#diaf

[cornercrescent]

palette drawing compilation RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[inthewindtunnel]

Diaf

Nirgendwo

[book-quote-romantic]

(Person) deserves to be cursed, and remain cursed. (And I hope they die in a fire of their own making)

[nutmeg6666]

Today's Film-A-Day is the 2023 movie "Dear David."

This was based on an alleged true story per a Buzzfeed cartoonist who claimed the ghost of a dead child was haunting him and trying to kill him. In 2017 there was a whole Twitter thread detailing what occurred. This movie was fun to make fun of because the whole thing was just silly.

Fun-A-Day 1/3/2025

"GhostBrat"

[septiseph]

he has finally finished reading his book but what should he do now????

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later...

these lines made me want to draw them sleeping & snoring together...

[meyerlansky]

letterboxd wrapped most watched actor barry blah blah we all knew it

[riallasheng]

You know what I hate people like you who ignore and hate and downplay female characters! The only characters assholes like you like are the men, you never like the women! DIAF!!

...I think you might have sent this to the wrong person, anon?

I mean to go off the fandom I've been posting in the most recently, Lady Penelope (comics, novels, and tos) is, and always has been, my favorite character? Like most anyone who knows me knows I can and will go on for HOURS about how much I love that woman

If we're treating the Live Action shows as their own thing separate from the supermarionation, then Col. Lake from UFO is my favorite there? (and if we're combining puppet and live, she's tied with Scott for second place)

tosCS Destiny and Rhapsody are easily in my top 5 in CS Lady Ochre and lt Green in nCS are also easily in my top 5 n nCS

Kayo is my favorite TaG character, and Moffat, Casey, and O'Bannon are my favorite reoccurring (although Rigby is in there too) I even like tagPenny, although she (like Kayo) is so different from the TOS version that she's basically a new original character.

To go to older fandoms I'm no longer really active in (and this is down to me really disliking how Astruc handled the series and losing interest in it) Marinette is tied with Adrien for my favorite character in Miraculous, with Alya and Kagami also sharing a tie in second place?

In the fandom I've been in longer than Anderverse... which I'm still active in, even if not here on tumblr... Elita (g1 and the netflix series), Arcee (g1), Arcee (tfp), Strongarm, AIR RAZOR, Black Arachnia, Airachnid... there are a TON of female characters I adore who are consistently in my 'top five favs' for each show / iteration

I could go on, honestly.

Are there female characters I dislike? ones that I, even worse from a reading/watching perspective find boring?

Yup. Heck, even some I hate.

There are also male characters I dislike, am bored by, or hate.

[an-sceal]

I've called my congress critters, I've informed myself as much as I can stand for the day, and now:

Here are some things you can enjoy that might make it slightly easier to ignore the chest pains you're having-

Shelby Sherritt - a potter in Australia who does a whole series of videos with the mystery molds she rescued from someone's shed. Each video she pours up the ceramics, then paints them in her own style, which is gentle and whimsical. As is she.

The Dodo - All animal videos, usually featuring a rescued pet living their best life. All of them have a happy ending, but some WILL make you sniffle. Great for that cathartic cry you're in need of, but with the bonus that everything is better five minutes later.

WeRateDogs - Your only source for professional dog ratings. Also happy. Also animal videos.

Make Everything OK - Press the magic button and sit still for a few seconds.

Let's Make Art - Artist Sarah Cray offers a variety of full-length watercolour painting tutorials for everyone from the first-time painter to the advanced intermediate. The great thing about her teaching style is that you can enjoy her videos no matter what your level of skill, and feel like you're painting with a friend. Spoiler Alert: You're good at this.

[biosurvive]

WHY SO PRETTY CHRISTOPHER??? TO KISS MEN?? HOW GAY!!

[noxandlove]

there is so much violence against women shown in these Taylor Sheridan shows. fucking talentless scum

[indelibleevidence]

Evri: *emails* How did your courier do?

I literally saw him for the ten seconds it took to open the door, take the package from his hands, then close the door again. Really don't have an opinion, here. 🙄

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Incredibly large and not very useful amount of dialogue from my funnies. I wanted to do this dialogue meme from cereovo in order to figure out the characters voices but uhhhhhh idk. I’m not really happy with the writing.

Rest of them under the cut.

[villainsidechick]

Me watching Eflop go bankrupt and losing all his businesses and assets over a teenage crybaby ego trip on flop Twitter.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

[mcbitchtits]

oh tumblr you just slipped me onto the For You dashboard and think i wouldn't notice it's suddenly full of strangers?! fucking hell

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Image ID: two speculative aliens. They have a long appendage at the front of their body, and the bodies themselves are made up of two segments- wings and a tail. They are a little slug-like, with their wings and tail having and exaggerated version of a slug’s skirt. The one on the left, labeled as “Diaf” is more upright, mimicking a biped. She is a diluted purple. The one on the right is labeled “Ankiusk” and is shorter and more stretched out. She is a combination of bright blues and pinks, with a few purples where the colors mix. There is also a diagram of the mouths, which when open reveal two cuttlefish-like limbs with tentacles and whiskers. End ID.

If you saw the post about Diaf before no you didn’t. Here’s the real design the last one never happened.

[scrmnviking]

9/6/24

Looking forward to a high of 40 C and a low of 26 C today (that's 104 and 79 in Fahrenheit). This BS can shove it.