#Want it to spread further

[miloway]

Not my video, from kallimaraki on tiktok

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love

[royalarchivist]

QSMP is a global community with a variety of people from different backgrounds. Miscommunications may occasionally happen because of cultural differences and/or language barriers, but we should use these moments as opportunities to learn and engage with other people rather than assuming the worst about them and starting fights.

Although certain issues can be resolved with communication, if toxicity arises, sometimes it’s better to block and move on.

There’s a lot of love and passion for this project, from fans and creators alike. We’re all here to have fun, so please remember to be kind!

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

rough art tips to learn and then break at your leisure.

the distance between your eyes is roughly one eye. the corners of your mouth dont extend past the middle of each eye. ears are roughly in the middle of the tip of the nose and the eyebrow. the eyes are in the very centre of the head. the neck is just a Little slimmer than the width of the head (varies with fat distribution, but fat tends to build up under the chin). hair is easier to draw when you plot out the hairline and then where it parts. leaving appropriate distance on the side of the face (cheekbone area and back to ear) contributes to making characters look more realistic/hot as hell. i dont know specific tips for that so use reference. an amazing reference/study site is lineofaction.com . if you think of the face in planes it makes it easier to construct (look up tutorials). if you draw a spiral like a tornado it can help you figure out awkward perspective for extended limbs (look up foreshortening coil technique). tangent lines are when two lines intersect and cause visual confusion (when it looks like a line that defines an arm is part of the line that defines a building, for example) and avoiding them makes your art way easier to comprehend. quick trick to good composition: choose a focal point (where you want your viewer to focus), detail that area the most, and make sure various elements of the piece are pointing to that focal point. you can use colours to contrast hue, saturation, and brightness and make certain elements of your drawing stand out. drawing in greyscale can help you figure out values. using black in a piece isn't illegal but you should know what you're doing when you do use it- it desaturates a piece and if used as a shading colour can desaturate and dull whatever youre shading too. if you use almost-black lineart and then add black to darken the very darkest areas it will do a lot to add some nice depth. the tip of your thumb ends just above the start of your index finger- your thumb also has two knuckles and all your other fingers have three. if you see an artist doing something you like (the way they draw noses or eyes or hair or anything else) you can try to copy that and see if you want to incorporate it in your style <- this is ENCOURAGED and how a lot of us learned and developed our styles. there are ways to add wrinkles to faces and bodies without making the character look a million years old, you just have to keep experimenting with it. The smile wrinkles around your muzzle dont connect to your mouth or to your nose; there should be a small space in between smile or nose and the wrinkle line. eyes when viewed in profile are like < aka a little triangle shape. think of the pupil like a disk and apply foreshortening to it (it looks like a line when seen from the side instead of a full round dot). subtle gradients can add a LOT to a piece. texture can also add a LOT. look up Tommy Arnold's work (his murderbot pieces are some of my FAVOURITE) and zoom in. find those random little circles he added and try to figure out why he added them there. light bounces. there's lots of way light bounces. sometimes it even spreads through the skin. i do not know these light tricks yet but i want you to know that they exist. draw a circle to indicate hand placement, draw a straight line between that circle and the shoulder, and then (normally at a right angle) draw a straight line on top of that line to find the placement of the elbow. elbows are normally placed Just above the hip when standing and your arm is at rest. there are no bad colour combos if you're brave enough about it, just fuck with the saturation and brightness until it works. keep playing. try new things. add your own tips to this post if you want or even expand on some ive mentioned here. good luck go ham etc

[trash-can-sam]

What happens when your coworker kills your other coworker but both of you are in a relationship (kind of) with the same ethereal woman who had an admiration for said dead coworker.

+bonus Evandrey because it’s funny to me (I’m sorry Eva.)

[fairywithgremlintendencies]

Palestinian Aid Link Post!! 🍉

I will continue to add to this.

