#I hope that helps and is clear enough!!

[pennumbra]

hiii i so love all your art!!! the brushes you use make your drawings so satisfying and i want to touch them. i wanted to ask you how you go about making outfit sets. like not designing the outfits themselves, but what do you do for the character base? how does that work? ive always wondered because id love to make outfit sets without redrawing the character every time, but is it possible to make a base without having to draw the character wearing... nothing? loL. how do you do it?

Hi there, thank you so much!! I probably overrely on them tbh, but I do love me a good chalky brush, and it makes me so happy that someone notices/enjoys the effect and texture. C:

I've tried to explain how I go abt making outfit sets! Hopefully I didn't overcomplicate my answer here- I feel like it really is a simple process! Just duplicating layers and reusing base elements.

1. Sketch the base! Technically the character isn't wearing anything at this stage? But it's like a doll or a mannequin, you just need the basic forms as a good foundation to draw the clothes on top of.

2. Sketch different outfits, hairstyles, etc!

3. Line only the parts that will be consistent and stay mostly the same in each outfit- usually the face, hands, hair, maybe feet. If your character wore the same boots in each outfit, or their forearms always showed, you'd line them here too- it's anything you don't need to redraw.

This will be the 'base' that you copy/paste and reuse in each new outfit, sometimes with slight edits. Here are some more examples with the base lines (black), outfit lines (pink), and the base + outfit sketches (blue).

4. Finish lining the outfit! C:

I like to work with my layers in groups, one per outfit. Each group will have the outfit sketch, a copy of the base line art, and then the lines and colors for that outfit. A file will eventually end up looking something like this:

I will also usually color the face on its own layer and duplicate it for consistency/time.

I suppose the other approach would be to draw a finished base body, and then draw the outfits on separate layers on top- like an actual dress up game or a paper doll. And that would work! I just don't do it that way b/c I feel it's more time-consuming + tricky to get the edges and overlapping bits to actually line up.

#I hope that helps and is clear enough!! #outfits are a lot of fun and I hope you make some! C: #ask #text post #(my actual files are never that clean LMAO) #(it'll end up being groups within groups and a bunch of random layers but... for the purpose of demonstration : p )

[hattiestgal]

If you don't mind my asking, how do you go about drawing fat? :3

JUST THE EXCUSE I WAS LOOKING FOR

So, for me personally, a lot of the time when I draw fat characters, I'm not looking to specifically capture the specifics of fat as much as the feel of fat. Bulkier, rounder shapes in the right places that has a feeling of weight to em! A lot of that is intuition and simplification at this point, but it all works on the same frame as just any ol' person. Like take this-

For example. This is the basis for any body shape, not just the more average one that it may imply. Sure- it can be that average body shape:

But also a fat one too!

And a big part of that is knowing where fat usually tends to bunch up on the body, so lets take a look piece by piece! (Please keep in mind this is very simplified, and not completely precise in some parts)

THE FACE: Cheeks (in purple) and especially the chin (in light blue) are the places where a lot of the fat is gonna wanna gather and round out on your face! Additionally, theres a small pocket of fat beneath the cranium on the backside of your head. It's small, but it is there. I believe fat can build up elsewhere like the bridge of your nose and forehead, but generally speaking, you're gonna have a whole lot more buildup in other places first.

THE TORSO: A lot of the fat built up on the torso is gonna be sent to your tummy. More cushioning for vital organs, mostly out of the way, it just makes sense. Additionally, the lower backs fat builds up and joins with a patch of fat on your sides that forms what is typically referred to as the love handles to make that double belly look. Along with this, the immediate next target for the torso is the breasts, followed by the upper back!

THE ARMS: For this limb, a VERY notable amount of the fat present builds up on the tricep and bicep areas, lessening once you get towards the flexor and extensor areas. You can almost think of the arm as a sort of triangular shape, wide side starting from the shoulder and tapering towards the hand, which itself mostly builds up fat around the back of the hand and the fingers. The shoulders themselves don't build up too much fat unless you got a lot

THE LEGS: And finally, you can think of the legs having pretty similar curves to what you're probably already used to thinking. The front of the thighs getting a big buildup, along with the back of the calves, the other parts being flatter in turn. As far as the feet go- similarly to the hands, the top of the feet, along with the heels get most of the buildup, as fat on your soles would impede mobility. The glute, hip and crotch area will also especially build up fat, lending to the same triangular shape that you can see in the arm!

A big thing to note with fat is that it tends to taper off towards joints. Your knees, elbows, shoulders, hips, and all the other places are gonna have significantly less fat so that you remain mobile and flexible, as that's important!

