#what tumblr taught me

[homefryboy]

samesieeees

#just me being dumb #bro I’m not going in the tags so idk if anyone else has said this #adventure time #adventure time fionna and cake #cuphead don’t deal with the devil #the cuphead show #candy queen #baroness von bon bon #also mentioned elsewhere winter king has big warden energy #but as my tumblr sexyman post(s) have taught me no one knows what superjail is so

[jey-draws]

How color theory

Good question ! When it comes to colour I believe the best way to find what works is to have fun and experiment until you find what works best for you!

I've already covered a bit about how I choose and create the colours here (making base colours colourful) and here (working with palettes)!

But in terms of what I know about actual colour theory, I can only offer this:

It's not a lot and it is just the basics so if you already knew this then apologies but it's all I know/ all I think is worth knowing. Please note that colour theory is more of a suggestion then a rule! Different colours look good to different people and you should do what looks good to you!

#ask #Tumblr is annoying because even though I tagged these as art tips when I searched it myself it came up blank so I had to scroll through my- #own blog until I found the post and then do the exact same thing for the second link #I need to answer the ask on my phone then post/ edit it on my computer #also yesss colour has a u in it for me unfortunately I am British :( #I was taught colour theory in art but I genuinely think good knowledge of colour isn't determined by what a colourful circle tells you #It's about you experimenting like a mad scientist on a blank canvas until you reach something that looks good to you specifically #art tips

[cacaocheri]

i love it when my posts reach the self-shipping community. now thats what im talking about

#they are my target audience #i am will be LOUD and ANNOYING about self shipping i love it #yknow my first introduction to self shipping was a tumblr user who shipped themself with plankton (spongebob musical) #at the time i didnt get it #but oh man #i do now #shout out to that tumblr user #they taught me what f/o meant #cherry rambles

[historixally-accurate]

sassy ass fucking bitch

#leowook #lifesteal smp #histoart #sobs and dies #to all the moots on tumblr who are on twitter and all my tumblr moots I love you #this is a redraw of an art piece I did of leo like a year ago and I am going insane by the amount of fucking what the fuck I improved #I'm like. so shocked. I'm crazy. #shoutout cogmented who taught me to never be scared of bright colours

[stratospheric-bebop]

— The Uses of Intelligence, by Caroline Kizer, 1959.

#I really loved this one... gave me such a more fond and expanding perspective of intelligence. #One of my favorite things I've read this month. #So many intellects exists; and yet their attitude towards it can entirely rearrange what intelligence even means- #-and how it takes form. Either in their life or to them or their work and arts. Etcetera... #I've never really thought about intelligence within the context of your attitude towards it and how you specifically equip it; we're sort- #-of taught that intelligence is amalgamated all into this one thing but it's often much broader than that in practice. #And that's just so fascinating... WHATTT! #poetry #the uses of intelligence #caroline kizer #the poetry foundation #quotes #excerpts #words #philosophy #writing #intelligence #poetry on tumblr #poetry on intelligence

[koko056]

I got 80/80 in a math preboard exam conducted by my coaching and I was the only one who got a perfect score in a batch of nearly 150 kids, like not even 0.5 marks deducted.

but that dry 'well done' from sir can't even compare to what my grandfather, a retired army-school math teacher, said to my mom about my answer-sheet.

' achha likha hai, i remember giving 100 marks to such papers. presentation aur writing bhi sundar hai"

IM OVER THE MOON.

THE SMILE HE HAD WHEN I TOLD HIM I GOT A LITTLE TROPHY FOR MY SCORE AND MY "HOMEWORK-PERFORMANCE"

IM SO FREAKING HAPPY

JBISDBVALISDVGDYVG

#im on fucking cloud 9 #the SMILE on his face #it means so much to me #he's been sick for quite a long time now and is always tired and looks dull #i had barley been able to have any conversations with him b/c i felt like i would be bothering him #but thank god that was not the case #he was smiling ear to ear #it meant so much to b/c he taught me math in like 6-7 grade as well as last year in 9th #i owe him all my good grade in maths #im just blabbering now but i just cant stop smiling #desiblr #desi tumblr #studyblr #study tumblr #shitpost #shitposting #idk what else to tag #desi teen #desi academia #desi shit posting #desi tag

[hasellia]

My main thought watching the hbomberguy plagiarism video.

