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Thank you keemstar for providing the world with one of the funniest tweets of all time

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"They don't teach us about that in school how am I supposed to know" well you seem to know a lot about Bakugou but they don't teach you about him in school. Do they

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

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The current state of pop girlies is so funny like

Ariana Grande: getting dragged for homewrecking with the guy who played SpongeBob in the SpongeBob musical

Taylor Swift: dropping her worst album in years about how deeply obsessed she is with Matty Healy

Billie Eilish, for some reason:

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sliding scale of posts about Jesus being a carpenter who was nailed to a cross

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So you might be saying: Lion why a guide on drawing black people? Well young blood it’s because a lot of people cant…seem…to draw…black people..Amazing I know. 

Racist (caricatures) portrayals of black people have been around forever, and to this day people can’t seem to draw black people like they are human. If your artwork resembles any of the above even remotely your artwork is racist and offensive. If you try to excuse that as a stylistic choice you’re not only a terrible artist, but racist too!!! Congrats.

Whitewashing is also a problem. A lot of people refuse to draw black features on canonly black characters. While this example isn’t colored, lightening the skin-tone of a character is also considered whitewashing. So lets start with features!

Now all black people have different noses thats a no-brainer, but black noses tend to have flatter bridges, and wider nostrils. Please stay from triangular anime noses and small button noses. Your drawings should not depict black people with abnormally large noses. (Especially if you do not draw other characters this way)

If you feel like the way you draw lips on black characters is offensive or resembles a caricature,it probably does and you should change it. ABSOLUTELY AVOID PLACING LIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FACE. 

Hair is so diverse! Please get used to drawing braids, locs,kinks and coils! If you can learn to draw ringlets and long waves you can learn how to draw black hairstyles.

Add clips! Learn how to draw baby-hairs and never be afraid to add color Pinterest and Google are free my dudes! Also try using square brushes for blocking in coils.

OK THAT’S ALL YOU GUYS

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$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

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Am I the good boy? Really??

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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©一边航来一遍拍

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Little old Italian lady: Do you have zucchini?

Me: Yes, right here.

Lady: Is how much?

Me: $2.99 a pound.

Lady: It's usually $1.49.

Me: Yes, in the summer.

Lady, pauses, then grabs two: I put it in a soup.

Me: Oh nice, what kind are you making?

Lady: You will not fantasize about my soup.

And then she walked away. "You will not fantasize about my soup" will be in my head forever. I love you, little old Italian lady.

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The two twins…

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this guy gets it

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My Thoughts on the Bee Movie

My friend asked me, as the resident bee friend, what I thought of the Bee Movie. Here were a couple of my criticisms:

Focused too much on honeybees. Missed opportunity to teach families about native bees. Perhaps in a Bee Movie 2?

The sex ratio of the hives is NOT 50-50. Drones/males are few and they die. Most bees are female workers. Missed opportunity for a groundbreaking lesbeean relationship.

Honeybees are not being exploited because we harvest their honey. Beekeepers provide a nice home and protection and in exchange harvest excess honey. You leave enough for the hive to survive the winter. If they wanted to show humans as exploitative, why not focus on the terrible working conditions in commercial pollination services? That's where beekeepers will take their hives to fields to pollinate crops. E.g., pesticides, contact with lots of other hives which spreads disease, monoculture which is not a good diet for bees, the stress of constantly traveling around the country?

The one thing the movie shows well is that humans and bees and plants all need each other and that Barry B. Benson is misguided and has to fix his mistake when he severs that relationship. However, that’s because of crop pollination. Honey is just a nice side effect.

Missed opportunity for social commentary about the working conditions of agricultural workers????

My friend encouraged me to be the change I wanted to see and I basically wrote a Bee Movie fanfic lmao addressing some of these criticisms: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1goE8l6mXSz-tIHvXEIWfxy9KFJ5LoF0J/view?usp=sharing

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