#thank you technology I love you

[sparrowmoth]

island adventures with the bestie @villainsnest ❤️❤️

[taytei]

Alphabet Challenge: C - Cells at Work!

I can’t believe how much of a comfort series this show is for me

[feral-mannequin]

my most toxic autistic trait is that i can't stand when people say "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" because isn't it obvious? the egg! egg technology was invented far before anything that even resembled a chicken stomped and pecked its way onto the scene! egg technology facilitated organisms leaving the ocean full-time without having to return to the ocean to reproduce! it's a way to bring the ocean to you, in a handy little shell or amniotic sac or whatever! EGG!!!! EGG CAME FIRST!!!! CHICKEN IS RECENT!!!!!! EGG IS ANCIENT!!!!!!!

[pigswithwings]

back at it again at Krispy Kreme

[carcarrot]

having another one of my job-related crises

[bookishbroadwayandblind]

I'm doing Inktober but TID-themed!! I wish I could do more fandoms but my braincells only have room for Jem (and I guess the others are pretty cool too LOL) but I'm always open for prompts and suggestions for other fandoms as well; I've read sooo many books friends haha! But yeah, come check out my ao3 at WistfulWhimsy and read day one which features some very sad introspection about the (imo) often-overlooked childhood trauma of Jem Carstairs. And let me know where I can find your Inktober if you're doing one!

[sarahbduck]

Subscription for a Paintbrush

A painter might feel like a paintbrush is an extension of themselves, developing muscle memory and skill to create beauty. But what happens when that tool is owned by someone else, and they charge rent? What if they've decided to take it away from you? What if they've decided your art isn't yours?

As a 3D artist, I was professionally trained in using Autodesk Maya, a 3D modelling and animation application. I became really good with it, and grew to love it! I used it at work and at home for my own projects. It became muscle memory, an extension of myself, an organ for expression.

The full version of Maya is ludicrously expensive at CA$2,500 a year! So I had to settle for a cheaper version called Maya LT. It was missing some features, but I wasn't using them at the time so it worked out. I paid CA$360 a year for 3 years.

COVID struck, and I lost my job. I had to use savings to continue paying my license for an additional 2 years, yet in that time they provided no updates. I was just paying for access.

In 2022, Autodesk announced that Maya LT was being discontinued, replaced by a new version called Maya Creative. Instead of a subscription, you'd buy "tokens", spending one token for 24 hours of use. You could only buy tokens in bulk, the cheapest being 100 tokens for CA$405, and they expire after one year.

I've never seen such a predatory, disgusting pricing model for a piece of software. It's like an arcade machine! I thought subscriptions were bad enough! I refused to participate.

Despite spending nearly two grand, the tool I love is going to deactivate itself soon, and I don't have any say in it. It's bytes will still be on my computer, but it'll refuse to launch. Maya LT had a proprietary file format, so all of my projects will be unusable.

It feels like I'm losing a part of myself.

I feel like a fool for even letting this happen in the first place. I let myself become attached to a tool I didn't even own, run by a faceless corporation! My own art is being held hostage! How unfair! Should it even be called a tool, or a service?

I've been avoiding 3D art lately, focusing on programming and game development. My friends and I started working on a game in the Unity Game Engine. A couple months in, Unity's owners were saying and doing some unsavoury things, so we swapped to the Godot Engine. I feel incredibly lucky that we did because of the Unity drama that followed.

Unity wanted to start charging a fee for every user that installed your game. They wanted this to apply to every Unity game retroactively. This is obviously a stupid idea, and they walked it back, but it begs the question: Do you even own the game you developed? It seems like you don't.

I don't want to let myself fall into this trap again. I feel like we as artists form a personal relationship with our tools, and it shouldn't have to be an abusive one! I want to own my art and tools! That shouldn't be difficult as a digital artist! I've been recommended some proprietary subscription based "tools" by friends recently, and I refuse to use them. I won't let this happen to me again.

I'm going to use as much open source software as I can. Open source software is the only software you can truly "own". You have access to the code, and you can do with it as you please! It's often democratically run by the community! You can distribute it to your friends, and it's not piracy! There's a ton of excellent open source art software out there, and I encourage you to check it out!

