#Tomska Last Week

[nichknack]

Tomska’s last month series just finished so this is the perfect excuse for me to marathon all of last week and last month.

Parasocial who? I don’t know her.

[lastweekgifs]

[simplydm]

hi hello dm!!! i am sending a question back. are there any ccs that you dont watch regularly but you adore when you do? if not, are there any ccs that you have gone through a major phase of watching, completely stopped, and then started again>?

i hope u have a wonderufl rest of ur wednesday !!

Hmm, that’s a good question. So, since I’m kind of in my Hermitcraft arc I’ll talk about them- I have this big huge playlist of season 9 that I try to work my way through, prioritizing some over others just to keep up with storylines. But xB and Beef are two that i have kind of fell behind on, and every time I watch one of their videos I’m like hooooly shit they’re great. I literally started watching an xB video today because I needed to have some xBcrafted in my life. Outside of videos, I’m having a similar thing with The Adventure Zone podcast. I love TAZ and need to get into the most recent campaign, but I’m working my way through The Magnus Archives. Ugh there’s so much Media to watch

[adaycalledx]

you know life is weird when you start a full last week marathon again

[what-its-rio]

TW VENT POST: HEAVY TW/CW

howdy tumblr! i hope youre having an amazing art fight!

all the while me, a disabled teenager, my 12 year old sister, my 18 year old disabled sibling, 72 year old grandmother, my single aunt who is parenting a 2 year old, and my single mother have busted our asses for 2 weeks straight shoving everything we own into a box, or just straight up throwing it out! all because our privileged, white, rich landlords could sell our dream home to whoever comes knocking, because they know that piece of shit house is coming down in a matter of weeks.

dear ellie last-name-here, if this finds you, which dreadfully hoping against tomskas law that you dont, i really hope you know what youve just put me and everyone i loved through. but not just for these past two weeks, but for the past 3 years we stayed in your lovely, shitty home. sincerely, fuck you. i want to punch your face in so bad, its not even funny.

from hiring shitty repairmen to fix the problems we lived with, to your amateur skills at repurposing a house, you have made the last 3 years hell for me, my siblings, and especially my mother. your ridiculous expectation of money per month plus no leniency with dates has made everyone so stressed, so many times.

in that house, i experienced the worst bouts of depression i ever had, and yet i still loved it. with all of its issues, flaws, and things in need of fixing, i still loved it very much.

and then you took it away. we made rent each month, only being late by a matter of DAYS, TWICE, and you still ripped it away at a months notice. you took 2,000 hard-earned dollars, made with my and my mothers blood, sweat and tears, and then you looked her dead in the eyes and told her that the home she had fought so hard for, the home she loved and she truly believed was her perfect match, and you told her that our lease was up, and you wouldnt renew it.

i retract that, actually, because you, or your spineless husband couldnt even look her in the eye when you ripped out her dream home from her hands and left her with nothing.

and thus began the most depressing weeks of my life thus far. worse than when i lost an entire summer to living with my narcissistic father, alienated from society, worse than when i moved to an entirely new state from where i had spent my whole life up until that point, worse than when i left my childhood home of 10 years, leaving all of my family and friends behind for good.

i have spent the entirety of the month of june, which should be a month of pride and celebration, especially as a bisexual individual myself, grappling with large, daunting mountains of anxiety for the future. one domino fell, after another, and another, until i was crushed under the weight of my boulder which i was rolling up the hill. and when i crashed, coincidentally, so did everyone else in that home.

we told you this, and you still wouldn’t bat an eye. you basically said “shut up, and get out of my house.”

and we spent 2 weeks. two nonstop weeks. two physically demanding—no—draining weeks packing everything we’ve ever known into whatever boxes we can afford. precious childhood memories, rendered to nothing but a black trashbag for the goodwill.

and it still wasnt enough.

by the official last day of our lease, you hired contractors to come and pretty up the house, so itll be pretty for your privileged eyes to look at. of course it got in the way of our moving, with the cramped hallways leading to each bedroom barely fitting one person while we frantically moved every speck of dust we owned out into a moving pod for fear of litigation. and then the straw hit the camels back, and it broke, sending it aileron-rolling down the large dune of metaphorical sand.