Now that we have an idea of where fat builds up on the body, you might have something that looks kinda like this

Which yes, does demonstrate a solid understanding of the places fat builds up, lacks the weight you're probably trying to convey, which brings us to out next point! Fat is well... heavy! Gravity is what gives fat much of it's shape, especially as you tread towards larger and larger bodies.

This is demonstrated really well on the arms especially-

Those big ol' bits of fat'll really start to sag when left hanging, and they will squish like hell if they run into something. I like to think of these bits of fat as big ol' ovals that squash and stretch depending on if there's an obstacle in their way or not

These are the important shapes to remember when it comes to the weightiness of fat! If you take all of this into mind, you should be getting something a lot closer to that shape you've been after!

Oh, and always remember that fat bodies come in all variety of shapes and sizes! Play around with a whole lot, and seek out all the resources you can! it'll really lend to your knowledge when it comes to this kinda stuff!

And as I always recommend when it comes to learning art- look at what your favorite artists do with fat bodies. See what you really like about the fat bodies they draw and try to replicate it in your own work, I promise you it's one of the most helpful things ever.

This is like the most basic of basics when it comes to drawing fat bodies though. If there's any additional thing about fat bodies, or maybe you want clarification on something, don't be afraid to ask! If there's enough to cover, I'll make an addition to this post!

#hat answers #my art #design talk #tutorials #yeah im unfortunately pretty tired so this gets a liiiitle rambly at the end but i think this covers like the basic basics #i hope this was helpful at all #and again dont be afraid to ask questions and stuff #if theres enough traction/questions on this i will most definitely try to clear up as much as i can in an addition to the post #whoops this took a bit!

[stanfordsweater]

this can be the bitter end / i know it won’t

#thank you to nige for helping me make this look good :) <3 #spnedit #corespnedit #samdeanedit #sam winchester #dean winchester #john winchester #is there a johnedit tag?? #i don't even know anymore #myedit #family horror show #i hope this is clear enough lol the ring is important !! #i should have included the samuel x mary kiss

[creativebrainrot]

This is, genuinely, one of the first times I've contemplated deleting or wiping an account in protest.

If I do, I will be more active on Bluesky and Cohost, maybe Inkblot as well.

I am, frankly disgusted by this site's decision to partner with an AI Data scraping company- especially Midjourney, in a desperate attempt to claw back any profit they can, rather then let the site continue to exist and eventually die out.

I find it absolutely baffling that this is directly after receiving backlash for the CEO's behavior towards Predestrogen. A trans woman who happens to be a sex worker who was unfairly banned. The CEO followed her onto twitter to straight up harass her, sharing her many other online handles. Disgusting behavior.

I was willing to stay on this hellsite and dig my heels in then but now I'm seriously considering wiping this blog clean, deleting my sideblogs, and only keeping an empty shell around to check in on my friends still here.

Fuck this hellsite, Fuck the CEO, Fuck the parent companies, and FUCK AI.

I have no attachment to this site as most of my friends already know me on discord and my many other social media accounts.

Would I miss the community? Yes very much so. But so many of my friends are already on Bluesky or Cohost themselves.

I have no qualms with jumping ship and I know this blog isn't "popular" so to speak but just to throw my two cents out there; Tumblr has been fucking pathetic with it's decisions in regards to to the Palestinian Genocide, Trans womens' treatment on this fucking hellsite, and now partnering with midjourney.

I am not particularly torn between leaving this site or staying until the ship sinks. I have not made a final decision.

To be clear, I find this website fucking disgusting. I don't know what I hope happens to it but I don't care to share my art here anymore. I may delete most of my own original posts here.

For now I remain, in utter contempt of the state of this site, ready to leave.

#creativelyrottedmind #rotthoughts #tumblr #fuck tumblr #fuck the ceo #fuck ai #fuck midjourney #fuck all of you. #This post may read with hopelessness but that is not the case. I have more than enough hope that Glaze & Nightshade & Watermarking your wor #can make it clear when something's been generated with AI. Can show that you despise AI. however a word of advice #Do Not Advertise Your Use of glaze or nightshade #Don't. #it puts the aim of glaze and nightshade in jeopardy. #Community and human connection will always win out I feel but only if we fight back and continue to hope and help eachother #as such i despise what tumblr has done and i am not going anywhere YET but I have my hand on the door and I am packed to leave #You can find my other accounts on bluesky cohost and pillowfort as 'creativebrainrot' #I do not give out my discord. #I may make an Inkblot account. #That's all for now. #fuck this hellsite

