#I was there three thousand years ago

[zishuge]

watching xianxia is so fun because usually when i'm halfway through a drama and i want to reblog things, i have to be really careful when going through the tag and not look too closely at anything to try not to accidentally spoil stuff that happens later

but when i watch a xianxia drama and go through the tag i'm totally fine even if i look at everything because absolutely none of it makes any goddamn sense out of context. like i find gifsets of the main characters getting married. in one they're getting married to other people and in another they're getting married to each other. twice. then i find gifsets of those same characters dying in five different ways. in one scene one is dying in the other’s arms. in the next scene they’re dying together. someone straight up disintegrates into glitter. and i still have no idea if any of them end up alive or dead or married or alone or what on earth happens at the end

#till the end of the moon #love and redemption #love between fairy and devil #are the three i'm thinking of but i'm sure there are more that i haven't seen to which it applies #like... it's a dream! #it's their past life! #no it's their next life – they're reincarnated! #it's a different realm! #it's 500 years ago! it's 500 years later! it's TEN THOUSAND years ago! #it's both 500 years later AND a dream! #surprise she's a man! #xianxia is such a trip #i’m halfway thru tteotm rn and the gif sets are confusing lmao #my ramblings

[siphoklansan]

Genderbend Siphok in a non-twst related AU✨

This is a time-travel AU that I made with my friends (irl)!

The plot line is still in the works (though I won’t be posting about it, probably)

#here’s something i cooked up three thousand years ago #this blog is silent as hell so have this while waiting 😭🙏 #☂︎︎​siphok-museum☂︎︎ #original character #genderbend #oc #time travel au

[runawaymarbles]

separating dental insurance from normal medical coverage and making it fucking impossible to navigate is evil, actually

#i don't have a dentist rn because i have switched insurance 3 times in 3 years #and i just got my new insurance in january and i never got a fucking insurance card #anyway this tooth issue from a couple years ago came back in force last week #and so I'm trying to find someone to look at it but most places don't take emergency patients if you haven't been there before #half the dentists in my area are known for telling people they have 30 cavities so i do NOT want to walk in with an actual problem #and there's a dental urgent care but they don't say what insurance they take and my insurance phone tree is not telling me what is fucking #covered #jesus fucking christ #and I don't know if I'm looking at a couple hundred or ten thousand dollars here #i think this tooth is going to have to go eventually but i don't know if it has to go NOW #screaming #maybe i just do not eat any hot or cold food for the next three months???? #op

[antheraea]

Flash Was Killed Because It Was Objectively Dangerous

I get it, I get the Flash nostalgia and the fondness for old Flash games. I was big on Neopets before they decided to ruin the art and make all the pets samey paper dolls to play dressup with (completely ruining the point of the far more expensive "redraw" colors like Mutant and Faerie and Desert). I have fond memories of Newgrounds games and I even managed to take a class for a semester in high school where I could learn flash.

But I also remember how terrible it was. And you should too.

Leaving aside all of the issues involving performance and inaccessibility (such as being easily broken by bog-standard browser actions like the back button, and its ability to modify web code AND OS code in real time likely broke a lot of accessibility tech too), Flash was legitimately one of the most dangerous web technologies for the end user. An end-user is you, or more specifically back then, child-you.

According to Wikipedia and its sources, Flash Player has over a thousand vulnerabilities known and listed and over 800 of these lead to arbitrary code execution.

What is arbitrary code execution? That's when someone can just run any commands they want on a machine or program that didn't intend it. A fun way to see this is in this infamous Pokemon tool-assisted speedrun where they manage to get an SNES to show the host's twitch chat in real time. It's not so fun though when it's someone stealing all the files on your computer, grabbing your credentials so they could clean out your Neopets account (yes, really, it was a pretty common concern at the time), and other nefarious works. Also, there was a time where it allowed people to spy on you with your webcam and microphone.

