First a quick explanation for those casual viewers or new fans: At the end of “Weirdmageddon 4: Take Back the Falls”, on a bus seat there is a cryptogram that decoded to, “HIDDEN DEEP WITHIN THE WOODS A BURIED TREASURE WAITS, SECRETS LOST AND STATUES FOUND BEYOND THE RUSTY GATES”
This presumably refers to the short clip of a REAL Bill statue somewhere in the woods.
A few hours ago (on July 20, 2016) Alex Hirsch started off with the following messages:
THE URBAN LEGEND HAS COME TRUE
CIPHER’S STATUE’S CALLING YOU
THE SECRET MAP IS IN YOUR HAND
TO TRACE THE CLUES ACROSS THE LAND
Middle Banner - PINES
Bottom Message:
DON’T FORGET IT’S ALL FOR PLEASURE
THE HUNT ITSELF’S THE REAL TREASURE
BUT A PRIZE AWAITS THE FIRST ONE THERE
BE SAFE, BE SMART, AND OF COURSE BEWARE
Red Letters - RUSSIA
Which fans quickly figured out (though, let’s be real here, GF fans are some of the smartest around) to St. Petersburg’s Kazan Cathedral.
@mindofaddict found the following clue there:
Finally the hunt can begin
So switch your Rubles out for Yen
Turn left when you’re at the shrine’s door
When you reach the statue turn left once more
In the leftmost corner in the back
Is the info that you lack
A sword and a crescent mark the clue
Cipher’s statue’s calling you
Which leads us to the Kanda Myojin shrine in Japan!
@nyankun1 found the next clue:
Consider in your quest for truth
The hunter of the fountain of youth
400 before his name is written
Outside the gate is where its hidden
Find what’s LOST to pass the test
From a Shrine that’s east to a Shrine that’s west
Which is a clue to: 400 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30308. Which is a Shriner temple!
The flyer was rain soaked and faded but clearly included a phone number (323-283-8650), which when called went to an answering machine by Stan— but it’s backwards. Listen to it reversed here.
HELLO, IT’S GRUNKLE STAN AND I HAVE A RIDDLE FOR YOU. WHAT HAS TWO LEGS DURING THE DAY, FOUR LEGS DURING THE NIGHT, AND, UH, IT’S RED AND WHITE AND, I DUNNO, I’M NO GOOD AT THESE RIDDLES.
IT’S AT OCHRE COURT, ALL RIGHT? THE NEXT CLUE, IT’S AT OCHRE COURT. IT’S, UH, IT’S LIKE, IT’S A BIG OLD BUILDING IN RHODE ISLAND. AND IF YOU GO UP THE STAIRS, THERE’S GONNA BE A BUNCH OF PICTURES OF NUNS ON THE WALL.
YOU GOTTA LOOK BEHIND ONE OF THE NUN PICTURES. SISTER MARY HILDA MILEY. REAL, REAL GROUCH, THAT NUN. LIFT UP THE PICTURE TO FIND A CLUE BEHIND THE NUN. ALL RIGHT? THAT’S THE WHOLE THING.
SO, YOU KNOW, BE CAREFUL WITH THE PICTURE. DON’T BREAK IT. I DON’T WANT YOU TO GET ANYONE IN TROUBLE, ALL RIGHT? YOU DON’T WANT OL’ GRUNKLE STAN GOING TO JAIL.
ANYWAY, GO TO THE PLACE, LOOK BEHIND THE NUN, FIND THE THING, AND UH, UH, ALWAYS? BE… MYS… LOOK OUT FOR MYSTERIES!!! THAT IT, DID, DID I DO IT? ALL RIGHT.
Draco Malfoy personally made the Potter stinks buttons and nobody could fix them to say Harry was cool and shit, if they tried it would only make the insults worse
You wouldn’t know Draco Malfoy was always right behind Hermione in grades
You wouldn’t know Draco was seriously the most animated person at school and acted out everything.
You wouldn’t know Draco got deeply offended when people didn’t laugh at his jokes
You wouldn’t know Draco created the Weasley is our King song, tune and all. (Probably in the shower or something because he’s such a weenie)
You wouldn’t know Draco and Ron got into a fist fight in their first year
You wouldn’t know about the huge knock down drag out between Draco, Harry and the rest of the Slytherin and Gryffindor quidditch team in their fifth year. (Harry and Draco just fucking tackle each other and start whooping each others asses and it’s amazing.)
