Ripplings

Jun 14 2013
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buzzfeedanimals:

Is there anything sweeter than a dog with a mustache?

Probably not.

Oh. Em. Gee. 

(via buzzfeed)

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Jun 12 2013
It’s the idea that young, closeted men deflect attention from their sexuality by investing in recognized markers of success: good grades, athletic achievement, elite employment and so on. Overcompensating in competitive arenas affords these men a sense of self-worth that their concealment diminishes.

Jun 11 2013
Long suffering sigh. 

Long suffering sigh. 

(Source: chartier)

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Jun 10 2013

On the sale of tumblr

dearcoquette:

I have a bad feeling (ha) about the future of Tumblr now that it’s owned by the most confusing, cluttered, un-navigable website on the Internet. I have visions of ADS! ADS! ADS! all over my dashboard. After all, no one buys something for $B that they don’t think they’ll make $2B on. Even if their wish is naive, I’m sure they’ll try like hell to make it happen.

This all started crumbling for me before, though, when two of my favorite (and responsible) people at Tumblr resigned and when, soon after (though unrelated, I’m sure), Tumblr inexplicably pulled my black dashboard from me, made me suffer with the puke-teal-grey color that I loathe, and refused to respond to anyone’s questions about the insipid decision.

Still, the Staff account hasn’t addressed the “Tumblr Community” that they were somehow awarded a Webby for, about the sale and letting us know what’s in store for all our data, etc. I don’t know, maybe they have and I missed it.

Do I sound like a bitter 4-year old? I was curious about your take on the whole thing.


I’m not worried.

We’ve had half a decade with Tumblr, which is a goddamned eon in internet years. We’ve watched it grow from a few thousand hipsters in Brooklyn to a hundred million hipsters all over the world. We’ve lived through the inception of the like button, the ridiculousness that was Tumblarity, countless error screens patronizing us with those damned TumbleBeasts, and all the while, we’ve never had a search function that actually worked.

Tumblr has always been a sloppy mess. It’s a treehouse for the cool kids. It was slapped together in the backyard of the internet by amateurs who were just figuring out how to use a hammer and nails. There’s spray paint on the walls and a pile of porn in the corner next to a boom box and the stoner kid’s bong. We all come up here to escape our boring lives and our annoying parents and listen to music and make out with each other. We feel like it’s ours, even though it’s been in someone else’s yard the whole time.

Yahoo paid a billion dollars for our treehouse, which is fucking nuts when you think about it, because the treehouse is worthless as soon as the cool kids decide to stop coming. We know it, they know it, and they know we know it. That’s why I’m not worried.

Yahoo needs us to keep showing up. They need us to keep looking at porn and figuring out how to do bong rips and making out with each other in the corner. They desperately need us, and maybe they charge a couple hundred grand to let corporations sneak in and spray paint something on the wall. So what? It’ll get painted over in a day.

But hey, who knows? Maybe Yahoo will fuck it up big time. Maybe they’ll come in and knock down the walls and put up permanent billboards. I doubt it. I don’t think they’re that stupid. They paid a billion dollars for the treehouse with the cool kids, and if we don’t want to play here anymore, they’re shit out of luck.

Still, if they fuck it up, they fuck it up. There’s nothing we can do. It’s not ours. It never was. That’s okay, though. Nothing lasts forever, especially a treehouse, and all those fun times we had together? Those will always be ours. They can never have them.

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chekov-in-a-dress:

chekov-in-a-dress:

Sometimes Kirk tries helping Chekov with improving his English, having him repeat certain words over and over again but then Jim thinks the kid sounds just too adorable with his pronunciation and can’t help but laugh. 
Truth is, he actually doesn’t want him to get rid of his accent.

I need this again.

OH NO MY LOINS.
I can’t lie, I have a thing for Russian accents. Mmm. 

chekov-in-a-dress:

chekov-in-a-dress:

Sometimes Kirk tries helping Chekov with improving his English, having him repeat certain words over and over again but then Jim thinks the kid sounds just too adorable with his pronunciation and can’t help but laugh.

Truth is, he actually doesn’t want him to get rid of his accent.

I need this again.

OH NO MY LOINS.

I can’t lie, I have a thing for Russian accents. Mmm. 

(via taco-baron)

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How I feel when looking at who an old crush is dating now. 