[stormyoceans]

thinking about pirate captain sea and surgeon jimmy like

#like sea as a fearsome pirate captain whose ship gets attacked either by another pirate crew or by the navy #they manage to win but they suffer great losses #one of which is their surgeon #and since many people on his crew ended up injured sea decides to take on a passenger ship hoping to find a doctor #or at least a medicine chest #he gets lucky and does indeed find a doctor (jimmy of course) #and like i don't have a clear plot in mind but the dynamic would be so delicious #sea kidnapping jimmy and being ready to bribe him with a share of their plunder to convince him to help his crew #but jimmy is a doctor through and through and he would never let someone die without at least trying to help them #even if that someone is a pirate #on the other hand jimmy believing that pirates are heartless but then witnessing sea being ready to do anything to save his crew #even following jimmy's orders as sea helped him with each man #and after a while jimmy notices that sea is favoring his left side and having a hard time breathing #so he realizes that sea got hurt as well but didn't say anything because for him his crew comes first #and as jimmy patches him up sea does end up offering him a share of the loot for his services but jimmy refuses because that would make him #and sea laughs because saving a pirate's life would already be enough for the world to consider jimmy a pirate himself #so sea just promises him to let him go as soon as they get to shore #and suddenly jimmy finds himself in a weird position because the crew respects him and treats him well #and it's hard to remember these men are supposed to be violent and cruel when they're just laughing and helping each other's out #WHY DID GMMTV GIVE ME A PIRATE CONCEPT NOW IM OBSESSED #m: txt

[maia-radfemdu]

dear women I am taking L's unheard of. bothered unmoisturized anxious not in my lane unfocused decaying. in my rejected unloved failing exams era.

#asked him if at the end of it he did wanna meet up again #and he said he's going to a very last minute festival and then straight back to Germany #lol at least now it's clear that what I've always known deep down has been true he's just been nice #out of politeness or pity or both #failed two of my exams one was very difficult the other I didn't elaborate enough so she couldn't give me enough points #I didn't pay attention whilst reading the questions #I had some bank account issues #my day has been terrible #i hope I'll never like anyone ever again #i removed the necklace he gave me lol I'm so dramatic about it #I just can't help feeling like shit #personal

[killjoy-prince]

Project Diva X's way of getting outfits via rhythm game gacha makes me wanna run it over with a truck

#prince's talk tag #disclaimer: i do not drive #i love this game except for the way you get modules like fr #i have to play two thirds of a song to get to chance time‚ CLEAR chance time AND hit the star note and then HOPE the module i want appears #if i use a module that increases the chance of getting a new or rare one itd be a bit easier but i dont have one for Quirky!Meiko #ah in case you didnt know x is divided into clouds kinda like how prsk has different sekais #theres classic cute cool elegant and quirky. and the cryptonloids take on different personalities depending on the cloud #to clear a song you have to get enough voltage points and a good way to do thats is to wear modules and accessories that match the cloud #so for example the song Urotander Underhanded Rangers is a quirky cloud song #and base voltage is 100%. but if you use a quirky module and quirky accessories you can boost it so you get a headstart #on charging the voltage to clear the song #now each module has a special ability whether its helping with voltage or getting you more points or obtaining modules #this is where it gets tricky bc you need to use the appropriate modules to get the most voltage out of your gameplay #but if you want something specific like a new module but dont have a module that would make that easy for that cloud #then youll be playing the same song over and over until the gacha gods pity you and give you what you want #i want the underhand red modules for Meiko (both masked and unmasked versions) #but i dont have quirky meiko modules that increase the chance of getting a new or rare modules #and using a module that isnt quirky decreases my starting voltage by 20% and i need that voltage #bc fun twist if you dont clear the voltage by the end of the song you dont get a new module if you unlock it during chance time #theres a meiko festival thats hard af to play in this game where you have to play 3 hard ass songs to get the voltage high enough #but the outfit has a 1 in 4 chance of showing up #so you could be doing so good and then during chance time (which happens during the third song) the module wont show up #so you gotta do it all over again #OR the opposite where you dont get enough voltage but the module you need DOES show up but you dont get the module #bc your voltage wasnt high enough #i love this gameeeeeeeeeee

[beauty-and-passion]

Do you always judge people over a handful of posts based upon preconceived notions of intent? Do you know what's going on behind the curtain? You state everything so fully as if you know exactly what is going on in Thomas's life, and that he's definitely not working on anything at all. Have you actually spoken to Thomas about this in a private channel? Do you actually know anything, or do you think that over analyzing twitter posts will tell you everything about a person's life? Intent is hard to convey in text. Arguments based upon the intent of a text based interaction are inherently flawed unless one knows for certain the intent behind the words. I commend your ability to write and use complex thought, but Thomas isn't a movie character, he is a person. He can't be exactly what everyone wants him to be all the time. Who really knows how many people have poked him over the "missing finale". A single fan reaching out on their end quickly becomes a sea of pestering. I can understand where he's coming from if he was being passive-aggressive, but I can also see that he may just speak in a manner that others may view in a negative light.

