computers were invented in 1943 by alan turing because there were too many fucking nazis on his fucking planet. it cracked all their codes and ended the the war about a year earlier. then there were less nazis and thus it was decided that computers were good.
since then, computers have increasingly put to use in ways that are not related to killing nazis, and this has widely been regarded as a bad move.
Whenever I don’t quite find a pleasing way to edit a photo (or if the light was too bad for the colors to really come out), I tend to go for a black-and-white-square edit. Here’s a recent selection.
I was just scrolling through the different things available through Tumblr Labs and saw Reblog Graphs. I have never activated labs before, but when I saw this option, I activated it immediately 😆
Here is an example of how this looks with an actual post:
Looking at a post from @staff can show just how crazy this can get (note how this isn’t even all of the reblogs) :
Here’s an example from a post made by someone I follow in the esoteric community here:
As a visual person, I think this is just down right awesome. You can see where the post has broken through into smaller communities and where some of the cross-pollination is happening.
If you #ZoomAndEnhance waaaaaay down in the lower right you’ll see the original post is the red dot and the blue dot is the reblog I made off the original post:
Sorry to be geeking out so much over this, but I really find this pretty cool - and I think it can help identify which occult subgroups are the most interested in what I’ve been doing 😁
happy April Fools! this theme is a joke. and by “joke” I mean, unfortunately, I spent time making this Tumblr theme that you can now use. consider it a late Ides of March gift or something.
What does GPOY mean?
oh, my little Tumblr baby. I’m so glad you asked!
GPOY is short for “Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself,” and is usually accompanied by a picture of yourself or something that you do. It was a very common reply and tag on Tumblr in the early 2010s, essentially meaning the same thing as “me” or “same”.
GPOY comes with the following features:
I spent a ridiculously long time making sure this looked as close to the Tumblr dashboard from 2011-2012 as I could, so it includes absurd, long-obsolete features such as…
Reblogged post commentary is nested in blockquotes, that can and will be unreadable and break when there are too many (don’t worry, if you don’t like this you can disable it).
Like and reblog buttons are at the top of posts (so convenient!)
This theme supports all post types! That being said, some of them look like absolute shit (as David Karp originally intended)
3 font sizes (original 14px - for ants, 15px, and 16px)
5 post sizes and 5 sidebar widths
9 built-in color schemes (Default, Modern, Dark, Galaxy 1-3, Doctor Who, Sherlock, and Supernatural) plus a custom scheme for your own uploaded background image (the most low-res, high-contrast, over-saturated image you can find would be great)
“Followed tags” section to host your favorite blog tags
“Suggested blogs” section to recommend your favorite blogs
An optional fake “create a post” section at the top of the blog
Unlimited custom links (visit the help desk FAQ for a tutorial)
Custom titles for Home, Ask, Submit, and Archive links
Pagination or endless scroll
you can install this theme via the source code here! the theme is still pending approval in the theme garden, and I’ll add that installation link later. as always, thank you so much for using my themes, even the hellishly ugly themes like this one. it means a lot!
my themes are free to use, and always will be — but if you love my work, I’d be so happy if you bought me a coffee. thank you!
Views from hotel rooms and rooftops in Korea, shot repeatedly at various times throughout my stay. (Some of them were easier to align – I didn’t use a tripod or anything else to achieve registration – than others, a few wouldn’t work at all. I’m sure there’s tools for doing this!)
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