#as a joke in our flat

[mantisgodsart]

(via @cordycepsbian)

We can answer this actually we love talking about Cool Art Stuff.

Despite what one may assume, sharp edges in watercolor is actually quite easy! Come, sit, allow us to share our secrets. It's like 50% "materials" and 50% "we spent a long-ass time figuring out how to do sharp edges in watercolor and now we're really good at figuring out the exact combos of consistency and brush stroke required to make those really hard edges"

The first trick is, of course, to not try and do it at the beginning of the painting. When you're just starting to block shapes in to your watercolor, pursuing sharp edges is a fool's ordeal, and you can only really get those sharp edges in as finishing touches near the end of the work.

The second trick is to work wet-on-dry - this limits the spread of the watercolor and allows you to prevent bleeding, but you have to make sure your painting is COMPLETELY dry before painting, or you'll risk having some ill-defined lines and bleeding.

The third trick is to work with... cake watercolors? There's a tern for it, we just can't remember it - dry pan watercolors, where you have to wet the paint to "activate" it, offer you a LOT more control over the consistency of your paint, and using a relatively thick paint will allow you some REALLY sharp lines! Fair warning, your mileage may vary based on the specific paints you use just because pigment is Expensive and cheaper brands of watercolor will almost definitely be, like, cutting out as much pigment as they can manage in order to cut corners, and the sharp edges will be less obvious the more transparent they are.

As a general rule of thumb when you pay for Fancy watercolor you're paying for the insane amount of pigment that they put in their Fancy Stuff and that lends itself a lot more to Sharp Lines (plus one thing of it will last Fucking Forever). The black we use Specifically is an Artisanal Fancy Brand that we don't remember the name of and we've been using the same ~$10 thing for more than a year without even using up half of it, but honestly the actual paints you use are the Least important part of doing watercolor, you can do like the exact same thing with dollar store paints it'll just be a bit less pigmented.

The fourth trick is to just, like, practice a TON. You WILL have to spend time getting it right. It will take a Long-Ass Time. You will have So Much Trouble. Unfortunately this step cannot be avoided but we can still warn you that you'll be trying to make really sharp lines for like an hour and it still won't quite work.

The last trick is to uhh

#we speak #not art #unfortunately the people saying to invest in Good Materials are sometimes correct and good brushes are like #the number one reason that we can manage the sort of really sharp edges that we can without muddling #for context this is a fancy-ass semi-stiff lining brush that we've found allows for VERY sharp edges #it's VERY nice and it holds its shape INCREDIBLY well allowing for some very nicely defined edges without stray brush strands #however it's also like fifteen bucks for one brush so you kinda have to like. Decide If It's Worth It #we got like two brushes from the same brand from a watercolor technique workshop for free and we shelled out bc the other brushes were like #Really Good #total cost of this is like uhhh fucking twenty bucks. if you have that to spare we 100% recommend it #but if you dont then you can obtain it illegally from your local art store if youre fast enough #for legal reasons that advice is a joke tho. stealing from local businesses is bad. go after a bigger store instead. #like 60% of watercolors is having Good Technique but the really defined edges that we pull here are like purely possible bc of Good Brush #and Good Brush really makes a fucking difference tho we'll still bring in our older dollar store brushes for shit like texture #beyond that its just ignoring common wisdom for watercolor tho we do A LOT of drybrushing bc we like the texture #we like deliberately fucking up our washes to make the background look more interesting we think its Cool #every watercolor person who speaks of a flat wash being the very basis of All Of Watercolor wishes to kill us personally

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

God I'm watching the work chat for tonight bc Destruction Child is back in tonight (first time ever I've been grateful to be on an early shift, means I missed him) and there's already been a message asking people not to come into the flat which. Absolutely means he's royally kicked off already

#also messages begging people from other flats to go upstairs bc theres not enough staff in to double sign the diabetic kid's insulin record #which. incredible stuff #i actually legitimately do feel bad for the people in my flat tonight bc its 2 people pulling double shifts who i really like #and one agency which fuck em theyre a stranger whose paid double what i am to do absolutly fuck all but #point stands #anyway scottish autism is a joke if you ever hear anything about the work they do with complex kids? #yeah thats me. thats our building and nowhere else and its probably lies #fuckers cant even afford to pay their staff never mind actually care for people with extremely difficult to manage autistic traits #its a matter of time before we get a lawsuit i fuckin swear

[autumnal-sapphic]

(to the no one who is reading this, when I say "love" i mean the weird mishmash of platonic qpr type feeling. not romantic.)

why do i have to have a fucking existential crisis every time she does something nice for someone else istg

my best friend says i'm her favorite person in the world. this is a poem about one of our other friends (it wasn't private they sent this to our friend group's discord server)

"The sweetest person I know

The one who always can make someone laugh.

