new yard has a stretch of really shitty fencing, including a four inch gap where it just doesn't reach the far wall. would probably be sufficient to contain a dog-sized dog but unfortunately i possess a cat-sized dog. and i didn't want to replace it on my own dime. so behold:

he desperately wants to look through the gap to watch the sidewalk (sometimes there are dogs being walked out there!) but he learned pretty quickly that i didn't like him putting his feet directly on the wire, so this is his compromise. he's not touching it!

Tell me a story Papa

Reblog and put in the tags what your current career/degree is* vs the career/degree that, in retrospect, you should have gone into, knowing what you now know about yourself.

(This is NOT your dream job (who dreams of labor lol), but rather the career that your 18yo self didn’t know to explore/wasn’t encouraged to choose)

* please be as vague as needed so as not to doxx yourself 🙏 internet safety first always

something something engineer gaming

2021 Honda Valentino - mixed media AU (1/∞)

ARE Y'ALL FUCKIN READY FOR THIS THING I MADE THAT I WANNA MAKE YOU WATCH

Prepare to be....well....not overwhelmed. Not underwhelmed...more....Satisfactorilywhelmed *drum roll* My first traditionally 2d animated short is done (well. Done enough. Not perfect but it's just an informal practice thing so you know what it's fine for that 🙃) BEHOLD

Sound on for questionable quality keyboard noises

So yeah this is a little experiment I churned out in a month of neglecting other more important projects....it's supposed to be like.....the feeling of slumping into burnout and then the ups and downs of trying to get out of it? does it make sense...?

But yeah basically it's traditional animation - like ink and paint on cels and composited and scanned manually bc it annoys me the mainstream has decided this is an obsolete art form and I'm protesty about it because IT'S ART IT DOESNT BECOME OBSOLETE BC PROGRAMS EXIST DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS. I did cheat a little and digitally cut the water and copy-pasted it onto some frames but that's because I could find ONE TRANSPARENT BLUE SHEET IN THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA I SHIT YOU NOT. and I didn't want to cut my only precious water sheet in case something went wrong or I had to redo a shot. But everything else is pretty manual. Also the music is op 76 no 2 by Sibelius - ATTEMPTED 🙃. Sorry some notes are just SO QUIET but it's good enough it's whatever. My level of piano skill is like. Not professional by any stretch of the imagination and this is good enough for me

Oh and backgrounds are generally various kinds of charcoal with ink

anyway hope you at least found my project interesting thanks for watching

(actually not to make it weird but my whole life has led up to me trying this and I blame Joe Murray for making me want to be an animator when I was a little kid and I always wanted to try this kind and now I finally had the time and money and enough drawing skills to try it so yeah it's not like fuckin Disney or whatever but I am happy I got to make it exist. feels like I checked a thing off my bucket list)

really don't understand why everyone always has to be so fucking weird about hockey players and reading

Good luck trying to read these plans. My head is turning and i‘m supposed to know what i‘m doing ;;

At the bus stop one time there was a gaggle of preschoolers waiting to catch the bus for a field trip day, and someone walked past with a couple of friendly little dogs, to great general delight.

But after a little bit, the dogs were getting overwhelmed, and the preschoolers were gently coaxed to back off so the person with the dogs could continue on. Specifically, one of the preschool teachers said, "Sometimes, when you're small, being surrounded by big people can be a bit scary and overwhelming. Even if they are friendly."

This was recieved as great wisdom: after all, the preschoolers were also small, and understood how scary and overwhelming big people could be! And the dogs were indeed even smaller than the preschoolers, so it made sense.

What was funny and charming was that, upon absorbing and reflecting on this wisdom, they all felt the need to tell it to one another. In tones of great insight, they turned to one another and said, "Did you know? Sometimes when you are small, being surrounded by big people can be scary and overwhelming! Even if they are friendly!" Back and forth, without any particular concern that they were all saying the same thing. Have reached comprehension of an insight, it must be shared!

