#i don't know how to tag this...

[yardsards]

i had some friends vote on what silly phrase to write on my birthday cake...

other top contenders included "GAY DIVORCE" and "AUTISM SWAG"

#eliot posts #cakes #cake decorating #old man yaoi #i don't know how to tag this... #not pictured: me holding a lamp at the cake bc my overhead lights are fluorescent and look weird on camera #im very rusty on cake decorating so this is a bit messy but OH WELL

[edith-is-a-cat]

Yuu: *sitting in their tree* Rook: *also sitting in their tree* Rook: Trickster? What are you doing up here? Yuu: What are YOU doing up here, this is my tree? *Crickets*

#twst #twisted wonderland #twst incorrect quotes #rook hunt #I don't know how to tag this...

[wilchur]

#eternally delighted over kyvir being such a sub he made succession ezra into a switch lmao (via @crossdressingdeath)

No one can resist the bushbaby eyes!

#i don't know how to tag this... #bg3:ezra #bg3:kyvir #succession AU #bg3 oc #durge oc #durgedurge #durgecest #AK3 #bg3 #bg3 modern au #the dark urge #fuck it putting this on fandom tags #bite me

[imekitty]

I think some people are confused about the corneal scar Danny gets after Maddie slashes his eye in Dissembled. It is in fact on his eyeball, like horizontally across the iris/pupil on the cornea, the skin around his eye is unaffected. As in when his eye is closed, the scar cannot be seen.

It's difficult to find images of this type of injury since it's very rare, but I did find a couple:

Danny's scar is between these two in appearance. It's thicker than the brown eye scar on the left but straighter/less chaotic than the blue eye scar on the right.

The blue contact Maddie makes him wear helps cover it up but it can still be seen across the pupil.

The person with the brown eye can probably see, it's just blurred by the scar. My memory of the person with the blue eye is that the injury blinded that eye. Maddie slit Danny's eye deep enough to leave a scar but not enough to blind him. However, his supernatural healing is probably what really saved his vision in that eye, although the scar still makes it blurry.

I've seen fanart that drew the scar vertically. Admittedly I never stated that the scar is horizontal until recently, I honestly didn't think that saying the scar "goes across" the center of his eye could be interpreted as vertical lol.

#I don't know how to tag this... #dissembled #disillusioned

[aerypear]

What Ai program do you use for your art?

Pinterest for inspo, reference pose photography, lots of redrawing lines because hands we've been over this the legs aren't twice as long as the body!!!, and if I'm feeling fruity; streaming to my friends to watch my suffering.

Okay, I'll admit, I have no idea if you're asking because you're trolling or genuinely curious.

So I personally do not use AI to aid my art creation. I have, probably, an ounce too much pride for that. I'm personally not fond of AI for the whole progress of the piece but I can acknowledge that it would be a useful tool for figuring out wips for an idea to help build off of.

Afterall, using 3d models, using the auto generated color based on reference and suggestion layers, etc have been useful under layer processes for other artists. (Tools I barely touch but see other artists use quite often)

However, making the AI do ALL of the hard work for you is laughable and extremely lazy. And you might say "But it's great for those with disability!" to which it shows me you haven't done research on artists at all. Chuck Close has a muscle weakness of some sort (preventing the use of his finer mobile functions and pincer grasp muscles) and Prosopagnosia (inability to recognize or differentiate between human faces) yet paints BEUTIFUL portraits with his wrist.

If you have the want, you'll do it yourself. I have a plethora of sport related injuries that impede my ability to draw, drive, do massive amounts of movements- yet I'm doing all of that anyway. I have days that hurt more than others but that's apart of disability.

So... if you're trolling, Top answer. If you aren't, well hopefully I make sense in the longer read. But truly, you won't get better at certain processes of art making by relying on AI, so I couldn't ever recommend it. (and that's not saying anything about the ethics of not telling your clients about the use of AI vs telling...)

#I don't know how to tag this... #anonymous #the pear answers #I don't use AI

[foone]

Your posts are in an AI model

and then Tumblr decided to sell them to AI models.

Now, don't get me wrong, tumblr selling out the users to AI companies is bad, yes, they shouldn't do that. It sucks.

but don't lets get this confused: your posts were already in there. Tumblr selling them is about tumblr making some money and about the AI models having more exhaustive post collections. It's not about your posts being in an AI model, vs not being in one. That battle has already been lost.

Can you find your post on google? Then it's almost certainly in an AI model already. Think about it: These AI sites showed up before all the sites were making deals to sell their users' content, right? How do you think they built them in the first place?

