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I got an ask from someone who felt timid about drawing curlier hair and wanted some advice! This is by NO means exhaustive and is mostly just my thought process for my own stylization. There are tons of resources for drawing more textured hair, so for this I just wanted to focus on curls. hope it helps!

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I just want to remind everyone that is your civic duty to jailbreak your Nintendo consoles and pirate every Nintendo property until the heat death of the universe.

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Commission post!!!!!

hi i am doing commissions,

character rendered: $75

simple shading: $60

Dm me with references of a character and description of the pose/thing you want me to draw, payment through paypal only.

i am only taking 3 slots so i can manage it, meow...

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In case anyone thinks this type of sanism doesn't happen on Tumblr

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No matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that's so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you'll say "Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you're right" and that doesn't mean you were "morally toxic" before, it means you're a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

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ooooh you want to buy a mini cat from me sooo bad... they're so cheap

i'm selling mini cats now! they're cheap, quick and if you buy 4 you get 1 more for free! so what are you waiting for? message me here or via discord (cheerclaw). reblogs r appreciated

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a character type i'm really into is the ex-something - exile, obviously, but also anyone who used to have a role that was also an identity and now does not: ex-mage, ex-assassin, ex-monarch --

it's about loss of identity and recreation of identity; it's about how being an ex-something is impossible because the ghost of what you were haunts what you are now; it's about reshaping the way you see the world and yourself in the world.

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chewing on drywall thinking about how many people never pursue phalloplasty because of transphobic misinformation about functionality & appearance & the belief that anything less than the Platonic Ideal of Human Penis is completely worthless

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I wish there were more love stories other than romantic ones. The other kinds of love are important too. For family, for friends, for a place or object, for a stranger, for the world you live in, for an experience, for a memory.. Ykno. Love

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Hi, I'm working on a series but I'm having trouble mapping it out. Any tips?

Hello! I have a few:

Don’t outline every single event before you even start writing the first draft of the first book. You’ll burn yourself out. Know when it’s time to leave some planning for later.

Focus more on how to build up multiple different paths for your story from the beginning. If you only plan for your story going one way and ending one way, your readers will find your story predictable and boring. Leave some mystery for yourself.

Plan the major turning points in the series, and create smaller scenes and subplots that will build up those major events. 

Plan visually. Create a literal picture of your plot and its progression. I recommend making story maps. I make a story map for every single one of my stories and it is insane how much seeing my story physically laid out in front of me helps. Even if you think it won’t do you any good, there’s no harm in trying. 

Keep track of every location, every character, every event, every world detail, etc. and keep that information handy for when you’re planning or writing. When you map out a series, you can easily forget details you’ve already figured out or lose track of characters, etc. You want to know your story inside out, so make that easier for yourself.

Don’t forget to plan your character development. Be intentional with the scenes you plan to reveal character development in. 

Hope this helps! 

x Kate

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An old soft proofing tutorial of mine that I’ve been getting requests to post again.

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Hey guys, kind of struggling right now. Trying to make ends meet between two jobs. I'm running super late on rent and need some help. I have 5 slots open right now, I can finish your commissions within a week of ordering!

Commission form:

Please boost!

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I’m allowed to be lazy. Disabled or not. Laziness isn’t an inherently bad thing y’all just too caught up in hyper capitalist hustle culture to care. I don’t owe you productivity. I’m allowed to rest.

My rest is radical.

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As someone who works w animals “animals are not mindless automatons, they actually do have feelings and individuality and are capable of feeling acute physical and emotional pain and of forming deep attachments with other animals and people” and “animals are not human infants and have a limited capacity to communicate with humans so you have to familiarize yourself with their boundaries bc if they feel threatened or overstimulated they will fall back on their basic instincts and if you fuck around you are going to find out” are statements that can and should coexist