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fred-the-dinosaur

@fred-the-dinosaur / fred-the-dinosaur.tumblr.com

my drawing side blog is https://fred-the-dinosaur-draws.tumblr.com/ side blog for my 1960s tv shows fan stuff is https://fourthree.tumblr.com/. very in progress star trek comic is https://quarkcodedtumblr.com/
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I'm really really bad at long projects so I'm externalising my motivation. Every task gets a tick. Every section gets coloured in on the drawing. When I'm done I get a fully playable accordion. Hopefully.

(Context is I got a neglected and musty but functional second hand accordion for a tenner. I'm hoping it's all doable surface fixes but I haven't opened it yet so I'm a bit nervous about what I'm going to find in there. wish me luck)

Sections complete: 0/8

Playable state: -

Progress log:

05.01.25: metal bits cleaned and polished, left hand strap fully repaired and reattached. Despite multiple attempts the corrosion on the corners of the bellows is resisting any repair. The bastard stickers also won't come off (unsurprising, they are probably older than me) but I don't want to risk any of my usual solutions until I know what the casing can take. Still dreading what I'll find in the bellows.

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leoremin

FOR ANY WRITERS OR THOSE WHO LIKE GOTHIC LITERATURE

I found this. It's basically a huge list of how to write in a gothic horror-like style. It gives you words to use, and what types of adjectives to put down, and it explains them rather than just giving you a list too. I hope someone beyond myself finds this useful because holy shit am I going to use this tool

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prokopetz

"Oh, they have to get rid of the headphone jack to improve water resistance" I literally have a cell phone that's rated for recording videos up to three metres underwater. It has a headphone jack. They didn't have to do any such thing.

my partner once put their phone through the first twenty minutes of a hot and soapy washing machine cycle (not on purpose)

it was fine

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I'm so pissed right now. I know that fabric has been declining in quality for a while but I just bought new pajamas from kmart and they are literally see through. Not just through one layer of fabric either; I can see through the leg, that is, through 2 layers of fabric. These aren't clothes. I am not exaggerating when I say that I have strained soup through cheesecloth thicker than these pants. These are men's flannel pajamas, the kind people wear in winter, and they are made if shittier thinner fabric than even the most bargain bin bullshit halloween costumes. This "flannel" feels like plastic and is thinner than a chux wipe. Why is this even for sale.

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im-jesus

i'm sorry but how did you go to kmart. where- where are there still kmarts. what alternate dimension are you from.

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m-bbert

jesus are you unaware of the beautiful upside down land of australia and our possession of kmarts

they’re like everywhere here

that's where they went? damn.

they migrated dude

germany still has woolworths

So does Australia. Does anywhere not have woolworths?

The UK lost all theirs in the credit crunch.

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rimonoroni2

“a penis is Ontologically Evil because it’s technically capable of perpetrating sexual violence” damn, wait till you hear about hands!

yeah, so… listen, you’ve just made everyone in the group really uncomfortable because like, you know… you have hands. and some of us here have been hurt by people with hands, so… that makes you, like, a violent offender in the making, you know? because you have hands. and the other day stephanie said that you shook somebody’s hand and that’s like, basically a violent threat to us so. you need to leave actually

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one time a ranger 1 (so not law enforcement) at the state park where i worked was getting rid of a bunch of clothes so he put them all in garbage bags and dropped them off at the bunkhouse where all the seasonal employees lived and he said we could go through them before he donated them and we all took a tshirt or two and then a month later we were throwing a party and I was like "we should all wear his clothes to the party" and he came in and it took him like an hour and five drinks to suddenly be like "wait a minute.................."

i should've noted that our parties always had dress-up themes (pirate night, cowboy night, etc.) and he'd texted me and asked what the theme was for this one and i told him "just dress as yourself."

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

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I'm so pissed right now. I know that fabric has been declining in quality for a while but I just bought new pajamas from kmart and they are literally see through. Not just through one layer of fabric either; I can see through the leg, that is, through 2 layers of fabric. These aren't clothes. I am not exaggerating when I say that I have strained soup through cheesecloth thicker than these pants. These are men's flannel pajamas, the kind people wear in winter, and they are made if shittier thinner fabric than even the most bargain bin bullshit halloween costumes. This "flannel" feels like plastic and is thinner than a chux wipe. Why is this even for sale.

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im-jesus

i'm sorry but how did you go to kmart. where- where are there still kmarts. what alternate dimension are you from.

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m-bbert

jesus are you unaware of the beautiful upside down land of australia and our possession of kmarts

they’re like everywhere here

that's where they went? damn.

they migrated dude

germany still has woolworths

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