I must say that this behavior is less charming in tumblr users than in preschoolers. Not least because tumblr users, having gained a little analytical skill to misuse, insist on Summarizing and Generalizing and Unifying the insights they repeat, quickly turning any interesting new information into formulaic dogmatic mush.

Does Dusk have any allergies?

...No.

I’ve been on a much needed brief vacation these past couple of days, but I must remind everyone (and a few select anons) that just because a source isn’t in English or lacks a translation, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or can be neglected.

I have since changed my personal outlook and no longer believe my attempts to translate any sort of information or literature should be continued because I do not have the credentials or academic backing to prove my translations to be accurate or reliable. This does unfortunately put me in a position where I am relying entirely on translations from other people, and the very real possibility that a translation doesn’t exist due to complexity or massive parts of the text being missing. This is particularly problematic as during the brief reign of the Qin, a great deal of literature regarding medicine, philosophy and religiosity was intentionally destroyed and deemed useless. There is a reason a majority of the surviving literature about Nezha is from the Tang Dynasty.

So I can only ask for patience and understanding regarding this matter, and if needed, I am more than happy to provide the primary sources themselves - though machine translation notoriously does not work on Classical Chinese and is impossible to read unless you yourself are familiar with it.

Genuinely it is so evil that joker out is a band full of stem people,,,, bojan & kris are the only real ones (and kris is on incredibly thin ice)

trying to fight the urge to dye my hair margo red, because I firmly believe it will help me study in my 5-week satellite design course that starts today, but I know that red does not fit me as well as my natural blonde

You're just a drop out. What makes you think you know better than the people with masters and phds in physics as well as female politicians like AOC who are taking this seriously and investigating it? Once undeniable proof is presented that aliens are real (which will happen soon) will you accept the truth or will you double down like covid deniers? Real intelligent people stay open minded and wait for evidence before dismissing an idea. You're not a scientist or smart you're just an immature girl with a minimum wage office job.

this is the funniest ask i have gotten in a long time. out of all the stuff i have said and believe, what gets the most riled up hate anon in a long time is me saying the government isn't hiding alien bodies and spaceships 🤣🤣

things ive learned while reading abt the history of math: the people who invented this shit were extremely bored and/or autistic

Trying to explain to myself why Ford is such a boomer about modern technology, even after all those years in the multiverse. Surely this guy had to learn a little bit here and there about types of technology we couldn't even begin to fathom, whenever it was necessary to do so to survive. Surely things like smartphones and wifi and laptops aren't completely unfamiliar to him.

option 1 - He's just mad that Fidds was right about laptops being the next big thing. All modern technology feels like a reminder to him that he was wrong about that one thing that one time.

option 2 - It's like with the cabin turning into the mystery shack while he was away: it feels really unsettling to return to his home dimension only to find that things have changed in ways he never would've anticipated. Like, why can't just one thing stay the same? Why does his home dimension no longer feel like home?

option 3 - He has encountered technology very similar to ours in other dimensions, and now associates it with that other dimension and the bad memories of being in that dimension. He's familiar with it, he just really dislikes the fact that it got invented on earth too.

option 4 - He has encountered technology in other dimensions that was way better than on earth. Tech that felt much more intuitive to him, tech that was very useful to him in ways that our technology isn't, maybe even tech that he spent a good amount of time learning about. And then he comes back to his home dimension and discovers that there is enough world-changing technology to make the place feel unfamiliar, but not good enough technology for the change to feel worth it. He doesn't even want to bother learning how to use it, because he hates how much less intuitive it feels to him, and how many things he thinks it should be able to do that it isn't able to do, and also hates that he sunk a bunch of time into learning about a different kind of technology while in the multiverse and now that he's back home it feels like it was a waste of time.

And then, of course, there's also the option that it's a combination of all four, and the option that he's just being a boomer about technology because he literally is a boomer and there's no deeper reason to it. But I think that's less fun than the options I came up with