#it's really simpler that it seems

[grunge-mermaid]

it makes me so unreasonably happy that the recommended pins under this pin are mostly sweater vest knitting & crochet patterns

#mika #mikasounds #mika penniman #i hope someone knit that for him #he seems like a very knitworthy person #i'm really enjoying his super comfy cosy outfits lately #(the wide leg jeans + cardigan or blazer-sweater + flat cap for example) #including this sweater vest. it looks so snuggly #but you can't see the cablework very well bc the colour combo is too busy :( #generally: the busier/more complicated the pattern the simpler the yarn should be #if you want to show off cablework or textured stitches: use a solid/semi-solid/heathered yarn #if you want to show off a variegated/striped/multicolour yarn: use a simple stitch pattern #ok. the knitter hat is coming off before i get more invested in this than is reasonable

[faghypnotizd]

Almost posted this to the main blog whew I'm sorry that scared me. Anyway what I was going to say is every time 🐏aph uploads it's like a brand new Noah's ark worth of weird porn scenarios introduced for me to think about.... how does he keep doing it

#speak! #sorry for the weird censor I'm really high and forgot that untagged posts that contain a search term in the body will appear in the search #results for that term regardless of not having the tag #and it seemed like the simpler way to censor it. I would have done a z shaped emoji for z-e-d but I can't find one #anyway. I could go really in depth on this and make a whole detailed list if I could hold thoughts in my memory for longer than 15 seconds #if you're curious abt my thoughts on a specific episode send an ask and I will answer with a play-by-play of potential weird sex scenarios

[tenrose]

I still have my opinion about the song but the more I watch the choreography, the more like it. Also I think Dami, Siyeon and Gahyeon really own that swag vibe with their moves and attitudes.

#the choreo seems simpler than usual but i could be totally wrong because i know nothing about dance so I'm not really judging anything #i mean despite this song being what it is #i gotta admit that they work everything together well #attitude/dance and even clothes (im #and also apart from Dami who always notice after Sua with sharp move #because she's always so sharp and #swaggy #it's really cool to have the 'weakest' dancers really killing the choreography #in short i would give that title track one very good point #it's that everyone is shining in a different area than usual #handong and yoohyeon killing the vocals #i mean Yoohyeon always kill the vocals but let's just say when it's rock parts Siyeon outshine literally everyone else usually #i knew handong could do it with her tone #jiu with different vocal parts than usual #all in all the whole comeback have them try different thing #and i really wish i could appreciate the TT more #i mean it has grown on me tbh #just wish the lyrics were not that #and it sounded more like siyoo bridge because that's the best part #but yes it is what it is #even if I'm not fond of the song i really enjoy seeing them do new stuff onstage #(so yeah I'm still gonna probably gif them lmao) #dreamcatcher

[froggos-chaos-corner]

Haha more Blueberry’s stuff

Uh Carlo before the fire

plus uh the night of the fire

Oh i love them!!!!

#(i forgot what prounions they use so i shall call them by they/them for now-) #They are so cute!! #seems like one iof ur more simpler designs but i really like it :3

[sportsallover]

Sometimes I think about how when tennis players practice together they do pretend matches instead of just counting the points to 10 or higher, and it baffles me. It makes sense, sure, but the way of counting points is so complicated in tennis, you’d think they’d want to take it easy during training. 😅

#tennis #was reading about how Zhang got beat 6-0 by Karatsev during practice #and I’m like did you really have to do that to yourself? #wouldn’t a simpler 58-34 have sufficed? #anyway I learnt of the point system in badminton today #it seems even worse

[cainshitincorporated]

Agnostic not in the sense of debating if god exits but in the sense of questioning the base assumption that he is good

#I mean I don’t believe in god unless doing so at any given time benefits me artistically #but I think the (primarily conservative Christian) theist’s assumption that god is good unfailingly is really strange #bc it seems a lot easier to look at suffering in the world and rather than conclude that it happens for a reason and trying to justify that #just. concluding that god (since we assume he exists) is unmoved by the plight of human beings. that seems far simpler

[todayisafridaynight]

how long did it take you to like Daigo and Mine? I had a delayed response to the former. I’d played through all the games, nothing. Then one day I was just thinking of how he was yet another example of goth disaster who grows into Fine Young Man (my first was Gaara) and all of a sudden I got struck with the blorbo truck.

