#real or otherwise

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

weird hearing "were you a Theatre Kid" "were you a Sports Kid" "were you a Choir Kid" "were you a Dance Kid" bc no? i mean i did all of that and more but resented ever minute of it? actively avoided sticking with anything? i was a "In This Family After School Activities Are Mandatory Kid"

#oh and i was really really bad at all of it btw #which was a good thing actually otherwise i would have gotten bored even *more* quickly #christ if i was good at a Activity i probably would have had to stick with it #that would have been EXHAUSTING #i survived soooo many Activities by standing in the background doing the bare minimum so I could focus on the Hyperrealistic Daydreams #baseball was my favorite. if u wear a glove u can literally just stand in the back of a field & stare at grass & no one bothers you #i mean usually no one bothers you but there is one specific situation where everyone starts yelling your name real loud and pointing

[doberbutts]

Recently Youtube's algorithm really wants me to watch Schindler's List and I never had so the other night I sat down and actually watched it.

Having a lot of thoughts about it but a major one I keep coming back to is how even an immensely and deeply flawed human being can go against "just following orders" and instead put in the work to actually help.

It may never be fully enough. It may never save as many as you'd hoped. But when you have a choice to either follow orders or save your fellow humans in front of you, I hope you choose the latter.

Schindler died in poverty. He was not a renown war hero nor was he at all famous or widely beloved. But he saw that he could help, even in some small way, and so he helped.

He was a Nazi who saw what the Nazis were doing to Jews and said no more. Enough. If I can even spare those under my charge, maybe a few extras, then at least I will have tried to do something about this.

I think a lot of people do not fancy this type of activism. It is messy, dangerous, and often completely thankless. Schindler survived as long as he did after the war due to those he saved helping him with donations. He was not popular in his hometown due to his association with Nazis, he was not popular in Germany, he was not popular in Argentina. His businesses all failed. His wife left him. A movie about his deeds was released several years after his death, where he would receive none of the benefits. He went to prison multiple times for simply refusing to hate Jews.

I think a lot of people like to think they're activists, but are sorely unprepared for doing this type of work, and then in truth become activists in name only. This is hard work. But without him, another thousand or so people would be on that death toll.

He took his position of extreme power- a Nazi owning a factory almost entirely operated by Jews, making oodles of money off that cheap slave labor- and said you know what? No. I'm not doing that. I can't save everyone, but as long as they are within my factory, you will not kill my workers. As long as I'm here you aren't harming one hair on the head of any Jew under my care. You're not sending or keeping them in Auschwitz. You're not randomly executing them for entertainment. They're people. You're not murdering them.

"Just following orders" they say. But they didn't have to. They could have helped. They could have did what he did, look around and say "what the fuck am I doing here", and stop. He did. They could have. They didn't.

#I think it's also intereating that he did not do it out of compassion at first #he did it because it was smart capitalism #jewish labor was super cheap and they were desperate to be considered fit to work because otherwise execution was waiting for them #only after the cleansing of the ghetto did he say whoa okay holy shit yeah no I'm not doing this anymore #that's also true of the real man the movie is about #I also think it's interesting that not everyone he saved thinks he was a good person #but even still despite his flaws they respect and admire what he did for them #his motives were not always pure #but the fact of the matter is that when he saw what was happening he chose to act against it #he did not shrug and saw welp orders are orders #nor did he succumb to hopelessness when it became difficult to keep up what he was doing

[commodorez]

General pieces of advice for 2024:

Switch to Firefox

Reblog stuff you enjoy for others to enjoy. Likes don't do much on this platform (I tend to think of them as tumblr bookmarks), but a reblog may make an artist's day

Cite your sources on images. The breadcrumbs you drop may lead to someone else's inspiration

Take pictures of the mundane, like your house -- never know when you will need to look back on that again for posterity or utility

Wear your face mask (KN95 or better, make sure it's a good seal) and keep up to date with your covid boosters. Not only do you not want to get sick, you don't want to be the reason someone else gets sick. It sucks, but getting long covid sucks more

Try to tag things accurately where you can

Install an adblocker

Ask questions (in general, not just on tumblr). Worst case scenario the answer is "I don't know"

