#psa i guess

[goblinwithartsupplies]

#ao3 is down #ao3 funny #ao3 #ao3 stuff #ao3 down #ao3 ddos #supernatural #supernatural meme #destiel meme #destiel news #psa i guess #ao3 memes #spn news #supernatural news #malec

[calictii]

i have to say this while i remember. but the whole "You have to reach out whenever you feel depressed" thing.

yesterday after 3 hours of sleep i woke up like i had been hit by a rock in my head. laying in a hotel room next to my 2 best friends. Who i know for a fact. love and care about me so much. But i instead laid there having a breakdown for 4 hours until they woke up. (where i said nothing to them)

i was so convinced that i had nobody at all to talk to that i Just didn't. i ran lists in my brain and i all waved it away "it's too early. i can't be quiet enough." i panicked and deleted instagram even.

and one of my friends. Spent A long time texting me. Repeatedly. Like a full day. until i responded.

So talk to people. talk to your friends. Just send random messages about you're day if you've no ideas. because that person Probably Just won't when they need to. even if logically they know to.

#actuallydepressed #hopepunk #positivity #psa i guess

[themotherofhorses]

Hi

I've spent several days weighing upon this absolutely difficult and painful decision. I spoke to my two closest mutuals, to make sure I was making the correct choice. I think I am.

I'm done with writing. As Marie Kondo might say, "this one does not spark joy."

I know what you might be thinking. "Vic, you said you were updating this weekend!" I did. But then, every time I opened up my doc to edit that LOHHNM chapter, I kept thinking about that one anon. I know I shouldn't, but hearing someone say, " [other fanfic author] would definitely write Last of Her House No More/ His Handmaid's Tales better. They would do what you can't," fucking hurts. I know, I know, I know. But my confidence is gone, as embarrassing as that might sound. I've rewritten this damn chapter *three* times because I feel so shitty writing/editing it.

At this point, I just don't want to write anymore.

So i'm not going to pressure myself into doing so. Not right now, anyways. Maybe I'll return in the future, once I regain my spark/motivation/desire. Any writing I do, it will be centered around my OCs; perhaps I'll find more growth during this time.

(I have this totally adorable story in the works, actually. It's an original work and I'm CRAZY for it).

In the meantime, my fanfics will remain posted. My blog will always be open if there is anyone that rereads my writing. I'll still be active too! I'll reblog, comment, answer any dms, etc. I might be done with writing, but definitely not with my sweet moots.

From the bottom of my heart, I thank you all for joining me on this short journey of mine. I'm happy so many liked all my silly stories. I'm truly sorry it has to end like this, and I'm truly sorry that I'm letting so many people down, but I need to put my mental health first. I love y'all. I so truly fucking do.

To all the other HOTD fanfic writers out there, I wish you all the luck in the world <3 so many talented individuals out there. I know this fandom will NEVER lack creativity and good-fucking-food hehe.

Until I get all my little braincells together to write something, I bid you adieu.

#vic talks #psa i guess #aemond targaryen x reader #house of the dragon #hotd fandom #im tired and sleepy and now i sleep

[elaphaemourra]

HEY DISCORD, WHAT THE FUCK

AY YO ANYONE WHO DOESN'T WANT THEIR DISCORD TO LOOK LIKE GODDAM FACEBOOK MESSENGER, DON'T UPDATE. BECAUSE IT CAN'T BE ROLLED BACK.

I fucking hate this. Disgusting. Hey discord, HEY. HEY DISCORD. GIVE ME A TOGGLE AT LEAST. BECAUSE THIS FUCKING SUCKS.

#discord #discord chat #ela babbles #they made it so jank #i hate it #psa i guess #bc this sucks #i want to throw this app into an electrified lake for this

[nyiiwest]

I’m so sick of having to explain to white people that even if they’re the nicest ever even if they’re an ally as pocs we have to be weary until we know otherwise. Because even the white “allies” have jumped ship and used their privilege against us when it’s convenient for them. Idc how you were raised, as pocs from birth we’re taught to be on guard, it’s unfortunate but it’s just the reality we’re living in.

