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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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me too hozier me too

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But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it. 

But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables. 

When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades. 

Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them. 

The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.

Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.

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today on neat hozier retweets: disappearing birds!

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Today my toddler INSISTED we open every sauce that came with our Chinese take out so she could sample every single one. She didn’t care for the spicy mustard, she LOVED the soy sauce, she said BLEH BLEH to duck sauce, and she said OH SO GOOD to sweet and sour

She then decided she needed to shove an ENTIRE crab Rangoon into her mouth which gave me a heart attack but she did in fact manage to eat the entire thing with minimal effort on her part. This was after she chanted “RANGOON RANGOON RANGOON!” at us until we gave her one.

Kids are fun and I am exhausted

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while i understand where people are coming from i think its funny when people romanticize the old internet

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Me: wow I can't believe how well that meeting went! This might actually pan out!! Wow!! I feel... So...

Brain: sad?

Me: what

Brain: exhausted, anxious... Sad?

Me: no definitely not sad. This is great! This is good news! This is positive!

Brain: sad.

Me: why 😭

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girl who wont shut up about how she "loves a man in uniform" but as she keeps talking it becomes clear she's talking about butches in customer service jobs

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Hozier is that you

early to bed and early to rise leaves a man so fucked up that he dies

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I feel this way about a lot of things. Learned to crochet recently and nobody taught me anything about yarn tension, sewing edges shut or weaving in ends, they just told me to do it. Learned to embroider and it was really hard to find any info on how to finish it and make sure it lasts, and I STILL don't know anything about measuring thread or getting tension right in the fabric. When I learned to code it took me FOREVER to find any information about setting up an environment on my computer, using git, organizing projects, etc etc etc. The boring admin stuff always gets skipped over smh

Okay so I've figured out what the problem is with all the animation and animatic tutorials I've found.

None of them address workflow.

Not a single one tells me how I should be handling my files, saving them, applying them to my music, etc. They don't ever address the finishing work of clean-up or finalizing or saving it to a completed thing that can be posted. I haven't seen advice on file management nor how those files are later compiled. There's also nothing in animation tutorials about how to figure out how to pace your animation to music beats if that's something you want to do.

I don't want advice on 'how to make my animatic better' or how to conceptualize. I want the bare bones explanation of how to make this as not painstaking as possible, the best way to save storage space on my computer, and how to actually do this from a technical standpoint, not an artistic one.