its a new era

is this your card?

This video perfectly captures the trans girl aesthetic and I’m not even angry he’s cis I’m just impressed he managed to, purely by accident, hit every fucking note of a perfect trans girl gag video like dammit I wish he played on my team.

is this brian david gilbert???

Here!! My Lyctor Harrow cosplay!! I’m so excited to have these pictures and release them into the world, please enjoy my hundreds of hours of beading and embroidery and decades of religious trauma bundled up into this tiny emo nun :0

Hey i’m a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. I’ve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. I’ll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing

Updated just now with new hand sewing resources (mainly buttonholes) and textbook pdfs on fashion history, fashion illustration, and thinking through designs!

oh hell yes

It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.

Transphobes talk about women like they’re Barbies. Have you forgotten the existence of cameltoe? Tiny boobs? Narrow hips? Broad shoulders? Why do you think choirs have altos and not just sopranos? What do you think female athletes look like? Do you think a woman that lifts weights and plays contact sports will look like a 90s supermodel? At what point in history did we collectively forget that human bodies have natural variability???

i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

You are angry about something. “Clam down,” I text you. You assume I have made a typo, but in fact I am holding a small soldier clam in my hands. He died so young. War is hell

Images are of this twitter thread from Archer Kasai, depicting beats in the 1999 film The Mummy as moments in a tabletop RPG.

do people in real life get pushed against a wall and kissed passionately does this actually happen because if so i need it to happen to me

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

And on a Mac, go to Preferences -> Privacy -> uncheck box: “turn on optional connected experiences”!

In the newer editions of Office/Word (2024 onwards), the labels are a little different.

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Under the header "Connected Experiences", go to All Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on all connected experiences”

Note, this will also uncheck the boxes for Experiences that analyze your content and Experiences that download online content, but really, you do NOT want AI doing those things anyway.

As an additional and, I hope, hopeful PSA for your writing projects, primarily fiction or creative non-fiction, here are some non-AI'd (fuck you, Grammarly) reference materials, available as physical books, eBooks, and audiobooks:

There are a LOT of other good, reliable references out there, whether you're here for research or just the fun of writing up a little prose. AI has some good uses, but not in this arena!

literally every sleep advice pamphlet and website: don’t do things before bedtime! no reading! no video games! don’t watch tv! nothing stimulating at all within two hours of going to bed! :)

me, an adhd: you fools. you buffoons. i can’t even manage one minute without stimulation. i will die before following this advice and that is a threat

This has the same energy as those four barn owls.

Oh shit, buddy, you are absolutely right, you're like a Geiger counter

rbing for the music and the absolutely incomprehensible comments

stik her legy out real far

when in doubt

leggy out

let’s be real the best tumblr has EVER looked was the short span of time where you could slap code into posts and we had classics like these

tumblr has never been closer to the core aesthetic and sense of humor of its userbase 

THIS HAS BEEN ONLINE FOR AN HOUR AND NONE OF YOU FAKE FUCKS TOLD ME???????

it's going great so far guys 👍