jayessart:

“Strange as it may seem, Sir Samuel, I am occasionally capable of governing this city for minutes at a time without seeking your advice and guidance.“
-Jingo, Terry Pratchett

nullspaceindustries:

lesbiacebian:
lesbiacebian:
fat people are allowed to be fat even if they don’t starve themselves or push themselves physically past their limits btw
ALT
adding my tags cuz i think they’re important
fat acceptance doesn’t mean you’re supposed to go through fat denial, anger and bargaining first

burlesque-brigade:

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Discworld Monstrous Regiment cosplay 🗡️
Me as Polly Perks
@woodsmokewords as Maladict
📸 by @/ALeeStudios (ig and twitter)

blatantescapism:

rongzhi:
Wearing Tang dynasty style hanfu and playing a Phantom of the Opera medley on traditional Chinese instruments.
Instrument labels added by me :)
Love the dagu drummer falling asleep

They’re on Youtube too!

viridianriver:

Sewing Machines & Planned Obsolescence
I’ve got these two sewing machines, made about 100 years apart. An old treadle machine from around 1920-1930, that I pulled out of the trash on a rainy day, and a new Brother sewing machine from around 2020.
I’ve always known planned obsolescence was a thing, but I never knew just how insidious it was till I started looking at these two side by side.
I wasn’t feeling hopeful at first that I’d actually be able to fix the old one, I found it in the trash at 2 am in a thunderstorm. It was rusty, dusty, soggy, squeaky, missing parts, and 100 years old.
How do you even find specialized parts 100 years later? Well, easily, it turns out. The manufacturers at the time didn’t just make parts backwards compatible to be consistent across the years, but also interchangeable across brands! Imagine that today, being able to grab a part from an old iPhone to fix your Android.
Anyway, 6 months into having them both, I can confidently say that my busted up trash machine is far better than my new one, or any consumer-grade sewing machine on the market.
Old Machine Guts
The old machine? Can sew through a pile of leather thicker than my fingers like it’s nothing. (it’s actually terrifying and I treat it like a power tool - I’ll never sew drunk on that thing because I’m genuinely afraid it’d sew through a finger!) At high speeds, it’s well balanced and doesn’t shake. The parts are all metal, attached by standard flathead screws, designed to be simple and strong, and easily reachable behind large access doors. The tools I need to work on it? A screwdriver and oil. Lost my screwdriver? That’s OK, a knife works too.
New Machine Guts
The new machine’s skipping stitches now that the plastic parts are starting to wear out. It’s always throwing software errors, and it damn near shakes itself apart at top speed. Look at it’s innards - I could barely fit a boriscope camera that’s about as thick as spaghetti in there let alone my fingers. Very little is attached with standard screws.
And it’s infuriating. I’m an engineer - there’s no damn reason to make high-wear parts out of plastic. Or put them in places they can’t be reached to replace. There’s no reason to make your mechanism so unbalanced it’s reaching the point of failure before reaching it’s own design speed. (Oh yeah there is, it’s corporate greed)
100 years, and your standard home sewing machine has gone from a beast of a machine that can be pulled out of the literal waterlogged trash and repaired - to a machine that eats itself if you sew anything but delicate fast-fashion fabrics that are also designed to fall apart in a few years.
Looking for something modern built to the standard that was set 100 years ago? I’d be looking at industrial machines that are going for thousands of dollars… Used on craigslist. I don’t even want to know what they’d cost new.
We have the technology and knowledge to manufacture “old” sewing machines still. Hell, even better, sewing machines with the mechanical design quality of the old ones, but with more modern features. It would be so easy - at a technical level to start building things well again. Hell, it’s easier to fabricate something sturdy than engineer something to fail at just the right time. (I have half a mind to see if any of my meche friends with machine shops want to help me fabricate an actually good modern machine lol)
We need to push for right-to-repair laws, and legislation against planned obsolescence. Because it’s honestly shocking how corporate greed has downright sabotaged good design. They’re selling us utter shit, and expecting us to come back for more every financial quarter? I’m over it.

wanderlight-witch:

Windows 95

raysdrawlings:

Home 💖
Part 15/15 of my post-TOTK Zelink Fancomic!
BEGINNING - PREVIOUS
Thanks everyone for reading and tuning in all these weeks!!
I will have physical and digital versions available next week, I just need to finish up some formating! Or if you wanna donate, Here’s my Kofi!
Thanks for Reading <3

celestial-fang:

Color wheel sketch requests from twitter :3

mokadevs:

The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight
A game about fear of the unknown and girls traveling to the Moon’s core.
☆ Linear visual novel with 1 ending and 13 unique CGs
☆ Takes around 1hr 30min - 2hrs to complete
☆ Available for Windows, Linux, and Mac
☆ Developed in Renpy for VN Cup 2023
☆ Collaborative project with @kirvia and Team Cetacity

mmoon-sstars asked:
please bullet point explain how you went from memes to dreams i am so curious

pearl-likes-pi:

Ok basically
2015 - graduated hs, started college in Atlanta, started making SU memes
2016 - got internship/co-op at CN Games (coincidentally right by my school), kept making memes, eventually the CN social media team asked me to do freelance for them, started meeting the SU cast at cons and stuff
2017 - the year where things got crazy lol, YouTube and memes thing was pretty wild at this point and I got to start collabing with the cast. CN decided to do a Steven Universe podcast and asked me to host it and then I also interned on the show at the same time to learn about animation production. Moved to LA for the summer for that
2018 - kept doing the podcast remotely from Atlanta and YouTube and college
2019 - podcast ended, started getting really serious about voice acting and taking lessons, got a voice acting gig, got hit by a truck (lived!). Graduated college (December) and got hired for a PA job on an animated sitcom @ Titmouse starting next January in LA
2020 - moved to LA start of the year, started working as a PA, got VO agent, pandemic, worked remotely and tried not to go crazy all alone in LA, got promoted to production coordinator, pretty much stopped YouTube after SU ended
2021 - finally broke in as an assistant animatic editor on a different animated show at Titmouse (Beavis and Butt-Head lol), continued taking a lot of VO classes
2022 - promoted to assistant editor and then Animatic Editor™ on B&B, somehow managed to make the leap to animatic editing on Jentry (honestly forever gonna be grateful they were willing to take a chance on me)
2023 - now I’m animatic editing on Jentry and auditioning for VO jobs all the time as well (and occasionally even booking them, when I’m lucky lol)
I’m sorry I tried to be brief but also im bad at summarizing lol, if anything doesn’t make sense lemme know. i feel so grateful so many people were willing to help me get to where I’m at so im genuinely always happy to answer any questions if my experience can help other people in the same boat!!!!!