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Anyway, last thing I wanna say about the wizard game, because quite frankly I'm tired.

All of the anger and vitriol being thrown around on both sides has only helped the game's visibility and sales. As far as the publisher is concerned, all publicity is good publicity, and the games sales have definitely not been hurt at all.

At this point, getting angry at people over it isn't going to accomplish anything, so my suggestion would be to do one or more of the following instead;

Donate to a trans-specific or trans-supportive LGBT+ charity (e.g. Mermaids, The Trevor Project, Stonewall, etc.)

Promote indie games made by trans developers

Call out transphobia when you see it, and stick up for trans people both online and IRL

Getting mad at people over the internet isn't going to accomplish anything good. It's only going to keep the game trending, keep it in the public eye, and keep the sales of it high.

You may as well just channel that outrage into something productive instead.

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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

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resources for staying safe online

always important, but i feel like especially recently. particularly stuff that’s a bit more than just the usual “don’t post personal info”

feel free to share this post on twitter or anywhere else, staying safe is important

justdeleteme.xyz - direct links to delete accounts

how a photo’s hidden exif data exposes your personal information

have i been pwned? - check if your accounts have been compromised in a data breach. CHANGE ANY ACCOUNT THAT USES THE SAME EMAIL AND PASSWORD

online harassment field manual

form for removing personal information from google (for the eu), see also: “remove your personal information from google”

extreme privacy: what it takes to disappear (personal data removal workbook)

filter lists for ublock origin, and more

restore privacy - online privacy resources center

privacytools.io

online spyware watchdog

how secure is your password?

defensive computing checklist

cloudflare dns

non-technical tips on staying anonymous

webrtc leak shield - chrome, firefox

web safety tutorials by the electronic frontier foundation

crash override network - resources for victims of doxing and online harassment

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Another tutorial for you guys!

Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like me to do a tutorial on next :)

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If there are any spelling mistakes, no there aren't. I just can't read or write.

The continuation of my clouds tutorial from last week.

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my favorite clip studio assets!

since i’ve been using csp a lot more now i thought i’d make a post of the assets i use the most for ppl looking for good stuff!

general brushes: Pen + Caspar Pen (かしペン＋カスレかしペン) (my fav pen for sure) Erase Along Edge (YOU NEEED THIS ERASER YOU NEED IT!!!) Freehand Style Brush Set (フリーハンド風ブラシセット) (cant recommend this one highly enough, i use it for all my backgrounds) Bong pen OBONGBONG’S PEN Halftones (スルスル塗れる5線刻みトーンブラシ) A non-shin pen (しんでないペン) SU-Cream Pencil Noisy Ink Brush v2 Simple Retro Halftone Brushes Smeared Paintbrush (べっとり絵筆) A breather pen (一息ペン) Aj’s Pencil Set Watercolor set (수채화 세트) T-marker Wind Brush Set (Tマーカー風ブラシセット) Watercolor marker ▲ ■ and texture set (水彩マーカー●▲■とテクスチャーセット)

special effect and decorative brushes: Tights Pen (タイツペン) Glitch Brushes 2 (彩塵ブラシ(Prism Dust) Hand-painted effect set No. 2 (手描き効果セットNo.2) Oriental Emblem 11-20 (동양 문양 11-20) (this creator has so many amazing assets ive downloaded them all) Ribon brushes (りぼんブラシ) Lace Set レース セット Ornate lace Bramble (rose-玫瑰叢) Loose hand-painted sprinkle brush (ゆるゆる手描きのふりかけブラシ) Bush pen (수풀 펜) Fantasy Papers Pearl Brush (真珠ブラシ)

gradient maps: Gradient map set for hologram (홀로그램용 그라데이션 맵 세트) Yunywave★ Gradient Set cb gradients 3 ONG SET

3D: The Only Perspective Grid You Need! 3d sketch head Movable horse 1.8 A (可動のお馬 1.8a) Sitting poses collection (便利かもしれない座りポーズ集)

misc: Raiku RGB Shift Hand-drawn Rags tool Set (手描きのボロ線ツールセット) VHS action set

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Free Handwritten Font 

Wanted to share a font that I made! It will work on a computer, or tablet, etc! I use iFont to install them on my iPad ☺︎

Key features include:

lowercase & uppercase

basic punctuation

numbers

otf & ttf files

Download free here!

