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frukmerunning · 23 days

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"his voice had dropped down a few octaves" I dont think you realize how drastic that is.... stop using that phrase please. just say "his voice had gotten deeper"

#a few OCTAVES?????#an octave is EIGHT notes #a FEW???? 16 or 24 notes??????#WHAT #no ones voice does that #I promise #STOP USING THAT PHRASE #YOU SOUND LIKE A FUCKING MORON #rayanne rambles #every writer needs a sensitivity reader that knows music terms

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catshinji · 6 months

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hmm.

#STOP WITH THE GREENDAY JOKES IVE HAD ENOUGH #internet #old web #old internet #was thinking about how 'lurk more' used to be a common phrase so people would learn forum etiquette before posting #but now..#the fact that the phrase 'netiquette' has died out entirely says a lot i feel

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captainjonnitkessler · 5 months

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It's kind of fucked up that every time an evangelical goes off about how those godless commies/queers/liberals are trying to destroy America and the church, tumblr embraces it whole-heartedly - Yeah, we're gonna attack and dethrone god! Yeah, we're satanic rebels intent on overthrowing the angelic hierarchy! Yeah, we're godless commies/queers/liberals and we're gonna destroy the entire fabric of American society!

And then as soon as anyone actually tries to criticize organized religion and the role it plays in the oppression of basically everyone it's suddenly a bunch of handwringing about how "ugh, you're just an edgy atheist, you only think that way because you're only familiar with Christianity (which is the Bad religion), any criticism of religion whatsoever is actually an attack on me and my community and so it's actually really harmful for you to say things like that."

And it's especially hypocritical coming from a website that complains so much about how any social justice movement eventually gets watered down and turned into a cheeky aesthetic, undermining its ability to effect actual change. Sorry that I actually believe in working to dismantle religious hegemony and wasn't just saying it as a quirky "fuck you" to a mega-pastor on twitter.

#saw a person the other day complaining that people using phrases like 'attack and dethrone god!'#are basically saying exactly the same thing as antitheists. and i can't stop thinking about it because they're RIGHT #it's just that they were offended by it and i think it's based as hell #atheism #skepticism umbrella

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nicecrumbart · 3 months

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His design is probably gonna change a lot but I had to get a lil doodle in of The Guy

#theyve already got me with the canary metaphor #you cant stop me now #i also just decided his colour is yellow bc of that comment #even if it was a red canary #...lets just ignore that #hes so babygirl #and i do not use that phrase often #like at all #so . what a guy #the magnus protocol #sam khalid #fandumb fanart #magnus protocol spoilers #(?)

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unorcadox · 11 months

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This location is now Your Domain. Do with it whatever you see fit.

#weirdcore #dreamcore #dereality #unreality #my edit #unorcadox #liminal #liminal spaces #nostalgiacore #y2kcore #old web #requests #requested by: @memories-of-the-void #image source: @memories-of-the-void #<- they submitted it #i don't rly recommend this btw bc i like using all-my material for images but like i won't stop you LMAO #i really like this one tho i tried to incorporate their ask phrasing into the edit itself so ^_^

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rusalkii · 2 years

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A while back I finally figured out how to use UBlock's element blocker and promptly went mad with power. Just now I turned off all my extensions to debug something and realized how much more useable it made everything. As soon as I see something annoying I open the Ublock popup, select the element picker, click the annoying thing, and (most of the time) the annoying thing is gone forever and I never have to think about it. So here's my shameless ad pitch for things you can do with it, other than the default "block ads":

Remove all of the UI buttons that are definitely useful for someone but that you're never going to use in your life

Remove UI buttons you use only once, like "register"

Hide the "Posts +" button in tumblr

Clear all of the information your credit card website tries to show you that you don't care about so that you can focus on the couple numbers that you do

Send those pop-up "do you want to chat!" notifications to hell, where they belong

Remove various website overlays

Remove specifically the calorie numbers on food delivery websites

Hide the comments and recommended videos sidebar on youtube

Hide promotions that an adblocker doesn't pick up on because they're native

Hide your facebook newsfeed (if you just use it for chat/events/groups)

Hide discord's sidebar when you just need one channel open and don't want to be distracted, and then unhide it when you want it back

Get rid of distracting moving elements on pages

Hide almost all of the elements on twitter except the actual tweet, if you only interact with twitter via other people's links and don't want to be sucked down the rabbit hole

Generally hide "Related!" or "See also" or "You might like!" type distractions on sites where you only want to see what you came there for, not browse

Remove all of the news from weather websites so that they can actually do their job and show you just the weather

