Anonymous asked:

Hi! I'm using your AO3 Incomplete Works Userscript, and it greys out WIPs just fine, but it doesn't display the work stats (wordcount, chapters, etc) in red on single works for some reason? I tried it in Kiwi Browser on android, and Edge & Chrome on desktop, but no luck. Does that part of the code still work for you? If so, can you post a sample screenshot of how a work would look like when its stats are red? Thanks for your time!

Hello! Sorry you’re having trouble. I just tried in Firefox and Chrome on Windows and MacOS and it worked for me, both logged in and not logged in. Here’s a screenshot of what I see:

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(work by sqbr used with permission)

It works by adding custom CSS to the Stats block - Is it possible that you’re using a custom AO3 skin and it’s not compatible with that?

Does anyone else have a problem with starting games? Like, I’ve had Cozy Grove on my wishlist for over a year, and I recently started an Apple Arcade free trial and it’s on there!

So I started it up, played about 5 minutes of tutorial and then was overcome with intense anxiety, closed it and a month later have not opened it again.

(I did the same thing a week ago for Stardew Valley, a game I have played many times.)

When I’m linking some art to a friend in instant messaging I used to like to link to the original artist’s post instead of a reblog.

I can’t figure out how to do that anymore. Can anyone help? I think I used to copy the link from the poster’s name on the first post in the chain but now that just links to their blog.

elaran:

rosalarian:

czortofbaldmountain:

sioltach:

macleod:

Color has been disappearing from the world.

A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.

Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.

These aren’t data points, but they are comparisons between the ‘modern’ homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.

Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.

Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.

The world is becoming colorless, why?

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you can look at any folk culture around the world, past or present, and find the use of the entire color spectrum. humans are drawn to color, it holds emotional symbolism but it also reflects the land we live off of. I consider it like a celebration of life and our place in it

the problem is that we aren’t actually allowed to belong to the places we live. houses and entire towns are shells meant to be as plain as possible for the next renter, buyer, or investor. the more generic it is, the more consumers it can be sold to. And when you have a country that’s biggest population doesn’t have a distinct sense of cultural identity it will be reflected and mass produced without much complaint

people getting joy from the minimalist gray aesthetic is not the same as the estrangement this country is making between people and place, one of the most fundamental relationships humans need to survive (and be happy while doing it)

Films depict middle ages as devoid of color but it’s the other way around.

When I was buying my house, people were telling me not to paint it this or that color because it would be harder to sell later. Like, I haven’t even bough the house and you’re already telling me to sell it! I’m buying a house because I need a place to live! I want to live here until I die or manage to move to Europe! We are not supposed to actually own anything anymore. Not our houses or cars or furniture. We are supposed to be perpetually replacing these things, paying more each time around, until we break and die and our bones are the color of the walls around us.

@duckamuck and @flamebyrd

Is this what you were talking about at dinner????

Yes, and (not to derail the post) more specifically the impact this has on fine art paints! Pigments that are no longer useful for cars or buildings (etc) can get discontinued by the pigment manufacturer when they’re no longer profitable, and then they’re no longer available to artists.

The fine art colour company Golden have a couple of blog articles talking about this:

• The Life of Pigments in Fine Art Paints
• What Happened to that Color?!

I’m back! Tumblr suspended my account back in January, and Support just got back to me to say it was a glitch.

I’m going to turn off my Dreamwidth cross-poster though. Any new content I make will get manually posted here.

With Twitter looking increasingly unhealthy I’m hoping to come back to Tumblr in some way but I’m still figuring out what that will look like.

Incidentally, I quit Tumblr to avoid spoilers back when Episode VIII came out.