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hi! I love your themes and I'm learning how to code, so I'd like to know if you'd share some tips like tools or resources (for exemple, do you use figma or adobe xd?). It's okay if you're not comfortable with that, but thanks either way (since I use one of your themes and absolutely love it)

thank you so much!!!! welcome!! i feel like i should not be giving advice but anyway lets give it a go

my tips are:

1. find a base code you like - i used seyche's for ages until I was finally comfortable enough in making my own (which I haven't actually used on a release yet). it's good bc it has lots of instructions within the code to help you out. eggdesign also has a really good one for beginners. i recommend just diving in and playing around until you get a good feel for it.

2. i would recommend sketching or having some idea of what you're doing but tbqh i mostly just make it up as i go and see what happens. it makes my codes really messy and i have to spend much much longer fixing them though, whoops! i don't use figma or XD or anything else. i use github to host my codes, and use codepen when i want to figure out little things. tumblr can be realy annoying sometimes so i prefer to code in the acutal customizer.

3. in terms of other resources, things i use the most are phosphor icons, google fonts, eggdesign & annasthms css photoset script, eggdesigns day/night mode (this is also really excellent for anything you want to do on click with some tinkering), this guide on flexbox, and w3schools. google is your friend! if you google "css accordion tutorial" you'll find heeeeaaaaps.

4. oh also have the tumblr docs bookmarked and if you're working on something have it open. it explains how stuff is implemented on tumblr.

4. join the coding cabin - they're super helpful at sharing resources or helping you out when you're stuck with something. also at tumblr-specific stuff that you can't really get help with from google.

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losing my MIND

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it took me like, an hour to understand why tumblr’s logo looks Like That™, but I think I’ve figured it out

happy World Goth Day, apparently

in a fun coincidence, I painted my nails black and dyed my hair dark blue tonight, even before I knew what day it was

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I was on a that 70s show binge once and used placeholder names "Point Place", "Kenosha", and "Green Bay"

I've never even been to Wisconsin

Gooooooooooood morning (Is it morning when you’re reading this? Irrelevant. Time isn’t real.) Pease give me the most ridiculous placeholder names you’ve given to things in your writing.

This post brought to you by Name Tag Boy and Dr. Doctor

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I have been waiting all year to post this.

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OLLIE’S OH SHIT OH FUCK COMMISSIONS

My roommates and I are trying to get into a new apartment and did you know that rent and deposits are Very Expensive? Please help out… By commissioning me! 

Contact me at [email protected] 

Ko-Fi: http://ko-fi.com/pbjplatypus 

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Just under 3 hours left, need 1800 more signatures!! Go go go!!!

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Abled gays celebrating marriage equality: well we sure do have nowhere to go from here when it comes to marriage rights. Gay rights!

Me, a disabled lesbian trying to get on ssi thinking about how I will not be able to marry my girlfriend if I do because I can't have more than $2000 to my name at a time and they count a spouse's income towards that: wow .. gay rights ...

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to any black or indigenous wlw that follow me this is a reminder that the wlw community and this space is explicitly for you.

you are not an afterthought or included to a baseline, you are foundational. the LGBT community and the wlw community is fundamentally yours and you are important.

the sapphic community, the lesbian communuty, the bi community, are all too often whitewashed and eurocentric and that is a false image. you should not have to chose between being a gay person or being a person of color, you should be accepted fully in both your communities.

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Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo) by Sodoma, European Paintings

Gift of Asbjorn R. Lunde, in memory of his parents, Karl and Elisa Lunde, 1996 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437978

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Rate pink eared duck, spectacled eider, hooded merganser and king eider.

Pink Eared Duck. Is pink eared only in the most strictly technically sense. I am severely underwhelmed. 3/10, i added points for the zebra stripes and whatever nonsense is going on with that beak

Spectacled Eider. I went to high school with this duck. They are chronically sleep deprived. They turn in all their homework but only with utmost resentment. Overachiever w/ high functioning depression, they will likely develop a debilitating video game addiction in college. 9/10 i like the colors 

Hooded Merganser. There is no reason for this to be classified as a duck. This should not have been included on the list. I don’t know what this bird is but I find it highly suspect. 0/10 keep this thing away from me

King Eider. Gets points for being a seaduck, which I didn’t know was a real thing. Also i really like the colors. How I imagine the Spectacled Eider once it gets therapy in its mid 20s and sorts out some deep-seated personal issues. 8/10 quality duck but lacks the Eider’s high school edginess 

much thanks tumblr. i do enjoy a good duck

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are you tryna light candles and do face masks with me at 2 am or not?

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“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”

— Terry Pratchett, “Let There Be Dragons” (A Slip of the Keyboard)

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jules h o w did you not tag me in this I LITERALLY JUST WROTE AN OVERDRAMATIC MASQUERADE SCENE

Sometimes, you just gotta be self-indulgent with your writing, even if other people say it’s “cliche” or “overused”.

Write that masquerade ball with the lush gowns and the breathtaking stranger with the tempting smile peeking out from a trickster’s mask. Even if people say it’s been done a thousand times before and they don’t want to read it.

Write it because you like it

Write that happy ending that is so sweet, it’ll rot your teeth right out of your head. Even if people say happy endings that sweet aren’t realistic or whatever

Write it because you like it.

Write that heart-wrenching death scene just so you can write something decadently comforting afterward. Even if people complain that death scenes are only for the DramaTM.

Write it because you like it.

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im banning ablebodied and neurotypical people from making games unless they have someone neurodivergent and disabled helping them or testing their game. im literally so sick of being unable to play games because nobody bothered to take into account that certain levels are straight up impossible unless you have extremely percise fine motor skills and reaction times. im sick of being driven to tears from frustration with my very minor hand tremors. im sick of vague directions and fast dialogue leaving me completely lost. im sick of seeing people be unable to play games cus the lack of very simple things like changing keybinds.

i understand that some games are designed to be as frustrating as possible and im perfectly fine with that. but singleplayer splatoon 2 levels shouldnt be making me so frustrated that i wanted to bite my fingers off. its advertised towards kids.

neurotypical/ablebodied ppl can reblog but if you try to be funny im going to block you this post isnt a joke and if you cant take it seriously then ur just ableist <3

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The problem started with stirrups.

So I’ve been working on writing Merlin fanfic and, like a moron, I decided I wanted it to be more historically accurate because the actual canon is a shitshow about that.

I start doing some writing, some researching, and discover that stirrups won’t arrive in Britain until the 10th century or so. King Arthur is like… early 500′s roughly.

So no stirrups. That’s not a big problem. Except it is argued that it might have been a major contributor to feudalism. Which, ok, good to know. So Arthur is pre-feudalism, got it. Shouldn’t change too much, right? (wrong)

Oh, what’s this that feudalism requires for those new wealthy landowners?

Fucking. Primogeniture.

(friendly reminder: this is the right of inheritance for the firstborn son. Like for land, or titles of nobility… or kings)

So if my research is right, King Arthur didn’t have an inherent right to the throne because he was the firstborn male heir. He was fucking ELECTED. (or maybe a lady in the lake threw a sword at him, who knows, this is all myth anyway)

But the fucking kicker?

The thing that DOESN’T EXIST in King Arthur’s time?? Because feudalism won’t show up for several centuries?

Fucking.

Knights.

In summary, the story of King Arthur is just modern day fanfiction from medieval/feudal Europe with rampant OCs, overpowered everyone, too much fucking drama, and like three different werewolves.

Also no stirrups.