#finally starting to use this website

[qoralinius]

11,000 light years away from earth, another civilization has arisen.

Originally quadropedal, one limb has been repurposed for manipulation.

1. showing their unique anatomy

2. prince Ud-Ud-Ud at a ceremonial hunting ground

Siphonhawks are used in these hunts, mainly as sentinels, but also to kill small animals, like the basal scuttler.

#speculative biology #digital art #speculative zoology #art #artists on tumblr #alien #alien art #worldbuilding #finally starting to use this website #xenobiology #exobiology

[cup-o-noodlez]

Spirits & Such family company photoshoot

#sorry for the million different versions #i was picking from like 8. its tragic #i imagine reigen making them pose all extra so he can use it on his atrocious website #poor mob. he just like me fr. praying for him #i actually started this like months ago as a pose study (if you recognize the very heavily referenced pintrest poses non you dont) but ive #been very on and off. chipping away at it and giving up and picking it back up and was finally like ffs i have GOT to finish so i did #when i tell you drawing serizawa’s face and hair was hell. idek why.i redid it like twice and almost scrapped the whole piece because of it. #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #モブサイコ100 #reigen arataka #mp100 reigen #serizawa katsuya #mp100 serizawa #kurata tome #tome kurata #mp100 tome #mp100 ekubo #ekubo #mp100 dimple #mp100 shigeo #mp100 mob #kageyama shigeo #noodlez.art #1k #2k #3k

[michelle-jacksons-art-blog]

To be loved is to be changed.

#my art #fan art #so this isn't even finished #but like; i hope ure not too mad w me abt that #i just thought it was finally time to let this one go; at least here; on the website that started it for me #what we do in the shadows #good omens #our flag means death #bbc ghosts #the magnus archives #wwdits #ofmd #go #TMA #nandor the relentless #anthony j crowley #crowley #blackbeard #edward teach #the captain #jonathan sims #our good shadows #yeah that seems like enough tags #please do note the little details but also dont #either way; i hope you enjoy this #i really liked working on it. taught me a lot #for many reasons. this represents the transition from one era to another. a change. if you will #and change is good. I think. I've gotten more used to it #doesn't make it any more easier to let go of the past. but you have to leave way to the present and to the future #so. yeah. Cheers. This one's for the future

[mildcicada]

I want to grab you and just kiss you maybe I should sit down

#my art #the Magnus archives #tma #gerard keay #gerry keay #michael distortion #the Distortion #doorkeay #gerrymichael #Michael the Distortion #gerry delano #gerard delano #LOL #they're gfs <333 #guess who finally started working on making their website lol #ME! #the party's crashing us now is such a GerryMichael song to me ..even rhougn this pic isn't exactly the vibes of it i wanted to use it lol #i only feel alive when the VU is flashing alarms going ofd in my heaad

[snackugaki]

fandom history can be a circle if we try really hard

(last link a bit sketch if only for the little 'Not Secure' flag)

via https://www.phoenixanime.com/links.htm

#look i just #had the thought #haha damn we're still fighting for season releases? #granted i wasn't even on the internet until after SOS originally started #and i was running around looking down endless webrings #trying to find out what happened on YYH or Fushigi Yuugi #panning and sifting websites on angelfire for fanfic #subscribed to the AOL Sailormoon fan letter and everything #all i knew is by the time I was 15 I finally got to see Usagi go to high school #magpie brain finding patterns #listen it's still silly Next Mutation tried to make it a thing #granted using 'daoist' wouldn't have been great for multiple reasons #'cultivator' is clunky but closer #'shaman' was used interchangeably but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh still not great

[howdy-folks-its-showtime]

Norman Polk, a man not looking for trouble, just someone who enjoys the dark and quiet. He’s a man of few words and his general demeanor combined with his bulky build makes him an obvious choice for a great projectionist. Besides what Norman lacks in conversation or lighthearted jokes, he makes up for with his general intelligence and insight into the studio no one else has.

It’s rare for someone to be having a conversation or doing an act with any intrigue around it that Norman doesn’t witness, he’s very quiet when he walks and his tendency to simply stop in his tracks and stare at others until he finds a good time to speak startles many. Norman doesn’t intend to intrude nor scare others, he’s just always been different in a way that unnerved a lot of his peers growing up. He doesn’t know why he was born like this but he tries not to complain about it, not out loud at least, it can be helpful when used right and for someone as curious as Norman he finds it comes in handy to go unnoticed occasionally. After all the man has always carried an ominous feeling to him in general and his rather strange sense of humor only worsens it. Jokes about death and injury are often said in his usual dry tone, to the point where most simple pause in shock until Polk chuckles and moves on.

