#different types of fat too

[breitzbachbea]

I do say, for someone with such a narrow mindset, Robert does have quite the expansive taste in people.

[godbirdart]

if there's one [1] thing i will be forever grateful for in the internet era it's the vast variety and availability of pose / anatomy references supplied by photographers and models

i can go online and find PERFECT references for how fat folds crease the skin or how muscles wrap around the body and as someone who habitually draws most of his OCs ~modestly lean~ and wants to hone his skill in other body types, it is literally a godsend to have those refs so readily available

seriously, thank you all models and photographers for providing me the resources i need to expand my art skills i owe u my life

[fisheito]

They turned my boy into Gary...

tbh it was kind of liberating because if the devs themselves can fall to the ol' gary keytrap, then i, too, can sometimes let my mortal follicles flow downward, and allow myself to lettersmash about gary and/or kary in my accidental overenthusiasm

[justablah56]

not gonna lie to you guys I'm thiiiiiiis close to blocking the grant wilson tag just because people keep putting skinny Grant on my dash

[skunkes]

what do you think of the ship of s/lco and victor 🫢

not very interested in it at all for the same reason as that "i dont think blonde people should date each other" post

[titanofthedepths]

I was talking about this on a call the other day but one of my favorite things about Sea of Thieves is that the characters are allowed to be ugly and so wildly diverse. Even the skeletons are diverse and have compelling and fun designs.

Note that when I say ugly I don’t mean that as a bad thing - I’m a firm believer that ugly doesn’t have to be a bad word, just the same as fat doesn’t have to be. Nobody’s perfect and that’s beautiful etc etc, when I say ugly I mean “not conventionally attractive” and it’s something I wholeheartedly appreciate

Like. Player pirates are randomly generated, which can be frustrating but at the end of the day it’s refreshing to not be able to sit and put together the perfect pirate. There will always be little scars or nicks or features you didn’t choose to place there, but they’re your pirates’ features. Just a couple days ago I realized my pirate has a snake bite on her cheek, and I LOVE that it’s there, though I never would have considered it for her had I been given the option to build her from scratch.

The NPCs, too, are diverse, and allowed to be flawed, and ugly. With their crooked or missing teeth and imperfect proportions and scars and asymmetrical faces - Rare could have very easily chosen to make every last NPC a perfectly pretty face fit for a magazine, and they chose not to. It makes the characters feel a little more real, more like they’re people - I can’t tell you how often I sit and examine the models of NPCs to look at every little detail and just appreciate how imperfect they are.

And like previously stated - and perhaps the thing I appreciate the most - even the skeleton characters are widely varied. Rathbone moves with a hunched posture that hides the fact his frame is fairly small, Grimm is tall and wide in that way that Sea of Thieves builds their fat characters, one of Chi’s horns is growing from her eye socket and she’s lankier than Ruth’s sturdy frame, Horatio has arms that are just a little too long, so on and so forth.

Just… Sure, I don’t by any means love Rare as a company, but the character design we see in Sea of Thieves is some of the best I’ve ever seen. I have a lot of love for this pirate game and the amount of love the design team put into every single character they offer us

[hebrideansky]

Shades of Yellow (alternative title: bums!)

Sitting with the babies after their nighttime milk feed so as to encourage them to nibble on their coarse mix. Hopefully this will ease things when weaning comes so that although I'll no longer be providing milk, yes I'll appear at intervals to sit with them as expected to provide comfort and reassurance while they eat.

[ghostlylicious]

damp, cold, upset, sad, confused, in pain, in despair.

