#Source: Fugget About It

[nakamopapina]

*Massive riot due to lack of King Cryolophosaurus’ presence in Laramidia*

Mr. Conductor: Tiny! Hit the floor! I will come and get you!

Tiny: *holding two dinosaurs in headlocks* Don’t bother! I’m just starting to have fun!

Mr. Conductor: But you’re in danger!

Tiny: Ha! Mr. Conductor!

*slams the two dinosaurs heads together, knocking them out*

Tiny: I am the danger!

*Tiny proceeds to laugh evilly, and runs off into the crowd*

[totally-correct-shenanigans]

Dimitri: I am not intimidated by one guy. I could take ten guys.

Dimitri:

Dimitri: In a fight. I just wanna be clear on that.

[lovestruck-lamb]

💌 Smidge | Fran 💌 She/Her 💌 Adult 💌

🌸 Hi welcome to my selfship blog!! My main blog is @asmidge but I wanted to contain all my sillyposting here. This is a side blog so I interact from my main!

🌸 My main f/o atm is Strait McCool from Fugget About It!! I love his silly ass so much I am so fixated on him rn <3

🌸 My other main f/os are Toki Wartooth from Metalocalypse and Yamcha from Dragon Ball! They’re both very important to me even if I’m not always fixated on them <3

🌸 I also poly ship myself with Jay & Silent Bob from the View Askewniverse! My two boyfriends, and yes, they smoke weed <3

🌸 I’m completely fine with sharing any of my f/os the more the merrier!

🌸 I’m an artist!! You can look at my art here!

🌸 I’d appreciate it if you didn’t interact if you support minor/adult or incest ships

🌸 I’m shy but I’d love to meet more people in the community, especially if you ship from the same sources as me! :)

okay I think that’s all. thanks for checking out my blog ✌️

[scatterbrainedcoree]

If you don’t watch our source which you totally should, it’s balled Fugget about it and mom is THE BEST sometimes -Theresa

Idk if ur mom likes me -Velvt

I should watch it, where can I find it? I only have hulu and peacock

[capndragn94]

Catra: What's in it for me, Adora?

Adora: A chance to feel good about doing the right thing, Catra. Something I believe you really really want.

Catra: You can't tell me what I want, what I really really want!

[queerbauten]

Can you believe she made me wear an ankle monitor?

Minako Aino, probably

[brewyork]

Here’s everything you need to know about NYC Beer Week 2020

The official collaboration beer of NYC Beer Week 2020 was brewed at Singlecut Beersmiths this year (Photo: Singlecut Beersmiths on Instagram)

NYC Beer Week starts Saturday and runs through Sunday, March 1st! Here’s the rundown of everything you need to know — the events, the happenings, the beers, and more — to get you ready for the citywide ten-day celebration of everything beer! There are still tickets for the biggest events of Beer Week, so mark these on your calendar!

The Main Event

This year’s Opening Bash will be held Saturday, February 22nd, returning to the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint. In addition to featuring nearly every brewery from across the city, a whole bunch of brewers from outside the city and state will be there to pour beer, some for the first time ever in NYC. There’s also a food court, music, games, and more things to keep you entertained between sips. The two sessions will run 12:30-3:30pm and 6:30-9:30pm, with VIP hours starting an hour earlier. Tickets are still available starting at $75.

There’s also an official beer of the Opening Bash available for sale during the fest, brewed at Singlecut Beersmiths with the rest of the NYC Brewers Guild. It’s very simply called NYC BEER WEEK, a 7.7% ABV Double Dry-Hopped IIPA with an experimental New Zealand hop blend. A 4-pack of it is included with VIP admission to the bash. You can also purchase cans at Singlecut’s booth during the event to take home for $20/4-pack.

The Ruppert’s Cup

The official closing event of beer week will be the return of the Ruppert’s Cup Awards on the week’s final day. The celebration will be held again this year at Randolph Beer DUMBO (82 Prospect St., Dumbo) on Sunday, March 3rd at noon. The Ruppert’s Cup, named for longtime New York City brewer Jacob Ruppert, is the competition between the city’s brewers for best Brewery, with your online vote determining the winner. Last year’s winner, Queens Brewery, will be defending their title, and you’ll get to choose who wins during Beer Week. The pay-as-you-go event at Randolph Beer will have free admission and feature several breweries’ SMASH beers. What’s a SMASH beer? Funny you should ask.

