#again need to do school work

[rusalkii]

A while back I finally figured out how to use UBlock's element blocker and promptly went mad with power. Just now I turned off all my extensions to debug something and realized how much more useable it made everything. As soon as I see something annoying I open the Ublock popup, select the element picker, click the annoying thing, and (most of the time) the annoying thing is gone forever and I never have to think about it. So here's my shameless ad pitch for things you can do with it, other than the default "block ads":

Remove all of the UI buttons that are definitely useful for someone but that you're never going to use in your life

Remove UI buttons you use only once, like "register"

Hide the "Posts +" button in tumblr

Clear all of the information your credit card website tries to show you that you don't care about so that you can focus on the couple numbers that you do

Send those pop-up "do you want to chat!" notifications to hell, where they belong

Remove various website overlays

Remove specifically the calorie numbers on food delivery websites

Hide the comments and recommended videos sidebar on youtube

Hide promotions that an adblocker doesn't pick up on because they're native

Hide your facebook newsfeed (if you just use it for chat/events/groups)

Hide discord's sidebar when you just need one channel open and don't want to be distracted, and then unhide it when you want it back

Get rid of distracting moving elements on pages

Hide almost all of the elements on twitter except the actual tweet, if you only interact with twitter via other people's links and don't want to be sucked down the rabbit hole

Generally hide "Related!" or "See also" or "You might like!" type distractions on sites where you only want to see what you came there for, not browse

Remove all of the news from weather websites so that they can actually do their job and show you just the weather

Remove the footer text on websites no one ever reads

[rapidhighway]

mr angle I love yuou

[artisadie]

A little comic inspired by my headcanon that Ginga took one of his dad's scarves before he went on his journey, along with all of the good good tags/replies on @toomanyterriblecartoons's sewing post :)

He didn't bring enough white thread, but he's trying

Bonus, later: (Ryo learned a long time ago to carry an abundance of blue and white)

[chrisrin]

I love rabbit :OO if you don't mind me asking, what are you majoring in school? Animation or something similar? Also is it hard? I really want to go to school for something like that someday!!

I'm majoring in a BFA for Emerging Media with a specialization in "Experimental Animation". I go to a typical 4-year university, not an art school.

Also my program sucked ass, I've learned 95% of my animation skills from self-teaching. I was fortunate enough to get scholarships and grants to be able to go through school without taking out loans, but if you decide to go to college just make sure you're not putting yourself into debt. That's the worst thing you can do for yourself as a young artist wanting to go into the industry.

Also do research on the school you want to go to and actually make sure the program will teach you valuable things <3 Mine did not.

[mielgf]

turns out romanticising a big city life could not actually prepare me for the reality that is moving away from my small hometown after being there for the last two and a half years and flinging myself into living basically in the downtown core ☺️

[soracities]

hi lovely!! i adore ur blog and hope im not overstepping by asking but what do you do as a career/profession? asking as a high school senior very into poetry and literature, and very unsure of her future xo

technically speaking, i don't have anything that qualifies as a 'career' right now (as i don't get paid for my clownery, my go to response is to simply say i am ~Vibing~). i do really, really, really, want to stress, however, that your future -- much as i know that, right now, your decisions feel like they have such weight and importance attached to them -- is absolutely, unequivocally, not written in stone. and it won't be written in stone five years from now, or fifteen years from now, or fifty years from now. you are very, very young, and i know maybe you have heard that a great deal, and you may be growing weary of it, but i promise i'm not saying this patronizingly or dismissively but simply as an objective fact -- you are so young, and life is so wide, wide enough to fit every possible experience, revelation, change-of-mind, or turn-of-the-road imaginable. there is no telling who or what you will encounter or who you will become as a result. and so you don't have one future; you have several, and no choice you make will necessarily cancel out the possibility of making another choice, a different choice, if that is what suits you better down the line. if it helps, you may want to wander through this tag here. your future is endless array of possibilities that can, and will, shift -- like light through crystal ♡

[that-was-anticlimactic]

whats spy x family about? and is it like- gruesome or horror or etc-

HI YES HELLO OMG OKAY LET'S GET INTO IT BECAUSE I LOVE SXF SO MUCH LIKE IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS / THINGS TO READ NOW NOT EVEN KIDDING

it's actually a comedy! there is some violence and some underlying darker themes because. they are quite literally on the brink of war. but in the end, the most important aspect of the story is found family.