And the one that puts other’s needs before their own, even when it hurts them.

The one who would do anything for the people they care about.

The one that’s absurdly talented and smart.

And most importantly, one of my favorite people in the entire world"

and i just. AGH.

they have never done anything like this for me. I hate the fact that it's so likely they're lying to me

and I also hate the fact that when they say these things to other people they say "one of my favorite people in the entire world". It's the allowance. It's like a vocabulary trick. a secret. It's only there because I have access to this. it makes everything feel less important. Its as though they're deceiving everyone, 'oh hehe you're one of but someone else is the' and it just makes the idea that i'm theoretically their favorite person seem stupid and fake

They're so so so important to me and I just feel like they don't feel the same way about me

they express the same feelings to other people but with small allowances that mean technically, in the meaning of the words, it's true, i might be "better". But the emotion it conveys is exactly the same even though the love I feel for her is so different than what I feel for my other friends.

and also just bluntly "the sweetest person I know" like okay. you know i'm here. you know i have self esteem issues yet despite the fact you treat me, honestly, worse than the other people in our friend group you expect me to honestly believe you when you say "you're my favorite person" and then go off and write fucking poems about how amazing our other friends are and do nothing of the sort for me

i just don't get it. fucking stop. please.

i don't want them to stop expressing love to other people. it just feels like i've been blatantly lied to when they do something like this. They only ever express their love for me every so often when they say bluntly "you are my favorite person" but when it comes to other people and this person specifically it's constant. it's so painfully clear that this person is "her favorite". and she's either lying to herself, or me, or both, and i can't decide which one hurts more

#i know this is kind of stupid and it's phrased in a childish way but it's just so ugh. #I try so so so hard to be worthy of anyone's love but especially hers and even when I do that I fuck up so so bad #but she still says that its me. that i'm their favorite person ever #and that means a lot in the moment #but then they go and compliment this person every day #and run up and hug them every time they see them #it's a fucking running joke that this person is hot and sexy #my running joke is that i'm flat and ugly. like. #and i experience this bullshit and they expect me to still believe them when they say it #i wish they'd at least just treat me like they treat our other friends #tw vent #vent #rant

[petrichorvoices]

we have a rule that we don't give our Tumblr to anyone we know offline, which is very handy for instances such as today where we, for whatever ungodly reason, let it slip to a friend that we have a Tumblr

#love you [friend] and we're glad our joke about carrds didn't fall flat but we're plural on here and not really willing to risk a poor #reaction to the whole 'we' thing. it tends to be a step too far into oddity for most people #honestly if someone we knew offline happened to stumble upon our Tumblr it would be very obvious that it's ours #the reality is that there are only so many disabled it/its users named Petrichor out there #we wish we could've given him our Tumblr because she's really cool but we just didn't want to risk losing a friend. alas #rambling

[trans-cuchulainn]

I'm in with a solid chance of getting a flat i viewed earlier this week and it's a lovely flat although the landlord's a bit odd but for some reason my gut reaction about it all is stress and idk whether to listen to that gut reaction. last time i ignored my instincts about a house it was awful, i got kicked out and it fucked me up for months. but also maybe i'm just stressed about everything right now and the idea of committing to anything is anxiety inducing??? like. idk man. i don't want to live somewhere that causes me stress but logically speaking i cannot see the problems with this place so they feel like purely irrational anxiety responses and i don't know whether to listen to them or not

(it might still not work out anyway)

