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Reblog because I remembered having a lot of fun drawing this and coming up with little bat accessories.

Batober prompt: Clarity

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PSA to future college freshmen: HOUSING

We all know college is expensive. It's all on the news. Tuition is way up. You're probably considering borrowing money. But a cost that people don't talk about as much? Housing. At the end of the day, you still need a place to sleep, eat, and study. And these universities know it, and because it's such a basic need, it's hell to pay.

Me and 3 other people are looking at 2 bed apartments off campus. Right now, we're all three to a room and pay about $1500/month each when you run the numbers. This does not include the meal plan. We have found off campus apartments where we would be paying $600-750/month each (these numbers are estimates on the high end and factor in utilities, electric, renter's insurance, and wifi).

Sure, it's a year round lease, but two of us are staying in town over the summer and for the rest of us, paying the rent on those empty months still works out to be cheaper than paying for the dorms. I suppose it's farther, but still not too far to walk, bus, bike, or drive to campus.

And we are getting a better QOL. Two to a room, four to a bathroom, kitchen, and a communal area. Will we have to clean communal areas? Yeah. But a fairly minor task considering how much less we are paying. Laundry? We already pay for laundry in the dorms. Furniture and stuff would cost money, but buying used, assessing what we already have, and starting out with the very basics is the way to go.

The kitchen will also help save us a lot of money by not being on a meal plan. I personally really like cooking and have food restrictions that make using a meal plan really frustrating. I truly do not get what I pay for here. Also, the dorm kitchen for residents to use is a horror show. If you really don't want to cook, you can still get meal swipes or eat out a ton and be somewhat more justified in the cost.

In a college somewhere where rent is more expensive, this math would be wildly different, but the college I'm at has no business charging this much for a dorm. When it comes to housing, the price tag and quality of on and off campus housing varies, so do your research. You may also be required to live a year on campus.

Future freshmen, if you can choose your dorm roommates, start interviewing now and find someone compatible. Look up other future freshies on social media (Insta is best for this). If you can't, you'll have to rely a little more on luck. Hopefully, you get along very well with your roommates, become friends, and room with each other again.

Also make other friends at college that you could potentially room with. Again, research the housing around your college. Don't just go by the cost of attendance estimates by the college either. Consider your fin aid. Talk to the upperclassmen, visit your college's subreddits, etc, and run your own numbers for your own situation to see what it's actually like.

Also, just a random tidbit for Californians- UCs used to have free tuition for residents until Ronald Reagan changed that as governor to make people less likely to go to college and be commies. 🙃

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I spent 150+ very physically taxing hours in a college ceramics class to build all of this. This was my first time working with clay and my first time making anything 3D this large. There were many, many challenges, but I am proud to see it all together.

Snake, 2025, chalk on concrete

JUMP, 2025, ceramic

Solitude, 2025, ceramic

The Beginning, Middle, and End, 2025, ceramic

The first picture is of all the works together as a whole. I set up this exhibition twice- once for critique (which is sort of like the final exam of art) and once for this mini art show and tell that my college does for the art classes. You can see there is a snake (Snake), and I put a closeup of its head in the second photo. It was done in chalk and I had to redo it each time I set it up. It kind of fits the theme of time and the natural world. Plus, it compositionally ties things together.

The third, fourth, and fifth images are highlights of JUMP. They're frogs. I like frogs... and I'm @froggydafroggy. They're cards, which I am always down for. And they're also molecules, because I'm a chem/mat. sci. major (still choosing). Each larger bulb is its own separate ceramic thing that was fired and it was all assembled together at the end. There are no screws or glue, just gravity. If you're wondering if it was a doozy of an engineering challenge, it was. Not everything would fit together, so I made it work by displaying the last bits on platforms. I also used tempera paint to touch up some harder to see lines.

The sixth and seventh images are of my piece Solitude. In the beginning of class, we got a bunch of random images and had to create a little sculpture inspired by them. I got a bunch of nature things, but also a building and was feeling some mechanical vibes. I also had kaiju and robots on my mind.

The last three photos are of my work The Beginning, Middle, and End. It's inspired by entropy, decay, life cycles, and nature. I won't tell you which bust is the beginning, middle, or end, because it's all supposed to fluctuate depending on your point of view. This was the last, fastest work I was assigned. Also, an interesting little tidbit was that students had to make their own glazes in this class. I made most of mine, but borrowed some orangey and yellow glazes from another classmate who had too much extra glaze.

