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Erica and I have found temporary housing with my cousin in her apartment. We have to pay $325 each month though so we will still very much need money. January the lease is up on my cousins place and we will be searching for apartments between now and then all 3 of us can move into so we still will need to reach our goal to keep us afloat and help us pay for a new place when the time comes. Thank you so much for all the love and support it means the world to us!

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Figured I should post this over here, too (since I'm still??? getting new followers???) This httyd rp blog has been dead a long time. I still love httyd, but I mostly post about other things now (until httyd 3 gets closer tbh). Having an active blog show up when I like posts and follow people was honestly one of the reasons I moved. Maybe I'll see some of you over there - I'll never delete this blog, if only for the memories and archive, but I don't have any plans to return.

New blog!

I’m moving! I don’t really do much on this old Tumblr, and I’ve been thinking for a long time both that I need to be on here being useless less or turn it into something more productive. So I’m finally going to try out a literary blog. Or rather, I’m going to really commit myself to the one I made some weeks ago by officially leaving this account. If anyone is interested, my new blog is @booksandberries. If you like the content of this blog, I’m also going to have a sideblog to function like this one, @beeonastrawberry (if anyone saw it before, that was the original name of my lit blog, but I’m switching things up.) I won’t disappear from here immediately - my queue is filled up. But there isn’t really anything holding me here so. Here’s to the success of my new blog!

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Costume. Chitons.

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I have never seen a less accurate description of Artemis Fowl II. He is a moody self-important depressed snob like all the rest of us tyvm

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Poop doods 1 ~(   _^ ⓛ ω ⓛ ^ ) _

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@everyone following this blog

hi happy new year i hope you see a cute animal today

but

this blog

it’s dead bruh

sorry

anything posted here is an accident since my main blog was originally a side blog for this one over @dragontameroutofcharacter

s’cool if you don’t want to follow me over there, i’m mostly just confused on where new followers keep coming from

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How do you make such great skin texture in photoshop? I've tried a couple times and it just turns out looking... wrong. Any tips on painting human skin textures?

I do it like this:

First I start with some base colors.

Then I add scribbles.

Then I add more scribbles, and maybe change the layer to overlay or something so it’s more translucent.

Then I blur everything. Or smudge it. Depending on what will look best.

And then I repeat, using a smaller and softer brush as I go. Until I get something that looks like this:

You can also add noise and blur it that way:

But I don’t like noise layers that much because the undertones are always changing, and it’s harder to color. I’d rather just paint the undertone.

That’s really it, though. It’s a controlled scribble.

I use the same technique for stubble, leather, and metal, too. Like a suit of armor? I do it the same way:

You can see my scribbles on Richard’s armor and his leather sleeve.

Hope that helps. 

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be nice to bodhi.

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Even if you’re unemployed, even if you’re taking time off from school, even if nobody is calling and making plans with you, get out of bed, take a shower, put on clean clothes, wear some cologne or perfume, turn all the lights on, do some laundry, clean up a little bit. 

Doing all this stuff causes a shift in your perspective. Do it in spite of your situation. 

That’s the only way to create sustainable happiness, because if your behavior is dictated by your circumstances, you’re always going to be miserable. Don’t let the world determine your mindset. Let your mindset determine how you view the world.

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Important!

I’m calling off the emergency furnace fund. A friend has donated the full amount for a furnace repairman and the required part and it looks like we’ll have heat by this evening.

I have removed the donate button from my blog, but please spread this message around so people don’t get confused when they go to donate and don’t see it!

A big thank you to all who boosted the message and donated!

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Emergency Furnace Fund

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Commissions officially open at all times! 

Unless otherwise posted, you will be able to order any of these styles at any time. 

Information here!

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So. Many. Dots.

White, grey and black coloured pencils on A4 black paper. 

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GUYS

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commissions open

Hello! Just a little update…

I still have a little over a month until my next full paycheck, (thank you school system!) and my part time job is cutting my hours until further notice. I don’t get my paycheck for last month until friday, but I have two bills I need to pay before then, and also my phone bill is due on wednesday. So, if anyone has anything they want to commission me for then that would be super rad!

Here is My Commission Info *finger guns*

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I have this headcanon that for a while after HTTYD1, when Hiccup and Astrid have first started dating, and it’s all very nervous and giggly and tentative and your run-of-the-mill early teens figuring out this whole ‘dating’ thing, that Stoick is very very scared that it is all going to fall apart. He’s worried that Astrid is just into Hiccup because he’s now a hero, and that eventually the glamour is going to fade, and that his dorky little son and this tough very-Viking girl are going to realize that they are too different, and it will all crash and burn and Thor above, he does not have the slightest clue how he is supposed to comfort a heartbroken 15 year old boy whose first girlfriend just dumped him.

Stoick already likes Astrid very much, and he’s hoping and praying to every god there is that it works out, but he’s also pretty much convinced that this relationship is living on borrowed time. 

Then Snoggletog rolls around, and he’s looking around at his entire village on fire, holes blown in the roofs of houses, and a small heard of baby Gronkles are waddling around the town square. And when he asks who is responsible for this madness, he’s expecting Hiccup to pop out of the wreckage and give him that sheepish smile, or for the twins to step forward and cackle with mad pride.

Instead, the other teens push forward a wide-eyed Astrid Hofferson, who gulps and whispers, “…the eggs explode.”

And Stoick looks around at the chaos, the destruction, all the damage that came out of such good intentions….

and bursts into laughter, because good gods, this girl is going to be his daughter-in-law someday, he just knows it. 

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okay so let me share a paragraph from the 5E monster manual:

A brass dragon engages in conversations with thousands of creatures throughout its long life, accumulating useful information which it will gladly share for gifts of treasure. If an intelligent creature tries to leave a brass dragon’s presence without engaging in conversation, the dragon follows it. If the creature attempts to escape by magic or force, the dragon might respond with a fit of pique, using its sleep gas to incapacitate the creature. When it wakes, the creature finds itself pinned to the ground by giant claws or buried up to its neck in the sand while the dragon’s thirst for small talk is slaked.

So a) that’s fucking hilarious, some Vincent-Price-voiced motherfucking dragon knocking you out and you wake up to him in mid-monologue talking about Radiohead’s discography in Excruciating Detail, and b) i think carries the key to understanding and running dragons, which is:

Dragons are naturally giant firebreathing dinosaur wizards that can fly, and so no one has ever told them no. It doesn’t matter whether they’re good dragons or evil dragons, they have an overwhelming sense of entitlement to Everything.

a dragon doesn’t demand tribute. a dragon views you not already wanting to give them your best stuff on account of how cool & great they are as an intentional, personal insult. if you’re lucky, they will respond by throwing a tantrum and wrecking your home, your town and your kingdom. if you’re not lucky, they will first show up at your door in a huff and demand to know why you’re disrespecting them in this manner and why you hate them, then working themselves into a tantrum and wrecking your home, your town and your kingdom.

dragons suffer from the dunning-kruger effect more than even white dudes from san francisco with a tech start-up. they don’t take criticism well, which is a moot point because no one is criticizing them. they often fancy themselves masters of art or deception or repartee, but they’re really, um, not. they demand and crave recognition for their Masterpieces, their Exploits, their Groundbreaking Innovations, and pity the hapless town who gets saddled with the dragon who fancies itself a comedian. (”i burned the church down as an act of satire, god, can’t you people take a joke?”)