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Here is a round-up of all eight of the free digital brush packs that I’ve released so far for Photoshop CC, Clip Studio Paint, and Procreate!

You can download them on this page (click) Type in “0″ for a free download or tip any amount you so desire!

All my brush packs are totally free (tips optional but always very appreciated!) and can be used freely in any work, including commercial work that you profit off of, with no license or credit required. My goal with these brush packs is to make digital painting feel more achievable and accessible - especially painting environments, something I now LOVE but that used to intimidate me, & felt much more approachable with the right tools! Many of the packs also come with tutorial video content. I hope you enjoy!

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I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Build an affinity group. An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously on direct actions or other projects. Affinity groups generally consist of like minded people who come together to get something done. If you already have an affinity group, link and cluster those groups!

Skill up. Delinking from capitalism and colonial apparatuses requires us to learn how to do things for ourselves and each other beyond buying, selling, working, or asking the state to help us. From self and collective defense, to gardening, building bikes, unschooling, and caring for each other- we can learn a skill and share a skill. We can change how we value skills and dismantle hierarchies of class and ableism.

Establish and practice good security culture. Security culture is necessary to survive state repression. We can stop a lot of infiltration and disinformation in its tracks by improving our ways of communicating and navigating conflict. We can still be horizontal and transparent without sacrificing security and safety.

Practice transformative and restorative justice. Strong communities make police and prisons obsolete. We can change our culture to prevent violence and abuse. We can build up our capacities to confront and resolve conflicts. We can strengthen our ties and detoxify our relationships so harm has no space to grow in our communities.

Mutual Aid. Start a mutual aid group and provide necessary support to those who are in need. Mutual aid organizing can ensure our communities are not dependent on corporations and the state. Shift your use of resources to things you can grow and make or procure from others in resistance. Build networks of aid and resources beyond capitalism.

Mutual defense. From arms training to street tactics to bystander interventions and safety teams, we need to have the skills and resources to defend our communities from fascist attacks on our people, non-human beings, and lands.

Build and sustain conflict infrastructure. Conflict Infrastructure is any structure we organize helps us be more effective in our fights. This is infrastructure that goes beyond solely providing awareness and services and instead builds our capacity to wage actual resistance. From community gardens and collectively coordinated farms to infoshops and independent media/communications.

Open squats for unsheltered folx. Rent is theft. Private property is colonial violence upon the land. Abolish rent and private property. Rematriate lands to original caretakers. Create spaces to live beyond landlords.

Defend and reclaim ancestral lands. Because #landback means ending colonial occupation and restoring Indigenous stewardship of our ancestral lands. Regenerate our sacred relations, and all that entails spiritually and materially, with our original homelands. Liberate the sacred.

Reparations. Seize what has been stolen from Black and Indigenous Peoples and liberate it back.  Radical redistribution is necessary.

Shut shit down. Intervene in critical infrastructure at the points where capitalism and colonialism are at their most vulnerable. Seize the streets, factories, ports, fracking pads, pipelines, power stations, smash the borders, be smart and be creative! It’s also an effective way to target those industries perpetuating climate change.

Be fiercely intersectional. ‘Cause we’re not taking those old shitty behaviors with us. Fuck anti-blackness, fuck orientalism, fuck islamaphobia, fuck anti-semitism, fuck transphobia, fuck heteropatriarchy, fuck white supremacy, fuck imperialism, fuck ableism, fuck hierarchy, fuck racism, fuck citizenship, fuck privilege, fuck everything fucked up!

Practice Radical Self & Collective Care. To remain dangerous to power we must care for ourselves and each other. Learn common triggers and how to communicate without being fucked up. Learn to communicate your needs, boundaries, and wants effectively and nontoxicly – remember that folks in the struggle and resistance have the hardest time accessing resources for mental and spiritual care. Movement work can be unsustainable to those with many experiences of settler policing and violence triggers – find ways to communicate and negotiate group norms and boundaries that accommodate peoples’ needs if reasonable. Identify toxic communication patterns and learn / create ways to dismantle them and communicate in more healthy and less harmful ways.Be honest about your limitations and care for yourself and each other. The christianized, capitalized colonial state has taught us to never rest or heal. Reject any attempts at coercing people to go beyond their limits. Radical self-care keeps us safe and invulnerable when consistently engaging in agitating governability by the state.

Make everything accessible for everyone. Reject ableism and objectification of our bodies and lives, establish community care networks with people equipped to provide first aid and care support to a full spectrum of needs. Challenge ableism in our language, how we organize, and how we value each other. We are all enough.

Abolish Rape Culture. Study rape and rape culture and how it relates to the desecration of sacred lands. Transform our culture and practices around dating, humor, relationships, sexuality, consent, parties, sex labor, and play to abolish rape culture. Hold mactivists, rapists, abusers, opportunists, and creeps accountable. Center consent and healthy relationships in everything we do everywhere.

