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The chocolate guy has competition! A new chocolate man has emerged!
I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted
If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for “media.mediasource.enabled” and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)
Not disputing this advice, but will add that doing this means you may end up not being able to access high-res versions of videos. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it! Just some info in case you do this and then are bothered by grainy streaming.
(via psychic-waffles)
Avavav always has the most interesting concepts
Okay this is a BRILLIANT illustration of how the fast fashion industry devours literally everybody it touches, but knowing what I know about models, I’m willing to bet these people JUMPED at the chance to look exactly as they feel on a bad day on the runway and not be fired for it.
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mrsackxrman-deactivated20230717:
I wish more fanartists would put their work on AO3. Just followed an artist who organizes their work by making a series for Fandom X, and within that, they have multi-chapter works for different ships & gen. Every new chapter is just their latest image for that subject.
It’s been so delightful not to have to wade through social media algorithms and endless ads.
If you’ve never posted fanart on AO3 before, you need to know that AO3 doesn’t host images. That means you need to upload them somewhere else online and then embed them in your post. There’s an FAQ that tells you how.
You can also upload your meta works to AO3! Got a 5K essay on cultural appropriation in Dragon Age? Or a multi-part work on queer subtext in the X-Men broken down by writer and era? Post it - we love to see it!
Fanfic may be the biggest part of the archive, but that’s not all it’s there for!
Yes yes yes yes!! And may I encourage people to use this tagging system:
“metafiction” - for self-aware fiction
“meta analysis” - fannish nonfiction (also consider the “Essay” tag!)Makes it easier to differentiate under the “meta” tag umbrella!
You can also post your fanvids there as well! Just make sure to host it somewhere else first (YouTube, video, etc)
My only rebuttal to this idea is many artists make money off their work and if your AO3 is connected back to any accounts on which you advertise or make money from what is hosted you jeopardize the legal standing on which AO3 operates so if u make money off your art maybe Dont. or get very, very familiar with their terms of service and such.
All fannish creatives are subject to the same rules regardless of chosen medium.
Ao3 TOS: “Linking to your personal page (not, for example, an Amazon author page) is fine, even if the personal page includes some items for sale, but the Archive is not advertising space.”
❌ AO3 > Patreon
✅ AO3 > Tumblr > PatreonI was under the impression that meta was either not allowed by the rules or deeply frowned upon? I posted one once and have always felt really bad about it. That’s not the case?
If anyone gives you grief about posting meta, you can point them to ao3’s TOS bc they are demonstrably wrong in that claim.
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some important calvin and hobbes facts in case you haven’t read the original comic strip in a long time or only absorbed stuff on it from memes and out of context bits on here:
- Calvin’s last name has never been given, and neither has any of his parent’s names. This was actually why his uncle Max only showed up for a brief storyline; the creator of the comic, Bill Watterson, ultimately felt that while it was fine to have him as someone for his parents to talk to, it felt far too awkward to never have Max refer to them by name and he never made a return appearance.
- The general tone of the comic is fairly light-hearted, with a big emphasis on goofy slapstick comedy contrasted by clever wordplay and often surprising adult-centered jokes that’ll hit you like a slap. A big part of the comedy is, as Watterson put it (paraphrased) “It’s really funny to me when people express deeply stupid ideas with really fancy terminology.” One notable example you might have seen is that one bit where Calvin asks his mom for money to buy a Satan-worshiping rock album and his mom replies that there’s nothing genuine about them and they’re just putting on the attitude for shock value, and comisserates with Calvin as he deplores that mainstream nihilism can’t be trusted. He concludes that childhood is disillusioning.
- There is a LOT of criticism of the extreme materialism and selfish mentality of the late 80s, when the comic was initially written. This may go a long way to explain how its aged so well; much of what it criticizes resonates well with people today.
- Bill Watterson views comic strips a legitimate form of artwork, and repeatedly fought to have more space to draw more beautiful and artistic backgrounds, which was a very hard fight and unpopular even with other comic strip artists. He eventually did win some compromises and a lot of Calvin And Hobbes’ artwork shows it, with the use of space to indicate time as well as a sharp contrast between the often plain environments of mundane life contrasted by the wildly beautiful imagery of Calvin’s imagination (which often sports realistic depictions in an art shift of sorts).
- Hobbes is explicitly not an imaginary friend, by word of Watterson himself. We don’t know WHAT he is exactly, and Hobbes is apparently unaware of the strange nature of his reality; people look at him and only see an ordinary stuffed tiger plushie, but he has a tangible effect on the world that would be physically impossible for Calvin to do on his own. He’s apparently been around for a while, and was apparently around when Calvin was a young baby.
- On that note; Hobbes has implicitly killed (notably treated as both a gag and also with the vibe of ‘he’s a tiger, duh’) and while he doesn’t do it again on-screen, he doesn’t have any moral issues about it. Calvin claims that he’s never had trouble bringing Hobbes to school because the last time he did, Hobbes killed and ate a bully named Tommy Chestnut and simply comments that it was gross and he needed a bath. Calvin’s tried to repeat this again, but Hobbes was grossed out at the thought having to eat a kid raw and not being allowed to use an oven first, or complaining that children are too fattening.
- Hobbes became gradually less human-like in body language and more like an actual cat in both body language and behavior; this was due to Watterson drawing more inspiration from his cat, who also inspired a lot of Hobbes’ running gags, such as pouncing on Calvin when he got home. Several years into the syndication of the strip, Watterson’s cat passed away, and he did a tribute to her with a comic strip of the two of them agreeing to try to dream together so they can keep playing when they have to sleep; Watterson’s commentary (if I recall right), remarks on his cat: “We can see each other again in dreams.”
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It’s gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.
- Naturally everybody will think it’s fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it’s real
- There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable “don’t speak ill of the dead” discourse about those celebrations
- Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that
- The Republicans (after they’re done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They’ll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.
- There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won’t, he was a traitor insurrectionist)
- The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.
- Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.
- Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.
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Honestly? They had me at “Trump dies”.
I like how you said “when” and not “if” is there something you wish to share with the class?
Yes, it’s called self confidence.
I would like to gift you this, in the spirit of supporting your prophecy
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Happy 11th of March, everybody!
“They have called this day The Eleventh of March! And whom-so-ever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain… you will stand at tiptoe… when e'er you hear the name again, and you will get excited!…At the name March the Eleventh!
We happy few, we few, we band of brothers…our names will be as like…household names. And those who are not here, be they sleeping or… doing something else… They will feel themselves…sort of crappy. Because they are not here to…to join the fight. On this day, the Eleventh of March!!”
*Turnbull cries*
“Move out.”
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I just learned about this brand from @psychic-waffles and I am so excited! This will definitely be my next phone!
“Where we can, we make our devices with materials that are recycled, or responsibly sourced and conflict-free.”
They sell spare parts on their website and watch tutorials on how to fix your phone yourself!
They also make earbuds and heaphones.
Basically if you want to buy a new phone rather than second hand this is the most ethical option - I’ve had mine for a couple years now and have absolutely no complaints
Can confirm, these are great! Have the 3 for private and the 4 for work, I think they’ve now released the 5. The thing I like best is that when my battery starts getting weaker, I can just BUY A NEW ONE AND SWAP IT OUT. Haven’t had to do that yet, but man. Imagine not just having to accept that your phone battery will gradually turn worse and worse and you’ll be lugging a charger around with you for years until you finally treat yourself to a new phone bc you essentially can’t take the one you have off the charger anymore. Doesn’t that alone make you want to get one of these?