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IOS users and Patreon. Big old heads up.

"Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.

First, we want to be clear about one thing: this will not impact your existing memberships at all. Apple's App Store fee only applies to new memberships purchased in the iOS app beginning in November 2024."

Apple users, if you make your pledges through your browser you can dodge this fee.

This is just apple doing its usual nickel and diming to take a slice of every pie.

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"As you wish"

I should use tumblr more often.

Without blur + glow:

Also, I might make her an OC. Idk yet.

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trying some new brushes !

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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Lore Olympus Redrawn Premiere!!

If you've been in the /r/UnpopularLoreOlympus subreddit at all, you've surely noticed people posting edits for something called the Lore Olympus Redrawn project!

And if you haven't then you're about to be in for a treat in a couple hours, because for the past several weeks artists AND voice actors in the ULO community have been working their butts off to redraw the first few episodes of Lore Olympus! The list of credited artists is INSANELY huge and everyone involved should be proud of themselves for pulling this all together (•̀ᴗ•́)و

So if you have a little time today, please join them all in celebrating their work in a couple hours when the finished video drops!

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Pillowfort is in need of support! Let's do what we do best >:3

I haven't used Pillowfort in a LONG time, and I never really was a regular user per se, but they're seeking funds right now to help keep them alive! Even if I don't use these sites often, it should absolutely still be acknowledged how important it is to have sites like this that aren't controlled by massive corporations. So if you're a Pillowfort user or just want to help support a free Internet, please consider tossing them a dollar or two!

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idk y'all LO is wearing me so thin i can barely even be bothered to talk shit about it anymore (I don't even know where to begin), so have this kore drawing i made during the convention u.u (pls don't mind the compression, i'm on mobile aauckkk)

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tired angel bunny 🐇🌙

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This!

The story wants us to think Zeus is terrible and power-hungry when this proves him right in a way. If Metis, a fertility goddess, can't defeat Kronos on her own, how do they expect to defeat him without Hera's powers? Why would she keep it from Hera if they were powerful enough without Zeus to take him out?

This plot point was not thought through enough.

Fastpass spoilers

I think one of the largest issues I have with Lore Olympus is Rachel Smythes tendency to ignore her favourite characters wrong doings or to try 'justify' them with poorly executed retcons. In the latest chapter we get yet another "Zeus bad" retcon that somehow feels worse than the prior "Zeus bad" moments. Im not going to deny Zeus is a very VERY flawed person in LO, I am all for Hera divorcing him. But here she is trying to justify the Metis/Zeus plot point by saying "oh she was protecting her daughter all along by sleeping with someone who she met when he was underage!!!!" That feels really creepy? I dont think she really considers the implications of the things she writes and thats not a good thing. She cant even try argue "oh kronos time shenanigans make it ok" or whatever stupid logic she might use because she has established his time powers had run out from his fight with Ouranos at that point in the story.

Like lets take the catastrophe that was the Dio birth arc, she tries to retroactively justify Persephone being a terrible midwife who steals a baby without letting the father hold him by being like "oh actually he didnt care about the baby he chose to carry in his leg for about 10 years Persephone was in the right!!!" instead of having her ask to take custody or do anything other than demanding she be given the baby like a few minutes after Zeus finished giving birth.

Its not just Zeus either, she tries to justify Persephone invading Leuces home by being like "Oh Leuce never really got any texts shes delusional!!!!" ignoring the fact that Leuce thought the texts were valid enough to show to Persephone when mrs pink tyrant was being a home invader and neglecting the baby she just stole a couple of hours ago. Dio is treated like a purse dog and we get some off hand comment where Persephone blames the neglect (which was so bad the child got into TARTARUS) on the sitter she hired rather than being like "oh I should have made actual arrangements for Dio instead of giving myself a makeover". Theres also the way she tried to claim Thanatos was as much to blame for Hades' terrible parenting as Hades was by being like "well the abandoned child had an attitude can you blame Hades for not being a good dad?" Like yes. Yes we can blame Hades, he was an ADULT and Thanatos was a CHILD.

I guess the point Im making is, if she wants her characters to be morally grey, she needs to stop twisting the narrative into a gordian knot to justify every bad thing her favourites do whilst condemning other characters as being 'the worst' like hold them all to the same standard and actually let them develop instead of making excuses.

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Why the Fertility Goddess Reveal Bothers Me (Fastpass Spoilers)

Most people knew who it was, but personally, I was hoping this wasn't the route Rachel would go for it. Why? Because of its very poorly done inclusion.

For starters, how did the painting suddenly remove her mole? Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but it makes no sense considering the other fertility goddesses kept all their features and her pre-use painting has it. (Was the mole a part of her powers? /j)

In fact, how is it that her fertility status got "revoked" while Rhea, Metis, and Gaia's didn't?

Mind you, those three were used to the point that they no longer have a physical form. How exactly did their portraits remain the same, but Hera completely changes? It ain't adding up.

Even with Zeus' meddling, I doubt he fully redrew Hera in a 'passing the torch' pose.

There's also this scene where the harpy claims there was a fertility goddess, but she was used up before 'we knew her name'...but people did?

Zeus and Metis both knew, so how could Hera the only one "not known" if the other fertility goddesses weren't fully acknowledged either? Up until that scene and prior episodes, it's clear that almost everyone didn't think fertility goddesses were real.

Even now, it's still considered a rumor even though more gods believe it.

An easy solution would've been to make them all greyscaled until Persephone, another fertility goddess, touched that area. Rhea, Metis, and Gaia's designs are quite recognizable so the characters can still know while keeping the grey character a mystery.

It feels so forced. If you have to go and twist your story logic to have this one reveal, maybe it needs to head back in the drafts.

What are y'all thoughts? Am I tweaking, or is this something y'all dislike, too?

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

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Fireworks Hair🎆

I do not recommend lighting your hair on fire lol

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Black/Racial Coding Doesn't Equal Racial Stereotypes

I can not believe we live in a society that genuinely believes racial coding = 'stereotypes but woke'...

Y'all, racial stereotypes are overexaggerated and meant to generalize a group as a whole....

Yes, racial stereotypes are technically coding, but that doesn't mean racial coding itself is based on stereotypes. [Think square = rectangle but rectangle =/= square.]

If it was all the same, you can not create any characters with a race because anything can be a stereotype by their POV.

Gave your white oc straight hair? "Racist. Not all white people have straight hair."

Gave your black oc dark skin? "Racist. Not all black people have darker skin."

Your character comes from a place with a language other than English, and they dare speak in that language? "Racist. Not every person knows their home language."

All of these rebuttals in isolation are correct, but context is extremely important. Yes, if someone claims an entire group of people have to look like XYZ to be a certain race, that's stereotyping. Making characters who happen to have very common traits among certain races, specifically the one they're meant to represent, is not.

You can literally spin anything into being racist if you view characters with this amount of malicious intent.

Getting so butthurt over someone simply calling a character X-coded (especially when it's confirmed and extremely obvious) is so incredibly dumb.

Getting mad at people critical of an X-coded character because there's no traits for people to actually connect the dots (without reading an outside source) is also extremely dumb.

TLDR: Racial coding is simply giving characters traits to represent a certain race. Racial stereotypes are still coding, but that doesn't mean racial coding itself is inherently stereotypical. Otherwise, every depiction of race is a stereotype and/or racist.

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“we need more complex female characters” you couldn’t even handle her:

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another quick one of her

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dressed cunt at the hair salon no butch in sight what’s even the point