#on paper the only actual disadvantage of this flat is that it's 4.1 miles from my work #which is further than my current flat (about 3.4 miles) #but there's a bus and i have an electric bike and i'm planning to quit my job anyway #so idk why i'm feeling nervous #i think i don't feel totally at ease around the landlord but. i just don't know him yet? #new people are hard and when you're performing for them to try and get a flat then of course you'll be on edge #hopefully i could keep our interactions professional anyway #i do think the possibility of Regular Landlord Interactions is one of the reasons i'm nervous #but he's nice. i just need to learn his sense of humour i think #bc right now I can't always tell what's a joke and what's a bizarre statement meant genuinely lol #i also think he's reading me as a girl and I'm not ready to correct him #which is another reason to fear Interactions #but. idk. I've been lonely a lot and being forced to talk to humans more would probably be good for me

[zenmai--jikake--no--komoriuta]

not every day you gift your dentist practice a cute little guy, but they really liked him! all of the receptionists came over and were like "whaaaaaat is that, is he for us?!? can I pet it???" lol

my family has a bad history with dentists but I never feel scared there even when I have to have a filling done like today with needles and everything (I'm needle phobic and medical-procedure phobic so this is big!!), so I thought it could be nice to have this guy there so they can let kids hold it if they're scared too or something, it's REALLY soft and a good size for squishing! when I got the email about april fool's preorders for it I was like "mmmmm now I legitimately need this as a non-joke gift" and bought one straight away lmao, but it's got such nice colours and design that I'm almost tempted to buy another for my collection :'D

#kate being dumb #I love squishables and I have so many of the bastards now lol #in other news I just had to chase my bus down and bolt the equivalent of 2 city blocks to catch it in time #all because some asshole bus was taking up all the room at the other stop so it didn't pull in #our public transport is a fucking joke and now I'm terribly winded #my chest hurts and now I have a cough on top of my headache from this morning.... great #need to call the RAA to get a tyre changed when I get home too... it's not my day today #somehow a nail punctured it on tuesday and I've done 6(!) or so long trips without noticing my tire was basically flat!! #at least it should be completely free to fix but man I hust need a long nap and no more tasks today #gonna drink my bubble tea and sit for an hour before I call methinks.........

[mushtoons]

why are you all so funny. how can so many people have an impeccable sense of humor

DHDJDJIR WE'RE FUNNY??? /lh

#dhdjjd we have shit humor and jokes that fall flat but we are so glad u at least think we're silly /posi #maybe our sense of humor isnt as broken as we thought #thank u btw lmaoo #wood wide web

[stuckwith-harry]

niche thing i've been seething about recently is why are flats always structured with nuclear families and absolutely no other constellation of people in mind? maybe i want the three bedrooms in my three bedroom flat where i live with my chosen family to be all the same size. but noooo you've got to have a living room (big), parents' bedroom (medium), and kid's room (small). BOOOOOOO

#part of this is i currently live in the kid's room and you know. would be nice if my room could fit a wardrobe. an adult sized desk even #the beach boys were right it would be nice. #on a semi related note why is my favourite neighbourhood so crowded and expensive? everyone get out! i live here! #(i'm kidding ofc i just wish there were better more affordable and also just. MORE. options. and i want them for me and my friends! #i plan on DYING inside this post code people! no i'm kidding about that also probably. or am i) #when our landlord inevitably increases the rent so much we can't afford the beloved flat anymore we should just k*ll him. #for legal reasons this is ALSO a joke!!!!!!

[all-mirrors]

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#if anyone still remembers the Gossip from S*cily and how two interns had an affair with two guys from the office where we worked #apparently these italian men have affairs with their interns on a regular basis and are 'competing' who is going to sleep with more interns #they really treat these internships as a dating service for them #which is very………….. 😵‍💫 of them #my flatmate and i were joking how we should seduce the guy from the office who came to our flat several times to fix the water problem #maybe it would have been easier than we imagined......francesco we could have had it all but alas........