bestie. i have no idea LMAOOOO I REALLY COULDN'T TELL YOU

i know with mine at least it took me beating Y3 first and then thinking about his character more and then doing a replay of Y3 and rewatching his scenes. plus then i found all the currently available RGGO stories for him and that p much solidified my adoration for him

with daigo, i think it was just kind of like a gradual thing? my memory of my initial feelings when playin these games are mostly faded (pardon like. Y7 stuff that game and my feelings for it have been branded into my brain 5ever) but i remember as the games went on, i just got happier the more i saw daigo on screen (kind of like how i get when i see date in that 'omg it's my old friend daigo that's my boy :)') to the point where i instantly knew the 'masked figure' in y5 was him just from his sideburns (tho tbf i think we all saw the twist coming from a mile away, but it's the way i saw his sideburns and instantly went 'oh bitch i know those anywhere')

i did think he was dripped the fuck out in Y2 tho

#snap chats #i didnt beat chapter five of y7 btw #i accidentally started following a speedrun guide and i ran around for like forty minutes trying to find an odd stone #then i realized i needed the foreman job but i didnt have enough charisma and THAT was going to be a hassle #so im just calling it a night #but yeah no with daigo like ??? and honestly mine- and like. Every Character I Love #there's never an Aha moment where im instantly smitten or something #it takes some time for me to think about them to really like them #i think aoki was the closest to instantly liking but that was more due to personal things ig #jo took a hot minute tho. i think the eyeball scene was what got the ball rolling tho now that i think bout it 💀 #but yeah it just takes me a minute to think about a character for me to realize how much i love them #except ichiban. ichiban was instantaneous but like thats just his effect on people that's like saying the sky is blue #back on topic tho i really love daigo despite it kinda not seeming like it #like Obviously i draw him a lot but i dont really talk about him a lot you know #he's somewhat of a simpler character compared to my other faves but he's still fascinating to me and i love his character so much #i love how quiet he is and how he's a right contrast to his father #and i love how it's evident kiryu's left a mark on him in games like Y4 and Y5 where he feels like he has to do things alone #i cant explain it all rn- mostly cause ima run out of tags- but i love his character for what it is #RGG might not give him any love. like. at all. but i will. i'll love him #and even if the fandom mostly sleeps on or bullies him i appreciate the other guys who also go 'omg daigo our boy' when he's in a scene #well that ends my ramble for tonight i think ima just watch some youtube before i have to wake up to death tomorrow

[blujayonthewing]

an unanticipated problem with my silly little dnd cocktails is that I like the nightcap but I do not, it turns out, very much care for a brandy alexander, which is what it was based on but is much simpler and quicker to make :')

#I'm willing to blame this on the fact that I can only seem to find cheap creme de cacao which is maybe affecting the flavor? #anyway it's very annoying. oh I think I'd like to enjoy a nice little beverage :) time to pull out fifteen ingredience #(it's only five or six ingredients depending on how I make it) #(but it's also a shaker and two strainers and a separate container to lightly whip the cream in because it's floated on the top and--) #brandy alexander is just 'dump two spirits and some cream in a shaker and shake it. tada' #the trouble is I HAVE the stuff to make much simpler cocktails but this keeps being what I'm in the mood for :') #just not the lazier version with fewer steps and tools and dishes of course 🙄 #it's really not just 'hehehoohoo melliwyk drink' it's genuinely I Like It and keep wanting to make one :') #which is VERY INCONVENIENT!! #why can't I be in the mood for JUNIPER'S silly little nerd cocktail (raspberry g&t) 😔 #about me #potions

[tylorswift]

omitb season finale in two days and i still have absolutely no CLUE who the killer might be 😭😭😭😭😭 

#not that i had one the first time around but it seemed a lot simpler and easier to connect than this season #the writers really outdid themselves IM SCARED MAN #sometimes archi talks

[glimpsesofeuterpe]

Are you going to be using your new tablets for commissions too? 👀 Or is it still a learning curve to get used to them?

yesss

#neverendingparable #i mostly got used to it by now #in sketching for sure gotta see how lines will behave so far it seems like not too much of a difference #sizes difference still bugs me a little but oh welp #also buttons buttoonss buttons making buttoney noisessss #finally dont have to use too much of keyboard shortcuts #too much of keyboard combinations even for a stanley like me #old tablet has two buttons on its pen as well and just mere four buttons and like for some reasons they refused to work properly so yah #dont mind me #i had no idea i needed buttons on tablet before #really why keep two fingers on ctrl z all the time if you can just pen click it once #and why switch from mouse to pen to zoom if you can have a rollin wheel under your non drawing hand #things can be simpler and faster why didnt i know i wanted them be less time consuming #???? #i am a dumbass

