Hey, @staff? Since the 17th, i.e., the day you’ve listed as the day all forms of NSFW content needs to be gone, I’ve been followed by two more porn bots.
Sounds drastic. Especially for content creators who may still need Tumblr for commissions while they find an alternative.
If you can swing it, here’s why:
I suspect that the December 17th deadline is so that Verizon/Yahoo can clean house and make Tumblr appealing to investors. This is a Q4/Q1 fire sale kind of thing. It makes a certain amount of business sense to make this change. Human-lead content curation (e.g. separating the CP from the legit) is expensive and time-consuming. I doubt they have the money for it. They already sold off Flickr. As a long-time Flickr pro user, I’m not pleased by the change and increase in pro account price, but I get it.
Investors are looking for a user base. User base is a prime attraction for investment or buy-out for a social media platform or application (I speak from experience as a co-founder of Rhinobird.tv).
Every account that is cancelled will be one less account in Tumblr’s user base for their pitch. I assume that there are millions of accounts with some percentage simply being abandoned accounts that haven’t been used in years. So cancelling one’s account on the way out the door won’t really matter unless the number of cancelled accounts reaches several hundred thousand at least.
If you decide to leave and cancel, then I also recommend sending a polite message to Tumblr staff, or tweet to the account about why you are leaving.
Finally, using Twitter to voice your concerns and thoughts about this issue will increase its visibility. They ain’t gonna like that. Media outlets that cater to tech entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley types are going to be all over this.
I never ask for reblogs, but I will this one time.
we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we?
LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!
oh you sweet summer child
OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THIS TREND! xD back in the early 2010s when I first started writing fan fiction, when you wrote smut you described it as “lemon”. Some people said “lime” too (which I have no idea wtf that meant) but this was definitely a thing! What a comeback that would be hahaha
I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them.
Firstly, what you need are
— CUSTOM BRUSHES —
Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:
For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):
This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu
You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once
This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME
Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:
- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15%
- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.
- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your backgrounds
The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE
— PATHS —
But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.
Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:
Draw whatever path you want, the Shape Tool has quite a bit of options. Remember, paths are completely different from brush strokes and they won’t show up in the navigator. To move a path around, click A to enable path selection tool. You can use Ctrl+T to transform it, and if you move a path while pressing Alt it will be duplicated.
Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:
Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years
You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.
I hope that answers the questions for all of the people who were sending me inquires about the patterns. If you have any questions regarding this or any other Photoshop matter feel free to message me, I’m always up for complaining about how great and terrible Photoshop is C’:
As per usual when it comes to the Southern Residents, the good news is followed by bad news. We knew that J16 Slick was looking thin in recent months but NOAA caught drone footage of J17 Princess Angeline also looking to be on the thin side.
So, what’s after “rescuing” Scarlet? If the capture is a success, they’ll just take her to the nearest facility and feed and medicate her until she is in good health again? Will that fix the problem? NO. Considering the plan goes well, she’ll be released back where she came from, back to her family, with no food source. The capture just delays the enevitable.
If the capture isn’t a succes? It could be dangerous to the family memebers of her pod. I know NOAA has stated that they will only capture Scarlet if she is away from her family, but wouldn’t the family be aware of her being captured? Wouldn’t they be able to hear her? And what capture method is NOAA even going for with capturing Scarlet?
And if Scarlet dies during rehabilitation, after being taken from her pod, how would her mother, Slick, ever know what happened to her daughter? Haven’t we just been witnessing J35 mourning her dead calf for nearly two weeks straight? And if people agree that Scarlet can’t be returned due to illness or lack of food in the wild, what will she become? A lonely whale at some facility? Being sold off to SeaWorld and shown to the world as the perfect example of how much SeaWorld cares? Is she going to become an ambassador for her wild counterparts? Wasn’t that the role the other orcas in captivity was supposed to take?
And finally. How. The Hell. Is this going to solve any problems regarding the SRKW’s? They’ll still be lacking food. Or are NOAA just gonna capture every single individual showing signs of starvation or ilness from now on?
I have so many questions on how this plan even came to be, because it isn’t solving anything.
The plan to capture and rehab Scarlet was one of the most horrifying, short sighted ideas I saw bandied around during the discussion of how to save her. As heartbroken as I am that she is gone, I am also bitterly relieved that she died before this had a chance to happen.
Also to consider, even as a thought experiment now that she’s gone: presuming we rehabbed her and returned her successfully, what of Slick and Mike? No such plans for feeding, treating, or capture/rehab existed for them. If Scarlet was successfully returned, did we just buy her enough time to watch her mother and brother succumb to their own starvation?
Ovr was the plan to repeat this awful catch and release cycle until she birthed a couple calves, since she’s young and female and hopefully fertile once she’s old enough to breed?
This plan was literally an example of kicking a metaphorical can down the road to deal with later. I would have been slightly less mad if it had come with a side of “look, we are going to breach the dams, but she’ll die before it makes a difference, so let’s buy her some time…” but even then, this plan helped just one individual at the expense of the rest of them. I hated it and I am aghast anyone supported it without having solid answers to all of the dark possibilities the road of capture could take us.
I am a new CritRole fan (as of season 2′s premiere back in January, awww yeaaaah) and have barely gotten my toes wet in the fandom yet, but if y’all don’t one day tell me that the Fjord/Jester ship name is Fjester and it’s pronounced Fiesta I will be so very disappointed.
