Everyone look at my shitty Photoshop skills! This is more or less how I feel whenever I see a beautiful UTAU voicebank on my computer and I don’t know what to do with it.
Can’t hug every UTAU
(Source: ravenraspera)
Last year, a kid at work asked me to buy Världens viktigaste bok (“The World’s Most Important Book”). I looked it up and promptly bought it. Since then, it has been constantly lended out or in reservations, and only now have I had the opportunity to take it home and share a few pictures.
Sex ed books always get a dual reaction from the kids: “Ew, that’s gross!” and “Can I borrow it?” - quite often both from the same kid. :-) This has proven more popular than any of the others, which gladdens me, because it’s so good. It’s not just “Let’s tell the kids the basics about reproduction so they don’t get a shock when they enter puberty.” It’s “Let’s tell the kids everything we wish that we had been told in middle school.”
As you can tell from the pictures, it takes care to include a variety of bodies and sexual orientations. It also questions gender roles, portraying both the “factory” where boy things and girl things are packed into neat boxes, and the kids outside the factory trading with each other. The text is much the same. Take this excerpt, for instance:
“Many people who have a vagina feel like girls, and many who have a penis feel like boys. But it’s not always true. Sometimes the body doesn’t fit with how you feel. You can have a boy body but feel like a girl. Or have a girl body but feel like a boy. Your body doesn’t decide who you are, you decide it for yourself. You’re the one who knows if you’re a girl or a boy. Some people don’t feel like they’re boys or girls at all. Maybe you feel like both, or something else entirely. Or you don’t want to choose. There aren’t always words to fit with what you’re feeling, but that doesn’t make the feeling less true.”
The kids at work are conservative, as kids often are. (They have questioned both the fact that I’m still single, and the somewhat androgynous way I dress.) But they’re reading this stuff, in the library, in the classroom, at home. The school nurse, too, has recommended it as reading. I have every hope that for at least some of them, the message will be received.I WANT THIS BOOK.
This looks so beautiful
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Two of my favorite Disney fan art series’, together at last.
Jirka Vinse’s Real Life Disney Girls and David Kawena’s Disney Heroes
Hyper-realistic women and hyper-sexualized men
I’m about that life.
Peter Pan hot damn
Oh the princes
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American English
This accent of the English language isn’t very easy to deal with, and I’m leaving here some notes which would explain how I’m developing my English list.
A very basic analysis shows that English has 10 vowels. But this is not enough, because with just them, diphthongs can’t happen properly. Let me list the vowels using words:
cat
head
kit
cot
cut
first
cought
good
boot
keen
At this point, some may have noticed that “caught” and “cot” may have the same vowel. Which for those people is true indeed. But in some regions, they are still distinguished, making “caught” rhyme with “for”, and “cot” with “far”.
Now, let’s take a look at the diphthongs, which are five:
lie
lay
cow
toe
toy
As I mentioned previously, with just the 10 basic vowels, those diphthongs can’t be recreated, so they need to have symbols for themselves. So this makes now 10 vowels + 5 diphthongs. But it’s not over yet, there is still a problem that may emerge. If the speaker doesn’t distinguish “cot” from “cought”, then, how could “far” and “for” be distinguished? “Far” would not be a problem, but “for” would be. How could it be recreated without the vowel needed for it? maybe using part of the diphthong from “toe”? This wouldn’t sound quite right for some people. So, what now then? Those are two of what are called “rhotic diphthongs”. “Rhotic” is a word that refers to “r” sounds, so those are diphthong with “r” sounds. They are as follows:
are
air
beer
or
tour
Some accents may make the diphthong from “tour” into “or” in some words, but a longer list of example words could suffice to ensure the difference. But the point of all this is to show that those five rhotic diphthongs are needed as well, making up for 10 vowels, 5 diphthongs and 5 rhotic diphthongs. Unfortunately, this is quite big, and gets enormous when combined with the consonants. But this is still not over yet.
There are two vowels which I left uncommented so far, because they’re not very outstanding, and they can usually be replaced by others without causing troubles. So they don’t make up part of the essential phonemes. those are
Father
“a” from about
The first one is the long “ah” vowel, usually it doesn’t have much difference from “cot”, out of the length, and since this is disregarded in singing, it can be left out, at least, for American English. The other vowel is the schwa. It is an unstressed vowel, which orthographically can happen as the five vowels from the alphabet. In simple terms, it is a more closed “uh” sound, and because of the similarity, the schwa can be replaced by such sound. Also, speakers don’t usually distinguish them consciously.
This would technically raise the vowel count to 12, but as mentioned, those last two aren’t strictly essential ,and can be left out.
Most of the exceptions I’ve mentioned here don’t apply for British English, and this makes this accent require about all of them to have the needed distinction between the phonemes.
Unfortunately, this shows that English is not an easy language to deal with, and having 20 sounds related to vowels makes things even more complicated, but it is more difficult to avoid this.
so i just ordered a pizza from pizza hut and i added some special instruction
however when my pizza arrived i got this
no pizza hut…im afraid thats the star of david
ＨＡＩＬ ＪＥＨＯＶＡＨ
(Source: fukkawa, via ravenraspera)
dana into nude
Dana into anal
“The ‘john’ is a ‘john’ even if it sees from side.”
The ‘tady’ that saw from side might be a ‘plot’.
OK, the very worst part about online friends:
When they’re in crisis, you can’t go and see them in person. You can’t let them spend the night at your house. You can’t cook them dinner. You can’t go with them to a job interview. You can’t take them out for coffee. You can’t hold their hand or hug them. You can’t let them use your shower. You can’t be a physical contrast to the abusive people in their physical lives.
(Source: quixotess, via goodsideofthedarkside-deactivat)
Someone just used my art on an album cover WITHOUT my permission
http://www.luvdisaster.com/dave-shichman-im-holding-out-my-hand-album/ His
http://thuthunguyen.deviantart.com/art/Girl-with-the-feather-tattoo-275099629 mine
I am not some kid who you can just take art from and use it for album covers. I am an artist who has rights. I won’t take this at all.
TUMBLRBOMB THIS
GUYS REBLOG THIS.
NOW.
WHAT AN ART-STEALING DICK.
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On the first day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me some lube in a huge glass tube
On the second day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me two big cocks
On the third day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me three swollen balls
On the fourth day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me four condoms
On the fifth day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me five golden dicks
On the sixth day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me six porno movies
On the seventh day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me seven kinky orgies
On the eigth day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me eight pink didos
On the ninth day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me nine strippers dancing
On the tenth day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me ten hot yaois
On the eleventh day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me eleven glazed donuts
On the twelfth day of Christmas Team Henty gave to me twelve henty mangas
