Random fact: Yesterday I got stuck on that pokemorph/swap/whatever website and I’ve got a bunch of screenshots of some cool ones I’ll be drawing over the summer. I’ve just been seeing so many and they look like a lot of fun and also good practice! 

meladoodle:

juilan:

My ears. They are ringing.

are u gonna answer em

hungarian:

*touches textbook*

*absorbs knowledge*

Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing

edwardspoonhands:

First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize. 

But there are a number of circumstances in which this will not be a disaster. Let’s think:

WHY TO NOT BE TERRIFIED

1. David Karp is being kept on as CEO for at least 4 years. Karp’s policies made Tumblr what it is.
2. Tumblr is only as good as we (its creators) are. The idea that the cultural identity and creations we’ve fostered here have become worth a billion dollars is both inspiring and worrisome. But nevertheless, since we hold the value, we hold the power. 
3. Tumblr is being kept as a separate company. This is what Google did with YouTube and significant changes were very slow to come to YouTube (though they eventually came, and are still coming). My guess is there will be no significant changes to Tumblr for at least 12 months.
4. They’re buying it to become more culturally relevant. They know that controlling the platform will reduce or even remove that relevance, so they would be idiots to do it.

WHEN TO ABANDON SHIP

1. If Tumblr requires an account somehow linked to Yahoo.
2. If David Karp steps down, no matter what the reasons are.
3. If you have to pay to reach all of your followers (FACEBOOK!)
4. If Yahoo begins censoring legal images and videos.
5. If your dashboard becomes three columns by default.
6. If more than 10% of the dashboard is taken up by advertising.

ADVICE TO YAHOO! PEOPLE

1. Don’t do any of the above things or we will leave and you will own a billion dollar hole in the internet.
2. Drop the exclamation point for chrissake…it’s gaudy and grammatically confusing.

Yes, I do wish that Tumblr (being a more interesting kind of company) could have found a more interesting kind of exit for its founders and investors than the old standby of selling to a floundering company trying to revitalize itself. But I think Yahoo and Marissa Mayer are intelligent enough to not totally fuck it up. Here’s hoping.

 - Hank

morihearty:

it’s the 50th anniversary

it’s very dramatic

john hurt turns to the camera

and says

‘in a land of myth and a time of magic’

sherchester:

ahtnamaseed:

sherchester:

ahtnamaseed replied to your post: I NEED MORE HANNIBAL BLOGS

I LITERALLY JUST FINISHED THE FIRST EPISODE AW YEAHHH

IT’S SOOOO GOOD HONESTLY EVERY EPISODE JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER 

BY THIS STAGE I HAVE JUST FORGOTTEN THE FACT THAT HANNIBAL IS A PSYCHOPATH BECAUSE HE’S JUST SO GREAT HE’S THE BEST SQUEEEE

AWESOME! IT’S SO INTERESTING HOLY CRAP

I’M OFF TO EPISODE TWO

SQUEEE SO GOOD

and just so you know, there’s no episode four because america is crazy and thought it might offend people as it was at the same time as the boston bombings (this is ridiculous). so yeah.

Okay then that’s weird. But yeah thanks good to know!

sherchester:

ahtnamaseed replied to your post: I NEED MORE HANNIBAL BLOGS

I LITERALLY JUST FINISHED THE FIRST EPISODE AW YEAHHH

IT’S SOOOO GOOD HONESTLY EVERY EPISODE JUST GETS BETTER AND BETTER 

BY THIS STAGE I HAVE JUST FORGOTTEN THE FACT THAT HANNIBAL IS A PSYCHOPATH BECAUSE HE’S JUST SO GREAT HE’S THE BEST SQUEEEE

AWESOME! IT’S SO INTERESTING HOLY CRAP

I’M OFF TO EPISODE TWO