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Aphrodite from Hades series

#hades game #supergiant games #vanishlily #aphrodite areia #nice

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#sailor moon #makoto kino #ami mizuno #Makoami #wow do i have opinions right now

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This reminded me of @mishacakes's Eldritch Darling comic (go read it, it's adorable), which does in fact have a pigeon that is also an angel of the many eyes and wings variety.

The post about angel wings not needing to be purely white to be beautiful reminded me of a picture I LOVE

This pigeon is an angel

#my additions #mishacakes #eldritch darling #angels #pigeons #angelic pigeons

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Not a counterpoint to the above, but maybe a different take on it.

@jelloapocalypse actually had a segment on this sort of thing in his podcast "tip of the tongue" that he did a short while back on youtube (just go watch it, ESPECIALLY if you have any artistic projects you've had tumbling around in the back of your head for a few years, it is HIGHLY INFORMATIVE). He said it better, but long story short, A LOT OF SEEMINGLY RANDOM HOBBIES CAN COUNT AS EXPERIENCE.

You helped run a theatre club back in high school or college? Great! You have experience in leadership positions, communication, and dealing with unexpected catastrophes. You've GMed an adventure/campaign with any amount of homebrew content? Great! You have experience in multitasking, group management, communication, improvisation, and probably in Excel or some other spreadsheeting & writing programs. You've been practicing a martial art/sport for the past 10+ years? Great! You have experience dealing with and possibly de-escalating high-pressure situations, you have no problem committing to long-term projects/endeavours, and--if you've helped out in any kind of coaching capacity--guess what, you have experience in leadership positions and communication, and potentially in running a business as well.

Part of me, as an artistic, creative person, despises converting my past life experience into business speak buzzwords, and I know I'm not the only person on this site who thinks that way, but it can really help you not only get a job, but look at facets of your life from a different perspective, and even understand yourself and others better.

And that is always a worthwhile thing to do.

Sharing this because it is relevant to ANY industry, but I feel there are a lot of art kids out there who are also listening to that voice in our heads that we need to ignore. Do the thing. Apply for the job. Even if your work isn’t up to someone’s standards. If you keep applying and improving over time, someone is gonna notice. Someone is gonna remember and that becomes a separate portfolio/resume all its own.

#life in general #applying for jobs #jelloapocalypse #tip of the tongue podcast #if you are any kind of creative #just go watch it

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@orcboxer, could you please elaborate? I love dragons, and their reputation for tastelessness is unfortunate; how can I tell when they're at their tastiest?

If you've ever been disappointed by dragonfruit, especially if you felt like it tasted like nothing, then I'm like 90% sure you had unripe dragonfruit, which tastes like nothing. There's a small window of time where it tastes amazing. You must have the patience of a hunter. Do not strike until your prey is at its most delicious

#food #fruit #dragonfruit

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

#the current catastrophe #defenses against ai art #nightshade #glaze #University of Chicago

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sometimes you just gotta draw huge ears braless elf

#oc art #fantasy #elves #I deeply respect how the bralessness actually adds to the characterization here #as opposed to being used solely for titillation #pun intended

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Snow Cone Featuring Quiver and Huang Feng, Guest Starring: Malberrybush's Malyna, and TheWonko's Prysm! Also Green is there. And some robot guy. Bonus panel under the jump

#oc art #spicymancer #quiver #superheroes #nsfw

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I’ve been obsessed with this tweet for a while so I’m posting the it to tumblr to inflict it on more people

#anime #dungeon meshi #german dub #I have no idea why this is funnier

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I know most people see their pets as their children but my cat is my roommate. The fact that she's an adult is so much funnier to me. She's had a rich, troubled kitty life, being a disabled homeless girl who got pregnant and was taken into a shelter and lived as a teenage mom raising her five kids. Watched her babies grow up, find themselves in adulthood and move on to their new families. A young empty nester, no husband, no property, no credit, no job, and social anxiety. She finally finds a roommate willing to pay rent, a young lesbian she can trust and become friends with. Except she has to deal with me baby talking her and scheduling her meals and giving her unwanted kisses on her little soft kitty head