Kara Johnston from Chimney Bluffs Hoppery in Wolcott, New York adds her hops to Big aLICe Brewing’s SMASH Beer (Photo: Big aLICe Brewing on Instagram)

SMASH Beer

Let’s talk more about these special beers. Typically, “SMASH” stands for “Single Malt and Single Hop,” but in this case, it means “State Malt and State Hops.” New York has become a hotbed of beer agriculture, so every SMASH beer is brewed using 100% New York State-sourced ingredients: malt, hops, flowers, fruits… everything. Some additions and flairs on the brewers’ part make each offering unique. You’ll see them in taprooms and around the city at this coming week’s beer events. Here’s a list of those beers:

18TH WARD BREWING (Brooklyn) - This One Weird Trick Pale Ale

BIG ALICE BREWING (Queens) - Table Series One Dry-Hopped Table Beer

CIRCA BREWING COMPANY (Brooklyn) - Marjoram Simpson Wheat beer brewed with local marjoram and holy basil

CONEY ISLAND BREWING CO. (Brooklyn) - Coney Island ESB English-style Strong Bitter

DALEVIEW BISCUITS AND BEER (Brooklyn) - Gold in My Pocket 

FIFTH HAMMER BREWING CO. (Queens) - Fugget Nuggle Bitter Best Bitter

GUN HILL BREWING CO. (Bronx) - Spirit ‘76 American Pilsner Lager

INTERBORO SPIRITS & ALES (Brooklyn) - Super Local Pale Ale

KINGS COUNTY BREWERS COLLECTIVE (Brooklyn) - Strictly Taconic Pilsner Lager

RANDOLPH BEER (Brooklyn) - Tiny Vienna Vienna Lager

ROCKAWAY BREWING (Queens) - Crystal Blanc Saison

STRONG ROPE BREWERY (Brooklyn) - Fat Man Little Stout Small Stout

TRANSMITTER BREWING (Brooklyn) - NY6 Pilsner Lager

The Grand Delancey hosts a humdinger of a tap takeover on Sunday with some of New York and New England’s most raved-about breweries

More Events

Beyond the big featured events, there’s a massive calendar of Beer Week events to sort through, so here’s a few that are catching our eye:

Beer Week Pre-Bash at Someday Bar (Friday, 2/21, 7pm): Get geared up for the week with a little preview on Friday of some of the beers you’ll be drinking at Opening Bash on Saturday. LIC Beer Project brings along Massachusetts-based Widowmaker and Georgia-based Monday Night Brewing for a tap takeover. Free admission, pay as you go.

NYC Beer Week Party at Brouwerij Lane (Saturday, 2/22, 12pm): Come before or after the Opening Bash for a special lineup of beers from NYC breweries on all 19 taps. Free admission, pay as you go.

New England + New York at The Grand Delancey (Sunday, 2/23, 11am): It’s a hazeboi’s dream come true. New York’s Equilibrium, Mortalis and Other Half bring New England’s Mast Landing, Trillium and Vitamin Sea. Free admission, pay as you go.

Specialty Malt Panel + Tasting at Strong Rope Brewery (Monday, 2/24, 7pm): Nerd out about malt at this panel discussion! Experts Heather McReynolds (Guinness, Cicerone) and Ted Hawley (New York Craft Malt) join Strong Rope Brewery founder Jason Sahler and brewer Alex Biedermann to discuss specialty malts, their use in beer today, and their place in New York's brewing industry. Tickets are $15 and include a tasting.

Mardi Gras Bash and Can Release at Rockaway Brewing (Tuesday, 2/25, 5pm): Conveniently, Rockaway’s annual Fat Tuesday Celebration falls during NYC Beer Week this year! Live music, jambalaya, and king cake are all part of the party, and they’ll have a new beer can release, Maiden Queens, an Imperial IPA brewed with lactose and strawberry. Free admission, pay as you go.

