hostilemuppet:

wip:

Don’t miss a thing! New unread activity notifications

We’re making some changes to the activity view on web — starting with unread notifications that will be highlighted blue, as well as multi-colored labels to identify those who you’re closest with.

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Why are we doing this?

You may have previously noticed that some activity items were highlighted, and some weren’t. What you may not know is why this was, and you’re not alone.

The previous, light blue highlighting indicated items that were from people you follow. Obvious, right? Well, no, not really. There are design patterns in interfaces that have become standardized from widespread usage to mean a certain thing. Highlighting notifications light blue is one of those that have come to mean “unseen” or “unread.” Which is what it will now mean here, too.

How do I know which are from people I follow?

Good news! We now have colorful labels to identify activity from people you follow. On top of that, we’ve created a new label called “Mutuals” to show people you follow and who follow you back so that you can keep track of those closest to you.

Before and after

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  1. Before: Blue highlighting used to signify activity from people you follow.
  2. After: New highlight color now used on unread activity
  3. After: Colorful new labels to distinguish activity from people you follow (following) and who follow you back (mutuals).

More to come

This is the first of several improvements we are making to activity and notifications—so stay tuned for further updates as they come!

Feedback?

Why not let us know what you think in the replies? We’d love to hear from you.

NEW FEATURE TO ALERT US WHEN SOMEONE BROKE THE MUTUAL BLOODS GONNA BE SPILT ON KINNIE TUMBLR

kindsoberandhalfhope:

On this Mother’s Day, I’d like to say that Katniss having children in the epilogue was her final and greatest rebellion against the Capitol.

Because of the way she grew up, the circumstances the Capitol created–losing her father, starving, the Games–Katniss didn’t want to have kids. The only reason she gives for not wanting children is that she doesn’t want them to have a chance of being Reaped and not because being a mother is something she wouldn’t enjoy being.

It is because of the Capitol that she doesn’t want to have children.

So when Katniss steps forward with courage and hope and love to create a family with Peeta, it’s not “sad” or “forced heteronormativity” or “Peeta wearing Katniss down” (as if he would do that, pfff). Having children is Katniss’s final way of sticking her middle finger out to Snow and saying, “You don’t have power over me anymore. The Capitol does not control me. I make the decisions for my life, and I’m deciding to have children.”

Anonymous asked:

hi! again. 😊 Please excuse my bad explanation; I'm new to PS and still learning what things are called. My question was about how you manage to combine pngs images with gifs in such a cool way. As seen in this beautiful HOTD edit, for example. /post/698703305504882688/i-should-not-be-left-to-my-own-devices-anti-hero It would be awesome if you have time to explain how you do this for all of us newbies, but if not, I am thankful that you took the time to answer my ask. Best wishes. 😊


I'm weird. I'm a weirdo.
jeonwonwoo answered:

— hii no omg thanku for being so nice with your ask </333333 and i’m more than happy to share how i did it (that set was so long ago 😭 i don’t have my hotd files rn but i’ll just make do with an example)

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this effect technically can be very simple to-do and all you need is a base background and a png to go on top! but if you want to recreate that effect exactly as it was in this set then prior to the png you need:

— two gifs, ready and coloured + blended together
— a transparent png with a clean outline
— basic knowledge of overlays (but really it’s more of a learn-as-you-go thing so its fine 😭)

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ocean-stuck:

honestlyvan:

theslowesthnery:

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gently staples this thread to the forehead of the people going “ew why would you ship mohg with miquella when you could make an OC/self-insert to ship with him instead”

the answer, you’ll find, is shockingly simple: because that doesn’t interest me. because that does literally nothing for me. because i’d rather piss in my own eye than ship a canon character with my OC (or self-insert). i promise you, if i had any interest in that, i would do it without needing to be told, but i don’t so i won’t. you’re asking a person who likes chocolate cake why they’re not eating banana cake instead as if those two are even remotely the same

[Image description: Twitter thread by Kris the Wordsmith ✍⚔⌨ || they/them @BleedingType that reads:

“not engaging in discourse but instead using its presence to learn more is far more helpful and healthy for me.

like fuck that, I’m not gonna argue with the “if you want to ship a problematic ship, just create an age appropriate self-insert OC instead” person but WOAH

like OHHHHHH that single statement explains so mucha bout that approach to media.

if that seems like an obvious solution, it stands to reason that these people view “fully projecting onto at least one character” as the baseline way everyone reads fiction.

they think that everyone is putting themself into the story; that everyone reads while fantasizing that they are taking part in the fictional world.

no fucking wonder they thin people who are into dark tropes are sick.

they don’t think “you like this in fiction, so you like it in real life,” they think “you are projecting yourself into this situation in fiction because that’s how reading works.”

which…no. obviously no. not across the board. I don’t think I need to explain why at this point.

I just think it’s interesting to see the curtain pull back a little. they have no concept of people like me, for whom self-insert OCs are a squick specifically BECAUSE they start getting too entwined with real life; for whom escapism and separation is the entire point.

the very idea that a whole fleshed out character can be replaced with a self-insert OC and still serve the same purpose in the story/ship…that’s a very limited, immature way of looking at things, but holy shit does it ever explaina  lot about the obtuse ways these people think.”]

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