Norman isn’t keen on giving any hints as to what goes on his head either, furthering the mystery for reasons that are anyone’s guess. So whether or not Norman has a genuinely disturbed mind remains a topic of debate among the staff, but regardless of his rough surface, he has many friends within the studio and is rarely seen as intimidating by those who know him.

Henry is a popular example of one of Norman’s friends, in fact their close friendship is rather well known among the staff. While at first it can seem strange to observers that such an every man would enjoy hanging out with such a mysterious figure in the studio, the two share a lot in common. Neither of them enjoy the spotlight and would much prefer the role of being backstage away from sight and they share a quiet, curious demeanor that tends to contrast the more exaggerated personas of their coworkers. The two can often be seen having friendly chats in the break room and giving each other a friendly smile when they pass each other in the halls. Henry seems to enjoy Norman’s humor and laid back nature, and Norman seems to stare fondly at Henry whenever he can get a laugh out of the artist. Of course Norman denies any accusations of such behaviors, but actions speak louder than words and he knows that more than anyone. He just can’t seem to stop himself sometimes...

With all the mystery and darkness that surrounds him, Norman can be surprisingly comforting and kind to the people who befriend him. His rough exterior hides so many secrets and while he’s not keen on sharing any of them, he’s by no means unfriendly. He might be a man of few words, but they’re usually wise words and most of the studio has a great deal of respect for him. He’s infamous for the strange demeanor and darkness he coats himself in sure, but at the end of the day he is one very bright man and anyone who denies it would be a fool.

#batim #bendy and the ink machine #Norman Polk #batim Norman #bendy and the dark revival #bendy and the ink machine au #batdr #it's showtime #toon #cartoon #artists on tumblr #It's showtime #refs #ref #website stuff #not ask #finally getting my boy posted <3<3 #fun fact abt him he starts using it/its pronouns after being the projectionist makes him realize he likes being called it

[isa-ah]

im probably going to make a new post to pin about our immigration soon im still so embarrassed that every bit of progress we've made has been like trying to hold fistfuls of sand. god. but I'll make it more succinct or whatever and maybe delve into where we're going finally and shit. idk

#weve had to go back 3 different times to the cop house to get his ID complications worked out #and then a cop fucking confiscated MINE for being trans so now i have to go back and start #the qhole waiting game AGAIN to get my stupid fucking female ID in the mail instead #and then we have to drive HOURS to go get our marriage license anywhere that isnt HERE!!!!!! #AND THEN!!!!!!! well finally have the fucking PRIVILEGE of paying hundreds of dollars for our passports GREAT #i want to rip my HAIR OUT that there have been so many issues bc ALL of them have been bc of the fucking state troopers office #they have the wrong information on their website theyre mean theyre stupid they delight in shit going wrong #and that sounds like hyperbole but weve both been LAUGHED AT and the cop who told lo he cant have an M ID #like theyre nasty and unhelpful and thats why its taken this long bc lo needed help w smtn they just. wouldn't. help with. #and maryland just. wouldnt. help with. #and its like so what are we supposed to fuckjng do? exactly? #raagahsgsgshgghgg im just so. mad and irritated and annoyed #you wont work with us bc were visibly queer but we only need this shit to LEAVE so GET OVER IT AND HELP!

[higherhell]

it is 3am and I am so angry I don't know if I can sleep

#saw melon husk's most recent tweets against my will. I have never felt so viscerally angry at something so objectively stupid in my life #see my friends? oh is that what you want? you want me to see my friends? so you stopped me from seeing posts? #from my friends? on the website which I use for the purpose of seeing my friends? fucker. #going to bed I'll delete this in the morning but jesus christ for some reason this was what finally pushed me over the edge #just started coughing for no reason while typing this and I'm blaming that on him too #personal pulse

[himbopunk]

i guess i could try using my ko-fi shop again but tbats entirely dependant on traffic i can drive to it and my audience & reach is so thin it feels like

