#anyway! back to blorboposting

[loderlied]

anyways. back to blorboposting for now. :3

[hanandromeda]

i have found out im robotkin 👍 anyways back to blorboposting

[doctor-badadvice]

It's a good thing I revived this blog for memes and blorboposting because the theme of the past two weeks has been having the shittiest taste in media and taking part in that nonsense is precious time I'd never get back.

Anyways, Palworld is the new benchmark for keyboard activists and that's still more than it deserves to be.

[aesrot]

Hi! I’m here once again to poison you with the stuff I like. Remember how we were complaining about there being so little f/f in fanfic and wanting to find more? Well, I have the perfect book series for that. It has both canon lesbians and some of the best fanfic I’ve read. It’s called The Locked Tomb, and it’s my favorite book series I think. Do you like lesbian necromancers? Do you like lesbian necromancers in space? Do you like being confused while reading? Well boy do I have the perfect series for you (I’ll attempt to give you an actual summary if you want it). Take my hand and join me here. Anyway, I hope you had a good day today :)

okay but this is kinda funny, bc this past few days/weeks i've been seeing so much fanart for tlt, and im always like. holy shit. idk who these people are but they look so fucking good??? istg the best propaganda for any media is people blorboposting and fanart (extra points if combined)

its smth thats already been lowkey in the back of my mind, i just havent researched it yet, so yes, i might actually join you in this, especially bc i've been on a queer-only reading streak lmao (idk why but after i started reading queer books, cishet ones just feel ugh so boring, theres no flavour).

also hi hello, i just woke up lol. hope your days going good! <33

[thepeacefulgarden]

You are allowed to blorbopost. You are allowed to have a blog that doesn't veer very far into politics. You are allowed to get your information from actual news sources, and not from social media. (In fact, please do.) You are allowed to use Tumblr for blorboposting more than activism. You are allowed to take breaks and look after your mental health. (In fact, you should; the cause(s) you're fighting for need the best of you, not the rest of you, and more than that, you need the best of you, which means you gotta take care of yourself.) You are allowed to take a step back from social media. You are allowed to turn off the push notifications. You are allowed to take a step back from the news cycle. You are allowed to restrict or turn off comments. You are allowed to not read the comments. You are allowed to ignore the naysayers and critics. (You would never be able to "do enough" for them, anyway.) You are allowed to not feel guilty. You are allowed to do your most important work off social media. (And honestly? That's where the lion's share of the important work gets done anyway.) You are allowed to block tags. You are allowed to block users and blogs. (Yes, even me.) You are allowed to have hobbies, interests, and yes, joy. Even during the toughest times. You are allowed to walk away from conversations that aren't going anywhere good. You are allowed to stop doomscrolling, and to recognize that there is a difference between staying informed and doomscrolling.

[ruvviks]

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[shenzhiheng]

it’s been some time since i’ve sat down and made one of those rambly gif making posts but i really wanted to redo this wenzhou x federico garcía lorca edit i posted over a year ago and figured it’s the perfect occasion to explain some of my thoughts.

lots of images again so more behind the cut!

wenzhou x federico garcía lorca was one of the first more complicated edits i posted on this blog and i’ve been thinking about remaking it for a while now.

i still like the quote and the shots i picked match it quite well imo. the red and blue split is also a nice idea and i definitely want to recreate it for the new version. i do feel like i could play around more with the imagery and add some thorns (maybe roses) to make it a bit more interesting visually. also that coloring is awful girl what were you thinking!!! 😡

anyway now that i have some kind of plan for once i’m going to look for resources i can use and see what kinda of layout i can create from there.

as usual shutterstock has exactly what i have in mind but i don’t feel like spending money for blorboposting so i need to find a free alternative.

