#but it did not

[pocketramblr]

Yeah I can suspend my disbelief about the torture class at bablys it's a demon school. I cannot suspend my disbelief that the "correct" way to pick up assignments is to check every line with every student before accepting the paper to make sure no one cheated like bro. Kalego. That's the dumbest way to do it. It's way easier to catch something when you have them all together and you can typically piece together more that way. You can have students redo an assignment the next day you don't have to demand it in the first twenty seconds of seeing their assignment. I understand the actual lesson you were trying to impress upon the new teacher, and it was a good one, but that was just about the dumbest and most counterproductive way to show it.

#i know this chapter was supposed to show his care for his work and coworkers. #but it did not #it TOLD me he was a good teacher while SHOWING me this man is very bad at multiple parts of the job #so. yeah #sorry any nurses or others who have to feel this about their profession in media way more than i do lol

[cicadaknight]

i so desperately wanted to beat cazador up with my bard’s lute but karlach slam dunked him into the void mid-evil monologue 👉👈

#bg3 spoilers #as combat goes it wasn’t the worst fight #but it was 2am i left gale and his fireballs at camp and shadowheart kept pooping her armor about the wolves #desperate times call for cheesin measures #sorry cazador if you’re gonna hide at the edge to avoid my daylight spells #i simply can’t miss such a comedic opportunity #i will say i did that on the second attempt and reloded because i thought losing his corpse might fuck up the end choice #but it did not #and then i tried to fight for real for another hour or two and couldn’t get further than killing a couple bats #bg3 #cazador fight #astarion #astarion spoilers #died enough times to run through most of astarion’s confrontation dialogue though #holy shit #if you say anything cazador makes fun of him for needing someone to speak for him #and from then til the start of the fight he’s so hurt and scared #like cazador is calling him a weak stupid little boy and completely rips through any confidence he had #tr-tr-tr-trauma response #an awful glimpse at how powerless astarion truly felt #we all joke about astarion being a sad little wet cat but the UNSPEAKABLE trauma he endured and inflicted unwillingly for CENTURIES #but if you say nothing he delivers one of the best ‘fuck you’ lines ever #and jesus christ the ending #obviously i chose the good one #but it hurt so bad anyway

[unpretty]

good evening! so sorry to bother you with this bc I'm 95% sure it's been asked and answered before, but if you have the time/spoons/inclination, I'd really appreciate a nudge towards the site(s)/app(s) you use to do your social media/text fakes! I've found some basic ones but nothing that gives as high-level results as yours so I figured I might as well ask. thank you for all your awesome work!

for twitter and tumblr i just used firefox devtools (ctrl+shift+c) to edit the text and then edited them afterward in gimp to change the avatars or any image attachments. i did something similar for youtube. for whatsapp i think i used whatever 'fake text generator' i found that worked in a browser and looked halfway to accurate, but they were all nightmares to use and might not exist anymore (there are fake text apps, but they all suck and stick watermarks on things; in a browser i can just take a screenshot myself to avoid that). there is probably a lesson to be learned in the fact that the whatsapp texts are my most popular and also look the absolute shittiest.

for twitter DMs, discord chat, and the fake chat app i just invented, i just. made them from scratch. i think i had a subscription to photoshop but these days i use affinity designer (which i like a lot better actually and it has a lot of built-in tools for designing a ui which come in very handy for designing a fake ui). you could probably do similar or the same in gimp, i just don't actually like using gimp. twitter DMs turned out the worst because i actually got the font VERY wrong (i do not DM people on twitter so trying to recreate it was a nightmare, at the time the twitter app looked subtly but completely different from web twitter so it really fucked me out of using devtools). discord also didn't turn out perfect but since i basically just screenshotted discord and tried to recreate my screenshot as closely as possible before changing the avatars and text i don't think it turned out too bad.

these days discord is more popular so you might be able to find fake text generators for it, i haven't actually looked. i have to assume imessage generators are also more ubiquitous, i just can't convince myself that batman would use an iphone

#original #allegedly discord uses the font Whitney iirc #however even in my mockup i had trouble getting the spacing etc right #so idk what discord is doing over there #and there is a limit to how long i'm willing to inspect their css to find out #twitter was v frustrating bc i was like #oh i'll just use responsive design tools to make it look like the app #but it did not #anyway basically for discord i took a chat screenshot #and then that became my bottom layer #and then i tried to retype all the text and insert images etc etc #in such a way that when i hid the screenshot layer you couldn't really tell the difference #it was off by a few pixels but not terrible #while i was working on an archive site before grav updated in such a way as to break everything i'd done #i worked on recreating discord in html #it was not as successful as my similar attempt w tumblr iirc

[thethinkingcloth]

stayed up a little too late and now i’m crying over lockwood and co

#lockwood and co #save lockwood and co #i thought watching a couple edits would help me calm down from smth else #but it did not #i should go to bed #anyway if you haven’t already please watch casey aberfaeth’s cot3 edits im so insane abt those #and also whoever made the george & lucy someone to you edit on yt i owe you my life