#daze.txt #its so annoying bc its not just like. oh i have a job and my boss is weird and racist or zionist but gotta pay the bills #it being self employment it feels like im more responsible for taking a stand with who i align myself with #but like. a lot of the alternatives are non viable for so many people and starting again from scratch is such a nightmare #especially when you rely wholly on that money #this isnt just like oh im bitching because i have to do something or whatever its like #general frustration at etsys e commerce / craft shop hosting monopoly as well as the state of things yk #etsys Been a nightmare to use and idk if its just bc of increased shipping rates or selling less leather stuff compared to small patch items #or what but my margins have already been fucking atrocious Anyhow is Been a nightmare to use etsy #and the amt of fash and freak shit i see on the website im not surprised at all that theyre pro genocide its just. #final straw a bit in the growing frustration ive Been having

[luckycaricature]

RAAAAAGHHHHH I ONCE MORE HAVE A FUNCTIONING TABLET PEN!! I CAN OVERWORK MYSELF ON-THE-GO!!!

I ALSO HAVE A SUDDEN NEW MYSTERY MEDICAL BILL!!! I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF THESE AAAAAAAGH

#for context I got medical insurance but couldn’t figure out how to use it #and when I go to the doctor sometimes they randomly have part of my bill like. Not be on the website. #So then I’ll get some random fucking bill like ‘why aren’t you paying us?? :/ final notice btw’ LIKE WHERE EAS THE FIRST NOTICE?? #I’m actually starting to wonder if I’ve been falling for a really dumb scam #but anyway #I should really reopen commissions but I don’t want to. I want to take requests. fuck you. #I hate you financial transactions I hate you putting things behind paywalls grrrrrrrr #rambling

[six-of-ravens]

hmm I got given a really weird design by a client and I'm trying to figure out how to do it but the fellow dev is getting a dental crown put on and is in no state to help me...

#this client's designer is.... something #at least he finally started using their actual font and colours instead of just choosing random ones that look sort of similar? #cannot believe this guy has a job. these people are an unfortunately large company and hardcore for brand standards #but you can tell he was trained on print media and thinks of websites like brochures. never considers that things will have to move around #hi welcome to the modern age where websites have to look good on 4K gaming monitirs and iphone SE's

[love-fireflysong]

I am a technology genius.

Is this about getting my ps4 hdd fixed and getting all my save data back? Unfortunately no (that is still I lost cause I suspect). Is this about taking apart my computer mouse entirely cause the scroll wheel was scrolling erratically? Why yes it is!

And guess who’s scrolling smoothly once again 😎

#did i just follow a youtube tutorial for literally all of it? #um obviously #but the fact of the matter is that i fixed it #god i love doing stuff like that #the software and hardware components of tech is so fun to me #had a unit in highschool once where we were taught to build our own motherboard and solder all the pieces on #and i loved every second of it #was so fucking cool #learning the software portion in uni and how the computer calls to the motherboard and how to draw that was also super interesting #and don't even get me started on the math classes #boolean algebra was the first time i really struggled understanding math in a very long time #so when i finally figured it out after doing some extra practice questions i was so proud of myself #only unit i hated was probability but that wasn't a surprise #i know its important and useful to know but ive hated it ever since middle school lol #sql and java were fun to learn and i probably would have like c if the instructor had actually known how to teach #but he didn't and i was sadly never able to figure it out 😔 #and even though i will def def def never get into website development cause css and html and javascript were my least fav languages #the knowledge i retained from that course did at least help me when i had to create my own little texting thing in ao3 #only classes i legitimately hated was communications and business #god i wanna go back to university for computer science again so bad #i wanna program video games baby! #make those physics engines and tear my hair out over bugs and errors so bad #one day #one day ill go back and live my computer nerd dreams #am i chris hartley irl? #absolutely not #i just share his fascination with tech and programming and its a big reason why he's one of my fav characters obvs

[lovestryke]

How much do you draw a day? Or What's an approach you take to improve your art? ( like studies, stuff like that)

so much...i draw so much everyday...and its honestly rare of me to not draw once per day to improve my art, it depends on what i want to improve on! for facial expressions i used to go to this one website that was full of emotive faces (dont remember it but i could find it if asked probably), for posing i would do gesture drawings with the site LineOfAction for reference, or i compile drawings with anatomy and style that i like and just redraw my characters similar to something i liked (literally the other day i drew Pierce similar to a wreck-it-ralph drawing i liked) you just gotta focus on drawing stuff you like, and focus on small bits of your art that you want to improve, you can't improve on EVERYTHING all at once

#literally just find stuff you like and copy it. always draw for yourself and not ever for how much attention or compliments you'll get on i #it. #asks #anon #and honestly ive been improving quickly because i FINALLY decided to start using line of action #not the website but . the structure of drawing. and also the skeleton instead of just going out and drawing details of a character. #learn the fundamentals and how to simplify things and theeen focus on details #just draw hard #daily

[zooophagous]

So why do you hate the advertising industry?