[hella1975]

i miss my flatmates :/

#like having so many flatmates means i havent built a super close relationship with them #but we ARE funny #like it's just nine of us sharing this one space #particularly the flatmate on my corridor #bc the way it's laid out is that there's four rooms on one side of the kitchen and six on the other #and not only did i luck out with the less crowded corridor #but of the three with me on my side #one moved out and another is genuinely a recluse like ive seen him FOUR times total since being at uni im not joking #which just leaves me and this one lad that im friends with #and like it's not a close friendship by any means but we have the exact same sense of humour and he's so fucking funny #and he's now my neighbour bc he moved rooms when aforementioned flatmate moved out #like we kinda just do our own thing on our corridor while the rest of the flat stabs each other #like someone will message the gc at 3am like 'whoever's shagging really loud please shut the fuck up' #and me and him are there on our lovely QUIET side like 🫢 #also i just miss having my flatmates in general #like being offered a lift to the supermarket or going on a late night maccies run #or always seeing them at the end of a night out bc we might not all go out together but we always wind up back in the same space #and something funny was always happening #like one time my neighbour flatmate STOLE THE SOFA FROM THE KITCHEN and put it in our corridor #and mind you need a fob to get onto our corridor which only THREE OF US (really two bc like i said the one lad is a recluse) #have so we just stole the fucking sofa and wouldnt put it back sjkhgskdh #and we'd just hang out there with one of my other flatmates a lot of the time it was chill #or the whole binbags-on-kitchen-lights-vs-maintenance battle we had going #idk the vibes were nice i like that there's always something going on in my flat #i do NOT miss people being in my kitchen when im nitm to socialise though omg #hella goes to uni

[aresmarked]

moods v much 'am with you wrt the stuff in the uk rn' but also. hey. maybe you get to spell the end of the uk?

#im v tired and apologise if this joke falls flat rn but also #i'm willing this for scotland #...and am not really joking because hey #we should have our leaders hold the uk gov accountable

[padfootastic]

they claim they love sirius but it *always* turns out the one they really love is remus. it kinda makes me sad many people who love sirius and tell valid things about sirius and fight for him, like you, blindly stand by tall top sirius and get tortured with no reason. haven’t you noticed your friends don’t do like or reblog your posts about how the fandom demonizes sirius and makes remus an untouchable angel? because, that’s exactly what they want. small angel remus and his rich tank servant.

anon, i say this with all the fondness in my heart, why is this so dramatic 😭😭 i am ‘freely standing’ and am not oppressed or bothered in any way, promise. no one has to rb anything i say, especially if they don’t like it, and i won’t judge because i’m the pickiest person on tumblr, i assure u. there’s people who love sirius who’ve made points about him i don’t like and i’ve unfollowed/blocked for that—i’m unreasonable as fuck and i definitely don’t expect people who like remus to even interact with me, let alone my posts. i’m very pro-curating ur own positive space.

it’s funny u mention tall top sirius bc i haven’t even mentioned top/bottom positions so far because like, i’m usually more interested in his interpersonal dynamics and i get my smut needs fulfilled elsewhere lmao (also,,,,why would i form my opinions around r/s dynamics,,,that doesn’t make sense)

re ur other ask, i can’t publish it because you’ve mentioned a couple people (who, funnily, i don’t know. if that isn’t an indication of how choosy i am 🤷‍♀️) but u made points in it that i found interesting because i’ve had a completely different experience? i definitely think sirius’ character is butchered to make others’ look good (—i am not gonna rant about tags again, i am not gonna rant about tags—) but i haven’t seen it in the way u mentioned (which could be because i’ve stopped reading wolfstar unless it’s an author i *trust*).

in fact, one of the most annoying characterisations i’ve seen (and this is a problem i have with a lot of bottom harry in drarry too) is the stereotypical typecasting of short!bottom!sirius (and the tall!top!remus who becomes everything that his best friends are stripped of). the way sirius is written as a stupid damsel or a bratty princess who’ll shriek if his hair is out of place, or small and needing protection (either emotional or physical) bc he’s weak/incapable makes me wanna pull my hair out. it’s annoying bc sexual positions are not a personality indicator, but even more so bc sirius is butchered along the way too. nothing of his character remains until he’s just an OC or a caricature made to prop someone else. it was one of the biggest reasons i stopped reading the ship. the few r/s fics i read now don’t really have any smut in them.

anyway, all of that aside, we’re all playing in a fictional sandpit with actions figures, aren’t we? everyone’s gonna move and clash them differently, u just gotta decide which one u like 🙃

