#anyways also

[bendyy-blog]

I think about how it would be like to become myself sometimes. I feel that's common between otherkin but here's my fantasies

I randomly wake up one day and I am now myself - initially I'm terrified since. How would that realistically happen. But eventually I accept it and I'm the happiest I've ever been

Adding onto that, maybe it's like. Boltzmann brain shit. My body randomly becomes exactly to the point me with all my memories and everything so it's still me just a different body

Or maybe I could become a shape-shifter,,, have my own forms but also retain my human one as a disguise so I don't become an anomaly the government wants to study or something pffh

Maybe one day I just start melting into a puddle of ink and reform into the ink demon,,, like a werewolf transformation under the light of the moon on a stroll through a forest

Maybe all otherkin become themselves one day,,, I get to celebrate with friends and physically teleport there too using ink power shit. You can see people around with tails and wings and ears and muzzles. With humanoids, animals, fictional beasts etc in the sky, seas and town squares.

Maybe I get a comic supervillain arc and get infected with ink in some way,,, then over time become myself,,, the ink replacing my flesh with itself ouh,,,

Maybe I stumble through some portal and find myself as the ink demon in the studio. Then I realise I can control the portals myself and go back to this reality only to find my body to be human again,,, so I have the ability to be myself confined only to one world. Fuckin. Imagine seeing someone noclips into the street like they appeared from thin air. That sounds so good. I wouldn't mind a life like that

Anyways that's just a few of them,,,

[gothamcityneedsme]

also basically all of those screenshots are tavon being mean b/c i think its way funnier when he's mean. i dont screenshot when he says nice things

[slicksquid]

there are so many goddamn div 6-8 teams

[fatedevour]

back from the dentist, got that permanent crown so now i can be done with them (i do need an actual check buuuut that can wait a while longer) and i’ve never had a dentist compliment having super healthy saliva glands like ?? okay i mean thanks but also wtf. Like my siblings & i all got the bad genes for dental matters despite taking good care, so normally im used that whole talk but.... idk i just had never heard of being complimented for saliva glands. but cool.

[beebfreeb]

[seagiri]

when did this happen???

[rapidashrider]

The agonising feel when a character tag is full of shipping that you Simply Do Not Vibe With. The solution is, naturally, to keep scrolling. But the wince, the WINCE.

[vivi266]

[silverspleen]

Every time I see that G--gle phone photoshop commercial my heart is filled with infinite sadness, like, yeah it's cool you can have a good family photo, it's cool you can do that, but god, there is something to be said for the honesty of a family photo where you're blinking, or crying, or have ugly wrinkles.

What is too unsightly for you? Would you swipe-click-replace out the image of my cousin crying on our Florida trip family reunion photo? Would you remove the plastic snake I have clenched in my grip, which I still have to this day? Would you scoff at the wrinkles around our eyes and the strands of hair on our faces as we squint into the wind, the day before the massive storm? Would I remember it if I didn't have these reminders, if the picture was perfect and clean, all children in a row with perfect gleaming white tombstone tooth smiles? No tears. No plastic snake.

Everyone is beautiful and no one looks genuine.

[cozystars]

!!! BUILT LIKE BILBO BAGGINS !!!

[suiheisen]

gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[possessedpasm]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[shayneysides]

hobie: kill yourself

pavitr: WHAT THE HELL BRO WHAT DID I DO

original format from @ha-youwish in this post!

[chase-prairie]

Loving reminder from your land history auntie:

North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.

Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.

Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.