#study tracking

[juneability]

12dopmas: Day 3

241215: Sunday — made a huge to-do list and got most of it checked off! Christmas tree is now up, and I did a little painting of "Midnight" from Doctor Who in my sketchbook.

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Woke up before 8, went to bed before 11. 💤

Read for more than 30 mins. Currently reading Touch by Courtney Maum. I must say, I don't really like it all that much. Maybe it gets better in the second half? 📖

Read a paper by Michael Barnett on the post-cold war evolution of humanitarianism:

Barnett, M. (2005). Humanitarianism transformed. Perspectives on Politics, 3(4), 723-740. http://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592705050401

Practiced piano—mostly Animenz arrangements. I want to work on his Swordland arrangement since I always gave up on it before, but now I think I can figure it out. ⚔️

Cleaned parts of the bathroom. 🧽

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Something I'm grateful for: all the Christmas decorations my boyfriend's family brought to us so that we could get the house all festive!! 🎄

Prompt: What is something you’d love to learn if you had the resources?

I love coffee, and so naturally, I would love to learn how to make all the fancy coffees in the world. I don't think I'll ever be a barista since I have shaky hands and mediocre-at-best customer service skills, but I want to know how to use the equipment. Right now all I've got is a kettle, a french press, and an electric coffee grinder. ☕

[ryemiffie]

Guys.. Stan canonically writes fanfiction, presumably posting it to ao3.. I bet that man has got the ultimate author's curse notes

"Sorry I'm late to update guys! Got arrested by the federal government for stealing materials from them to rebuild an interdimensional portal to save my long lost twin brother! But hopefully things will be more consistent now that I'm done saving him!"

"My bad for this being so rushed, currently living through the literal apacolypse!"

"Didn't mean for this too take so long y'all, had to reread the whole fic to refresh my memory after getting my brain wiped to kill the demon who used to date my brother, y'all know how it is!"

[shellshooked]

my favourite conspiracy theory is that everything will be okay

[vesna-v-irkutske]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how can you tell if it’s Nikita or Artyom singing in their songs. It’s very hard for me to tell their voices apart :(

Not a dumb question. To be honest, I can't ALWAYS tell them apart due to poor sound quality or low volume, but in other cases I usually can. I don't know how to explain this, but...

Nikita: - gets voice cracks; - often changes his voice to sound silly/weird, not just deepens it; you can tell it's not how he normally speaks, but I guess it's much easier to pick up if you speak the language; - it feels like he speaks less confidently and pronounces the words slightly less clearly than Artyom, more likely to slur the words a bit and choke on his own saliva; I'd say it's because he doesn't speak often irl, it feels like his tongue moves more "lazily" in his mouth and he has to work harder to speak.

Artyom: - his voice is lower; - his growls sound more natural, he puts less effort into changing his voice because he doesn't have to deepen it as much as Nikita does; - his voice is more steady, less unpredictable, stays more or less the same; - less likely to make VERY weird sounds.

But I wouldn't say that these are any concrete rules that work all the time, you just need to get used to them.

4 minutes 20 seconds of Nikita and Artyom from "Bathroom Noise". 🛁🩸

[ssalballoon]

i bet on losing dogs

[sadgayeddie]

Eddie's the one who got shot?

[qqueenofhades]

In the middle of the third millennium BCE, schools of writing known as edubba sprang up across Southern Mesopotamia. Aspiring government or temple scribes copied and memorized phrases and names of trees, animals, countries, cities, villages, stones, and minerals. They wrote essays describing their daily routine. "I recited my tablet, ate my lunch, prepared my new tablet," declared one fragment from about 2000 BCE, by which point the pictograms had assumed a distinctly wedge-like shape. "When school was dismissed, I went home... I told my father of my written work, then recited my tablet to him, and my father was delighted."

- The Mesopotamian Riddle by Joshua Hammer (x)

[tonbane]

Dr. Husband Harvey getting used to the farm tasks 🐄🐓💖 I think he'd reasonably be scared of chickens at first, I wouldn't underestimate those dinosaurs either!

For @dragonstorytelling who prompted helping with farm chores, like feeding the chickens and cows. I've never drawn a cow before, cool idea! Speedpaint below.

Please remember to REBLOG, it's the chicken feed for artists 🐓🥚🥚🥚

[starlight-eclipsed]

Hello all! I bring another set of doodles--this time with a dark theme :3

They correspond to the following fics (which are fantastic and well worth a read):

Kintsugi by @whitewinterstar

A Dark Among the Lights by @luckylectio

Home by @mysteryn0te

Counterbalance by @zarvasace

A Study of Darkness (and its Light) by @floatingnebulas

A Tale of a Darker Time by @luckylectio

[rad-roche]

oh yeah, here's something i do to make drawing faces easier! especially for something that has to be quick, like a comic panel

initial thumbnail. what goes where, very rough. i have a very, very hard time placing features well on close-ups like these.... so i don't! i sketch the whole head, very small, then size it up and draw over that

easy guidelines!

[juneability]

12dopmas: Day 4

241216: Monday! Semi-productive morning (I baked! I never bake!) and work (piano lessons) in the evening.

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Woke up before 8, stayed up past 11pm finishing a book (I finished at 0:00 ON THE DOT. BTS would be proud). 🕛

(Obviously) read for far more than 30 mins. Touch by Courtney Maum... not for me. 2/5 stars. Characters were incredible, plot was aimless, and message was wishy-washy. 📕

Read a paper on space travel that was perhaps a bit too far outside of my specialty, but was interesting nonetheless:

Carbajales-Dale, M., & Murphy, T. W. (2023). The environmental and moral implications of human space travel. Science of The Total Environment, 856(2), 159222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159222

Practiced before bed, ironing out hard bits in some Animenz arrangements (this guy loves arpeggios). 🎹

Didn't tidy/clean any area in particular, though I did other chores. 🍞

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Something I'm grateful for: chocolate!!! We can just buy that stuff and eat it??? All the way up here? I can't bash globalization for this one. Thank u globalization 🙇

[byemambo]

Um, the little blue bird that’s lost its voice I can hear the whispers The beginnings of a deep echo The voice that will overturn the world

ATEEZ - HALAZIA

Spooky Season K-Pop [24/31] | dir. DIGIPEDI

[chalkrub]

mockley time it's mockley time will you have some mockleys of mine

[mujinabi]

twice ☆ strategy choreography video ( moving ver. )

[rosenkranz-does-things]

apparently heavypaint lets you export some timelapses but not others, but I did manage to do that with my Ice study. so. yay!

[journey-to-the-attic]

NOW I'M MUMBLING AND I'M SCREAMING

AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M SINGING