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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

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fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

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In queer bodies, there exist three separate yet equally important groups: the boypussies, the girldicks, and the creature features. In this essay I will

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The more biology I learn, the more this becomes searingly evident.

For one thing, evolution is not smart. Evolution is nature's Good Enough machine, pumping out sacks of chemicals that can barely maintain themselves in chemical disequilibrium. Evolution is like if "C's Get Degrees" was an environmental process.

For another, these theories about why certain traits evolved are so bugnuts wackadoodle that it makes me want to eat a hammer. Oh you think homosexuality evolved to prevent overpopulation? I offer as a riposte: hot hole feel good on junk! In reality, homosexuality is like carcinisation: it keeps happening because it's the highest form of being we can aspire to.

never get a degree because then you'll go on reddit and see some guy confidently saying the most wrong things about your field of work and everyone is like "have my upvote, sir!" and all you can do is sit there and gnash your teeth because you don't speak reddit

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So there are several species of frogs that have evolved to be so small that their vestibular balance system doesn't work well and I'm sorry but it's the funniest thing to watch them try to jump.

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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

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incredibly funny Twitter update.

ps, it's me liking all that gay porn.

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tutorial for drawing characters with Down syndrome!

DISCLAIMER... please keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. it's more of an overview of features that are common in people with Down syndrome, not meaning to imply that every person with DS has all of them 👍👍 thanks

if you draw any characters using this feel free to tag me!!

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They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”

88,000 new free images just dropped, to use however you like.

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Willow Rosenberg is the type of girl to mock Orpheus for turning around. Bc how hard is it to walk straight and not look behind you? If Willow was Orpheus, she’d easily march out of the underworld w Eurydice, bc she is better than the myths. She’d never even entertain the idea of doing something silly, like looking behind her, not even to check if Eurydice wants to come back. Because Willow is better, and stronger, and she’ll drag her best friend back to life without so much as a backward glance, without digging up her body. Because Willow doesn’t understand what it means to love someone enough to turn around. To turn and face them is weakness, and she cannot be loved while she is weak.

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I, as a character doodler, have one of my fatal flaws in having no idea for what my characters should wear. While browsing the Internet for ideas, I found this cool website: it generates an outfit description with colors and styles. Perfect for art block, practice, or pure simple fun!

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very tired of what i'd call, idk, recreational prescriptivist content. in my younger years i'd had to tell off men who, just for example here, functionally couldn't cook but watched a lot of alton brown videos and had very exact opinions on the correct way something should be done. "why are you annoyed? i'm just telling you the right way to do it" and so on. obviously it's not just men who do this - apparently there is a right way to do wall decor, which is coincidentally 1:1 with the last 10 years of interior design trends. i'm not sure what it is about video content but it encourages a genre of basically turning hobbies/interests that used to be heavily based on personal taste and turning it into a perfectly ordered system of laws. & you can't say shit these days about "well i like it this way" without some guy in your ear whose engagement with his hobbies stops right before actually doing them telling you it's wrong because an "expert" told him so. i put bad keycaps on my keyboard because i like them better

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This is so good!

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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a very quick tutorial on innocent fluids use with care I know it’s not too comprehensive but I’m honest to god lazy ahaha

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Archive.org deliver a windfall of lost music.

If you’re looking for a good way to spend the rest of your week, Archive.org have unearthed a gigantic collection of cassettes from the mid-eighties into the mid-nineties. According to their notes, the collection was saved from the archives of noise-arch.net and donated by former CKLN-FM radio host Myke Dyer in August of 2009. Due to the size and obscurity, the collection hasn’t been properly notated but is said to include cassettes ranging from “tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indie, rock, DIY, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials”. Head to Archive now to download the free collection.