octomoosey

[octomoosey]

One of my favorite phrases my Creative Writing professor had for when you’re writing fantasy is ‘giving your story a Flux Capacitor’.

Because it’s not real, it doesn’t exist. But the way it’s thrown into Back to the Future, at no point does it throw the audience off or suspend any more disbelief than time travel would. You believe Doc when he says he created the Flux Capacitor - the thing that makes time travel possible, because the universe never questions him. 

So it essentially means like, there are going to be elements to your universe that are just not gonna make any sense, even if you set up a whole system based on it. And the only way to make it work is completely own it. You cannot second-guess your system or else the reader will too. You can give it the strangest explanation, but write it like you own it.  

#writing

[octomoosey]

oh my gdO CAN YOU DRAW GODZILLA MOMMA CARRYING LIKE A HUNDRED LIZARD BABIES ON HER BACK FOR TAKE YOUR CHILD (lizard) TO WORK DAY

oh SHOOT well i cant swing 100 but how bout

[octomoosey]

rule #1 of the world is that love is stored in the kitty cat

[octomoosey]

are some of the people newer to tumblr aware of the joys of theme customization on desktop? I know some ppl are just on mobile so they can’t really change things but like SO many blogs nowadays have 0 theme customization and just use the default theme and I’m beginning to wonder if they even know about the option. It’s one of the main reasons why I still use tumblr

[octomoosey]

actual tip for new tumblr users

don't use double quotation marks ("like this") in your tags if you're talking in the tags- it'll format it wrong and mess up what you're trying to say by taking whatever you put in the quotes and kicking it to the front of your tags. so for example, if you're trying to say

#you'd have to be an idiot to believe that "there's no such thing as greenland" #smh

it will format as

#there's no such thing as greenland #you'd have to be an idiot to believe that #smh

if you want to use quotations in the tags, i would recommend just using single quotes instead ('like this')! i'm not sure why tumblr does this, but it's very odd and it's been a problem for years.

[octomoosey]

Moody walk through the czech gorge | tom_juenemann

[octomoosey]

Dolomites | denny__jay

[octomoosey]

My prince ♥ Commissions info ♥ My gallery ♥ My twitter ♥ Support me on Patreon

[octomoosey]

17 free and helpful things, that everyone can take advantage of

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library They send an age appropriate book once a month if you have a child younger than 5.

Project Gutenberg Lots of free classic books.

Library Genesis A great place to look for and download college/university textbooks for free, as well as other books.

Scihub Endless Free college books. (and peer-reviewed scientific publications that are otherwise hidden behind a paywall)

Khan Academy Free knowledge that you can use to clep out of university courses, or to simply invest your time in a worthwhile topic.

Openlearn UK’s Open University - free courses for all levels of study, samples of university materials, study skills and tie-ins to BBC documentaries. Everything under Creative Commons licence so you can use it as you see fit.

Duolingo The Green Owl of Languages. There are a few hundred that it teaches and the mobile app makes it easy to do anywhere while waiting (!warning! only good for Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Esperanto, and English. with anything else it gets very low-quality and short.).

Codecademy An awesome site to learn how to use some programming languages. Doesn't get into the really advanced stuff, but it's good for a start.

Photopea Completely free Photoshop clone that has all the basic features of Photoshop, using basically the same interface.

Gimp Another free version of Photoshop.

Unsplash Stock of free photos of just about anything, provided by the photographers themselves, to do with what you like.

Futureme You can write letters to yourself (or other people) in the future! You can also make notifications and reminders of a +doctors appointments or anything else important.

Heavens Above You can look up all the satellites flying over your house tonight, including the ISS, Hubble Space Telescope, those pesky Starlink satellites, and whatever else your heart desires, complete with star maps and precise timing. And there is an Android app, but unfortunately no iOS one last I checked. (For iOS you can use “Sputnik!” which is free and tells, when ISS and Hubble passes overhead.)

Night Sky Other astronomy app for iOS. If you hold your phone to the sky the app tells you what you're looking at (or point it at the ground for a view from the other side of the planet). Zoom in with two fingers and tons of deep space stuff is revealed.

Freecycle its literally people giving away stuff they don't need/want any more that they can't/don't care enough to sell.

Nexus Mods Has thousands of video game mods (for 1,509 PC games), made by independent content creators, available to download at no cost.

Archive The Archive aka Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and so much more... For example a lot of DOS games (classics like Prince of Persia, Oregon Trail, DOOM, Monkey island, Rayman, Turtles), directly playable through the browser.

My earlier list

More things to do

#fun things #free stuff #ref

[octomoosey]

it's not living (if it's not with you)

[octomoosey]

do angel halos buzz like neon gas station signs

[octomoosey]

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

[octomoosey]

Escape from L.A. (1996) dir. John Carpenter

#escape from l.a. #90s

[octomoosey]

UX research - participants needed for survey!

Hello everyone! HT (glenthemes) here. I’m doing a UX research study as part of a design project for school! I’m planning to build a restaurant finder app (similar to Deliveroo, Uber Eats, OpenRice, etc) that caters to users with special dietary needs due to food allergies.

To participate in this survey:

you must have at least 1 food allergy that prevents you from ordering regular dishes “as-is” from restaurants (you’ve had to swap out an ingredient for another)

you have used restaurant apps in the past, and have tried making dietary adjustments in your order(s).

Reblogs are massively appreciated! Full details (including privacy policy) are included in the description on the survey form. This survey will be open until Saturday evening (4th). Thank you! 💖

https://forms.gle/7Qj7RGNPmqhrY7vS9

[octomoosey]

Free, High Quality Fonts for Gif Makers

Urbanist | Assistant | Plus Jakarta Sans | Oxygen | Anonymous Pro | Sora | Public Sans | Poppins

[octomoosey]

some of you may've heard about that fancy "bionic reading" typefont thats supposed to be easier for neurodivergent people to read (if you're unfamiliar, it bolds the first few letters of each word to make it easier to follow)

well guess what, its locked behind a $500 a month API to write in because fuck you!

introducing, Not Bionic Reading! it is literally just the bionic reading typefont but for free. god bless neocities

anyone who can, pls reblog!

[octomoosey]

ppl with really long queues amuse me, like, they will like your post and then you find out within 3-10 business days whether they also thought it worthy of reblogging