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I Meryl on her Streep until she Slip Through My Fingers

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Hello Mr Bossman, will cosplays be welcome at the Hilltop Live Show?

Hey, this is another question that should really be addressed to mail@rustyquill.com since its about a company stance, that said I can give a personal take that does NOT constitute a formal reply: "within reason" This is theatre NOT cinema, and there are some things I could see being an issue: 1) Avoid bulky stuff that will get in the way. British Theatre seating does not leave much elbow room. 2) Avoid distracting stuff, it's a theatre show so drawing focus is gonna distract the performers and the audience 3) Avoid stuff that will interfere with the show. No lights, no sounds, no shiny bits, no moving parts, 4) Avoid heavy, hot and impractical clothes. You're gonna be sat quietly in a crowd for hours. TLDR: I don't personally have any moral objections or anything but just be respectful of cast, crew and audience. Its a theatre show after all, not a convention. P.S. That does not mean I am saying you need to wear formal wear! Don't get me wrong, if you want to, please feel free but it is not a requirement or anything!

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10 weeks of poster illustrations for my weekly challenge this year. honestly 2025 is shaping up to be the most I've ever drawn consistently in my life

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"I asked chat gpt"

Sucks for you, I asked the ceasless watcher and I now legally own your most traumatic experience

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"I asked ChatGPT--"

Yeah well, I asked the wasps nest in my attic. It sang its answer so beautifully to me, but I am so very afraid of it. Perhaps it will soothe my itching soul...

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Silly drawing of myslef i did to prove to myslef I can actually draw

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Drawing pretty goth women cuz honestly what's stopping me

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hi!! this might be a weird question but i do a lot of traditional artwork and every time i photograph my sketchbook the quality of the images is genuinely horrific… all ur traditional art always looks fantastic and i was wondering if you have any tips for taking better pictures of traditional sketches? tysm in advance, i love your work!!

okay I took a wee little screen recording for ya just because that’ll probably be more helpful than me trying to explain it

DESK REVEAL !!!!

general tips-

• make sure you have good lighting, whether that’s from a window or from a lamp, just make sure there are no shadows getting in the way.

• if there ARE shadows, you can just stay further away from your sketchbook and zoom in a bit more.

• sometimes you’re gonna have to play with the settings more because there will be more shadow to take care of, that’s mainly up to your discretion but I found that the brilliance one works pretty good (but alas not every phone will have that so work with what ya got)

• same goes for colored drawings, minus the mono filter !! make sure there’s nice lighting with little shadow. also for that sometimes I mess with the temp and tint of the picture depending on how cool or warm the lighting is. And I use Picsart to spruce em up a bit more, but you can still get a pretty solid pic without that app.

• EDIT - also I have the sketchbook slightly reclined !! it seems to help with the lighting and keeping shadows out of the way

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Under observation.

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*sobbing*

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New hyperextension just dropped and now I'm crying because I feel like I'm allowing myself to be truly authentically autistic again

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My favourite art of yours is the art you do of your partner cant lie

VIII Strength🌻

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Hey Bethany! Where have you been?

Well...

I put the blog on password protection for a few days while I took a break to evaluate what I wanted. Running this blog and interacting with my followers has been a lot of fun, but it's also been negatively affecting my mental health and making me more online than I'd like. Playing the character of "insane teenager who argues" means I have to argue with people all the time, and I don't really like doing that for long periods of time because it makes me insane.

So what did you find then?

I found that not posting is better for me than trying to run this blog further. I feel like I've extracted all the funny content out of this and any further posting is just running the joke further into the ground. There's only so much rehashing of the same bit I can do before I get bored, and Bethany's anger at receiving the same stupid questions became genuine after a while. I don't want to be enslaved to my phone all day calling everyone "fuckstick" anymore. I'm just not having any fun with it.

But Ivy! Bethany brings me SO much comfort and it's problematic to get rid of her!

Yeah, that's why I'm not deleting the blog, but if you feel this way I recommend logging off. My insane, written-to-be-irredeemable Argument Character being critical to your daily routine may be a sign you need help.

What are you doing now?

I'm retiring this blog. I'm leaving it up but I'm not gonna post on it anymore. If by some miracle I get to a place where running this won't kill me inside, I might come back, but for now I'm done with it. If you have a problem with this, fuck off into the sun, you and your spawn will be cursed hitherto until the end of time. Thanks to everyone who sent asks that were actually funny, and to the extended croakerverse for supporting me in this, I have not been doing well and yall being there and understanding helps a lot. Thanks to Strange for the video, I'm looking forward to hanging out in Toronto in July.

But for now, this is my Fecal Farewell

-Ivy

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HOLY SHIT HOLY GHOSTS ANDBEARS IN TREES!??!?!?! THIS IS AMAZING OMG

Im the most unwell about these two if you couldn’t tell :3

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Michael.

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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I LOVE BEING AN EVIL MAN HATING DYKE! MEN CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO SOCIETY! UNLESS THEY BECOME WOMEN!!!!