Oh and on top of all of this, Flash had its own "flash cookies", which could not be cleared by ordinary means and thus could be used to track users indefinitely, at least until Adobe slapped a bandaid over it by introducing yet another screen an ordinary person wouldn't know to use. (I assume this is how the infamous neopets "cookie grabbers" worked, so they could get into your account. This is mainly what I remember about using Flash back in the early 2000s lol) So it not only was a "stranger taking over your machine" concern, but a bog-standard privacy concern too, arguably a precursor to our current panopticon internet landscape, where greedy websites would track you because they could and maybe get some money out of it, facilitated by this technology.

When Apple decided to block it, it wasn't out of greed; Steve Jobs cited its abysmal performance and security record, among other issues such as an inherent lack of touchscreen support, and Apple cited specific vulnerability use-cases when blocking specific versions before they nuked it entirely. When Mozilla, who makes Firefox, decided to block it, it's not like they would've gotten money out of doing so, or by offering an alternative; they did so because it is fucking dangerous.

Your ire and nostalgia is misplaced. Flash was not killed by our current shitty web practices that ruin unique spaces and fun games. Flash was killed because both Macromedia (its original developers) and Adobe were incapable of making it safe, if that was even possible, and it was killed after third-parties, in an unprecedented gesture, collectively threw their hands up and said enough.

Well, that and HTML5 being developed and becoming more widespread, being able to do everything Flash can do without being a pox on technology. One could argue that you should bemoan the lack of Flash-to-HTML5 conversion efforts, but that requires asking a lot of effort of people who would have to do that shit for free...and if they have to run Flash to do so, opening themselves up to some of the nastiest exploits on the internet.

Nostalgia is a fucking liar. The games themselves I think are worth having nostalgia over (look, I still find myself pining for that one bullet hell Neopets made and Hannah and the Pirate Caves), but Flash itself deserves none of that, and absolutely deserved to be put in the fucking ground. You're blaming the wrong causes. It was terrible.

(specifics and sources found via its wikipedia page, which has a lot more than is mentioned here. and also my own opinions and experiences back then. lol)

#flash #nostalgia really is a liar #don't trust it #technology #yet another instance of my unfettered autism #adobe flash #macromedia flash #the old web #I was there gandalf three thousand years ago lmao #personal context: I am now a software QA that tests web apps #and when I was a child I was absolutely a neopets addict and am on Subeta TO THIS DAY #I learned HTML and CSS when I was 12 #largely to spruce up my Neopets profile #I have been on the internet A While now #(I understand how ironic it is given that my tumblr layout is kind of shit; I will fix it soon)

[b4kuch1n]

hi it's me. bulletpoints

job has concluded! barring sudden expansion on the project I think that's gonna be it for my work here. six character cards in total! this leads to

wrists are bit fucked. I'll be putting that thang (creen tablet) in da closet again for at least a month while trying to hold as few heavy objects as possible for the time being

why one month deadline? well it's bc I made an artfight account. I'm fucking doing it this year on god I'll kick anyone's ass I'll kick my own ass. I'll post a link to my acc a week or so before the event starts, meanwhile I'll keep updating my roster and cleaning up this cardboard box I arrived at their door in. do u guys have a spare pair of suspenders I have a really funny joke to make

will be doing it on the creen tablet, unless I make enough to get a new graphic tablet that works with SAI2 inbetween. on that note

ink comms should come back sometimes next week babeyy I need to get back into da groove! miss my G pen it feels like I was close to something last time. I wanna get back to it. but also

I'm writing a fic now. tis the season it seems this happened last year too. but I'll try my best to not disappear off the face of the earth for 3 months running again lol I'll do my best to pace myself, since this is gonna be one of the heftier writing things.

sk8 people and another very specific subset of people will be pleased to know it's a sk8 Real Steel AU. if this means nothing to u carry on. have a good day. to the five people still here I'll probably be brainposting abt writing this so don't be surprised if that comes up here and there

circling back a bit I'm currently 120 USD away from the graphic tablet I wanna get, so that'll be what the ink comms are going toward. otherwise if u enjoy my art and have a spare doller to buy the baku a coffee I'd absolutely appreciate ur support! not mandatory but I'll definitely be very thankful! especially bc

