little strawberry thief!

Happy Indie Animation day!

Taking this opportunity to share The Earth Guy, an indie cartoon created by me, about a school in space 🌌

Episode 1 and 2 are out on my youtube channel!

And I'm working on episode 3 right now!

Big thank you to everyone who's supporting me on this journey ❤️ It has not been easy, but I'm happy to be taking this path. Thank you for sticking by me. I hope you'll like what I have in store!

A hummingbird thought a man’s orange hat was a flower [x]

Iv never seen a hummingbird sit before lol

i wasn’t going to reblog until he sat 

HE SITS

ITS BACK

OH GOD

THE BEST POST ON THIS WEBSITE

that look when he sat tho.

“the fuck is wrong with this fuckin flower??”

why was this so sweet, what did he expect people to say, "no mr. brian may from the band queen, you do NOT have permission to play the sea shanty, put down the guitar and go back to the astrophysics" like,,,, what a silly goose

"no mr brian may from the band queen, we absolutely do not want you to play sea shanties for us on your guitar so that we can all pretend we're Freddie Mercury, please stop asking"

this is such a weird vibe. the glasses on a chain hanging around his neck. the extremely 80s hair, but grey and grandpa-esque. the angle. the couch. the soft fuzzy blanket. the simply drum beat in the background. the absolute PHENOMENAL guitar. what a vibe.

There is nothing about this that has not filled me with squee.

Excuse you, that is DOCTOR Brian May. The man did not return to Imperial College after a thirty year break for you to disrespect him like this.

Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends

Slams the reblog button so damn fast

I’m proud of myself for finally not feeling icky saying ‘I love you’ to my friends

It’s not like I associated it with romance- ig it was just my upbringing making the phrase awkward- the actions spoke for the tongue

I regularly say I love you to my friends.

One of my previous bosses, the Archivist for the State of -redacted for privacy-, had one of these (or very very similar prototype format) that he kept in his briefcase.

Whenever someone in a meeting would say something along the lines of “we don’t need to worry about that/budget money for that/do that, everything is digital now!” He would pull this bad boy out of his briefcase and say “this has digital files on it, please access them. Oh, you can’t? Well what about this? or these?” And pull out a selection floppy discs and CD types.

And that is how he fought the good fight for a budget for the archives because digital preservation is expensive and difficult and there are a million different hardware and software types and technological obsolescence is a nightmare.

obsessed with what's happening on twitter rn

Yea, he belongs here

For context, @neil-gaiman has NOTHING to do with the new LOTR series

It’s been hilarious watching this unfold...  :)

I've never enjoyed being yelled at more.

Bringing this back from 2022. Unlike Neil Gaiman, who won't be bringing back LotR The Rings of Power.

Darn, those Harry Potter movies of his were such abominations, too. Don't even get me started about his novel Persuasion, nothing like Pride and Prejudice, I was terribly disappointed.

In retrospect perhaps Elon Musk should have come to me for advice on how to fail to buy Twitter. I would have told him to try harder.

Reblog to hug the person you reblogged this from and tell them that everything's going to be okay

I had this random idea and had to draw it ✨️

I don't think Neil with white hair is gonna be canon, but I do really like the suit I made for him, so maybe he can wear it at some point in the future ✨️💖

And I had this idea for a space compass 🧭🌌 that's attracted to gravity, so it points towards the heaviest object in the universe (like a black hole) and so the early space navigators know which direction to go to avoid black holes and other heavy objects in space?

Instead of making fun of people who do things at an older age that are normally done younger ( like getting their diploma or GED, learning to drive, even learning to read ) how about you:

If this pops up while you’re scrolling, I wish you unconditional love and massive success.

and you know i gotta say. the vast majority of the people losing their shit this weekend made it very clear that they do not understand the difference between "artists who want a measure of comfort in their lives" and "the billionaires actually being targeted by phrases like eat the rich." that is such a weird thing to be so proud to announce to the whole entire internet.

it's also extremely weird to behave as though any individual is entitled to an artist's work for free. or that the audience should be the final say in determining what an artist creates. there is a major difference between the betrayal of an artist who produces art and then banks on their social capital to engage in harmful, violent, bigoted behavior (like jk rowling) and the "betrayal" of an artist who decides that they should be or need to be compensated for their work. the latter isn't actually a betrayal at all. it's just a shift.

the thing is that the watcher boys didn't invent capitalism, they didn't invent the streaming model, they didn't invent youtube or patreon. they aren't getting 100% of the money from either. their merch doesn't magically appear as if made by elves while they sleep. their videos don't happen out of nowhere and without incurring bills. they have a business which employs people, and sure, you can say they employ too many people, but do they actually? a bunch of randos on the internet don't actually know that. they don't know these job titles, or how necessary it is to have everyone there. it's pure speculation. the entire company exists within a system they did not invent and are trying to stay afloat in said system while a bunch of assholes on the internet berate them for not acquiescing to their every whim at the expense of their artistic integrity, their ability to compensate their staff fairly, and their ability to keep making art.

and jumping from "i want to continue enjoying this artist's work for free" to "i think people should be fired and the remaining employees should be given greater responsibilities and more tasks to complete" is wild to me. there's nothing leftist in that and so trying to leverage leftist jargon to prove some sort of moral superiority is fucking wild, it's disingenuous, and it's sketchy as hell. you're allowed to be disappointed. you're not magically exempt from being told you're being an asshole if you decide your disappointment entitles you to take part in asshole behavior.

"but we don't want something heavily produced and we don't want these shows" then don't watch! that's it! don't watch! you are not being held hostage and forced to engage with this content. you have the choice not to. throwing a tantrum and launching racist vitriol at steven lim and demanding he step down as CEO shows a level of entitlement and childishness that, frankly, i wish they could have ignored, but they're both kinder & more patient than i am.

anyway congratulations to watcher on their new streaming service and their gorgeous new website, congratulations to the boys on a new step in their careers and on achieving something they've made clear they've wanted for ages, thank you to the boys for all their hard work and for sharing their creativity with us. thank you too for taking such a big and genuinely brave step to no longer be beholden to major corporations and advertisers so you can make the art you want to make. thank you to steven lim for taking so many steps back to keep the company running and for doing your best in a shit economy and while being targeted by this kind of nastiness online. and thank you to the entire team at @wearewatcher for continuing to do amazing work despite being treated like shit by the fan community at large on the internet while you're trying to make a living and create art. you all deserve better than you've been shown of late and i hate that such an exciting moment got overshadowed by so many temper tantrums.

because the whole fucking point, the dream, is getting to make the art that matters to them, without being held back. i'm sorry y'all don't want the heavily produced and high quality shit but your preferences as a member of an audience are not the law by which artists should abide. they are artists and they are free to, and deserve to, make the art they want to make.

Absolutely AMAZING response by Watcher imo.

They acknowledged that they made a mistake, made the wider context more clear, and addressed basically all of the criticisms brought forward by the community as far as I know.

THIS is how you respond to backlash, especially this widespread. Take time to collect your thoughts, take the criticism into account, and change your actions going forward.

Great job Watcher 👏

Doctor Who Christmas Special 2015: The Husbands Of River Song

oh, i'm fallin'

Today's reminder that Jimin is too beautiful to be real.

You turn off the light, cats light up the space

You would not believe your eyes

If ten million feline eyes

Lit up the world as I fell asleep