Original art by @ajthebumblebee ; https://www.tumblr.com/ajthebumblebee/709893248470106112/this-seems-to-be-what-ive-learned

#misogny #ajthebumble #Sourcing information is my passion #hbomberguy #artist on Tumblr #youtube #you tube #drama #lgbtqia #queer #Gonna copy down what I wrote in my YT comment. #Seriously there comes a point where just citing your sources is so much easier than the hoops these people jump through. #And it can be fun! I love looking at sources and just knowing who told me these ideas. #It makes me feel connected and in community; which I assume is the fear of every business major in marketing. #ALSO the fact that what got Illuminaughtii caught was that someone was stealing her editor's ARTSTYLE is not a coincidence IMO. #She wasn't mad because someone stole her creativity. She was mad because she thought someone stole her branding. #That's all an artstyle is to a buisness. It's sad that younger artist are taught that you're worthless without unique style. #It isn't plagiarism to innovate or add to it in a way that feels good and right to YOU. #Plagiarism isn't paraphrasing. It's saying you didn't when you did.

[thym3y]

hornigold's legacy

#ofmd #ofmd fanart #our flag meets death #our flag means death fanart #edizzy #young izzy hands #young edward teach #ofmd comic #izzy hands fanart #blackbeard fanart #cw blood #cw abuse #art #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #I LOOOOVE GENERATIONAL TRAUMAAA #i like the idea that hornigold taught ed most of what he knows abt piracy and thats why ed has so much more of a fucked up relationship wit #it compared to the rest of the crew :3 #but like i can totally imagine the stab me scene taking place between hornigold and a young ed. but like way more traumatizing and bad.

[maddy-ferguson]

women will literally accuse women and esp lesbian circles of "not unpacking ""man-hating""" alleged ""misandry" sweetie xo" getting offended ppl aren't appropriately uplifting how "men are amazing and awesome and attractive and i won't be shamed for thinking so" as if appreciating men is a real counter opinion than blame whatever gave women of every sexuality instance to be jaded weary cautious and tired and who'll complain every now and then and continue on with her life until she dies putting up with patriarchy. just welcome to the "woke" internet where misogyny's over and "man-hate" "shamed for not hating men" is worth springing to defences for

yeah i've only seen people talk like men's rights activists and think they're being unbelievably progressive on tumblr it's kind of fascinating. like i can see how seeing people hate on men could mess with people and stuff but you can't demand men appreciation posts that's literally the whole world outside of idk your tumblr dash (or even on your tumblr dash because fandom misogyny from people who think they're not misogynistic at all is really something). men get praised for "babysitting" their own kids like be serious? it's very let men be masculine

i don't think being like men are soooo gross and we hate them is actually constructive and it can definitely veer into transphobia (you'll always be a man/"a male" and thus a danger to women/why would you ever want to become a man they're the enemy and the bane of society etc) and homophobia relatively quickly?

but the way people ON TUMBLR ""combat that"" is often so off to me like if the most basic feminist principles offend you then i'm not really sure where to go from here. i remember seeing a post that was like "men aren't your enemy. they're your friend/brother/father/colleague/neighbor" with a lot of notes and like i don't know how to tell you this but that's literally who's most likely to harm a woman, the men she knows?😭 and obviously not every system of oppression is exactly the same but would you say the same thing to someone criticizing white people like...just very weird

i think women who are attracted to men and dating them making jokes about how they only tolerate being attracted to men because they have no choice and especially the whole i'm bi so i love every woman and only find 1 in a 1000 men attractive (very often said while in a relationship with a man) thing is obnoxious and annoying for like everyone who has to hear it lmao but also when women who date men make jokes about it (not about them being ugly or unattractive or whatever but about them being bad partners in general) it's like. what else are they going to do like you said they're gonna endure patriarchy for the rest of their lives and as girlfriends/wives/mothers they go through the most it's very bleak? idk. it's not like you can date a better man yourself out of patriarchy

of course men aren't a all as bad as the worst guy you can imagine and they're not all out to get you or whatever but saying things like "men don't all benefit from the patriarchy rich men benefit from the patriarchy but jake, 23, is not oppressing you" is like. kind of insane. jake, 14, was oppressing me like have you never interacted with boys in school😭 and it's not like it was entirely their fault we all have to outgrow misogyny it's just you know society etc but some of them never outgrow it lmao and just...the takes you see on feminism on tumblr are astounding i hate it here