(alternative caption: elf senshi or something idk i havent watched the episode yet)

[beatcroc]

If I had a nickel for every time one of my old favorite villian characters randomly came back retired and reformed after over 20 years id have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice

[nocturnal-phantoms-fandoms]

#erasmus au posting

Today was Fat Thursday in Poland!! Remus ate lots of doughnuts!! (glazed, with rose jam filling)

[styxxsyringe]

if you haven’t answered this already- not rlly an art ask but how do you make such great character designs? they’re all so cool what gigabrained magic are you using…

color palettes and motifs - go ham on them!!! it's easier for me because i tend to use very limited color palettes on character designs, but they make or break a design in my eyes so experiment with them (esp based on the emotive/personality associations with different colors). and also motifs - for me the best are the most visual, like certain foods, items relating to the character, or recognisable shapes (such as crescents and stars). study other designs with the same motif and cram as much of it into the design as you can (or as much as you'd like the character's "symbol" to be obvious) !

[tateytots]

the duality of me ig lol

[daveyfvckingjacobs]

in the redesign trenches cause I haven’t been happy w jacks in over a month

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

In a truck stop bathroom washing my hands today and 2 boys, looked about 5 and 9, came in with their little sister who looked maybe 2. The following whispered conversation made my entire day

"We have to wait, there's a lady in here!"

"That's not a lady, he has a mustache! We can be in here!"

"Some ladies have mustaches! And she has boobs!"

"Well some guys have boobs! Like Uncle Jake!"

"Uncle Jake is fat!"

At this point I could not contain a chuckle and both whirled around with identical looks of panic on their faces. I smiled and said "it's alright for you guys to be in here so your sister has help, don't worry. And I'm both! That's why I have boobs and a mustache. Some folks are just built that way"

(In unison) "Ooooooh!"

(older boy) "So do you use Sir or Ma'am or both?"

"Both, but I prefer Sir"

"Cool! Well thanks Sir! We have to help our sister now!"

This was in a small town country truck stop and both boys had "Murica" type stuff on and neither of them had any issue at all with these concepts. Their mom approached me while I was in line about 10 minutes later and apologized for them bothering me in the bathroom (they had told her about the interaction) and she and I had a lovely little chat too. I got to introduce her to the term "intersex" and her reply was "I think I've heard of that before! I didn't know that was the word for it. Amazing how many different ways God can make people!"

Sometimes the world is good. More often than you might think, if you give it a chance. It's not all bad loves <3

[playingplayer2]

Me, to my sibling, our mom with us: see, I could show [friend] pretty gore art and she's probably like it, but I can't show it to mom. She wouldn't think it was pretty.

My mom: I used to have this really gorgeous set of Clamp cards ((pretty sure she is talking about this Clamp)). Absolutely beautiful artwork, and then you look at the details

Me, thinking about a very nicely drawn piece of art depicting actual organs and the way I pick through anatomy charts and sometimes just look up what organs look like just to look at them and my liking a horror movie or not kinda depends on how realistic the blood looks in it: I don't think we're talking about the same kind of gore, mom

*tow truck goes past with a pickup truck in-tow, the front passenger side totally fucked up, spot for the headlights hollowed out and kinda crumpled around it*

Me: damn.

My older sibling: look, gore!

*entire car starts snickering*

[lawfulspawnofthedevil]

The biggest issue I have with the medical field that I dont see being addressed enough is the overall lack of passion practitioners have now. Not so much nurses but it feels like no one becomes a doctor out of a genuine desire to help the sick. Just in it for the money, and theres ALOT of it. Even if they didnt want to slog through 10+ years of university because its not their calling, everyone with a pulse has pushed abd nudged them towards a doctorate "because big money" and they cant tell their parents "NO" because theyll be kicked out or disowned.

Have this happen to millions of people in America alone. Have them get so jaded that they have 0 empathy for their patients, write off their worries because theyre just "fat and need to lose weight" or "overreacting" or "too young to have that". They sit there and hand you a million dollar bill that no average citizen is gonna be able to pay off even WITH insurance chipping away at it. And then they have the gall to be like "well doctors dont make the prices/its not our fault" and while I'm sure thats true we all know it benefits them so they dont give a shit. They're just saying that to cover their asses and keep their jobs.

So parents. Everytime you badger your son/daughter into pursuing a medical career you're part of the problem. I personally wouldnt want someone with no passion for my health rooting around in my fucking organs but you do you, I guess.