My dear, allow me to explain my thoughts here.

I never said, in any of my posts: "Here I am, The Bearer Of All The Knowledge, sharing the absolute truth". Of course what I write is my truth (unless I am quoting someone else or some theory already existing). That's the base of every writing and every discussion: I have my own "truth" and you have yours. They may be the same or they may be different, they could both be right or wrong or just one of them could be wrong. Only by confronting them we can learn about each other and, eventually, change our personal "truths" into new (hopefully better) ones.

I do not know Thomas' personal life, I don't know what's going on in his mind. I can't know it, because I'm not his friend and I am not inside his mind. I can’t know what’s going on, if he doesn’t say what’s going on. All I know is what mr. Sanders gave us: this is what my "truth" is based on.

And, I am sorry for him, but all he gave me are vagueness and overreactions over simple questions. I'm not saying he has never been honest or straightforward: he was in the past and I noticed he did it when he had a clear plan of what to do. Hence I made a simple association: if he was straightforward when he had a plan, now he's vague and overreacts because... he actually has no plans?

Of course Thomas might be so vague because there are more complicated reasons. But over time I learned that, when there's a problem, 9 times out of 10 the right answer is the simplest.

So I took the information Mr. Sanders himself gave me, used logical connections and reached my conclusions, the ones I stated in my post. Why was I so clear? Because I think my solutions are logical and because I prefer to be clear, in general and especially with a language which is not my mother tongue. Being clear always avoids a lot of future troubles.

Have I actually spoken with Thomas? No because, as I said, I do not know him on a personal level. But now my question is: did you talk to him on a private channel? In that case, please believe me when I say I envy you, because you probably know more than 90% of people here.

The thing is: you don't have to know someone on a personal level to understand them, if they are just a little bit open and honest about what they're doing. We won't have this conversation, if mr. Sanders was a little more open about what he's doing. If he said that there was going to be a hiatus or that he wanted to put other projects before Sanders Sides - or even just that he needs a lot of time to write the script because he needs to organize his ideas, it would've been great. We would've done our things and people would've had less to complain about. After all, why complain, when he clearly said there was going to be a hiatus?

But he never said it. He never talked about hiatuses. He never said that he wanted to focus on other things and leave Sanders Sides in the back. And if he said it, please tell me when he said it, because I don't remember a single time and I want to be proven wrong.

So I think it's only logical that, if you don't say anything clear about a project, people will ask you questions about said project. If Thomas said "Sanders Sides is on hiatus" and people ask him "When will we have the season finale?", then I would be completely, 100% on his side because, come on, he said there's a hiatus, why are you asking such stupid question?

So, well, if people are asking him questions and poking him about the season finale, and if all of this is too much to bear for him... then I am sorry to say it, but it's his own fault. He called this upon himself, because he was never clear enough.

And the thing is, he's still not clear, even though people are constantly asking such nagging questions and complaining and pestering him. Why doesn't he come clean? Are these questions actually bothering him or not? If these questions are really too much for him, then why doesn't he do the only thing that can give him some peace of mind - and actually turn everyone on his side? This fandom is full of nice, loving people, I doubt they would keep complaining if he's a bit clearer.

And by being a bit clearer, I do not mean "he must tell us everything about his life/his mind/his job/whatever". I don't need to know all of his personal stuff, no one needs to know it. As public, all we need is clarity and you can reach it with just a few words.

And that doesn’t mean “he must do Sanders Sides only” either. He’s completely free to focus on other stuff if he wants. It would just be nice if he tells to the people who are following him about that series what his plans are for said series.

Speaking of words, I would like to connect to your "Intent is hard to convey in text". You are absolutely right, but this isn't a normal, everyday situation. Mr. Sanders is a public figure. And if you are a public figure, you should be careful about how to use words. You can't just write the first things that go through your mind and then pretend people will see them exactly as you see them.

Words carry weight, they always carried it. That's why they are so important in every aspect of our lives. And if you are a person whose words can be read by thousands of people, you should be extra careful about what to write and how to write. Maybe you won't be able to fully explain the intent, but you can do your best to make your words come as close as possible to the intent you wanted to convey.

