#go outside!!!!!!!! nobody cares!!!!!

[aroaessidhe]

there’s been ‘audiobooks aren’t reading’ discourse on booktok lately (embarrassing), and in the margins of that - and also on here recently - I keep seeing this idea that reading ‘too much’ or too fast’ is bad............genuinely, who cares? how is that anyone’s business?

‘people are focusing on numbers instead of reading quality books just to post about it on social media!!!!’ do you actually know that? if an individual realises themselves that they’re doing that, and thinks it is bad....they can stop. if you are not that person how would you know?

similarly it goes hand in hand with this vitriol against skim reading - oh no! someone is reading fast and not taking in every single word! sometimes they miss things! clearly this is because they’re obsessed with showing off how many books they read in a year and they’re not comprehending anything in the books. Not, i don’t know, they’re a bookseller and it’s literally their job to know about as many different books in all sorts of genres as they can. or, maybe they just want to have a broad understanding of lots of books even if they’re not obsessed with all of them! maybe they like listening to things in the background while they work. stop treating every single book as if it’s the pinnacle of literacy that deserves your utmost attention!!! like if you can understand people can watch random movies or tv shows for fun, or in the background while they’re focusing on other things....you can understand people do that with some books too right? and it doesn’t inherently mean they do that with every book they read?

it seems to be this mindset that skim reading is like......a binary thing that you do or don’t do. Not something you can choose to do on certain books, certain chapters, certain paragraphs, and also vary the speed of your reading.. I skim read books sometimes because I know they’re not personally for me but I want to finish them so I can form a full opinion of them, or be able to recommend them to someone I know might like it. I am an illustrator and listen to audiobooks all day while I work and use the library so it’s no cost of time or money to do this a lot. and if I’m skim reading a book and then I realise I am actually loving it...get this.....I can start reading it slower. I can even read it again. 

in conclusion it’s truly so embarrassing to watch people arguing about how other people consume media?

[crimeronan]

Hunter notices Amity is really distressed about that new kid Odalia somehow has, so he eventually suggests kidnapping because Odalia sucks as a parent and why not? Amity is still in her bloodline deduction state of mind so she blurts out that people will then make the awful mistake of assuming Grimwalker Alador is THEIR child, which is the wrong thing to say because for Hunter that's hilarious and even more reason to go kidnap him.

i love the shitpost horror-comedy universe where lumiter just keep acquiring grimwalker babies that look like them. in increasingly stupid & ill-conceived ways. between luzwalker and aladorwalker anyone who knows the three of them is like damn hunter why does the universe let you have unprotected sex with Two girlfriends. while hunter is out here like. ok. i have literally never even Attempted to touch either of these women in my life. and have no idea What The Actual Fuck is going on. however i Will commit to the bit if prompted.

[puhpandas]

i feel like the 'THEY GOT GINA' vine with Dawko talkng about the Cassies Dad theory

[b4kuch1n]

pre-holiday leave crumbs

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Gesture & Figure Studies

I mentioned in a previous post that a professor of mine gave me some resources that I find super helpful, and that once he fixed the links to those resources, I would share them here.

So, as promised, I'm making a post to compile the various online goodies I've been given/stumbled across on my own. All of these are super good resources to practice gesture drawing for free, and in a more comfortable environment than staring at a real person three feet away from you. Some of these are also good references to have for longer drawings, so feel free to use them in whatever way helps you! Links put below:

Before anything, I think it's important to explain what exactly gesture is. At its core, gesture is simply looking at some form of reference, and drawing what you see as quickly as possible. Gesture drawing isn't actually exclusive to drawing people; it's helpful with pretty much all subject matter, such as still-lifes or landscapes. This post focuses on figure studies, but the techniques found here can be used elsewhere too.

These exercises are typically done in increments of 30 seconds-5 minutes. That's not a lot of time, so it's very important to not get hung up on details while working. Instead, focus on whatever you're drawing in its entirety; the point is to capture the energy of whatever you're looking at, not each individual shape. These drawings tend to look a little goofy and that's perfectly fine! The important part is proportion and energy, not form.

