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Beauty of the Universe II - Colors

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:18:42 -0500

Beauty of the Universe II - Colors

ladyogrady: My thesis project, Dom & Sub, a.k.a. why I’ve...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:03:21 -0500

Instigation

Negotiation

Play

Post-Play

Aftercare

My thesis project, Dom & Sub, a.k.a. why I’ve been such a bad tumblr-er/bad friend/etc. My artist statement:

Dom & Sub is a body of illustrative work in digital media that attempts to humanize practitioners of BDSM and offer a representation of kinky sex that not only refutes negative stereotypes but informs the audience that sadomasochistic play is done best between happy, healthy, and consenting adults. I portrayed the couple in the work not only engaging in S&M play but also building a “scene” together and nurturing one another after the play has concluded; these are moments often left unconsidered or completely ignored in visual representations of S&M. I believe it’s important to see how kinky scenes are crafted with care, commitment to safety and enthusiastic consent in order to limit those times when sadomasochistic play is used to abuse or dehumanize other human beings. It is my hope that my audience will learn from the illustrations that sadomasochistic play is not always dark or scary, and that fellow ‘kinksters’ can enjoy tender representations of S&M that do not ridicule or pathologize them. I’ve designed the work to engage sadomasochistic imagery, material and theory with an ethical conscience.

abbydoodles: EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS Ok!! Long story short,...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:47:10 -0500

abbydoodles:

EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS

Ok!! Long story short, thanks to some fair weather friends, my girlfriend is going to be kicked out of her apartment by the end of this month, on May 30th. Her only option at present is moving in with her dad. But!! Here’s the problem:

She’s in Florida

Her dad’s in Virginia

Her car needs repairs AND she has to pay her last bit of rent

She can’t afford the repairs and gas she needs to allow her to get up to Virginia, and neither I nor her family can afford to foot her bill.

She gets minimum hours and minimum pay after (we suspect) she was fired after coming out as trans* from a well-paying job a few months ago, so she’s really in dire straits right now. Financially, she’s fucked and stranded.

Now, I take commissions! And at present all of the money I get from those will be going to her. Right now, I have nothing. Zero dollars. And she needs at LEAST 600$ before the month is out.

My commissions page is here.

I’m not a cheap artist, no. I’m not going to get into why cheap commissions devalue the market here, but if you can’t afford my rates, please consider smacking the tip button on my commissions page? Every last cent in my paypal is going to go to her, so even small donations mean a lot. Or hell, even a reblog would be really appreciated!

Thank you so much. ; m; <333

cubeyferu: Florence and the Machine//Over the Love (FULL) Kay...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:32:56 -0500

cubeyferu:

Florence and the Machine//Over the Love (FULL)

Kay I love you thank you for reblogging I have been waiting ;___;

NNNGH YES

onlyfoolsandvikings: Motivational Megafauna, they’re extinct...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:10:23 -0500

onlyfoolsandvikings:

Motivational Megafauna, they’re extinct but they are proud of you.

condiminaj: flikkun: tyrianprinceofrage: misha-bawlins: Aweso...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:38:56 -0500

condiminaj:

flikkun:

tyrianprinceofrage:

misha-bawlins:

Awesome nature sounds generator.

You can choose any combination of sounds you like - for example, fire + wind in leaves + forest birds - and click “Export to file” to save it on your computer.

No need to go camping or to a beach or actually to ever to go outside any more. Tumblr provides everything.

I just used it to make a sound file of a cat purring by a fire with the sound of the kitchen in the background.
It’s calming.

I put together tribal drums, children giggling, heavy rain, and wolves.

31% Frogs at -76% below

38% Creek at -76% below

62% Heavy Rain at 0% below

42% Thunder at 38% below

Saving as ‘Frogs and Rain’

justfineonthetop: terrastar12: strive-for-equality: mattypi-mc...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:05:42 -0500

justfineonthetop:

terrastar12:

strive-for-equality:

mattypi-mcfrostingeater:

thisawfullybigadventure:

“The Ball Bed” the world’s first morphable bed, consisting of plush spheres that are connected by elastic bands, allowing you to twist and bend them in any way imaginable.

NEED.

O.O
there is no way to explain these things i am feeling.

HOLY FUCK

COULD YOU IMAGINE THE SEX YOU COULD HAVE ON THIS THING

THIS THING IS THE BASTARD CHILD OF SCIENCE AND THE KAMA SUTRA

wachtelspinat: suncreaturestudio: Half way through and with...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:36:46 -0500

wachtelspinat:

suncreaturestudio:

Half way through and with 33%.

We need your help to spread the word about the campaign!

Go HERE to learn more and see the cool images we would like to ask you to share!

HELP

HELP PLEASE

I am poor, but I love this short! Go fund them to make more!

commandertavros: mayonneighs: in which Monica describes my exact reaction to basically...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:35:55 -0500

commandertavros:

mayonneighs:

in which Monica describes my exact reaction to basically everything I see

variablejabberwocky: sarcomancer: goingpostale: roseclear: ...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:34:43 -0500

variablejabberwocky:

sarcomancer:

goingpostale:

roseclear:

rosecoveredtardis:

Ok, so…

I found too many things about people — teens especially — only realizing that not saying no does not equal a yes once they’re told.

So I made a thing.

I’m so sorry if I did something wrong, I’m not 110% sure what I’m doing, so I’m almost scared to post this, but…

Sign here, if you’re interested.

