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i don’t think mordecai and rigby were ever gay for each other but i do think many times rigby would be like dude if i was a girl would you want to fuck me and mordecai is like dude that’s weird. no. and rigby is all bent out of shape about it and in the middle of the night when they’re both trying to sleep he’s like why wouldn’t you fuck me if i was a girl. i’m cute right? or am i ugly and that’s why i’m single… and mordecai is like fine whatever i’d fuck girl you. stop bringing it up now. & the next day rigby is like fuck off muscle man i’m not ugly mordecai said he’d fuck girl me & then a portal opens to an alternate dimension where they’re genderbent like that adventure time episode and the voice of god is like mordecai you must make good on your word. fuck girl rigby.

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it's so chilling to walk through an area where the houses are surrounded by blank sterile lawns and see a big lilac bush in full bloom without a single bug on it. No bees, no butterflies, not a stir of activity.

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Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

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I found it. The most Tumblr Kickstarter ever.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legbootlegit/bugkiss-little-lips-for-bug-lovins

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[Description start: A young woman is playing the beginning part of the Universal Studios theme song on a xylophone, and then she throws both of the mallets at a drum placed in front of the xylophone. Another woman comes after her, playing the same tune and throws the mallets at the drum again. A man walks up after the last woman has finished and starts singing the ending of the Universal Studios theme off-key before laughing and walking away. End of description.]

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Vintage audio tech of the day: Keysette

Micro piano to cassette adapter. Great condition

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Spent a long time on this art resource/reference masterpost! If you have a request for resources for me to find OR have a resource you want me to add, just send me an ask :D 

General Anatomy/Human stuff:

body quick tips

painting/drawing straight hair

how to draw eyes

arm squish/bend tip

chest/pecks with raised arms tip

long hair how to

male torso anatomy (back)

learn manga male anatomy (torso & arm)

male torso anatomy (front)

head and hair tips (scroll  a bit, it’s in one of the images!)

how to draw noses

ears tilty tip

arm tips

two tips for drawing women’s hair

drawing teeth

anatomy tips

random hair and mouth ref anime

leg muscle anatomy ref

arm muscles anatomy ref

knees reference

arm ref study

quick arm tut tip

how to draw arm

shoulders n sleeves

Poses:

umbrella poses

random female poses

random anatomy pose thing

chibi sleeping in hands pose

laying poses

elf (?) with staff poses

holding phone half bod

peeny wolf pose set

perspective pose sheet

anatomy poses 

crossed arms ref sheet

holding baby poses

Hands:

how to draw hands 1

hand refs & tutorial 2

hand tutorial 3

hand tutorial 4

36 hands

how to draw hands in 10 minutes

hands ref 2

hand gestures and simplifying the hand

arm & hand ref

500 hands

Diversity:

stop drawing natives red

wheelchair tutorial

drawing fat people

vitiligo notes for artists

darkskin palms

epicanthic folds

biracial characters

do’s and don’ts of thick lips

Animals/Creatures:

how to draw falcon beaks

canine studies (broken down into parts)

feline tiger ref

Insect wing venation

Musculature of a T-Rex

Pony bodies tutorial

Hyena Nose tutorial

horse reference

drawing horns

Flesh tutorial

bird tips

wing basics

making mythical creatures look realistic

pony heads tutorial 

dragon designing tutorial pt 3/3

pony wings tutorial

hedgie bodies

Furry/Anthro:

dogquest’s pixel tutorial

furry portrait tutorial

furry pants tutorial

how to draw paws/pawhands

fur direction reference

anthro tips

muzzle shapes

furry styles

anthro expressions

f2u chibi-ish furry base

furry / cartoon head tutorial

f2u furry base/pose w three different ears

drawing humans! for animal artists

Backgrounds:

how to draw debris

fire tutorial

night sky tutorial

materials study with notes

tree tutorial

water tutorial

tangents??

ocean painting

clouds tutorial

bubbles

painty background studies tips

peony tutorial

lakeside tutorial

quick flowers for the lazy

mistletoe vs holly

Perspective:

foreshortening coil technique

foreshortening tutorial

Webcomic:

medibang comic panel tutorial

how i make webcomics/webtoons

how to color comics

the art of lettering comics

comic/doujinshi paneling

in depth webcomic tutorial

Coloring:

72 Color Combinations

How ViPOP uses color

Hair coloring tutorial by rosuuri

Gurochii moe quick eye tutorial

Anime eye tutorial

Mermaid tail tutorial

Grayscale to Color painting tutorial

chibi eye walkthrough

skin tone tutorial 1

curly hair tutorial

color palette

coloring tutorial

light, it gets everywhere

comfort color

skin coloring tutorial

holographic tutorial

dappled lighting effect

cute/bright coloring tutorial 

pattern trick

arcana character coloring tut

Expressions/ Meme / style:

small body language study

expressions reference

how to cute

Platonic cuddles meme

expression reference : nervous

flustered expression meme

drawing expressions tutorial/key

Pixel Art:

Pixel icon tutorial

Ice cream

Moving clouds tutorial

50x50 pixel doll tutorial

pixelin’s pixel process

pixel expression ref

pixel eye blinking tutorial

how to pixel liquids

Clothing / Accessories:

Shoes

Fancy color tip / ref

Chainmail

short reference

learn manga basic pleated skirt tutorial

learn manga basic frills

random clothing refs

chainmail brush

clothing ref masterpost

pinstripes tips

cloth texture tips

how to clothing folds

Misc:

Sketchfab 3d Models

Mikeymegamega on YT for anime/ecchi/etc

Gentei_sozai on twitter for chibi poses

S0zalsan on twitter for random poses

mecha basics

75 tutorials

Obvious art tips you might have forgotten

Mosaic effect

how to draw a cute chibi

fighting artblock

cute pikachu base

painting a face tutorial

volume commissions mini tutorial

arcana characters tutorial reference

notes from the “animators survival kit”

concept art tutorial

another art resource masterpost

MS paint tips and tricks

Reference table for drawing CONSISTENT faces

@hanari0716 on twitter for HELLA references

animation guide for beginners

Brushes:

Foliage brushes

cityscape brushes

ghibli brushes

clip studio paint assets

PS brush pack

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why are islamic dietary restrictions so unbelievably stupid

It's not so bad, for example, it's halal to eat your mom's pussy

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While the CDC has given up on providing any guidance on risk control measures for covid, The People's CDC is filling the gap and continuing to track and update guidance as the situation evolves. Here's where you can download their Safer In-person Gatherings Toolkit:

Here's an extremely detailed guide on what to do if you have covid that includes how long to isolate for, how to set up your house with hepa filters and ventilation, what supplies to have on hand, when to go to the hospital, and guidelines on how to pace from the MEAction Network in the event you end up with long covid:

The work these guys are doing is amazing. They're still tracking wastewater data too so you can still figure out transmission levels in your area and not just the hospitalization levels. Check them out!

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Rhetoric to watch out for. When we talk about rhetoric, we mean different types of arguments or strategies someone might use to convince you that they’re right about something. The presence of one or two of these doesn’t mean that a person is lying or trying to mislead you, but if the bulk of their argument involves these techniques, look carefully at it.  Let’s take a look at some of the techniques you might encounter.

Misleading Language:  Have you ever heard of Dihydrogen Monoxide?  If you haven’t, take a moment to visit this page and read about it.  Seems like pretty scary stuff, yeah?  But I’ll let you in on a little secret:

Dihydrogen Monoxide is the chemical name for water.

That website (which is a deliberate fake) is beloved by teachers and librarians everywhere because of how well it demonstrates some common issues with encountering and evaluating  information.  The first of those is deliberating choosing misleading or scary sounding terms to refer to something rather than using words that most people would be familiar with.  You can also mislead with language by saying things that aren’t technical false, but say them in a way that leads to people to an incorrect understanding of the situation.  Saying that Dihydrogen Monoxide can cause severe burns is not a lie.  Pour hot water on your hand, and you’ll get burned.  But phrasing it in the way that the website does deliberately makes that sound way scarier than it is.

Characterizing diverse group as hive-mind:  If you’ve ever heard a statement like “people with red hair enjoy kicking puppies on the weekends”  then you’ve already run across this technique.  Treating a group as a hive-mind means acting as though even in that group thinks and acts exactly the same way.  If you encounter this argument, the way to counter it is simple: remember that people, and the world, are complex and varied.  It’s ridiculous to say that all members of a group are just copies of each other.

Appeal to authority: This is one of those techniques that’s tricky to evaluate, because it can look like someone holding up solid evidence for a claim.  Let’s go back to the Dihydrogen Monoxide example.  At various places on that website the authors reference studies or institutes that agree with their claims about this “dangerous chemical.”  The reason for this is that they know that people like scientists, researchers, and doctors all carry some kind of authority in people’s minds.  We tend to believe that anyone in those professions automatically knows what they’re talking about.  Depending on what you value, you may lend other types of people authority.  For instance, someone who’s religious might defer to the opinions of the leaders of their church.

The reason this technique is tricky to spot is that sometimes people are authorities for a reason and deserve to be listened to.  If someone has spent their life studying flying squirrels, you can probably trust what they tell you about flying squirrels.  If the flying squirrel expert is giving their opinion on stick insects, you’ll want to be more cautious about believing what they say.  Being an expert on one subject doesn’t make you an expert on every subject.  You also have to be wary of people who bill themselves as experts but can’t back up that claim.  If someone says they’re a flying squirrel expert but they’ve only seen one once (in a zoo), maybe they don’t know quite as much as they say they do.

Appeal to emotion: This device is very common in politics and in media. For instance, anti-choice advocates frame abortion as “killing babies” because that image tends to evoke a strong emotion in people.  That emotion can make it harder to talk about the actual data, because emotions tend to bring our biases to the front of our minds.

