#Print Bracket

[bbloveseevees]

*Points furiously*

THIS IS RAZ FFS

I DON’T CARE IF ITS A CHIAKI NANAMI FANSONG, ITS RAZ’S NOW

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Jolyne Cujoh First Preliminary Poll

This is the first prelim poll for Jolyne Cujoh, with the purpose to select the best two outfits to move on to a second phase. This is specifically a poll with the outfits found in Jolyne, Fly High with GUCCI.

[holmesillustrations]

Left: “A nobleman.” Naval Treaty, Sidney Paget, The Strand Oct/Nov-Nov/Dec 1893 Characters: Holmes, Lord Holdhurst, Watson

Right: [The Dancing Men Cyphers] Dancing Men, ACD, The Strand Dec 1903

[brucebracket]

🎸IT'S THE SEMI-FINALS!

ARE YOU READY E STREET NATION?

(hint: you very much are NOT!)

Disc 1: Born to Run v. Bandlands

Disc 2: Thunder Road v. Dancing in the Dark

Polls will post at 6am EST/11am UTC on Thursday, 1 February

Send me your propaganda and I will include it in the post

[thesulliedone]

That janky solution I've currently got of having the screen controls physically separated from the printer frame is starting to get annoying...

So, I've been thinking about remounting it, and thanks to Thingiverse I think I've found a solution. Only issue is that I'm not quite sure if the LCD cable is long enough...

Guess I'll find out!

[dissociationswagcompetition]

I went and threw together a voting "button" if youse wanna vote for us during the @ultimate-poll-tournament >:3c

[practicalsolutions]

Happy Monday, folks. Just had the horrifying realization that I've tamped down my joy and excitement so much that I don't know how to express it genuinely anymore.

[widevibratobitch]

Son Jagoda, son ricca d'onore, Baccelliere mi fe' [redacted]; Sarò presto in belcanto dottore, Che di studio ancor poco mi manca. Di là la groupchat mi tolse da un anno, Ed a tumblr con sè mi guidò. Non trattenne Jagoda alcun danno, Per le amiche il suo core parlò. Della poll dei blogger stranieri Colà Verdi le avean trucidato, E le amiche, da pro' tumblrine, La vendetta ne avean giurato; Lo rebloggammo, con tag combattiva Nè il poll fatal si aggiustò. Per le amiche Jagoda soffriva, Che il suo core per esse parlò. Là e dovunque vaguebloggar che del pari la groupchat con lei complottava, Che a una zuffa con i rossiniani, i cuccioli nel sole calciava. Io dalla groupchat allor mi staccava, ognuna di loro softbloccare giurò. Verso [redacted] il treno prendeva,

E Jagoda ai suoi studi tornò!

❤

Ah, tu miserrime vicende avrai they told me. i should have listened...

[pallases]

putting verilog in the blender

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Round 1 Match 39

[todayisafridaynight]

tumblr might not respect the alligator print but i do

[betweenlands]

i. want to run lacuna again. but i need to figure out which parts of the new rules to keep.

[roadrunnerposting]

Take the cheap projector pill

[mlovesdinosaurs]

Beach Style Sunroom Sunroom - large coastal limestone floor and beige floor sunroom idea with no fireplace and a standard ceiling

[toolusingmammalgirl]

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):

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Sword gays showdown, round 4 of bracket three

Propaganda:

For Adora:

Finding the sword kicks off the whole show. She transforms into a giant magic lady and is now in charge of saving everyone from the  big bag guys (which she used to be a part of). A bunch of stuff happens, but eventually her identity is now tied to having the sword. She is fully convinced that w/o the sword (and therefore She-Ra) she’s worthless. This culminates in having to destroy the sword or the world ends. She’s super depressed bc her whole self worth was tied to the sword and being she-ra. On the way to save her gf, she turns into way cooler she-ra (her own version of it that is not controlled by the sword which was made by her colonialist ancestors). Her sword is now part of her identity instead of her identity revolving around the sword. 

lesbian chosen one who was given a sword that activated her powers and made her into a living weapon, but she destroyed the sword to save her planet - and then made her own sword with her magic and saved the entire universe

For Ballister:

he could tell when his sword was switched out for a fake, graduated top of his class so we know he's a good fighter, also the scene where he's fighting is hot because he's so confident with a sword in his hand, also he's gay

A canonically gay, disabled, South Asian man takes down the government with his genderqueer shapeshifter sidekick/adopted daughter! He has a swordfight with his ex-boyfriend! in which he defeats about 20 knights singlehandedly! 

top of his knight class this man is a master swordsman

(Movie) He has used a sword since he broke into the Institutes training ground and ended up becoming a knight

He has very divorced vibes with Ambrosius and he uses a sword.

He's a legit knight! So, it's in the fine print.

According to the Nimona movie, Ballister here has been practicing the art of sword fighting since childhood to earn the trust of the city and he was SO CLOSE to becoming a knight. He's also definitely not dating another one of his knight mates (?). Nope. Not at all. This movie is super straight /s I think he also beats an entire army of knights with nothing but his sword and a chaotic good shapshifter so that's pretty cool. He's also south Asian, has a prosthetic arm he made himself and is honestly such a goofy guy (in a good way ofc) if that's anything.