#amazing technique

[functionaldisaster]

I wish could paint like this

It's spooky season! Here's a collection of witch hats I've painted over the years. Also, who else is excited for the Witch Hat Atelier anime that's coming out in 2025? I love the manga so much, the anime is gonna be amazing!

[ryssbelle]

Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

[theabigailthorn]

"Good" Acting

i have a theory that a lot of people say acting is "good" when they're emotionally moved by it, and a lot of cishet white people have a lifelong habit of not listening or empathising when minoritised people speak, so minority actors get called "bad" even when they display some pretty fucking amazing technical skill

[sisaloofafump]

Close up on Bruce in a drawing i did of him in the fic Fall Right Into Me by chillestavenger. Obvious disclaimer that it’s not really the type of thing you should open at work

[badninken]

One Piece boys meeting a ninja and being fucking Weird about it:

When the ninja says no:

When the ninja gives up and says yes:

The boys are not being normal about the ninja

[reasonsforhope]

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

[eightspringdays]

tatsuki fujimoto paneling is amazing, the way he composes his work is fascinating and really showcases his love for movies. sometimes it makes me feel like im watching a movie rather than reading a manga.

[theribbonmarkedroom]

My Across the Spider-Verse art book is finally here! I made a post about the first one half a year ago. Here’s some of my fav pages!

[violent138]

Real fights are messy and I'm sure biting, scratching, scrambling away on your ass are all on the table and encouraged, but sparring matches in the Batcave between the Bats are probably sick as fuck when they try (aka the siblings are not bent on just beating the shit out of each other), because they're using a meld of techniques from about a hundred different martial arts, tapping into their unique strengths, and a near inhuman reading of each other (both from years of working together and experience) and an insane reflex time.

[doortotomorrow]

blodreina » pandora's box

[sombra7567]

Happy Channelversary!

"I wanted to take a moment to make this abundantly clear- You are welcome here. You are safe, You are loved, You are valued."

[speakofshinee]

Happy anniversary, Circle ♡

[ssolvix]

im holding beginner artists by the hand when i say this. it is completely normal for your artstyle to be inconsistent or to fluctuate within spans of days, weeks, months, or even years. it is a sign of improvement.

PLEASE do not beat yourself up over it.

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: Three drawings of Five petting Mr. Pennycrumb, a small yellow dog. In one, Five is bending down, looking awed, while Mr Pennycrumb licks his face and wags his tail. Five is wearing a green blazer with elbow patches, brown pants, and a blue dress shirt.

In another, Five is pacing and gesturing angrily while Mr. Pennycrumb trots next to him. Five is wearing a black turtleneck under an oversized pink-and-orange shortsleeved button up.

In the last, Five is lying down on the floor, face scrunched while Mr. Pennycrumb climbs onto him and licks him. Five is wearing a blue button up and jeans, and no shoes. End ID.]

Doggy!!! also, i haven't posted canon five in so long, I can't believe I've abandoned him like this.

The purpose of this endeavor was twofold: dogs, and fashions

[nattikay]

was trying to explain to my dad why a Na'vi character wouldn’t be considered a fursona, here’s how I think of the distinction for anyone who cares lol

A fursona is a furry character used to represent oneself in some way shape or form. Furry, in this context, is an umbrella term to describe anthropomorphized animal characters (and/or people who enjoy the concept of such characters).

Anthropomorphism exists on a scale of course, it can be as simple as giving a regular animal more humanized thoughts and feelings, or it can go all the way up to “this is basically a human, walking talking wearing clothes having a job etc, but with fur”.

But anyways, a furry character is an animal that has been given human characteristics that its species does not usually have (in other words, anthropomorphized). A talking cat, a wolf that walks on two legs, a lizard with a day job, etc. Granted, I suppose this line can get a bit blurred with fictional species—for example, are dragons innately sapient? idk it depends on the setting—but generally if the species is considered an animal by default, then it can qualify as furry.

The Na'vi—like other fantasy humanoids such as elves, dwarves, trolls, etc.—are not animals. They speak and walk upright and wear clothes etc. not because we’ve anthropomorphized/humanized them, but because that’s just how their species innately is. There is no regular “feral” version of the Na'vi who walk on four paws, can’t use language, aren’t sapient*, etc. like there would be with a regular cat or wolf. Therefore a Na'vi is not a furry, and therefore cannot be a fursona. There’s certainly an argument to consider them furry-adjacent given their feline-esque features, but they don’t fall under the direct category of furry.

Now, you can absolutely have a Na'vi character that represents you of course!! A Na'vi-sona, if you will. I have one! It just wouldn’t be a “fursona” by definition.

*reminder before someone objects here that sapience is not the same thing as sentience. Sentience is simply an awareness of oneself; most animals are sentient. Sapience, on the other hand, is human-level intelligence and, with it, the capacity for morality. Humans are the only known real-world sapient species; in fiction there are of course several more

[typhoonboom10]

Stupid sauce (the sauce that makes you stupid)