Sunday, January 31, 2016

skalja: kane52630: Spider-Man 2 (2004) So this scene is only...





















skalja:

kane52630:

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

So this scene is only available in the extended cut for home release – it was supposedly cut from the theatrical version because J.K. Simmons was TOO RIPPED and looked way too good in the suit.



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archiemcphee: The Department of Phenomenal Pencil Art is proud...

tiinatormanenphotography: Lapland magic.   Jan 2016 Torasieppi,...



tiinatormanenphotography:

Lapland magic.  

Jan 2016 Torasieppi, Northern Lapland.

by Tiina Törmänen | web | FB | IG |  



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Thursday, January 28, 2016

lensblr-network: Delighted to see that one of my Faroes images...



lensblr-network:

Delighted to see that one of my Faroes images has been included in the Lürzer’s Archive Editors Pick 2016 diary



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banshy: Levi, Finnish Lapland // Juuso Hämäläinen



banshy:

Levi, Finnish Lapland // Juuso Hämäläinen



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art-of-swords: Handmade Swords: Dagfinnr – Day Finder — Dragon...













art-of-swords:

Handmade Swords: Dagfinnr – Day Finder — Dragon Slayer’s Sword

  • Maker: Jake Powning
  • Medium: hilt – bronze, blackwood; blade - pattern welded 1075/8670m; scabbard – quilted maple wood lined with sheered sheep fleece, bronze
  • Measurements: overall length 113cm / 44.5 inches, width at the strong 5cm / 2 inches; blade length 93cm / 36.6 inches; hilt length 20cm / 7.9 inches; weight 1548g / 3.4lbs

This is a dragon slayer’s sword, it represents years of research into myth and Germanic material culture and is the culmination of a 20 year career as a swordsmith. The blade is constructed from two nine layer twisted strands in the core and an edge of over 600 layer forlded steel.

Source: Copyright © 2016 Jake Powning



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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Maybe people would be less willing to post anonymously if they didn't think the minute they criticise your "diversity" that you'd insist to everyone reading they are by default an ignorant racist? I know at least one user who had to quit Tumblr over enormous amounts of hate mail they received that was instigated by you accusing them of being so for criticism of your new "Nick Fury".

If somebody received enormous amounts of hate mail based on something they said here, I would suggest that it may have more likely been triggered by what they said than any instigating by me. I am not in favor of such tactics and do not support them.

I think, though, that this does point to a place where maybe people ought to be taking a look in the mirror and making a gut-check to themselves about how they are representing their opinions. There’s nothing wrong with liking the traditional Thor, or Carol Danvers as Ms Marvel, or Steve Rogers as Captain America, and with wanting any of them back in those roles. But at the point where your expression of such a feeling is about being the victim of diversity, about being “deprived” of your favorite character due to “politically-correct reactionism”–as though 80+% of all comic book super heroes weren’t straight white people–that’s where you stop talking about a preference for one fictional character over another and get into biases based on real-world ethnicities, religions and orientations.

As a reader, there are literally hundreds of characters who, in one way or another, mirror my experiences as a human being, because I happen to be a straight white dude. Whereas for other people in this world, a huge number of them, the options are far more limited. And this isn’t a white world–it hasn’t been for years and years and years. That’s frightening to some people, but that’s the tide of history. And it’s right. And I do not think for an instant that there is anything unfair about their being some characters, prominent characters, of every possible persuasion. We don’t have every single base covered yet, but it’s a process and we’re working on it. But it takes a special kind of entitlement to feel like 80+% isn’t enough for you.

I think the world in general would be a better place if people could stop looking for differences to divide us and instead embraced the commonalities that make us all the same. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that there are assholes of every possible persuasion–but those assholes are not representative of the whole of the  demographic groups to which they happen to be a part–they’re just assholes. But that’s not everyone, and isn’t really even most people.

And, bottom line, if you need the anonymity to express your opinion on a matter like this, you might be an asshole. Stop, double-check yourself. Be the better version of who you are. (A clue: if your statement begins with some version of, “I’m not a racist, but…”, you’re firmly in asshole territory.)



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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Whats Olivier Coipel up to?

He’s drawing something you haven’t heard about yet!



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kiev4am: Ohh. I only just read the actual solicit for Midnighter #11 and realised that that...

kiev4am:

Ohh. I only just read the actual solicit for Midnighter #11 and realised that that magnificent bastard Henry Bendix is mentioned. Is this the first time he’s shown up the DCU? I seem to have blanked much of nu!Stormwatch, was he in that? If not, then yessss Bendix :D

as far as I know, yep this is the first mention of Bendix. excited!



