#Get More Practical Knowledge

[chasiufan]

Nobody’s gonna buy ur 599$ marketable plushie stop tryna sell it to us -_-

[meat-fr]

"they're not graceful", "they're not elegant", "They're not angelic"

-and i took that personally (as a challenge!)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You ever gonna make poorly drawn TGCF?

Long answer short: No.

But, I have a tag for TGCF fanart I've done, and I probably will draw more in the future!

If you're looking for a comic with 'silly summary' energy, I *highly* recommend Tempo-Takoyaki's 'Almost TGCF' Series.

[doctorweebmd]

ok my OTHER reflection:

on the one hand its really frustrating to see the posts about docs and healthcare in general on here be so narrow-minded. bad experiences with certain providers have lead to a huge spread of misinformation and mistrust with the whole system. which can and HAS lead to people avoiding 'evil' doctors for perfectly treatable illnesses and dying from them (the vaccine bullshit, anyone?)

but on the other hand. it is TERRIFYING how some of these docs practice medicine. at times i think 'are you just burned out and don't give a shit or are you straight up just stupid?' and i work in critical care. where quite literally every case is life or death. even in the academic sector where there is supposedly a standard of excellence, some doctors i would not let touch my loved ones with a ten foot pole.

and that sucks. i know this is the no nuance piss on the poor webbed site but 'the medical system and people that work for it are fallible and aspects of it are morally questionable at best/unethical at worst' AND 'the field of medicine exists to help people first and foremost and mistrusting/avoiding it can be detrimental in the long run' can and DO co-exist

[mangled-by-disuse]

me listening to drawfee in the background while they discuss why denim is blue, apparently

[ashmcgivern]

There's two people who could be on the receiving end of this in my mind, one of them is a blue hedgehog and the other is a bat.

Rig made by Aixa Massoni (Find it here!) and the background is from SonicXShadow Generations.

[soranker]

Hiiii not sure if anyone's asked this yet but any advice on how to improve on art & anatomy? I use to draw a lot wayyyy back in high school but then stopped because of life getting in the way but now I really wanted to get back into art but realized my art isn't as good as it use to be & I never really cared too much about studying anatomy so all my anatomy/proportions are really wack & I'd like to get better at it. Hope you're having a good day!!! 💞💞💞

HI!!! i dont have any formal training in anatomy nor have i really done any studies, so unfortunately i think i can only offer general advice, but hopefully you can still find it helpful! here's what i'd recommend based on my own experience...

focus on proportions BEFORE anatomy! nailing down the size/length of each body part in relation to each other will give you a good foundation before getting into the specifics of anatomy, since you can practice this with simple shapes (circles, boxes, tubes, etc.). then practice anatomy/build on top of that, rather than trying to figure them out in parallel

practice from real life observation/references (ex. figure drawing)! even if you want to draw stylized, it'll be much more helpful in the long run if you study from real life. you'll be a lot more informed in how body parts actually connect to each other or how they move. observe observe observe! take pics of yourself/watch how your body moves--you can be your own most accessible resource, and a mirror and camera can be your best friends

find a way to keep yourself motivated to practice anatomy! everyone says that you only get better with practice and time... and it's true! but i can understand that sometimes it's hard to motivate yourself. if you ask me, draw your favorite characters :) it's literally all i do HAHA. my mentality is that... if i'm drawing something that i like then the practice feels less of a chore lol

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

I think a key thing to remember when judging all those "Astarion/Minthara/Lae'zel disapproves" reactions to like... helping orphans is that in context they're often rather realistic and practical considering what's being asked of them. If anything it's the more good-aligned companions willingness to drop everything and risk their lives to help randos in need of help that is unreasonable to expect.

Remember, from their perspective things like save-scumming are not real. They cannot metagame and prepare for what specific enemy or attack they might face. In-universe, death has consequence and you can die. Plus we're on an unknown time limit here to potential squid-ifying, not to mention their own personal baggage.

It's like... they're playing blind and on Honour Mode, and the consequences of failure isn't just a story going the way you might not like or your fave character dying. It's actual life and death. There are real stakes here for them.

So while yes they can approve of just... petty asshole stuff or even genuinely evil stuff, it's not unreasonable for them to have a problem with risking their lives for random strangers. Because if they're in your party, that's what you're doing. Making the choice to put their lives on the line for strangers. If anything they're all oddly brave and ride-or-die for whatever bullshit decisions you make from the start--I mean it takes a lot of reckless altruism while also being an asshole to them specifically (it's not hard to balance their approval by being nice to them directly on a good playthrough) to get them to hate you, let alone ditch the group.

