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just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone

🔁 pls reblog for sample size

#all of it #though I don't recall ever going to cinema alone #movies are something I rather share with someone

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#ARE YOU KIDDING ME

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

#o7

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occasional posts from users

#occasionally

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never lose hope

#;A; #one piece #nico robin

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#sometimes I think that this is the last platform where we still do this

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unbelievable that its 4/20 and absolutely nobody has put the objectively best rage comic on my dash yet. i have to do everything around here

#420

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About a week ago I posted this.

I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:

and my personal favorite

After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.

About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like

I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like

This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”

But I guess the lesson goes like this:

DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN

#you never know what kind of battles the other person fights #if you tell them to end it #it might be their final push

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ok what’s your florence + the machine song. mine is rabbit heart (raise it up)<3

#dog days are over #idk it just resonates with me #and I love writing to this song #it just hypes me up the right amount

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Remember this joke?

Well, I am going to do something similar only with photography. This is a photo someone took for an Amazon review of their Clinique products.

Honestly, it is not a terrible photo. They did some staging. They have an interesting background. All of the labels are legible. It is properly exposed. This would be a perfectly acceptable product photo for an Etsy page.

I've been taking these advanced photography courses in preparation for whenever I am able to create a new studio in the house. And my teacher is a photography badass. I just watched a 6 hour class on how to recreate a professional Clinique ad. And at first glance it looks deceptively simple. It's just some skin care products being splashed with a little water.

Which is why I wanted you to see an average person for reference.

This is what Karl Taylor came up with.

And I don't think I've learned so much about photography in one tutorial before.

Product photography is just loads and loads of problem solving. You have to light the chrome caps with a gradient. Which requires giant diffusion scrims.

Those big white panels are literally only there for the two chrome caps.

You need a pure white background, but you can't let light spill all over the studio, so you put up giant black light blockers.

And you have to add another light just for the orange bottle on the right.

Oh, and if you want the bottles to glow, well, you have to hide a silver reflector behind them.

But you still want the edges of the bottles to be darker so they have some contrast. So you add some black tape to the sides.

And in order for the reflective labels to have bold black lettering, you have to reflect black cards into them.

Ack! Karl's beautiful bald head is showing up in the chrome caps! He must put on the naughty blanket.

And once you get every aspect of every bottle perfectly lit, you finally get to yeet some water at it all.

I don't love product photography because I have a weird obsession to help greedy corporations make their wares look more beautiful. I love it because it is a complicated and challenging new puzzle every time. Every product is a different shape and requires a different technique to make it look its best.

I don't know if I will be able to live up to Karl's standards.

This is about the level I was at in 2017 before I quit photography.

I have so much more knowledge in my brain now. I'm really hoping I can surpass that.

#whoa that's so cool

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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

#420

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

#OH THIS MAKES ME FEEL THINGS #beautiful

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Same thing applies to writing.

Even as child I never liked drawing but ever since I remember I loved writing, I loved telling stories but at some point I just... stopped.

There was one burst of creativity, seven years after and 40k words written, a short one-page fic here and there, one quite big AU (relatively) that's like 20k words that I don't think I'll ever finish, two other fics that have like summaries of all the important plot points and I'm sure I'll never write those two. But I'd write only occasionally.

Then a year ago I promised myself I'll write 12 short fics, one each months to, you know, strat writing daily, put some effort from time to time.

And I failed that.

I've written like 100k words across two fics instead, neither is finished.

I smashed my new year resolution like never before and I constantly have ideas, I need to write daily and I write like 1k words per day, sometimes less, sometimes more. At first it was really hard but then inspiration hits you and you have 18 doc files in the folder named after fic because you just have so many ideas and you need to write all of them down and they don't stop coming.

I know it's hard but if there was a time when you enjoyed writing stories, when it was easy give yourself another chance and don't give up. Never stop writing.

You Should Draw Again

Pretty much all children draw at some point, and then one way or another, most of us stop. I think a lot of us stop because we just got old enough to look around us and feel self conscious about not being one of the kids who was "good at art", or if you had a past like mine, for worse reasons. But whatever the reason, it's a bad reason.

And overcoming it will help. Maybe your art won't be very good (and it certainly won't be at first), but you'll get practice in one of the most important things you can do: rebelling against the lie that you can't start what you're not already good at.

#art #writing

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"the 5th celebrity you have saved on your phone -" you and i live in vastly different worlds

#people collect photos of celebrities on their phones????

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#XD

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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

#one piece #AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I DO

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I had to share it because this is how I feel for a while now

#it's good to fixate on you own project #it's healthy for you but it makes you insane #art #writing