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1337tattoos: Coen Mitchell



1337tattoos:

Coen Mitchell



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Staff, let’s talk

carmineeyes:

annistired:

dreadbeasts:

suricattus:

runawaymarbles:

bjornwilde:

lilyvonpseudonym:

keyofjetwolf:

docholligay:

Tumblr, I have an idea. You’re desperate to monetize this site. I get that. Running websites costs money, I know how the world works.

I am desperate for you to create a website I can use effectively.

I was on livejournal back in the day, and they had a thing called “paid accounts.” The free account was always free, but the paid accounts had special benefits.

If you offered paid accounts, I would buy one. I would give them away for giveaways. I would give them to my friends as gifts. I had a paid account back in my LJ days!

I think 25-30 dollars a year is fair for the amount of entertainment I get off this site, considering that tumblr, inc, does not make the content but serves as a vessel. That works out to 2.50 a month at the high end, which is more money than you are making off me currently because I use an ad blocker because we are at war. (Previous to you taking replies away, I actually didn’t! Because again, I understand how costs and money work) But also low enough that I think you’d be surprised how many takers you’d get.

Let’s stop fucking with each other and just turn this into a monetary exchange. I’m tired of the horseshit. You need money, I need a fucking useable fandom website. Leave free tumblr accounts as they are, I don’t care. But here’s what I want in a paid account.

NECESSARY:

  • I want replies back. No ‘we’ll get around to it’ no ‘replies are coming.’ I want them back the day you run my Paypal. You have the code, don’t even tell me you can’t turn it on for a particular blog, because you did the exact thing with messaging. 
  • I want to be able to upload videos direct to tumblr that are longer than 6 damn seconds. Give me some storage space. 
  • Custom themes or some bullshit, I don’t actually care about this but other people might
  • No ads for paid users

I would LIKE:

  • To create a button where I can decide to make a post rebloggable or not when I create it.
  • To have a quick dropdown when I ask a question so I can ask it from a sideblog.
  • Fanmail back

Now, I am not a great fool, and realize there will be GREAT HUE AND CRY if you try to establish this. I don’t care. And you shouldn’t either. First of all, there’s great hue and cry every time you do literally anything. Secondly, the people who will complain the loudest are very likely already using an adblocker, because we are on the internet and savvy to it, and you are not making money on them anyhow.

And please don’t insult me, tumblr, by telling me it’s about ‘the love of the site’ or some crap. The changes you’ve implemented are designed to make this more of a look-reblog-move on site where things go viral and advertising can easily be slipped in, versus a conversational place. But I am telling you, ‘I will give you money to stop fucking with me’

Let me give you money. And stop fucking with me. 

@staff. Cash for services. We’ll both be happy.

In the optimistic event that someone actually takes a look, here’s my list.

As a paying user I would NEED:

  • Replies back. Actual replies. At minimum, exactly like they were. I would happily accept them larger though, say the size of a question reply box or an Ask.
  • A Tumblr-side blacklist tied to my account that filters on the server end so the content I don’t want to see never hits my dash. That blacklist filters on mobile as well.
  • Better communication about things happening on the development side. By which I mean any communication at all.
  • No ads for paid users.

As a paying user I would LIKE:

  • An increase in post limits.
  • Post-level control over what is or isn’t rebloggable.
  • Some quality of life improvements offered by Xkit (like say tag bundles), if only because there’s no reason they don’t already exist I mean come on.
  • An easy way to export/back-up posts. JUST IN CASE SOMETHING MAY HAPPEN TO SOMEONE’S BLOG AT SOME POINT PERHAPS I DUNNO.
  • A way to organize the Ask Box, my god, please.

I’m not hard to please, I’m really not. You want money, I want to stay here. I fail to believe there’s not some way to make both our dreams come true.

I agree with all of the above, and would gladly pay for a membership if these features were available to users. Please start just asking for our money instead of sabotaging the social media aspects of your social media network to try and sell my content to advertisers.

I’d like:

A return to the tag system. I know they want us to get away from it, but I want to see more of a certain tag than what they filter into my feed and on my terms, when I wish it.

A better anti-spam watch. Seriously, some tags are just flooded.

You can get paid templates, but yes to the rest of this.

Amen.  I’d rather be a paying user than a commodity, Tumblr.  Let us give you a reasonable chunk of cash, and you deliver a useful product.  Everyone wins.

I want a friends-lock option. I would post a lot more if I could filter who gets to see it.

These are all good ideas though I have to add, I will not pay for tumblr until they fix their image compression/stretching issues (basically, bring back the old dash layout/borders.)

Since I use tumblr mainly for art how images look on the site are a BIG issue for me.  But I would also totally pay for ad free and additional features.

@staff you should really be paying attention to this post. at least look at the note count every once in a while, ‘cause you’ll probably get a surprise how many people agree with it.



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arsenicinshell: Jaded Minx















arsenicinshell:

Jaded Minx



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