#klout

[southerngoffics]

"I'm gonna cast thunderwave."

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Howard the Duck #5 (September, 1976) Art by Gene Colan

[auramgold]

[dontmakemetakemylightback]

You are not so smart that you can't engage with others and try.

You are not so broken that everyone will see you as a failure and Boone to be around.

You are not so attractive that everyone will want to see you in your skimpiest fits.

You are not so low in self-esteem that you hang onto every praise comment like it's validation of your worth.

You are worthy of care, of love, and of platonic friendship that borders on the romantic but doesn't cross the line to it.

You are worthy of going out in feminine clothing and looking pretty and covered.

You are worthy of being drooled over in your skimpiest fits.

You will come across many, many beautiful and pretty people, alluring in various ways. And will find those worthy of your honest company.

It fucks, heavily, to be lonely and wishing when you see everyone else having fun with people.

You will try again. Because even when the shit hurts, even when arguments start coming and it feels worse, you will do the thing you rarely did before.

You will be you.

Speaking, talking, crying, throwing tantrums, planning moves/hangouts/dates, showing up with the truth radiating out of your body.

You will be you. I promise you it matters. With all your honesty, with your more open vulnerability, with your amassed empathy and crafted discernment, Crafted and Refined ™️ the Discernment, you will be you.

And we'll be grateful for it

[passiflora-red]

[kungfu-grip]

Super Smash Dril: Mega Man

a horrible mechanical abomination attaches itself to my skull and injects my latest Klout score directly into my brain every thirty seconds.

[websterstylemag]

A Moment with Kiki Klout

A moment with adult actress Kiki Klout from this year’s Exxxotica NJ. You can find more information about her various endeavors at https://www.instagram.com/kikithesnack/. Ways To Support Basil and Sage, visit them at https://basilandsage.com/. Use code WEBSTERSTYLE10 Become a Producer on Patreon for just $1 per month. https://www.patreon.com/websterstyle Pete and Pedro: Use the link…

[i-am-mr-k]

Both are valid.

[istandonsnowpiles]

My Photography in 2024 by the numbers

📸 Total photos taken

In 2024, I took 18,277 photos, that's about 50 photos a day!

In 2023, I took 23,721 photos. So I took 5,444 fewer photos this year than last year.

Photos taken this year make up 27% of my photography archive, which is 65,814 photos total.

💽 Raw Photo Storage

Photos taken this year take up 677GB.

That's about $9.30 of storage at current hard drive prices (per diskprices.com, $13.75/TB)

In 2023, photos took up 914GB of storage, so we're down 237GB from last year.

Photos taken this year make up 25% of my archive storage, 2.64TB.

💾 Keepers

In 2024, I exported and posted 1,129 photos, about 4.25 photos a day.

In 2023, I exported and posted 1,600 photos, about 4.4 photos a day. So, while I exported 471 fewer photos (about 30% fewer), I maintained my usual posting rate.

Exported photos from 2024 take up about 11GB on top of the 677GB above. JPEGs are far smaller than raws!

🪩 Klout

Flickr

My photos received about 616,000 views, 18,500 likes, and were featured on Flickr's Explore page 19 times. That's up 130,000 views and 4,800 likes from 2023. My most popular photo was The Sears Tower

Tumblr

All but one of my top 10 posts of the year were photos, with I think we need to put more lines up there topping the list at about 1,800 notes.

My top photography post is still my 8 minute long exposure from Lake Placid from 2022, which topped 115,000 notes this year. None of my posts from this year broke into the top 10 posts of this blog by notes.

Electric Phallus Friday remains a thing every week. No, I do not run the daily blog for it. Tho, I bet I know who does. Thank you.

Google Maps

If you're looking at places around DC, or places I have travelled, on Google Maps you might spot some of my photos. My photos have 10.8 million views on Google Maps, with Kenilworth Park and Pudgie's Pizza in Corning NY both breaking a million views each.

IRL

My photo Alone at the Reflecting Pool was a winner in the 2024 Exposed DC photography contest and will be featured in The DC Public Library's People's Archive soon.

