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it should be illegal to provide subtitles that don't....... match the fucking dialogue. some shows on netflix (and probably many other places) think it's okay to just leave out a bunch of words.
sometimes it's words they don't consider important for some reason but absolutely do affect the meaning and tone. sometimes it's swear words, which is even more insidious - disabled people don't need censorship wtf.
not only are you actively misrepresenting the dialog people have every right to assume is rendered word for word, it's also incredibly distracting if you can hear or lipread what's actually being said.
i don't wanna call anybody out so i'm not replying to anyone in particular but it has been said in the tags that it's understandable if it's 'filler' words when someone is talking fast or whatever and, no, it's not acceptable.
that's a large proportion of what i was talking about. i'm watching US shameless on netflix rn and whoever subtitled this has decided that about a quarter of what the characters say are 'filler words.' the most recent example i can think of, a character is telling another off for reckless behavior and says they could have ended up '[some gruesome illness or injury i don't remember] and hooked up to an IV.'
the reason i remember the 'and hooked up to an IV' part and not the other part? 'and hooked up to an IV' was omitted from the captions, jarring me out of the story. this happens every few lines, and what's omitted is often colorful details like this or speech quirks or other things that give characters character. doing this to a script is like forcing all color films into sepia. you lose a lot, and it misrepresents the overall work.
so no, it's not okay to omit 'filler' words, because i don't fucking trust these people to decide on my behalf which parts of the script i should get access to and which are only available to abled people.
I don't know the details of how subtitling works mechanically but i have seen a post from someone knowledgeable debunking the idea that it's ever actually necessary in practical terms to cut out 'filler' words. from experience i've seen them use multiple lines and leave the subs up longer.
anyway FUCK NO to abled people getting an opportunity to decide what parts of someone else's media disabled people get access to, no excuses
This, This, This, THIS.
I use subtitles to assist with auditory processing issues and some stuff on Netflix it's so egregious that it's unwatchable.
something I’ve noticed lately is the number of shows where a character is using AAVE but the subtitles for their dialogue are in SAE, which is fucked up on multiple levels..
I transcribe audio on a freelance basis sometimes, and to OP’s point about not knowing the mechanics of subtitling, it’s not that hard to leave in filler words. The service I freelance with has two options for transcription projects - standard and verbatim. Standard is for if you want the minutes of a meeting, or maybe if you’re dictating an interview, or if you’re doing anything that really doesn’t rely on tone and you just need information conveyed.
Verbatim is for everything else. Not many people select the verbatim option, because it is more expensive and it takes a little longer, but when tone is important (like, in my opinion, all of fiction), you NEED verbatim. That’s every word, every um, every like, every stutter transcribed and put on a page. We don’t get a lot of fictional audio like podcasts or TV show audio through my service, but I guarantee, whatever transcribing or captioning service they use, verbatim IS an option. And with a big network’s budget, they should damn well shell out for it.
This is also so damned egregious in dubbing; so often, if the source material has been dubbed in English from a different language (Japanese, Hindi, and Spanish being most common) they'll just take the English subtitles from the subbed version and plaster it onto the English dub. I've never seen a case where the dub and sub versions match up and the conflicting audio and subtitles are jarring to the point of making it completely unwatchable
This is also relevant for people who are learning the language. Like, especially with a language like English, where spelling and pronunciation are two completely different things, you need the subtitles to identify words you don't know yet so you can look them up. However, when fillers are left out, you can't learn the real deal but only the kind of pure, meaningful language that makes you sound like a robot
Also, I'm still learning Dutch and it is really hard to come by proper material aside from textbooks. I was really happy when I found a copy of Aristocats that actually had Dutch dubs and subtitles, but when I watched it with those settings to work on my listening comprehension and learn some new words, it didn't do a lot of good - because the subtitles were just some translation of the original English dialog, and the dubs differed from that a lot...
In summary, be coherent when doing subtitles, especially when there is a respective official dubbed version
Gif stands for Graphics Interchange Format. when graphics is pronounced “JAFFICKS” Then I will pronounce Gif with a “J”
^ This
It’s followed by an R of course it would be a hard g. But Giraffe is a soft g. Genius is a soft g. Gin is pronounced with a soft g too. GIF is I following a g, it would be pronounced with a soft g.
It aint Jif peanut butter though.
It would still be pronounced like that. The general rule is if the g is followed by an e or i, it’s soft g. U or a consonant is generally a hard g.
I will DIE WITH MY HONOR
Gear =/= Jear
Get =/= Jet
Gift =/= Jift
Give =/= Jive
In English, words with a ‘G’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ can be pronounced with either a hard ‘G’ or a soft ‘G’.
Words with Germanic roots such as ‘gear’, ‘get’, ‘gift’, ‘give’ (see above) are pronounced with a hard ‘g’ while words with Latin or Greek roots such as ‘gem’, ‘general’, ‘giraffe’, ‘giant’, are pronounced with a soft ‘g’.
