#make sure to make a Tumblr post and @ this account if you do.

[pedrostories]

🎄 PedroStories Secret Santa event 2024 🎄

Dear Fanfic writers and readers,

PedroStories would like to invite you to our second Secret Santa event! ✨

If you write fanfictions for any Pedro Pascal characters and/or you're a visual art creator (graphics, gifsets, fanart) with a love for our fandom's fanfic writers, this event is for you! You can register here until November 27 (you can expect our message about your giftee a few days later), and the gifters will post their arts on December 24.

We have tagged all the incoming questions and answers about the event with “secret santa questions”, you can search for it on the blog, but if something still isn’t clear, feel free to send us an ask!

Please read the rules carefully before submitting your application!

Please make sure that it’s specified in your bio if you’re a minor/adult (at least temporarily)

Please respect the deadlines: application ends on November 27 and you will need to post your gift on December 23

Please consider the following rules about the format of the gifts: gifsets should contain at least 3 gifs (or multiple banners) and fanfictions should be at least 1k words

We encourage you to anonymously contact your giftee if you feel like your prompt isn't clear enough, or if you have any questions about their preferences. If you're in doubt, you can send an ask to pedrostories, and someone will contact you via dm

If you're a tumblr user please make sure your anon ask is enabled, and if you're not a tumblr user please provide a contact where your gifter can approach you anonymously (obviously a media account or e-mail address you check regularly)

Please tag your gift as #pedrostoriesgift24 and #pedrostories so we can track and reblog all your arts on the day of the gifting, and don't forget to tag you giftee as well!

If for any reason you need to drop out, please do let us know as soon as possible so we can find a pinch hitter for your giftee

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to send us an ask!

Join us and spread the word! 💜

 - PedroStories Staff

[olderthannetfic]

https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/766905425760337920/olderthannetfic-i-used-the-data-people-gave-me?source=share

I'm late to the party because this is an old post, but I have two accounts created on the same day in 2014, and the user IDs are six numbers apart. I remember making two because I wasn't sure what name I wanted to use, and then in the last few years I ended up using the second one, which had lain dormant all that time, to post anything I was too chicken to post on main.

And now I'm thinking of merging them, lol.

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It's Tumblr. There's no post so old we can't resurrect it!

I'm looking at the "turbo virgin" death threat post right now and laughing.

For the record, the $350 OTW gym bag continues to be amazing. The old travel mug died recently when I launched it off of my stroller, oops, but the new see-through travel mug is amazing and well worth whatever high-ass donation price you have to pay.

But now there's that egregiously expensive and limited blanket... Do I spring for it? Are there even any left now?

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

*gasp* it's you

You've been commenting on my Zach and Jacob fics for a while now

:OO it's you!!

and it's me!!

Yes I have they have been my lifeblood in this fandom <33

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

[snekdood]

i mean i should probably stop saying shit just to be mean

[fvckednddistvrbed]

i ate a lot today, not as much as other days, but still im disappointed with myself and starting to feel sick. why cant i be good at restriction? god this makes me wanna sh so fucking bad

[kjzx]

Lowkey would love to be one of the artists for the f&h Gacha for Gaza thing but idk if they still take in artists for that and if my skill is good enough for that

[devinwolfi]

im a hater who took one (1) stats course and these "real queer ratio" polls drive me up the fucking wall

[mossflower]

yeah you need hobbies outside of media consumption or you’ll go insane. however if i spent an entire day reading books i would not go insane i would feel happy and fulfilled <3

[twitchyglitchy]

I love getting back into one of my cringe phases while playing VRChat and stumbling upon people in my age range (adults) who are fucked in the head nasty. /sar

[something-about-sunflowers]

I had to turn off reblogs for the post about the anon asks. . . I am just a lil guy. . . I cannot handle 18k notes. . . My notifs/activity tab are in shambles. . . H-how do big accounts do this all the time?

[deltarune-positronsandphotons]

POSITRON PUDDLES UST DISK 1: TENNA STUDIOS SOUNDTRACK

All of the following are just names. no actual music has been made.

Kris, where the hell are we?

Set of Dust and Dunes (The semi-abandoned “Sherrif Pine” set. Acts as the starting area of the chapter)

Sherrif (what one would expect to be a theme of a recurring character. However they are immediately launched off stage by what looks to be an off-brand power ranger)

Undyne (Undyne’s overworld theme. They are the off-brand power ranger)

Rider of Justice (Undyne’s battle theme. Oh it looks like it was a kamen rider reference not power rangers.)

Into the sunset (a post battle theme after undyne accidentally gets blown away by a barrel of dynamite.)