It’s not just negative emotions that can be appealed to.  History is jam-packed full of politicians who came to power because they promised a return to happy, prosperous times (spoiler alert: those promises seldom work, and sometimes they go really, really wrong).  That desire or hope can be as powerful as fear or anger in getting people to believe something.  In those moments it can help to remember  that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Strawman: A strawman is when you characterize an opposing side of an argument in a way that is super over-the-top. The goal is to get people to respond to the strawman, rather than to more real, nuanced opinion it is mimicking (in other words, it’s acting like a decoy). Think about when you hear statements along the lines of “feminists want to make men their slaves.” You may be tempted to argue how that isn’t what feminism is about at all, or how it’s only a few fringe people who believe that.  You’d be right, but you’d also be going for the decoy by addressing it at all.  Oddly, treating strawmen as legitimate tends to increase their power.  If you ignore or refuse to address them, they cease to serve any purpose.

Confusing Correlation with Causation: Imagine you see a news headline that reads “As Ice Cream Sales Rise, Police Prepare for Increase in Murders!” You’re skeptical, but click through and see that the authors have provided a handy graph showing that, as ice cream sales rise and fall, murder rates go along with them. And the data comes from a government source! Clearly, ice cream must cause people to become raging murder machines.

Or, you consider that there might be a third factor at play that is causing both ice cream sales and murder rates to rise. Like heat, for instance. And indeed, that would be a more reasonable conclusion to come to. The headline you read mixed up correlation and causation. Correlation means that two things change in relation to one another (they both go up or down at the same rate, or when one goes down the other goes up). Causation means that the change in one factor is actually causing the shift in the other.  It’s easy to mistake one for the other.  The way to avoid this pitfall is to take a moment to think about other reasons why a correlation might be happening.  Coming up with alternative explanations helps you avoid oversimplifying the relationship between two events.

Lying or ignorance: These aren’t formal rhetorical devices, but they still need addressing.  Sometimes, people won’t only manipulate the truth to get you to believe something.  They’ll just flat-out lie.  Or, they won’t know they’re lying, but they’ll pass on false information that they picked-up somewhere.  In those moments, you can use another cliche to help you out: trust, but verify.  If your abstinence-only sex ed teacher or a relative tells you that using an IUD can cause a stomach to burst open, you may want to – and really should – get a second opinion from a reliable, truthful source.

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thank you scherz et al. for bringing us the frogs Mini ature, Mini mum and of course, the Mini scule

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an art piece with a poem by Victoria Amelina – a Ukrainian author who's been injured in the recent strike on Kramatorsk and is currently in a hospital (photo credit)

an air raid alert

across the whole country

as if every time

they line everybody up for an execution

but only aim at one

usually the one standing

to the side

today it's not you. all clear

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When I’m out with Deaf friends, I put my hearing aid in my purse. It removes any ability to hear, but far more importantly, it removes the ambiguity that often haunts me.

In a restaurant, we point to the menu and gesture with the wait staff. The servers taking the order respond with gestures too. They pantomime “drinks?” and tell us they learned a bit of signs in kindergarten. Looking a little embarrassed, they sign “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day” in the middle of asking our salad dressing choice. We smile and gently redirect them to the menu. My friends are pros at this routine and ordering is easy ― delightful even. The contrast with how it feels to be out with my hearing husband is stunning.

Once my friends and I have ordered, we sign up a storm, talking about everything and shy about nothing. What would be the point? People are staring anyway. Our language is lavish, our faces alive. My friends discuss the food, but for me, the food is unimportant. I’m feasting on the smorgasbord of communication ― the luxury of chatting in a language that I not only understand 100% but that is a pleasure in and of itself. Taking nothing for granted, I bask in it all, and everything goes swimmingly.

Until I accidentally say the word “soup” out loud.

Pointing at the menu, I let the word slip out to the server. And our delightful meal goes straight downhill. Suddenly, the wait staff’s mouths start flapping; the beautiful, reaching, visual parts of their brains go dead, as if switched off.

“Whadda payu dictorom danu?” the server’s mouth seems to say. “Buddica taluca mariney?”

“No, I’m Deaf,” I say. A friend taps the server and, pointing to her coffee, pantomimes milking a cow. But the damage is done. The server has moved to stand next to me and, with laser-focus, looks only at me. Her pen at the ready, her mouth moves like a fish. With stunning speed, the beauty of the previous interactions ― the pantomiming, the pointing, the cooperative taking of our order ― has disappeared. “Duwanaa disser wida coffee anmik? Or widabeeaw fayuh-mow?”

Austin “Awti” Andrews (who’s a child of Deaf adults, often written as CODA) describes a similar situation.

“Everything was going so well,” he says. “The waiter was gesturing, it was terrific. And then I just said one word, and pow!! It’s like a bullet of stupidity shot straight into the waiter’s head,” he explains by signing a bullet in slow motion, zipping through the air and hitting the waiter’s forehead. Powwwww.

Hearing people might be shocked by this, but Deaf people laugh uproariously, cathartically.

“Damn! All I did was say one word!” I say to my friends. “But why do you do that?” they ask, looking at me with consternation and pity. “Why don’t you just turn your voice off, for once and for all?” they say.

Hearing people would probably think I’m the lucky one ― the success story ― because I can talk. But I agree with my friends.

  —  I’m Deaf And I Have ‘Perfect’ Speech. Here’s Why It’s Actually A Nightmare.

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