#look at me: the metaphor queen. #for all i shit on certain things ultimately i’ll still stand for everyone to bend a character the way they want #i’m sure i have opinions/characterisations that are horribly unpopular or flat out wrong lol #and i expect people’s interactions w me to be based on that. i still get shocked when someone likes/rbs something i say lol #i have zero expectations here my friend #coming to s/r dynamics #like i have nothing against bottom sirius that guy deserves to get railed to filth; but also like. u don’t have to change him for it ykno? #bottoms don’t need to be physically small or feminine or delicate i promise #we are trying to let go of cishet dynamics not replicate it #u can’t use top/bottom as closed boxes of of classification like astrology or type a/b ykno? #sirius is canonically so fucking badass?? he cares not for his hair or robes or food or anything when he’s on a mission #u don’t have to strip all that away just because u want him to be fucked lol #(see how i didn’t even rag on remus this time? growth) #i’m still not sure if these asks were like. genuine or trolling. #and someone out there will definitely have a laugh at my expense if these were a joke & i took them so seriously #but hey. i am a fool regardless so what does it matter. #hope u have a good day anon. i assure u there’s a lot of well written sirius-loving fics out there #(may i suggest the prongsfoot side of the internet? 😏) #we are *very* good to our boy #pen’s asks

[domesticateddog]

nsfw tmi annoying sexual oversharing r/ihavesex tags etc etc…

#holy shit is dirty talk fucjing good lol like a half hour ago that was the hottest time yet jesus christ im still reeling…. #i cant even think straight. the things he said to me when i was sucking his fingers…. 🥴 #that was definitely worth the wait lol he’s so fucking hot i cant stand it #im so over the fucking moon in love with him it’s insane every single thing is perfect we’re best friends who havethe best sex fucking ever #we’re two peas in a pod and it’s so clear to me now after coming back to his house after leaving today and just the relief of getting to lay #in his arms while we tell each other about our day apart while he rubs my arms back and hair. i just felt whole when that happened. #he said he wasn’t sure he wants to hang out with his old friend again bc quite ‘his jokes weren’t funny’ LOL he said after every joke he’d #just give him the autism stare as it fell flat lmao but that means *I* make him laugh! which i do. (<- self absorbed narcissist) #he just fell asleep next to me after a LOOOONG ass day and i already miss him how lame and codependent of me #we miss each other when we go to the fucking bathroom too lol we’re insane but we are free #sorry. #*quote not quite

[captainshadowshifter]

Me, when @kiwipikazz comes home and walks in front of the fan:

#no no fr i said 'blocking the fan will result in no more relationship :)' #joking. of course. i love them very much. #however the counterpoint is that it is like. 28°c outside? IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING NIGHT???? #and somehow our flat is HOTTER than that????? #feels it anyway- #so obvs the fan is a fucking GODSEND. it is my best friend (it also has a sticky label that says fuck on it. its truly a masterpiece.) #i also had to spend a solid like. 6hrs in the kitchen at work today. i need fan. #its literally so hot ive been getting the bus to work instead of walking. #ME. who will gladly (and enjoyably) walk 2.2 MILES up HILLS do a 12hr shift and then walk BACK. #its too hot for that 😭 #anyway. fan.

[stupid-dyke]

I only ever listen to political comedy shows because my dad watches them all the time ok? But: I find so much amusement watching the commentators get older and clearly understanding fewer and fewer of the pop culture references young writers put in their scripts

#so funny watching jokes fall flat because the poor man has never seen the meme he’s referencing #can you imagine having to deliver jokes you didn’t write yourself and don’t find funny?? braver than our troops

[thetimelordbatgirl]

So uh, tfw your pretty sure at this point the flat is activitely damaging you and your moms health.

#if no one knows we've been dealing with increasing mold and damp issues #and the council just does not care #like we had to take them to court just to get them to deal with our bathroom #and even then it didnt last as the bathroom soon became mold and damp again #and its just been getting worse over time #and no joke the council actually said just open the windows #during fucking WINTER #when our flat is already cold as fuck as it is #like the bedrooms are like ice boxes #and yeah we can use heating but somehow that shit makes the mold worser #and like mom's got coughing issues again from it all and she has asthma so thats not great #and even after i've kicked my cold finally #my nose is still stuffy and i got a cough too #and yet i'm fine when i go outside and go to my friends house #but come home and the issues come back