They scraped the posts. Just like google and bing and such do when they build their search indexes.

It's a fundamental part of how the open web works: you want your posts on tumblr to be visible to users, right? You want them to be readable?* Like, look how much stuff broke when twitter changed their whole read-while-not-logged-in policy, ruining a bunch of thread links/NSFW links. And if it's visible, it's scrapable. That's what the AI models were built on.

I've done website scraping before (not for AI models, of course. I was doing search engines and website archival), this is just how it works. You hire a few relatively smart CS graduates and tell them "build me a scraper that'll give us a bunch of tumblr posts" and they go off for a month or two and come back with a database of a few billion posts, and you stuff that into your AI model. That's how they got all the deviantart and flickr and twitter and pinterest and so on posts. They didn't pay for them: they just took them.

They only ever pay for this shit because either:

they fucked up in such a way that the site might be able to sue them for taking rather than paying

They can buy them cheaper than they can finish taking them. Maybe they'd need to pay the CS grads for an extra month? well, that might be more expensive than just throwing the site a couple hundred thousand bucks.

ANYWAY: my point is, don't treat this "oh no tumblr is selling our posts to AI" like it's a big thing that might happen and it would be bad to happen. Yes, it's bad, tumblr shouldn't do this, this'll let AI models get continual updates of content for far easier than just scraping them would be, tumblr betrayed user trust, and so on...

but realistically, this is not a black and white matter of "if only tumblr didn't do this, then we'd be safe from AI models!"

Nope. We already lost that battle. I'm sorry, and it does suck, but that's just how it is. The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. * I'm assuming here that you don't run a private blog that's set to only followers or something. You'd be safer then, of course, but you're not really my target audience for this rant

#this is not in any way pro-ai #but I don't know how to tag this

[arggghhhsstuff]

forever obsessed with percy being weird. off-putting. strange even. a cryptid maybe. an urban legend if I may. my boy is the son of one of the oldest, most powerful gods, has been in FBI's records since the age of twelve, fought and won two wars against immortal beings, went to hell and back. I think he's allowed to be a little odd.

#percy jackson #cryptid percy jackson #<- there are only 3 fics under this tag on ao3 it's making me so sad #because i have THOUGHTS and HEADCANONS and IDEAS but i don't know how to write #demigods being less humans than they are in canon is a favorite headcanon of mine #they get to be WEIRD and SCARY and POWERFUL #!!!! #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #pjo #pjo hoo toa #demigods #percy jackson fandom #percy jackson tv show #pjo show #yeah

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Am I the asshole for getting my best friend killed?

I swear to God, it was an accident.

My (27) BF (34) has a reputation for getting himself out of any jam you can imagine; and at first it was just a fun little thing the friend group noticed: there goes Oily J wiggling his way out of trouble again. but as the meme evolved in the group, it got to the point where we'd loykey started getting him into situations just to see how he'd get out of 'em, and he akept getting out of em. He was having fun with it too same as us. "Oh you guys," he'd say, "getting me into situations again," before laughing it off and getting out of it, so it was enrichment for our shared enclosures, and as time went on, the situations got more intense.

The trouble is, it turns out that putting a man in too many situations eventually gets the police interested. And not local hobsknockers cops either; they was like, proper three-letter FEDs. They put out a bounty on any information pertaining to his capture and everything. It was good money too so I thought, hey why don't I put J in another situation he can wiggle out of like always (and he'd wiggled outta worse before, so I thought this one'd be relatively mild), and at the next boardgame night (cause it was too late to do anything special for this one) we can buy some extra strong booze and get absolutely blitzed while having a giggle about the situation.

Boardgame night, and we were playing some social deduction nonsense or another and he says: "One of you is gonna betray me tonight." and I can't help but think, looking back on it, that he knew. It's stupid, I know he was talking about the game, but the way he said it, it was like he knew. We all felt it, and we had a big round robin round the table taking turns promising that we'd never betray him. And I said it so easily cause I thought it was true. Sure, I was gonna talk to the feds about a bounty; but, I fully expected my big beautiful oily boy to wiggle his way out of the trouble I was 'bout to cause, and that's not a betrayal. I wasn't lying. I didn't think I was lying.

My big beautiful oily boy didn't manage to wiggle his way out of it. They killed him and I got my blood money. He's gone.