Hokay so.

Let me preface this with some personal history. It's not relevant to the sins of the advertising industry perse but it illustrates how I started to grow to hate it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but to be a vet you basically have to be good enough to get into medical school. I do not have the math chops or discipline to make it in medical school. I went into art instead, and in a desperate attempt to find some commercial viability that didn't involve moving to California, I went into graphic design.

I've been a graphic designer for about seven or eight years now and I've worn a lot of hats. One of them was working in a print shop. Now, the print shop had a lot of corporate customers who had various ad campaigns. One of them was Gate City Bank, which had a bigass stack of postcards ordered every couple months to mail to their customers.

Now, paper comes from Dakota Paper, and they make their paper the usual way. Somewhere far, far from our treeless plain there is a forest of tall trees. These trees are cut down and put on big fossil fuel burning trucks and hauled to a paper mill that turns them into pulp while spewing the most fowl odors imaginable over the neighboring town and loads the pulp up with bleach to give it a nice white color.

Then the paper is put on yet another big truck and hauled off to the local paper depot, then put on another big truck and delivered to my print shop, where I turned the paper into postcards telling people to go even deeper into debt to buy a boat because it's almost summer. The inks used are a type of nasty heat sensitive plastic that is melted to the surface of the paper with heat. Then the postcards are put on yet ANOTHER truck and sent to the bank, which puts them on ANOTHER truck and finally into the hands of their customers, who open their mail and take one look at the post card and immediately discard it.

Heaps and heaps and literal hundreds of pounds of literal garbage created at the whim of the marketing team several times a year. And thats just one bank in one city.

I came to realize very quickly that graphic design was the delicate art of turning trees into junk mail.

And wouldn't you know it there are a TON of companies that basically only do junk mail. Many of them operate under the guise of a "charity," sending you pictures of suffering children or animals and begging for handouts and when they get those handouts the executives take a nice fat cut, give some small token amount to whatever cause they pay lip service to, and then put the rest of the cash right back into making more mailers. "Direct mail marketing" they call it.

Oh but maybe it's not so bad, you can advertise online after all. Now that there's decent ad blocker out there and better anti-virus ads usually don't destroy your computer anymore just by existing.

Except now when I search for the exact business I want on Google it's buried under three or four different "promoted search items" tricking me into clicking on them only to shoot themselves in the foot because I searched for the specific result I wanted for a reason and couldn't use those other websites even if I felt like it.

And now we have advertising on YouTube and on every streaming service, forcing more and more eyes onto the ad for the brand new Buick Envision that parks itself because you're too stupid to do it on your own.

Oh thats ok maybe I'll get Spotify premium and go ad free and listen to some podcasts- SIKE we have the hosts of your show doing the song and dance now. Are you depressed and paranoid from listening to my true crime podcast about murdered and mutilated teenagers? That's ok, my sponsor Better Help can keep you sane enough to stay alive and spend more money.

It's gotten so terrible that now you have content farms, huge hubs of shell companies that crank out video after video to get more and more precious clicks. Which if the videos were innocuous maybe that wouldn't be so awful except now you have cooking hacks that can actually burn your house down and craft hacks that can electrocute you being flung into your eyes at the speed of mach fuck so some slimy internet clickbait jockey doesn't need to get a real job.

It of course goes without saying that animals are also relentlessly exploited by clickbait companies that will put them in compromising situations on purpose to create a fake fishing hack video or even just straight up killing them for sport by feeding small animals to a pufferfish that rips them apart for the camera.

And all of this, ALL of this doesn't even touch how adveritising is the death of art in general. Queer topics, any kind of interesting art, any kind of sex or substance use topics are scrubbed clean and hidden at the behest of advertisers.

