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[friend-dogor]

banjo week one notes 🪕

went from thinking "oh hell yeah maybe i will play a song for the kids at camp this year" to "oh my god i'd be lucky if i could learn Skip To My Lou on this thing i'm a complete idiot" to "oh okay maybe i could play a song for the kids at camp this year. a simple song though."

wrist pain unsurprising. what is surprising is the chest pain. this beast is Heavy and it keeps bonking into my chest and i don't have much padding there anymore. gonna end up with banjo boob bruises. sad. might sew myself a little padding/armor thing to cover just the right side of my chest, like a mune-ate in kyūdō or something.

humbling in a very nice way to start learning a new art pretty much entirely from scratch and on my own. the depths of my ignorance is astounding.

this thing is HEAVY. shockingly so. i went to put it on the scale and it came out at 6 pounds and i feel like i'm insane—but that's probably because all the weight is centered in the head/drum of the banjo. and the neck has barely any weight at all.

learning mostly from a combination of pete seeger's revised "How to Play a 5-String Banjo" manual he wrote back in the 50s, youtube videos, and tabs that people have shared online for free.

at the moment i just kind of read/view/play as much as i can until my head starts swimming and then i put it down (abt an hour of practice each day i think)

still struggling with the comfort factor on banjo picks. awkward to use. but i love that they look like i have claws LMFAO

the sound of the banjo itself is insanely pretty. it hums beautifully when its plucked or even gently prodded. when my brother handed it to me he hit a string and i was like Oh I Need That In My Hands Right Fucking Now

that said—because of the weight of it, part of me is now thinking, when i get a job that is stable and reliable, it might be nice to get a lightweight, open-back banjo without the resonator, maybe as a traveling/practice banjo. then, i looked at the prices for even used banjos and thought "fuck it maybe i'll learn to make one instead" LMFAOOOOO.

i'm already getting much quicker with plucking and fretting—fretting is still Dead Slow and i don't know where my fingers are, but it doesn't take me a whole minute to put fingers down (EMBARRASSINGLY SLOW) and plucking, i can even be a little fast and accurate sometimes. not up to Expected Plunky Banjo Speed but I'm getting there. would attach a video if i were not still embarrassed. next time maybe.

[thechekhov]

ah, childhood.

[turbo-tsundere]

Hi.

[theloveinc]

Being the on-call masseuse at pro-hero dynamight’s agency who he’s weirdly vulnerable with because you’ve already seen him naked

[samglyph]

Ghost Hunter Au Part 1/2

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This is my entry for the Malevolent “write in your style event”, @malevolent-monthly!

I wasn’t initially planning on participating since this is a writing event and not an illustration one, but the prompt immediately inspired me so I got the go ahead to make a little comic! Part two out soon.

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[inktheblot]

the best people in life are free 🌈✨

Been a while since I finished an AMV so I just messed around with one for fun 💖

[jojoeyo]

[fatedroses]

Finally I can post the comic for Adventurer!Zenos that has taken hold of my brain for the past week.

AKA a man who is currently running off the fumes of the literal souls of the damned being very desperate to be out of the void he was stuck in (and for the first time actually being able to just enjoy something mundane), only to get absolutely overwhelmed but all the stimuli he had just... ignored until now.

[miniiinebulaee]

embracing all of you

[the-state-of-georgia-official]

if I die, I bequeath my blog to one of my children ( @irishfry , @atlanta-city-official , @thatoneacerobot , or @beadoesthings ) /SILLYYY

[russadler]

headcanon: the reason adler is so ripped in bo6 is because of his time spent in relative isolation while on the run. exercise was a way to pass the time, especially while holed up in the rook.

[cherri-moone]

I BRINGETH EDITS 💪💪💪💪💪

@just-luxx here ya go!! :3

[psychedeliclulu]

🖤🩶💛 wip

Pencil sketch + dark gray promarker for the background + pigment liner 03 and black brush pen for the eyes 👁️👁️

(Doing eyelashes with the brush pen is very practical 👌🏻✨)

[dostoyevsky-official]

I admit this might be a stupid question, but do you think it’s at all likely we see an actual invasion of Canada? With the white house where it’s at things seem so murky it’s hard to draw a conclusion.

nothing is impossible, but the US/CAN border is 5,525 miles long and full of difficult terrain, with only a few bridges connecting the ontario peninsula to the US and the st lawrence river cutting quebec off in the east. invasions don't just happen out of thin air. you can't say "invade canada" and have it happen tomorrow. you need massive preparation, massive logistics and supply buildup, huge recruitment drives to occupy territory, among other things. they aren't going to suddenly invade next week, either. they probably won't do it, but if they do, it'll be blatantly obvious well ahead of time.

i would worry more about using tariffs and other policy as economic weapons to damage the canadian economy without firing a shot. that any of this is being discussed is a crime enough

[brofightiscancelled]

(Postgrad plan) Are Atsushi and Totty dating? owo

no but whatever they have going on is funnier

[k--now--what]