted Fruit Dove. *hands them to you* hope you like my gifts! Thx for the sharp teeth too!

-Anon with weird interests who probably will be coming back soon ^v^

not a problem anon! i love talking i love answering asks!!

and thank you for the gifts!! all so pretty.. i like them a lot. that reminds me, have you seen bleeding-heart doves? theyre also very very pretty birds

[luderailing]

I set my icon to this rotary phone forever ago before i even considered starting to post on tumblr, I intended to have it as some drawing of romania or whoever but now im just attached to it ☎️

[lavender-roses]

“I will not buy anything today” I said as I entered the thrift store this morning with my parents

“I an only here to look” I said as I buy a vintage looking phone and a doll

[quicktimeeventfull]

also like tbh i strongly feel that if a younger person doesn't know how to use a piece of technology that you are familiar with the correct response is to like. teach them. you know. like if you run into a child who doesn't know how to run an .exe file you can just take like five minutes out of your day to show them and then they will know. 99% of the tech we grew up is genuinely pretty simple, so if someone doesn't know how to use it it's probably a lack of familiarity more than anything else. ‘easy’ isn’t the same thing as ‘intuitive.’

ime kids are usually pretty gracious about doing it the other way around? like basically every time i've been struggling with an app or something in the presence of a younger person they've just taken my phone and showed me how to do it, or gone ahead and done it for me. so it's really not difficult to do the same for them.

[dialtown-brainrot]

School and other stuff has been taking up most of my free time so l haven't really had time to post here :,)

But anyway here's drawings l've made of Norm without his paperbag. I really hope this doesn't flop :,D

I have a lot more drawings of him with his face covered- I'm planning to find out how many l've made since he's extremely addictive to doodle

[dinosaurwithablog]

I, finally, got a real phone... a great phone... a ridiculously priced phone.... my phone guy, Hamood, hooked me up. Thanks, Hamood 😊😍 now, I've got to learn what this thing can do. I bet it could make me breakfast if I pushed the right buttons. For the amount that it cost, it should. 😉😁 I can't wait to take photos with it!!

[whoreraccoon]

Characters with a random object as a head rock so hard like hell yeah bro ur so ambiguous u don’t even have a human head bro

[rederiswrites]

Sometimes I'm on here and y'all make posts that just make me go, "you are very young and would benefit from learning something about our culture in the last hundred years".

Yes, people are upset by trans and enby people, because their lives are entirely structured around the different roles of men and women, and the idea that men and women are fundamentally different and inherently suited to their traditional roles. Like, that shouldn't be a big realization. That was a major part of western culture until quite recently, and still is for a great many people. We attack their basic worldview by existing as ourselves. Obviously they're wrong, but that doesn't change the emotion of the situation.

Yes, conservative cis people act like marriage is a chore. For most of history, and certainly US colonial history, marriage was a social and economic necessity that created a working partnership. Attraction was certainly a hoped-for element but not strictly required, and love was a bonus, possibly even a bit suspect as a motivation. It was still like this when my grandparents married. I know couples today who are separated but married for financial reasons. We're not talking about the distant past. Marriage has been many things through the years, and "an equal partnership based on love" is a very recent iteration. Of course our culture is littered with artifacts of the older way. The older way was like...yesterday. Today.

Yes, Grandma has trouble at the grocery store checkout. When she was a kid they had rotary phones and radios, and you paid for everything with cash. She grew up in a culture that taught that childhood was for learning and adulthood was for doing, and now the world is asking her to learn a bunch of new things that basically sound like magic, and she's not even sure she can, and she's not at all sure it's an improvement (and she's got a point, though she might not know it).

There's just....a real lack of perspective. I dunno, watch some documentaries about the fifties. Read some historical novels. Go to the local Victorian house tour.

[ali3nboyfriend]

i’ve never seen anyone design anything the way the destiny franchise designs aliens, and i think the reason their alien designs are so unique and interesting is because they’re just completely unafraid of making them ugly.

other media wants their aliens and monsters to have aesthetic appeal above anything else; even if something is meant to horrify you, they want it to be good to look at. anything that makes a design unattractive past a certain point is usually left on the cutting room floor. and this is an understandable practice! humans are a very aesthetically inclined species!

but look at the aliens in destiny!

they’ve got weird stuff going on! cabal faces straight up look like a scrotum! psions are soooo egg-shaped and malnourished looking, and hive have a bad case of muppet mouth on top of looking like human skeletons with bug parts grafted on. eliksni are gangly and awkwardly shaped and in-game they are constantly hunched over.

a lot of the times (except for with the hive), these features are covered with armor and helmets, and i think that's pretty unfortunate because the base designs for these guys are so interesting to look at!!!

the same principals go for unique enemies like rhulk and nezarec. they're ugly!!! and that's the appealing part!!! rhulk's head is long and almost perfectly cylindrical and his feet can't decide if they're hooves or paws; nezarec has a face like a rotary phone and a second, vestigial thumb, as well as weirdly shaped monkey feet.

and it would be one thing if these features were presented to evoke horror -- but the thing is, i would argue, they're not. they're just presented. it's never a matter of "look how scary this thing is." even though we meet most of these aliens as enemies, their looks are allowed to just... be what they are. they don't look like that to scare us. they just look like that.

and i think that's a really fascinating lesson in monster/alien design! i love monster designs that are objectively appealing and nice to look at, but i honestly wish more media did things like this, because it makes the universe so interesting!