all that my sibling asked was that the contractors moved a container of paint to a higher shelf so that our cousin, who was already covered in it, wouldnt get into it again. in any situation, normally youd blame the parent. toddlers are curious, and they dont know everything, much less what is dangerous and what is not, but you cannot, will not, and should not. because anyone capable of watching her was busy getting everything weve ever owned into a moving pod on your whim. i bet you felt powerful because of that. regardless, you mustve felt angry at that simply worded, polite and easy request, because you chased her into the main room and yelled at her for even daring to ask something of you. and then my aunt, who was struggling not to clasp your neck in an ironclad grip from what i could gather, dared to retort at you yelling at a teenager like you were one yourself. very simple things were said, such as “we cant watch her, were busy packing so we can leave today” and “sorry we couldnt leave immediately, not everyone has unlimited money”, and your bitch ass still called the fucking police. on an elderly woman, a single mother entering her 50’s, another single mother entering her 40’s, two disabled teenagers, a 12 year old girl, and a toddler. and they came, and they were perfect leverage so you could finally get your shack to yourself.

and now i am currently homeless. the lease is up, the house isnt even legally ours anymore. me and everyone else mentioned is currently homeless. thank god my mother has connections, otherwise we’d be out on the streets. so now i am in a different state, moving across the country to help my aunt move in, with no knowledge of where ill be in the next two months.

earlier, when i said i WAS grappling with bouts of depression and mountains of anxiety, it shouldnt have been past tense. it is all very, very present. my therapists only contribution that helped was “dont worry about things out of your control”, which, how do i not when my life is potentially on the line. this has been the only depression ive experienced where ive considered ending it, just so i dont have to deal with the uncertainty, but i couldnt, ever. it would be too hard on everyone i know, and it would definitely hurt.

all that to say i didnt even get to appreciate my last moments at home, as they were spent in a panic that id be hunted by the cops again. i didnt get to say goodbye to the cat i had to leave behind, or the memories id leave behind. the christmases, the halloweens, the game nights, the “epic sleepovers” with my friends and i, all that is gone now.

dear ellie and max, if this finds you, fuck you. and now i hope you can realize what you are putting me through, all so you can save a bit of cash.

sincerely, what-its-rio

[steampaul]

i've started a little series of weekly posts documenting every MoC i made (digitally) over the last few years:

Week 6: the first half of 2020 (and a bonus)

some Cyberpunk-y stuff, more youtubers, revisiting that robot dog, a really cool movie, some contest and some of my first digital MoCs rendered

i made these hover-vehicles IRL building with my little Sister and her LEGO. I don't like LEGO friends because i hate how minidolls look like polly pockets, but i think the more patel colours of those sets are really pleasant

"der Weltall. UnENTliche weiten..."

there's a german Youtuber called "Coldmirror". she was one of the first youtubers in germany and she made some pretty funny animations, including StarStarSpace, a kind of parody of Star Trek, Star Wars and some other sci-fi stuff.

Adam Savage made a Rickshaw to be pulled by boston dynamics' Spot. I saw that build, remembered the minifigure scale Spot i built in the year before and added his rickshaw. i made two versions. the simpler one i made after seeing the teaser on twitter and the more complex one i made after watching the build-video.

i posted the simpler version on reddit, which got the attention of Adam savage's team and later of adam savage. they contacted me and i mailed them the instructions of the simpler version, felt bad for the inaccuracies of the build, built the more complex version and also mailed them its instructions.

Adam later build the simpler version on a stream that i sadly missed, but i was really happy that a maker i admire liked my MoC.

Fanart for TomSka and Friends' CONTENT table. i still kinda like it, even though i thought it would be hilarious to make their legs skin-coloured.

this was actually featured in the "trial by trolley" video they made in feburary 2020.

