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DONATE TO THE SAMEER PROJECT 🕊️

Mosab Emad Ali, part of the heart of the Sameer Project, was also martyred recently. The organizers could use all the support they can get right now.

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baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat

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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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haven't done my work but i did draw myself not doing my work. and the specter. not sure how this helps

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I had another hunger attack tonight. Suddenly, you feel as if your stomach wall is stuck together, and you feel a bitter taste in your throat as if the stomach acid has reached your mouth. You'll start to get a severe headache or a feeling of emptiness surrounding your brain.

I don't know how to describe it... When you try to stand up, you feel dizzy and unsteady. You quickly try to support yourself with something and close your eyes for a while, and the blood then tries to reach your brain again.

You have some time to go out and look for anything, no matter how simple, to put in your body and reach your stomach, so that the body is given a temporary and false indication that your body has started eating, thus breaking the hunger attack for a while and you remain waiting for the next hunger attack.

Some people manage to overcome this, falling on the streets or in their tents.

Over time, our bodies begin to digest themselves, and muscle mass disappears, leaving us severely emaciated.

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BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

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I don't know how to express how exhausted I am. My friends are all starving and I can't help them. If I send them money, there won't be any food to buy. I fear losing them or their loved ones soon. Unfortunately this isn't the first time I've had this feeling but this is the first time it has felt so completely hopeless with no end in sight. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm at a complete loss.

Nothing short of extremely efficient attacks on the occupation's forces on the Egyptian border will change this situation. Nothing short of the toppling of the Egyptian puppet regime will change this.

But the people who can act to change this situation will not do it due to the personal risk.

I'm very close to giving up on this world and the people that belong to it. I've given so much of me to an uncountable number of people. And this is my reward... Dying, starving friends, and a world too cowardly to act against the entity killing my friends with starvation and thirst.

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Smiling practice with the guys

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americans pleeease. please kill elon musk 🙏🙏🥺😔😩🙏 americans! please. Please !!! kill elon musk. don't you remember gun.. ? bang bang ? your favorite game..? Americans... please. 😔🙏 have you forgotten your local deity, captain america: kill nazis??? americans !! I know you can do it 🥺🙏 please americans..

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…Not good. (And not legal, if I read the situation correctly.) 😡

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I feel like a good number of the people who complain the loudest about Wyll's character are also the people who are less willing to engage with him on a deeper analytical level.

If you just look a little harder at his character, he has incredible if subtle depth, not in spite of but because of his maintained morality and heroism. From his introduction, Wyll comes off as the classic dashing rogue, wanting only to rid the world of evil and save those in need. However, once you begin to learn his story, you realize that this heroism, while genuine, has always been defined by others. Be it by his father -- a hero of legends and a grand duke of Baldur's Gate -- and his teachings, or by Mizora's patronage granting him power he decided to wield for good (or at least as much good as he could do while still being yanked around by Mizoram), Wyll's life has always been defined by people who had authority over him. Wyll believes that, to live up to his father's legacy, he must also be a hero of the people, and justifies taking Mizora's deal to himself by explaining he thought he could only save people through her (though to be fair Mizora definitely took advantage of his panic in the moment when he believed the archdevil Tiamat was being summoned).

However, throughout the story of Baldur's Gate (given you follow the "good" route for his story) though his heroism never wavers, it becomes less defined by others' influence. After sparing Karlach and becoming part-devil, Wyll initially despairs that his new form is one of evil, totally ignoring the tieflings around him who also share similar traits. But, as he grows accustomed to his new form and bonds with Karlach, he realizes he can still be the hero he's always wished to be, and that saving Karlach was another decision he would not regret. His development is especially prominent in Act 3, in which a major part of the plot revolves around Gortash's hold over his father, and whether or not Wyll can save him. I know a lot of people dislike the fact that there isn't an option for Wyll to make his decision on whether or not to break his contract or ensure his father's safety, and I agree it would be nice to have that option, but, as I see it, Wyll is again plunged into an impossible situation, just like the one that caused Wyll to take Mizora's contract in the first place, and, at this point, he is still stuck between his past and his potential future. Because, because of Duke Ravengard disowning him after seeing Wyll had become a warlock, Wyll never got closure on his relationship with his father -- the man he loved and admired so dearly, both as a father and as a symbol of hope and justice in Baldur's Gate. The man Wyll looked up to as the person he believed he must be.

But could Wyll ever be the man he wished to be if he stayed on Mizora's leash?

If you choose to encourage him to break his contract, Wyll seems to spring back from his decision somewhat quickly, but in a "no time to process this must keep going or else I'll collapse" type of way. However, from this point, whether or not you're able to save Duke Ravengard from the Iron Throne, Wyll is left with something he hasn't had for so long: closure. Even if his father resents him, or even if his father is dead, at least Wyll can let go of that fleeting regret from all those years ago. And, once you finish the quest revolving around the undead guardian of the city Ansur, Wyll embraces a new mantle: the Blade of Avernus. A title merging both his past heroism and his future potential.

At the end of the game, if Karlach and Wyll are in your party, Karlach's heart will be on the verge of giving out, and, if you tell Karlach to return to Avernus so she won't die, Wyll promises he'll be by her side, fighting against the demons that oppressed them. And, in the epilogue, Wyll proudly proclaims that he makes a pretty good Ranger, showing how he's grown and adapted after losing the powers afforded to him by Mizora.

tl;dr: Wyll's arc is basically him going from a "hero by legacy" to a "hero by choice," and I think it's wonderful that he's able to maintain his morality while learning to move on from his past.

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I don't want to die. 😥

Israel continues the massacres in Gaza.. 232 souls taken in less than an hour! We are dying before your eyes—please, don’t leave us alone! Save us, do something... protest, donate, participate. I don’t want to die!

Vetted by: @90-ghost here

Donation link:

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Anti-vaxxer extremist RFK Jr, the US Health Secretary, is now actively trying to collect medical records of folks on the autism spectrum. First, he used dehumanizing and infantilizating language to insist people with autism won't 'pay taxes and live a 'normal life' which we all know is ableist bullshit and is literally a precursor to genocide. This man is a monster.

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The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

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HATE havIng hyperfixation s sometimes bc ill see someone being a bit hostile towards it and i start to feel NAUSEOUS and my HEART is breaking in pieces and then dies a million deaths over and over for an extended period of time. like that sad spongebob gif