#and like i do think that young guys who feel bad about themselves only having people who make them feel worse and who actively make them #worse like incels and idk youtube algorithms to turn to is a problem but like. again it's the same thing as white people who feel bad about #being white to me in a way like are women and GIRLS supposed to coddle them and say it's gonna be okay you're great even when they're #like actually harming them by being misogynistic to them? that's already what they're taught to do always #the notes on that male loneliness epidemic post i reblogged a few weeks ago still haunt me like OH MY GOD #and if you think misogyny isn't as prevalent anymore you're very naive. and probably misogynistic yourself #i'm not even sure young men being more feminist is true (well it's probably true when you compare it to like the 50s) but even #when men ARE like yeah women shouldn't have to do everything i can help with chores (the use of the word help is already a red flag lmao) #when you look at what they actually do they still do way less like i don't have links because these are tags on a tumblr ask but i read #somewhere that men think chores are 50/50 when they're only doing like 30% of the work? like it just seems hopeless #sometimes i'm happy and then i think about the mental load #sorry for not uplifting men 24/7 you can just hang out on the steve harrington tag or something there's actually a lot of people doing that #when someone said um does the ronance fandom not seem terfy to you...because of a post that was like can the lesbian ship ronance #be about the lesbian ship ronance not about steve A MAN #like you can't make this up #i meant it when i said the average tumblr user would benefit from being exposed to more misogyny like i swear they forget it's even a thing #like obviously they wouldn't BENEFIT from it lmao but their posts wouldn't be as dumb and that would benefit me🙏 #ask

[uncanny-tranny]

One thing I've noticed as I try to steer toward using more accurate language is just how pervasive it is that women stay "girls," but (cis, mostly) men can never return to "boy."

I find myself describing a woman character to somebody and have to correct myself when I unconsciously refer to her as a girl. It's weird, because I'm trans, and I should know that infantilization is another form of denying somebody autonomy. As a trans guy, I know what it's like to be forever a "boy" when age-wise and maturity-wise, I should be a man, and known as one. I know what it's like for people to deny you autonomy because they infantilize you. Yet I still have to correct myself when I accidentally call the forty-year-old doctor a "girl".

I think my point with this post is this: be careful to not infantilize. Coming from a trans perspective, infantilization has meant that people question everything I do because they don't see me as worthy of having autonomy. For women (trans and cis alike), this infantilization can mean that their issues won't be taken seriously, that they can be brushed aside because people treat those they see as "young" or "infantile" as uniquely unworthy of being independent people.

#feminism #i spent all my life being taught that this was acceptable (infantilizing women through language)... #...and i'm trying my absolute best to stop that cycle right here. i don't want the people in my life thinking it's okay... #...it isn't okay when people infantilize me for being trans and same goes for women of all experiences... #...i don't really know what's inspired this post... i've just been remembering the instances where i corrected myself... #...like i don't think this happens OFTEN per se but i still remember the instances where i had to stop mid-sentence to correct myself... #IF THIS POSTS TWICE I WILL DIE (tumblr hates me)

[walmart-miku]

This one's for all the trans girlies and girls that struggle with girlhood

Also translated lyrics

#its the trans song to me #but i felt this song in my soul as a girl who was never taught and never quite learned how to be a girl #im not trans myself #harumaki gohan really just makes songs that hit you in your heart and vocalize exactly what you feel #harumaki also has one for the sapphics #its called zero talking #highly recommend #if you couldnt tell harumaki is my fav artist #harumaki gohan #trans #also i see tumblr hating on you trans girls and i want you to know that i love you #i love you trans women #this is way outside what i normally post but i need people to listen to this #i have been looping it for the last almost 2 weeks #Youtube

[pyrriax]

hi tumblr im pyrr pyrriax and im in my trimonthly artist arc, lord help me and all the projects that are currently sitting in my drafts while i am lured in by the siren song of drawing