If the intent Mr. Sanders wanted to convey is "please do not bother me, I am actually working on a lot of things", well, his words didn't convey anything about this. All they conveyed is the idea of a man who knows is in the wrong and tries to hide it behind childish excuses and overreactions.

And again, this can be very dangerous for a public figure like him. If you're famous and you give the wrong idea about you, people won't follow you anymore.

So my post isn't about bothering him, but warning him. All I want is to show his wrongdoings and the perception he gives by acting like this. If he really is so pissed by these questions, then he should come clean, so they will stop. And if he wants to convey he's tired of these questions, he should not reply with passive-aggressiveness but think more and better articulate his words, so people will get the message and not fight about the meaning he may or may not have tried to convey.

#ask #sanders sides #ts criticism #thomas sanders #I hope this answer was clear enough #I apologize if I lost something #and I thank you for it because feedback is always appreciated #it also helped me clarify my points! #so that was great #and if I lost something or didn't explain something better please tell me

[tathrin]

📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)

Answers for this LotR ask-game.

Ahh okay so at this point I have to confess something terrible: I still have not seen the third Hobbit movie. I'm sorry! I just couldn't do it. The fuckery of it all, especially in the second movie with Mirkwood and Thranduil and Legolas ("a lowly Silvan elf" what the FUCK what the fuck PJ WHAT THE FUCK), was just too much for me. Character-assassination is one thing, and I thought after Denethor I knew what I was going to be getting with Thranduil but NOPE! It was literal world building assassination and I just CANNOT.

Don't get me wrong, Lee Pace did an amazing job and actually seeing Mirkwood was amazing and it was genuinely delightful to see Orlando put those ears on again; but the OuTrAgE that filled my heart at the yeet-ing of what minimal canon we even have for the Mirkwood elves was just intolerable, and while I did mean to go see it, really I did, I just...couldn't actually get the motivation to go before it was out of theatres. I've heard the EE are better (less studio fuckery) so I'll watch them someday! Honest! I just...haven't. yet.

And as to the Lord of the Rings trilogy...man, I don't even know how to do this. In terms of which is the best film, or in terms of which one I enjoy watching most, or in terms of which on hits me in the heart hardest or...? I don't know if I can objectively rank my feelings about these movies even in my own brain because RotK ends with Into the West and I have FeelingsTM about the Undying Lands and Sea Longing okay. So the last scene of RotK at the Grey Havens is a fucking spear through the heart every time and I can't even describe the knot of feelings it engenders, and I think overall TTT may be my favorite but also it has Plot Issues that piss me off even more than the Plot Issues in RotK I think,...yeah, we're going to do this in terms of Film Crafting rather than personal favorites because I'm having too many feelings lmao. So! In order of most-well-done-movie to least:

Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

Return Of The King

The Desolation of Smaug

An Unexpected Journey

#look there are some REALLY LOVELY MOMENTS in the hobbit movies #(all three of them; i've seen enough stuff floating around the internet to know that even about the one i haven't actually seen lmao) #but the ratio of beautiful moments to what-the-fuckery is just so skewed to the latter #and the cartoonish unreality of most of the effects do NOT help #it's like somebody watched the mumakil bit from rotk and went ''more of that but dial it up to eleventy-one!'' and i just... #do y'all know how FUCKING EXCITED i was to see the White Council??? #to see GALADRIEL? #to see sauron thrown out of dol guldur? TO SEE THE WHITE COUNCIL!??? #because as soon as i heard ''three movies'' i knew I KNEW (i hoped) that they had to be adding that it #because how the fuck else were they going to pad-out that tiny little book into three whole movies? OBVIOUSLY with the white council!!! #and then...we got a chase scene in the mines that made the podracing look like it deserved an oscar #and the most cringe-inducingly-artificial cgi armies at war that i think i've ever seen even IN video games #it was like watching galactic battlegrounds middle-earth edition wtf #did y'all literally just make one elf and one dwarf and copy-past them a million times into the scene wtffffff #but i still need to make it clear that i DO love the good bits that's what makes the bad parts hurt so much! #like: does the fact that the elves coming to helm's deep make no sense and also VANISH from the plot as soon as it's over irritate me? YES! #but the battle itself is filmed with so much HEART that i don't care I DON'T CARE #i still cheer at ''no orc horn'' i still weep at haldir's death (GODS that MUSIC!) i still watch the whole thing RAPT and ENTHRALLED #but 80% of the hobbit's actions scenes don't DO anything they're just empty pixels with less purpose than the droid factory on geonosis #and there should be SO MUCH HEART because that's WHAT TOLKIEN IS auuuughhhhhh #and the fact that they missed the entire fucking EVERYTHING about MIRKWOOD of all fucking places...! UGH #DO YOU KNOW HOW AMAZING THESE ACTORS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THESE ROLES IF THEY'D ACTUALLY BEEN FILMING THIS STORY??? PJ WHY! #lotr movies #hobbit movies #middle earth asks

[nighty-night-nh]

Well. My evening has gone in a descending order of bad.

