#It's not being thin that's winning

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

hello people of tumblr, it would mean the world to me if you helped me out in voting my favourite bisexual nerd into winning this one singing competition that might have taken over my life. it is a very simple process, it is free of charge and you can vote once a day tho it's fine if you only vote once, it will make me immensely happy nevertheless <3

so, the steps are as follows:

download the 'ot 2023' app from the app store

2. if you are from a hispanic country you shouldn't have any problem with this. if you are from any other part of the world, you need a vpn to access the app.

3. register with your email or whatever means is easier for you. don't worry, it's free of charge and they don't send you spam emails or anything; i've had it since the beginning of the contest and i haven't received any. it is simply a way to track how many users are in the app i guess.

4. go to the heart in the bottom left (circled below)

5. click on paul thin and confirm your decision of voting him as a winner by clicking on the tick. his heart should be purple then. this is free of charge, you don't have to worry about the money.

6. repeat if you want it next day until next monday :)

also, just to see who you are voting for, here are some of his best performances from the first half of the contest (due to how the program is structured, the second half performances are not available in youtube yet)

#vivitalksot #paul thin #i'm sorry but i will be reblogging this post every day #it's only one week i promise this is the final #also it's very funny cause right now paul has white spiky hair #so he doesn't even look like the guy in the picture or in those first performances #also his last performances are all urban and rapping and what not so. versatility !!! #anyways please vote for him i would really like him placing in the top 3 #realistically he won't win cause my queen naiara has to win and i will cheer for that. but paul being 2nd would be pretty cool honestly #Youtube

[tahwarts]

i think ppl kinda miss the point of why pink femme girl power aesthetics are empowering to some women, and this isnt specifically about the barbie movie bc i havent seen it so idk how its gonna pull the whole thing off, but it has definitely sparked a lot of discourse around this. but its not about "telling girls its ok to be feminine" because of course the society already pushes femininity onto women. its just that women are devalued, and women are devalued no matter what they do, however femininity is FOR women and it is because of that association with women that femininity is also devalued (regardless of gender, but even when performed by women). it is an expectation, but it is taken for granted. like for example it is expected for women to do makeup and care about fashion, however it is simultaneously taken as something shallow and frivolous to have as an interest or hobby, and people who point out that it actually takes a lot of skill and artistry are dismissed and brushed off. and again this is a skill that is just expected that all women will have! and celebrating femininity, in for example movies like legally blonde, is saying that no, there is inherent value in this thing, there is inherent value and skill and use in having traditionally feminine hobbies, feminine women had to work and femininity doesnt make someone lesser. and when we accept these as their own skills, hobbies, interests, hopefully we can also separate them from womanhood, and we can accept women as, yknow, their natural state. femininity is an action and it has value but women should damn well opt out of it if they want to.

#im drunk none of this makes sense im sorry for rambling these are just some thoughts ive been having #but like masc women have it bad and i love masc women iw ould love to see more masc women rep. but there is no winning as a woman #im not like an expert or feminist theory or anything. i just think. maybe having both things would be nice #i am skeptical of barbie movie i dont know how its gonna handle this yet. its def a thin line of enforcing femininity vs elevating it #i hate the corporate bullshit behind it i hate marketing i hate advertising i hate the fucking mattelverse #but the actors seem to have put in a lot of passion into it so i think at the very least the movie will be fun #this post is trans inclusive i think trans women have talked at much length about double standards of expectations of femininity #delete later #bc i dont like being involved in discourse

[nonsensemonkey]

i had a dream that there was this EXTREMELY pretty girl, like MAJORLY pretty. just my type (one of them anyway): long dark hair, light pretty eyes, gorgeous smile, sweet as pie... thick thighs-- i could go on about all the things on this woman that made me drool.

anyway, she was like, a friend of one of my friends or something. all of my friends knew that i liked her apparently. DISCLAIMER: SHE DOES NOT EXIST, NEITHER DO ANY OF THESE FRIENDS 😭✌🏾but im not sure if she knew that i liked her. anyway, she was wearing such a cute outfit ugggghhhh 😔

all of my friends were at one friends house and i was the designated driver (like i usually am irl tbh). so, i went to pick them up and as they're all filtering into my car, they're commenting on how dirty it is. it usually is. water bottles galore and i typically dont care but i didn't realize SHE was coming until the very last friend got in and was like, "you remember sara? 😏" and i saw her. my heart dropped and suddenly, im embarassed about the state of my car.

im like, "if you guys told me sara was coming, i'd have cleaned my car."