He's gone and I'm devastated, crying, mourning. I loved him so much. We all did. And I can't stop thinking that it's my fault: that I'm the reason he's gone. and it is. and the guilt is eating me up inside. and I just need to talk to someone about it. So, I tell the rest of the group what happened in the group chat, hoping they'd understand that I didn't want this. I didn't want the government's blood money. It was supposed the be a prank. some joint enclosure enrichment. He was supposed to wiggle out of it like he always does... did, i mean.

They call me, among worse things, the asshole and kick me from the group chat. And, I know it's my fault he's dead: I know that. If I didn't do what I did, he wouldn't be dead right now. But, I didn't mean it for it to end up this way. He was supposed to be okay, damn it. I loved him. AITA?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole #fandom aita #unreality #i never know how to tag the bible ones #also i don't think this is explicitly jesus christ superstar but for some reason it put me in mind of it #so that's where the extra option is from idk #specifically in my head is one particular production of it that a friend showed me when we were like. 17 #anyway i'm in love with how this one plays with modern language #good enough to post on purpose

[thornedarrow]

proof of concept // i think i'm gonna love you for a long long time

#bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #soukoku #nakahara chuuya #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #osamu dazai #still don't know how to tag this fandom sorryyyyyy #signature is my main this my friend and i's sideblog <3 when you wake up and see this ummm sorry. #chuuya #dazai #art: bea

[lotus-pear]

the day i picked up dazai or smth idk i've never read it

#can you tell i don't know how to draw animals #first time drawing odasaku he kinda reminds me of 22!dazai but older..........i'm in pain #they are so similar yet not #anyway i refuse to actually read this light novel bc it's going to be my thirteenth reason. i will absolutey fucking snap #no one could save me #ALSO NO TAGGING THIS W ODAZAI THEYRE FAMILY >:(( #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #oda sakunosuke #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #the day i picked up dazai #lotus draws

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

#tloz #a link to the past #zelda #link #my art #I was happy with that first one but for some reason decided it still needed a companion piece so I spent way too long on that second one... #I don't think there was any time during the progress where I was happy with it but hfduhdfu at least I got to Attempt drawing moss hell yea #I also at some point sat in Pyu's art stream and said I enjoy drawing legs As I was being murdered by the infamously impossibe (imo) squat. #it's ok I had fun !! but I need to learn how to let doodles be doodles or I'll never finish stuff at this rate dfsuhfd #if everything in my tloz tag looks like it was drawn by different people uuuh 2023 was art crisis year ngl...... #I'm falling back into my old ways rn though #anyway I think about these two a lot I think they're both stone faced and awkward ppl in different ways but they try rly hard to be friends #like I like to think it starts out so incredibly awkward and a bit sad bc they keep stepping over each other's toes accidentally the harder #they try but idk they find comfy middle ground idk in my brain they have a very interesting friendship I wanna get around to drawing it #in a proper way that might make sense.... #if I don't write 200 tags I will die maybe it's bc I grew up on dA or smth #and yes I know how to find 1 (one) type of mushroom /I/ am not mushroom girl unfortunately smh

[arcanespillo]

also please tag the person you're thinking about while voting this? it's not useful to the poll i just wanna know.

#this is a yes or no question i'm afraid #poll #i don't know how to tag this i'm gonna put my actor crushes bye #domenico cuomo #nicolas maupas #jared padalecki #river phoenix #james duval #joseph gordon levitt #sam winchester #rick grimes #jdm #alessandro gassman #eddie brock #andrew garfield's spiderman #bradley James #ben barnes in narnia specifically #matt damon in some movies #tim roth in some movies #takeshi kaneshiro #ethan hawke in before sunrise #damon albarn #victor tsoi #james dean #james franco #yuki kura #the wolf from beastars guys what's his name #legoshi #he's cute #carmine recano

[asukachii]

"Why don't YOU drive for once?! Ya idiot!"

"BECAAAAUUSE! I... can't.. drive these things!"

[bonus]

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post these gifs somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use them in edits/videos. Thanks~)

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #wolfwood #vashwood #(because i say so.) #my animation #gif #asukachii #i'm probably forgetting so many tags here... #i love these panels! a! lot! my favourites in the whole trigun manga together with... many other scenes #i have a long long list #i find these so funny #vash being 150 yo and not knowing how to drive? that could be me 🤝 i love you vash #also please wolfwood let him eat his donuts #in the first panel i animated a small small detail #wolfwood tapping his finger! alongside the music i was listening to while animating 🙈 #i should include the song #i'm animating a bonus to this but i don't knkw if i will post it #first stampede saturday without a new episode #how are we feeling..? #orz #'because i say so' is just me joking! but i like them very much so i wanted to use the tag... #*know

[kaijutegu]

Beating the Heat while Fat: A Summer Survival Guide

Summer is (almost) here and it’s going to be hotter than ever. If you’re fat (like me), you know how much hot weather sucks. Specifically, we get to deal with fun issues like underboob sweat, chub rub, skin fold sunburn, and more. And while I like to take a body neutral approach to everything, this can be hard in summer thanks to exclusion and neglect.

