Gangnam Style

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this

It is done (enough)!

I would hype it up more but this is really really simple. It randomly generates a set of symbols, colors, and a word, and then the expected thing to do with those is you draw some sort of character based off the result you get. So it's just an art challenge toy thingy.

There are also some practical features like you can lock parts of the result in place to rerandomize the rest, or hide parts of the generation you don't care about (like if you want to pick your own colors or hate the words being there)

You can try it out over on itch.io!

It should run in browser, but there's also a downloadable version for Windows if you want to use it offline. (No mac/linux versions for now, because I don't have appropriate computers to test those on and I...don't want to deal with mac's developer accounts or whatever their problem is...)

Here's something I made from one of the results I got for the sake of example:

(It's a bit of a rushed drawing sorry I just wanted to get the actual generator out there)

Nearly 14,000 mail ballots in Nevada have signature issues

Officials urge residents to use online tool to check if ballot was accepted

The total number of ballots — 13,906 — needing curing include 6,383 from registered nonpartisan or other voters, 4,026 from Democrats and 3,497 from Republicans.

The deadline for voters to cure their ballots is 5 p.m. Nov. 12, officials said. Ballots can be cured here.

The main issue they're having with young voters is that Nevada allows for voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the "signatures" are digital (the licensee types it into a form), so their hand-written signatures on their ballots don't match the KEYSTROKES that serve as signatures on their license.

And then I took a deep breath.

Okay kids. It's time to listen to your organizer elders.

I don't care if every call is reversed and she wins by 30 electoral points.

Get involved. Do one thing to make the world better: mutual aid, volunteer, join your local political groups, read to kids, go to community groups.

Survival on this blue spinning ball means coalition building. It means accepting you save the world by doing what you are good at and sharing it with others.

It means to stop looking for saviors in your political choices, and also not crucifying them. It means getting away from political purity and ideology and fucking working toward the next one and the next one.

Political change is different than political theater. It takes work. So much work. And if you are tired, tap out, but don't leave the game.

Guess what happened tonight?

The first openly Trans woman was elected to congress.

2 black women are serving together in the senate.

It is ugly and it sucks and we need to take a breath, take a nap, and then get up off the mat.

We can do better.

like, if you're bored today, and not doing anything,

I know how much you love reblogging posts and then never looking at them ever again. I get it, I really do. but PLEASE

just open one of these links and explore a bit if you're interested

Scratch - great coding program for learning the basics, but so good you can make a video game with it

Codecademy - learn any coding language with lessons

Neocities - literally make a website

Hello everyone, I am Ahlam, 21 years old. My life before the war was simple, filled with ordinary dreams like any young woman my age. I envisioned a future full of the ability to help others. I lived with my family in a warm house full of love and security, thinking about how I could achieve my dreams and become an impactful person in society.

But suddenly, everything changed. The war swept through our city like a relentless storm. In a single night, my home became just a memory, and the city I once knew crumbled before my eyes. The sound of planes and shells became the only thing people could hear. We tried to find shelter, a safe place to hide our dreams and lives, but the war followed us wherever we went.

We were forced to leave everything behind—the house, the memories, and even the university. We became displaced, homeless, with no destination, just trying to survive. I walked with my family through unfamiliar roads, searching for a place to take us in, trying to escape danger, running from one explosion to the next, from one ruin to another.

The war didn't just destroy our city and homes, it destroyed our dreams. My dream of completing my studies became far out of reach, and every day, I feel hope slipping further away. But despite all this, something inside me refuses to give up. There is a desire to escape this reality and build a new life, a life worth living. I dream of continuing my education, I dream of standing on my own feet again and achieving the goal I was once striving for: to help others who have lived through the pain of war like me.

I ask for your help, humbly. I can't get out of these circumstances on my own. The donations you gather will help me travel to a safe place where I can continue my studies and start a new life away from war and fear. The amount I'm asking for is the key to a new life, to the dream of becoming strong again and one day helping my family and community.

Help me rebuild my life and become the person I dreamed of being. Every donation, no matter how small, is a step towards safety, a step towards a better future.

Thank you for reading my words. Many thanks and respect to you

Vetted by:

dlxxv-vetted-donations

cops follow a fare evasion suspect, try to taze him, end up shooting him, another cop, and two bistanders. they're then called brave by the mayor of New York

Ok so i got this reply on this post talking about how palestinian bloggers are getting their accounts deleted and banned by tumblrs automated moderation system, and listen i have no interest in putting this person on blast cause i genuinely Dont think this sentiment is coming from a malicious place.

But i do want to talk about this nonetheless because i dont think you guys are realising that the people making these accounts and reaching out to us are doing so in english for OUR benefit, so that they can be understood by the english speaking majority on this site.

A lot of the people (not all but quite a few probably) are just not comfortable speaking in english!!! They may be using google translate to reach out to us and understand what we say back, and we all know how janky those translations tend to be. On top being completely unfamiliar with Tumblr's posting etiquette (which i do recall a lot of people were all taking pride in for being SO different from other sites not too long ago), there's a very obvious language barrier too.

Of course their posts will not be "natural sounding" enough for you.

And that's fine. Good on you for staying vigilant etc etc.

All I'm asking of you is to understand what you are asking of people when you demand that they "sound more natural" so that you can find them "convincing". You are demanding them to be fluent in language and culture they are not familiar with, when theyre already here at all because theyre in the middle of a genocide and just trying to survive.

So if you do get messages from palestinian people who want to spread their campaign and want to call yourself an ally, please dont immediately report them. There are places you can check to see if they are legit or not, there are palestinian bloggers who are working really hard to make sure any money you donate are going to people who actually need it instead of disgusting scammers who are trying profit off their misery.

Literally all you have to do is type their url into the search bar, and most likely you will find out if theyre a scam or not. If there arent any results you can just ask someone. Just dont outright dismiss thats all i ask.

This person hasnt said anything about blocking or reporting but, Again i want to say PLEASE KEEP AN OPEN MIND.

Many of these accounts are new, or have been remade because they got previously deleted by tumblr. There are users on here like @kyra45 @neechees and @mangocheesecakes who keep track of scammers so you CAN check in with their lists as well.

1. "But the gfm organizer isnt in palestine!"

That is because gofundme doesnt operate outside western countries, and as such doesnt work in palestine. They need an organizer from outside the country to do it for them.

2. "But we could be donating to trusted ngos instead like unrwa!"

Many ngos have stopped operating in gaza because of the violence and dangers to their workers, because they are specifically being marked as targets by the iof. Israel has been trying to declare unrwa a terrorist organization for a while now, and barely any of the aid being sent to gaza is actually getting through to the people who need it. Your money would be better served if it reached the people directly in gaza who need them, or other such grassroots organization run by palestinians themselves.

3. "But the vetting process isnt transparent!"

Thats because making it transparent will mean telling the actual scammers exactly how they can be more convincing. But even so it has been explained many times by hussein and nairuz that they do so by checking if the person theyre vetting knows palestinian arabic. We should be following the lead of palestinians who have taken up the difficult work of verifying fundraisers and trust their judgement when it comes to their own people.

4. "But the list of vetted fundraisers carefully maintained by palestinians at great cost to their own health even when they are actively grieving the people they have lost in the past few months still isnt convincing to me!"