I'll probably phase out the redbubble store some time in the future. at the very least I'll probably stop uploading new things on there while looking for alternative. ohh baby they are doing some wild shit and I want off the ride please. please

but yeah. that's the current plan for things. I've accepted that comics happen when they want to, and I have faith they still want to see the sunlight some time this year. meanwhile we keep busy keep training keep recovering! thank u for ur patience. have a good night take this sharp object

#bakuspeech #boy oh boy. its been a Month #hi. I received a sticker sheet and a clay pin of frogs today. its been good #art wise Ive been on day three of drawing break. and day. something. of writing this fic #I! kind of! know how itll end! but if nothing I know I am so willing to improv this shit to the bitter confusing end #you guys dont get to see the proof of that sorry. but my friend yumi specifically u know. u know #at least nobody died graphically ten thousand years ago in space this time #this year has been real fuckin topsy turvy so far art wise. but I have learned a lot! including to fuckign pace myself. and I am practicing #straight up had at least three unrelated art and art-adjacent breakdown in the last three months lmao. its so. this is so #well. Im better now. I am so smart and I kick my own ass so well. we good! we are good. dw abt me! #hope ur having a good day. games official ship date now lands in october. my art will be out there in peoples hands soon...... #ah. well right now I need to sleep. or finish ryan chongoshows hifi rush stream series. whichever applies first #have a good night lads! do a twirl to skip this level

[july-19th-club]

#the untamed #q #can u believe i found this meme in my drafts of course you can. now get this it's from TWO YEARS AGO that i made it and never posted #i have seven hundred and eighty-three drafts #and last week before i cleaned out a whole lot of them i had close to a thousand

[mattodore]

hi! would it be ok to ask for a link to matthias' pinterest board? thank you

ackk..... my ocs board is private atm bc there are some ocs in there that are still wips... but i can give you a peak at matthias's board for sure. et voilà <3

#river dipping #asks #anonymous #matthias evanoff #matthias core #echthroi #YES my oc board has like twenty-three subsections and over three thousand pins YES it's still a wip #i unprivate it sometimes!! but i have a good amount of followers on pinterest bc i've been there for yearssss #so i don't unprivate it often bc i'm pretty sure that floods all of their homepages with all the pins from the board??? #since like... i reupload almost every pin in the character sections so that i don't have to worry about the op deleting them #plus i also hate the way captions and comments look on pins so when i post them myself i don't have to worry abt 'em #this used to not be a problem before but a few years ago pinterest suddenly decided to make titles and captions always visible #it's ugly fr sdfhnkjkjd now i'll look back at old boards of mine like my old tlou board right #and there'll be a pin in there of just like. a broken down bus and some overgrown grass... and then the caption is something like #''steve x tony'' in aesthetic font like ???? go AWAY. pinterest have made so many changes over the years that have annoyed tf out of me #and yet............... i'm still on there making boards #the man you see reoccurring in matthias's board is jeremy dufour btw... he's the closest faceclaim i've ever been able to find #i've thought abt editing matthias to look more similar to him before... but i'm kind of attached to matthias's current look idk #and i could never part with matthias's little evil villain eyebrows #i wish i could find a faceclaim for theo but it's literally impossible like trust me i've looked

[phantomdecibel]

“It’s set in the past! You have to acknowledge the prejudices of the time!” Sh. Shhhh. Shhh. Think about tgirl Penelope then maybe you’ll feel better.