My headphones stopped working. I lost the last drawing stylus I had. And now, my favorite sonic au that I've followed since i joined the fandom almost 9 years ago has come to a close to save it's creators mental health. I understand completely and wish them all the best in life, but I will miss the world they created. I will think of it fondly as a cornerstone of my childhood.

Tell content creators what their work means to you alright? You don't know when the last opportunity to tell them so will come.

#nicky rambles #and also #nicky vents #I had to sit in silence for a good 20 minutes just to really make peace with the news #i re watch the comic dub series twice a year every year. it was just as dear to me as GOTF #the world building is precisely why some of my favorite writing tropes are unwilling godlings caught in a battle so much bigger than them #voicelines from the dub play in my head all the time too #Shadows 'Good. Now RISE ' line to Silver? i can hear it clear as day. makes my skin tingle. it was that powerful #but. ive said enough as is. time to close this ramble #Rest in peace to Gigi ' s husband. A safe travels on the rest of life ' s road to Gigi themselves #A thank you to the team for supporting Gigi and helping to create this comic #And finally. Goodnight to The Murder of Me. I will not soon forget you. #i hope to draw a farewell peace some day. it deserves it #The Murder of Me #TMOM

[lunar-fey]

THEYRE FINALLY GIVING ME REAL PAINKILLERS.... GOD BLESS

#doc says its almost definitely fibro which is such a . relief i guess. #i was KINDA hoping itd be autoimmune bc my other doc says i cant make a case for disability w fibro #rhuem doc tho said abt the same but also she said she would refer me to a social worker #just to see if theres Anything that can be done for me #that said if these meds genuinely clear my pain. it will open a lot of doors for me in the sense of work ^^ #i was put on cymbalta before and it. Helped. but i was so dizzy literally all of the time #i was constantly falling over.... #shes putting me on neurontin and buspar btw #i think those are what mom is on also #so like. genetically speaking theyre prob a good match for me #anyway im so glad to officially consider myself part of the fibro community ive suspected for a while #and ultimately i was still onviously chronically ill and disabled so i was already part of those communities #but it does feel good to be able to confidently say. yep im fibro gang #also doc was complaining abt lack of treatment options for pain esp nerve pain #and she also mentioned that theres a new treatment currently being studied that she thinks will be good #but hasnt had enough studies done for it to be a prescription yet.... 👀

[argiopi]

got the cops called on me for the most hilariously sensible reason last night

So i have a new industrial piercing (my first piercing..! i love it •w•), and it got infected because of course it did, it's a cartilage piercing and i live outside. Context i've been living in my car for the past few weeks, which has been pretty good but one of the tradeoffs is i do not have a bathroom. The piercer told me if the piercing got infected I could soak it in saltwater, so i needed a source of 1. salt, 2. water that is warm or at least not the below-freezing ambient temperature i currently exist in.

Gas stations have both these things. (I have yet to purchase salt for my occasional propane stove cooking). Only problem is it was past midnight in a rural area, so I didn't find a 24 hour convenience store until around 100 miles into my route for the evening.

At 3 AM local time the store was inhabited by just One stern-looking employee who was mopping the floor. My grungy ass walks in carrying a small collapsible bowl and immediately begins casing the place like the world's shittiest thief, looking for those little free salt packets. I looked around the (empty, no hot food at 3 AM) hot dog stand and saw only wet condiments so i circled back around to the grocery section in case they were selling salt shakers I could buy. No luck so i desperately returned to the hot dog counter in case I missed the salt, and noticed a cabinet labeled CONDIMENTS below the dog cooker, which did conceal salt packets. I stuffed a handful of them in my pocket and hoped the mopping woman wouldn't ask, then pivoted to the bathroom where I locked myself for the next fifteen minutes.

I filled my bowl with hot water which was actually cool water but at least it wasn't frigid, and mixed salt into it and held it to my ear. After a few minutes the staff, who had been understandably watching me from around corners the entire time I was searching for salt, knocked on the door. I replied "hello?" and she didn't respond, so I assumed she was just checking if anyone was in there before she tried entering to continue mopping. I finished cleaning my sad little ear and bought a bag of yogurt pretzels as a gesture of good will because I felt bad for taking her salt and taking too much time in the bathroom when she needed to clean.