[chloemew]

Remember when I used to draw robot masters with my eyes closed and then try to interpret the results?? Yeah I’m doing that again lol

Don’t feel sorry for him, he has too many different coloured parts and is a nightmare to colour >:0

#Turboman #Megaman #doodles #I thought doing the 'sketch' on my ipad would make the result less cursed #but it did not

[alex51324]

I put too much chicken base in my asparagus risotto, and now it is Unpleasantly Salty. :(

#it's edible #but you can't really taste the asparagus #it already made a bigger batch than I planned #so I don't want to put in more rice #I have three more servings of it #I have already eaten it twice #I was hoping the cooling/reheating might bring out some of the non-salt flavors #but it did not #woe

[mentalmeles]

Feeling really useless right now, ngl

#i am just...idk #i planned to be more productive today #but after doing my laundry i just..lost all motivation completely #i had hoped that a nap would've worked #but it did not #i was supposed to water my plants and do dishes and wash my hair and... #hhh.. #the star child speaks #negative #don't reblog this

[moon-giest]

One year and a month on hrt and I finally bought/fit in men's jeans

First time going out in jeans in since I started hrt and got called sir

#im so HAPPY #i coulsnt fit in mens jeans before because. hella hips #but finall ive narrowed and can fit *mostly #still was so worried the jeans i had would make me look femme because. panic #but it did not #!!!!

[cauldronofmorning]

I’d kill for a dumpling rn

#you’d think getting food poisoning from a bad batch would kill my lust #but it did not

[clandestinegardenias]

My therapist just told me my problem is that I need to write more fanfiction.

#NOT A JOKE SHE LITERALLY DID

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

#information death of the internet etc #legit this has been SO SO helpful #shout out to mastodon infosec server for this one #before 2022 we did not really have the AI-content-farms because. the tech did not exist to the public. #and you can knock back the date if need be #obviously this does not FIX the problem but #me.txt

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[diabloku]

Lucifer: *enters the hotel*

Alastor: I cast vicious mockery 😈

An animation my sis and I made for fun

Music is Perception Check by Tom Cardy.

#hazbin hotel alastor #Hazbin hotel #Hazbin hotel Lucifer #vivziepop #Hazbin hotel fanart #Alastor #Lucifer #Perception check #“you're much shorter in real life” #Alastor has no mercy if you're under 5“2 lol #I did: the storyboard; artworks and animation #And my sis did: the coloring; animation as well and the compositing #Team work makes the dream work lol

[bookwyrminspiration]

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

#executive dysfunction #shitpost #every day I get stuck in waiting mode for SO LONG and SO MANY TIMES #that one time I tried adhd meds it fixed it but then I. was like no I am going to be scared and not continue taking it <3 #and also. I simply did not like the psychologist and did not want to have to go back #so. rawdogging the world <3 #man if I could start a task right now...then you'd see...then you'd all see....

[temporalteardrop]

bass makes a dollar. i make a dime. that's why i think about lesbian sex on company time

#me serving customers while chappell roan's red wine supernova is stuck in my head #me: yeah that'll be £3.60 / my brain: she did it right there‚ out on the deck: put her canine teeth in the side of my neck #rose's incessant yearnings #rose's gay little job #rose's ramblings

[nothazellevesque]

a man self immolated in front of the israeli embassy in washington dc yesterday. not just any man. an active member of the us air force. he live streamed his death, and said that he refused to be complicit in a genocide any longer. he said that compared to what palestinians were facing every day, setting himself alight was nothing.

let me reiterate. an active duty air force member burned himself alive because he was so disgusted by what the us government was openly supporting. he live-streamed his own suicide, so the whole world could bear witness as a man in his military uniform set himself on fire to protest his government’s complicity in the horrors that we have all been forced to watch happen in real time. he became a new horror. footage of the immolation blurs him out the moment the fire catches, but you can hear him. it is over in seconds, really, but you can hear him screaming. he shouts “free palestine” until his body physically cannot make any sounds other than guttural screams of agony. and then he falls silent. a police officer arrives and points a gun at his still burning body, shouting at him to get down on the ground. and it is over.

his name was Aaron Bushnell. he was twenty five years old. and he isn’t here anymore because the political ruling class has decided that genocide is perfectly fine as long as it preserves imperialism. in the coming days, people will try to discredit him. to say that he was mentally unstable. they will try to bury his actions to save face and defend israel’s propaganda. do not let them. aaron knew what he was doing. he knew what he was doing when he put on his military uniform, set up his twitch stream, and made his final walk up to the embassy. he knew what would happen to him when he flicked that lighter. do not let them forget. aaron’s blood is on the hands of the political ruling class.

#free palestine #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #Aaron bushnell #aaron’s livestream likely made it so much harder to bury this like the media did to the last person who self immolated #the least we can do is not forget him #gaza strip #gaza #palestine