[cervinae-canine]

This isn't completely related to selfshipping but i unironically love making up shipnames for my s/i and the tf2 characters.

[also to note: some of these are not canon; pyro and scout are friends; and saxton hale is just kinda there. idk he's alright.]

Engineer x Morale: Radio Repair

Soldier x Morale: Roger That

Spy x Morale: Esprit de corps, Radio Drama

Medic x Morale: Herzschlag / Heartbeat

Demoman x Morale: Boombox

Sniper x Morale: Radio Silence, National Outback

Heavy x Morale: Tea and Jam

Scout x Morale: Skip Distance

Pyro x Morale: Smoke Signals

Miss Pauling x Morale: Two-way Radio

Saxton Hale x Morale: Mating Calls [this one is just dumb ignore]

Proships DNI

[whatudottu]

Hey, I noticed your post on Ectonurite religious practices, and I thought the concepts were very interesting. I’m a big fan of the Anur System myself, to the point I’ve learned how to make languages for them, if that’s not too weird…

In reference to this post-

The 'having a favourite fictional setting' to 'make a conlang' pipeline is all to real Pilgrim, my linguistics teacher let me use mine for my end of term project instead of the assigned analysis (transcribing a conversation between yourself and a friend, which probably would've been useful to study); you wouldn't believe what planet I based it on (don't look at my icon that's cheating :P)

But nah yeah, the Anur System is to me one of my favourite parts of Ben 10 Omniverse since I love horror and horror themed things but hate being scared of them so- the Anur System and the movie monsters that influence their design always has a special place in my head!

Even in my mutants and magic au where I retcon even OS to include more mutants and more magic users and presence where I made the Mummy an actual mummified priest who's attempt at resurrect worked (to the detriment to waking up to the grubby mitts of the British museum) and making Viktor an actual frankenstein's monster who's functionally mutant both to parallel Gwen and Max better (Gwen for magic obviously, Max for being a not-so-ex-Plumber who dealt with more than just alien phenomena but humans doing weird things inspired by old books and other stuff), I can't not still have the entirety of the Anur System still exist! I can't remember who but someone made thep khufan siphonophores and well- riding the coattails of my fulmini posting I got excited over them :P same goes for transylians though I haven't thought much about their potentially interesting biology other than the thought of 'how weird can scar tissue adaptations in biology become' so :P :P :P

[kail-lizuc]

kinda wack how you can understand the process behind your thoughts and feelings and still be affected by them. i think that if you can psychoanalyze yourself well enough in the moment you should get a free pass from feeling the thing altogether. or alternatively you should be able to shut off the logical side of your brain and just feel the thing for a moment. i dont wanna be emotional AND aware it should be either one or the other yknow

[itriedwritingandhereiam]

Caribbean folklore is so interesting. There's only a few books on it because a lot of it is passed down through oral tradition but once you find a way to hear the stories they're so interesting.

They come from a mix and match of African, Indian and European myths with a pinch of Caribbean history to spice it up.

I don't think I've really come across it as much as other myths like Greek, Japanese etc

I wanna yap about some key figures:

Note that there will obviously be variations from region to region, even village to village because, passing through word of mouth isn't the best way to keep consistent.

So there's this lady called a Soucouyant. (Soo-coo-yah) or something along those lines. Some say she made a deal with the Devil to retain life but in order to sustain herself, she drinks the blood of unsuspecting sleeping villagers. Her mark is characterized as blue black discolourations on skin.

She's similar to vampires in a way but the key difference is probably the fact that when she descends upon a village, she peels off her skin and hides it away in her house. Fleshy and traveling as a ball of fire, she visits houses and finds a new victim nightly.

Usually, being drained by a soucouyant results in fatigue and the general effects of losing blood.

The best way to counteract her, is to line windows and doors with salt. Salt to flesh is not a fun experience after all.

Another way to be rid of her is to find her shed skin and throw salt in it to when she tries to put it on come morning, she'll burn.

On that note, if you have the misfortune of meeting one, if you topple a bag of rice over, she has no choice but to count every last grain. If she doesn't finish by sunrise, she'll burn to death (need to double check that,)

There is definitely a cultural significance of why she is portrayed the way she is, but I need to consult my grandparents, maybe some old story books to see if I can find it.

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On the same note of devilish she-monsters, we have the La Diablesse (lah jah-bless) yeah I know it's french/maybe patois, but that's how I and my family pronounce it.

