#same principle

[irrevocablecondition]

there is a big discussion to be had about why butch/femme dynamics are the norm and completely okay but a more feminine man existing in an mlm couple is disgusting and vile and homophobic and evil and horrible and-

not by me tho. y'all fill in the blanks on this one. the answer is misogyny.

[just1gnome]

THE PAINTING??????????/ HELLO????

[orange-frog]

ppl up in arms about “sentence mixing being way better than AI voice generators” be so for real. theyre different things. joe biden Pills. Now. Please. and ben shapiro Im Not Gonna Get Old on the Beach are both landmark videos and pretending the second one isnt because it was made by the “scary AI” is like. come on. be serious.

[beevean]

Assuming you're still doing trope ratings... Used To Be a Sweet Kid

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

It's a bit of an easy way to garner sympathy for a character, but if it works it works :')

I'm a softheart, I see an old picture of the broody angsty rival back when he was much younger and happier, I muse about how we all start with the potential to be kind and the unpredictable paths life can lead towards, and I fall. Every. Time.

[captainclickycat]

I’m catching up on Re: Dracula and hearing “goodnight everybody” in Beth’s voice is very emotionally affecting.

Up until now I had been reading it, highly inappropriately, in Yakko Warner’s voice.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Back in grade school we used to write للعهد (“for the era”)

and then join up the front and the back and turn it on its side to make a guy with a pointy nose

Feels vindicating

[homoerectusindeed]

Currently wearing eyeshadow as nail polish and it's looking surprisingly good?

[unfortunate-tendencies]

there's no slur for men (i think??) but if they had one i think trans women should get the pass because we had to pretend to be men

also i think atheist should be allowed to have parties and do sex stuff in churches because our ancestors built them too

[gurlgallade]

If I had a nickel for every time one of us came up with an alternate timeline where Vio fucked up while trying to bring Shadow back and got exploded about it, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that we've repeated that plot beat twice.

[marvelyningreen]

My favorite trick is finding ways to trick my brain into thinking I’m gaining momentum.

A few winters back, I decided to crochet a granny square blanket. It was only a baby blanket, but it was still a lot of work, and my motivation was starting to flag. So, instead making one entire square at a time, I divvied things up.

It was a star pattern, and all the stars were the same color, so I made all 54 of them first. And after that was finished, I completed the 26 squares that had the same background color, then moved onto the next biggest color grouping, and so on.

It would’ve been the exact same amount of work no matter how I did it, but this way the remainder of the task felt smaller and more manageable each time I completed a step. And now I look for ways to apply the same technique whenever I’ve got a big and/or monotonous task to accomplish.

[feddy-34]

two things can be true at once. observe:

the soviet union had by FAR the most casualties in WWII

it's because stalin killed literally every competent general he had besides zhukov

excusing current russian bs through the guise of "but more of them died against the nazis!" is one of the most bizarre takes ive ever heard. yeah more of them died against the nazis because their leaders were fucking incompetent. that's not, like, a thing to celebrate.

[lytefoot]

Blackletter is worse.

[evercelle]

Hello! If you don't mind me asking, how do you achieve/keep the vibrancy of colors in your illustrations?

I've been studying your art a lot and your colors always stand out to me because blending and painting digitally tends to result in muddier colors (normally in trad painting yellow & blue would result in green but due to how art programs work, blending yellow & blue would just result in a more desaturated version of one of the colors overlaying on top of the other) so I was wondering if you have any tips or advice on how to avoid that :0

Hope you have a great day!

i tend to use one inking brush (ciro pen) for sketch/ink/paint, so i usually just flat color and then draw in shades at lighter opacity, then color pick where it overlaps with the base shade, paint over again, rinse repeat... like using a blending brush with more steps i guess lol

some art programs (csp and i think kritia, maybe??) have improved color mixing! i haven't messed with any options myself but i just tried mixing yellow + blue and it caught the green tones pretty well, both with the method i described + using the default oil paint brush. todays sample picture features loml venti:

i think i tend to use pretty desaturated colors as a whole with not a lot of varience throughout an entire piece, then i'll add something neon/saturated later as an accent, so i think that might help control the "muddy" feeling as well

time lapse from step 3 -> painting! idk if this is super helpful but i'm not sure how else to demonstrate my process short of streaming lol

i think it'd probably be helpful to study color theory too, because the way your eye perceives vibrancy of colors is greatly affected by the saturation and value of the adjacent colors you use...!!

[omegalerc]

the messed up hair and flush in this pic.

[barely-getting-bi]

spock with his hair that looks like a lego piece taking in a child with really curly hair and having to figure out how to properly take care of her curls and then having to figure out how to get saavik to be still long enough for him to actually take care of them

[cosmicalls]

i'm no film or visual arts expert but ☝️ one little detail i like in dead poets society is how often there are shots of todd looking up at neil. often in admiration, i'd assume--

--which is of course mirrored in the shot of neil looking up at todd after he does his poem;

also,

looking up towards the sky after The Incident. what does this say? i don't know actually. but it feels like something. don't know what

not to mention when neil is finally on stage. everyone in the audience is looking up at him in that case, but i'd say it still makes sense?

they hjust admire each other so much i think. Ouuhg