#i know my shit

[sea-salted-wolverine]

There is a reality show called Alone, and the premise is dumping 10 survivalists out in the woods all by themselves with a pelican case full of cameras and see who lasts the longest. They all have a backpack full of survival gear, no guns, and they're all separated by at least 10 miles so they really are alone. They get a med checkup every couple weeks and presumably more often if they've been identified as a risk, so no one starves to death and they all have a sat phone to tap out with.

It's the only reality show I watch, because regardless of how much drama the producers try to edit in after the fact, everyone is filming themselves and they're all alone. There is no interpersonal drama and they are obligated to focus on the actual survival aspect because there is literally nothing else.

Which means I get to have hypernuanced opinions that actually mean something. I imagine its comparable to a chef watching a cooking show, because some of the survivalists know their shit and some of them very much do not and you can tell from day 3. The show does a good job of vetting, so they aren't just tossing just anybody out there, but an impressive resume means jack shit once there's no one to impress.

They always start out in early fall/late summer, which is by far the easiest time to do so, but that means as I'm watching this new season in early spring and I'm watching people go hungry in a field full of edible plants, I want to go foraging So Bad. And I Can't. And I Am Suffering.

[reginamillls]

🔥 - unpopular opinion about cakes?

oh yeah "fresh cakes" aren't a thing for a bakery, like realistically if you want a fully decorated cake you can't do it on a cake that had been baked the same day

you want a good fucking cake? you freeze it

pop it out of the pan when it's still warm NOT HOT and wrap it up in cling/plastic wrap and freeze that shit

what it does? it traps in moisture (so you don't need to use simple syrup but that's a different rant) and it's easier to handle in general and frost and decorate

so don't go into a bakery and ask for a fresh cake

send me a “ 🔥 “ for an unpopular opinion (+ topic)

[luna-moth-0]

Now is the time for confessions.... I did not like the 2002 Red Dragon movie and actually consider it a bad adaptation (and a mid movie)....

So sorry to Edward Norton's Will Graham, he was cute, but he was not my Will Graham 😞

[comfortableinthesilence]

Always nice when I'm sat in the office and a friend comes over and asks where was I on Saturday...i was confused, thinking I'd forgot something….turns out friends from my old team had a get together and didn't invite me 🙃🙃 maybe it was an accident but its still got to me but it is what it is I guess! Adds to the flat mood I'm in today but as always it a chance to take a negative and turn it positive!

Shit happens and no point in holding a grudge against them, just now know where I stand with them in future! Can't wait to get out of work, head home and just blast my music!

[wheezylee-jay]

fun fact for you all

@vertheler is pretty ticklish

my source: trust me bro

[miiboo]

i did not suffer in an ap math class to relearn sophomore math

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

I just got bullied for the first time in like, four years since high school and I don’t even know how to feel LMAO

SO, I work in an office currently as a sort of in-between thing before I start my dream job next month, and this one bitchy dude started after me and decided he HATES me for whatever reason

He’s really two-faced and bosses everyone around even though we trained him and is clearly trying to go for a promotion to supervisor or something

A few things he’s done since deciding he hates me:

Saw that I was in a conversation with my favourite coworker who’s also his roommate and legit interrupted our convo and forced her to switch seats with him so he sat in between us, thus ending our conversation

Ignores me every-time I try to start a conversation

I was in the middle of doing a task and he points at a counter and is like “someone should really clean that” referencing me, when he was literally just standing there

Always throws me under the bus

Offered me something I can’t eat in front of everyone knowing I’m lactose intolerant then laughed

Other annoying shit I can’t even remember

And then TODAY, oml literally I reverted back to being an awkward high school girl for a sec before I remembered my great ✨jaskierfication✨ in 2021

I received a phone call from work from a customer with an odd accent and they were being really difficult and then hung up on me

I was like “uh… okay, dick” and threw the phone back down onto my desk

My bitchy coworker and my fave coworker/his roomie (gasp betrayal) come walking down the stairs laughing and walk up to me and say it was them prank calling me

Their vibes were rancid and I was just like “wtf I’ve got work to do” and then they legit said the words out loud, “Omg, so funny, we were literally laughing so hard at you upstairs—”

Bro…

[queencaramilflinda]

Y’all should never doubt me I’ve guessed so many things for d20 correctly in the past several months

[tastethepainbowbitch]

Primary colors are clown colors, SECONDARY colors are Halloween clown colors.

[all-things-fic]

The small dick energy of this one guy in the IT department at my work is laughable. He can’t stand it when I’m in a meeting and I challenge him on anything digital related.

[ingbing7]

Pokemon scarlet is one of the best pokemon experiences i have had in years (not including legends arceus that game is the bomb).

Yes it’s ugly as shit and yes sometimes my pokemon get stuck in walls but it’s also the most enjoyable and fresh mainline pokemon game like ever. The formula is damn near perfect (for now) and the pokemon models and character designs are peak. Obviously I dont think the glaring issues shouldn’t be fixed or should be there to begin with, but we cant just ignore the fact that this game is a vast improvement from sword and shield and brilliant diamond and shining pearl.

[kabretoss]

here are my bona fide lazy bitch colour tips. these are not Master Class shit by any means but they are Lil Tricks(tm) that get me through the night every time:

- make a palette more cohesive by adding 10-20% of some other colour to all of your colours, OR to all of your colours except one (1) accent colour, usually the brightest or darkest colour. slap a little bit of red-brown on top of everything. just try it, I swear.

BONUS CONTENT: try doing this with different layer modes, if you’re working digitally, for very different effects.

- when in doubt, use the whole-ass rainbow, but do so by putting each colour next to its colour-wheel neighbor when you’re painting. Don’t just vomit rainbows everywhere: move through the gradient and it will look cohesive.

OR use the whole-ass rainbow but leave out one to two colours.

OR use the whole-ass rainbow but focus your attention mostly on one section. like make your pic 60% red-orange, 20% yellow, 5% each green blue purple. (what happened to the last 5%? don’t know don’t care)

I mean basically, like the gays, the rainbow is your friend but will collapse into a mess if you’re mean to it. Treat it nice. It wants to help.

- if your thing looks like rainbow vomit (and you don’t want it to), desaturate everything 80% and then selectively re-saturate hues one at a time till you hit something cool.

BONUS CONTENT: you know what’s fun? Honestly, do you know what tool will teach you more about how to put together a colour scheme than almost anything else, if you noodle around with it? GRADIENT MAP. Paint a black and white scene, and then fuck around with gradient mapping. I used to almost exclusively do this as a starting point, painting on top of a gradient-mapped B&W rough, and I learned so fucking much about how to make stuff look cool quickly.

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[haunted-xander]

If you skip a meal Senshi will materialize next to you w/ food at the ready

[ofswordsandpens]

I can't remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.