New Kids on the Block at Rivercrest (Wednesday, 2/26, 7pm): Get to know all of New York City’s newest beers! Non Sequitur Beer Project, Talea, Timber Ales, and Wild East will all take over the taps at this new beer destination in Astoria. Free admission, pay as you go.

Beer Boom Documentary Screening at The Greats of Craft (Thursday, 2/27, 6pm): Watch Beer Boom, a long-awaited documentary about New York’s beer scene that centers around Rich Castagna of Queens’ Bridge & Tunnel Brewery on his quest to build a brewery from scratch. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the creators of the documentary. Tickets are $10.

Caskalot: A Festival of Cask Beers at Fifth Hammer Brewing Co. (Friday, 2/28, 3pm and Saturday, 2/29, noon): Visit Fifth Hammer for a completely different way to drink beer -- from a cask. Finback, Brooklyn, Keg & Lantern, and Gun Hill will be among the many NYC breweries pouring unique offerings from casks. This event continues on Saturday. Free admission, pay as you go.

Fox Farm, Hudson Valley, Sand City, and Transmitter at The Well (Saturday, 2/29, noon): Great breweries all in one place for one day only. They’ll have lots of beer on tap from all five, plus a live podcast for Good Beer Hunting with the brewers and owners at 5pm, moderated by Brooklyn Brewery’s legendary Garrett Oliver (they’ll also have a similar event on Sunday, 2/23 with Civil Society, Dancing Gnome, Interboro, Modist, and Rockwell). Free admission, pay as you go.

The taproom at Grimm Artisanal Ales, one of the city’s 33 places where you can drink beer at the source.

The Breweries

Did you know New York City now has over three dozen breweries where you can drink to your heart’s content at their taprooms? Support your local breweries during NYC Beer Week and visit them. We just added a brand-new map of every brewery in five boroughs for easy navigating the city’s beer scene.

The Calendar

It’s a mad rush to get to as many beer events as possible during Beer Week. We’re going to try to make it easier by adding every event that’s announced to our calendar. Keep this handy when you’re trying to decide what to partake in each night. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and on Instagram, where we’ll give a shout-out to cool Beer Week events and features throughout the week.

Happy drinking!

[scenesplitterworld-blog]

It’s Not About the Shape – It’s About the Lie (An investigation into why flat earth hip-hop may seem merely stupid, but might actually be dangerous too: Electric Bugaloo)

Author’s Disclaimer: I’m sure that, like most people, most flat earthers are fine. Most people who rap about the shape of the place we all live on are probably fine. I acknowledge that the two dudes I profile in this investigation are probably the ISIS of your conspiracy movement. If you come across this article, and you’re a regular John or Jane Q. Flat Earther, please understand that your willfully ignorant belief has some truly disgusting expressions and intellectual underpinnings. So, with quite a bit of conscious irony, if you are a “moderate” flat earth truther, I exhort you to denounce your radically anti-Semitic fringe, particularly Eric Dubay. It may be a shitty presumption on my part, but I just assume that even you, hypothetical, humdrum Dale or Erma P. Flat Earther, are the kind of person to constantly post to FacePage that “moderate Muslims” must unceasingly denounce Al-Qaeda. And if, havin’ read through this, you’re the kind of person who’ll accuse me of being a “SJW” because I think promoting Holocaust denial is hugely problematic, eat shit; die mad with stank breath. But, if you’re a hardcore ODD TV or Dubay boy, please come at me, I’ll gladly take whatever you consider lumps. All that said, let’s listen to some real fringe fuckin’ hip-hop, shall we?

               I’ll bet most folks view people who believe the earth isn’t really round as nothing more than loons and larks. That’s how I started. Owing to a strange encounter I had with a feller at a show last winter, I had a picture of flat earth truthers as young, isolated, drunk, white dudes with dreadlocks wearing kneepads over their jeans saying gross things to pretty ginger gals. I was a little worried, but still mostly tickled, to discover that there’s a largish community of believers online. If you don’t get into the weeds of what belief in the flat earth entails, it’s easy to laugh it off as mere ignorant buffoonery, but, whoooooo boy, if you examine it closely, you’re in for one of the wildest, and surprisingly disturbing, rides of your life.