Remove the footer text on websites no one ever reads

#i feel like there was a post going around a while back that had the phrase #reclaim your attention #or something like that #reclaim your attention!!#websites do not have the right to shove random junk at you unrelated to what you want out of them and you can make them stop #and just. customize your use of the internet. you spend so much time on it #it can suck less!#probably other people do not want to cry when interacting with annoying cluttered UIs with twenty different buttons none of which seem #to be the thing they need #but if you do: you can just do this *once* and then all of the buttons you never need will never bother you again #my school class portal is almost useable now it's incredible #i *will* provide before and after screenshots if anyone asks #(anyway. I have been on a kick of making the tools I regularly use at actually work for me lately #and have once again been reminded how important this is)#Make The Internet Great (or at least tolerable) Again

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quinn-pop · 8 months

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dedede gets attached to every small creature he comes across at this point lol

#he’s a disney princess or something #normally i at least do a rough script for my comics or rotate them in my head for a few weeks #but this one just sorta happened #gonna be honest i hugged my dog and i was so overwhelmed with love and and yeah #quinn being entirely self indulgent part 965 (i won’t stop)#kirbyposting #my art or something #kirby #meta knight #king dedede #metadad #dededad #i dont really know when to tag as ship but it’s there as per usual #it’s funny i was just rambling to my friend about how i dont like to draw ideas im not committed to #but—and forgive me for using the phrase—here we are (lmao)#you know in spite of this im a cat person #is there an awoofy tag #awoofy #nice

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carsonjonesfiance · 6 months

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Genocide Denier? Fandom blog run by 17 year old has yet to release statement on the ongoing situation in Nagorno-Karabakh

#saw a post that amounted to this but it was phrased like ‘now I don’t want to guilt anyone but the world has stopped for the REST of us and

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marsupialmenace · 9 months

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I am incredibly tired and unwell, but I think I've finally cracked so this is very much a vent post, BUT:

I desperately want to take "Romani Dick Grayson" away from fans until they can learn to be nice. Specifically non-Romani fans.

I've seen so many terrible, invalidating, frankly stereotypical and racist takes from people who are 'claiming to be sensitive' to Romani people.

I don't particularly get upset about peoples headcanons, or the desire for diversity (because I have those desires/HCs too!). It's when I see the 'has to' or people arguing their headcanons about Dick's Romani heritage without the experience or the knowledge to do so beyond their five-minute google search that I get upset.

I saw a nice piece of fanart before that had Dick drawn tanned, and it had a reply on it to the effect of "thank you for drawing Dick brown, he's romani." It makes me sad to see people say things like that, that 'Dick has to be brown', because my pale white ass is also Romani. However, on the flipside, if someone draws him too pale, I see people attack the artists and calling them racist in vagueposts for drawing him 'wrong' (white-appearing) despite it being completely possible for a Romani person to be white.

In another place I saw someone refer to the Graysons as 'definitely travellers, so they couldn't be Romanichal'. Are you saying that Romanichal (English Romani people) are less Romani? I don't really understand the need to exclude other Romani people from the 'list Dick could be descended from' based on...whether on not you (royal) consider them 'travellers'.

Not to mention, the word 'Travellers'. Travellers is used in a derogatory way to the Romanichal in the UK, or at least in my area it is, there is a turn of phrase to avoid calling someone a slur in public, people say "Oh, that ones a travelling girl" or "They're travellers" and it has all of the implications with it.

Romani people are diverse, and we're not limited to a skin colour or religion, we all have different culture and traditions and languages, yet I see people insisting Dick has to fit into a box of a 'specific Romani'.

I don't really care for it in fic, I filter out the 'Dick Grayson is Romani' tag. I don't care for it in comics, because it has always been done poorly. I don't care about peoples HC's, 'cause even if I disagree, they can't affect me.

But to see real people talk about a comic book character using words, stereotypes, and phrases that hurts other real Romani people to attack or build up their own worlds/HCs is just so frustrating.

#dick grayson #romani dick grayson #rant post #marsupial rant #dare i say?#marsupial meta #(i dont)#tbh I could go on about this subject for hours and I have at select friends #but my issues with it will always be steeped in my own experiences as a Romani #I just want to stop being hurt when I look at Dick Grayson fan creations #and I don't want to see the word 'exotic' used #or people using phrases from languages they don't understand that they haven't properly got the translation or knowledge for #hence why I avoid fic/the romani dick grayson tag now #obligatory tim seeley my beloathed

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itsdefinitely · 2 months

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do you think boy jerry contemplates clawing his eyes out sometimes