Engage in good-faith discussions with your fellow user, you might find a new friend

Go to a Vintage Computer Festival if you can help it, there's cool stuff to see and things to do

Turn off "best stuff first" on your dashboard controls. It's your dashboard, you get to curate it, so might as well take full control

Take a moment to enjoy silence in your space

Take the old, original batteries out of your vintage computers so they don't burst and corrode the circuit boards within when you forget about them for a few years. You'll thank me later, mitigating a Varta meltdown is incredibly time consuming

Be good to each other

#i dont normally like posting about real-world stuff #but right now i feel i cant do otherwise

[zingtastic]

I WAS TODAY-YEARS-OLD WHEN I FOUND OUT AKECHI LEARNS “PROTECT” BEFORE “ENDURE.”

HE LITERALLY PUTS JOKER’S LIFE BEFORE HIS OWN

#I NEED the people to know about this #they are literally canon #no one can convince me otherwise #they are so real and Akechi is so in love with Ren #it’s not even funny anymore #it’s just painful #persona 5 #ren amamiya #goro akechi #akeshu #shuake

[amethystsoda]

sketch 07 (cleaned) from Day Dream Hour volume 4

#kabru’s hair was over falin’s foot 🥲 #but otherwise this is so clean #i love the modern outfits #also 👀👀👀 #farcille real???!!!! #farcille #live chilchuck reaction #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #ryoko kui #delicious in dungeon

[wasyago]

quick "chip" sketch from ep 109

#wanted to draw him with gray skin hehe #this ep is a real throwback to the desire isle arc.... holes in hearts. chip is stone gray/dead. big fight with a boss and ghouls. mmmm #his neck is a little busy so ill definitely change it if i draw him like this again. but itll do for now its a sketch anyway #love the color pallett otherwise tho... very tasty looking #i think this is the fifth art with a black background i did in the last couple days but pffff who cares i love black backgrounds #OH also yes. no hole in his chest. pretty sure the heart was pulled from his throat anyway #doesn't make it better but haha yeah #jrwi riptide #jrwi chip #jrwi riptide spoilers #jrwi spoilers #riptide spoilers #my art #sketch

[buttercupshands]

can you even call it a warm up if I'm going to bed without drawing anything big

and a sketch I made while sitting in the park today

#sketch #my art #bnha #shigaraki tomura #tenko shimura #all for one #midoriya izuku #bnha manga spoilers #only after I finished basically polishing this sketch did I notice how it's basically dark and light mode #also the first one is basically a redraw of illustration from vol 11 #I know that translation of Tenko's words is different in official but eh #fanart #I've kind of recovered from recent chapters #and I was analysing those chapters all morning #I'm still thinking but otherwise the chapters are so good #also did you notice that AFO actually talked about how his other him didn't use that 'last thing' yet and that was in ch 410 #and in ch 419 he did so it's real and it's still sad #but still AFO was never hiding it enough #from Tomura maybe but we as readers actually saw his plans play out #in any case I'm still just sitting with those two Izuku and Tenko interaction chapters #I waited long enough #and if you don't count AFO's return Izuku DID save Tenko and it's so interesting #since he now has to save his OTHER origin that was in ch 237 taught to kill whatever he wants #Tenko and Tomura both had 'origins' chapters and for now we only worked with 235 and 236 #and even if Izuku helped with the start of 237 there's still AFO #in any case it was a hard week #also the second thing actually had them holding hands #and then I was like 'but at that point Izuku's hands are gone oh no' #and it was just Tenko holding air where the hand was destroyed #in any case that scene.

[turtledotjpeg]

melody leorio and kurapika somehow find a chance to take a break and Chill together (I don't know how or when, but I want it for them lol)

for a vday exchange in discord!! this was right up my alley hehe, was very excited to draw these three again ^_^

#was lazy and got the floor texture from an unsplash photo ^^; #btw it's probably not worth the time to decipher but kurapika is reading a real life book. some important literature #may or may not have put a bit too much effort into converting it from english to japanese to hunter text (wikipedia helped thanks wikipedia #hunter x hunter #hxh #leorio paladiknight #melody hxh #senritsu #kurapika #leomelopika #leokurasen #<- prompt was for queerplatonic gen romantic or otherwise & i think this could be interpreted as any one of those as you prefer!