imma just briefly describe the plot because. i want to talk about it lol

loid forger is a spy trying to prevent the war (and he is the most infamous spy) (codename: twilight). he gets assigned a mission to get close to this dude to help prevent war stuff. only issue is, this dude is super reclusive and quite literally like only ever leaves his house to attend very specific events for the school his two sons go to. so, the mission loid gets assigned is to get a child and a wife, get the child accepted into this super prestigious school, and get close to desmond (the guy).

he adopts a kid named anya, and unbeknownst to him, she is a telepath and can read thoughts. therefore, she knows that he's a spy. therefore, shenanigans ensue. she likes causing mischief and her favorite show from at the orphanage was this spy show so she's like super into spy stuff.

then comes yor briar. yor works for city hall and is an awkward but kind young lady but also, during the night, she's an assassin (codename: thorn princess). the secret police are these crappy dudes who idk they're just against the spy agency and hate twilight but anyways, they take suspicious people into questioning and that doesn't bode well for you. and being a single female close to your thirties is suspicious and some of yor's coworkers don't like her and were like "lol you're single you could get reported to the secret police" so she panics and is like "well actually i have a boyfriend so like y eah" and they're like "okay bring him to a party at my place this weekend then lol" and she goes to get her assassin dress fixed where she runs into loid and anya (loid is getting clothes for anya) and loid is like "oooh she's pretty, maybe she could work" and anya reads her thoughts, figures out she's an assassin and is like this woman needs to be my mom the drama would be so good and essentially gets it set up.

loid is pretending that his wife died awhile back and he needs a wife for their child (anya) to get into the school his deceased wife always wished she would get in, and asked if yor could be his fake wife. she agreed if loid would be her fake boyfriend for the party so she wouldn't get reported. loid accidentally messes up because of a mission thing he had to do right before the party and tells everyone that he's yor's husband, and then yor is like "lol what if we got married and had like a fake family so you can get your kid into the school and i can still kill people - i mean not get arrested" and loid is like "well this works even better for me"

so in conclusion: loid is a spy named twilight, yor is an assassin named thorn princess, anya is a telepath.

anya knows about loid and yor

neither loid nor yor know about each other or anya

and it's fantastic

[flamboyant-king]

that’s meta

[tasmanianstripes]

Menstrual pain should be taken more seriously than it currently is, people suffering from it shouldn't be dismissed or accused of overreacting because "it's just a period"

For most of my life, I've suffered from debilitating menstrual cramps. Some days it was bad enough that I couldn't move, couldn't even speak, just cry and scream for hours until the painkillers finally kicked in, and it'd often leave me feeling weak, exhausted and like I was on the verge of passing out. I have to take the strongest non-prescription medication on the market and it still just makes my pain bearable enough that I can function; hell, even my prescription drugs sometimes weren't enough.

Despite this, I was often ridiculed by my peers and accused of faking it so I can get out of school or work, and I've had medical professionals refuse to help me because "it's just a period" and "it'll pass on its own". I've had to beg people to go get me painkillers and they'd usually start an argument or roll their eyes at me and complain the entire time. It was a constant problem and the only person that's ever taken my pain seriously was my mother.

Seriously, it isn't right that I have to deal with 2-3 days of debilitating pain and nobody around me treats it seriously. Not even my doctors.

And I'm not even the most severe case out there, I'm lucky that my cramps only last a max of 3 days and respond to medications. There are people out there who have to deal with worse.

Seriously, just please start taking menstrual pain seriously. Just because it happens every month doesn't mean it's any more bearable or less serious than any other pain. The pain this severe isn't normal, it's a medical condition and it should be treated seriously. It's even more fucked up that this sort of pain is often a symptom of some underlying condition yet even doctors don't treat it seriously.

[bonetrousledbones]

pssssst ask me questions about my guys🔪

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[pepprs]

hi

[stephgingrich]

feels good to be getting back into art but at the same time im like. bro i used to draw + paint a whole portrait study in a night. who was she. ive been working on the same sketch for over a week now

[army-of-bee-assassins]

wtf one of the second year students i got paired with in my program is doing a dual track masters/phd and she says the phd portion is fully funded for everyone with a $1450 monthly stipend. should i get a phd? i didn't know it would be basically free lmao

[lovsome]

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[bo0zey]

i just realized that whenever someone is kind to me i break down into tears because i can’t believe they’re treating me like a human worthy of being human