Autodesk broke my heart. When I get back into 3D art, I'm going to be learning Blender.

[hood-ex]

bro. i’ve been following u for like 2-3 years and for some reason i just can’t believe you’ve been in this fandom for so long and how active u r lmao, so just wanted to say thank u for feeding me with dick grayson content all these years 💗💗💗

[merge-conflict]

every day I wake up and wish I had access to cyberpunk stuff written by someone who really truly absurdly loves computers

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Had a boomer moment and accidentally deleted my answer to @hecatesbroom's letter song ask 🥲 I'm so sorry, I'm just a disaster! I hope you won't mind if I answer you like this -- you asked for the letter K (and for the delightful reason that it stood out on your keyboard!)

Finding songs with that letter was harder than I thought! Here's my favourites:

So sorry once again -- and thank you so much for your ask! I had a lot of fun going through my library and rediscovering these classics!

[cecils-dragons]

what do jasper and elliot do for individual entertainment and then together!!

My sons ;w; thank you for asking about them <3

First off individual entertainment! Elliot is an avid reader, he frequents the library to find new novels to read in his free time or during boring work time. He also has Nyx, having a ferret as a familiar is a handful but she is very entertaining. His room is filled with toys and enrichment items for her.

Jasper on the other hand is not really one for doing things just for entertainment, he just gets confused by some things thanks to his less then ideal upbringing. He does work on his logs for what's he's encountered on his hunts, and to practice he draws items and creatures around him. He's a little flustered about doing it around others. Marble is his favorite subject to practice on. There are cameras in my lore but not everyone owns one and they are not practical enough to take out on hunts.

As for joint entertainment, they of course get enjoyment from just being around each other and playing with their animals together. The both of them tend to have a more relaxed form of entertainment together, so together the usually just hang out together doing their own thing or listening to the radio together. While answering this I kinda realized I have no idea what people do together uhhhhhh.....

[nicoscheer]

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Miles being real 😭🤣 (is that a target pin ?!!?)

You did not just get him to do a TikTok with a tlsp sound 🥹🥹💅💅🥳😭😭(just saying he chose to repost exactly that one, like from here 5 stories he had to go and choose that one 🫠🫶🏽my man’s (understandably) more gone than we are)

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(The AM album in the back)

He’s gotta be such an amazing uncle

[hwanghyunjinenthusiast]

Thank you for the tag, Kacii (@kaciidubs) <3333

Rules, shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.

Fortunately, I actually have a current favourites playlist lol so, I just shuffled through that.

1. Collision by Stray Kids

2. Super Bowl by Stray Kids

3. DLMLU by Stray Kids

4. Item by Stray Kids

5. March by Seventeen

6. Hall of Fame by Stray Kids

7. HeyDay by Stray Kids

8. Fam by Stray Kids

9. Taste by Stray Kids

10. Left & Right by Seventeen

Tagging anyone who'd like to participate!!! Sorry, I just got home and I'm so, so tired lol. You're all welcome to though.

[burntpink]

Você cursa moda/design ou algo do gênero? Adorei seu tumblr, bem original, fora da “caixinha” kkkkkk

obrigadaaa 💕 eu não estudo nem trabalho com moda, mas sou formada em artes visuais e trabalho com arte digital e tecnologia. meu interesse por moda é só efeito colateral de conviver com gente estilosa e criativa por tantos anos (e um impulso incontrolável de me expressar pela minha aparência)

[sempersirens]

Please add me to your sun bleached flies taglist <3

answering this publicly just to promote that i am going to soon do away w my tag list and create a side blog where anyone interested can turn post notifs on for :)

[todayisafridaynight]

I'm glad the sushi was good!!! Speaking of the Arakawa Family office, these were a big help for me (Provided You Mean The Old One but I should ask for the Millennium Tower one sometime tbh)

Shoutout to this Collection by the entrance. These are not enough umbrellas for Kamurocho weather bro 😭

i should kill myself right now for stressing out over the layout for the past X hours but i wont thank you this makes my life MUCH easier now