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You did that in just a couple hours? I don't even know how to quantify how long this would have taken me.

Thylacine mother cleans her child - 2 hours, 42 minutes

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@whyisthereacentaur Thought of your monster project

The Demon in the Supermarket (font is I Hate Comic Sans)

An adaptation of this poem:

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Talita go FLOOOOOOOOOF

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Give him an ornate military-style uniform, in his favorite colors, covered in gold braid, insignias, and medals, with a yuge garrison cap to match, and some aviator sunglasses.

Maybe he'll think they're cool, and start wearing them all the time.

Nobody tell him what he looks like. Nobody say anything about it, anywhere.

Just show everyone the pictures, with no commentary.

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I'm just going to keep the feed going, all the shitposts and rants and reblogs. It's queued through August, at the moment. Because I know a lot of people use Tumblr for the brainrot, for laughs and escapism, and I don't think any self-righteous posturing I can do here is going to change anything at all.

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Hapless Skeleton Army

Hear me out, okay?

A necromantic dark lord has this seemingly endless skeleton army… but the skeletons are secretly just a re-skin of the battle droids from Clone Wars. Dippy, quippy, hapless, and alternately oblivious and mildly genre-savvy, as the Rule of Funny dictates. They argue with one another, panic, and experience death and dismemberment in comical ways. See how long it takes the hero players to realize what you're doing.

A few worldbuilding suggestions:

The skeletons are animated by some sort of minor demon or spirit, REALLY minor, which is why they're like that.

The skeletons have their own unique way of speaking, a voiceless hiss or something else that doesn't sound like a battle droid.

Instead of "Roger-roger!" the skeletons say "I obey!" All other stock phrases are pretty much the same.

Instead of serial numbers, the skeletons' names are short unintelligible gibbering noises, that nobody will notice you're doing different every time.

The command droids are represented by spooky-looking suits of armor, empty, but animated by slightly higher-ranking demons who clearly Did Not Sign Up For This.

Other Droid Army units, like destroyer droids, hovertanks, etc, can be represented by appropriate monsters from whatever bestiary you're using.

The army's general doesn't have to be Grievous, they can be anything you want them to be… although if you have a defeated early-arc antagonist you can bring back as an undead version of themselves, as a surprise reveal, it might be funny or awesome.

Likewise, there's actually little point in making the Big Bad necromancer behind all of this, into Dooku. Count Dooku had a very specific purpose in the prequels' plot, and you probably want to make your Big Bad more threatening and intimidating, as well as having more staying power.

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This slogan... Why.

How.

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Hmm. "Street disorder."

That term could mean just about anything... but I think we all know what THEY are using it to mean.

I guess the only positive is that they still have enough shame not to openly admit they just created a new "task force" to harass, attack, and exclude the unhoused, the addicted, the mentally ill, First Nations, foreign laborers, and anyone else who doesn't look or act like they stepped out of the pages of Coastal Living Magazine.

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Well!

So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.

Consider going through the Smithsonian website to learn about Juneteenth! Recognize why it's an actual day of freedom, versus July 4th and the independence of a select few.

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My IRLs need to fucking STOP sending me entry-level job opportunities for random shit. I have a fucking CAREER I'm trying to get back into. I have certifications and credentials and fucking endorsements, nobody is going to hire me for an apprenticeship when I'm already a fucking journeyman, anyway. They do not realize how DEMEANING they are being.

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Damn, you're fast. And you must have incredible finger technique!

not really expecting this to get much traction but i got so pissed at ai slop earlier i redrew an image of my dog myself and did it better. in under 2 hours. in bed. on phone. with finger

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Meet Trog the Pacific Wren (Troglodytes pacificus).

I came across an off-model version of Pam the Bird, that was extremely Winter Wren-coded, and I was inspired to try something that simple.

One of the main tricks to drawing Trog is to make sure people don't look at her and say, "Angry Birds!"

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She's right. This is exactly what my own problem is.

@storytellerash here,

Do you have any tips for making art faster? I figured I would ask you since making a comic requires lots of illustrations at a consistent speed. Other than simplifying the art, is there anything else you've found helpful?

unfortunately shitloads of practice is the only thing I've found that meaningfully helps you get faster, but fortunately if you're trying to draw a comic you're going to get shitloads of practice anyway

To be more specific, in my experience what slows down my art is having to correct things - redraw lines, rework figures that look improperly proportioned on a second glance. But practice is what makes your lines smoother and more confident, and what makes you better at clocking errors earlier and faster. It also helps to practice drawing a diverse range of things - faces from multiple angles, bodies in unusual poses from non-head-on angles, background elements like rocks or trees or buildings, complex textures like fire or the surface of water or a translucent crystal. The more practice you have, the smoother your drawing of it will look and go, because anything will be slow and wobbly the first time you try to capture it on paper. Doing something slow is the first step towards doing it fast.

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Note the QR code and the text beneath it. This is a recruiting ad. Possibly to replace irreplaceable workers because they may have been unionizing?

the construction workers have something to say

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the sheer meme potential of these two panels

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Thoughts on RWD's "Do Or Die" one-shot

Right after I came up with my best idea yet for making fun of the hooded stranger in the corner of the tavern, for my own fantasy world, I get to hear Red describe someone as "doing the Aragorn pose." I feel like I scored bonus points or something.

...Right after realizing that, a year ago, Sophia's My Immortal reference would have gone right over my basic little head. Thank you again, Mr. @strange-aeons , for everything.

Wally RPing an insecure, timid character is fascinating. I've never heard him play anyone like Xavier. And Max is living my dream, playing a selfish asshole character for laughs... Noir and Sophia with Mirage Tempest's edginess, too!

It wasn't what happened, but I early on I had the idea that the players' characters' old characters settled down to normie lives after the characters stopped playing them. Not only is that one of my favorite death alternatives, with some parallel in real-life adventurers, but it's a great idea for a reunion session at a real TTRPG table, timeskipping the heroes forward to mirror how time has passed for the players.

What an incredibly creepy concept, Jumanji but it's messing with your head. Was that because of Noir's adventure concept, or is that part of how Die's intrinsic design?

And then the feels started coming, and I had no more chatter. Damn, Noir, you do angst so fucking well!

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You discover that that one part of you that you've always hidden out of shame is considered a superpower here, and highly honored

I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.