This animation without the filter because it fucked with the framerate for some reason (this isn't the intended look otherwise, but bleh)

im sure most of you dont give a flying dick tit about godzilla shit but this model and now animation is the first thing ive made and was kinda proud of in a long time .

WAIT YOU MADE THIS?

idk probably

im worried that the reason you're getting less attention than you deserve is that this looks like it was clipped out of a Movie, and not one of the lower budget ones

2,840,658 polys

i make my rigs myself

dont do this to me

I think this is a conversation that fandom needs to have in general.

When you encounter something that makes you uncomfortable while you’re playing a video game, reading something on AO3, browsing Twitter, or scrolling through Tumblr, you have the power to remove yourself. You can stop reading, you can hit the back button, you can block/mute, you can turn the device off entirely.

“Consent” has a very specific meaning. When you’re consuming a piece of media that a creator has posted on their own personal account, you are in their space. That is a one-sided interaction. They’re not at all involved, they can’t reach through the screen to hit the back button for you. They’re not “violating your consent” or “pushing your boundaries”, because you are the one in control.

We need to stop acting like creators are 100% responsible for the mental well-being of every person who could possibly encounter their work, and instead start taking responsibility for our own online experiences.

[A twitter thread reading, "One thing that really bothers me about the Boyfriend Dungeon discourse is the criticism that players "didn't consent to" content in the game, and the way that language is being applied here.

In this usage, "consent" usually refers to boundaries around acts of physical or emotional intimacy, the violation of which is frequently assault, harassment, or abuse. It's serious and it means something specific.

Encountering something you don't like or even something triggering in media is not a violation of "consent." It's a frankly gross bastardization of language to act as if that's the case.

If we're going to look at consuming media through this lens of "consent," then… you consented when you started playing and you can revoke that consent at any time by turning it off?? Why would you act as if you've been violated here? It's gross!

I'm glad the content warning is being updated, but also, you couldn't possibly cover every bit of potentially triggering content. It would be an infinite list. Get some friends who warn you aout your triggers in stuff ahead of time and stop talking about this like it's abuse"]

All of this. One of the reasons I started this tumblr like a trillion years ago is because I went through a period in my later adolescence and young adulthood where I lost a bunch of weight due to an eating disorder and exercise bulimia and I was treated vastly, vastly better.

@lisadabahdest is absolutely correct in all her observations. Not only did I have way more friendship and romantic opportunities, I also had way more people wanting to give me jobs, acting opportunities, and mentor me academically and artistically.

Worst of all and utterly heartbreaking was when one of my parents treated me vastly, vastly better when I was thin than before. This parent was also fat and hated that about themselves, and totally projected this vicarious triumph over fatness on me. Suddenly this parent, who was never interested in anything I did or accomplished, was bragging to me to all their friends, bringing me up in conversations, wanting to hang out and talk with me, etc etc.

When I recovered from my eating disorder and gained a bunch of weight, this parent started treating me like I didn't exist anymore. Thank goodness I had another parent who didn't treat me differently at all, except that they were relieved and happy I was doing better and was more healthy (even though I was very much larger).

I will never not believe there is thin privilege and fat discrimination, because I lived that experience. I was my own natural experiment. And I will always believe fat people when they talk about the discrimination we face, how society ices us out, how people are trained as little kids by parents, teachers, doctors and even fucking cartoons to be disgusted by fat people and to dehumanize us.

Share the shit out of these natural experiments. We are silenced, gaslit, told that our experiences aren't the norm and don't prove anything. But people who have lived as both thin and fat will tell you the same thing if they're being honest, and there are a lot of us.

-ATL

windows knight-y eight

i think popular media culture is poisoned in the following ways:

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize,  snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”. 

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

Encouragement and acknowledgment are so much more effective than punishment.

"adult who logs on and works themself into a furor over teenagers not having perfectly articulated opinions and thoughts on the world" is quickly becoming my least favorite genre of Poster Du Jour

"this teenager is overly skittish and prudish about alcohol and drugs" i was like that as a teenager because i was a sheltered child and not every person in the world enjoys substance use or has the proclivity for it and that's fine

"this teenager has conservative ideas about sex" theyre literally at a point in their life where they're only beginning to grapple with sexuality, that's their business and barring some far flung outliers it's probably extremely weird that you care about what a kid you dont know thinks about sex

"this kid's opinion about this complex issue is ill-informed and not as articulate as it could be" that is normal because they are a child

"this teen online doesnt understand queer history" maybe you should gently guide them as a peer in your vulnerable community instead of trying to dunk on them for your followers

"this kid on the internet is a loser because [x]" if youre an adult and say stuff like this i have to assume youre projecting bc you were bullied in tenth grade

I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.

The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.

Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.

No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.

We laugh at environmental media from the 80s like the villains in captain planet, but we forget that the people making that shit literally would have lived through such terrible air quality

sustainable.

innovation under capitalism

Thank you everyone who got me to 5 reblogs!

this is the funniest possible post for this feature to bug out and proc on.

uhoh.

I especially love these two excerpts from her wiki page

I tell kids about Tilly ALL THE TIME when I'm doing tsunami presentations for my job. She lived in a landlocked part of England! She probably thought she would never ever ever use what she learned in her geography class about tsunamis and then just a few weeks later she used it to save over one hundred lives! It's an incredible story about how anything can happen anytime, and we need to be prepared to act.

What I think is most important about her story is that, even as a kid, Tilly knew she was right and she stuck to that knowledge. She practically threw a fit until her parents listened to her, because at first they kept brushing her off. And that is SO IMPORTANT for our kids to know! Adults can be wrong. You need to trust your instincts. YOU can be right and YOU can act in times of danger and emergency. YOU have the power to save yourself and others.

some things to remember:

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)

Matilda (movie) remake where Trunchbull looks like one of those hyper feminine bleach blonde Republican women you see on talk shows as the token girl/eye candy. And then Miss Honey is a soft-hearted, handy, tie-wearing Butch.

It is so so important that Miss Honey is also fat.

put in the flattering limerick Matilda made about Miss Honey like the second she met her, in the novel, and all the other seven-year-olds insisting Jenny Honey absolutely is the prettiest woman in the school no matter what she thinks herself, because they're seven and believe 'pretty' means 'makes me happy to look at her' and the thing is they're right

also Miss Honey has to be around age 21-23, because everyone forgets that part of the book and I think it makes the sheer horror of her situation more impactful

(the Trunchbull was still in the Olympics- she just shows up at school in LuLuLemon every day)

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

People can't just say "I don't like this music" anymore they gotta call you gay and autistic for listening to a band that had one song go viral

just gonna drop this here

I could go on a long tangent about how it’s shitty to constantly assert that a thing people like is bad and garbage and they should feel like garbage for liking it, but these memes do the same thing with so much brevity.

Also. Treat fat people with respect or die by my blade.

Very important addition.