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#literally just stomping on that ant with my boot im sorry #if i had to be naked and without any tools then i guess even the ant could defeat me though #the human condition is an emarrassment #tw bugs

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Medieval encaustic floor tiles - Photo - rosbyamshaw

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a kinetic sculpture by Tim Lewis

I know it’s not pottery but it is sculptural and holy shit

it’s beautiful and disturbing and I feel like I could stumble across this creature in a forest and never be seen again???

#oh my. god?????

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Things from my childhood kids today might know nothing about.

#not all of these apply to me but THE ONE ABOUT MISSING THE LAST EPISODE GOD #unearthed memory from twenty lifetimes ago #literally never knew how doremi ended i cant believe we have such ease of access to media thanks to the internet now #i should go watch the last episode of doremi

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part of the reason why the whole "men/boys are taught not to cry!!!! its so sad for them!!!!" thing bothers me is because so many women i know went through childhood and young adult life staring into the middle distance in order to be taken seriously as people. its devastating to learn as a child that crying is associated with "femininity" weakness and hysteria and to witness all around you how these farcical patriarchal claims are used to dismiss women's distress. different human emotions being assigned specific genders and "feminine emotions" specifically being belittled and degraded can actually make women recoil from them in order to be treated like a person, isn't that funny

#this post and all the stories in the notes :) yeah #literally the story of my life

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A huge crowd has formed outside of Columbia University demanding NYPD 'let the students go'

If you're in New York right now, please go to Columbia and join them

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i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

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Do you have any tips with drawing bigger bodies? You make them look so real and heavy at the same time!

hello ty! this ask spurned me on to draw a whole little guide, because i want to give out some actionable advice besides just "practice lots and draw from reference <3".

so here's something i do: often it's difficult to find the pose you need so you end up referencing a thin person. however even though it's technically correct cos our skeletons are the same just drawing a thin person with a fatter person on top often results in an awkward pose that no understanding of skin folds and whatnot could fix

so you basically gotta consider the way a fat person's body naturally moves and sits right from the sketching stage even if it means deviating from your reference. a good example being how it's often more comfortable for to spread the legs a little to accommodate the belly. fetal position leaning forward in a chair etc

and in this pose the elbows can't squish up as close to the ribcage, you need to space the legs further apart, all that

taking this into account. compare this one to the first image. i crammed in a bunch of random details i think are cool too

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message to cooking/cleaning hacks posters. the task does not become easier or quicker just because you used the words "throw" and "toss" instead of the real instructions >:(

#ultraspecific pet peeve but im tired of the lies /lh #the word ''just'' also does such heavy lifting in these contexts

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Did you know? Tumblr DOES have a post length limit. Strangely, though, it's based on how many blocks of text you have. Supposedly this implies that you can have any length post so long as it's one block of text? Very strange, will have to investigate further.

#ive accidentally hit character limit copy-pasting images wrong so they got read as text

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my weirdest hobby is re-creating memes in html so i have a crisp, HQ version of them to use and edit whenever i need

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

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cursed with "do you still like me?" "are you mad at me?" "did i do something wrong?" disorder

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