Thank you for checking this out! If you have any questions and issues, please let me know.

Free downloads | Instagram | Youtube | Twitter | Etsy Shop | Discord

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oh also while im here and the green knight just dropped, i want to take the opportunity to plug my extremely legal 100% totally copyright compliant website for english translations of arthurian medieval literature to anyone interested in getting into arthuriana. its so so ugly cause i just care about accessibility of med lit, not web design, but i am trying to upload as much stuff as i can. i recommend you download anything you might want in case wordpress takes it down lol

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I am so serious when I say if you want to learn about light, you NEED to at least look at modeseven’s tutorials. even if you’re not pursuing a painterly style, this is all essential theory that can be easily adapted to different coloring styles. notice how none of these ever say ‘light with these colors and shade with these colors’? notice how this is teaching how light works on a mechanical level, and reminding the audience to adjust the actual colors they choose by context? THAT is good advice.

(if you’re thinking ‘wow I want to study more of this persons art!’ I encourage you to do so, but proceed with the knowledge that modeseven draws pretty much exclusively weird as hell kink art. sometimes wisdom comes from horny places)

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seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

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why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like… 

rainbow mountains (peru)

red soil (canada/PEI)

rings (saturn’s if they were on earth) 

bioluminescent waves

northern lights (canada)

salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)

and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens

BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species

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Quick little video tutorial! This is a method I use to block in shapes when I’m fighting the urge to polish my lineart at an early stage, especially in rough concept art that doesn’t actually need polished lineart.

I group two layers in photoshop—a rough sketch, and a flat color—and then carve out the negative space by painting into a mask on the group, instead of filling in the positive shapes. From there I can start painting and adding shading into that group, knowing that I’ve already locked down a good initial silhouette for the object/character:

It feels like oil painting, and I end up finding silhouettes/shapes in a way I wouldn’t if I was obsessively cleaning up the linework first. Digital art has a tendency to veer towards cleanliness/polish, so I love finding little opportunities for happy accidents and a bit of mess!

I used it on my unicorn piece last month, for instance, which I think would have lost a lot of its dynamism and charm if I had worried too much about doing a full ink pass:

Hope this is at all helpful!  It’s not a method I use 100% of the time, but it really helps move my process along when I do need it 👍🏼

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Hii!! I adore your blog and especially your rec lists ❤ Can you recommend some books related to geopolitics, international trade and international relations. I am an aspiring diplomat and would really appreciate your help Thank you !!

(btw I am Indian🙆‍♂️)

Hello, thank you! Here you go:

The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama: on the post-Cold War global order; you could argue the argument is obsolete now, but this is a important read anyway because you have to know what’s been said and written

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order by Samuel P. Huntington: about forces that shape conflict in the post-Cold War world; also about what the global order would look like

The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan: about what geography can tell us about conflicts and possible directions that international politics would take; really good analysis, full of conviction

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall: more on what the map and geography tells us about global diplomacy and international politics 

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and The Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan: about strategic power in the Indian Ocean, focuses on naval power, important given that we in India have started taking into account naval power and naval history lately

Belt and Road by Bruno Macaes: about the Belt and Road project and the kind of international order it and China through the project envisions; the politics of the project, 

War and Peace in Modern India: a Strategic History of the Nehru Years by Srinath Raghavan: starter pack really on what shaped early foreign policy and strategic engagements in Nehru’s India 