Enter The Pig. I had returned to my car and grabbed my first aid kit to apply antiobiotic ointment, when an officer entered the store. Trepidation when he arrived since I knew I was being a freak, but then i thought he was just doing his own shopping, then he came back out and approached my vehicle.

Rolled down my window and he asks what was going on in the bathroom. (What if i had been just taking a long shit??). So I showed him my ear and my bowl and explained, as Alertly, Calmly, and Soberly as i could after driving for multiple hours after midnight, to the face of someone who can ruin my life with a penstroke, that I was on the road and had to soak this infected piercing. Luckily it was a confused young cop who was too bewildered to inquire much further, not an old hardass who might start asking more challenging questions such as "where are you going" or "where are you staying tonight and why are you washing your ear at the gas station and not there." He clearly barely even looked at my car - asked if i was a local when my license plate is from two timezones away - and let me go without even collecting my information.

That was the sixth time that police have confronted me for acting outside social norms. The first time was because I was plucking an invasive plant species from the side of the road and he thought I was falling when I walked up & down the slope. The second time I was walking home alone at night, and maybe someone called because I had a backpack on and they thought I was trying to rob a house. I was just walking home from the train. The third time I had been biking home in the dark without a headlight, and i fell on my face and didn't know I was bleeding until a bastard pulled up and told me someone called because they thought I got hit by a car. The fourth time was when I fell in the river last winter and i was knocking on random doors asking for directions home to minimize my risk of hypothermia, and I suppose the woman who drove me home called to send someone to make sure i was okay? The fifth time was the first time I slept in my car, which ironically was before I started serially sleeping in my car. I was falling asleep on the highway after an all-nighter so I took the next exit and took a nap in my driver's seat at the end of a random residential street before I ended up on the news, and that's how I learned suburbanites are paranoid as all hell about anything out of the ordinary because a cop knocked on my window and asked me if I was drunk (who would say yes to that question?). Now I select my sleeping sites very carefully, which is probably the most annoying thing about hashtag vanlife, but I haven't gotten The Knock again yet and sometimes when I pull into random public lands after dark I wake up to mountains I've never seen before and that fuels my soul.

Lesson learned is that if you need to snort sodium chloride in a gas station bathroom at 3 AM, just have an ear piercing and dampen the hair around it and carry a bowl around, and you've got a story that's Too Weird To Be Making Shit Up.

#seriously how do y'all stay out of trouble #I Am Just Living My Life why does that incite so much suspicion. #this time was fair though i 1000% looked like a criminal who was about to drive home under an influence #blogging #FOLKS WHO FOLLOWED FOR ART I HOPE YOU ENJOY STORYTIME TOO LOL. #I saw THIRTEEN!!!! shooting stars while driving last night #i think that is a new personal record. was there a meteor shower? surely there was. #Two of them were bright enough to leave a dust trail.. ⭐︎つ⭐︎ #mountain roads are so scary lol what do you Mean there is no guard rail on this narrow winding road that drops off into Death Zone #not to mention when there is snow on the road..? #my tires spun out the other night because i was clinging too close to the uphill side of the mountain and went off the road #in my defense i could not see the lines on the road on account of they were covered by snow #anyway i sunk deep but luckily i have 4WD so i could wiggle out without help #but the snow gripped my tires and pulled them in the opposite direction i was trying to go.. #what if i was driving on the side facing downhill and slipped off the road and the snow gripped me. #best case scenario: car is Funked. worst case scenario Death #anyway i think my ear is slightly less painful & inflamed this morning..? i am going to go wash it at a much less sussy hour #the sky is so clear and bright here... #madly in love with the milky way. #i wonder how often ppl assume ppl are sneaking hard drugs when they actually have a completely legal reason to be acting strange. #not that i'm not living on the fringes of the law rn with the whole car thing and that's the only reason i had to be weird at a gas station #but like... lives be strange and complex and human behavior is rarely as simple as it seems there is always a story!

[wi1he1mina]

#Goodbye and good riddance! #Also I added alt text I hope it helps + is clear enough! #funny #tumblr live

[laurentlemonke]

Some doctor actually once told me word for fucking word "well, there's nothing I can do for you, you just have to learn to live with the pain." Bitch?? That was in response to me asking if she could write a letter that would allow me to not partake in pe at school. Like dude all I'm asking you is to sign a paper, not perform open heart surgery on me. Anyway the pain got so bad my teacher considered sending me to the er lmao.