"oh, it's okay. you don't have to do it just for me." she tugged at the bottom of her skirt as she sank into the car, bottles rattling at her feet. she looked at me and she's like, "but it is a little messy in here, yeah."

SHE THINKS MY MESSY CAR IS MESSY AND IM ABOUT TO COMBUST!!!

and all my friends are in the backseat chattering about how i ALWAYS let my car get this dirty. ???? IN FRONT OF SARA???? PLEASE!!! and she's laughing at me about it telling me she should stay on top of me and make sure i keep things tidy 😭ma'am, can you not laugh at my pain???

i fumbled a bad bitch in my dreams by having a dirty car. my car is dirty irl too.. dont be like me.

this has been a PSA. clean your cars kids.

#smh #didnt even get a chance to fumble by being lame :/ #also my dream friends were the WORST wingmen!!!! #they just sat there and berated me for being a filth monster #if im out with a friend and im trying to hook them up with their crush and we're about to ride in their dirty car #i am about to fucking materialize a walmart grocery bag out of thin air and turn on my free housekeeping services #YOU WILL WIN MY GUY! #YOU WILL BAG THIS BADDIE YET #dreamnonsense

[l8tof1]

the way i sat down this morning with actual pen and paper to figure out if lewis could technically still win the title this year 🥲🤡🤡🤡

#he could of course #would have to win most of the remaining races though #or the others would need to suddenly drop back by a lot #idk why i had to use ~math~ to figure this out #it’s obvious #but listen…… what IF the others no longer being allowed to run their flexifloors actually does impact their performance #we only need the w13 a LITTLE closer and we know lewis could do magic #anyway! #join me in my tuesday morning delusions :) #start manifesting a rbr double reliability dnf in the thin air of austria :) #lewis hamilton #f1

[biancabelairs]

this new world title bullshit is so fucking bad

#all you're saying with it is 'we don't see anybody on our roster at roman's level so here's a consolation prize' #god i'm so fucking annoyed lmao all you had to do was have cody win at mania #and then you do the babyface fighting champion thing where he insists on defending both titles separately #and in a couple of months he loses one of them bc he's stretching himself too thin #but nooo we'll do this dumbass idea instead lmao #genuinely don't know how anyone could possibly be happy being told hey be the inaugural champion for our clearly b belt but. whatever #wwe #text post

[iloveyoumorethansoup]

Ok life update. I’m fully in college again! I like some of my classes (all stem classes) I kinda hate some other classes (theatre classes ironically). I am so deeply not moved in at all. Unpacking who? Could not be me. I do not have enough storage. I like my third roommate a lot and living with my ex is not as scary as I thought it would be. I finally get an adhd and depression test in two weeks and i start therapy in a week.

#me? going to therapy bc my last relationship hurt me that badly? it’s more likely than you think! #it wasn’t just that. but that in conjunction with my depression did not do good things #went from clingy to very anxious attachment style #also. i keep saying I’m completely over her. I’m not. I’m just hoping if I say it enough it’ll be true #so it just really really hurts that she’s so over me and already talking to people and looking for dates #and I’m over here like. please can it all just stop hurting for 5 seconds🫠🫠🫠🫠 #i really do not know what to do. hoping therapy fixes my very much still broken heart #i can’t even tell her like hey dude this is killing me bc then she’d think I’m trying to make it her problem #when in reality I just don’t want her to talk about the girls she’s talking to as much #also I’m pretty sure she’d end up being like fine I just won’t talk to you anymore. which completely missed the point as well #so. that’s cool #gaming club is starting to meet up again which is nice. unfortunately it’s on a day I have color guard every week #i think antidepressants would be very good for me bc I am struggling to find a single positive point in my life rn #the waitlist for therapy is miles long and u gotta submit why you want it. they called me in within a week. it’s not looking hot for me lol #I’d like to start streaming now that I’m single again. and by that I mean I have more free time #but my ex and I share a wall and she hates when she can hear me talking thru the wall. we have really really thin walls #y’all I am not winning. at all #idea: we’re doing a poll on things that should improve my life and y’all can decide #soup talks

