#i .. really need to redo tags

[egophiliac]

I love your unhinged energy of your comics it's just *chef's kiss"

I wanna ask how you rig your chibi characters if you use a program or an app ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

thanks! 💚💜💚

I use Spine (professional version)! I'm pretty sure it's the same program the Twst devs use for the chibis; I decided to try reverse-engineering 'em basically because my license was just sitting around gathering dust, and I thought it'd be fun practice (this was before I tried to rig Meleanor's cape). it is an industry-standard program and, unfortunately, is priced accordingly, so it's a bit expensive if you're not planning on using it professionally -- there is a free trial, though I think you can't save/export anything in it? BUT it is truly excellent and can do a ton of super cool stuff, plus is genuinely just fun to mess around in, so I 10000% recommend it to anyone who is serious about getting into 2D rigging!

behold...the BONES...Najma and her billion discrete tassels...don't pay attention to all the extra bones from my desperate attempts to control Meleanor's meshes

[ophernelia]

@imogencrnza: it was hard getting them all to behave for a picture.

[zarlev]

smith and hunter

[mattodore]

OC Evolution tag: 2024 <- 2018

choose an oc and show the progress of the earliest to latest version of them

tagged by @elderwisp! it took me hours to find the oldest trays i could of theirs but uh... yeah. everyone else i've seen do this had such nice sims in the past but i think my old sims have to be some kind of sin against god.

i’ll tag @stinkrascal, @wldestluv-rs, @spurgees, @veone, and @warmsol <3

[good-beansdraws]

Mutual left this tag on one of my Fuuta analyses and yeah...

Part two of "Fuuta’s central theme is invasion of privacy and he has extreme anxiety over being watched, so it's interesting that we get to pick him apart and see all his worst, most private thoughts" :(

[coldcanyon]

On Greenwashing, 24 pgs

my finished project from R's workshop earlier this year :) never got around to doing a proper Riso edition but will def revisit next time I have access to one of those machines!

[irradiatedsnakes]

today on "putting an excessive amount of effort into furry au designs", here's reigen's Seasonal Variants as promised! see under the cut for plumage/molt talk

molts are the processes of shedding & regrowing feathers. a plumage is a "set" of feathers- for birds that turn a different color/pattern during a certain parts of the year, they have two adult plumages: basic plumage, also called winter or nonbreeding plumage (generally duller), and alternate plumage, also called summer or breeding plumage (generally more flashy).

(generally speaking, this is not universal) the prebasic molt happens in the summer/fall and involves all the feathers being replaced, including the flights (primary and secondary wing feathers) and retrices (tail feathers). if a bird has an alternate plumage, the prebasic molt in late winter/early spring changes the plumage from basic to alternate ahead of the breeding season, and is a partial molt (only some feathers being replaced).

SO. for this. nice brand new feathers in the fall, and in the prealternate molt he swaps out the dark brown 'vest' and dull orangey back feathers for iridescent blue-black, and the rest of the dull orangey body feathers are swapped for that nice bright reigen orange. the flights and retrices aren't swapped, and by the middle of the year have worn somewhat and are a bit duller, as opposed to the more saturated, darker color that the fresh feathers are in the basic plumage.

the iridescent blue-black is the actual color of microraptor (we know this because of fossil pigment cells! isnt that fun)- i still wanted to prominently feature reigen's hair color, though, so this is a fantasy made up coloration/patterning. i wanted to do an under/upper belly split since the beginning cus i just like how it looks, and the spotting/barring is based on hawks in general, with the potting around the neck and chest being referenced from ornate hawk-eagles specifically. no thematic reason for those choices, just aesthetic.

the timing of his molts up there is arbitrary biologically- but i wanted it to line up so he'd be molting to the basic plumage around the separation arc- i think the first time we'd see him in full basic plumage would be right around the press conference. a look behind his flashy exterior, so to speak! while not an exact match, i also wanted his basic plumage to be somewhat evocative of his manga colors.

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Improvement :3

[saym0-0]

i have my copper rabbit's design pretty down pat when it comes to the sorta placement of her plates (eg. iron on her outer arm copper on the inner arm) so i wanted to do the same thing for her impossium/porcelain style design :3 obviously its not done but its late and my ipad is dying so forgive me for that, i'll probably finish it tomorrow

[softceleste]

The fact I honestly thought I'd pull off playing College Craze and being normal about it, and then less than a week later I've already played it multiple times, made a duel MC au, a Pinterest board, and recreated some of the PopMe pages, is genuinely not lost on me.