The thing is that not a lot of people really... talk about these things, though, because that would interfere with our image of summer. Not a lot of companies are marketing their stuff as a solution to fat people’s problems, because that would be acknowledging that fat people might actually want to go outside during summer.

Having been fat for many a summer now, I want to share some of my resources for enjoying summer! These are all based on personal recommendations and things I have directly experienced. Please feel free to reblog and add on with your experiences and recommendations!

However, if your commentary is even remotely fatphobic, you will be blocked and your comments will be deleted. This post is not for you, and nobody is actually interested in what you have to say!

Back and Underboob Sweat

Two words: Gold Bond. Gold Bond fixes this. It comes in powder, stick, and spray form. I’ve used the powder in shoes, but not on my body. They’ve recently released an invisible form of the spray, which I’m very excited about.

Spray this under your breast tissue or other skin folds, or on flat areas of skin like your lower back that tend to sweat. Some of their powders have aloe in them, which is delightfully soothing for the skin.

Make sure that if you’re sensitive to scent, you buy one of the unscented versions. The “fresh” scent is nice, but it is a scent!

When you’re using this type of spray, do it clean but dry. Don’t do it right after a shower- give your skin a chance to dry off. Lift your breast or skin fold, spray underneath, and then hold it for a couple of seconds to let the spray dry down.

You can also use other types of powder, like body powder or baby powder. There’s mixed evidence about talc-containing powder and its link to cancer, but some people do find talcum powder more irritating than talc-free powder, so whether or not you use this is up to you.

Do keep in mind that this is NOT sunscreen! Apply your sunscreen first for areas of exposed skin.

Chub Rub

Dealing with the tops of your thighs rubbing together is extremely unfun. There are a couple of ways I like to deal with this!

Slip Shorts

I actually reviewed a bunch of these a few years ago. Slip shorts or bike shorts are perfect for wearing under dresses or loose-fitting rompers as a way to stop your thighs from rubbing. As a bonus, if you’re using bike shorts, sometimes they come with extra pockets to stash stuff in.

Friction Sticks

If you’re wearing a swimsuit and don’t want to wear shorts, or just don’t want to wear shorts, period, then a friction stick is another good way to avoid chub rub! I have a couple, Bodyglide and Gold Bond.

If you’re buying Bodyglide, they have one that’s just as good, Bodyglide Outdoor, that is sometimes cheaper. There’s a Bodyglide “For Her” which I’ve never tried, but that’s usually more expensive and let’s be real, do you really need to moisturize your inner thighs? I think not!

There’s also creams you can use but I find those messy and less effective than the sticks. You might like them, though! Experiment with products to find the one(s) that work for you.

Friction sticks can also stop foot blisters. Rub a little on your heel, toe, or wherever you get hot spots. 

Dealing With Sweat

I sweat, you sweat, we all sweat. Humans were meant to sweat. Sweating’s a good thing. But that doesn’t mean it’s fun, and frankly I hate being sweaty. Typically, fat people sweat more than thin people, for several reasons related to the way we thermoregulate.

Fortunately, there are lots of ways to make summer sweating less annoying. I’ve written about this before, so you can check out that post for some of my favorite tips for dealing with sweat. Here’s some of the highlights.

Evaporative Cooling

A bandanna or other wrap filled with water crystals can do AMAZING things. You can make this yourself really easily- if you can’t find water crystals, you can just use Orbeez. They sell little 99 cent packs of those in the checkout lines at some stores and at the dollar store, and you can make several cooling wraps with one packet.

You can also get evaporative cooling towels, like Frogg Toggs. I don’t like those as much because they tend to start smelling a little funny, but they’re great for larger area coverage.

Using these will help cool you down and will do the same thing that sweat does– without being sticky.

Hair

If you have long hair, get it off the back of your neck. I used to put it up in a bun with a bun former, but now I just use claw clips. They’re cuter and easier! Seriously, this will help you so much. Get the hair up and away from your skin, you’ll feel so much better.

Hand Fans

I always have a hand fan with me, but not one of the little battery operated ones. I’ve tried a lot of those! I even took one up a mountain once, and it was the only reason I survived. But they never provide the same level of breeze that my folding fan does.