The Most Dangerous Place by Srinath Raghavan: about American involvement in Asia right from the 19th century; great if you want to understand the geopolitics of South Asia and how it was offset by US involvement/engagement

The India Way:  Strategies for an Uncertain World  by S. Jaishankar: probably one of the most up-to-date analyses of global crises and what India has to navigate; Dr Jaishankar is the minister now and he’s had a wonderful career in diplomacy so he knows what he’s doing, also given his affiliation with the government the book provides insight on official policy really well

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy by Srinath Raghavan, C. Raja Mohan, David Malone: another starter pack, has a bunch of essays on different areas of Indian foreign policy

Fateful Triangle:  How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War by Tanvi Madan: pretty much what it says, focuses on the decades between 1949 and 1979; the book was well-received so it’s worth a read

Fire and Fury: Transforming India’s Strategic Identity by Anil Kakodkar, Suresh Gangotra: a recollection of Kakodkar’s journey from beginnings in Madhya Pradesh to the highest Office of the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission through different events and watershed moments in the country Atomic energy programme over the past forty-five years

Breakout Nations by Ruchir Sharma: not exactly about international economy, but it does look at a list of economies and charts their growth and through that process it is about global economic development and the policy decisions around it

The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan: about changing global power dynamics and how and why Asia will potentially determine the direction of global politics

The Costliest Pearl: China’s Struggle for India’s Ocean by Bertil Lintner: about Chinese involvement in the Indian Ocean, kind of historical; it’s a useful read

Other than this you can also read articles by Gateway House, ORF or IDSA, because they’ll give you current expert opinion and analyses.

I hope that helps, and good luck!

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hey, take some more video essays. (part one)

how tiktok makes you feel ugly

a relaxing critique of animal crossing new horizons

the 27 club: mental illness and art

talent belongs to the beautiful - how media manipulates your tastes

lindsay lohan: the rise of a starlet ( part one, part two )

the unrealistic beauty standard is deadly

how beauty brands failed women of color

the devil wears prada style analysis

the beauty standard between men and women

what happened to all of the black children sitcoms?

a deep dive into ‘aesthetic’ youtube

dan schneider’s wife aka hungery girl exposed

why black people hate justin timberlake

janet jackson: the underrated legend

erotica: madonna’s career ending album

the cracked reality of the ACE famly

the lovely bones is scarier than we remember

lady gaga is performance art

why rappers are the new rockstars

colorism and violence: what really happened to 3lw

the real ellen - the bitter truth behind the daytime icon

pretty privilege: beauty standards, bimbo effect and free scones

from fame to shame: shane dawson’s story ( tw for racism & pedophilia )

you’re not relatable anymore

the beauty community: racism & toxicity

a goofy movie and the power of nostalgia

music that defined the 2010s

heathers, jawbreaker, & the timelessness of killer cliques

deep cuts: society & queer horror

pinterest aesthetics, fatphobia & whitewashing

tiktok vs black creators: if you hate us just say dat

the “blaccent”; nonblack creators key to fame

ghost singing: who was really singing on michael jackson’s posthumous album

judy garland: the end of the rainbow

marilyn monroe: living blonde

the downfall of the singer cassie

this teen idol manipulated everyone

how frenemies reveals a mental health misconception perpetuated by the internet

legacy, chronical, & every other reimagining of the craft

it’s not a coincidence, it’s colorism

evil queens: a gay look at disney history

the authenticity of lana del rey

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Some Diverse F/F Sci-fi & Fantasy!

Huntress by Malinda Lo

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette De Bodard

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee

Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

The Soulstealers by Jacqueline Rohrbach

Feel free to hop in the comments with your favorites and/or any that I missed!

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queer books that didn’t disappoint me the way everything else has. please enjoy.

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❤️Robin War Trailer❤️

My silly sketch animatic has been colored and comped and inbetweened by🔥🔥🔥 @curb-your-dog 🔥🔥🔥

Curb.

My sweet dear wonderful Curb.

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