                 I stepped through the looking glass on accident, when I stumbled on this music video, “Cartoon Ball,” by ODD TV. At first, I clowned on it. Of course I did. Did you watch it? Christ. Dude’s shirt says “Never Sleep Again,” and he really looks like he ain’t slept because he’s in the early, still exciting days of a meth bender. I sent this video to friends and shared it on my timeline because I wanted to spread the chuckles. To be fair to ODD TV, I think he’s got legitimate talent. Not just on this track, but also throughout his catalogue, he’s got a catchy flow and his songs show a deft use of samples – for example, in the bluntly titled song, “Dear NASA, Why Are You Lying,” he takes the lyric “Space may be the final frontier, but it’s made in a Hollywood basement” from Red Hot Chili Pepper’s song “Californication,” and using that in a song about how the earth is actually not globe-shaped is, artistically, fairly dope. Not at all what the funky, cock-socked, SoCal, alt-rock, boys had in mind when they wrote the song, but that’s ODD TV’s genius. His video production, likewise, is slick. It’s much slicker than this other flat earther we’re gonna scrutinize in a sec, but one thing these guys share, which, I gotta say, is utterly derivative of almost every other conspiracy theorist with social media accounts, is referencing the Rowdy Roddy Piper flick, They Live. Guys. Give it a moratorium, right now, y’all have made it lazy.  

              Anyway, I got my giggles and moved on, right? Obviously not. After my mirth settled down, I found myself returning to “Cartoon Ball,” and for all my above praise, I wasn’t watching this weird shit again because I was real into the music. Nah, I think it was this lyric in particular: “God created the heavens and the earth / in a verse / but we’re livin’ in a Freemasonic Galaxy.” ODD TV doesn’t get into what he means by that, exactly, in this video – although, he gets into in in his oeuvre, bet your ass on that – because he’s focused mostly on rallying the viewer against NASA.

              But, on repeat viewing, you know, I caught this brief WTF nugget – a what the fugget, if you will: “We follow rapists and murderers / liars, thieves, and sun worshipers / sayin’ we can’t see curvature / ‘cause we’re all too small.” It’s the sun worshippers part that’s the sore thumb, right? Well, get ready for that sore thumb’s equally sore counterpart when ODD TV raps that believers in a spherical planet are “Stuck in the material domain of Satan.”

              Well, little ol’ me, Alice Donkey Boy Croix, was drawn further into the flat earth hip-hop scene by YouTube’s helpful recommendation. Oh, what a twisted Wonderland that turned out to be. But store those what the fuggets away for later use, Beloved Reader, they’ll crash back into pertinence again directly. Presently, we need to turn to how things got soooooo much more goddamned bonkers. The other cat I referenced briefly earlier, his name’s Eric Dubay, and he’s just about the whole rest of the haul of our investigation. So, settle in to peep this video, “Once You Go Flat.”

                Holy. Steaming. Shit. Y’all. Good. God. Damn.

              Right?

              Sorry to spring that diarrhea spray of hippo shit at you without much warning, but I wanted you to be as utterly gob-smacked as I was when Holocaust denial enters into things…and continues to spiral out from there. And just in case THAT was somehow an aberration from his mean, I watched this one. If you watched the first one, you already know to brace yourself, but, I cannot really stress enough that he, whew, he doubles down.

   So, let’s shelve the vegetarian polemic and uh…yeah…that was the most hardcore anti-Semitic thing I’ve ever experienced in musical form. Oh, you too? Neat. Look at us, Gentle Mentals, with all this shit in common!

              So, that video left my jaw on the fuckin’ floor, and that’s when I went over to www.ericdubay.com. I can neither confirm nor deny that visiting this page puts you on any sort of NSA list, but if the NSA is keeping tabs (hello, special agent, how are ya), it maybe should focus some attention on the shit our boy Dubay’s proudly posted here. Red flag it if you ain’t already, you may thank me later. Imagine that! The federales thanking little ol’ me!  

   BTW: we’re “in country” now, so maybe get your tin-foil helmet on.