How I feel when looking at who an old crush is dating now. 

Jun 09 2013
new-aesthetic:

“Key insights into your dog”: Whistle

Want. 

new-aesthetic:

“Key insights into your dog”: Whistle

Want. 

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mechafaux:

lol target’s college line bed sheets being benzoyl peroxide resistant why didnt this exist during my terrible teens

I have so many pillowcases with benzoyl peroxide bleaching. SO MANY. 

mechafaux:

lol target’s college line bed sheets being benzoyl peroxide resistant
why didnt this exist during my terrible teens

I have so many pillowcases with benzoyl peroxide bleaching. SO MANY. 

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Jun 08 2013
zodiaccity:

Aries Thought.

YUP. Zodiac truths (because who’s not like that). 

zodiaccity:

Aries Thought.

YUP. Zodiac truths (because who’s not like that). 

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Jun 05 2013

The Rains of Castamere with Turkish and English lyrics [HD] (by Berkay Asaner)

STUCK IN MY HEAD AAAARRRGH. 

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Jun 04 2013

Let’s recast Arrested Development’s flashback version of George Sr./Oscar Bluth, since Seth Rogen does not have the chops for it. Here’s my pick: Mark Ruffalo, who has a dryer wit that suits an impression of Jeffrey Tambor better, and also has a closer physical resemblance to the young Tambor. 

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kevinwada:

Hey all!  As you may or may not know, the variant cover I did for the first issue of X-men is finally out!  You can snatch up your own copy at this link, as I know many people have been having trouble trying to find it.  It’s sold out as of now but keep checking back and maybe they’ll get more copies in?  Since the issue is finally out I thought it might be safe to do an OFFICIAL post here.  Don’t scratch me, Marvel.  So here it is!  Coming at you in three versions.

The first is, obviously, the entire completed image without all the type treatments of the actual issue.  Here you can get a better view of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.  I have no knack or love of drawing architecture or buildings so I do try to stylize them as much as I can to hopefully (HOPEFULLY) disguise all my flaws and shortcomings in attempting them in the first place.  I couldn’t escape drawing the school in this image as how can you do a Downton Abbey-esque homage without an abbey stand-in?  As you can see from the sketch, I changed the perspective of the school to a much more flattened viewpoint to save me some angst and so that a wonky perspective didn’t distract the viewer.  There are minor changes in posture, costuming, and positioning of the characters as well.  I so rarely post my sketches to finished pieces I thought it might be fun to see this one.

The second image is a scan of the figures as they appear in the actual painted piece.  The backgrounds of my pieces are usually rare or simplified but whenever I need a more detailed background I usually do it separate from the foreground and compile the two in photoshop.  Depending on the complexity of the piece or if the client is requesting a hardcopy, some pieces are done as one painting.  These figures required some tender love and care and the background required detail and time so I decided to do them in two pieces.  As for the figures themselves, of COURSE, I had to put Storm front and center.  Her, Psylocke, and Rogue, as older members of the crew, were put in more cusp late 1910s/early 1920s looks while the younger kiddies were put in more explicitly 20s dresses.  I had so much fun researching the eras and taking bits and pieces from different dresses to come up with these.  Let me know what you think and don’t forget to pick up a copy!

Love this. 

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Jun 01 2013

Song of the day: The Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends (by emimusic)

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Regret

unfinishednovel:

thelittlemermaid:

I regret to inform you guys that - after almost five years and 8,294 posts - I will be changing my URL.


The folks at Tumblr got in touch with me today to tell me that Disney/The Little Mermaid has copyright claims on thelittlemermaid.tumblr.com, so… I’m getting booted.

It’s been real.

Now what do I call myself?

I’m all for IP rights, but this feels like a wholly unnecessary enforcement.  But the IP nerd in me wants to point out that this is actually a trademark issue (short phrases and titles are not copyrightable!), and then wants to do an in-depth analysis of the Polaroid factors to see whether there’s actually a likelihood of confusion.  This is what law school does to you, kids.  Don’t go to law school.

Also if we’re going with copyright I’m pretty sure Hans Christian Anderson got there first, and since he died in 1875, “The Little Mermaid” is actually a public domain character.

So Disney should really just go fuck itself.

(Source: academicmermaid)

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