Newelementary did a contest featuring the then new Green Lantern Part from the first series the DC collectible minifigures.

i built these two ships with the part as engine details, the W45-P Stinger and the 0G-L13 Leapfrog. i submitted them both and for some reason the people from Newelementary switched up the names of the works.

anyway, i did not win.

just a digital version of the Old Factory i posted back in week 2.

i tried imitating some more logo-like stuff.

i don't think arstotzkan Flag turned out really good, but i really like the way the Blood Machines Title looks.

speaking of Blood Machines, i had recently watched this really cool movie and had to make some sort of MoC inspired by the really cool ship designs found in that movie. i first tried to make something more Minifigure scale, got overwhelmed, and just made the mIcro scale

the Star Wars Helmet series also started that year. i rebuild the Boba Fett helemt and modified it it to represent Jango Fett and the Mandalorians found in the Mandalorian battle pack that also came out that year.

i don't really remember why, but i tried remaking set 7310 Mono-jet from Life on Mars as a more modern set. i made a colour-accurate version and a version that actually can be built IRL.

i had the fun idea to remake some Lego city-style Vehicles as cyberpunk-y hovercars. i tried making some different styles of 0-G-generators/repulsor lifts to make the vehicles feel like they've been built by different manufacturers.

also, Stud.io had a weird bug/feature where you had a coloured gradiend as a background if you put a part on the ground that is out of frame and have the rest of the build "hover" over the ground.

another Contest, this time for Lego Ideas. they had a Star Wars x Christmas thing, so i had the (kind of uncreative) idea to make a gingerbread TIE fighter, based off the Imperial TIE fighter set from 2018 and the little polybag from the same year.

this also did not win.

Bonus: some of my first digital MoCs i made.

i found them again.

the Dalek Emperor from NewWho. this was basically the first MoC i ever made on a PC, back when LDD still worked on my laptop.

i had to tweak the colours a lot when i rendered this one, because the way they were represented in LDD was very different to the way they look in stud.io or even real life.

i struggled quite a bit with redoing this one in stud.io because it handles flexible a lot different than LDD. that is also one of the reasons why i never finished this MoC.

i think i'll have to split this year again, but hopefully only in two parts. i dislike that 30 image limit for tumblr Posts.

first week last week next week

[pixie-skull]

@airasora Thanks for tagging me, Shuffling 10 Songs :D

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks

Now I chose to shuffle my workout playlist, so be warned quite nerdy and hopefully motiving? I realized I do not make many playlists, but after this post, will make more. XD

The 10th Kingdom, We Will Shear You (spoof on Queen's We Will Rock You)

Queen, We Will Rock You (XD Whelp this funny how this worked out)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song

Chaka Blackmon - Power Rangers Mystic Force Theme Song

Queen, We are the Champions

Queen, Who Wants to Live Forever (Last song I did hear so kinda counts)

Breaking Benjamin, So Cold (yet as Acoustic cover, but regular version good too)

Within Temptation, Stand My Ground

Van Helsing Theme Song

Tomska's Chonky Dog Song (kinda as was the last song I listed to earlier this week, not shuffled, but it was in a recent songs I listened to when doing paperwork, so counts as a song XD)

Yup I like Queen, but I do like other music I swear XD I tag @impossiblepeggy @little-bloodied-angel @thenamelessdoll @geebs96 @0chaotic-queer0 @electronicagaming @sugarthrilldreams

[realitys-ex]

It's always a tad of a bummer to watch your favourite creators kind of.... fall off?

Like... due to whatever reason they aren't pulling the numbers they used to, and it makes you slightly concerned about their future/the future of the channel.

And y'know, sometimes the reason is obvious: For whatever reason the quality went downhill, or they continued in an identical style to what they started with but there original viewers aged out of it, and the tastes of new viewers are different, or they had a very specific niche that they filled, and they kinda said all they could on the topic, and their branch out videos just.... aren't good? or they had a rough time in their lives, and stopped posting for a hot minute, and the content gods are unkind if you aren't constantly posting, Or.... you know, whatever.

And it doesn't really matter, because you still enjoy them, and are sad to see them fade to any degree (and you have no idea what the back end economics for them is, so you have no idea if they can continue to do this).

And.... wait. I had a point here.....

Right! So, I love Tomska, and unfortunately the aforsaid is somewhat happening to him, but the reason I brought it up, is he recently did a collab with Daniel Howell.

Now, I no nothing about Daniel Howell, but I do recall there was a good 1-2 year stretch when the internet was obsessed with him.

And any video he was in, even peripherally, was guaranteed to get like... 1 mil extra views at minimum.