              A few sick bars and a shocking affinity for the OG Nazis ain’t the only radical thing about our boy Dubay. He moves in circles so fringe that they consider Alex Jones to be part of the “controlled opposition.” Dubay’s even a truther against other flat earth truthers. He goes hard on The Flat Earth Society for being “controlled opposition,” by pointing out the idiocy of their theory for what is really going on with “gravity” on a flat earth, which is that the earth is like a pizza crust tossed continually upwards, so…things don’t really fall, they’re just kind of suspended until the ground catches up to them. Yeah. The idea of controlled opposition is that you get a shill to be a very vocal idiot in order to discredit the more “legitimate” conspiracy investigators who have come too close to the truth. But who controls the controlled opposition? Remember when I told you to remember ODD TV’s reference to the Freemasons? The Sun Worshipers? The Satanists? Dubay says it’s them. He says that both The Flat Earth Society and NASA are chock full of Masons, Masons who are behind these lies. He claims NASA agents – whatever those are – have murdered flat earth truthers to maintain their grip on this elaborate illusion. And, in a series of infographics, he ain’t shy in explicitly linking these nefarious Masons directly to, you saw it, the Jews. He’s one of these New World Order, Jew World Order types. I realized I tossed that off kinda casually – he’s just one of those types – but let me assure you, I don’t do it dismissively. Dubay compares the way this global Jewish cabal runs the world’s affairs to the orchestrated sturm und drang of televised professional wrestling.

              So you gotta wonder why lying about the shape of the earth is so important to our crypto-kosher overlords. I sure as fuck needed to know the answer to that myself, and, like any conspiracy theorists before him, this is where Dubay stumbles somewhat. He’s got 200 proofs for the truth of the flat earth, but he’s less articulate as towards the damnable “why” of it all. As I’ve been able to understand of his position, Eric Dubay believes we’re indoctrinated with the spinning globe model of cosmology, because if the global elite of Freemasonic Zionists can brainwash everybody on such a fundamental level as the ground beneath our feet, they can deceive and control us in any other sinister way they fuck well feel like.  

              Y’all, I’m a great many things. I’m not an astrophysicist, so, to be honest, I’m not really interested in engaging with the specifics of these dudes’ arguments regarding round versus flat, because – you know the Family Guy throwaway joke where Peter’s at the Cineplex helpfully pointing out when somebody in the movie says the movie’s title – to quote Mr. Dubay himself, “It’s not about the shape; it’s about the lie.”

              Before I get deeper into this shit – yeah, you thought you were down the rabbit-hole already – I want to point out that if you want to get all this from the horse’s mouth, the last twenty or so minutes of the two-hour FAQ video on his site is my source for all this. And since getting deeper into this gets pretty heavy, I think we need a bit of a levity break, so, I present a riff on a few screen grabs from that video.

               First of all, it’s hard to tell – among the things I am is poor of vision – it looks like the letter G has been replaced by the number 6 in the phrase “Sacred Geometry. The Great Architect of the Universe. Gravity.” 666 is metal, but in this case you’re using it in a way that’s way too mental to be heaviest, fam. The Jews are Satanists too, remember? Luciferian nonsense is a thing Alex Jones dabbles in also. Second, Pythagoras was the leader of a cult that worshiped numbers. Pythagoras literally had a motherfucker 86ed because he felt that the concept of pi was blasphemous and threatening to him personally as a cult leader. The reason I’m scratching my head is that you might know pi as a pretty foundational concept in calculating the circumference of the globe. Globe. So, if he’s part of a cabal bent on convincing you the world is round, why would he be so violently opposed to that squiggly little Stonehenge-lookin’, 3.14 on to infinitum meanin’, mathematical concept that would support the whole damn thing? Anyway, here’s another.

              I think this is supposed to be an Illuminati thing, but all it proves to me is that many people have fingers, and covering one eye is an easy way to look mysterious and sexy. It’s not like they’re all holding their hands the same way either. If a person were to try to argue that Eric Dubay himself is part of the controlled opposition, I think this could be evidence of “too dumb to be serious.”

              But I wanna get serious again. Back to the investigation. I wanted to know what made this dude tick. Call yourselves Ishmael, because ol’ Dubay became my white whale, only in this version, I think we spear the shit out of Moby Dick. Truly, I believe that in the final portions of that long ass video I’ve been talking about, we see into his core – and unlike the molten core of the round earth we sheeple foolishly believe in – the heart of Eric Dubay is a frozen, Jotunheim-esque, barren fearscape.