#life #cats

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#sex #lotr #was not expecting to have these 2 tags together on the same post #but here we are

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There's a huge difference between redemption and humanization. I feel like a lot of "redemption arcs" aren't actually redemption at all, they're just attempts to humanize the villain so that they seem multi-faceted, but people read them as "redemption arcs" and think that that is meant to justify all the evil they've done before and negate whatever made them a villain in the first place. I think true "redemption arcs" are actually kind of rare because true redemption would take making the villain acknowledge their crimes, reevaluate their actions, actively choose to do better, and then proceed to make amends and become a better person, and that would this take more time than most stories are allowed to give their characters.

I've also seen people argue that a character has to be poised for redemption from the jump for it to work because once a character does something "too bad", they can't be redeemed. I completely disagree because redemption isn't justification or forgiveness, so no matter how horrible a character's actions, they could choose to become better, but because a lot of people (including writers) think redemption means "erasing the character's flaws and making it so they did nothing wrong ever", a lot of attempted "redemption arcs" just end up erasing a character's entire history or justifying every evil thing they've ever done. And yeah, in these cases, the only way to make a character go from a villain to a perfect cinnamon roll with no flaws *is* to have been planning it from the beginning and make sure they never do anything that can't be explained away later.

TLDR: real redemption arcs require a lot of self-awareness, patience, and growth, which are things that are rarely actually allocated to villains, and that's why real redemption arcs almost never get executed. The reason people think redemption arcs are overdone is because there are so many attempts to either humanize a villain that get misconstrued as redemption or attempts to blatantly erase who a character was in the name of "redemption", which is really just poor character development.

#writing #character arcs #redemption arcs #yup

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Okay. So. You know how some people want to finish exterminating all large predatory mammals so they have less competition for deer and so they don't occasionally lose livestock? And you know how native deer species in North America have been hit increasingly hard with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the past couple of decades due to overpopulation thanks to the eradication of large predatory mammals that normally keep them in check?

We already have evidence that reintroducing predatory mammals to their native ranges not only knocks deer populations back to a healthier level, and now we've discovered that apparently the digestive systems of cougars and bobcats are lethal to CWD prions. Prions are among the most difficult pathogens* to eliminate; you have to heat them up to about 1,800 degrees F in order to thoroughly destroy them. And prion diseases like CWD are almost universally fatal.

So to find that these wild cats can safely eat CWD-infected animals AND significantly reduce the chances that the prions will be spread to other deer is a pretty big deal, especially since some other animals like coyotes and crows do pass prions undamaged through their digestive systems. And it's just one more example of why an ecosystem needs all of the species that have evolved in it over thousands of years, not just those are convenient for humans to have around. The spread of CWD is directly related to the overpopulation of deer, and it's likely that continuing to reintroduce large predatory mammals to their native range will help quell this awful prion disease.

#nature #ecology #disease #CWD #chronic wasting disease #felids can digest CWD prions #it's almost like we shouldn't dicker with this stuff #bc nature already has most of our problems figured out for us

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Make public transportation free.

#current issues #public transportation #make public transportation free

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Scarlet-rumped Trogon (Harpactes duvaucelii), male, family Trogonidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by ardpixtures

#nature #animals #birds #the scarlet-rumped trogon #grumpy birb

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My favorite part about this particular dunmeshi lore is that if I see someone draw a character skinnier than I think they should be, I can be like ah ☝️😌 they must've died like 3 times before this picture and they'll regain the weight after this

#anime #worldbuilding #dungeon meshi #interesting idea

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royai genderbend made to appeal 2 me

#fullmetal alchemist #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #rey mustang #reece hawkeye #gendebend #cute