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Which wolf clipart?

this fucker:

I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.

here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.

it’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream of lazy art, once you see it you will never unsee it again, and it’s everywhere. and you can always tell because it’s frankly a pretty mediocre trace of an already wonky-looking wolf, so like. you can tell.

here it is on two different bumper stickers (two of MANY, just google ‘howling wolf bumper sticker’ and at least 70% of the fullbody ones will be Lumpy Kiba):

jewelry:

clipart collections that REALLY show off the Lumpiness compared to silhouettes referenced from actual wolf photos:

random art, including my personal favorite, a watercolor where the artist could just as easily have looked up an actual photo of a wolf but chose Lumpy Kiba instead:

a tattoo:

and THIS mcfuckery where he went through the whole process of sketching and refining to make it look like he was drawing a wolf from scratch (the gods know what you’ve done, jon harris):

anyway Lumpy Kiba is the bane of my existence but if I point it out I sound insane so I’m glad I had this opportunity to curse you all with the burden of this knowledge.

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dick game so bad i dont even have one

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stop that’s so funny

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This is so accurate

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how it feels to wash your hair and brush your teeth and have clean clothes on

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“This thing is legally dubious and therefore technically unenforceable.” Is not a “useless liberal gotcha” it’s how legalism works in this country. Tying up stupidly worded EOs in court is the quickest way to keep them from being implemented. It is the definition of “doing something.” But it doesn’t usually involve much tweeting so of course a certain type of leftist feels obligated to mock it.

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The divisiveness between trans people is so fucking manufactured, stop falling for it.

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props to Jimmy Carter for hanging on long enough to vote for Kamala and have one more Christmas and then returning to his maker before he has to see another Trump presidency. a little jealous of his timing.

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also i think this has been figured out at this point but the whole "i miss queerbaiting" convo is like... the part of queerbaiting that ruled was because the show was usually putting forward two dudes, those two dudes got to have character arcs and motivations and writing behind both of them. they could both be interesting individually. because neither of them were shunted into 'disposable romantic interest' for each other.

but if a gay couple on tv is now supposed to be there, writers can fall for the m/f trap of 'only one of these characters needs to be fleshed out, the other is just here to explicitly be the love interest and maybe die later' except now they can both be dudes. it's not that queerbaiting was inherently better it's that unfortunately people have always been bad at understanding what makes fictional romance compelling, which is 'who the fuck are these people in the first place and why should i care'

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hey, just a reminder: they haven't convicted Luigi Mangione of jack shit, and as of right now we can't say that they will. and since the American justice system is still lurching along with some of its ideals intact, that means he is presumed innocent until proven guilty. don't go doing their jobs for them by acting like it's a foregone conclusion that he committed a crime.

for all we know they just nabbed a random, mildly problematic, compellingly sexy italian guy who did nothing wrong except openly admit to reading Ayn Rand on purpose.

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the women in my bluetooth headphones sounds mad at me :(

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when you think to yourself "i should make this relationship more fucked up and difficult to define" that's the aromantic demon talking. and you should listen to it.

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we could be dunking bread in the same little bowl of olive oil, do you ever think of that?