[lingering-paperwork]

Once a year I like to draw my smoker mom border collie fursona named Epoch and post her to Tumblr dot com to remind everyone that I , Mr. Aluminum , am a furry. ùwú

[trashlama]

Wazzzuppp my fellow heathens~ I'm back with a redraw of my old Monkey King drawing. Previously in a older post I had mentioned how it had been one of my favorites until it got ruined. Weeeell— last night in my state we had some pretty gnarly storms and the power went out. Soooo because I had no power and barely any battery on my cell I just drew instead. So bare with me! I had to use a little flashlight to draw the majority of it once the sun went down.

It's not as detailed/shaded as the other one but that's because I'm thinking about coloring it tho idk. Maybe, maybe not well see ~

Regardless I hope you guys like it!!!

(Quick thought should I draw a Macaque one?)

Sorry that the photos suck

Thank you for looking and I hope you guys have a great week~

[jalapenobee]

modeling au except it's just me drawing the aku siblings in different clothes (with photographer atsushi ofc)

[istjury]

i think i accidentally started an ocho cult on my desktop

im afraid they would eat my files someday

[mattodore]

good morning 😁

[medicinemane]

And maybe you'll be like "but if you don't trust businesses, how can you trust welfare?"

I fucking don't. My mom trying to get on food stamps fucked me up because a lady I never met without my permission got my SSN from my mom and started editing my files. My heart still races to this very second whenever I think about it, it kinda messed me up bad and I'll never ever ever see any kind of recourse

And I'm terrified that I'm gonna lose my medicaid just cause I inherited some money from my grandpa

And I've never even applied for disability cause it kinda doesn't matter finding out if I'd qualify or not cause of my depression, when the rules are so restrictive I don't know if I've even be allowed to keep my house

I do not fucking trust these things on a personal level. I feel like out of a lot of people I have the most to fear from them cause I'm on the edge of having things work, and that gets you punished

...but I need medicaid in order to have insurance (and when you strip out the finance side of medicaid, I love medicaid... they're honestly incredible insurance... I just... I just... dental is like 90% of why medicaid is so important to me, ever since I found out this state pays for it I've actually been able to do cleanings which is important to me cause I can't always get myself to brush)

And I think things like disability and food stamps are pretty damn important on a personal level, and honestly are also good for the economy cause they get people spending... it's practically a free cash infusion into the economy, cause these are people who need to buy stuff

There's just so much important stuff welfare does that it's worth dealing with government

No, what I want is more accountability so if someone gets my SSN from a 3rd party like my mom they're held to HIPPA styles standards where that's not ok to access my files without my permission (She changed my fucking address and tried to get medicaid to investigate me for fraud! Never even met me)

Like have some accountability there and in every situation

Secondly I want less punitive focused rules. I'd frankly prefer bezos get on disability than smack down some poor sod cause they got $2000 in the bank or cause their friend lets them live with them for free

If there's gonna be a cut off on these programs, it needs to be a solid step above the poverty line, cause... by definition I assume poverty line denotes kinda the minimum expected income people can reasonably live off of, and if you take away benefits people are gonna lose a chunk of money to covering that stuff themself, so you need a buffer before you kick people off

I don't fucking trust the government for a second, I've actively been fucked by them and on a personal level I avoid everything but medicaid and only that cause everything but the money is pleasant to deal with and I kinda need it (honestly if I was rich I'm not even kidding that I'd rather give medicaid like $400 a month than some insurance company, I sincerely like them as insurance)

But I'd trust them a lot more if they were less punitive, less out to hunt me down and gut me cause someone handed me a fiver or cause I started to get on my feet, and if government employees had concrete rules they had to follow that were actually transparent and enforced

Like 90% of my problems with welfare go away if they're held accountable and there's less "catch the welfare cheats" mentality going around

I don't trust the government in the slightest, but sadly there some jobs it kinda has to do, so I'd just rather force it to be an open book where the public can keep an eye on it and if they step out of line there's consequences (sort of like I don't trust most mega corps but happen to sometimes need stuff from them... did you know literally every cell service provider has been illegally selling shit like your location data to random people like bounty hunters, and the FCC just slapped them with a fine that's 0.02% of their yearly incomes and debated even doing that? I even can offer a source on that)

...I don't trust much of any authority cause they constantly fail me and kinda screw me. Don't trust doctors either, but I still gotta go to them, you know? ...they're just... they're real bad at listening... so many systems need systemic change

(You know who I really don't trust is the cops. I could point to so many examples. My uncle doesn't trust cops either, and he's an ex Fire and SWAT paramedic, he worked with them and we still got into a long conversation where he basically tore into them far better than I can)

(I don't trust authority that's not accountable)