You would miss out on basically everything Draco says and does. He’s a walking gold mine and It’s upsetting the movies didn’t devote a few seconds for any of his shit (Azkaban did an okay job)
You wouldn’t know about the Weasley is our king buttons he made in fifth year either
You wouldn’t know Draco didn’t actually try and fight a Hippogriff
he was just petting him and offhandedly said that he was ugly. He didn’t sprint over to him, he actually did all the bowing and what not.
If you didn’t read the books you wouldn’t know that Draco is the most annoyingly smart and artistic little shit you’ve ever heard of.
you also wouldn’t know that Harry was the only seeker who could beat him.
That he suffered from quite severe depression in book five. Quit Quidditch, stopped seeing his friends. He was depressed to the point of looking physically sick.
That when he confronted Dumbledore he said he had to kill Dumbledore because Voldemort had his family. Not because he was concerned for himself.
You wouldn’t know that he was the only person able to find a way into Hogwarts passed Dumbledores protection spells.
you guys also miss out on the fact that Draco brilliantly sneaks some polyjuice potion from a potions lesson so that he can transform Crabbe and Goyle into different girls all the time so that no one suspected they were up to anything while the two of them guarded the area outside of the room of requirement for Draco.
you guys don’t get to see how his “big bad slytherin buddies” actually tried to calm him down on the train when he was obviously anxious about the whole Voldemort thing. he even calmly laid in Pansy’s lap while she played with his hair.
you guys don’t know about Draco going to visit moaning Myrtle in her bathroom and how she admits that he opens up to her and how he’s sensitive and cries pretty often. and the whole fact that they’re friends.
you guys even miss out on the fact that Draco and Harry meet before they introduce themselves in the handshake scene while they’re being fitted for school robes in Diagon Alley, and Draco has a full conversation with Harry without even knowing who he is.
i don’t think you even get a glimpse of the fact that Draco always receives letters and packages of sweets and stuff from home while he’s away at school.
i also can’t stand the fact that they removed THIS SCENEand basically added the total opposite. how are you going to delete the best character development for Draco, and just make him weak? standing next to his fellow classmates and refusing to cross the courtyard when his family calls him, yelling “Potter!” when he realizes that Harry is actually alive and running towards him and throwing him a wand!! it’s the strongest, ballsiest, audience-mind-changingly scene possible, and they just throw it all away.
((sorry i’m just really salty about how he was portrayed in the movies ok))
You remember that post about the homestuck t-shirt design contest collaborating with hot topic? And how Hot Topic are the biggest art thieves? This is recent. As you can see above, I stumbled upon Hot Topic’s website and they are selling a very popular fan art put on a t-shirt, and did not ask permission from the original artist (rismo).
This shows Hot Topic still continues their art thievery. Hot Topic are still taking art from artists without their permission. This is disrespectful and appalling.
EXCEPT YOU DID GIVE THEM YOUR PERMISSION.
BY AGREEING TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON DEVIANT ART.
6. Payment Unless otherwise agreed between Artist and deviantART in a writing from deviantART, the license granted to deviantART under this Agreement is royalty-free.
DeviantArt you literal piece of shit
Uh what
That’s not okay
yo okay this is REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and imma be deleting my DA very soon because of it.
are you fucking for real
Just a heads up for people hosting their designs on DA
Okay. I just read through the “agreement” that DA has implemented, and it is truly heinous. I will not be posting on DA anymore.
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b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform, broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and media now known or not yet known or invented ; (They can publish your art in any media, use it to showcase their website or even promote certain groups without your knowledge. For all you know, your art could be promoting the KKK.)
c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials (e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described in Section 3(b); and
d) the right to sublicense to any other person or company any of the licensed rights in the Artist Materials, or any part of them, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. (They can edit, change, or otherwise modify your artwork in any way they want, as well as sublicensing it to third parties, such as Hot Topic.)
e) Artist acknowledges that Artist will not have any right, title, or interest in any other materials with which Artist Materials may be combined or into which all or any portion of Artist Materials may be incorporated. (By posting on FA, you forfeit your right to dispute any third party profits or copyright infringements upon your art.)
f) During the Term, DeviantArt’s licenses under this Agreement include the right to use any part of the Artist Materials in the promotion, advertising or marketing of the DeviantART Sites. (DeviantArt can use your art to advertise anything they want.)
g) As used in this Agreement, the term “Artist Materials” means any content uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s) which may include without limitation Artist’s name(s) (including professional names), trademarks, trade names, likenesses, photographs, biographical materials, audio-visual materials, artwork, liner notes, and other graphical, textual, video, film or audio materials and any and all “skins,” computer-generated images or other artwork or images that Artist submits to DeviantArt in any medium or format whatsoever. (ANYTHING you submit to DeviantArt belongs to DeviantArt now. Including your drawings, your photos, videos, your stock materials, your music/audio, your written stories, and your artist name.)