Below are a couple of videos that I think best help introduce gesture drawing. Seeing it is action explains it better than words can, in my opinion:

A demo of figure gesture drawing (this is closest to how I was taught)

Short video that explains good things to watch out for while you work

And for the poses:

Playlist of timed poses (non-nude)

Playlist of timed poses (nude)

Pose image library (nude/non-nude/hands/more+)

Timed image library (nude/non-nude/hands/more+)

Another timed image library (nude/non-nude)

Pinterest board of hand/feet references (helpful even outside of gesture drawing)

HUGE pose reference library (very helpful even outside of gesture drawing)

DeviantArt page for the above (more poses I believe, but harder to navigate)

I'll update this post if I add anything else to this list, but this is all I have for now. Hopefully a couple of people can find this useful :D

[bosooka]

i know y'all are not coming into my house on a wednesday afternoon to call bosoka problematic because LFL cast someone who looks 12 to play LA ahsoka in siege of mandalore Bad CGI Edition(TM)

[menshusband]

What does a man have to do not to live in constant dread

[golden-jeon-jungkook]

...

[tsa-smth]

@666herescared, I might’ve made a weird and a normal fanart for Imaginary Shadow Dad

Link to the Chapter 1 of Imaginary Shadow Dad

[isneezelikeamouse]

I really feel like there’s an interesting way to tie demonism to wh but not in the “THESE PUPPETS ARE LITERALLY DEMONS” way but in the “unfounded satanic panic” way

[aberooski]

so that surprise song mashup, huh

I AIN'T GOTTA TELL HIM I THINK HE KNOWS HE'S GORGEOUS !!!!! 😭😭😭

They are everything to me she has no idea but she did that for me I stg ✋😭

[custer-mp3]

not to throw my hat in the ring with the 2080238403948th goth music discourse post but it's annoying how the argument keeps crossing my dash flattened of all actual nuance lmao

[ i'm giving you a Read More cuz i'm generous ]

you do have to listen to goth music to be goth, yes. but also no. if you were born between 1982 and 1995 there is a strong chance that in your neck of the woods, generic Mallgoth™️ (a fashion which incorporated aspects of metal, skater, hip-hop, fetish, and rave clothing/style into The Look) (a culture which was built around ALL heavy music of the period regardless of hard-and-fast genre demarcations through the brilliance of corporatism & the need for ease in marketing to the largest possible swath of a niche population) (which is a separate & distinct thing from GOTH-goth---y'know, people who go to goth nights & goth clubs & dress more tradgoth/deathrocky) was the predominate or ONLY alternative culture you grew up around, and because Mallgoth™️ was/is such a conglomerate type thing, there's no doubt you probably listen to a few Goth Bands at least casually but there's a much higher chance you also listen to a lot more metal, industrial, etc. cuz that's what was being pushed & marketed to METEORIC success as part of this corporate-driven culture.

does that make you any less goth? no, not really. the fascinating, terminally-online thing abt this whole discourse is it's clear how many of you motherfuckers here on tumblr dot edu do not go outside, because if you spent two weeks walking around Out In The World it would be really easy to tell Who's Goth And Who's Not, cuz you're either gonna get trash hurled at you from passing cars and people screaming shit about your genitals at you and other people trying to pray over you in public and other other people trying to pull their kids away from you or refusing to speak to you or even acknowledge your existence, or you're gonna get asked by timid nine-year-olds if you're emo.

bracket A is goth. bracket B is probably more-than-likely not. i don't give a shit what's on your playlist cuz "goth" is functionally a much more culturally-expansive label than this one small slice of specific bands & nobody gives a fuck about this except people who have too much time to argue with each other online and the current state of The Discourse™️ erases this cultural and developmental context as if the culture operates in a factory-sealed vacuum and never intersects with either capitalism or the hell that is other people. how about you go get among some bitches maybe

[dirt-str1der]

just wanna say im obsessed with your mind and i read your posts about kiryu like the morning paper. thank you for your service

(Sweats) e-even the ones about him laying eggs ?

[moomin279]

CITEH CITEH CITEH

[teethgnashing]

i need to stop talking abt body image issues with people who don’t have a double chin

[hopefulbuthelpless]

it is 2024 and people are still putting kink at pride discourse on my dash????? are yall not tired because im tired. if you put that shit on my dashboard i will unfollow you and i dont care which 'side' youre arguing its all so dumb and pointless amen