So no, it’s not exactly a “general rule” that ‘g’ followed by an ‘e’ or an ‘i’ makes a soft ‘g’ sound.
Additionally, “GIF” is an ACRONYM starting with a word that begins with a hard ‘g’ sound, so “GIF” is therefore pronounced with a hard ‘g’.
We fight with honor
via @greenwoodthegreat. I could not have said it better, my friend.
Thor agrees.
This is a perfect compromise, it makes everyone unhappy.
im shaking so many things in one post im gonna d
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Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow
I saw this before I left work last night and had a quiet hope, and today I checked my phone at about quarter to two, while I was still on my lunch break, and I’ve just got a job interview with the BBC next week
I’m not a big believer in anything much but I’m so happy holy shit. So like unrelated note but something real good happened to me at 1.42 today lol
I’ll play

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THE SECRET HISTORY (1992) “But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?”
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
THE SECRET HISTORY (1992) “But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?”
Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”
I have been here, multiple times! By referring to the order as a “Little Rosa”, you don’t have to make as big a deal out of the fact that you’re seeking help.
And believe it or not, it gets better. Rosa’s also gives out sweatshirts to the homeless (or sells them to the general public) that has information on local soup kitchens and even computer training in the area, on an insert sewn inside the sweatshirt.
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Reblogged again for these excellent details.
Also you can buy slices for the homeless through their online store, from anywhere, not just PA!
here is the link for anyone who wants to buy slices for the homeless
thank you for the comment about buying online! I am in canada but would love to help
PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST
The URL has changed for their donations page. As of November 2019, this link should work.
$1 will get a slice for someone who needs it.
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First part: Suit of Pentacles.
I made the whole deck with real plants; leaves, herbs, flowers, roots and reindeer moss. Backside: Real tree bark.

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A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish Courtesy Philip Mould
PAINT RESTORATION OF MESMERIZING
I saw this on Twitter. He’s using acetone, but a cellulose ether has been added to make it into a gel (probably Klucel—this entire gel mixture is sometimes just called Klucel by restorers, but Klucel is specifically the stuff that makes the gel).
Normally, acetone is too volatile for restoration, but when it’s a gel, it becomes very stable and a) stays on top of the porous surface of the painting, and b) won’t evaporate. So it can eat up the varnish.
It looks scary, but acetone has no effect on oils, and jelly acetone is even less interactive with the surface of the paint or canvas.
Will someone PLEASE clean the mona lisa
For those who are wondering, they cleaned a copy of the Mona Lisa made by one of Da Vinchi’s students, and here’s a side by side comparison:
CLEAN THE FUCKING MONA LISA.
A couple problems with cleaning the Mona Lisa:
The Mona Lisa is a glazed painting.
A Direct Painting is one in which the artist mixes a large amount of paint of the correct value and shade the first time, and applies it to the painting. A Glazed Painting is a painting in which an underpainting is painted, generally in shades of gray or brown, and a allowed to dry, before layers of very thin glaze - a mixture of a tiny bit of pigment and a lot of oil - is applied to the surface. Some artists, such as Leonardo, choose to work this way because it provides an incredible sense of light and illumination (look at how the real Mona Lisa seems to glow).
The Mona Lisa is an incredible work of glazed painting, but that makes it fragile, so fragile that many conservators don’t want to work on it because it’s extremely difficult and a conservation effort go wrong for many many reasons. One of the reasons it could go wrong is that the glazes and the varnish layers are actually a very similar chemical composition, and a conservator could accidentally strip off layers of glaze while removing the varnish.
In fact, in 1809 during its first restoration when they stripped off the varnish, they also stripped off some of the top paint layers, which has caused the painting to look more washed out than Leonardo painted it.
The Mona Lisa also has a frankly ridiculous amount of glaze layers on it, as Leonardo considered it incomplete up until he died, He actually took it with him when he left Italy (fleeing charges of homosexuality), meaning it never even got to the family who had commissioned it, and instead constantly altered it, trying to get it just a touch more perfect every time. That makes it really fragile, with countless layers of very thin paint, many of which have cracked, warped, flaked, or discolored. It’s not just the top layer, its layers and layers of glazing throughout the painting that have slowly discolored or been damaged over time.
Speaking of damage, look at the cracking. That’s called craquelure; it happens with many painting’s (even ones that aren’t painted with this technique) because the paint shrinks as it dries, or the surface it’s painted on warps. Notice that the other painting has very little of it, even though it’s almost the same age.
The reason the Mona Lisa has so much craquelure is because Leonardo was highly experimental, almost to the point of it being his biggest flaw. There were established painting techniques, and then there were Leonardo’s painting techniques. The established painting techniques were created in order to insure longevity and quality, but Leonardo didn’t stick to any of them. This has made his work a ticking time bomb of deterioration.