Yes. THEY CAN EVEN USE YOUR ACTUAL ARTIST NAME. THEY OWN IT NOW, IF YOU ARE PART OF DA.
i remember in 6th grade public school one of my friends in the class used the word “bungalow” as often as possible and every time he needed to say “house” or “home” he swapped it for “bungalow” and me and the rest of the class thought it was so fucking funny.
so everyone in the class started using it too like saying “I brought my lunch from the bungalow today” or whatever and the teachers HATED IT.
it started getting out of hand when we were learning about the presidents and we often needed to say “the White House” so of course we would say “the White Bungalow” and the teacher was so furious and then there was a ban on the word and if anyone said it they were sent to the office and I remember the kid who started all the bullshit one time got in trouble for something petty like sharing his homework and the teacher said that she was going to call home to him mom and he just stood up and cried out “No, ms_____! Please don’t call home!”
and there was this huge silence because he just raised his voice at the teacher
and then a huge smile spread across his face and he said
***
Я вас любил: любовь ещё, быть может, В душе моей угасла не совсем; Но пусть она вас больше не тревожит; Я не хочу печалить вас ничем. Я вас любил безмолвно, безнадежно, То робостью, то ревностью томим; Я вас любил так искренно, так нежно, Как дай вам бог любимой быть другим.
— Александр Сергеевич Пушкин,
Я вас любил: любовь ещё, быть может,
I you loved: love still be may - One can say both “я любил вас” and “я вас любил”, and stress always falls on the last word. So here the most important thing is the verb. “Вас” is the Accusative form of “вы” as we can put a question “loved whom?” By “вас” he means a woman. And he does not say “тебя", as in the XIX century it was unapropriate to call “ты” not a member of your family. About “быть может”. It’s the same as “может быть” - “may be”. Poetry often uses inversion (the wrong word order) for the sake of rythm and stressing out the proper words.
В душе моей угасла не совсем;
In soul my has blown out not at all - Here we see the inversion again. The basic Russian everyday life word-order would be: “В моей душе не совсем угасла”. Pushkin keeps on stressing out the most important words - “угасла”, “не совсем”. “Угаснуть” - is a perfect form of the verb “гаснуть”. It is usually used with nouns connected with light and fire. To die out, to blow out. To stop giving light. So what is it about? In the first line there was “любовь”, and now it is “угасла”. But then we have “не совсем”, which is not at all, not yet. So the poet compares love with fire, and says, that the love is not as strong as before, but there is still some love glowing in his soul. “В душе моей”/”в моей душе” is a Prepositional construction, as we can ask where? где?
Но пусть она вас больше не тревожит;
But let she you anymore disturb - Let’s start with “пусть”. It can be translated as “let”, but not in the meaning of “to allow”, but like in “let it be”, “let it snow”. Then we see “она”. Who is she? The woman he adresses this poem to is already called “вы”. Она here is love. The word любовь is a feminine noun, that’s why in poetry love is often portrayed as a woman. “Больше не” is easy, it’s always “anymore” in negative sentences. “Больше” is “more”, in case you don’t know yet. “Тревожить” is to disturb, to cause worry. It is used in present tense here. So the meaning of this line is something like: “But my love should not disturb you anymore”.
Я не хочу печалить вас ничем.
I don’t want to sadden you with anything - this must be pretty clear. “Печалить” is to sadden, to make somebody sad. He always uses “вы” in Accusative, because we can ask whom? I’ve already said that. “Ничем” is an Instrumental case form of “ничто” - nothing. We can put a question “by what?” or “with what?” - чем?
Я вас любил безмолвно, безнадёжно,
I you loved silently, hopelessly - Here we see the repetition of the first line, such repetition of the beginning of sentences is called anaphora. I would say, that it’s even better to translate it not as “I loved you”, but “I used to love you”. The word “безмолвно” is very high-style and old-fashioned. “Молвить” is an archaic variant of a word “говорить” - to speak, it can be seen only in literature nowadays. The prefix “без” means absolutely the same as the preposition “без” - without. So “безмолвно” is “without saying anything”. The word “надёжно” means “reliably” in Russian, but you can notice similar root as in the word “надежда” - hope. In Russian all these words are related. So “безнадёжно” is ‘hopelessly”.