“oh you have to acknowledge you can’t just do that–” sshhhhhhhhh. does that spark joy? ask yourself. does that spark joy? No, no it does not. shove it in the void microwave and move on. You know what sparks joy? faithful odys being head over heels for his trans wife. THAT sparks joy

ALTERNATIVELY:

#like yeah sure acknowledging the prejudices of the past is important #100% there are things that can’t just be ignored #but I’m sitting here writing fictional stories abt a fictional wet cat man from THREE. THOUSAND. years ago #I don’t particularly /care/ if at the time it would’ve been normal and accepted for men to not be faithful to their wives. #I will do what I want #who cares if odyssey!odys would have killed euryl for not wanting to go back to circe’s place #(me I care very much and am ready to throw hands–) #who cares. I will simply Not Write That and if anyone has a problem with that or any other ‘non canon’ shit that gon be goin down #then u can respectfully disagree w my choices or u can deal w it lol #anyways this ask born from anything? need to rant or smthn?

[reginrokkr]

The Three Primary Colors of the Solar Corona: So, those colors will be golden, white and black.

Me, an intellectual, nodding sagely: I see what you did there, HYV.

#◟༺✦༻◞ what lays behind the mantle of faux stars ┊ooc.┊ #this is just a little detail #but I couldn't help but think about the old name #of the Eclypse Dynasty #which is Blacksun Dynasty #also I can't help but think that these colors #might be related to three new “powers” #and by this I mean that we have black / purple for the Abyss #white / golden for Celestia #(I'd point more towards the post SWC era with the Seven; etc— basically the current era since thousands of years ago) #and white / blue for what I think might be more related to Phanes; Irminsul; etc #I love thinking about these little details #as they're /never/ coincidental

[ranboo5]

QSMP Dadza meltdown on the dash got me rembering the trenches

#I was there Gandalf..... I was there three thousand years ago

[prans-micellar-water]

does anyone want to give me career advice :/

#I really don’t particularly enjoy my job rn. Like I don’t hate it like I hated it three months ago #but it’s still not ideal. #BUT my company offers a GOATed tuition reimbursement package #so I could go back to school FOR FREE as long as it’s something the company could use and I work for them for two years post graduation #I just don’t know if I could make it through to the end of a degree while working full time PLUS another two years of work at this company #for a degree I don’t really care about #before getting this job I was thisssssss close to retraining as an x-ray tech #which I could still do. it wouldn’t be free but it would be cheap #and I could eventually train as an MRI tech which is great money #I just. augh #free college is too good to pass up I just don’t like how high stakes my current job is #working while surrounded by thousands of cylinders of compressed gas That Could Kill Me is just. not ideal for my brain #and most career opportunities with a degree in chemistry are similarly hazardous #asdgghfjfjfkfkfhfjk

[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt my salmonid ocs again... I need to design them soooo bad but at the same time I have yet to decide what to do with their clothes as while the traditional battle salmon pant would suffice my need to do needless extra work for the sake of worldbuilding is powerful indeed

#rat rambles #oc posting #splat posting #to be clear the main reason that this is a thing Im considering carefully is because these are historical salmonids #they would have lived about 200 years ago give or take a few decades #so comparably modern history but still old enough that cultral differences should be considered #mainly these guys are mostly salmonids from more wealthy tribes and only two of them regularly engage in combat #the other two are a part of off branches of the main tribe that handle trade and nature preservation respecively #the nature reservation being especially important as they have a recently discovered king salmonid which is already a big deal but said #king is also a goldie so its like a once a thousand year sort of event #now of course this newly found king is set to be cared for and as such will likely not drop for several decades at least #but given the importantce of this event making sure that the deep sea ecosystem is ready for it is vital #now one issue is that usually kings are allowed to continue their work until their health declines too much but usually kings are assumed #to be on the battlefield since statistically thats just the most likely job for them to have #but this goldie king is a part of the trading sect of his tribe so he is quite ill equipped to be on the front lines and survive #so theres been some conflicts within the different sects about how this potential issue should be addressed #and thats where the main cast comes in as the main four characters all try to work together to find a solution to appease all three sects #and by that I mean they fail miserably as this is the origin story of eternity's old tribe and its founder is one of the four mains lol #hey on the bright side only one of them die within the main plot but the downside is that she was indeed murdered by her insel ex gf #oh og eternity how terrible you are but tbf she was heavily manipulated into most of her actions and beliefs