              Eric Dubay’s animating impulse is this: a deep, incomprehensible terror that humanity has no purpose in existence. He believes that subscription to the ideas of the Big Bang and subsequent evolution of life on earth via the mechanism of natural selection is subscription to a fundamentally nihilistic outlook; if humanity has no reason – as he sees reason – to be, the crisis in his soul would be too great to bear. And, sure, I get that. But he has not coped well with that adolescent existential angst. If the universe is a vast and vastly complicated place, it’s a scary place to be at the fringe of, so, to bridge the rift of this Lovecraftian horror inside himself, he’s put himself at the center of debunking a conspiracy to shroud our planet’s central location in the universe; our planet’s non-rotating position, which is to say a position of stability. Stability. Think about how comforting a concept that is. Purpose. Stability. Simplicity. These are not abnormal desires, but our boy Dubay’s gone about attaining ‘em in an abnormally toxic fashion. And he’s certainly doing his damnedest to create the fellowship he craves though all his media outreach. Can’t blame a feller for not wanting to feel alone…but when Holocaust denial is such a big part of your identity, it’s – to put it politely – extremely fuckin’ troublesome that you want others to believe as you do.

              Dear reader, Gentle Mental, “Hypocrite Lecteur,”* if you’re wondering why the fuck any of this matters, this here’s that part of the article; buckle the fuck up. I believe that never before in human history has the battle against propaganda been more vital to the survival of the species. I’m typing this on Sunday, October 15, 2017, and the last headline I read was about Kim Jong threatening to bomb Guam if Trump don’t shut the fuck up about him on Twitter. We’ve got fucking lunatics at the trigger; we’ve got so much evidence that the Kremlin orchestrated the most effective “hearts and minds” campaign of the internet age; we’ve got tactics of division being employed by the most cynical and unhinged people of influence. So why should this flat earth shit matter? We’ve got all that more important shit I listed, right? Because flat earth’s your gateway conspiracy. Pretty soon, you’re hip-deep in the most virulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion bullshit.** Some conspiracy theorists have the…decency’s not the right word, so let’s start over. Some conspiracy theorists are crypto-anti-Semitic. OBVIOUSLY not our boy Dubay. Lemme quote from his song “Blood Rituals,” “You are blind, so fuck what you say / I’ll expose the flat earth and hail Hitler all day.” That’s so obviously dangerous, and the ideas of flat earth and anti-Semitism are so clearly linked, that we shouldn’t need to dwell, so I’ll move us along with this tossed out aside: fuck you, Richard Spencer, for ruining Tiki Torches, but thank you for being conveniently illustrative of the point that being a ringleader for Nazi sympathizers does in fact correlate to assholes in the street beating people and murdering them indiscriminately with cars.

 *Editor’s Note: Goddamnit, DB! After I chewed your ass for quoting Yeats that last time, you have the nerve to bring this Baudelaire shit to the table? I want a picture of Spider Man on my desk TOMORROW!!

 **Author’s Note: For an wonderfully illuminating examination of the history and influence of Protocols of the Elders of Zion, I highly recommend the July 27, 2017 episode of a podcast called Knowledge Fight. (http://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/size/25/?search=Protocols+of+the+elders+of+zion) Hosts Jordan and Dan do a thorough job of linking this fraudulent document DIRECTLY to Alex Jones’ framing of his favorite nemesis, the Globalist bogeymen, and even David Icke’s Reptilians. Do yourself a favor and dive into this podcast whole hog.