#definite's ted talks #for an christian man he sure has a lot of catholic guilt #and just like this i can connect him to every lord in black #pokey - campfire songs (virginity rocks). need for control #blinky - see no evil #nibbly - self-explanatory #tinky - knows both spankoffski brothers. uses funny little games to cope & hates it when something doesnt go his way (applies to pokey too)#wiggly - wants his wrath #boy jerry #nightmare time 2 #abstinence camp #hatchetfield #i love using the phrase 'hate the sin love the sinner'#and i will continue to use it until it stops being true #guys nmt3 boy jerry episode... trust me. would i ever lie to you

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houseswife · 20 days

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Residence reference spotted in my coursework 😨🫵

#I made this through tears by the way #I have so much research to do and less than 10 hours to write 4 essays #unfortunately the house md blogging grind never stops #house md #greg house #gregory house #hatecrimes md #fun fact though… when I wrote the phrase lines in the sand I decided to google it to make sure I was using it correctly #and the first result on search is the house episode #rather than just…. the saying #this is just like when I used the similie ‘like a bullet through a flock of doves’ in a creative writing assignment in HS #thinking that was just an idiom

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writeouswriter · 1 year

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Girl, help, the book authors are trying too hard to be "hip" with the fleeting "teen lingo" and trends again, immediately dating their works before they're even released

#eye twitching seeing certain modern slang in for real published books unironically #tiktokian slang that is out of date within weeks #it's a pet peeve of mine but so is modern books mentioning tiktok or stuff at all esp. when not relevant in general #god it pulls you out of the illusion #turns it into this very set in stone time frame rather than letting it just be or resonate on its own which is fine sometimes if natural #you can't avoid some mentions of some things when setting it today but in these cases it's so forced #hello fellow kidz.jpeg vibe in book form #books #this isn't even specific to ya books i've seen it in adult books as well #booklr #petty as i am i once stopped reading a first chapter excerpt for mentioning spotify by name on page 1 i'm sorry #this other book though oh they've used online phrases and boomer insult 3 times and brought up tiktok twice it's on thin f-ing ice #ignore me i'm petty but don't ignore me because this is a legit problem in the media industry #don't even get me started on text speak in the dialogue or texting sections yeah #it's not quite as bad if it's some fake variation of an app or just generic about being online but mentioning by name oh i'm gonna explode #most times anyway #i have yet to see it handled well #this was about slang though so tangent but !! gaah

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paalove · 1 year

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guys PLEASE google the phrase gay panic, it does not mean what you think it means and every time you use it in a funny post about fictional characters i full-body shudder

#specifically look up the murder of matthew shepard and the use of that defence in his trial #im sure the people using that phrase are mostly teenagers or people who don't have english as a first language this is not intended meanly #but please stop!

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loftyanchor · 7 months

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What brushes or programs do you use? Sorry if you've already answered this before!

My brushes have changed a lot since the last time I shared 'em! I use Clip Studio Paint with a mixture of my own brushes (download) and some altered character pens from ×ェ× (download). Explanations n' samples below~!

For sketches I use my Brushy brush and a slightly altered version of ×ェ×'s character pens. My alterations to their pen were pretty minor - I reduced the variation in brush size, especially at the start and end of the stroke, to make it more like a standard lineart brush.

I use my Grain brushes and another altered brush to refine the lines. Instead of creating a new layer for my line art, I draw the line art on the same layer as my sketch. I use these brushes to draw and erase, adding and subtracting from my sketch to clean it up.

I don't use Rough or Bumpy too often, but they're good for cleaning up line art and creating fine detail. I use them to create intricate details and patterns that are actually just a bunch of little scribbles and loops when you zoom in

#brushes #clip studio brushes #ran yakumo #yakumo ran #touhou #my art #asks #fanart #still figurin' out what brushes i like for painting #i also use pureref and hydrus network to view and organize reference images #i know i typed it but i cant take the phrase “my Brushy brush” seriously #stopped using google drive to share files after issues with it sharing my name lol

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ackee · 1 year

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i feel crazy everytime i see the phrase "purity culture" on here because its never about the real abuse and trauma christian women go through under it, its always in reference to some stupid fandom shit

#gives me a headache like how did yall find this phrase and how can i make yall stop using it fr #txt

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ukyou-kuonji · 2 months

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It's actually insane how ten years ago if someone used "don't worry, you're just a girl" as an explanation for incompetence everyone would have been up in arms about the sexism of it all, but in 2024 when I'm uncomfortable when people say "I'm just a girl" I'm a wet blanket and taking things too seriously. Like there's no excuse, I don't care if you're a woman joking about yourself, this is the most basic and literal misogyny I can think of.

#stop using the funney tiktok phrase istg #like actually this drives me up a wall

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