Disapointment Center

The tips are on ao3 now, and I’m Res but on tumblr.

Apparently you aren’t allowed to draw unless you’re born as part of the Artists, like it’s some kind of Hunger Games ripoff plot

GOOD IS SUBJECTIVE

The act of self expression is what makes it art!

Cyanide and Happiness the webcomic is literally just 2 circles on squares with sticks for limbs!!!

They are now one of the most famous artists of all time and have their own animation department because of that!!!

And if you aren’t satisfied, you can improve!!!

This is literally my first ever glory girl pic:

That’s right, fucking paper and pencil

It’s not great!

It has a lot of flaws!

But if I gave up, I never would have improved! Not just in skill but in self esteem

We're taking today to celebrate Meatloaf, the more than 200-pound green sea turtle currently recovering in our care. 🐢

Meatloaf was rescued from the San Gabriel River after being found entangled in fishing line and tethered to debris. The line cut off blood supply to one of her front flippers, and our vet team performed surgery as part of her ongoing recovery. She's healing in the new sea turtle rehabilitation area near our Molina Animal Care Center.

She follows Porkchop, who spent nearly a year in our care before being released back into the river and has since been spotted thriving with the river's other resident turtles.

Stories like these start with our community science volunteers, who have monitored green sea turtles in the San Gabriel River since 2008. They were the ones who spotted Meatloaf's entanglement and got her the help she needed.

If you'd do anything for love of sea turtles, donations to our Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Program go directly toward Meatloaf's care.

the good news: I know my process enough to recognize this as the slump that I hit in everything I write when it's like three-quarters-ish done

the bad news: the only way out is through

the good news: I do know the way out!

Quantum witch who has figured out how to store her nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and crippling depression into patterns compatible with human neural impulses and can project them in the form of hexes onto other people, or reverse the process to siphon thoughts.

Guy who had his entire digestive tract cybernetically enhanced so it constitutes over 1/3 of his body mass but he can use all his organs as extra limbs or attack with them like a starfish throws its stomach at its prey.

Retired military robot whose brain is a daisy chain of forty rat brains who is still trying to get its personhood legally recognized and resents not being able to do anything for itself without the aid of a "service human" who legally speaking technically owns it as a pet.

Guy who has had his entire skeleton replaced with a network of low level AI centipedes allowing him to react at incredible speeds and move in ways that shouldn't be possible.

House sized anthill which lives underground and interacts through a series of dozens of drones which can temporarily assemble into a humanoid shape if needed.

Orca who had most of her body destroyed by a depth charge during one of many surface wars and had her head and remaining spine installed into a colossal multiarmed mech suit to be able to collect the disability compensation after she sued, and uses it to maintain a coffee bar and support group focused on civilians injured in military or police actions.

Guy who installed entropic conversion units at key joints of his body which allows him to become super fast, hyper intelligent, super strong, and indestructible for ten minutes, but anything within a ten foot sphere around him at the start gets turned to ash.

Ratbot has a real uphill battle because if it wins personhood the military has to start paying benefits to every functional ratbot and they were created as disposable soldiers with human like intelligence but without any regulations about their rights. As far as the military is concerned they just need to stall until ratbot parts all run out and the one with the lawsuit breaks down permanently. Bad news for ratbots.

The mosquito hybrid is a low income area doctor. Wealthy people can afford nanoplants that run off vat grown synthetic material and have near perfect cell regrowth and life extension. Mosquito hybrid found their nanoplant as a junk discard experimental model and needed a set amount of insect genetic material before it worked.

- they’re Opawz pet specific dyes. Non toxic made specifically for dogs. Once they’re set and rinsed they can groom themselves normally, they pose no danger to her in any way, no fumes, there’s no bleach involved

- my dog is trained with cooperative care skills, the process is not stressful for her, she gets paid heavily for her cooperation and looks forwards to the opportunity to earn extra snacks with the grooming

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

It was really easy to steal and consequently got stolen several times. We always got it back though. Anyone could’ve stolen it, really. With no car jacking experience necessary anyone could drive off in it. Even you. This truck was like an excessively friendly lab, it would go home with anyone.

Foremost in ease of theft, neither door locked. But second and only slightly less easy: the truck would accept anything as a key.

My dad kept a loose saw blade on the dash to use as a key. The first time I saw him do it I was horrified that instead of a key the ignition answered to a loose bit of a power tool.

When my dad saw my expression he held up the saw blade and made an attempt to connect with the youth.

ribbit: ragatha, jax killed his mom schrödinger sloppy style

jax: what the phuck!

Outside of Tumblr (and even a bit within Tumblr but nowhere near as bad) the TADC Episode 9 spoils are EVERYWHERE. People posting clips from the leaks in their TikToks, people discussing spoilers openly in random comment sections, people making posts about the ending and including spoilers in the title and thumbnail.

People are REALLY not listening to that damn fish and it's making me really sad at the lack of respect for people waiting for it to come to YouTube. Especially because a lot of the people who are spoiling it so openly DIDN'T like the final episode/series. They're not spoiling it for the sake of discussion, they're spoiling it because they didn't like it, so they don't care, and they think other people shouldn't care too.

Thank GOD I've gotten back into Tumblr, man. It's so good being surrounded by people who actually enjoy the media they consume. Being on Reddit and Twitter surrounded by anti-fans really killed my whimsy and dimmed my sparkle. Tumblr is revitalizing that.

the expression you're looking for is reining in. it is NOT reigning in. it comes from horseback riding.

you REIN IN your horse when you pull on the rein to tell him to slow down.

similarly, you GIVE HIM FREE REIN when you loosen your grip on the reins and let him run as fast as he likes.