[marxism-lelouchism]

it feels bad and kind of attention-seeking to desperately need external validation to live and while i do genuinely treasure every kind word i've ever received, it also feels impossible for me to internalize any praise and actually believe it, leading me to again need more positive encouragement, which makes me feel not just attention-seeking but also like an ingrate to the people who have been supportive... i want to believe in the me that my friends believe in, but unfortunately there is a part of me that believes even more so that if i were really good enough then my work would speak for itself and i wouldnt need to ask for validation

#🌱 #anyway I know there are plenty of reasons raging from luck to structural factors why some works don’t get the recognition that others do #but it seems disingenuous and arrogant and simply…not true to posture myself as some kind of unrecognized or underappreciated talent LMAO #it’s really not that serious anyway #the simpler answer is just that i need to keep working hard and getting better #regardless i do really treasure all the kind words ive ever gotten #each word made its way into my heart where it matters

[smolmagicalmuffin]

Does anyone have a 1.5v fumo plush (any character, any size, but the 20 cm version would be more accurate) and can send me pics of them? Need to reference seamlines to assure that my idea of how the bottom half of this pattern comes together is actually correct (given I screwed up with the legs already) Pattern I found and using is based off of the 1.5v fumo version and didn't come with an tutorial so I'm using a combination of what I know from years of sewing, another tutorial from a similar pattern and the chibi N plush I have as references.

#not really into fumos but came across a free to use pattern one day and figured it was simpler than what I was using before #ill prob post the finished plush here if the hair doesnt make me give up #obviously with credit to the pattern creator as well #would have googled images but i can not seem to find a pic of any fumo without clothes and i already corrupted my search history trying

[potatoknitsmysteriouscoinkidink]

I decided to go uni right, I’ve never wanted to go before so I had to like email old teachers for references and now that I’ve done all that horribleness and Actually Applied, I figure I should probably go through with it. but. I’ve kept putting off choosing which course I’m going to do and now I actually have to pick and I can’t decide. It’s between filmmaking and design for film and I just can’t decide and it’s making me feel sick

#I don’t even know what I want to do with my life #I really like making and editing films #but I love designing props and sets and costumes too #the design one seems simpler #like less moving around #but I love creating storylines

[mothocean]

PinocchioP Don't Kill the Love Song save me

#fr tho it's a really cute song #i relistened to it now after kinda forgetting abt it for a while and man i really love that song #kind of wish i could sing so i could do an english cover of it. it seems like the kind of song that could work #even with simpler instrumentals and an upbeat folk vibe #roseflower.txt

[cupuasu]

wish i had english proficiency or a working brain to write my thoughts and observations on hxh succession arc

#or something simpler like my aespa lore analysis that i still havent finished bc its basically a retelling and im not. good with words #and my analysis seems baseless whereas when i read other ppls analysis they seem so detailed and well thought out #really admire and appreciate ppl that write those things #it's like my thoughts and opinions are clay that can't have a form and when others look at it theres nothing to see and it doesnt make sens #then when i see it explained with words its like i can finally put my clay inside a mold and make it understandable. #but the clay is the same you know?

[kafus]

beginner’s guide to the indie web

“i miss the old internet” “we’ll never have websites like the ones from the 90s and early 2000s ever again” “i’m tired of social media but there’s nowhere to go”

HOLD ON!

personal websites and indie web development still very much exist! it may be out of the way to access and may not be the default internet experience anymore, but if you want to look and read through someone’s personally crafted site, or even make your own, you can still do it! here’s how:

use NEOCITIES! neocities has a built in search and browse tools to let you discover websites, and most importantly, lets you build your own website from scratch for free! (there are other ways to host websites for free, but neocities is a really good hub for beginners!)

need help getting started with coding your website? sadgrl online has a section on her website dedicated to providing resources for newbie webmasters!