[queens-of-peace]

i am having a terrible goddamn time right now and by god i’m going to keep being so brave about it

#if i could just get my sleep schedule back on track it’d be easily a thousand times better #cause when my sleep’s (more) fucked (than usual) so is my brain #and i’m starting from a baseline of Burnout™ so It’s Not Great Up There #it’s interesting the way your brain’s reaction to your emotional state changes over time #seven years ago i was sad and confused about feeling like this #(holy fuck what the fuck do you mean it’s been seven years) #five years ago i was resigned to it #three years ago i was angry as hell #and not insignificantly resentful too #and now i’m a little resigned again #but mostly… determined? like not particularly actively but #hmm wait actually maybe it’s actually mostly apathy right now oh dear that’s not ideal #regardless the point stands

[rqlaji2]

Dont forget my youtube comment on the eateot meme video that had a thousand likes that I deleted because it was genuinely upsetting me to keep being reminded of eateot

#It was the 8 minutes version it said like. Im too scared to listen to the whole thing so this will do #And this was yuna icon era youtube for me so naturally someone said ew kpop #And I said maybe if the caretaker stanned loona he wouldntve gotten dementia and died. And I always thought that was pretty funny #That couldve been my legacy nothing ive done otherwise has done that well. Nothing but I deleted it. #This was three years ago. Rest in peace monika caretaker comment with a thousand likes none of you knew how crazy that guy really was #Me i mean not the caretaker anyway #Monilogues

[masonsystem]

the insane way that this isnt true

#like seto wouldve been truly and utterly miserable if he hadnt met mary like god knows what wouldve happened to him #and secondly everything thats happened is beyond mary. this is a tragedy that was set in motion like thousands of years ago #and if that tragedy hadnt existed and if mary didnt play the role that she did in this tragedy #then the mekatrio wouldve just been three dead kids. like thats it. gone #yeah this tragedy dooms them a million times but also like..... it saved them too #god this chapter is ridiculously good GRAHHHHHHH #but also the exclusion of hibiya makes me a bit sad. #like it makes sense i guessssss cuz he wasnt really an ability holder. i guess #but like cant he join the dead girl team... please... no... ok... #kgprambling

[bamsara]

Cult of the Lamb x Alice in Wonderland / Alice: Madness Returns crossover AU idea

Taking aspects and aesthetics from each and mashing them together with some tweaks to make up an AU that I may or may not write a multishot chapter fic for. Narilamb included + possible Leshycat

AU summary:

After following a one-eyed rat and falling into Wonderland, The Lamb is captured and sentenced to death by decapitation, only to be saved last second by a mysterious grinning cat.

They learn that they are a Lamb of prophecy: the one to defeat the tyranical rulers of Wonderland: King Leshy, Queen Heket, King Kallamar, and Majesty Shamura to free wonderland from their oppressive rule. The rulers keep an iron grip on this world's inhabitants by threatening with their own abilities, as well as a promise of a monster under their control. Legend says that there was also a fifth ruler long ago, and rumors say that after a argument, that the royal siblings either sealed him away, or fed him to the monster they claim to keep.

Yet no one has laid eyes on this creature in nearly a thousand years. Not that anyone wants to risk that, though.

Making friends and mad allies alike, the Lamb traverses through Wonderland with a three-eyed and constantly smiling cat as their trustworthy guide, who although helpful, shares little of his own motives as to why he's assisting the Lamb in the first place.

(Tags for this AU will be 'Wonderlamb Au')

#Wonderlamb Au #cult of the lamb #cotl au #cotl narinder #cotl leshy #cotl sozo #cotl heket #cotl kallamar #cotl shamura #cotl lamb #doodles #alice in wonderland au