#psa i guess #my ramblings #native american #poc #mixed girls #trending #tumblr girls #indie music #indie artist #poetry #2014 tumblr #music #aesthetic #annailujj #race discussions

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

all hamlet fans:

read r&g are dead if you havent (but i am assuming most people are aware of that one)

read fortinbras it’s not as good as ragad but it bangs

watch haider

#chitra.txt #hamlet #shakespeare #lit #psa i guess #was gonna address this to my followers but yknow what. Its for the world #Go watch a 2 and a half hour bollywood movie

[lonelysheepling]

Advice for artists and non-artists but mainly just artists

You know how you do a thing for so long that it’s becomes super mundane and insignificant to you, like when you’re sewing something you just do a basic stitch and struggle to tie a standard knot at the end. But you don’t do this often enough for it to stand out to you. You’re an artist, hey maybe even a professional one, and you’ve been doing your art a certain way for a long time. You use pose references and look up environment pictures to reference. But you still draw shoes without a reference or you draw clothes without any detailed folds.

At various points in my art journey I tried using tutorials, resources, and step by step guides for drawing certain things, be that nature brushes, drawing noses front-on, etc. and my skills at the time were kinda basic so I could never really pull off the tutorials in a way that satisfied me. I then went years just improving on broad areas like perspective and posing, focusing more on the overall composition than the minor details. But one day, years later, I got bored and decided to look up how to draw clothing folds

On the left of the green line is some previous work, on the right was two pieces I drew after I heavily referenced cloth physics

Ignore the shading, lighting, colors, etc. the stuff on the right definitely has way better flow than the stuff on the left. Now it wasn’t like a “wow I used a reference and now I’m a master” situation, there was an adjustment period with some less than stellar examples

But when I created those first 2 folds it was like a fucking switch was flicked in my head and I’ve been improving ever since. I am immensely grateful that I just happened to go looking for reference photos because holy shit something as simple as improving my clothing folds massively boosted my confidence in my work. Something I’ve noticed after I followed tutorials is that during the adjustment period, while the first couple of pieces are very reminiscent of the source tutorial, they start to get a little too far off and I stop referencing the tutorial and start doing my own thing (for better or for worse), but there’s then a period afterwards where I go back (maybe after re-watching the original tutorial) and develop it more into my own style.

Here’s a graph to better explain my thought process

Here’s another gun to the head reminder to use references. Recently I was drawing shoes for a character and I have a pretty consistent method of drawing shoes (consistent, not good).

But I wanted it to look more rugged so I looked up an image of a hiking boot and guess at what point in this timelapse that the reference was pulled up

I had for years tried using tutorials and reference photos but the process never really clicked for me. But over the years I have improved my technical skills and I believe that those improvements and all that practice made it way easier for me to understand and replicate tutorials, i understand now how the specifics of certain things like shading and depth work, picking up new skills that are still in the area I work in became way easier. But Im obviously still finding areas in my art by random chance that I can improve on. Because I don’t think about those parts anymore, they’re in the background of my design process.

This is where my advice to non-artists comes in. Look up tutorials. For anything. You know earlier when I mentioned sewing? Look up a guide on stitching, I just learned today what a surgeons knot is despite having been hand stitching for years. You don’t know what you don’t know, you don’t seek out improvement when you don’t perceive the need to improve. Trust me, there’s always areas to improve but you are going to have to stretch your mind at some point to recognize them. Everybody talks about how you should use tutorials and use references and all that, but I don’t think many people are going to research tutorials for things they don’t feel like they need improvement in.

. Anyway that’s the end of my monthly psa

If something in this post confused you feel free to send me like an ask or a brick through my window with a note attached to it, I’m not picky.

#somewhat art related #art tutorial #art help #art advice #psa i guess #long post #no alt text #ask to tag #advice for artists

[sanctus-ingenium]

psst, re: your tags about clicking the url just taking you back to the blog view - if you click the white space in the post header (ie, to the right of the url) it takes you to the original post the way clicking the url /used/ to. so the functionality's still there! but i agree it's a dumb and completely unintuitive change and i hate how they decided to just futz with the interface for no reason when the old way worked fine??

thanks to everyone who reached out to explain. i'm still like. baffled why they did this but at least now i get it.. and i fail to see why this is in any way more intuitive, like staff claims

oh well!

