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found my new favorite tiktok

#my favorite #my favs #my fav #my faves

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this literally made me laugh so hard it shooke my BRAIN

#my favorite #my favorites #my favs #my fav #my faves

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I’m making a call-out post on my Tumblr dot com.

@worddevourer is a bitch ass mothertrucker!

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“Attempted to take a cute video of my cats licking each other, and then this happened…” 

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#video #funny video #my favorites #my faves #my favs #my fav

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Scene II ‘Finn’ - complete

#Star Wars #Ben solo #Finn

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For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing

The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.

It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.

There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well. 

Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.

There are three features the free version doesn’t have:

Can’t save OBJ files for export

Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)

It can’t load saved files

The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you. 

But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:

There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.

Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:

The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design. 

So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!

The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)

Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.

The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers. 

And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like. 

In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.

Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.

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Dividing up eras of tumblr

It just occurred to me that I kind of arbitrarily started referring to “first age” “second age” and “third age” tumblr one day because I realized during a discord conversation that it really can be divided up very effectively between a couple major events that changed the fabric of the site’s culture almost overnight, but nobody but me ever refers to them that way, so by way of explanation:

First Age: everything before Dashcon. Art communities were still largely thriving on the internet and social media still mostly existed out from under corporate monopolies, and people were just wildly guessing about how to use it. We were in the last hurrah of the internet wild west and lolcats were still a thing. Tumblr was just a fun and quirky place, we were blissfully writing unironic posts about tumblr university and fandom vs hipster and the “I like your shoelaces” thing, Hank Green wrote a goddamn song about tumblr, we were all like Adam and Eve dwelling in Eden unaware of their sin. Potterheads grab your wands.

Second Age: post-Dashcon, but pre-Purge. We have all eaten the fruit of knowledge and there is no going back. There are no more secret code or tumblr university posts because everyone knows firsthand how badly that would go. Fandom culture is forever changed. We are now aware that we live in a hellish cringetopia but have absolutely no plans to leave, because by now a combination of monopolies and a sneaky rise in purity culture has the internet by the throat (but not in a kinky way, that would scare off advertisers) so there aren’t a lot of better options, and at least our relatives can’t find us here. A lot of artists now have their primary presence on tumblr. The lax policies regarding nsfw and controversial content mean it’s a good space for queer creators and sex workers despite the many shortcomings we’re now aware of. The porn bot plague really kicks into full gear to the point that every time our follower counts go up we’re ready with the block/spam button like the uncles from Secondhand Lions picking off traveling salesmen. The drama starts to get really fucking weird, with classics such as the human pet guy and the bone-stealing witch.

Third Age: post-Purge. After changing corporate hands a few times, the drive to make the internet safe for our Good Christian Advertisers and hypothetical children has finally reached us, and brings with it TERFs, purity culture, and the Porn Ban, which was allegedly a solution to the porn bots except that it clearly wasn’t at all. The large community of sex workers and artists that was keeping tumblr afloat as anything resembling a viable social media site have made a mass exodus and a lot of the rest of the userbase followed them, mostly to twitter or a few doomed attempts at tumblr copycats. Tumblr is now a mad max clown car full of people too stubborn to pack up and leave for a functional website. It’s a post-apocalyptic wasteland whose only remaining merit is that even without the ability to post porn we’ve managed to make ourselves such a complete anathema to advertisers that we’re mostly just left alone. We’re all just tired. Some people still run art blogs but nobody outside of tumblr ever sees them.  Literally all we have going for us is that we’re not twitter and we have +5 resistance to capitalism. And Xkit.

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One of the reasons I grew to kind of dislike veganism as an ideology, because that’s how a lot of vegans treat it like: an ideology. I’ve had wonderful vegan and vegetarian friends who were understanding but then I’ve also had some very nasty experiences with some people who tried to shame me for not agreeing to try that lifestyle when it’s literally impossible for me to do so due to allergies. Deathly allergies. As in, I eat one sesame seed and I need my Epipen kind of allergies.

Which, if anyone has a dietary restriction, you know how much that sucks. Because you constantly are made to feel guilty or judged as being ungrateful or picky with food, and at least in my country a lot of servers, waiters and cooks will treat you as an entitled costumer and be very rude about it.

So yeah, just don’t shame people with dietary restrictions please, wether they are vegan or not, it doesn’t matter, just don’t be a jerk.

Vegans who are vegan because “but the earth” and “but the farmers” and “but the animals” and all this other hoity-toity nonsense and not just because they can’t or don’t wanna eat meat/animal products make me fuckin tired man.

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this looks amazing!

The Final Steps | Part 1

Closure! Closure for Rey, for Finn, for Rose…and yes, even for Ben. Because while I enjoyed Rise of Skywalker, I was seriously left wanting. So strap in for a canon-compliant epilogue that’s basically the length of another movie. More parts coming. Part 1 continued under the cut.

Keep reading

#the final steps #star wars #tros fix it #reylo #star wars comic #tros epilogue #rey skywalker #rey #luke skywalker #force diad

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you are fucked boy

A bit late, but I’m struggling with Darth Real Life (and losing). So here it is - a preview of part IX. Once again thank you for your support and patience. And for all warm comments!

#kylo ren #benrey #ben solo #star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #star wars c3po #c3p0 #rey #reylo

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couple goals

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By my massive cock

#I like chaotic and evil twinks ok? #it's my one weakness #bna #brand new animal

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fuck-

say it ain’t so

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this is it

this is the entire plot of the series

A grumpy man adopting a daughter who is entirely the opposite of the personality spectrum is the only kind of story I care about !!!!!

#brand new animal #bna #oogami #michiru kagemori

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I do

reblog to let him know that you love him

#I love raccoon dogs #raccoon dog

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