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me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

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I keep changing my lineart sorry

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I would just like to talk about how obsessed Gerald and Mr Birling are with each other. It’s not even romantic. It doesn’t feel like friendship. It’s like a very very very awkward father in law obsessed with sons-‘son I always wanted’ relationship. They’re both polishing each other’s shoes and after realising this I can’t read the play without giggling to myself.

It’s like watching one of those shows or movies from the nineties-early 2000s where there’s a popular girl and a best friend right behind her who just nods and makes faces at the protagonist as she goes off. Except they switch roles interchangeably for the sake of who can put down Sheila or the inspector the most.

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gavin troy with a sword 🥰🥰

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About George of Clarence, why did he betray Warwick again? Although Warwick could not guarantee that he would become king, Edward IV of England had a son at that time, and he had betrayed his brother twice.

I think it's the classic instance of the frog jumping out of increasingly hot water before he's cooked.

Edward IV having a son wasn't that important considering it was always a risk and child mortality was high at the time. So it was always, and was still in 1471, a roll of dice whether Edward IV would have a viable son. He was third in line in both cases and Edward of Westminster could also have children.

It was a bad plan for Clarence, and he realized it progressively. Joining the Lancastrians means joining people who would never trust him or would hate him. It means joining people he hates. Margaret did kill his father, and the Cliffords did kill his brother. Although he never fought the Lancastrians, he would still inherit those old feuds. Plus, his lands were threatened. Richmond could be demanded by Henry Tudor; his Midlands estates by the De Veres; and his Southwest estates by the Beauforts. Also, he would have to share the Neville inheritance with no less than the prince of Wales. That would foreshadow bad arbitration in case of any quarrel relating the inheritance. Warwick was conscious of that and granted him other lordships, kept him close and made sure he was third in line for the throne after the House of Lancaster. He could also gamble on the fact that his grants came from Elizabeth Woodville's dower, which would be lost if Edward IV was restored.

Still, I think that old hatred mattered more to Clarence. I think he might also be reluctant to throw his entire family down the bus and not just Edward IV, if Henry VI lost. Edward IV managing to get south, take London and the king probably convinced him that Edward had a good shot and he changed his side then.

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I’m in Poland and they keep showing this pizza advert and it’s amazing.

It starts off with rival pizza makers who argue over who has the best pizza and are driving the customers away

Then there’s this crazy old lady who yells at them from a window to quit it (because where else do you yell business advice from?)

So they work together and do some obvious flirting via pizza montage

And the old lady is all like “just kiss already”

Then they create a pizza together, combine restaurants and live happily ever after with the crazy window lady

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Nothing but respect for MY royal-uncle-boy-king-regency (John of Bedford and Humphrey of Gloucester).

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I've read a post the other week that got me thinking on why the fandom seems more vocal about criticizing Marinette for keeping certain secrets from Adrien than Felix or Nathalie or Kagami. Like, they all do deserve a bombastic side eye for doing it, but why fixate on Marinette in particular? I can't speak for everyone, but to me, it comes down to these reasons:

Season 4's LadyNoir conflict happened because of keeping secrets. Seeing Marinette do the same mistakes that strained her partnership with Chat Noir... it was frustrating the first time, and much harder to have patience with the second time. She should know better by now. The others did not have such an arc besides Kagami. It's so frustrating watching her commit the same mistake.

Not gonna expect better from Nathalie or Felix. They were former antagonists who treated Adrien like crap. They never apologized because Adrien keeps forgiving them. Why would I expect any better from them now?

Uncomfortable parallels with Gabriel. More than Nathalie, more than Felix, Marinette has the most sway to Adrien at the moment. This secret makes it feels like Gabriel simply passed on Adrien's leash onto Marinette - giving her the knowledge on how to control Adrien if she ever feels like it. While she may never do that, it's still uncomfortable that she knows at all and will sit on this secret for who knows how long.

And yet, despite the Gabriel parallels, there's this lack of personal stakes outside her romance with Adrien. No really. Like, Nathalie, she loved Gabriel and probably Emilie to the point she committed crimes or assissted Gabriel in committing crimes for it. Felix is his nephew and is a senti himself, his life was defined by the senti shit. Kagami is also a senti, and knowing Felix is a senti, it's inevitable she will know Adrien's a senti too. Them knowing the secrets at all felt like a given even though it pisses me off they're not telling Adrien shit. But Marinette? She had no right to this. Why the heck does she get to keep this secret? Yet Adrien?? Doesn't???

Look, I get this isn't a bomb she can just casually pass on to Adrien. This shit is heavy and it shouldn't have fallen into Marinette's hands in the first place. Ideally, Adrien should've just been there in the final battle and found out that way or something else. Heck, Nathalie, Felix and Kagami aren't on a higher moral ground because of this. They should tell Adrien, but too bad this is the Marinette show where Marinette has to have her thumb poked into everyone's pies. Adrien just isn't meant to have anything for himself, not secrets, not friends, not power, absolutely nothing. Most of all, I feel this is why Marinette gets most of the heat out of everyone in on the secret:

Marinette is supposed to be a hero.

Heroes are supposed to be better than this - better than morally questionable mother figures and backstabbing wildcard cousins and exgirlfriends and most especially abusive fathers.

It hurts the most to see her go down anywhere near their levels. I expected better from her.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

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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That was beautiful. I’ll be reblogging that every now and then

follow forthefuns for more funny stuff

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A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.

There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 

Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these. Enjoy your lessons!

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Are you Lancaster

1) This is indeed @whiteswanoflancaster — I just have a very strange blogging setup going on that I haven’t bothered to do anything about yet😭

2) a little self-consciously, but yeah! I find it rather strange to take sides in a 550–year–old conflict, but despite that I’d say I support the Lancastrians! This is because:

- While Richard of York was undoubtedly more competent than Henry VI — and while I’d even argue he didn’t want to take the crown — there’s no getting around either the fact that he did or the fact that, in doing so, he completely destabilised the system of government in England, which probably wasn’t a price worth paying — many historians argue that Edward IV and Henry VII introduced a “new monarchy,” their financial systems and tight control of the nobility actually resembled the systems of earlier rulers such as Edward III, and weren’t all that new at all! There isn’t really a huge difference between Edward IV giving land to his brothers and Edward III giving it to his sons, in my opinion — and so the Wars of the Roses and by extension York’s decision to disrupt the system by claiming the crown led to politics taking a bit of a “backward step” towards a less efficient system. Without that disruption, England might have been better able to flourish in the sixteenth century — and there’d have been far less death.

- Their story is just appealing in my opinion! There’s a certain romance to it that caught my attention and refused to let go — and it’s also there at the end of the wars, with Henry Tudor and his allies standing for Lancaster. It’s a little bit shallow, but I do love a good story — and this is certainly that!

- Margaret of Anjou was very, very cool and deserves to be more widely known about and appreciated. Enough said 😭