I use this one because it’s cute, and you can get cute ones for a couple bucks on Amazon. I do prefer fabric to the stiff paper ones, just because they’re a bit more durable- I’ve had mine for years now. It’s good.

I’m also not a huge fan of those fans that go around your neck, but I’ve seen many people enjoying them. If they work for you, great!

Hydration and Electrolytes

Carry water with you when you go places, and if you’re gonna be out for a while doing anything strenuous, take some electrolyte tablets with you. I like Nuun because I think they taste good, but there’s lots of brands out there.

There’s no one mineral called electrolyte, just so you know. Electrolytes are a group of minerals that includes sodium, potassium, and chloride as the primary (or significant) electrolytes. Electrolytes are important because they have a natural positive or negative electrical charge when dissolved in water. This electricity is how your nerves transmit information and how your cells make your muscles contract, so low levels of electrolytes can cause some serious issues. Different electrolyte imbalances have different symptoms, but common symptoms include nausea, fatigue, confusion, tremors, muscle spasms (cramps), and dizziness.

If you’re feeling those as you’re moving around outside, get somewhere cool, drink some water, and either eat some food or add electrolyte tablets to your water. This will help stabilize you quickly!

Skin Fold Sunburn Prevention

Everybody should wear sunscreen, period. End of story.

But if you’re applying sunscreen by yourself and you have skin folds, it can be a pain to reach them! This is especially true for any folds that form on your upper back or around your upper arm.

These areas can burn and be very painful, especially if you’re in swimwear or a sleeveless top. It’s also VERY easy to forget that these areas need sunscreen!

If you don’t want or don’t have someone to help you apply those areas you can’t reach, spray sunscreen can be a way to get those areas. If you don’t like the spray or want heavier coverage with a cream, then use a lotion applicator!

If the stick style doesn’t work for you (like if you have shoulder mobility issues), the strap style asks for a different range of motion. If you can’t find one that works for you at a big box store, look at a pharmacy. These are often sold as disability aids or for elderly people with a reduced range of motion.

But honestly, one of the most important things about this is just knowing your body. Know where your skin folds are and think about how they move as you’re applying sunscreen. Get underneath them- as you move, those areas can be exposed to the sun, too.

So yeah, that’s my best advice for beating the heat while fat. If you’ve got other tips, feel free to share them!

#summer #body neutrality #i do not know how to tag this #also please don't complain about the length of the post #it's a reference guide a tldr would be meaningless

[tc-is-mcfrickin-dead]

Hello and Welcome to my blog! My nickname is TC and I go by She/Her and I'm a Biromantic Asexual.

I mostly draw stuff that I'm interested in. Speaking of which, here is a list of the stuff that I'm interested in.

Deltarune

Splatoon

Happy Tree Friends

Stardew Valley

Kirby

Cookie run (not sure how much, though)

Team Fortress 2 (I mostly draw, look at art, and SFMs... I really want to play the game, though. But all I have is a phone and a fucking Nintendo switch.)

If you couldn't tell I'm not new here, I've been on this site for years and only now decided to make it look much more presentable.

Basic Blog stuff:

Also please don't straight-up repost my art on any other site, and if you somehow want to use my art, you don't need to ask me if you can use it, but all I ask is that you credit me. Like you want to comic dub a comic I made do it but credit me

While I want my blog to be safe I will cuss. I know cussing isn't much of a big deal on this site, but I get that some people don't like it. If you happen to be one of those people you can choose to ignore it or just simply not interact with me.

If I post something and you want me to tag a specific trigger that I didn't just let me know and I'll add that trigger warning. Like for example if I posted something that had I don't know... Eye contact and I forgot to tag that trigger warning or didn't tag it at all let me know and I'll add it as soon as I can.

My selfship blog incase anyone is interested:

@tcs-selfship-paradise

Depending on what I draw or do I may be more frequent on my Selfship blog. I just figured that I'll put my Selfship stuff there (but I may post some Selfship stuff here) So if I'm not active here I'm most likely on my Selfship blog... or being a coward.

#I don't know how to tag this... #self promo #dni #yeah follow my Selfship blog if you want to.

[alice-za-kat]

Trying to draw HK with ULTRAKILL artstyle

#hollow knight #hollow knight art #hk fanart #hk art #hk knight #ghost hk #hk ghost #ultrakill #ultrakill art #art ultrakill #ultrakill artstyle #i don't know how to use tumblr #i'm still so new to this tagging stuff #this is just a randomly idea I have #i'm more active on twitter so you guys can check there for more arts