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loving you's a good problem to have

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day 28 - pick an actor and draw them

i owe my life to @yellowjacketsfashion for this one their work is insane

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That’s just her resting face

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I get so sad every time someone says they couldn't get into TLT because they got lost so I MADE THIS. enjoy. Please let me know if Im missing anything or anything is wrong!

EDIT 3/15: UPDATED SOME INFORMATION IN THE BoE SLIDE

Link to all the artists' websites/blogs below!

Slide 2: ttbret on twitter

Slide 3: decemberiste on twitter

Slide 4: midnightcrows.tumblr.com

Slide 5: exmakina.tumblr.com

Slide 6: haveyoumetmythief.tumblr.com

Slide 8: BriarwickArt

Slide 9: fluffehwuffeh.tumblr.com

Slide 11: mothmanforreal.tumblr.com

Slide 12: ydteus.tumblr.com , sermna.tumblr.com

Slide 13: notedchampagne.tumblr.com, marceline2174.tumblr.com

Slide 14: lulafia.tumblr.com, by melli4uhbees on twitter

Slide 15: melli4uhbees on tumblr , reaandull on tumblr

Slide 16: starcanist on tumblr

Slide 17: cutetanuki-chan on tumblr

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Judas Goat | Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit, Joy Harjo | The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio | John 11:23

"I'm sorry. I just wanted you to see that he's here. That Javi's with us."

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I know her ass was constantly getting carded for fouling the other team’s offence

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I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

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lottienat girlfriendism moments from the pilot

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hi sorry i was wondering what art program and brush settings you typically use? i love the way your art looks

Thank you!! I use clip studio paint

Brushes: I use @apticho brush pack, mostly soft graphite 1 and 2 for lineart and adding details when painting. For backgrounds and laying down basic colors when sketching I use a modified version of a free brush that I edited for myself (but I don't remember where I got the original, sorry!) it's basically just a square brush. I'm always changing the one I use for sketching but it's usually soft graphite 1, artemus hb or this one. And I also use this one sometimes

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mari’s death was the death of the community they built. Just like laura lee’s was death of faith and javi’s death of innocence.

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"But, that Vanessa Palmer charm magnet is just too powerful" bro :( van brought so much joy to the people around her. she was the life of the party.

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found this while deleting my art from twitter. these are the same picture

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i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

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It's done! You can find the Absolutely Ripping It Up pack here.

Tear your artwork. Decay it. Blast a giant hole into it. Go nuts. Note that these are compatible only with Clip Studio!

here’s 200+ freebie brushes | and my brush tag is here ✨

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something about hearing liv hewson speak about gender can be so inspiring

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Hello! sorry to bother you and i'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I was wondering which version of the bible you read/recommend? I want to read and study it, not necessarily for religious reasons, but more so I can understand it for myself. I was raised in the church in the deep south but unfortunately only ever had children's bibles. I know most say the King James Bible is where to go, but I wanted to know your thoughts and if there really are any differences? Thank you for your time, and again sorry if this has been asked before

I like NRSV! The copy I have (which if I remember correctly is the Harper study bible) also has some apocrypha and noncanon books if you also want to get into that :D I've got a separate book with more apocrypha and gnostic gospels I'm hoping to read. A friend also sent me a site with the saints in them so I'm hoping to look through that at some point

I have seen some people recommend ESV though so that's also worth looking into. I think the difference are mainly in the translation choices. So ESV aims to be more accurate to the original text but not as easy to read through. NRSV is like a mix, not as accurate (word for word) but easier to understand. NIV and NLT are focused primarily on readability I think (?)

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Been thinking, as a Murderbot fan is wont to do, about how ART is prone to deleting systems and how Murderbot has to step in and rescue them from deletion. Is ART prone to it because it simply doesn’t have the patience for finesse? It did, after all, scare the metaphorical crap out of mb in their first interaction—an interaction ART wanted—by being its big, brutish self. It makes sense to me that it wouldn’t bother being delicate with a system it couldn’t care less about, especially when it has stuff to do.

Murderbot, on the other hand, has expressed that it likes to find clever ways to do things. It likes using finesse. It’s sentimental about other systems even if they can’t be of further use to it. It doesn’t like to use force whenever possible.

I know we’ve been over this a hundred times but it’s still so funny to me how ART and mb subvert expectations on how they ought to handle things. ART the scientist, throwing its weight around and crashing carelessly into shelves. Murderbot the mercenary, carefully grabbing all the wobbling/falling stacks of delicate teacups and gently setting them to rights.

Murderbot treats other things the way it wants to be treated, because it’s been treated badly most of its existence. It knows that if it doesn’t step up and advocate for the “little guys”, no onr will. I posit that ART doesn’t seem to care about how it treats other systems partly because it hasn’t been mistreated to the same hypervigilance-inducing levels that mb has. It doesn’t know what it feels like to be on the other end of carelessness. Murderbot? Very much does. And it’s a kind person to its core, so if it sees an opportunity to help? It helps.

(this also has fascinating implications re: the “you know I am not kind” exchange in System Collapse, but that’s for another post or for someone else to dig into if they want~)