#media in general was better

[eleni-cherie]

take me back to 2012-16. srsly i can't take this anymore.

[nova-rpv]

a bunch of doodles to make up for my wips 👍

and dont forget your daily clicks!!

[sergle]

I think it's so tired and played out, the growing genre of tumblr posts that are like "yeah I don't have tiktok (hair twirling) (brag) (proud of myself)" like I need yall to understand it's just an app. and I know that we're all getting old. I'm turning 51 this month. but you SAID you wouldn't do this whole "disregard whatever the Young People are doing once you become an adult" thing and now you're totally 100% doing it. "it's toxic" so is tumblr and twitter! "there's censorship" just like tumblr and twitter! "I don't like this-and-this trend" you literally follow people you wanna follow and shape your own algorithm. and your tumblr reblogs are FULL OF TIKTOK REPOSTS. you love tiktok. they are just videos. having or not having an app is not a personality trait!!

[svnflowermoon]

hey btw before you start being angry at the 10 year old sephora kids and the ipad kids, remember that we should feel bad for them. because the world has failed them. it is not these kids faults that the world is so focused on materialistic things and that their parents don't know how to talk to them. that is the fault of social media and bad parenting. i said what i said.

[codename-adler]

just bc Nora Sakavic is back on twitter x and tumblr answering all kinds of questions and giving us heart attacks with every crumb of information, doesn’t mean TSC is/will be fan service. i trust her. lady’s got a backbone rivalling Kevin’s spine. stop digging her grave before the book is even finished. goddamn.

[starfall-isle]

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[necromeowncy]

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[hellenhighwater]

Hello! May I ask your advice on a crafting project? I have a neon sign that I love but it is way too bright. I'm thinking of painting over the neon tubes or putting translucent paper over them or something to dim the light. Do you have any suggestions?

If it's true neon, I'd be hesitant to put anything on it. While well-made glass tube neon shouldn't get hot, it's not impossible for that to happen. There are some heat-rated materials you could look into--lighting gels*, like those made by Rosco, for example, are intended to be used safely with potentially high-temp theatrical/film lights. They can be a little hard to get your hands on though, and I'd still hesitate to apply them directly to the neon; better safe than sorry. They're heat resistant, not heat proof.

If it's LED "neon"--plastic, not glass--you can pretty much use whatever. Alcohol inks are interesting with light coming through them; you can get color-tinted transparent vinyl, even mod-podge'ed tissue paper would be fine to glue over the 'tubes', because LEDs don't heat up. Might be worth testing some stuff--you can try materials on plastic wrap and cover the tubes to see how it effects the light.

*Lighting gels are transparent sheets of plastic that tint light to specific colors. You can layer sheets for custom colors but they manufacture them in a huge range of hues and sizes.

[lilybug-02]

Oh Lily in the Tumbrl what's your wisdom?

Hmmmm

Despite what the media (and 20 year olds on Youtube may tell you), Gen Z and future generations are no less smart than any other generation. They are smart and kind and lovely.

Let them love cringy-silly things like the Emoji Movie, or The Little Mermaid Scuttlebutt song, or Coco Melon. No matter what, they will grow up to be normal people, I promise. ❤️

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

reading an essay for uni rn that i think some of u need to internalize

[smallidarityfan]

Kirie I'm so sorry I was going to draw you smallidarity for your birthday for being so awesome sauce but then I didn't. I played Tomodachi life instead :(

AUGJDHHAA THIS IS JUST AS GOOD PROBABLY The sentiment means everything to me 🥹🥹🥹

WJDHS THE BAD BOYS DESIGNS AND POSES ARE SO QUIRKY AND SILLY IM GIGGLING AND KICKING MY FEET SKDJRNR THANK YOU TUBBY I can't express enough how cool you are to me 😭😭😭 THANK YOU FOR THESE SILLY GUYS,,,, I will store them in a neat little folder on my ipad to look at sometimes........

[arnaerr]

Tagged by @lucien-lachance to share current top-5 most listened to songs. Thank you so much! No pressure tagging @flameclipseth, @grimae, @saildraws

Sovran Shrines by Suldusk - my top autumn song this year. Really like the second half especially.

2. Nowhere, Still Somewhere by Sylvaine - so pretty and I love the name of the song very much, really resonates with me now.

3. Morgon by Demen - my fav song to listen now during quiet dark evenings when I start a new drawing.

4. Journey East by hackedepicciotto - very unusual song that haunts me.

5. Atatabitata by ARAGON. I discovered this album this summer and can't stop listening to it, probably the best music find of this year. It's like a Japanese version of Dead Can Dance. A true hidden gem, and I'm so sad that they've only made one album, but it kinda makes me cherish it even more. This song is very uplifting and inspiring to me.

[fyreinhell]

everytime i look in the lilith tag I see so much hate and antagonism for her, like my god. we barely know much about her but some people are just desperate to hate on her while woobifying male characters and I can think of one word why.

[lost-in-frog-land]

I'm starting a collection:

[supermaks]

Kit do you not rep Charles anymore 😭

Of course I do he’s prime I just need a break from his team and that fucking dog

[muffinlance]

After reading the tags on your latest post I was wondering if it would be possible for you to make a brief overview of the iffy tropes/details your sensitivity reader helped you pick up on? Of course it wouldn't replace doing research ourselves, but I'd love to hear about it regardless!

Have not run it by them yet because it is in no fit state for human consumption at this point; the tropes are just from reading their blog + others on Tumblr + general Internet research including the excellent "blind people walk you through normal activities from their perspective" videos on YouTube. But off the top of my head:

Face touching. Where the blind person gropes someone's face to see? Sighted people made that up. I rewrote a chapter in Towards the Sun when I realized that one. Which makes sense, because why would a blind person be any more inclined to run their hands all up in your facial juices. Eww.

Negating blindness with magic and pretty much ignoring the blindness henceforth. Which is why Zuko isn't going to learn to see with firebending. There are very interesting discussions on how Toph herself fits and doesn't fit into this trope; finding them is left as an exercise for the reader.

Token blind character, AKA only having one blind person in the narrative who represents All Blind People. Going to have a few blind NPCs running around, with various levels of sight and accommodations, to thoroughly negate this one.

Being Depressed and/or Overly Inspirational about the blindness. AKA character devotes a large chunk of the story to bemoaning their blindness, with bonus inspirational "overcoming" at the end. Think about how it would feel if the majority of characters like you spent vast word counts hating the thing that makes them like you. And then solving it, in a way you can't, so they don't have to have the tragic fate of Being Like You. ...So Zuko is not getting cured, and he's also not wasting much time wallowing in an angst puddle.

Etc.

Basically, I want this to be a story that low vision folks can read and go "that was fun and less offensive than 70% of actual media representations", and sighted people can go "that was fun and hopefully I internalized some positive things that will make me less likely to grab a blind person's arm and forcibly Help Them Cross The Road, Try To Pet Their Dog (and Get Huffy When Asked to Please Not), or Call People Out On Not Being Blind Because They Don't Fit The Stereotypes".