• Donate with just clicks, one per day to help the Palestinian people:

• Use this doc as an email template for MPs if you live in New Zealand. Contains a list of MP emails. Can be used as a guide for those outsude of NZ too.

• [UK Focused] Linktree with the following recources: Where to learn more about what is occuring, where to donate, petitions to sign [3 for the UK govt and 2 general change.org petitions], email templates [all relating to the UK] , BDS /boycott, divestment, sanctions [what brands to boycott, investigate your investments, etc]

• 6 ways you can support Palestinians in Gaza: [US centred but useful in general]

• [US] Write to your member of congress via this form:

• How people in New Zealand can help people in Palestine: petitions, charities, email template for the media and MPs, list of MPs and media, rallies in NZ, what to read/watch, accounts to follow on Instagram

• Linktree: calendar of resistence, how to stay safe when protesting, join a protest near you, donate, petitions and pre written emails to send [multiple websites]

• detailed post with education recources and ways to support the cause and contribute

• Help these Palestinians

[kkachis]

i would beg on my hands and fucking knees for the self-insert ship and smut writers in fandom tags to tag their shit with "x reader" or something general like that For The Love Of God. i do not want to read that stuff and i have to wade through so much of it every time i brave a tag. jesus christ

[morninkim]

"Years of fighting. Bots and Cons falling left and right. Dying on our behalf. No more. We settle this now, Megatron." "Just the two of us then? To the death? Ahh, brings me back to the pits all those centuries ago. Very well then, today will be the day the great Optimus Prime finally falls by my hand." "Only one of us is walking away from this rock functional, old friend. It will not be you."

~ Audio from Optimus Prime's remains at the sight of his final confrontation with Megatron that ended the Great War. circa 2003.

Audio encoded by Soundwave, Memory bank recovered by Ratchet

[yourlocalgrass]

Last straw I’ve already blocked that gossip blog they want to spread shit and drama purposefully when this fandom is dying and they want it in shambles.

Ppl think it’s making the fandom more fun and interesting but this rate it’s gonna end up fully dead with no left over corpse with the kind of toxity it’s spreading.

Generally asking wtf is this supposed to mean

[burst-of-iridescent]

alright, i'm done dealing with this bullshit.

i didn’t want to address this any further but since these people seem utterly obsessed with me & and have now gone on to harass my friends, i have had enough.

first things first, and i can't believe i even need to say this, but aang is a fictional character. he is not tibetan, because there is no tibet in the world of avatar: the last airbender. aang - and the air nomads in general - are the products of two white men's (and a predominantly white writing team's) interpretations of buddhism, hinduism and tibetan culture, interpretations that have themselves been criticized by actual tibetan people.

criticizing, mocking, or even making fun of aang does not make me racist towards tibetan people, just like criticizing zuko wouldn't make me racist towards japanese people, or criticizing toph wouldn't make me racist towards chinese people, because none of these characters are actual depictions of real life groups or cultures. they can't be, because those groups and cultures do not exist in the world of atla. (xiran jay zhao discusses this very topic, and the show's "representation" of asian and indigenous cultures, better than i can in their video essays, if anyone is interested in hearing more about atla from an east asian perspective.)

additionally, even if aang were somehow an actual tibetan monk, i cannot recall a single instance in which i said anything derogatory regarding his cultural practices or beliefs (which, again, stem from bryan konietzko and mike dimartino's understanding of tibetan monks). when i criticize aang (and once again i can't believe i need to say this), i am criticizing the writing of his character and the worldbuilding of his culture and people. not, you know, an actual person and their actual heritage.

i have no problem with aang being a pacifist, or a vegetarian, or shaving his head, or wearing robes. what i do have a problem with is his entire dilemma about killing being brought up in the last four episodes of the show, only to be resolved by a magic rock and a lion turtle instead of character growth and agency. what i do have a problem with is his treatment of katara, and his disrespect towards her cultural beliefs in favour of pushing his own on her. aang is entitled to believe in non-violence and the sanctity of all life; he is not entitled to make that choice for katara, as he tried to in the southern raiders. each of them has a right to their own beliefs, and neither should use their individual beliefs to impose upon the other, or dictate what they should do.

