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Hiii! Ive just found your artworks and they are gorgeous! *biting emoji* I love the way you draw eyes, nose and ears abd the way you paint them also the hair drawings of yours-hhhhhh *dies* do you have any advice for painting around the eyes and nose? Or are you interested in doing any tutorials *blinks owlishly*🥺🥺💜💜

If not its okay too, i just wanted to say your art looks so good😩😩💚💚💚

this message is so so sweet omg i'm crying </3 this made my whole day thankyou so much !!!! i've never done a tutorial before but i will try my best to sometime soon! my (veryyy amateur) advice is very generic but: reference! both irl images and study the techniques of other artists! i also tend to use soft-edged, lower opacity brushes for building up colour and form, incase that helps!

also your art is beautiful!!! thankyou for your very kind words <3

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somehow these 2 are at fault for whatever happened i just know

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the jump from 2015 to 2020 was 10 years but the jump from 2020 to 2025 was 11 months

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Susie Benes: "From Blood, Wings” (2021)

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Izuku saw some terrible things on that battlefield....

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im sick of my parents trying to reconcile

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computer crashed so have this platter of old toshinori cringe

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My friend Mahrah (@mahrahpalestine) is an engineering student. She is brilliant and speaks with a clarity of analysis and thoughtfulness (even in a second language, even while living in crisis), that is profoundly impressive and humbling to me. She holds hope that Palestine will be free, and when it is, she will use her knowledge and skill to help rebuild.

Her father lost his job due to the war, and she does not have the money for university fees. The situation for her and other Palestinians is getting more difficult as the duration of the crossing closure increases, and the genocidal famine is leading to sickness and starvation.

Mahrah explained, "Food is missing from the markets. If the food is found, it is usually unhealthy because it contains preservatives and we eat it for a year and 8 months, and this causes diseases. But there are no other options to do without it. My nephews are at risk for my father's and mother's diseases and need healthy food because they are at an advanced age. It's like a famine, but there is no media to cover what's happening. They killed all the journalists."

Donations have been slowing, and she is afraid for her family's health. If you can spare some money to help them, please do.

Chuffed | Help us restore hope and rise again

Mahrah has been so incredibly kind and loving to me in our conversations, even checking in how I've been while recovering from surgery. She has extended so much compassion towards me, and I want to encourage others to extend that same level of compassion towards her.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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man of progress

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the student said, "i'm reading a zen buddhist cookbook. with no recipes." and the teacher replied, "ah, dogen's instructions for the cook, written in 1237?" "yeah," said the student, "it's saying not to let rats fall into the rice pot"

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2025

BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE

DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL

TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT

BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS

REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE

ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT

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Donald Trump gave Elon Musk wings made of wax and told him that he was smarter than Icarus. Elon believed him, and when the candlemakers told him that his wings would melt, he fired the candlemakers. Now he’s so high in the sky that he no longer cares about watching where he’s going to land when he falls. Mocking the birds and airplanes for not being as clever as himself for taking Trumps side.

All the while, he never noticed that melted wax looks a lot like bird shit when smeared across the hood of a cybertruck.

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Donald Trump gave Elon Musk wings made of wax and told him that he was smarter than Icarus. Elon believed him, and when the candlemakers told him that his wings would melt, he fired the candlemakers. Now he’s so high in the sky that he no longer cares about watching where he’s going to land when he falls. Mocking the birds and airplanes for not being as clever as himself for taking Trumps side.

All the while, he never noticed that melted wax looks a lot like bird shit when smeared across the hood of a cybertruck.

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Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

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walking my turtle