#haunted ecosystem #this is not helping with how much my hands hurt on a daily basis this is why i type and dont handwrite/draw very much. #im lured in regardless and i really need to find an artform that doesnt Hurt but for now. digital art <3 #like theres a difference between my dumb doodles (quick easy not much different from regular computer usage) and actual art #but im an artist at heart i spent sooooo long being an artist and thinking i was shit at writing. that is wrong! im actually kinda good #im rambling in tags today because i have been not social (my partner is in genshin hell and my beloved is. somewhere.) #okay but on another note i reread the first. couple chapters of wtds this morning? the pacing is a little weird and the tense is fucked #but its actually a lot better than i thought it was? you can tell i was fleshing everybody out in my head and i totally forgot about how #i described the watcher [who i am STILL redacting the name of until we get there] and just. ough. pandora being very logical #and then jumping to the latest chapter and fucking sobbing because i forgot about how it went and just. pandora and his. #whatever the fuck is wrong with him. #i have gotta start recommending people read that again. its surprisingly friendly without context because of how i approached it #that fic has taught me so many things its actually a little comical. it also made me relearn how to make and write ocs so thats fun #once i finish that main fic (and i WILL i am actually planning to sign up for a thing. im finishing it i swear.) i finally get to show off #more of the world and characters ive crafted. showing backstories and what-ifs and all these oneshots ive been keeping close to my chest #for like absolutely ages because i dont want any spoilers on my tumblr #and. im finishing that fic in pseudo-memoriam of somebody who deleted their accounts everywhere. still miss you dane! #ok this has completely gone off topic ily tumblr im going back to drawing and i might make a new pfp #it'll still be lavius but it'll be fray lavius since i think about him a lot and i like his color palette.

[piratemousey]

Laszlo Cravensworth watching Ru Paul's Drag Race: "This Ru Paul dominatrix has stolen my signature eloqution and my style, which I call "sexual debotury" I will not staaand for this insult and I will challenge her to a cock off."

Colin Robinson: "I thought that the cock-off was going to be one of Laszlo's usual Friday night circle jerks. But apparently a cock-off is a complex event which ranges from religious experience, foot race, philosophy debates, competing lemonade stands, to, in fact, a lip sync battle sword fight where the swords are replaced with a cock."

(Cut to old sketches, the last one is two roosters being shoved together awkwardly by two people dressed like high fashion foxes)

Colin Robinson continues: "The funny thing about swords is that they're often used as a symbol of virility and the phallus. The once mighty ronin Miyamoto Masashi, a famous tactician from the early edo period, believed the duel began when a challenge was laid. Now..."

Nadja doll: "Shut the fuck up Colin Robinson!!"

My good lady wife Nadja: "No one wants to listen to your dick-tales, Colin Robinson!"

Camera zooms in on Guillermo's embarrassed expression.

Scene

#what we do in the shadows #wwdits #nadja my good lady wife #guillermo de la cruz #harvey guillen #laszlo cravensworth #colin robinson #nadja of antipaxos #rupaul's drag race #lip sync for your life #puppet history #puppet history taught me #my brain was broken by the internet and this is what can out #i wrote something for you tumblr #fanfic

[soft-serve-soymilk]

‘The moon is beautiful, isn’t it?’ 

I drew my favourite capri scene (^・ω・^ ). Please click for additional quality!

#fun fact persona 4 taught me what the first sentence meant at 7 years old and i still haven't forgotten #anyway Shadow after 3 million years i am finally done~ #I went through the 5 stages of grief working on this so here u go capri fandom enjoy ur food and goodbye~~ #pav's art #captive prince #laurent of vere #damianos of akielos #laurent #damen #lamen #damen x laurent #damen of akielos #capri #cs pacat #artists on tumblr #fanart #illustration #colored pencils

[heavyknitter]

1 - How it started.

Two weeks ago I walked up 'n over to my aunt, who lives next door to me and asked her if she had some knitting needles and wool to show me how to do it. When I get the urge to do something, I need to do it right now, it can't wait, I need to ride this wave - thankfully my aunt is very much the same so she took one look at me, got up from her seat and started rifling through her stuff to find what I asked for. She used to be an expert knitter, but her eyesight is poor these days so she doesn't bother with that anymore - she is also, as I figured out quickly, not all that good at explaining shit. But eh, we made it work. We are both very kinaesthetic oriented learners and for her this is easy-peasy muscle memory and I had to remind her I have no context no idea how to loop what and where and more importantly, my hands may have a lot of muscle memory on various tasks but not this, none of that. So she manipulated my hand a bit until I got the idea of how and bäm. Suddenly I was knitting.

Well. I tried my best. It was a learning curve, thankfully a steep one. See, she cast on ten loops for me and did the first two rows to get me started and I jumped in and somehow made that 13 loops. That was fun because she of course asked me how the hell and I had no answer because we were at the bare bones, how to increase was not even a topic yet so idk what I did there.

