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literally this:

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The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

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Following horny people and opening tumblr in public is the path to true strength. Scrolling quickly through porn trains your [Warrior’s Reflexes], and calmly moving past it trains your [Warrior’s Resolve].

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This was funny in my head so I had to draw it.

Also plz play ghost trick and outer wilds, everyone. You owe it to yourself

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if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

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Plurality

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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

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ACK, I'M OLD

I was bored so I took a mental age test, twice

Taking an avg., I’m 11

Accurate 

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Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals

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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

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WAHOOOOO

@pixel-dwagon @mismagiusbunny @mmoozzee @welldrawnfish

I'm sorry this is as long as it is, however, it is funny 😈

hey guys there's this really cute personality quiz here and i think it'd be a fun chain game :)

@kadethecat @biocrafthero @littlest-bugz @the-hydra-sys @anyone else who sees this!!

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spiderman. opinions on rhode island

your mom rhode my island last night

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Don’t lie to your doctor about being a hoe

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So yeah, I'm attempting to write a book. These early posts are not going to be too exciting. There's just a lot of background bits that need to be done for the illustrations. Workflows to figure out, rocks to sculpt, that sort of thing.

Anyways, I'm stalling. As promised, here's a synopsis of the book:

Sometimes the right thing is done for the wrong reasons. Other times the wrong thing is done for the right ones. This is one of those times. This is a story of breathtaking medical malpractice, a self proclaimed doctor, and a rather unfortunate village receiving their “help”.

I'm excited to share the more finished illustrations when they happen. Hope you will enjoy watching this project come together.

Also I am really really excited about the picture above. I will nerd out about technical blender stuffs below the cut.

Still here? Cool!

So blender is a 3D modeling program and normally objects made within it are textured by unwrapping the geometry that comprises them. What's cool about the rocks above are unwrapped in two different ways simultaneously! The base rock texture is nothing too exciting. I just clicked the smart UV unwrap button and called it a day. The Green splotches and drawn text are applied to a UV that is unwrapped as projected from the view (It looks normal from the camera perspective, and is absolutely warped/stretched to hell from any other view). With the powers of these UVs combined, I can render a scene, paint a crap ton of details on to it with photoshop, bring those details back into the scene and render it again with everything included. And more importantly, not break/stretch any textures in the process.

You might ask, "But Erin, can't you just do the paint over in photoshop without bringing it back into blender?" The answer is yes, but that's less exciting. This workflow lets me prevent all spill over with textures so there are some benefits at least.

I don't know, seeing anything I make in 2D exist in a 3D space just makes me really excited for some reason.