To poбостью, то ревностью томим;
Now with timidity, now with jealousy languished - то…то is a phrase that shows instability. At one moment it’s timidity, at another it’s already jealousy. We have a special idiom - “то понос [diarrhea], то золотуха [scrofula]”, that means that something bad happens all the time, and you never get out of trouble. The words “робость” and “ревность” are also used in Instrumental case (languished with what?). “Томим” is a passive form of the verb “томиться”. It is rarely used in speech. But we often use “утомить”, “утомительный” - to tire, tiring. We do not have a subject in this line, but it is a continuation of the previous one, where the subject is I, so he keeps talking about himself in the past, when he used to love.
Я вас любил так искренно, так нежно,
I you loved so sincerely, so tenderly - The only thing I want to comment here is the ending of the word “искренно” - in modern Russian we say “искренне” - sincerely, genuinely, honestly.
Как дай вам бог любимой быть другим.
As let you the god loved be by another - Here is inversion again. The grammatically correct word-order is: “Как дай бог вам быть любимой другим”. “Дай бог” - is just a standard phrase, meaning “with the God’s blessing”. It is so frequently used, that it does not even matter now, whether you believe in God or not. It just expresses your wish for something to happen. And what does the author wish here? “быть любимой другим” - to be loved by another [man]. “Любимая” is not an adjective here, it’s a passive participle, and it has the same case as the noun it conforms. We ask - to be loved by whom? It’s Instrumental. And the word “любимой” is also in Instrumental case.
So in the end the poet surrenders and though his love is still glowing in his soul, he does not want to make his woman suffer, as she clearly does not love him back. He remembers what emotions this love gave to him, and now he wishes to move on and wants her to be happy with someone else who could love her as deeply as he did.
As a dog trainer, I can tell you that probably 50% of dogs really don’t like hugs and at least another 48% pretty much just tolerate them. Very few dogs I know genuinely like hugs the way humans tend to give them. What’s funny is that the picture that Fox used with this headline is one of the more common ways dogs do enjoy contact that humans would consider a hug.
Stanley Coren - the dude who wrote the article that is pissing everyone off about this - really does know what he’s talking about. He wrote one o my favorite books, called how to speak dog, which has some absolutely beautiful diagrams of dog behavior and body language along the gamut of extreme situations.
The way humans hug dogs is often really uncomfortable for them. We lean over them and trap them (think how many dogs we already know are spooky when you loom over them, but are fine if you get down to their level), and then we restrict their ability to move and shove our faces close to theirs. That’s not fun. Keep in mind that most dogs have personal space bubbles that are larger than we tend to think, and now you’re not only invading it, you’re making it so they can’t move or defend themselves if something happens.
Look at this photo from a couple years ago. Avalanche is probably the most tolerant dog I know of things that press his physical boundaries - he lets little kids do things to him that make me cringe and doesn’t even seem to notice half the time. This was right before I had to head back to college and I knew I wouldn’t see him for another 6 months, so I hugged him because sappy human emotions. I have an amazing relationship with this dog, and look at his body language. He’s kinda stiff, his face is a little tense, and the corners of his mouth are pulled back a little. All in all, he’s supremely un-enthused but he’s letting me do it. After about five seconds, he huffed out the sigh he uses to let me know when he’s done with the hug, and then pulled back and shook off.
Most dogs learn to tolerate hugs because we do it to them so often. It’s pretty much a kind of learned helplessness, plus, they like us and so they put up with our stupid human behavior. When you hug most dogs, you’ll notice they get kinda stiff, they look away or at other humans for help, you’ll see side-eyes or look-aways (not whale eye). Often they’ll distract you by doing something else like pawing at you, or licking your face as an appeasement signal. They’re all signs of discomfort that we already routinely ignore when we deal with our dogs, so it makes sense that people think their dogs are fine with it - they’re just still not listening.