DON’T ADJUST YOUR SET (Tenna intro theme)

Troublesome Tenna (Tenna Overworld theme)

Cathode’s Crew (The Shadowmen’s theme)

Obvioustrap.oog (a stinger that plays when Susie falls for an obvious moss-based trap)

Getting Back Up (Toriel’s theme. Because after you have fallen down, you have to get back up.)

Green room (… Listen what do you expect me to say its GREEN ROOM we ALL know what green room is)

Sheen’s Shop (a shop theme for the green room shop run by a familiar dinosaur)

Tenna Studios Plaza (the “hub world” of this chapter. A spire of wood and metal is in the distance, surrounding the dark fountain. You are filled with the power of family and fluffy boys.)

Mountain King Overture (A rearrangement of “in the hall of the mountain king” that plays in the first part of the “Mountain King” Set. Similar in tone to bergentrükung)

YOUR HOST, GRENDEL GNOMOID (The overworld theme for the main antagonist of the “Mountain King” set: A deranged game show host who is an old garden gnome that Asgore left behind by accident.)

Set of Gardens and Games (Another rearrangement of “In the hall of the Mountain King”, but more upbeat and similar in tone to “It’s Showtime”)

SUSIEZILLA (after being shrunk down by magic liquid, you face off against Susie, who was just told this was a monster movie set)

We used to have a stealth section, but it sucked so here are minigames (A sped up 8-bit version of “Sneaking” that plays in what was very clearly meant to be a stealth section that is now an arcade where each minigame you beat gives part of a key that opens the door to the next room)

THEY OPENED THE DOOR, KNOCK THEIR SOCKS OFF BOYS! (A chase variant of Cathode’s Crew that plays after you unlock the arcade door and run to the next section)

HeroesReunited.oog (A quick jingle that plays after you finally meet back up with susie.)

SPIN THAT WHEEL (you are given a chance to win, and that chance is spinning that wheel)

SetComplete.oog (a jingle that plays when you beat a set)

Green Room Movement (So the green room acts like the willy Wonka elevator, did I mention that?)

Set of Sales and Shadows (the theme of the shopping network set, where the gimmick is there is no gimmick)

Cornered! (the theme that plays when the Cathode crew attacks during the end section of the shopping network set)

A Grim Grinning Ghoul (Kreepy’s Introduction theme. After beating two of the sets, if you have the shadow crystals from Jevil and Spamton, You can see them standing behind a rusted gate)

Set of Cosmos and Calamity (The theme of the space set, which you must go through with Susie. Keep the audience happy.)

Cosmic Commander Roulx (Oh shit he’s back. he’s gonna be in every chapter, isn’t he?)

INTRUDER ALERT (Plays when the Cathode Crew board the ship)

Set of Baking and Brutality (the theme of the cooking set, which forces you to bring along toriel. Hope they like snail pie)

Well, there’s your problem: too many snails! (plays when the Cathode crew somehow gets the snails to revolt)

Crew Crusher (the slowed down rude buster, plays when you FINALLY actually fight the Cathode Crew)

GRAB AND DASH, BOYS! (a VERY sped up rude buster that plays when Toriel gets kidnapped after beating the final set.)

Mansionkeyget.oog (a jingle that sounds similar to the Kirby 1-up jingle that plays when you obtain the mansion key the Cathode Crew dropped when kidnapping Toriel. They only seem to drop it if you have encountered Kreepy before.)

Off the Beaten path (a distant sounding version of Tenna Studios Plaza. Plays on the path towards the House of Happy Haunts.)

It’ll Come right back to Ya! (the “overworld theme” of Kreepy K. Rawly. You never exactly see them unobscured until the fight however)

House of Happy Haunts (A song that one would expect to play in a funhouse. While upbeat, something about it just sounds… off. It uses the Dialtone/circus motif)

Mirror Mania (A chase theme that plays in the Hall of Mirrors when a distorted reflection chases you)

The one who pulls the strings makes It ring (the song that plays just before Kreepy’s fight when you accidentally destroy the shadow mantle)

HAUNTED BY YOUR PAST (Kreepy K. Rawley’s battle theme. Has a variant that plays whenever TAL is on the field)

Exorcised by your future (Kreepy K. Rawley’s post fight theme.)

Tenna Towers (The castle theme of the chapter)

Tenna Talk {starring tenna} (a talk show section)

THE RIDER OF JUSTICE RIDES AGAIN! (a pre-undyne rematch theme)

BUT WITH A GUN THIS TIME! (Undyne rematch theme)

Should have been more careful with that thing (Didn’t she know she could shoot an eye out with that?)

Freedom Fountain (An ambient theme that plays right before Tenna’s final fight)

FRIDAY NIGHT DEATH SLOT (The Chaos King/attack of the killer queen equivalent)

Fade to Light (the theme that plays when everybody wakes up)

My Funky Town (it’s My Funky Town.)