[finalhaunts]

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#vent #i hate that I can’t get over this shit #yes I know most people don’t have lasting relationships when they’re young #yes i know there are other people #but like time and time and time and time and time again I’ve had people leave and i’m #sick of being in this cycle #where I’m happy and then it all falls apart #usually because i ruined it by being too much #just the fact that it seems like I’m so inherently unloveable on top of everything else in my awful life #i’m just tired. I just want Something #‘’you can’t win them all’’ well i wish I could win just once #i think there’s something genuinely deeply wrong with me. #like maybe I’m just a failed attempt at a human being #i think at this point i’m not even human. #i think i’m just. a thing. #vermin. or lower than vermin #again and again I go ‘’i’ll get better this time’’ and then I end up falling into the same patterns and spirals #and I feel like such a disappointment to my friends and I’m terrified if i Don’t get better it’s just going to push everyone away #and i’ll be left alone again becsuse its just a constant fucking cycle of people leaving !!!!! #i know peoples patience run thin. i know hearing me vent all the time is draining. i’m fully well aware of just how shitty it csn be #having someone around who’s always just so miserable #and i’m scared i’m on a time limit and I have no clue when it runs out or how much time i have left #this was about one thing but it ended up spiralingninto other shit sory #its so fuckingnhard to get better especially when i’m still with my excuses of parents #i’m scared

[oldblackpeacoat]

artists patience with fans who go against their wishes or are just fucking creepy and weird deserve the world. and my sword. if you’re weird in front of artists and are not decent and semi-normal i will impale you.

#rina sawayama was like please don't film live in the moment. a sea of phones. ppl stalking frank iero... no winning in this hell world #there is a difference between being a groupie and being a stalker. ppl are walking a thin fucking line at the minute. #going to concerts at the minute - well the last few years since pre-pandemic as well - has been a fucking nightmare. go for the music sugar #danny speaks

[artificer-dice]

Guys I messed up 😅

One of the number one rules with working with silicone and molds and resin in a pressure pot is you don't seal in a pocket of air.

Guess what I accidentally did in the stupidest way possible 😅 on the cute d6s I was super excited about too!

I was able to remove them by hacking at the bumps with some wire cutters until they lost adhesion with the face (which I realize is something I need to fix in the process) and I was able to peel them off, which took the paint with it but it should be easy to fix now.

They have hearts for the 6 faces and I love them so I'm going to fix them but it's a learning moment I didn't necessarily want to have today but at least it was salvageable!

#it's been a rough day #it's not even noon yet and i already want to just go back to sleep #it's been raining all morning which means I've been in pain since last night #and it's been fairly intense today #so i was hoping for a win with these cute d6s because the set is a rainbow and they have hearts as the 6s #and then this happened #and i knew immediately what had happened when i saw it #to explain the pocket of air thing: this final step is casting them after inking them in a mold with no numbers so the 6 face disappears #and that mold happens to be open-faced and when I've used it previously I've gotten raised faces so i tried to use a little silicone mat #this mat happens to be longer than that mold but also thin and stretchy which is important #i used a mold weight to keep it from lifting in the center. this particular mold weight was a failed 6d6 mold #for some reason i used it with the d6 cavities facing down which meant there were cavities of air touching the mat #which maybe would have been fine if there wasnt resin in between them for some reason #this resin sealed the space between the mat and the weight which meant those cavities were sealed #again a big no-no in this situation because a pressure pot compresses air #which means that space has no choice but to get smaller because that air inside can't normalize pressure with things outside of it #so it pulled the very thin and very stretchy mat up in an attempt to normalize #well the surface underneath the mat had a lot of resin and it was also sealed and resin doesn't compress (as much?) #so the mat being lifted created this vacuum of sorts that pulled the resin into it like how drawing up a syringe works #and then it cured like that #thankfully the resin is still flexible enough at this stage that once i broke the seal between the two layers it peeled off #which tells me taht in the future i should sand the faces before doing this step to help adhesion so they cant separate #usually separating is bad but in this case it saved me literal hours of sanding because that's what it would have took to fix this #i am good at making dice i promise #this is still in development so I'm still figuring out the fine details within the process #there's no catch-all course you can take to learn these things so I'm kinda just winging it anyway #these are meant to be examples of a method to be used to make custom-faced dice without them being custom-molded #because making one-off designs this way saves on silicone and making the masters in the first place #not something i thought I'd be doing as much but working on this process is why I'm waiting to open commissions again #because this was a majority of the requests i got

