dragons-and-gays:

the most life-changing customer i’ve ever had at work was a guy who came up to me and my coworker when we were at cash and said ‘hey kids…. wanna see something?’

and I said sure because why the fuck not, i’m here for a good time not a long time, and this motherfucker pulled a railroad spike out of his pocket.

A GODDAMN

ANTIQUE

RAILROAD

SPIKE

It was a fucking foot long chunk of steel that weighed about five pounds on its own so i was like ‘huh….. neat’

and he said ‘wait. there’s more’ and he took out a screwdriver. inlaid into the head of the spike. ‘things aren’t always as they appear’ he said as he unscrewed the bit and pulled out of this goddamn railroad spike

a statue

a tiny, tiny golden statue stood on the base of this flathead screw. it was a tiny golden man standing next to a tiny golden flower with gemstones in the petals. the whole thing was smaller than my thumbnail is tall. it was detailed enough that the tiny man had facial features. it was amazing.

‘oh my god,’ i said. ‘how long did it take you to make that?’

‘here’s a word of advice,’ he said, ‘never answer that question when people ask it. it devalues your work. you’ll get faster and better at things, and be able to make more art in less time. they don’t need to know about the process, just the product’.

and he left and that’s the one artistic piece of advice i definitely wanna hold to.

don’t tell people how long it takes to make shit.

battleagainstachristmasyopponent:

battleagainstachristmasyopponent:

JOKER CANONICALLY STOLE THE INVITE

WHO WAS IT ORIGINALLY TO

Master Hand: Okay….. do we have one Bandana Waddle Dee?

Joker, who very clearly is not Bandana Dee: Yo

the-sassy-twenty-something:

politijohn:

On World AIDS Day, let’s remember Mike Pence is a huge pile of human feces

misanthropemom:

copperbadge:

I left the python downloader to run overnight on Copperbadge, though it definitely wasn’t going to take all night to run. It looks like third time’s the charm; all 33,000 posts have been archived in a file of about 8GB.

BTW guys, the designer of this python thingy is a coder from Switzerland and I went looking for his contact information or a way to give him money and he does not appear to need or want it, though he definitely is enjoying watching the downloads of his doodad spike. I did go look at @loreweaver-universe ‘s original post and guess what, they have a patreon and a paypal, so if you used the tutorial I reblogged earlier, maybe throw some cash moneys their way given how helpful that was. 

Anyway, the downloader. It stores four folders for each username: archive, media, posts, and style (which is just anything you used to customize your blog with – mine just had my icon). 

Archive has the entire tumblr stashed by month and page, so for example you can open the sixth page of posts you made in June 2014. 

Media is all the images both from original posts and reblogs, which is nice; it doesn’t appear to have downloaded video or audio which is to be expected (and would make the download pretty unwieldy). 

Posts has separate files for every public post (you never log in using Python, so it can only archive what someone else using your tumblr could see), which is nice because if you set your folder search function to scan in-file text, your tumblr archive is now fully searchable. 

Both Archive and Posts include the notes count on each post, but not any other notes data – comments, reblogs, and likes don’t show up, which as I’ve said before is just as well given the number of notes some posts will have. They also include the tags on each post, but sadly the tag links aren’t internal – if you open one post and click on a tag in it, the link takes you to the live tumblr site. Which makes sense, coding the tags to be internally linked to each other would be nightmarish. 

One nice thing about the Posts file is that the html file for each post is datestamped – if you look at “date modified” for the post you will see the date it was originally posted, which is super cool for finding things by era. 

Anyway, it’s an efficient, effective doodad for getting all your original content down in a reasonably organized and readable format, so do recommend!

Tanks, Dad!