[leafsfromthevine]

the boys are fighting (together. homoerotically, even).

#your power duo could never #talented brilliant incredible amazing showstopping #my content has been sparce. i was starved and in dire need of new zukka gif #just the inspiration i needed tbh #ive been very busy just like. planning stuff for my graduation. tis been so exciting but its getting so real and consuming my mind. #i need to take a step back and think abt ✨️them✨️ to ease my brain. it just be going 90 miles a minute man but when i see zukka we full sto #we take a moment to rejoice #i stare at zukka and it shockingly makes me feel more normal and collected than i would be otherwise #anyways. blahblahblah #zukka #zukka gif #atla gif

[pollyanna-nana]

My most controversial Dungeon Meshi opinion is that Laios would hate Omegaverse actually. He’d think it’s boring and scientifically inaccurate (the worst things it could be to him).

#polly speaks #omegaverse tw #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #Laios touden #I know I’m like throwing a grenade with this but idc I’m speaking my truth #he’d be like um actually none of this is real wolf behavior. also if you’re gonna make people act like animals make them look like them too #otherwise what’s the point #am I projecting on laios again? probably #but idc im right #all I can say is that REAL monsterfuckers tend to think omegaverse is lame as hell

[c6jpg]

Well? Have I convinced you yet?

#genshin #genshin impact #genshinedit #genshinet #xianyun #cloud retainer #m:gifs #m:* #m:gifs:cloud retainer #i just realized she said have i instead of has one.... hmmm.... #not sure if i'll gif anything else from this demo tbh... there are some small shots i really like #but not enough to make a coherent set bc otherwise it's mostly just her twirling every 0.2 seconds LMAOO #and it's too chaotic to do my usual 3x2 ones #also for this at first i was gonna also include the shot of her smiling up bc IT STOLE MY HEART <3333 #but this coloring actually looks awful there adfjklasdfj #i also had to change up my vapoursynth settings for once bc the artifacts from sharpening were real bad here #mostly bc they went full bloom filter on her face and her glasses contrast against it as a really hard edge for vs #tldr; this demo is process-wise hard for me to gif ajdlkajfs

[owlmylove]

i don’t know if i dreamed this thought or not but recently i read the most heartwrenching romantic story from a woman’s perspective and it was written by a man. and i read the most excruciating description of being a son and it was written by a woman. and yes the profundity of experience is irrespective of gender but it also has me thinkin abt that “there’s no man quite like a woman” quote and how we understand each other’s shared experiences far better than most think. but there is something about that longing searching quality of trying to imagine across a societal divide; drawing closer to recognizing one another in a truer sense even if we’re taught there is nothing recognizable in each other. there’s a terribly tragic tenderness in the hard work of human connection

#gender binary is fake only love and death and feeling is real #TERFS FUCK OFF #people are just people are just people i'm so tired of systems that try to tell us otherwise

[kan-be]

beware of gremblins

#based on true story #all coincidences are not accidental #100% accurate real and canon #and you can’t tell me otherwise #hetalia #hws #fruk #hws england #hws france #hws spain #college au

[aromantic-diaries]

I love being aromantic. I literally cannot relate to things that are universal experiences to the vast majority of the population but I still assume everyone else is making shit up and I'm just normal for not buying it

#aro #aromantic #arospec #i still think romance is made up. at least some of it has got to be made up #the only thing convincing me that romance might just be real is the existence of alloaces #cause otherwise i could just brush it off as a side effect of wanting to fuck someone

[disgustinggf]

i'm not like other teenage girls. i'm in my 20s

#this is so real u cant tell me otherwise #im still a teenage girl idc if im 23. Shut up #txt

[nofacednerd]

Boimler totally would somehow manage to be the only person in the 24th century to experience comphet

#this is just based on a silly personal hc!! totally okay if you disagree #Star Trek Lower Decks #brad boimler #beckett mariner #d'vana tendi #samanthan rutherford #my art #doodles #either way this absolutely is a gay friend group you cant convince me otherwise #.. man I've been on a fanart kick lately LMAO #also first real attempt drawing all the main gang woo