                Provided that even one fewer gullible cocksucker buys into the dangerous worldviews of somebody like ODD TV, Alex Jones, or Eric Dubay, I will deem all efforts to expose their nonsense worthwhile, valid, and necessary. I don’t believe I’m virtue signaling when I speak out in order to shed light on hucksters’ efforts to spread dangerous racial, religious, or national divisions. It isn’t trivial to examine how those divisions may be spread insidiously as the necessary expression of these ideas; symptoms of the cancer, boils on the ass of the corpus scientia. Alex Jones is right about at least one thing: we are fighting an info war. He’s on the wrong side of it, to be sure, but it’s the same sort of info war Mike Pence fought in when he performed his indignant pageant at the ball game. And I don’t think that in speaking against any of this nonsense I’m beating a dead horse. And I believe that speech is action. If I reiterate a point, it is at least my humble intention to bring new nuance. I believe that the one person who was teetering on the fence but saw the truth of these bonkers narratives could be the one person who might have otherwise been the next to take a gun to something like a DC pizza joint to find out if interdimensional, shape shifting, child-molesting, psychic vampires run the government. Or do something so much more tragic in the name of bringing down whatever conspiracy it is they’ve been taken in by.

              This’s the rock I reckon I’ll die on, should anybody respectfully disagree. Thank you for your time, Gentle Mentals, friends, fiends, and foes alike. It’s time to pray.

[9storymediagroup]

Art Story - Justin Mark 

Join us as we go into the woods with 9 Story Background Painter, Justin Mark and his incredible wildlife drawings.

Justin has been working at 9 Story as a background painter for the past three and half years, lending his skills to such shows as Daniel Tiger’s Neighbourhood, Fugget About It and Creative Galaxy. He is currently working on the much anticipated new series Magic School Bus.

Outside of work, when he is not painting the intricate backgrounds of animated worlds, he can be found designing characters and pursuing one of his favourite art forms: wildlife drawing. Keep reading to learn about Justin’s process and see more of his beautiful sketches.

Favourite Subject Matter:

My favourite animals to draw would be big cats and other large predators. Lions being my most favourite subject when it comes to wildlife artwork.

What is one of the challenges that a Wildlife artist may encounter in their practice?

I would say the biggest challenge (a challenge I enjoy) is making sure the subject is as accurate as possible to how they appear in life e.g. getting the angles on the body correct and also the fur or skin texture of the animal.

Do you prefer to draw from real life or photographs or both?

I enjoy using my own photography as a source of reference to ensure that my work is original. Zoological parks or wildlife sanctuaries are a great place to gather reference if getting out in wild places isn't always possible.

Who inspires you?

I've always been inspired by Canadian Wildlife Artist Robert Bateman. I'm also a fan of John Banovich, Carl Brenders, and former Disney Animator, Aaron Blaise. 

What is your favourite medium to work in?

For my personal art I enjoy working with ink, pencil, and Photoshop for digital work.

Tips for other aspiring Wildlife artists?

I had the fortune of meeting Robert Bateman when I was younger (my artistic idol you could say). He looked at my work at the time and told me to emphasize more depth, creating more realistic shadow and light effects. I took that advice back when I was 14 years of age. I then entered The Robert Bateman National Wildlife Drawing and Art Contest a couple of year later. To my astonishment I was selected as one of the winners, winning for my age bracket at that time. So my advice would echo Mr. Bateman's to myself:

“Be aware of light and shadow.”

To see more of Justin’s stunning art check out his online portfolio at www.facebook.com/justinmarkart

[incorrect-hgs]

Rosemary: Maybe it's one of them polterghosts?

Sage: You mean geists.

Rosemary: What the hell's a geisterghost?

Source: fugget about it

(submission)

[frostcorpsclub]

Incorrect Quote 117

Jack: Where's January? I'm supposed to watch her in case she drowns...somebody.

[capndragn94]

Bow: That's blackmail!

Catra: You owe us $50,000 from gambling. Want to take THAT up with Sparkles?

Bow: Catra please, don't do anything rash. I've taken on a whole array of extra jobs. I'll get you your money by any means necessary. Except crime.

Adora: How do you make money without crime?

Bow: ...Indeed.

[capndragn94]

Catra: Hey, you can't arrest somebody for speeding!

Guard: Ma'am, this is Bright Moon. I'm arresting you for hurting my feelings!

[frostcorpsclub]

Incorrect Quote 153

Janet: Yes! A credit card! My favorite piece of plastic that doesn’t vibrate.

[frostcorpsclub]

Incorrect Quote 151

Jean: Church is for suckers.

Janet: No, it's fun! I love going into the confessional and making the priests blush. Jean: I like going in and punching them in the bojangles, but not every week!