#tw vent #chronic pain #doctors suck #I'm not against doctors #just to be clear #i have nothing against them #in general #i simply had enough bad experiences #now i don't trust them anymore #but if you gave issues #you should still discuss them with a doctor #it could help #not all of them are bad #hope that clears things up

[byanyan]

byan on an average day: glitter. very cute but too many hairclips. makeup done and usually quite vibrant. fitted clothes (oftentimes showing a little extra skin) involving a lot of bright pink. colourful platform boots. more glitter.

byan on a bad day: makeup smudged or non-existent. hair a mess, either falling out of a ponytail or not even pulled back. oversized hoodies and baggy pants. more black than usual. simple combat boots. no glitter.

and they're really out here with the gall to say that they're good at hiding it when they're having a rough time... smh my head

#byan 'i hate looking masc but if i already feel like shit who fucking cares' byun #tbf the 'bad days' in question are like. REALLY bad ones. #like mental illness is fully acting up they're Not in a good state of mind they're having an episode kind of bad day #average bad days or like... more minor mental health stuff they're actually pretty good at hiding bc that's kind of just been their life #...i'm losing my train of thought. hopefully my point has come across??? #hi i've been trying to write but i keep writing a sentence and then rethinking everything about it for the next fifteen minutes #making me lose everything else i had in mind for the paragraph and ultimately feeling like nothing i'm getting down is good enough anyway #so uh. it's fun. i'm having fun. definitely not frustrated at all. #hoping dinner will help clear my head a little but we'll see #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ ooc ⋮ don't @ me.

[artifour]

HELP YOUR ART IS SO BEATIFULLLL AJJWDIAGAIVKAKujui I CANT EVEN IT WAS ART BORN FROM HEAVEN I WANTED TO ASK DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS FOR A STRUGGLING ARTIST?

AGHGH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I'm sooo sorry for the time I took to respond to you. I've been busy and its also a very difficult question, i'll be honest. The thing is you're asking for tips for a struggling artist.... to a struggling artist... so. I'm gonna try my best to give you something concrete and that makes sense, but i don't know if ill be able to- and knowing me, it IS going to be messy, I'm really sorry for that!!

First thing I'm gonna say is, obviously, draw things for yourself. Draw stuff that makes you happy! When I get really into a piece of media, i've noticed that i can see my improvement over a significantly shorter amount of time than usual, simply because, well, i like this stuff, and i like drawing things in relation to this stuff, and i want to draw more because i enjoy this stuff, y'know? It's easy to say and it might sound like it's not really a tip, but from my personal experience, i can say it does make a big difference. So basically, obsess over something and draw it all the time- but then, don't only draw the same thing over and over again, rather insert it into your art and get creative? For example, since we're both Pokémon enjoyers- take characters or pokémon you like and try things out! Focus on different things; shapes, colours, lineart etc. But if you don't feel like making studies or changing anything today, that's also fine, you don't have to. The most important thing is to have fun, or else, you'll get stuck. You don't draw with your head, and that's something that I myself struggle with, so i can't really talk, but having fun when you draw and just not caring about if it works technically or if the anatomy is correct or if others are going to like it- THAT's when you're going to improve, because you're going to like what you're doing and you're going to want to do it even more!

Also, search for inspo! Open pinterest and collect artworks you like, and staaare at them for a very long time. I like doing this. Plus, it usually makes you want to draw, too. This is a very common "tip", but notice what you like about how this person draws that specific thing (hands, legs, noses maybe? or the way they do lineart, or the way they colour), and just slap it on your art. It's like a cool little upgrade and it makes drawing even more fun.

Art takes time... art is a fuck... and we all have sort of a hate-love relationship with it, i think. And you're always going to struggle to a certain extent, because it'd be too good to be true if you could do everything and anything without having to learn and try and fail before. And sometimes you're gonna feel like you don't want to draw, and sometimes artblock will hit you like a truck, and thats ok!! You'll come back to it eventually. Challenging yourself can be great and all, but don't force yourself when you really don't feel like it. Be patient, and be indulgent!! You got this!! We got this!!! We can do it!!

#ask #art tips? #thank you again for your kind comment amlzkecz #i dont really know if this is going to help at all. there are so many things i could say on this topic... too many things... #hope it was clear enough? #it means a lot to have someone ask ME this hahaha #i kinda feel like you got the wrong person..... #tysm <3 youre too sweet #also keep in mind this is all only from my point of view!! you really dont have to agree with or follow anything i say here #theres no...art law... just do whatever you want #whatever makes you happy!