#i respect the craft

[somekindafairy]

i dont know how to explain it but the difference between practical effects and cgi in horror is that cgi feels like you're a cat chasing a laser pointer. like buddy there is just nothing there.

[classyhatsvt]

I feel like even if you peel away the kinkshaming and bigotry of it all, I just don't get what's so offensive about furries that people feel the need to hate them so much. They're literally just normal people who have a hobby. We have this mental image of furries in society where they're all these overweight neckbeards who live in their parent's basement and masturbate to Tony the Tiger or something, but if you actually look at them they're just normal ass people. They all live normal lives like the rest of us, and many of them have very successful careers. Many of them are also physically attractive as well, and they take care of themselves. You can't really just pick them out on the street because the vast majority of furries are just like anyone else.

I'm not a furry myself, but I respect them. Everyone has something that makes them tick. For some people it's a niche hobby that not everyone will get, and that's okay.

Never trust a furry disliker

[docmerlin]

was ep 1 just in 4:3 bc they had to cut the hand pushing the urn over right at the beginning

[spockandstars]

I just love how the difference between these images SO encapsulates the difference in vibe between SNW and TOS.

I’m genuinely sorry, glistening-tits-buff-Spock-with-manly-sleek-interior-design-choices-and-scantily-clad-bethrothed-in-background-who-you-rather-explicitly-raw-and-cheat-on, you could only attain the level of unadulterated cunt that is TOS Spock and his weird campy artifact-filled bedroom in your DREAMS.

[paradoxbeta]

Who wants a bit of Minecraft spec bio?

In my headcanon for Minecraft the majority of mobs share a very recent common ancestor with a slime-mold adjacent organism called the "root node," meaning most mobs (villagers, illagers, skeletons, zombies, mooshrooms, others) are fungoid/plantoid-appearing creatures.

Villagers are among the most complex of them all, boasting an intricate method of expression through extendable facial "petals" (thin, mostly transparent membranes) that shift in color, pattern, and intensity to express a vast and dynamic field of emotions. The protrusions on their head resembling eyebrows and a nose light up in patterns to convey information. Conversation is occasionally emphasized by vocal cues (the iconic "hrms").

While impossible to translate standard villager conversation into something intelligible to humans without advanced technology, Steve is the most "fluent in villager," with a baseline understanding of what different colors mean on a villager's petals and even dyed paper cards to replicate the expressions himself. He also has established a rudimentary sign language with the nearby village.

Steve works with a certain villager he's nicknamed The Language Guy, or "TLG," to propose new signs or revise existing ones. TLG distributes language updates to the village when they happen. TLG is the most "fluent in human," so they are the village's Steve equivalent when it comes to diplomacy with humans. They are also working on writing a book with every established sign and its definition. Since villagers don't have a written language yet, it consists of easily interpreted pictograms.

Humans and villagers have rather shallow avenues of communication due to their complete lack of intuition about each other's natures. However, due to their frequent interactions, TLG and Steve are very close friends for creatures with a compatibility gap bigger than the Grand Canyon.

Alex would really like to learn about all of this, but she's not quite got the hang of it yet.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i am thinking how much poorer, how much less colorful the world would be if art was only made by "professionals." if all the music, all the stories, all the sketches & paintings & craftwork of the world was created only by the small category of people able to make a decent living from their art. imagine if the only people allowed to create were the experts & the renowned & those aspiring to the top. what a grey world that would be. how much joy would be bleached away! i love you people who create for the sake of creating, i love you artists who do art for tiny audiences, i love you people who make things even just for one person, even just for themselves, even if no one's watching, thank you thank you thank you for decorating the world in which we all exist

[jessaerys]

the thing about doing archeological excavations on livejournal is that you will find the most fucked up, horrific, legitimately sadistic, gorey torture fanfiction for your favourite characters, and it is not only in character but also well written, and then you look at the comments and they're all like 'ohmigod SQUEE!! *dies crying*" and you know what? they don't make fandom like that anymore

[i-am-a-fish]

drink water right now pics for proof

[linnkyleo]

bad kids link charm i made for myself with shrinky dinks and poscas during some dnd sessions

[donutdrawsthings]

How I've missed you! Inspired by @passionpeachy 's work!

[catacini]

i think what most upsets me about the armpit pussy phenomenon is how banal it is, how little respect it has for the armpit on its own. you're revelling in having a supposedly deviant fetish, but you can't actually feel attraction to a part of the body that you can't imagine putting your dick in. you're trying to make armpits into something they aren't, when there are countless real ones out here that love armpits for what they are, with no inclination to change them into something grotesque and, frankly, logistically unsound. you don't love armpits. you don't love anything.

[isthisloss]

I'm honestly disappointed in people for how normalised it has become to hate on things online. Guys it's not that deep. It's Jay's project. He can do what he wants. He's done a lot of cool and fun things with epic and outside of epic. Newsflash! You wont like everything he does! What a revelation! Not all of his interests and opinions will align with yours! Such a breakthrough, i know. Stop crying over it.

You didnt like one song out of the 35 that have come out, and you need to post an entire essay about it? Grow tf up, Jay doesn't deserve that. Not like the people who are hating have dedicated years to a project this big. (Even if you have, it doesnt give you a pass to hate on others' work like this)

And even then. Ok, you want to get your opinion out. Did you know you can do that without insulting either Jay or the artist who made the 3D animation? If you dont like the animation or the windbag used as a jetpack, then that is your personal opinion, and you are not "intellectually superior" for having that opinion. Sorry to break it to you. You can say whatever you want as long as you do so respectfully. I'm tired of people who hate on fun things like the jetpack because of their unconscious need to be above others. Take a fucking breath guys.

[e-rated-beardo]

Nobody:

Me: ...

Me: I need to make a half-arsed replica of Aziraphale's pinky ring using crap I have lying around + spray paint

(Nvm just spent 1h painting tiny feathers using like a single hair brush, this is barely half-arsed anymore why am I like this)

Top left is original; image courtesy of Danegeld Historic Jewellery. Bottom right is pre-tiny-brush (it was definitely a Horse Drawing Meme situation, especially up close like this, only thAT WAS THE LITERAL INITIAL IDEA ASDfghjk)

The materials are

A tiny bit of braided lace I found

Some picture wire

Two flourishy border bits cut from a cheap-and-cheerful plastic prism thingy, probably scrapbooking supplies, no idea why I had it

A shield/triangle cut from an expired passport

SO much super glue, spray paint, random black paint I had

[peachetteprice]

My biggest pet peeve in fanfiction is when writers choose not to use dialect words that their characters would use. It works both ways, too.

Your character who was born and raised in the East End of London would not use the words 'parking lot' and 'highway'. Even outside of dialogue.

Equally, that dude you're writing about from the Southern belt? 'Walks like a cowboy, sounds like a cowboy, is a cowboy' sort of a character is not reaching into the 'boot' of his car for something. TRUNK. It's a TRUNK in his lexicon, and it should be in yours, too, because you're his narrator!

People won't think your characters feasible if you don't stick to the conventions that the characters themselves would stick to. It's just... lazy, otherwise.

[gayleafpool]

have you ever had a fan song you genuinely really loved like you listened to it very seriously i want to know i’m curious

[aspiring-hobbit]

I’ve never truly felt feral before but this week’s episode has sent my mind reeling how the frickity frack am I supposed to go to sleep after that there’s so much to unpack I’m still screaming I’m going to have to relisten to it so many times holy crap