More often, you’ll get dogs that will crawl up your chest when you sit and put their paws on your shoulders. Sometimes their face is close to yours, sometimes it’s on your shoulder. In that position - which they often initiate - they ca easily withdraw and get away if necessary and they’re not trapped or being leaned over. It’s not really a hug, just close contact, but I think it’s about as close as humans are going to get to one that a dog will enjoy.
when i was 12 i babysat this girl for a few years and she would come to me and show me her art, drag me by my wrists and point at the pieces she’d made during the week. and she’d be like “do the voice” and i’d put on a sports-announcer olympics-style voice and be like “such form! this level of coloring! why i haven’t seen such perfection in crayola in a long time. and what is this? why jeff, now this is a true risk… it seems she’s made … a monochrome pink canvas…. i haven’t seen this attempted since winter 1932… and i gotta say, jeff, it’s absolutely splendid” and she’d fall back giggling. at the end of every night she’d check with me: “did you really like it?” and i’d say yes and talk about something i noticed and tucked her in.
she was just accepted into 3 major art schools. she wrote me a letter. inside was a picture from when she was younger. monochrome pink.
“thank you,” it said, “to somebody who saw the best in me.”
Someone had to do it - a hand porn gifset for Sixer. Your welcome.
Bonus second dice roll gif:
Okay but the animation for each of the fingers, and the overall gestures are really great? Like they put time into thinking “how would someone with six fingers open something or turn a page”
the first version is the easier but also boring for the eye, the sequence rectangular-square-square and repetitive, try to use diagonal cut, open space and vertical cut to help the movement of the story and action.
The way the crew usual way of coming up with a story was to think
of some normal situation and then add something magical and crazy.
“Sock Opera” was used as the example: first they came up with an idea of
Mabel trying to impress her puppet-obsessed crush with puppet show, and
then they began brainstorming weird things that might happen. Some of
the earlier ideas included Mabel getting super-knitting powers and
making living sweaters, and puppets coming alive and attacking Mabel
(Alex even made a drawing of that).
Soos never tasted alcohol in his life. As for Stan… Well, there’s the reason his nose is this color.
There will be more about Ford’s (mis)adventures beyond the portal
in the Journal. Alex couldn’t talk about it much, but he gave a little
teaser: Ford was thrown into a dimension, that was controlled by Bill
(or his lackeys); there, his top priorities were: 1) learn to survive,
2) make a weapon capable of destroying Bill; on his journeys Ford made
many friends and even more enemies and eventually became an
interdimensional criminal. There will be a wanted poster for Ford in the
upcoming Journal (and even more “Rick and Morty” references)
The journal will also have more info on Ford’s & McGucket’s adventures during their youth.
One of the chapters in the upcoming choose-your-own-adventure book will reveal something important about Bill’s dying message.
Giffany is still alive, she managed to import here code
somewhere, before her disc was destroyed. Again, more on that in the
Journal.
Originally, Soos was supposed to go by his full name (Jesus), but
Disney advised against it, thinking that some people would accuse the
show of blasphemy. But the decision to give Soos shortened name
backfired, since many people thought his name was “Zeus”.
Originally Bill didn’t have a surname, but Disney again advised
against it, since they were afraid that people behind the character “Mr.
Bill” might sue them for copyright infringement. So Alex came up with
the name “Bill Black”, he thought it sounded cool and mysterious, but it
turned out there was a some real guy with that name, and Disney was
afraid he might sue them. All the other names Alex came up with were
rejected for the same reason. Eventually, one late night, Alex was
coming up with ciphers for the upcoming episode and thought “What if I
just name him Cipher?”. The rest is history.
There was a scene in “Sock Opera”, that had to be cut for time,
where Bill claimed, he was behind many great minds of the history, like,
for example, helping Isaac Newton discover gravity and helping Stanley
Kubrick fake the moon landing.
Bill can never go back to the place he came from. Alex also
hinted that there may be more about his origins in the Journal, although
not much, since Bill is the kind of character that benefits from being
mysterious.
Dipper’s real name is NOT Michael, Alex, Mabel or Bill.
There was supposed to be a sub-plot in the finale, where clones
#3 & 4 would try to kidnap Dipper and go back home with Mabel
instead of him, but it was cut due to being too confusing.
Alex is talking with Disney about making some Gravity Falls comics, although nothing is concrete yet.
One of the ideas for the sixth “Mabel’s Guide” short was “Mabel’s
Guide to Death”, in which her pet caterpillar gets eaten by a bird, and
she talks about coping with death. The idea was rejected for being too
morbid.
The replacement idea - “Mabel’s Guide to Smiles” - was deemed offensive
by Disney, since Mabel was going to visit local prison and try to teach
inmates to smile. Although Alex might upload the storyboards for this
rejected short online some day.