Hedonist

so you're telling me the fifa world cup is all men? its all men's teams? and so is the superbowl? and all the sports teams that states are known for and make copious amounts of merch for are also men's teams? and only 5 women have ever entered formula one since its inception in 1950 and only two of them were able to compete? and this is normal? its acceptable?

i grew up playing backyard soccer on the pc as a child in the early 2000s where boys and girls would play on the same team and against each other and you're telling me that's still an unrealistic fantasy that can't happen in real life?

confession for the first maybe twenty two years of my life i didn’t know that sir francis drake and sir francis bacon were different people. i would hear some wise quote from him and go wow….. and to think he still had the time to be a pirate

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

i may have talked about this before but from what i understand and have observed the overall change in lighting and color timing in film/tv these past 15 years or so isn’t because of some systemic brain drain in the field of gaffers (“no one knows how to light a film anymore”). part of the perceived change in lighting is just because people are comparing footage shot on digital to footage shot on 35mm, but another major part is that this change in lighting technique is deliberate to make films and especially tv shows better-suited for viewing on phones rather than tvs or movie screens. phones need cooler tones and sharper contrast, a more clinical look, for footage to look good. something lit and timed for the big screen often looks either piss filtered or way too dim on a phone screen, especially if it’s depicting food or human bodies, and just like how mise-en-scene is evolving in really careful and creative ways in the tv world to be easily pan-and-scanned for a vertical format, gaffers are in fact working hard and consciously to adapt from a 16x9 to a 9x16 viewing experience

let me be clear i do not like the new end result. i’m a big screener all the way, and we’re losing so much potential for artistry with these new restrictions just like how film lost so much potential for artistry when they switched from nimble silent cameras to unwieldy sound film setups. however i do want us all to know that this isn’t something that came out of nowhere, and it’s unlikely to vanish from the mainstream film and especially tv world independent of some massive shift in how people engage with the moving picture

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

u know uve reached peak blorbo understanding when you sound like a hater to the stans and like a stan to the haters

idk if this is controversial or not, but I really like when non-professional writing like fic has hints of author bleedthrough when it comes to like, what different people assume is common knowledge. Like sometimes I’ll be reading a fic and it’ll just be obvious that the person writing it is either obsessed with medicine or has been to medical school, because they’ll use terms that are just a shade too technical without explaining them. It’s never the super specific stuff that they’d know other people are unaware of, it’s always the things that once you’ve known it for a while you forget it’s niche knowledge. It’s fun because as a fanfic reader it reminds me of how this is a fun hobby community, where everyone has their own thing going on outside of fandom. Everyone’s got their own specialties and they can’t help but write that into their work sometimes

…well this post sure took off

new ask game; what do you think my hobby, skillset or knowledge or any other details of me based off my writing

idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.

i love clicking on somebody’s ao3 profile and seeing the most nonsensical collection of fandoms. like yess let's live a thousand lifetimes

what a morning to find out that the tag for beloved discworld novel i shall wear midnight is now markiplier all the way down because of an unfortunate shared acronym from his movie. i don't really know the guy like that but it is beginning to feel like a classic "i think we're gonna have to kill this guy, tiffany aching from discworld" moment