Don’t believe me, check it out:
This is how most people think The Last Supper looks
But this is actually a copy done by Andrea Solari in 1520.
The actual Last Supper looks like this:
The Last Supper has been painstakingly and teadiously restored, with conservators sometimes working on sections as small as 4 cm a day. To get to it you’ve got to walk through a series of airlocks (AIRLOCKS!?!?!) and they only allow 15 people at a time because the moisture from your breath and your skin particles will damage it. Despite all of the precautions and restoration, it still looks like that.
This is because Leonardo painted the last supper using highly experimental methods. He didn’t use the traditional wet-into-wet method that fresco painters used, and insead painted onto the dry plaster on the wall, meaning the paint did not chemically adhere. Before he even died the painting had already begun to flake. It’s a miracle it’s still there at all.
They’ve done what restoration they can on The Last Supper because the painting will absolutely disappear if they don’t. The Mona Lisa, which is delicate, but much more stable, doesn’t need the same kind of attention. And, like many of his works, is just too delicate to touch, and the risk of doing irreparable damage to it is far too high. The Mona Lisa is insured for something like 800 million dollars, and that’s a lot of money to be ruined by one wrong brush stroke. (fun fact: the most expensive painting ever sold was also a Leonardo, the Salvator Mundi, and it went for 450 million dollars.)
Furthermore, there are probably only 20 or so authenticated Leonardo paintings in the whole world. If you look through the list, most of them aren’t even fully done by him, are disputed, or aren’t even finished. It’s simply too difficult and too risky to restore the Mona Lisa, one of Leonardo’s only finished and mostly intact works, when there’s hardly any more of his paintings to fall back on.
Now the painting you see in the video above is 200 years old, not 600 years old, and I assure you, the conservators decided the risk to restore it was minimal (after extensive research, paint testing, x-raying, gamma radiation, etc.) and that the work they were doing was worth the risk based on the painting’s value.
Conservators make the decision all the time about how much they can do for a painting, because really, they have the ability to completely strip a painting of all varnish and glazes and just repaint the whole thing (which happens to a lot of badly damaged paintings, especially when there’s no way to save them - one of the very small museums in my area recently deaccessioned a Monet because it was barely original, and no one wants to look at a Monet that’s only 20% Monet’s work) - but doing that to the Mona Lisa, removing the artist’s hand from the most famous piece of artwork in history? Hell No.
(also, I’m not a conservator but I’ll be applying to a conservation grad program sometime next year, so sorry if any of my info is at all inaccurate)
I found this really interesting, thanks for sharing.
John Keats’ copy of Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Soir / Evening.1911. Oil on Canvas. Oval: 160 x 111 cm. (63 x 43.70 in.) Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, France.
Art by Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier.(1847-1914).
Paintings by Ettore Aldo Del Vigo

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Ginger cookie recipe? I searched your tags and couldn’t find it. Pls and thx.
Sure! It’s my grandma’s, and is the best.
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar (brown or white, I like using brown)
1 egg
1 cup molasses
2 Tablespoons vinegar (yes really trust me)
5 cups flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon powdered ginger
1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon
1 teaspoon powdered cloves
Cream shortening and sugar. Stir in molasses, vinegar, and egg. Dump all dry ingredients into a separate bowl and stir together with a whisk. Add dry ingredients to wet bit by bit and stir in.
Roll out on floured surface to 1/8 inch thick. Cut out into whatever shapes you like. Place on a greased cookie sheet, bake at 375F for 5-6 minutes, until lightly browned.
For icing, make a powdered sugar glaze.
It’s that time of the year again!
Are they chewy or hard?
Chewy. If you want them hard, bake another minute.
Also, this makes like seven dozen cookies, because my grandma didn’t know how to cook for fewer than 10 people.
mind if I write this down and put it in my sister’s christmas gift this year? (I got her a special cookie cutter so I’m including recipes she can use it on.) Also, do you need to use a specific kind of vinegar or does any kind work?
Not a bit I posted it for people to copy it and make it and give it! Grandma handed out copies to all her kids and grandkids and great grandkids.
You can use white or apple cider vinegar but either comes out good!
Forever ago I did a spell to attract local witchy friends into my life. I used lemon balm from my garden, local sea salt, ash from a fire pit from a house that I love, rose petals from the house of a family member I love, and other local ingredients.
It was SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE than any spell I’d done for that using store-bought ingredients.
That started my love affair with using spell elements that I have a personal relationship/connection to. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I mean it makes sense, right? In addition to the spirit of whatever you’re using having a better disposition towards you because it actually knows you, if you want a spell to affect your local area you should use ingredients from that area.
(I also had a thought, but haven’t tested it, that using ingredients from a wide variety of locations could help spread out the area that the spell affects. hmu if you try it)