[vancilart]

poses

gently holds

their get-along sweater

#somewhere other than australia bc its never sweater weather there #could be citadel with the artificial weather #or then spending xmas at the in-laws' place #both are fine #he likes japan #will never get the hang of chopsticks but their kids will at least #drink sake and spend time with wifey? heaven #oc stuff #stuff in space #dnd #other ppls ocs #warm. #lay some hands on that buoey #goose is small and thin he's Always cold so it's nice to have a warm paladin #also i imagine that after the whole conch thing his hands will always be cold from all the blast of eldritch and blight and whatever #though in this one he doesnt have grey hair so hes not quite as sickly yet #its nice being held and nice being warmed up so its a win win

[selfcontainedunivcrse]

in my heart I know i should work on character diversity but also consider . chubby people

#Particularly in my faces . My style is not actually just drawing everything round its a textual choice #because i like making characters on purpose with full cheeks and soft jawlines #mainly just the people I like drawing a lot. I like you [Bestows Upon You Body Fat] #My style IS also squishy but like not to this extent #The exception is Seren who's just supposed to look Young. #Also I am generally unsure how to describe Being Larger but like Hi . It's me . I have gotten comfortable with characters That Look Like Me #My Default Guy isn't thin anymore #It's okay if my net diversity is bad IF the typical guy I draw is a diversity win . They say this < kidding #But I'm just here sketching like Mmmm this one should probably be thin shouldn't she. I can design thin characters . Trust me

[tarraxahum]

Was saying for a while now that Speed is very much neurodivergent (dare I say autistic) and the movie especially went for that pretty directly, but my fucking god I did not remember they literally had a bully call him an r-word and immediately get punched in the face for that

#I will say that interpretation of his character doesn't go very well with all the 'Speed Racer is a sociopath' clips going around #related to the original 60s anime of course #most of those are either related to him not hesitating to kill bad guys in retaliation unlike a typical cartoon hero #or to him being blunt and at times rude - and also determined to win and refusing to botch the rules for someone else #which. idk the first one is just good writing I think #and the second one is hardly a sociopathy description #could very well however be something else... you know #not reading tone and being too blunt #refusing to throw a race 'cause rules are rules and also that wouldn't be a victory if it's just given #etc etc #my boy is too focused on racing proper #ethics are hard #and throughout the show it's clear that he isn't above helping people! he does that a lot actually #but to throw a race out of pity? whuh? #still need to watch the 90s reboot in full but from what I remember he's somewhat closer to the movie there #kinda aloof when not behind the wheel and has so much shit just whooshing over his head poor guy #...New Adventures and Next Generation and god forbid Race to the Future are on thin fucking ice #maybe one day I'll catch up on them proper just to put that notch down #but UUUUUGGGHH #gosh I wish Tatsunoko did something new with him. his cameo in that one anime was so damn cute. #but instead I'm dreadfully waiting for the news on the promised AppleTV series #I don't trrrrrust but we'll see #hire actual Japanese actors I triple dare you. #damn an old hyperfixation knocking on your door is one hell of a ride

[maegalkarven]

Love and support all the folks doing their hair at hairdressers'.

It, however, can't be me.

I need to chop my hair off Mulan-style while staring myself down in the mirror and mentally singing "Be A Man."

#avery.txt #at risk of being an old grumpy man i just have to say #all those salon-made hair-cuttings are overrated #my hair is thin and straight all it needs is a pair of scissors #and maybe steady hands #all salon hairstyles they gave me look too civil and always way too feminine #thanks no thank #also i accidentally gave myself a bisexual haircut now bc overdid the length i wanted to cut off #which is a win bc i am a messy bisexual

[antilethean]

Yeah okay my continued existence is a rebellion inandof itself & we do live in a society that wants me to get overwhelmed & die & could not care less whatever whatever I'm so sick of fighting all the time my brain is fucked enough without (it feels like) anyone with an iota of power over how things are done trying to keep me from doing literally anything ever

#im so mad about driving im so mad about taxes being as bizarrely difficult as they are im so mad about insurance i want to rip off my head #i keep telling myself giving up is letting them win. but fuck man i am worn so thin.