Everyone in homestuck rn be like

popomodoro:

I want to make one too!!! What recipe for you use?

I believe it was this Martha Stewart recipe, but it’s been a while.

I see u there in ur .2 second opening cameo, Lapis

secretarybird:

roachpatrol:

huh, this is a question that just occurred to me. 

faceblind people, and others who don’t intuitively parse expressions and body language: how well do you understand what cartoon, nonverbal animal characters ‘say’? are there gestures and noises that are obvious in meaning to you? is it easier to read their faces because their expressions are deliberately exaggerated, even for cartoons, or even harder because they’re lizards and tigers and horses and stuff? 

ETA: please reblog this post rather than sending me asks!

I have a degree of faceblindness, but no trouble reading expressions. It just makes it difficult to identify people and tell similar-looking ones apart. While I recognize faces after enough exposure to them, I mostly identify people by context and their overall “look” (one time a friend got a drastic haircut and I had no idea who they were. I can’t even count the number of times a tv show has done a dramatic reveal and I’ve been like “am I supposed to know this guy or what”).

Which is to say that cartoons are way easier than real life, because if the characters don’t have distinctive designs, the studio has fucked up bad.

#huh#it makes me wonder if I don’t have faceblindness#probably not#rather crappy memory

If you want to check it out, even just for fun, you can take the Cambridge Face Memory Test! It takes maybe 10mins. I do okay on the first phase, where it’s only recognizing one person, but then it tosses multiple people at you and my brain throws its hands in the air and gives up.

The normal score is ~80%, while ~60% or below indicates face blindness. I got 58%. :(

roachpatrol:

huh, this is a question that just occurred to me. 

faceblind people, and others who don’t intuitively parse expressions and body language: how well do you understand what cartoon, nonverbal animal characters ‘say’? are there gestures and noises that are obvious in meaning to you? is it easier to read their faces because their expressions are deliberately exaggerated, even for cartoons, or even harder because they’re lizards and tigers and horses and stuff? 

ETA: please reblog this post rather than sending me asks!

I have a degree of faceblindness, but no trouble reading expressions. It just makes it difficult to identify people and tell similar-looking ones apart. While I recognize faces after enough exposure to them, I mostly identify people by context and their overall “look” (one time a friend got a drastic haircut and I had no idea who they were. I can’t even count the number of times a tv show has done a dramatic reveal and I’ve been like “am I supposed to know this guy or what”).

Which is to say that cartoons are way easier than real life, because if the characters don’t have distinctive designs, the studio has fucked up bad.

sailershanty:

/space ballads/

Time for me to post the albums Minus Ten and Counting and Carmen Miranda’s Ghost! 

Toast for Unknown Heroes is my favourite.

A man is walking on the moon / with his eyes turned up toward space / and the bright blue world that watches him / reflected on his face.

The whole world sees the hero there / and the module crew also / but few can see the guiding team / that guards him from below.

Step by step, the longest march / can be won, can be won / many stones can form an arch / singly none, singly none / and together what we will / can be accomplished still / many drops can turn a mill / singly none, singly none.

Anonymous asked: can i ask you where you got your theme? It's really nice!

it’s a janky hodgepodge of stock tumblr html + my own code + some open source bits of other people’s code to smooth out tumblr’s own weird framework enough that it doesn’t fall apart

The last episode of TftB dropped today, and while both Borderlands and Telltale’s games are kind of hit or miss this series was a magical fusion of both. I just want to talk about Rhys’ terrible life choices, but hardly anyone seems to have played it/watched an LP of it, so

Reasons you Should Experience Tales From the Borderlands

• Inept jerk con artists in an inept jerk con artist arms race
  
• Pitch-black comedy
• You don’t need to know a single thing about Borderlands going in (also episode 1 is free now)
• Dystopian space corporations in which murder is an acceptable promotion tactic but they also have a finger-gun LARP league
• Clueless desk jockeys dropped onto death planet with suitcase full of money
• Rhys’ inadvisable crushes on, like… Half the cast
• Delicious body horror (plus body sharing) ((plus robot body horror)) (((but also the regular kind)))
  
• Diverse cast and a totally unfetishized lesbian couple who’ll kick your ass while building a rocket ship
  
• A+ villains, including but not limited to a) your murderous boss, b) your murderous boss (part 2), and c) a middle-aged bandit queen toting a rocket launcher the size of her torso
• Robot buddies 4 lyfe
• Inexplicably buff accountants wandering the desert
• Handsome Jack
• Butt Stallion, the pony made of diamonds that poops guns and is also somehow alive?

Calling all Canadians: GO VOTE

Today’s election day, so get to your polling stations and vote! It’s a very close race, and your ballot counts.

In a last hurrah of shady shit (remember, we’re still under the party that has MPs under arrest for election fraud, along with their greatest hits of muzzling scientists, burning research libraries and trying to strip immigrants of their citizenship), there’s new shadiness going down!

Pre-marked ballots have been reported in multiple places in what charitably appears to be some sort of printing error- smears or lines marking the circles for either the Conservatives or Greens. No other party markings have yet been reported. The signage marking polling stations in some BC ridings has also disappeared.

IF YOU RECEIVE A PRE-MARKED BALLOT, DEMAND A NEW ONE. IT IS SPOILED AND CANNOT BE USED. REPORT IT TO THE SCRUTINEERS IN THE ROOM AND/OR ELECTIONS CANADA.

muchmusic:

Vote.