geordi, filming: hey what’s up everyone i’m geordi and today we’re gonna see if we can get doom to run on my friend data here

data: *half smile wave*

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥🤑 this strain is called "the naked time" 😳 youll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit.

me five minutes later: dude i swear i just saw sulu fencing in the hallway

my buddy spock pacing: when i feel friendship for you im ashamed

An even better change for the Hollywood sign

I want to preface this by saying I'm not upset with the band at all, I just feel...weird and want to share.

As the person who created the original TMBG Hollywood image, it has been very strange to see it show up all over They Might Be Giants social media, email lists, and more since the announcement of them opening for Sparks at the Hollywood Bowl. It (with some text added advertising that show) is still their cover image on Facebook.

This was the one photo edit I made that was reposted to tmbgareok without me submitting it. And I am proud of that! Proud that Flans saw what I made and liked it enough to want to share it with the whole TMBG-world.

But I wasn't ever credited for it... Not then and not now. And that was pretty standard for tmbg's tumblr in 2017. The best images were clearly being saved in a folder on someone's computer without the creator attached and being reposted whenever things were slow. I'm actually super stoked that this edit made enough of an impression that it was remembered all these years later and dug out to use. I had no expectation of credit at the time, and I felt that expectation covered the band's later use of it when promoting the Hollywood Bowl show.

Eventually, they had the same concept completely redone in black and white, with lights behind, and the re-do is inherently nicer than the original. (It would be, having been done by a professional rather than a college student with nothing but shaky photo-editing skills and an all-abiding love for their music.) But it is still clearly based on my idea, my image was definitely used as a reference. Which is why I feel like it is still my idea, my design if not my personal work.

Which is why I feel a bit weird that they are now selling a T-shirt with the re-design on it.

To be clear: I don't feel like I am owed anything here. It was a silly idea based on a news story at the time and the waters are too muddied for me to claim any real ownership of it even if I wanted to. But I do feel that there have been some missteps on tmbg's part and it feels uncomfortable to be on the other side of it.

Obviously this isn't new, they've been selling the shirt for months. But I've been trying to put it out of my mind ever since and failing, so I thought I would at least share the story here.

daily affirmations: you are isildur’s heir, not isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.

IF IT SUCKS...ABANDON SHIP

everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3

later

secret full version of this post that i never posted cuz i was like ooooh im gonna color the sketches 🤡 lol that never happened but its fine in this house we post unfinished art

I wish they incorporated fireworks into the warrior cats universe I want the clans to start screaming and freaking out that the “stars are exploding” when it’s just colorful fireworks

ALT

I want this to happen

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Guillermo what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament??

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gloppy btw. if you even care

Reblog to get your followers stuck in Molasses Swamp until a 🟥 card is drawn.

They are dumb idiots, but they are my dumb idiots, your Honor.

p.4 of silly OFMD arts

that post thats like this is the reading order for discworld is WRONG first you read the first one you find in a second-hand shop or local library. then you read going postal. after that youre on your own