dragon-in-a-fez:

I can clearly remember the moment I first realised my mother and I were living on completely different planes of existence. I was 7 years old and I came home from my school’s first track and field day having placed second or third in every event. the teachers had been making jokes all afternoon about how many times they had to call my name. my friends thought I was cool as shit. my enemies thought I was cool as shit too, come to think of it. I was proud as hell. so I get home with the entire front of my shirt covered in ribbons like I was a military dictator who’d awarded himself every medal, I walk into the kitchen and tell my mum all about my day, and she goes “oh, that must be disappointing not getting any firsts.” and I’m like no?? first of all the first place ribbons are red and I don’t like red. second of all look at me. there’s literally nowhere left on my body for accolades. I am fucking Jacked of All Trades. how could this possibly be a disappointment.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

step one: be extremely depressed during covid-19 quarantine

step two: in your diffidence, leave many half-drunk glasses of water around your apartment

step three: your cat, who is stupider than any other mammal on earth, living or dead, starts drinking from your many abandoned water cups

step four: the cat now believes these are for her

step five: years later, you keep a glass of water on your bed side stand. not such a strange sight. however, it is the cat’s glass of water. she loves it. she drinks from it, she sleeps beside it on the bed next to your pillow to jealously guard it from harm, she cries when the level gets too low and she can’t cram her little head in far enough to reach the water. when overnight guests are there you have to explain that even if they are parched in the night, they don’t wanna drink the glass of water, because that is the cat’s glass of water.

slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp

slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp slurp

you know how easy it was to get this picture? i picked her up, smooched her on her little head, put her down on the bed facing it, and she went “!!!! ooomye glase ofwater🥰” and started slurpin

cryptotheism:

cryptotheism:

cryptotheism:

cryptotheism:

If I was a pokemon NPC I would definitely be in some corner of a library doing Pokemon based historical research on ghost types. Like can you get your stupid Bulbasaur out of here I have a deadline.

Yeah yeah I have a spiritomb. I bought a stupid book in a library overflow bin that HAPPENED to be haunted, and now I have to take care of this thing. It screams and knocks shit over unless I feed it wisdom, yeah turns out these things eat wisdom.

Yeah it doesn’t really understand physical reality so it can only have play dates with other ghost types. I tried taking it to the park and it nearly hurled some lady’s Flareon into traffic. So I had to buy a mismagius off Pokebook marketplace so it wouldn’t get anxious and give me nightmares about my dad killing me.

My apartment is full of increasingly improbably ghost types that were offloaded onto me. Don’t go in the closet. Yeah there a cofagrigus in there. But hey stand back check this out [I open the door really fast, the cofagrigus rips apart the rotisserie unfezant i got at the grocery store]

stuffaboutminneapolis:

The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook. 

The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.

 “You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”

ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”

“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”

(Source: facebook.com)

transparent-plastic-robotgirl:

transhuman-priestess:

capsyst:

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Originally posted by madeleineengland

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

Originally posted by madeleineengland

@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it out

omg that’s cool as heck!!! 🌸

parsio:

alexwrekk:

friend-crow:

Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people’s homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it’s one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they’ve sent someone to do utility work on your house.

Stay safe, friends.

ICE posing as utility workers to detain immigrants, Gresham lawmaker warns

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

opb

Some people have shared stories of suspicious “sales representatives” knocking on homes, asking about the home owners and who lives there, fishing for phone numbers, but do not provide business cards, company id, company phone numbers, etc when asked.

They come in pairs, never one person though one may hag back a bit. They have been seen using cars with significantly tinted windows, no business logos anywhere on the vehicle, or parking close to the home they walked up to only to drive away right after without visiting other homes, almost as if they’re not real sales people.

True door to door salespeople need a sort of peddler’s license, subject to city and county law, to solicit at your door. You can ask to see this permit. If they don’t provide one or make an excuse, they are likely bogus.

They wear a jacket with a company logo but likely don’t wear name tags and the Don’t provide id.

Tell them you’ll call the company about a noncompliant representative. Make them leave. Better yet not to open the door to them, and tell them nothing.

Actual sales reps also generally do follow “no soliciting” signs. Be aware, be safe, don’t give out your information or that of others under duplicitous means.

mealreminders:

This has gotta be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. 😂😂😂

Remember to eat, my loves! There’s a whole world of delicious joy awaiting you! X

thegeekstressart:

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

kat4884:

didn’t jesus do something similar to that

lazzarella:

interpolationz:

woman-becomer:

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

1five1two:

Natural Spring on Mt. Fuji, Japan. Takeshi Kimura.

wisteria-lodge:

cicanaci:

caracalliope:

macbethheadband:

Shakespeare 400 yrs ago: and then he pulls a pack of cigs out of his denim mini skirttttt

David tennant in 2011: omg yessss

Originally posted by transjudas

Digital Theatre :: Much Ado About Nothing

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hey – he’s not pulling them out of a denim miniskirt –

that pack of cigarettes is clearly tucked into the top of the thigh-high stockings he’s wearing underneath the skirt

netherworldpost:

flopugh:

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

Lot of “pretty boy in trouble on knees” fanfic writing careers launched with this scene.

did-you-know:

The Beatles refused to play in front of segregated audiences. It was written as a stipulation in their contracts, and at a 1964 concert in Jacksonville, FL, John

Lennon said: “We never play to segregated audiences and we aren’t going to start now. I’d sooner lose our appearance money.”