⚙️ Gear

Cameras

In 2024, I used at least 10 cameras*:

Fujifilm X-T2 (248 edited photos)

Fujifilm X-E1 - Full Spectrum Converted (99 edited photos)

Fujifilm X-H1 (56 edited photos)

Fujifilm X-T5 & Full Spectrum Converted X-T5 (1,478 edited photos)

Film Cameras, mostly Nikon F3 (83 photos)

Panasonic LX100II (2 edited photos)

Panasonic S5 II (60 edited photos)

Panasonic GX85 - 590nm Infrared Converted (145 edited photos)

Sigma DP2 Quattro (45 edited photos)

Sony RX100 VII (35 edited photos)

This year I upgraded by trusty Fujifilm X-T2 to an X-T5. I had gotten the Fujifilm X-H1, which has the same sensor as the X-T2 (which I love), but with IBIS. An X-T2 with IBIS would be my ideal camera if it existed, but it doesn't, and the X-H1 handling is so different that I didn't enjoy it. I ended up selling the X-H1 and handing down the X-T2 to @dykedotexe.

This year I rented the Panasonic S5 II and Sony RX100 VII, both of which are fine cameras that I probably wouldn't rent again. I would love a high resolution Panasonic S5 body, maybe at CES?

Lenses

For full data, see the Read More

Top used lenses:

Fujifilm 33mm f/1.4

Fujifilm 16-55mm f/2.8

Fujifilm 56mm f/1.2

Viltrox 27mm f/1.2

Fujifilm 18mm f/1.4

The only surprising entry here is the 16-55mm. It's a standard zoom and the lens I've had for the longest. So, it's certainly my Old Faithful lens. However, I don't think I realized how much I was using it.

My most common lens combos are:

Fujifilm 18 & 33 - I travel with this setup frequently. They're both nearly perfect lenses I feel very comfortable using. Plus, they're fairly small.

Viltrox 27 & Fujifilm 56 - I tend to like longer lenses more than wider, and these two lenses are probably my favorite. So, you'll catch me with this a lot. Tho, it's a heavy setup.

Fujifilm 16-55mm - if I'm gonna be on a tripod or unsure of what to bring, this is the lens. It's big, heavy, and slow compared to all my primes, but I know it'll work. Fujifilm recently released a version 2 of this lens that I might need to pick up based on these numbers!

*in this section, edited photo counts are taken from Lightroom, a difference source than the Keepers section above. The numbers in the two sections are not comparable. Edited photos may not have been exported and posted.

🙄 To Improve in 2025

In 2024, my projects in Lightroom rarely got cleaned up. I still have imports from March that I need to curate and edit. 7,400 photos (40% of what I shot this year) sit in my Lightroom unedited.

This year, I'd like to curate my photos before editing them, separating out the keepers & removing photos I don't want to edit. Of course, they'll all be in the archive still. But, I think this would help wrap up projects rather than letting them sit around forever.

Thanks for all your support in 2024. I'm working on improving all kinds of things in 2025. I'm currently working on my posting system, which should bring some cool things when I wrap up.

Lens usage data

Viltrox 13mm f/1.4 (23 edited photos)

Fujifilm 16-55mm f/2.8 (313 edited photos)

Fujifilm 10-24mm f/4 (41 edited photos)

Fujifilm 18mm f/1.4 (167 edited photos)

@dykedotexe's Fujifilm 23mm f/2 (17 edited photos)

Panasonic G 25mm f/1.7 (145 edited photos)

Viltrox 27mm f/1.2 (179 edited photos)

Sigma DP2 Quattro - 30mm f/2.8 (45 edited photos)

Fujifilm 33mm f/1.4 (556 edited photos)

Sigma 50mm f/2 - L Mount (60 edited photos)

Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f/1.4 - F Mount (83 photos)

Fujifilm 50mm f/2 (35 edited photos)

Fujifilm 56mm f/1.2 (194 edited photos)

Fujifilm 50-140mm f/2.8 (28 edited photos)

Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 (61 edited photos)

Fujifilm 70-300mm f/4-5.6 (157 edited photos)

[fictionfactorygames]

Happy #NationalSuperheroDay , which is apparently a thing that exists! Which Capebook Crusader do you want to save the day -- scrappy young Farsight, influencer hero Klout, or the psychic omegachad Muscle Memory?

[winstein-nin]

Mario Characters as Batman Villains 41 - Troff & Scoff + Tweedledum & Tweedledee

Our subject of today are two relatively lesser-known characters that hail from Donkey Kong 64, beloved and disliked for various reasons. Troff & Scoff are two rotund guys that guard the gates that lead to the bosses, and their rotundness is why I think they are suitable for Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

The initial suggestion for the pair of guys (who were not originally twins until later where one of the guys is replaced with an actual twin) was Kuff 'n' Klout, but they are generic enemies so I think they won't stand out. Although that suggestion was shot down, I remembered that these two exist, meaning that the Tweeds at least have some representation.

