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stop freaking out about getting old and start planning out what kind of old person you're gonna be

#the game plan is witch #I cackle when I laugh and want a black cat and I’m really good at making soup

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Actually making progress with the Depression Room

The floor is clear

because everything is on my bed.

So many clothes that need washed and/or ironed and put away. I also have to reorganise my wardrobe and drawers.

Baby steps.

#I’ll have to throw out old stuff - the amount of jeans that were victims of my thighs and are just ripped

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Aaaand my hopes are potentially dashed. So that happiness was short-lived.

Ohh an awesome thing may be happening

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Ohh an awesome thing may be happening

#not Job related but another thing #Just *vibrates*

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rb and tell me what’s your most re watched movie.. and be honest

#spirit stallion of the cimarron #a close second is Anastasia

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#phone is small internet laptop/desktop is big internet

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Job applications are getting out of hand

Just finished one for National Galleries (visitors assistant role)

Did the application a week ago and was sent an assessment link which took an hour and had a bunch of multi choice questions and at one point I had to record myself answering a question and I had to write a response to a fake email complaint.

And I had to have my webcam on the whole time. Stressful.

#Just wanna *tears at hair* screeaaaam

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when I was a kid you had to do the charlie the unicorn voice whether you liked it or not. you had to say candy mountain charlieeee in the voice. not like these days

#llamas with hats too #Caaaaaaaarrrlll

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Still no luck with the jobs, but in other news I’m trying to go on daily walks, about an hour and a half long. I’ve managed 5 days so far. Feeling a bit better but the monthly hell is on her way and I will no doubt be too tired to go anywhere.

#need to try and maintain routines

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Hey! Haven't seen you online for a while, and just wanted to check that you were okay? :)

thank you for the check-in. I’m having a period of bad mental health and I’m looking for a job so just under a lot of stress at the moment :(

I am sometimes lurking so if anyone needs to reach me just send an ask or a message and I’ll answer when I can.

#I’ve applied for so many jobs and no interviews and I just want to cry

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I really like that Crowley and Aziraphale's ideas of human love are so in keeping with their characters.

Aziraphale likes the Pride & Prejudice-type cotillion ball love realisation thing that is refined and chaste and full of unspoken yearning. The leads usually talk in terms of affection and fondness and the lightest hand graze means so much (because anything more is basically out of the question).

Crowley on the other hand goes straight in for the kiss in a rainstorm trope. It's angsty, passionate, physical, (usually) long-desired, (usually) preceded by a huge fight, and generally resolves the conflict without the need for too many words.

I think it's an interesting window into how they think of human love, and maybe how they feel for each other.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into this (honestly that's a given).

#I love this!! #good omens #crowley and aziraphale

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i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

#yeah brownies were the ones that stole one of your socks your hair ties and other little things that are easily lost #Gran always said they make beds/hammocks out of socks and the lived in the cupboard under the stairs

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OK new game. Use this website to see how common your first name is, and then put that number in the tags. 

#90th most common

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has this one been done yet

#it’s dying on my birthday! yay!

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when you start reading again and it's like oh. oh . the sun actually does still shine.

#feeling this recently

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How many of these movies have you seen that people said “you haven’t seen [blank] yet??” to me about

#22%