The la diablesse is a beautiful woman who appears to drunken men in a long dress and a hidden cow hoof instead of leg.

She appears in remote areas and has a hop-drop walk and usually is in need of assistance

She lures them out into the woods and to their untimely demise by sending them off the edge of a cliff.

She serves as a warning not to be out at night so late (theres more, have to check)

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Mama D'leau, (maybe D'lo or G'lo depending on who you talk to) (pronounced, Mama D'loh), Mother of Water, a very literal title as she is the protector of rivers and their inhabitants. Usually a mermaid-type with a female upper body and serpentine lower half.

Her tolerance for anyone wishing harm upon her domain is thin and she's a fierce protector.

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The douen (God I hate french/patois(LMAO i'm learning french)) are the spirits of unbaptized children who perished, lost in the forest. (supposedly). Pronounced Dwen (can be spelt like that too in some regions)

They're easily identified by their twisted feet and large brim straw hats hiding their featureless faces. ( I still get creeps thinking about them)

They have a disturbing habit of lurking other children into the forest by mimicking the parent's voices in order to gain new playmates or simply for the mischief of getting live children lost.

They're little pranksters and sometimes, people would complain about them trampling their gardens.

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Papa Bois is like mother nature, (pronounced as papa bwa)but more goaty. Literally, he's the father/protector of the forest and does not tolerate any harm done to his domain, similarly to Mama D'lo. Fun fact! Some depict him as married to the protectress!

He looks a bit like satyr if you squint, a hairy body and hooves for feet, Little horns at the tip of his head and strong muscles.

He has the ability to change forms, often appearing as a deer and such. A bullhorn in his possession is used to warn wildlife when hunters approach in order for them to run to safety.

Papa Bois is feared for his wrath. IF you have the chance to meet him, don't be rude and stare at his hooves, instead, use a polite greeting and hope you don't piss him off.

Papas Bois is a cautionary tale to hunters and those who destroy nature :)

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Calling someone a jumbie is usually to denote how late they stay up (ahem, me) but a jumbie really is a creepy ass figure.

A Jumbie is a malicious spirit who roams the Earth. Why? Beats me, (but I will look into it because now I'm curious)

Jumbies are diverse, they are unique in there traits and apparently some can blend in with the living until they reveal their true form????(news to me)

The Soucouyant is a special type of jumbie.

How can you ward of a jumbie? Jewellery! SIlver jewellery, jumbie beads (a seed from a tree, they're a pretty red and I have a nice collection from the savannah) and even salt. You can also confuse the jumbie to keep them away (which I will always find funny) by turning your clothes inside out and wearing them, walking backwards into your house, placing rice grains at your door and such.

It's interesting how creative people get.

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I've covered the main ones but there are certainly other figures who are popular in local story-telling, figures such as Anansi also appear in oral tradition and little newspaper stories.

I'll definitely be doing a second piece AND expanding on these rudimentary points.

[robinsnest2111]

studying some videos on how cassocks are sewn and constructed, and folded for storage/shipment, etc. to get a feel for how I could make my own patterns from scratch

need to study the conclave dvd and the behind the scenes and production stills some more as well, already discovered the side seam pockets in more scenes (Tremblay turning towards the coffee machine, causing one of the pockets to gape open a bit and show the light colour of the pocket lining, my original discovery when Lawrence gets knocked to the floor by the explosion), also that the rochets have side openings to easily access the pockets on the cassock beneath! (which is so smart and logical, love it! reminds me of how ca. 18th century skirts and petticoats were constructed to have side openings to access the tied on pockets underneath 🙏)

just gotta figure out just how the cassocks are pleated in the back. saw a video by the Gammarelli shop/atelier on how to fold a cassock and their construction method involves 3 back pleats, one in the middle and one on each side. not sure if the cassocks in the movie are the same in that aspect... 🤔 it's hard to tell because everyone is almost always wearing their fascia, covering up that part on the back...

the only time someone's not wearing a fascia (Vincent in his formal introduction scene as a fellow cardinal), you can only really see the cassock from the front. at least that tells me there's no waist seam and the front pieces are cut from one continuous piece from shoulder to bottom hem 🙏 (which just makes sense. if you're wearing a fascia on top, a waist seam would add unnecessary bulk and could feel irritating after a while)

[gifti3]

so yea running servers isnt like a cheap thing is what ive been learning these past couple weeks

[ceramicbird]

fun fact! your singing will improve if you stay in your natural range

[asinglesock]

just realized my fatal flaw and the great struggle of possibly the rest of my life. while watching a cdrama.