Next issue, which I was not really surprised by if I am honest, was the fact that I was knitting too tightly. See, as artist I have the issue of gripping my pens too tight, so tight in fact that I sometimes cut off the blood circulation in my fingers while I draw detailed linework. I have compression opera gloves to mitigate that issue a bit and keep my hands and arms protected while I try to unlearn this. I also started embroidery in autumn of 2022 and there I like to pull the thread tight to make the embroidery neat and even, so.. both of these things worked against me a wee bit. But I worked on this little test piece for like three days straight to get the movement into my system. To get my grip under control. To get a rhythm going. (To make sure I will not add any more loops to a row than those 13 because seriously where the fuck did they come from.)

I mostly tried to get even rows but in the beginning I made some waves between tight loops and trying to loosen them again but eventually it clicked with my hands what I wanted them to do in terms of pressure and pull. My aunt is a darling you know? She said, those knitting needles are shit for the wool she had at hand but it will do for now, good enough to learn at least. And then she ran an errand the very next day and gave me some bulky as hell soft wool that has like.. the same feels as those soft synthetic cuddly blankets you can buy almost everywhere, so, perfect for me. And my first own knitting needles to go with that. And I showed her my test piece and how I slowly get a hang of it and she nodded in approval and praised how even my rows are getting and that made my brain go brr.

And one day after I did go into the city and hit up the store next to the train station and went a bit wild on buying wool - which is a theme for the next couple of days to be honest. I bought a lot of wool because I really wanted to have everything in house when I go wild. And thus I started on my first real project. A scarf that is more like a shawl because I really really misjudged how broad the bulky soft wool makes the thing. But more on that later I guess <3

#heavyknitter speaks #knitting journal #fuck these 3 extra loops srsly how where and why #I already know how to do increases by the way and I still have no idea what I did on the test piece specifically to make them happen #also maybe worth mentioning. I knit continental style. thats how aunt taught me. #I was not aware that there were different styles until I saw a youtube tutorial that confused the fuck out of me #i was bewildered by looping the thread around the needles by hand #and then i saw another video where a nice old lady said “i'm doing this one in the continental style” and I went ohhhh now I understand #so yah anyway I do contintental #which suits me very well because I knit fast and love it #knitting #fiber arts #fiber crafts #craftblr #knitblr #knitters of tumblr

[cuteniaarts]

Fanny, my sweet, beautiful girl

17.11.2012 – 14.04.2019

#my art #artists on tumblr #I cannot accept that it has been 5 years already #I know covid messed with everyone’s sense of time but it simultaneously feels so much longer and so much shorter than that #exactly five years ago I was holding onto my mom for dear life and sobbing as we watched lilo and stitch together #not the best movie to watch when you’ve just lost your first ever pet you know #and then I cried myself to sleep at the next morning we never mentioned her again #I know it’s because it was way too painful for everyone involved. but I do wish I was allowed to process that grief properly #instead of bottling it up and pretending everything was okay until I was reminded of her #feeling like my heart was being shattered over and over again every single time #well anyway. enough of that. I’ve allowed myself a nice long cry today and got most of it out of my system #and once I was feeling okay I decided to draw her #and I can count the number of times I’ve drawn animals on one hand so.. I’m not too sure about the result #but it felt like to commemorate her in some way. #so yeah. here she is. my dear girl. the best dog in existence. she was always so affectionate and kind #which I didn’t always appreciate bc of how young I was. when you’re a kid it feels like pets will live forever #never barked. never bit anyone. her only crime was chewing on my mlp and lps toys that I left out on the floor #but I’m grateful she did that. it taught me not to leave my toys lying around and to clean up after myself #she really was taken from me way too soon. ideally she could still be alive right now. but I’ve been down the road of guilt and regret #there was nothing I could do. I was a child. I can only hope that she knew she was loved right until the very end #even if I didn’t know how to show it properly. and great. now I’m tearing up again #I suppose it’s unavoidable. April 12th will always be a melancholy day. and maybe that’s not such a bad thing #it’s good to have a day when I can freely remember her and cry if I need to. it’s healthy. it’s better than crying every day #she never liked it much when I cried. always tried to comfort me. that’s the kind of dog she was. I miss her so much #when I move apartments and get a dog of my own I’m getting a spaniel. just like she was #well. maybe a different colour so I don’t end up sobbing every time I look at it. but spaniels really are the perfect breed #I mean. cavaliers especially were bred for love and warmth. that’s just what I need. it will be nice to have someone waiting for me at home #and while I don’t necessarily believe in the afterlife… I do hope that Fanny’s watching over me #spiritually comforting me when I feel all alone in the world. it’s a nice thought for sure #and hopefully she won’t mind me getting another spaniel too much. it will be done in her honour after all. to make up for my past mistakes