couldn’t find anything for free that i liked as usual so i dug out part of an ornament wreath i already had saved in my files and i’m now painting thorns by myself! see you in 20 years when i’m done with this ✌

finished the rough idea for the layout of the first gif so now i can start and try to add the gifs to it and see if it actually works or not

my original idea was to use vines to create a split in the middle but after messing around i really didn’t like how it looked, so i’ll use the vine to connect it to the next gif instead

redid the vine because i didn’t like how it looked + added typography

first gif is done for now!! i’ll start working on the next one and then tweak it again if needed

i wanted to try to use a mask for the second gif to make it different from the first one but i don’t think i can make this work how i envisioned it so i’m ditching it 😞

next attempt is blending, though i’m not 100% on it either i like it more than the mask

i didn’t like the flickering the blending was causing in wkx’ skintone so i went back to my trusty old ripped paper texture and now you can actually tell what’s going on in both gifs. i think the quote + the blurry zzs gif work quite well together

for the last gif of the set i kept it relatively simple the first time around and i wanted to do the same here - but i decided to also include the second part of the quote and add a glitchy effect. also slapped a rose on there purely for it to match the others LOL

i did some small changes to the other gifs to make it more cohesive and then i was done. here is the finished result! i don’t know if i’ve succeeded in making it better than last time, but there’s definitely more going on now 😂

[the-breloominati]

What is arknights

I've seen enough tumblr blorboposts to decide I want in

TL;DR: tower defense with furries (to varying degrees of furry); also a mobile gatcha (I think you can get it on desktop too though)

ok so. god where do I start.. how do I start…..

The player character is called Doctor, and they’re one of the heads (kinda) of this group/company Rhodes Island. Rhodes works to provide medical care for people with Oripathy, called Infected, and are also working to find a cure for Oripathy. Oripathy is a terminal disease (it can be stabilized though depending on how far someone’s infection has progressed) caused by exposure to Originium, which is a kind of rock. (It’s sorta like uranium I guess? In the sense of it can be used for a lot of things, but long-term exposure can lead to illness.) There are also events called Catastrophes, which are natural events that can expose large groups of people to large quantities of originium (which can kill a lot of people and infect many others). In order to avoid catastrophes, people made nomadic cities (don’t ask me how they work).

There’s also a bunch of different races; most of them are animal people (to varying degrees), but some of them, like the Sarkaz, are.. other things? The Sarkaz are based around demons and stuff I think. Vaguely. There’s also at least two guys that are just birds? Idk about all the lore but the wiki (the Wikia or whatever not the Gamepress one) has more info about all of em.

Anyways the main story (and some of the side/event stories) are pretty political? Cause that’s kind of the nature of Rhodes Island; in order to provide care and treatment for more people they have to work together with different governments. It’s not super heavy-handed or anything I don’t think, but you can like.. apply stuff from the real world to it to get a better idea of things? Kinda? Idk gkfbjabhbkdhah

Anyway anyway, it’s a gatcha game with furries (mostly kemonomimi-style characters, pretty sure you can count all the kemono operators (playable characters basically) on two hands). The gameplay is tower defense, which is cool. The story is written quite well, but sometimes each segment can be VERY long (especially with event stages), so feel free to skip it if you want — you can always go back to it later to read it.

[borrelia]

anyway. back to blorboposting. described to my mom how ebony has tunnelvision about wanting to believe, despite the trouble and problems that continuously happen, that fleet is deep down a good person who deserves her unconditional support. but described them really vaguely without mentioning like their ages or the mother-son dynamic. and she was like hmm yeah it sounds kind of like parents of former foster kids. im like 👉‼️ so true she adopted him off the street!!!

[fluxofthemouth]

I didn’t censor out the Dune words, so I should say that the larger fandom is welcome to read this if it shows up in a search, but I’m here to be a roleplay blog, so please don’t reblog my content!

I thought for sure I already wrote some of this down somewhere as a headcanon! Maybe in the dialogue of an old thread? In a d.iscord conversation? As blorboposting on my personal tumblr?? Anyways, I have thoughts about how Piter’s twisted Mentat training actually works, like what I’m envisioning when I think about his worldview and motivations (& why he’s so deeply and endlessly angry at the Harkonnens and the Great Houses and the Empire). I’m going to put it under a readmore bc I’m looking at abuse & conditioning and torture and all that.

My thinking here is that Piter’s teachers showed him that any terrible thing he might be expected to do to another person is a terrible thing that can, and sometimes will, be inflicted on him first. And they just generally desensitized him to violence and all kinds of things most people flinch at. I can imagine scenarios where he was allowed and even encouraged to befriend people or pets 😬 and then his teachers convinced him to hurt them, or convince them to hurt him, to “protect” him from being swayed in his purpose by the “myth” that friends are reliable or worth investing in. Where most people have to be sort of led or reasoned or provoked into a mindset that will let them kill or harm a living thing, Piter’s training lets him carry that mindset right under the surface, at the ready at all times. I think about Piter’s conditioning like Sid’s toys from T.oy S.tory, taken apart and put back together wrong. If you drop a vase, it shatters randomly, it doesn’t form an image or spell out words. Like, this is clearly damage and trauma, but THIS kind of fucked up doesn’t just happen randomly, you only get this kind of fucked up because someone wanted it that way and made it that way intentionally.