And the collab got like... 800k views over the last 2 weeks.

Which is just... a really clear case of the odd fall of internet stars.

(also, I scrolled down to look at the view count for their last video together, it was like 7/8 years ago. I have been watching Tomska for a looong time).

There is no real lesson, or moral, or thesis statement to this ramble.

Just a mild lament for the creators/comedians/bloggers/chefs/researchers/youtubers/etc. that we love, but don't get enough love from the wide world anymore.

[tht1person123]

also downside to watching a lot of last week specifically is picking up the way people talk tomska is slowly turning me british send help

[diary-of-a-sad-trans-bitch]

Tomska’s last month/last week series has gotten me through some hard fuckin times. I love that vlog series, it makes me feel not so alone when im struggling. And even outside of that its my favourite vlog series. Im so fucking happy its coming back. My mental health has been horrible recently and its gotten me to the point where im on the edge of giving up at university but the news that its coming back gives me hope. I feel like i can watch along and know it does get better, and mental health issues arent the end of the world and that i could have an amazing life, just like he does. It makes me feel like im not a failure.

Thankyou tomska, thankyou ❤️

[fenchurchrats]

oh my goodness, a tag!! thanks!

3 ships you like: forthur, red and blue in how you lose the time war, Jon/Martin 💚💚

First ship ever: Samwise and Frodo!

Last song you heard: She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby -> Spotify put it in a daylist for me because I've been listening to so much Oingo Boingo

Favourite childhood book: I guess ... Hans Christian Anderson's Snow Queen ? I had a big picture book with "jewels" in the cover, I adored it

Currently reading: The Seep by Chana Porter, it's very interesting so far (3 chapters in!) , sort of soft sci-fi?

Currently watching: all of Tomskas Last Week's, again

Currently consuming: £1 cheese pizza

Currently craving: mini eggs

Tag 9 people - no worries if you don't want to answer these!! 💚💚

aaaaa I don't know enough people!! sorry if I've not interacted before lol @slime-mage @lazydumbace @fingersinsalad @dont-offend-the-bees @rouge-wall-enthusiast @confuseddestroyerofplanets

9 people to get to know better (tag game)

Omg hii tagged by @cloudlesbian :]

3 ships you like: oh goodness uhh I haven't been super into ships recently but I like forthur (h2g2) and bence (the ship name I made up for my own OCs lmao) and I can't think of any others that I'm into currently

Honorable mention: spirk because I feel like I haven't watched enough TOS to be a true spirk fan

First ship ever: flashbacks to when I was scrolling ineffable husbands fanart on fuckign google images when I was 15. Before then MAYBE forthur bc I definitely thought they had something nonheteronormative happening before I started using the internet but idk if that counts. WAIT maybe Joan and Sherlock from Elementary (but I didn't actually want them to get together romantically I just liked their queerplatonic vibes)

Last song you heard: Shadows by Nick Lutsko (as recommended to me by my roommate) (I liked it)

Favorite childhood book: the May Bird and the Ever After series by Jodi Lynn Anderson, also Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Currently reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde but I STILL haven't picked it up in over two months I'm so sorry

Currently watching: Columbo!!!!!!!!! and also rewatching 1670 in the original Polish for um reasons

Currently consuming: air

Currently craving: water (dehydration strikes again)

Tagging 9 people from recent activity! No pressure if you don't want to answer

@theygotlost @fordprefectsleftshoe @andietries @volcanicflowers @romeoisalesbian @v0gonpoet @somebodytolove31 @ragdolls-and-such @thepointlessmasterpiece

[tomskas-gag-reflex]

i knew my parents named me Thomas James for a Ridgewell

[scootymcbooty]

Everyone shut up I'm an Elliot Gough simping blog now

[simplydm]

Everyone talks about Scott being everywhere, but imagine my surprise when I found oli orionsound, who I only know as a Minecraft guy, in a tomska last week vlog playing smash bros with him

[incorrect-lackadaisy-cats]

Calvin: What are all these dead bodies doing here?!

Rocky: Honestly, not much.

(submitted by @brwolf1995)

[sailingsunsets]

@thetomska Please take this as a token of my appreciation of Last Week and your person.

i love last week