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the core of what all websites are built on. many websites also use JS (JavaScript) to add interactive elements to their pages. w3schools is a useful directory of quick reference for pretty much every HTML/CSS/JS topic you can think of.

there is also this well written and lengthy guide on dragonfly cave that will put you step by step through the basics of HTML/CSS (what webpages are made from), if that’s your sort of thing!

stack overflow is every programmer’s hub for asking questions and getting help, so if you’re struggling with getting something to look how you want or can’t fix a bug, you may be able to get your answer here! you can even ask if no one’s asked the same question before.

websites like codepen and jsfiddle let you test HTML/CSS/JS in your browser as you tinker with small edits and bugfixing.

want to find indie websites outside the scope of neocities? use the search engine marginalia to find results you actually want that google won’t show you!

you can also use directory sites like yesterweb’s link section to find websites in all sorts of places.

if you are going to browse the indie web or make your own website, i also have some more personal tips as a webmaster myself (i am not an expert and i am just a small hobbyist, so take me with a grain of salt!)

if you are making your own site:

get expressive! truly make whatever you want! customize your corner of the internet to your heart’s content! you have left the constrains of social media where every page looks the same. you have no character limit, image limit, or design limit. want to make an entire page or even a whole website dedicated to your one niche interest that no one seems to be into but you? go for it! want to keep a public journal where you can express your thoughts without worry? do it! want to keep an art gallery that looks exactly how you want? heck yeah! you are free now! you will enjoy the indie web so much more if you actually use it for the things you can’t do on websites like twitter, instead of just using it as a carrd bio alternative or a place to dump nostalgic geocities gifs.

don’t overwhelm yourself! if you’ve never worked with HTML/CSS or JS before, it may look really intimidating. start slow, use some guides, and don’t bite off more than you can chew. even if your site doesn’t look how you want quite yet, be proud of your work! you’re learning a skill that most people don’t have or care to have, and that’s pretty cool.

keep a personal copy of your website downloaded to your computer and don’t just edit it on neocities (or your host of choice) and call it a day. if for some reason your host were to ever go down, you would lose all your hard work! and besides, by editing locally and offline, you can use editors like vscode (very robust) or notepad++ (on the simpler side), which have more features and is more intuitive than editing a site in-browser.

you can use ctrl+shift+i on most browsers to inspect the HTML/CSS and other components of the website you’re currently viewing. it’ll even notify you of errors! this is useful for bugfixing your own site if you have a problem, as well as looking at the code of sites you like and learning from it. don’t use this to steal other people’s code! it would be like art theft to just copy/paste an entire website layout. learn, don’t steal.

don’t hotlink images from other sites, unless the resource you’re taking from says it’s okay! it’s common courtesy to download images and host them on your own site instead of linking to someone else’s site to display them. by hotlinking, every time someone views your site, you’re taking up someone else’s bandwidth.

if you want to make your website easily editable in the future (or even for it to have multiple themes), you will find it useful to not use inline CSS (putting CSS in your HTML document, which holds your website’s content) and instead put it in a separate CSS file. this way, you can also use the same theme for multiple pages on your site by simply linking the CSS file to it. if this sounds overwhelming or foreign to you, don’t sweat it, but if you are interested in the difference between inline CSS and using separate stylesheets, w3schools has a useful, quick guide on the subject.

visit other people’s sites sometimes! you may gain new ideas or find links to more cool websites or resources just by browsing.

if you are browsing sites:

if the page you’re viewing has a guestbook or cbox and you enjoyed looking at the site, leave a comment! there is nothing better as a webmaster than for someone to take the time to even just say “love your site” in their guestbook.

that being said, if there’s something on a website you don’t like, simply move on to something else and don’t leave hate comments. this should be self explanatory, but it is really not the norm to start discourse in indie web spaces, and you will likely not even be responded to. it’s not worth it when you could be spending your time on stuff you love somewhere else.

take your time! indie web doesn’t prioritize fast content consumption the way social media does. you’ll get a lot more out of indie websites if you really read what’s in front of you, or take a little while to notice the details in someone’s art gallery instead of just moving on to the next thing. the person who put labor into presenting this information to you would also love to know that someone is truly looking and listening.

explore! by clicking links on a website, it’s easy to go down rabbitholes of more and more websites that you can get lost in for hours.

seeking out fansites or pages for the stuff you love is great and fulfilling, but reading someone’s site about a topic you’ve never even heard of before can be fun, too. i encourage you to branch out and really look for all the indie web has to offer.

i hope this post helps you get started with using and browsing the indie web! feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions or want any advice. <3

#webcore #old web #nostalgia #geocities #neocities #internet nostalgia #indie web #90s #early 2000s #y2k #guide #masterpost #html #css #javascript #internetcore #hope all these tags are appropriate for outreach! #wasn't quite sure #ayano was here #long post #i didn't want to advertise in this guide but if you're reading this my website is classicpokemonguide by the way!