Signed and passed it on to FB and Twitter. This is a cause worth spreading about.

Reform for sex education is BIG DEAL and that includes teaching people what consent is and means!

This looks like a good idea.

YES ANYTHING TO IMPROVE SEX-ED

princesscadenza: a classic I don’t know if my eyebrows...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:58:40 -0500

princesscadenza:

a classic

I don’t know if my eyebrows can climb any higher than they are

fantasyofcolor: Yeh-shen by...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:02:32 -0500

fantasyofcolor:

Yeh-shen by ~OnceISpoke

commodoreshock said: When I was a kid I loved Cinderella. The Disney version I could take or leave, but I had illustrated copies of the Chinese version, a Native American one, and one that I think was Scandinavian. I loved that they were similar but unique in their own ways.

Hey followers, did you know that there are a lot of Cinderella-type stories from around the world, and that one of the oldest is the story of Yeh-Shen from China? It features a guardian fish spirit instead of a fairy godmother and a pair of golden slippers.

-Dea

cocaine-and-insulin: miakosamuio: mishastolemywormstache: sand...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:59:29 -0500

cocaine-and-insulin:

miakosamuio:

mishastolemywormstache:

sandandglass:

CNN actually researched how much it would cost to go to Hogwarts

#NO WONDER THE WEASLEYS ARE FUCKING BROKE

How exactly did they “research” this? Looks like they just pulled a bunch of random figures out of their butts.

It’s stated in the books that tuition to Hogwarts is “free for all children in Britain”. I don’t know why they thought it wouldn’t be - it’s a British high school, not a college. So there, you just saved yourself $42,024.

In Chamber of Secrets, Mrs. Weasley emptied her entire bank account which contained only two galleons [£10 / US$20] and she managed to buy all five children’s entire set of books and potion ingredients with this, as well as Ginny’s robes, hat, clock, cauldron, and wand!!! And we know she bought all of these as she mentioned having to buy them. The fact that she bought all of these with only £10 pretty much proves how absolutely ridiculous CNNs estimation is.

If you want more proof, the actual cost of Harry’s want is far over estimated here, and the exact price in both pounds as US dollars can easily be found right within the books! Harry’s wand is bought for seven galleons, a galleon being worth about five pounds [mentioned by JK Rowling in an interview and in FBAWTFT/QTTA] means that his wand was £35, or US$53. So there’s some straight-out-of-the-books-and-word-of-god proof that the figures CNN have given are way off the mark. Not to mention the fact that even if you don’t go to Hogwarts, as a magical human you’re gonna have to buy a wand anyway if you want to do magic.

As for the school books, I’ve done an approximation based on various prices given through-out the books and on Pottermore. While these prices involve a substantial amount of guess-work, I think you’ll agree that my calculation is far more accurate than CNNs:

The Standard book of Spells costs one sickle [29p / US59c]. On the back of my comic relief copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them it says it costs fourteen sickles [£4.60 / US$8.26]. One Pottermore, all text books are one galleon [£4.97 / US$10.17] - however Pottermore currency only uses galleons so it’s likely they have rounded off. Lockhart’s books, the most expensive in the series, are five galleons on Pottermore meaning that the exchange rate in the books puts them around two galleons and fourteen sickles [£14.60 / US$20.80]. If we put a high average on this and assume that all textbooks are approximately a galleon [they are likely much less], and that each year has around seven required reading books, the entire price for seven years worth of books would be forty-nine galleons, which equals approximately £243, or US$367 - and remember, this is the maximum estimated price for the textbooks.

For the minimum, we need to consider that the Weasleys get a lot of things second hand, with Ginny’s copy of A Begginers Guide To Transfiguration being described as “a very old, very battered copy” - likely no more than five sickles. If they got all their books around that price, it would cost them no more than £14 / US$21 for the entire seven years worth! So school books, far from being US$516, fall somewhere between US$14 and US$367 for the entire seven years at Hogwarts.

Next we have robe, glove, cloak, and hat prices - these are never mentioned in the books or on Pottermore, so I can’t account for that. However I seriously doubt it’s as a high as they’ve got here. Considering books in the wizarding world are generally much cheaper than in the muggle world, I think it’s fairly safe to assume that clothing is as well. Likely a maximum of a galleon for a single set of robes.

They’ve also forgotten a huge number of things - cauldrons, potion ingredients, scales, and star charts, among others.

So yeah, I really don’t know where they came up with these figures. It looks like some guy just wanted to make a story about how expensive Hogwarts would be and put a bunch of American college figures together and thought “yeah, this looks good.”

Do not fuck with a fandom.

emmagrant01: margflower: peredhelcheshirecat: kinghanalister: ...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:01:55 -0500

emmagrant01:

margflower:

peredhelcheshirecat:

kinghanalister:

AU: Daleks attack Hogwarts.

*if the last gif isn’t moving, sorry, i’ll have to fix that later*

I DON’T THINK ENOUGH PEOPLE REALIZE JUST HOW FUCKING INCREDIBLY GREAT THIS IS

HOLY SHIT

What is this crossover even called?

friendlydad: have you ever just assumed that a word was pronounced a certain way and you end up...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:52:49 -0500

friendlydad:

have you ever just assumed that a word was pronounced a certain way and you end up pronouncing it incorrectly throughout your entire life and then one day someone corrects you and its like you can almost hear satan laughing as the flames of hell begin to seep up from underground and slowly burn you to death