#psa i guess

[artgroves]

Hey! Super weird question, I just got this comment on one of my fics & assumed it was a bot because of the phrasing & the fact that it’s an angst fic, but then someone said this was your AO3 URL, and this is very rambly but I guess I wanted to ask if you left this comment? And if not, I guess to give a head’s up in case you got hacked 😅

it’s on this Check, Please! fic. I also thought it was weird bc there’s no link to a profile right, so it’s probably a guest account using your username. But anyway yeah hi sorry this is a weird message to phrase!

Thank you so much for letting me know about this.

No, it's not me, but I didn't get hacked as it's not signed in. It's not the first time it's happened - it's either a bot or a troll and they're even left comments on my own works on AO3.

I've reported it, but I am not able to link to the comment to report it, only to the fic - if you're able to report it then please do so. I suspect the other comment is also spam as it's worded similarly :(

#spambots #psa I guess

[mingos]

if you're mutuals only and unfollow me on one blog no hard feelings i guess but i beg you to please either explain or unfollow my other because i don't have the social wherewithal to know what that's supposed to mean and how i am & am not allowed to interact with you now.

#‘ 001. ’ (out of character) #do you just not want to interact with doffy? did you forget i have a cora to unfollow too? was it a glitch? i can't read your mind #psa i guess

[anstarwar]

A request?

Yes, this is probably beating a dead horse at this point, and I’ve posted about this before, but…

I was hoping I could ask a small favor of those of you who go through and ‘like’ a ton of things…aka Mass Like things…on my, really on any, blog?

Could you…perhaps…as you’re hitting that little heart icon…also reblog at least 2 to 3 things, please?

I’m glad you like what you see, I’m glad there’s content that brings you joy!

But at the end of the day it does nothing but Bookmark something for you and does nothing to help engagement for Artists | Writers | Gif Set Makers | Insert Creative of Choice Here

On tumblr, our beloved hellsite, it also creates community! Builds up the fandoms and such!

On most social media sites engagement is vital.

Every platform’s engagement process (feed the algorithmic overlord om nom nom) is different, however, so if it helps…

On tumblr we don’t have an algorithm in the typical sense!

On tumblr, it’s simple:

Reblogs = Engagement + Community Building

Likes = bookmarks for the person ‘liking’ something…no one but you and the OP see that you’ve liked something

On here, reblogging doesn’t hurt OP, it helps!

I’d really appreciate it, and I know many other creatives would too!

Putting away my soapbox now, thanks for reading this far 💙

#reblogs are cookies #reblogs keep tumblr alive #please reblog things #thank you for reblogging! #PSA I guess #not Star Wars #Star Wars adjacent

[princess-nico]

got on to some more shit so asks are off til i decide if i'm sticking around 👌🏻

#psa i guess

[lipglossanon]

Does anyone know what’s up with tumblr; I’m having to fight to answer my asks 😭 the app keeps closing out on me like every chance it gets 😭

I’ll keep trying! So as a heads up, your asks may be sporadically answered lol

#lipglossanon #lipgloss talks #psa i guess #lol #always something

[furrama]

I saw this macaroni and cheese TikTok uploaded on Tumblr late last year and it looked so good. Like watch it, isn't it the most delicious thing you've ever seen?

Did you watch? Okay, I made it. Went to her website and followed the directions exactly. My advice is to not make it.

The reasons are simple: One, it's just. Too much cheese. Like it looks good in a video, but if you put that much of those kinds of cheeses into something there's going to be. So much oil. Just everywhere. Even if you take care not to overbake, it's going to be overflowing over the sides of your casserole dish. Did you see in the video that at some point she had a pan under it? Like she put it in the oven filled to the top (which is asking for spill over anyway) and then we cut back and there's an oily pan for a second? Yeah, you eat this and you will be on the toilet for days. Did it taste good once you blotted up some cheese oil with paper towels? Yes. Was it worth it? No.

The second reason is that it's stupid expensive to make this recipe. The cream and cheese add up, it's going to cost like 30+ dollars depending on cheese brand and availability. Macaroni and cheese should be affordable, this recipe isn't.