Spread radical and militant joy. We can fuck shit up while we dance, sing, party, laugh, play, wonder, have deep conversations, tell stories, make art, make love, make magic, make brilliance, make awesomeness, and have fun.

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PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin or that Babel was too heavy-handed just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here

Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn

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The Times Quotes Israeli and American Sources More than Three Times as Often as Palestinians - The New York War Crimes (published March 2024)

best read in combination with:

Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows - The Intercept (published January 2024)

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Already mentioned it in another post two days ago, but it bears repeating: if you use social media primarily as a way to write out your ideas to the world, maybe making your own website on neocities could be your thing.

But I don't know how to code!

Here are two templates you can basically copy/paste and use directly as is. Personally I started with Zonelets and learned html+css from cannibalizing bits of its code & improving upon it.

But I don't know what I can put on it!

Frankly you can just make it your personal blog and post stuff like "ate spaghetti today :)" but if you're here for fandom stuff I really recommend this zine as a list of fansites you can do, from ship shrine to meta analysis to fanlistings.

But how can people keep up with what I post?

Add an rss feed. That way, people will get notified when you post new shit.

But will people be able to interact with me?

Sure! You can add a guestbook for that. Or an askbox. Or just chuck in a duplicate email you made.

I swear it's easier than you think! Just give it a try, what do you have to lose? :)

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I am really enjoying reading about the University of Wisconsin chancellor fired after the university discovered all the pornos he and his wife were making.

Generally when someone has a public sex scandal (or “scandal”) you get the standard “I am sorry. I regret it. It was a misjudgment on my part” but this guy is like “fuck you I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t violate conflict of interest clauses, you are violating my first amendment rights”

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Guys guys consider; we get high and make out and then I go down on you till your legs shake and you hold my head down and then beg me to breed your boypussy

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Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

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the dubious philosophy of salmon

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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hi i'm getting top surgery this coming summer and i wanted to ask if there's anything specific you would recommend during the healing process? it'll be double incision if that matters :) - 💗 anon

Yeoooo! Congratulations that's amazing!! I'm made up for you!

Hospital

If you're gonna have drains, bring lanyards! Clipping your drains onto those and carrying them around your neck is so helpful. They get so annoying but do such an amazing job. I had mine for 9 days 😅

Honestly trust your instincts, if you feel like something is too sore or smells weird or looks funky, reach out to your surgeon or nursing team. You're presumably paying them a huge sum of money for their care, make use of it! The worst case scenario they reply and say "no that looks good" in which case you can just breathe a sigh of relief. (this applies to post hospital too! Send them pictures!)

Bring plenty of entertainment for hospital in case you can't sleep but also sleep as much as you like. The number of times I felt grim and a wee nap just sorted me right out was innumerable.

Bring short sleeve button down pj's because you will be sweltered and it's easy to get more warm than less.

Sleep sitting up because getting up from lying flat is so hard when you can't use your arms 😅 I had a few pillows stacked and then a V pillow to pen me in. I still sleep kinda sitting up now, I actually like it!

Advocate for yourself - ask for antisickness in your anesthesia, ask for more painkillers if you need them, ask for more water or food or whatever. You're not being annoying, you're looking out for yourself.

Getting home

Keep on top of your painkillers, delegate that responsibility to someone else if possible because if you're anything like me, you'll lose track and end up skipping doses the moment you're alone.

Get someone to lift down anything on high shelves in your house that you need. If its above your shoulder, you shouldn't be reaching it. Someone left his tea and coffee and did some pretty risky manoeuvres with a chair to get them down 👀

Prepare your space before you go, nice fresh bedsheets, no mess to stress you out etc. If you have any heavy doors in your house get someone to prop them open, it's honestly easier 😂

Go for wee walks if you're up for it. Pay attention to your body. Don't push yourself too hard.

Do fun relaxing things that let you sit in one spot for a long time 😁

Have healthy easy meals on hand like soup and baked potato and beans and anything you can just stick in the microwave or the oven without a heavy pot! Or order in, or get someone to cooking for you!

Post op binders can chafe your skin something shocking, you can wear a tshirt Under it to protect your skin. This was the most painful part of my recovery tbh, constantly bruised in the oxters 😂

Also, be mentally prepared that you might not like your new shape at some points in the process. It is normal to feel strange in a new body even if it does feel like home! I had a few days where I was struggled with thinking the super tight binder and how my stomach looked made me look like Roger from American Dad and I was like oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. But it's just new proportions that your mind has to get used to. So be kind to yourself and honestly let those thoughts out in a safe way. Either write them down or tell someone you trust won't make you feel like shit about them, don't let them roll around in your head getting bigger and bigger.

Anyway, I'll come back an add to this later if I can think of anything but folk can add in the comments maybe! Most importantly, congratulations on your surgery, good luck and hooray!

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