Sex education, a nude statue, topics such as racism or sexism or bigotry in general have tags purged or hidden from search, even life saving information about SDTs or drug use, because if someone saw that and complained then Verizon might sell fewer tablets and we can't fucking have that.

Conservative talking heads often bitch and moan that they're being censored on social media. The stupid part is, they're right! They are being censored! But it's not by a woke mob, it's by ATT and Coca Cola not wanting their adspace sharing screen time with their stupid fucking opinions.

However, they won't ever figure that out, because the talking heads they get their marching orders from like Tucker and Jones ALSO rely on the sweet milk flowing from the sponsorship teat and they aren't about to turn on their meal ticket so they have to come up with even stupider shit to say for the train to continue rolling.

I managed to rant this far without even getting into the ads I see for the beauty industry. The other day a botox ad described wrinkles as "moderate to severe crows feet" as if wrinkles are a symptom of a fucking serious disease! Like having a flaw in your skin is a medical problem that you need thousands of dollars of literal botulism toxin to fix! I was incandescent with anger.

Advertising is a polluting, censoring, anti educational and anti art industry at it's very core. It destroys human connections, suppresses human thought and makes us hate our own bodies. It ads no value, actively detracts from value, and serves no real purpose and I believe it should be almost if not entirely banned.

[coffeeworldsasaki]

It's so fucking nice to get home from the craft store and having New Craft Stuff to sort

#i used to buy yarn in a place until lockdown and then I started using this incredibly good website for it #that has good cruelty free cheap yarn of all sorts and a wonderful service #so I didn't buy stuff in store for a couple years but now i finally go somewhere again #not for the yarn i still get that in that website especially because they can take drops alpaca out of my cold dead hands #but embroidery thread and random stuff like that in the store is so nice to get #the occasional yarn too

[gaogaigoatgrrl]

i hope that in the wake of predstrogen/predesterone's back-to-back deletion we don't forget about the ongoing building wave of seemingly organic transmisogyny from the userbase leading up to it, some of which may or may not have been the result of terf psyops but all of which certainly wouldn't have been possible without the eager participation of a significant proportion of users, including but probably not limited to:

the entire concept of transandrophobia (if this offends you, think long and hard about why you want so badly for it to be real)

the ongoing backlash against the terms tme and tma (if they offend you, think long and hard about why they might have practical value to trans women and people with similar social positionality)

the ongoing trend of trans women's blogs getting flagged on the flimsiest of pretenses and generally receiving far more scrutiny for "adult content" than anyone else's

the seeming unironic revival of "baeddel" as a slur for outspoken trans women, on the basis of a long-dead clique that, ironically enough, self-applied the long-dead (and tbf, etymologically questionable) slur from the middle ages to reclaim it

the entire "trans women should be fucking trans men instead of complaining about transmisogyny" genre of post

the backlash when tgirls finally started calling out the aforementioned bullshit

the copypasted anons sent to several trans women (many of whom were lesbians) sexually harassing them and threatening corrective rape for calling out the aforementioned bullshit

the backlash when tgirls called the aforementioned bullshit sexual harassment

the expansion of flexible queer label use (which to be clear, i am generally all for) to include "afab trans women", muddying the waters and making transmisogyny harder to articulate

the backlash when tgirls started calling out the aforementioned bullshit

the aita incident in which a trans woman described a cis woman claiming to be a trans woman in a group chat and giving other trans women terrible medical advice based on no actual qualifications or experience, and got a huge backlash for warning them about the aforementioned bullshit despite the stakes of, you know, following terrible medical advice

everything from the sixth point onward happened within the past... week? two weeks? my sense of time is a bit fuzzy. who knows what the rest of this week has in store?

people on this website are so incredibly hostile to trans women even being able to name our own oppression, let alone resist it in any concrete way. and i know it's not just this website. don't you get tired of the crab bucket bullshit? holy fucking shit.

like, i've been lucky, i've overwhelmingly managed to dodge it (probably on account of frankly being a pretty boring and inconsistent poster). this time last year, i was actually bored that i didn't have anons in my inbox to argue with. but i've seen it happen to so many other women now, it's absurd. even if it never hits you personally, you can never shake the awareness that it's happening to so many of the cool girls on here, people you like and whose posts you laugh at and who you look up to. they just kinda seem to drop like flies over time. don't you get tired?