It was challenging to figure out what to base their costumes on, because there are versions where they are dapper, and versions where they resemble more closely to their Alice in Wonderland counterparts. I decided on the more dapper look but with a hint of playfulness from the original literary characters they are based on, which is why they have propeller caps underneath their top hats. In fact, for some reason Troff and maybe Scoff looks right with them!

No word on if they have chest piercings underneath their suits, though.

Thank you for reading.

[maximumsunshine]

If I tried to explain the night I'm having, y'all would accuse me of making it up for bullshit tumblr klout. But there is just this level of insanity and chaos that happens when a group of strangers pack bounds over the shared experience of hour 6+ in the ER waiting room, and one of them is an extrovert trying to ignore the fact he's full of nitroglycerin after a cardiac event, and thus is feeling talkative and everyone around him is his new bestie.

[auramgold]

[ineffable-hyperfixation]

If you people don't start reblogging art (and writing!!!) I'm gonna start biting you

Look at this shit

These are the top 4 today, LESS THAN HALF of the people who liked it have reblogged. That first one especially makes me want to chew glass

Oh! But those are in the top today! So surely everyone will see them!? No?? A lot of people don't go into the tags! And also think how many more people would see them! You can only like something once! Even if every one of those only had 1 follower that's still roughly 300 more eyes on the work!!

But those are new, you say. Surely the older stuff isn't like this? Incorrect! Let's sort by top of the last year

TRAVESTY *bops you all with a newspaper* that last one is one of my all time favorites (I'm going to list them in a reblog, because I know sometimes too many links kills a post) it's an amazing piece of art and look how little love it has

It has FOUR TIMES more likes than reblogs???? Think how many people could've seen this artist's amazing work!

Excuses I see:

It won't fit my blog: a) you can make multiple blogs! This is my side blog, I made it in October, tagged things appropriately (used the good omens tag for a bit, I've dropped it now since), and have gained a nice handful of followers! That wasn't the point but I'm glad you're all here (hai!)

b) it's your blog! Use it how you want to!! "Oh people will unfollow me!" this isn't the I have followers klout website. This is the have fun and hope you can make someone else's day fun in the process website. If it sparks joy, reblog it!

I don't wanna upset op with spam: that does not happen here. Artists, writers, and bloggers love seeing you. Go nuts

Reblogging is time consuming: you can quick reblog (on mobile hold down on the reblog button and swipe up to the blog you want, sorry idk how on computer but I know you can) reblogging is only time consuming if you want to comment or tag. If you're willing to leave a reply you should have time to reblog! (Commenting and replying both have their place, it's ok to reply only while still reblogging!!)

Tagging things intimidates me: people carry on entire conversations in the tags, people leave the wildest shit as tags, people have confusing tags to organize their blogs, people leave absolutely no tags at all! You do not have to tag things!!

I have my likes turned on so people can see: you look like a bot, stop that. Empty blogs get blocked! I'm begging some of you to please reblog something. No one goes straight to people's blogs to look exclusively at their stuff (....ok well some people do but most people just scroll their dash)

Likes are bookmarks! That's it! Or a way to interact with some random thing someone said about their day that you can tell they don't necessarily need reblogged. This isn't twitter, where (apparently?) reblogging something is kinda frowned upon. This isn't instagram where likes mean everything. This is Tumblr, and it survives on reblogs!

[passiflora-red]

[uniasus]

fic rec! PJO, set after TOA. 38K

Summary: Medusa’s sculptures are mysteriously coming back to life. Percy doesn’t think murder is an unreasonable action given the circumstances.

Comments: I love how messy this fic is in terms of emotional complications. Percy is pissed at Thalia for trading him for Jason, even as they both mourn him. Gabe is human again, which is a huge mess because he wants nothing to do with him but Gabe is using Percy's name to build klout at camp.

Poseidon and Athena seem willing to let Medsua do what she wants in revenge, sending Percy, Thalia, and Annabeth on a quest to see what she wants. And what they did was...bad. How can you hate your dad for something he did, even as you love him? How can you pity a monster, want to right her wrongs, even knowing she once tried to kill you and had killed thousands?

Despite the mess, the story still has a conclusion that's satisfying, because you can tell it's good for the characters. They're good with the ending, so the reader is good, even if things are still messy.

Also, Paul is in this fic for maybe 300 words but I love all of them.