And all of this must have been spaced out across his (however many?) years of schooling, with enough positive experiences in between to keep him from giving up or getting stuck in the trauma for too long. They probably had to hurt a lot of ppl before his time to figure out the optimal balance, and at what life stage to introduce what traumatizing thing 😬 He can be a very sincere, helpful, and hard-working little guy, and he must have had the time and breathing space to come by that honestly. He loves to hear himself talk, and he’s always trying to make jokes, so it’s like. Okay, there was someone around to encourage this at some point in his life, or different people at different times, and he must have been happy while it lasted. I imagine he was also trained thoroughly in mindfulness etc. techniques; not to help him feel good about himself and go through positive personal development, but to give him tools for moving through & processing emotions about hurting other people very quickly so he can be like okay, on to the next thing, the useful tool for the Empire is ready to be useful again. They taught him Evil Mindfulness.

I think the true goal of Piter’s training was to train a person to be willing to show extreme and absurd cruelty and do the Great Houses’ dirty work. Dark stuff that a noble might want done and wouldn’t even be able to convince a lackey to do. Very simple and practical.

I think the stated goal of Piter’s training was to create a *perfectly* rational computer...a *superior* computer, that could break free of the “constraints” of human biology and finally close some of the gaps that arise when you can’t just use a machine. By this logic, a boring, inferior, ordinary Mentat is flawed because they still think, for example, that murder is wrong because an ancient monkey who was their ancestor evolved to feel that way about murder. They didn’t build up that conclusion from pristine logic. There is nothing in heartless, impartial nature that adds a mysterious quality called “wrongness” to murder. So surely a *superior* Mentat would be so impartial that they could make a moment-to-moment assessment of whether murder makes sense for the situation or not. It doesn’t have to be about murder! People get hung up over the murder thing because it’s an easy target and they’re reacting to emotions, they’re listening to that same illogical monkey ancestor that a twisted Mentat gets to be set free from. Funny how even the Empire will call that a twisted Mentat instead of an impartial Mentat tho, yeah... (And then the Harkonnens get to shake the Empire’s hand & put their Mentat in charge of a medieval torture chamber for orphaned puppies, etc. etc.)

So Piter is basically carrying around a permanent victim complex that isn’t right but has a sympathetic edge. If he showed mercy to a victim, it would be a mercy that his teachers and later the Harkonnens would not have shown him, or literally did not show to him (and what makes that victim better than him?). And when people get justifiably furious with him, or sickened by him, for the things he’s done, that’s a self-sustaining mechanism that keeps the gap between him and other people nice and wide. And it would also be a sign of succumbing to ancient monkey feelings and failing in his role as the most perfect and best computer. And where even all of that might fail, there’s always the obscene amount of money he gets paid as the Harkonnen Court Mentat to keep being effective at all of the dark things they ask of him. And where even that isn’t enough, spice is like, the ultimate treatment for trauma. One reason it’s the most valuable thing in the universe is because it’s a true free lunch (as long as you don’t mind being permanently addicted to it if you use it too much).

And Piter’s conditioning is imperfect, of course; it has to be. No one can start with a person who has free will and use conditioning to custom order a monster that has a desired list of deep-set beliefs and motivations. Piter’s behavior pattern will only line up with the most poster-perfect version of a terrible evil twisted Mentat in the context of working for a Great House (that wants him to do terrible evil things). His self-protective impulses, mundane motivations, and set of developmental life experiences are twisted around in just the right way that the impulse to live a happy life that makes sense, like any person wants, can possibly include extreme cruelty to others. The Empire can label that a twisted Mentat and do a lot with that result, but at the end of the day, Piter is still his own person. Thoughts and insights about his own conditioning were surely the foundation for looking for loopholes in Dr. Yueh’s conditioning.

[dreemurr-skelememer]

it was cancelled anyway. back to blorboposting

posting about my silly little blorbos when i could be worrying about my mock debate that's commencing in the next two hours