My hunch is that this was made to be a video first, and I wasn't supposed to take it seriously.

I have spent the last couple of months fueled by something akin to vengeance, trying to make a good mac just to spite the video, and after talking to my dad who used to manage several Luby's Cafeterias and searching online and stealing the chicken bouillon in the noodle water idea from the video, this is the cheapest and best version I have after making it and fiddling around several times. And you will not die of cheese grease. Probably.

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Macaroni and Cheese Recipe

You will need:

11/7 casserole dish, aluminum foil, a cheese grater, a little oil for the dish

2 cups of small dry elbow macaroni

4 tablespoons of nonfat dry milk

2 tablespoons of all purpose flour

1 teaspoon of kosher salt

1 teaspoon of chicken bouillon powder

1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon of white pepper

1 and 1/4 cup of boiling water

1 tablespoon of butter

1 pound block (16 oz) of sharp cheddar cheese

1/2 pound block (8 oz) of american cheese (check the deli counter for this one, you need to be able to grate it. And yes it's worth it, the way it breaks down in hot water is important to getting creamy sauce.)

Roughly 6 hours before eating boil water for macaroni in a medium sized pot, and put the bouillon and salt in the water. Cook according to package directions, then set aside in the water to cool. Stir the noodles once in a while to break them up. Make sure they stay just covered in water. Once lukewarm put in the fridge with a lid. Noodles should get big but not mushy.

Also roughly six hours before you will start the cheese sauce. Grate all of your cheese. Add the milk powder, flour, white pepper, garlic powder, and butter to a large bowl. You can optionally add another 1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt here. Pour in boiling water and whisk together. Then add half a cup of shredded american cheese and half a cup of shredded sharp cheddar. Whisk them together until smooth, about 2-3 minutes. Then let it cool, then cover with plastic wrap or a lid and put it in the fridge. This will help it thicken up. Mix the rest of your shredded cheese together and put it in the fridge until it's time to bake.

When it is time to bake set the oven to 350 degrees. Oil the bottom and inner sides of your casserole dish and set aside. Drain your noodles thoroughly, water likes to hide in them and it can cause your mac to become watery. Then put the noodles in the bowl with the sauce and combine. Then add another cup of the mixed cheese and stir. Put the mixture in the casserole dish and cover it with foil. Bake for 30 minutes.

Then take the foil off and cover the top with the rest of your shredded cheese mixture. Bake until the cheese melts. You can broil it until brown spots appear but that will separate out some of the cheese grease so be aware.

Let the dish rest for 10-15 minutes. Enjoy!

(Costs about 12 dollars a dish too.)

#macaroni and cheese #recipe #Macaroni and cheese recipe #I accidentally did that thing where I told my life story before getting to the recipe #It wasn't for copyright reasons it was in memory of that week I had to eat so much oily macaroni and died in the bathroom about it #PSA I guess

[obimaulartfire]

If I don't reblog an obimaul post, assume I'm dead or I haven't seen it lmao

#obimaul #obimaulartfire #psa i guess

[trungles]

I actually don’t mind if you repost my art, especially with credit or links. BUT I still encourage everyone to be mindful that not all artists feel this way, and I think it’s best to go by their wishes for the ways they like their work to be seen! I used to feel a little more prickly about it, but in my years away from this blog, my profile has kinda been raised to the extent that I’m pretty easy to Google. Additionally, when someone steals or knocks off my professional work for their own profit, my publisher deals with it (there are so many knock-off Star Spinner Tarot decks out there, it’s astonishing). So for me, personally, I can be very Meh, Whatever about it when it comes to my own work. But properly crediting the work of artists–especially newer artists who maybe haven’t been published yet and are in the process of building their portfolios–is incredibly helpful! It helps editors and collaborators find their work, and sometimes artists prefer to know that their work is being shared in channels where they have agency over monitoring its social media footprint.

TL;DR you can repost my work for personal use or enjoyment or whatever, I don’t care; HOWEVER please do be mindful that other artists will feel differently about how their work is reposted, and please follow their lead when it comes to their own work.

#psa i guess #sorry for all these little cartoon posts #god immediately coming back to tumblr makes me so long-winded #I apparently really miss being able to write long posts