You can also find me on Newgrounds @froggydafroggy:

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A party frog!! Another sticker design I decided to post, reblog this guy to celebrate things <3

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Was feeling inspired. Thought it would just be a tiny sketch... whoops :).

I'm also on NG:

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Also also on another note- I think that it having queer characters that aren't perfectly good and queer relationships that are somewhat toxic is important.

A lot of representation puts an emphasis on making the character be this role model figure, trying to make up for representation that demonises queer people for just existing. But why can't someone just be queer? A straight, white man can be any range of characters. Not every queer person is a perfect person. I'm sure there are many queer people out there who have done awful things because they're messed up little humans like everyone else.

Arcane had the groundwork for this, but it just didn't go deep enough.

Went into season 2 rolling my eyes at how the fandom prioritizes a non-canon mlm ship (as much as I do enjoy the ship) over the canon wlw ship but six episodes in and they completely butchered both Vi and Caitlyn and the dynamic is honestly deeply unappealing now

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I would not mind CaitVi having aspects that are less than pitch perfect. The point of Arcane is to have things be morally grey, after all. I actually think it would be a great move for Caitlyn and Vi to fall from grace.

But it, and the redemption arc, has to feel earned. And the only way to do that has to actually see character development. I didn't like how a lot of things were skipped over or montaged in this season. Some of the montages could have been whole new episodes. The pitfighter Vi teaser got me so hyped to see what was going on- and then I watched the episode and they just replay that teaser to sum up a low point in Vi's life that could have been so, so impactful.

I think that Arcane tried to do too many things for just two seasons and ended up just trying to wrap up character arcs and do a little set-up for another show. It lost some of the symbolism, weight, and character depth that made it so ground breaking just to move the plot faster.

Went into season 2 rolling my eyes at how the fandom prioritizes a non-canon mlm ship (as much as I do enjoy the ship) over the canon wlw ship but six episodes in and they completely butchered both Vi and Caitlyn and the dynamic is honestly deeply unappealing now

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making my way through season 2 arcane and I love how in episode 7 we get a scene of Jayce suffering and in pain and starving and then all of a sudden it's cutesy Ekko and Powder. I know it's supposed to be jarring but it's also kinda funny.

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Aww, it's so sweet that you did this together. I love the cool composition and how vibrant the colours are. A printed version or something would be the perfect gift.

My dad took this photo, I edited in lightroom.

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Yes, it's a "Creation of Adam" reference. Yes, I had to trace God/Crake's hand because I was struggling with the anatomy, learning how to digitally paint, and making the deadline for a class project. Yes, you should go read Oryx and Crake.

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“Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black. Pinpoints of light swell, sparkle, burst and shrivel within it, countless as stars. Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. It transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.”

-Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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reblog if frog

Some froggies from my art journal

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i like doing outdoorsy stuff but as soon as its basketball or football i just can’t

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I heard that Nightshade is a bit better for "poisoning" their supply of data. I started using Glaze because it's a bit easier on my computer.

Would Uploading Glaze'd Images to Deviantart Break The Website?

They have that Dreamup thing and also an "opt-in" AI scraping thing? Like can we just sabotage DA or....????

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Giving some OC pets to Batman rogues that aren't really known to have any because I can.

Bad Bunny: Fell in a vat of Venom and now he's pumping iron as Bane's best gym buddy. Watson the Pig: Somehow got involved in Riddler's scheming and stuck around for his intelligence.

Philippa the Penguin: Escaped from a zoo enclosure that Penguin and Mr. Freeze were both heisting, and now it's a shared custody situation. (Yes, Penguin has many birds but Freeze isn't really known for having pets.) Of course, they all have a penchant for biting Batman and his associates.

(also random but taking photos of physical art is super fun)

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fell off the bed is my favourite

Partial nudity warning!!

Scar Maps + Cuteness Agression

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Frogs are sort of my artist’s signature irl. I left this on an unused whiteboard the last day before I graduated high school. I wonder if it is still up there. In high school, I would “tag” boards with frogs and stupid dad jokes. Rarely words like this though.

I haven’t really posted much because I am trying to improve and feel like I don’t have many good pieces. I’m a freshman and going to major in college something to please my parents. But my goal is to write stories and create art. I think I am running away from both the things I have to do and the things I want to do. I have also always struggled with procrastination, prolonged sadness, and a sense of burning out.

But frogs are friends. They always cheer me up and give me hope. They are a symbol of radical change and metamorphosis. So hello again, Tumblr. Here’s my overdue frog post. I hope you enjoy it.