Crystal Corner (Where all the secret bosses hang out after you beat/spare them!)

A Weird Deal (Do you really want to take it? Only plays if you have done snowgrave in the same save file)

Chap4Weirdrouteunlock.oog (…You took the deal. You monster.)

The edge is getting thinner (The end chapter theme. Credits do not roll after this chapter).

[medicinemane]

To be honest, seeing a post about how since binders are hand wash and that's a pain, old washboards do a good job (did I reblog that?...I forget) really kind of makes me want to get a washboard for my laundry

See... I kind of fucking hate using machines like that for some reason. Like, I don't use the dishwasher, it's so much easier for me to do it by hand (even easier if I get ahold of some good dish rags cause... when I've got a rag I can get things cleaned even quicker and easier)

Just something about the loading and unloading... doesn't work well for me

But using a washboard on the couple things I use (I mean I'm at home a lot, so I don't go through a ton of stuff), and then hanging them on one of those little... like the indoor hanging racks (which I could make if I'd just make it)... that feels easier too me

Hard to get started doing cause... it's... it's a big learning investment, not that it's complex but like... even if you... well even if I know all the steps for something, doing it the first time still is really hard and like learning, I can't say how it is for you

But like, once I started doing it and was used to it I feel like I'd do it a lot more than I'm willing to do laundry in a machine

...I don't know... just thoughts I have. Don't know why I'm like this, but I am

[starrrbitz-movedtonewblog]

This blog really is old, part of me has been wondering for a while if I should just archive it and make a new one...

Some ranting and thoughts in my tags below...

[shithowdy]

this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and "tells" one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for "fake classical paintings" to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you're all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣

so what are some signs to look for? let's use this very good example.

what a lovely late-impressionist piece blended with evocative leyendecker-esque themes! why haven't you ever heard of this artist before? surely tumblr would be all over an artist like this. who is justin brown?

your two options from here are to do a search for the name, or a reverse image search. i prefer reverse image searching, particularly when it comes to a common name like "justin brown". so what does that net?

Immediately, without looking at any text, something is wrong: it barely exists. an actual historical piece would turn up numerous results from websites individually discussing the piece, but no such discussions are taking place. Looking at the text, though, does show the source-- and at least in this case, the creator was honest about their medium.

But let's also look at the "exact matches", in case a source doesn't make itself apparent in the initial sidebar results like this.

This section will often tell you post dates of images, and here it can be seen that the very first iteration of the image was posted 15 days ago. It did not exist online prior to that.

Seeing how long an unsourced image has been floating around is a skill applicable to more than just generative images! See a cool image of an artifact or other intriguing item with a vivid caption? Reverse search it! If all the results are paired with that caption and only go back a few months, you might just have viral facebook spam.

Sometimes generative creators are dishonest about their medium and do not tag it like in the example, so that's when establishing "jpeg provenance" becomes important. While it can be a little trickier to determine if someone is using generative images and not admitting to it if they aren't trying to pass it off as a classic, something to consider is the age of their account and the frequency with which they post. Here are some account red flags:

-Did they only start posting art after 2022, or if they did before, did their style/skill level WILDLY change? Not gradual improvement-- I'm talking amateur graphite portraits straight into complex digital renders. Everyone starts somewhere, newness is not a red flag alone; it's newness combined with existing in a vacuum away from any community.

-Do they post fully-finished paintings several times a week? -Do many of these paintings seem iterative of a similar theme or subject matter ("three well-dressed young men face each other under shade and dappled sunlight")?

-Does their style change in inconsistent ways? An artist that can swap between painting like Drew Struzan and Hokusai should be pretty well known, right? Why is no one hyping this guy?!

-Do they have social media besides the source instagram? If so, what are they posting about? Are there any WIPs? Doodles? Interactions with other artists? Gallery dates? 3am self-doubt posts? Or is it all self-promo? Crypto? Seemingly nothing art-related at all for someone pushing out 3 weekly paintings?

Basically, if it's important to you to omit this stuff when you curate, please don't just smash reblog if the source doesn't seem to be the OP themselves. Seeking out sources was important even before this became an issue, now it is more than ever.

peace n love

[lettersiarrange]

Since I just checked my ask box for the first time in a hot minute:

Just a note that tumblr doesn't tell me when I have new asks or messages and I rarely check my notifications. Helpful corrections of misinformation/any messages in good faith are appreciated (though it's possible I won't see them until weeks later, sorry), but if something I reblog angers you enough you feel the need to get hostile in my askbox on anon, I reccomend the unfollow button.

I'm also not comfortable posting asks asking for any sort of donations/directing people to your blog for donation purposes, sorry :// I just don't have time to vet asks like that