the really ironic thing about all of this is that i love aang. i have said over and over that i believe kat.aang could have worked, that i thought they were cute in book 1, that aang is a great protagonist who had potential for an amazing arc, if only it had been followed through on in book 3. my criticisms of aang's character come from my love for him, because he deserved better than the writers who turned him into their own self-insert fantasy.

so whoever you are that's been endlessly hounding my inbox, and now my close friends', calling me racist because of my opinions on a fictional character: for your own sake, just block me and go on with your life. your social justice crusade against a singular stranger on the internet isn't helping anyone, let alone actual tibetan people.

[fellshish]

I love how Dean went from “Castiel???” And “I’m not gonna believe this thing is an angel of the lord just cause it says so” to “Cas told me that you’ve been doing something” and believing Cas about Sam, his own baby brother, lying to him in three meetings.

And how in ep 3 he looks to Cas so softly and brokenly after seeing his mom save his dad, leading to her own death. Like he’s met this guy only a few times and every time he’s been like “wtf is wrong with you??” But this one time he’s just so open to him.

Like he’d never let himself look like that at Sam. With Sam he needs to be strong and the big brother. But with this angel that he doesn’t know he lets himself be open and vulnerable.

And Cas is looking at him with so much sympathy and sorrow. He brought this soul back from hell, he has warned him of the seals and what is coming. But he sees him broken and doesn’t run away, he doesn’t hide away from seeing Dean broken.

I feel like this really sets the precedent for their relationship for the rest of the show. Like when Cas tells Dean that he might kill himself when he see what heaven became. They are both so open with each other, in a way they aren’t with anyone else.

Anyways this is just a really long way for to say that I’ve finally gotten to season four and I’m having lots of thoughts.

My dudes were down to fast for eachother.

This became a lot longer than I meant too, sorry

Welcome to season four, you are in for a RIDE <3

[mr-stottlemonk]

challenge: 'i bet you can't spread your legs any wider'

stottlemeyer:

bet.

[ghostly-cabbage]

I think it's so interesting to notice fandom booms and how outta nowhere they can feel.

Recently, I've gotten super into Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which is fantastic btw. If you love cool animation and family centric themes give it a watch, seriously) thanks to a beloved bestie BUT. I ofc, dragged @kkachis and @artistfingers down with me. We have self proclaimed turtle disease now and it's been so fun.

Anyway, it's been so interesting to see that we aren't the only ones??? Around the same time we've all noticed other DP mutuals also getting into turtles and it's just kinda funny bc separately, but all at the same time, it's been infecting us.

[rickybaby]

That gifset of Daniel in the garage with his emotional support backpack kills me every time esp when I just learnt that apparently the Ricciardos mortgaged their farm and sold belongings to get money when Daniel went to Italy 😭😭

I know I know 😭😭. Seeing his little smile, him trying to be so brave about everything when it must have been hurting so much. And then you think about how he’s always said how much of a home body he used to be as a kid, how much that first year in Italy was so hard being away from his family and friends and how he had to remind himself to make the sacrifices worth it … not to mention that one video that came out around that time where he mentions ‘you need a team. You can’t do it alone’.

It must have been the worst kind of feeling to walk into the paddock that day, knowing everyone is looking at you and yet feeling alone :((

[since-times-long-forgotten]

does anyone get unreasonably aggravated when they see someone calling a normal split-faced tortie as a chimera? like it literally couldn’t matter less, but it matters to ME, so I feel an overwhelming need to explain how no, that is NOT a chimera, that is a normal tortie, cat genetics just do that sometimes during x-inactivation because of bilateral symmetry. yippee!

[robinsnest2111]

great. nightmares about my fuck up as soon as i close my eyes 👍