#Within Budget

[dajiandengineers]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A procession of confessions.

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[theeio]

so im going to be out of a job in two weeks, so im thinking about opening commissions again (not now, but in august) in this style with these base prices:

Bust: 35usd

Additional chara: 25usd

Waist-Up: 45usd

Additional chara: 35 usd

Fullbody: 55usd

Additional Character: 45usd

it also wont be limited to ToA anymore, so i can do any fandom or people’s OCs!

i can do backgrounds too, here are some previous examples, though we’d need to discuss a price. as an example ill be charging these from 100usd, 150usd, and 200usd for something like these respectively as it depends a lot on the complexity of the art required🙇

🥺😭 - “out of my budget/not interested”!

also here are more examples of how my commissions look so you have a better idea of the quality to expect!

[tubbytarchia]

I was speedrunning traffic/hermit merch ideas because I really wanna be a vendor this summer so uhh would you guys buy these lol

Edit: BEANS ALSO. THE SQUISHY COTTON BEANS BUT WITH LIKE. Bdubs' or Scar's face (they have the most marketable faces idk what to tell you)

Edit again: made another post about shipping (as in, parcels)

[overdressedcarp]

One thing I think about sometimes is that there's a dialogue chain in one of Ratio's text messages where he sends us the blueprints for what he explicitly describes as "an anti-planetary weapon design that [he] once devised," which apparently comes with the potential to turn into a full-on gundam???? He says that the necessary materials haven't been developed yet, but that the Guild is working on it and should have results within the next five Amber Eras.

For those who've read his third character story, the phrasing of "anti-planetary weapon" should register as both familiar and odd, especially considering how blasé he is in describing it to the Trailblazer.

My read on the character story is that the creation of the anti-planetary weapon was (whether consciously or not) a compromise to his principles in pursuit of Nous's gaze, and that the IPC's interest in said weapon was his reality check that he didn't want to become the sort of person who pursued knowledge without regard for human life. Even if you don't take that reading, Ratio is more than smart enough to recognize that the IPC can and has used threats like the Antimatter Legion and the Swarm as excuses to develop and unleash weapons with galaxy-scale collateral damage. (See: the Imaginary pulse weapon in this side quest on Penacony.)

When we ask for a weapon for the Express, Ratio tells us that high-caliber armaments are a necessity for traversing the cosmos, which isn't exactly wrong in light of how we deal with Sunday in Penacony, but turning the train into a battering ram is a far cry from turning it into something that could destroy a planet. The fact that the projected timeline is on a scale of Amber Eras suggests to me that he's being at least somewhat facetious about the idea of a collaboration, especially since the whole reason we're having the conversation is that he wanted us to lob thought experiments at him to distract him from work stress. But he does send us a blueprint file, and the terminology of an "anti-planetary weapon" (specifically one he designed in the past, rather than at our request) feels way too specific to be a coincidence.

I have a pet theory that the gundam design is a form of malicious compliance toward the IPC, and the reason the Guild can't even figure out the materials is because he deliberately handed them a nightmare monstrosity of a blueprint and then refused to elaborate.

(The bill of materials casually demands components that break the laws of physics. There are whole pages of math so complicated no one can parse enough of it to conclusively prove that it's bullshit and not just the revolutionary innovations of a man five Amber Eras ahead of his time. The research team sends a terrified intern to ask if the orbital laser cannon really needs to turn into a humanoid assault mech. He shakes his head and tells them that if they truly understood his work then they wouldn't ask such pointless questions.)

[old-man-hell]

Buster Keaton dolls by Johanna Öst

[stonerzines]

Happy international wheelchair day - full post :)

[soupforsoup]

I loveloveloveLOVE watching old doctor who and seeing all the little line flubs, when the actors talk over each other, the times they almost fall over a piece of set or fumble a prop because you just know they didn't have enough film to do another take it's truly my favourite thing in the world

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[whiskeyswifty]

taylor complying with the guild proposals so she can be added to the interim agreement list so the eras tour movie is in total support of the strikes i loooooooooooove knowing that and love her so much for that.

[cinematicnomad]

man anytime i watch thg i am just in awe of how well they filmed and edited the cornucopia scene. the countdown like a steady heatbeat before it goes silent? the ringing at the start?? the daunting tension? the quick cuts, the way no one and nothing is allowed to be in focus, it's all just blurs, the flashes of blood, the violence, the music speeding up as katniss starts to run, circling back to that same ringing again. and then, those last haunting shots of the dead bodies littering the scene after it's all gone quiet. the children who didn't last beyond a few minutes. the horror of it all placed right in front of you. undeniable.

fuck!! it's a masterclass in smart editing.

[sakuhai]

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

A few weeks ago, I failed to install a wifi card into my pc because my brother who built it in 2016 put a cooler on my 2012 graphics card that, yes, somehow makes me able to run things that modern gaming setups struggle with, but also blocks off every last bit of motherboard.

I said I'd drive over my pc over the summer and we could tinker around with it once he figured out what minor change would make it possible. He was excited. He hasn't had an excuse to tinker in months, and pcs are his favorite to tinker with.

Guys, I just arrived at the family vacation and he somehow went from "looking at second choice and used computer parts for a minor pc upgrade" to "so I built you a new pc, it just needs hard drives".

There is one part that is not refurbished or second hand, and none of it is younger than 2022. He found a gorgeous white case for cheap because it was absolutely filthy and scrubbed it until you can literally see your face in it, even the parts that aren't glass. His casual questions about what games I'm running and which ones are giving me trouble turned out to be him future proofing. There's a red bow on top.

I might cry.

[clove-pinks]

Enter my bedroom when I'm 12 years old!

£20,000 REWARD Franklin Expedition "poster" on wall—it's only 8.5" x 11" because that's the size the library photocopier can make, but I'm very proud of this one.

Photocopied passages from other polar exploration books, also taped to the wall! My plan here is evidently luring people into my room and Educating them about the Franklin Expedition (p.s. everything that went wrong was because of LEAD POISONING, obviously).

A few genuine antique cigarette cards, with a polar exploration theme!

Framed picture of Francis Crozier (photocopy from a book), and ONLY Francis Crozier, on my bureau in a little frame. Why Crozier?! (I loved the sadness in his eyes in that 1845 dag).

On the opposite wall: Beatles posters.

I don't even know what's in the bookcase: probably a lot of Dickens in cheap paperbacks (I won't get Frozen in Time until age 13).

There's probably a rosary somewhere from the elderly mother of my mom's boyfriend.

[srirachaz]

xikers and boynextdoor are having album drops within three days of each other, and i just spent hella money this summer on concert tix for txt, ateez, dpr ian, and kard, and on top of that i made a playlist of albums i want to listen to bc im thinking about buying them and that list was 50+ albums, 450+ songs, and 25+ hours long (with 4 non-kpop albums even!) and i’ve bought like 8 albums this summer just from releases i like

why is it so expensive to be a multistan. i almost wish i had it in me to be a solo group stan except then id be missing out on verifiable bangers

[zhongrin]

"i really hope you don't have any more work for the rest of this year. fingers crossed [client] isn't giving us more work, but if they do i'm dumping it to january."

"here's my performance evaluation for the team this year: you guys didn't take enough day offs, so make sure to do so next year."

"friendly reminder to remember to log out from all work apps when you go on your holidays!"

"cancelling this meeting session because of festive season. happy holidays all!"

;w; dear gods, i love my coworkers and the working culture in this company so much