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[fidelcostco]

if you have to do one thing that sucks and you've been putting it off even though it's technically easy, this is your sign to bite the bullet and do it so fast that you bowl over anticipatory dread and clip straight into it being started (the hard part). open that unpleasant email, check that balance you lost track of, see what assignments you're missing, etc. go! go and be free of the burden of needing to do a thing! i love you

[cherrybeez]

i like them

[kiwisodaz]

Bath time 🧼

[mrsterlingeverything]

The haters are trying to put a cup over me

[mrsterlingeverything]

The haters are trying to put a cup over me and take me outside

[alphamiaplacidus]

i miss my cats

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[typhlonectes]

MOBULA RAYS!!!

[natalikoromotoart]

Home making: “Let’em cook” & “Dishing” 🌶️🥕🧄🔪🐷✨🥣🍽️🥛🧼🐻

[stainedglassjam]

★"𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚟𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔/𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢."★

[alphamiaplacidus]

read a piece about how our creative talents are a reflection of our Creator and it really hit me that yeah.

all my talents are from Him

my ability to draw, my love of characters. it's all given to me by God, and i've been trying to make my ocs reflect that in my recent revamp (on @miaplacidusocs).

an old acquaintance of mine left tumblr after realizing that what they were doing wasn't glorifying to God, but that's not what i wanna do.

i'm not going to stop making ocs, i just want to be conscientious of the types of ocs i make and the way i write their stories. want them to be a reflection of His creation and the creativity displayed by our Creator

[honted]

can i borrow 1 thousing dollers

[omtai]

coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

[alphamiaplacidus]

im basically just that bug that u can't seem to catch and squish no matter how hard u try

[catmask]

btw with art when people say 'youve got to do it scared' 'youve got to draw bad' 'youre not gonna know how to do it until you do it' it sounds like bullshit but its true. 90% of art is just getting over the fear that it's not going to be good enough to deserve to be made in the first place. but you're here. you're alive and, with no need to justify that, you're going to make art. it's just part of being alive. you'll spend so long worrying you aren't doing it good enough that you'll look back and realized you didn't live a single day of it.

[anaryllis]

sry for the tangent but this was too long for the tags:

i teach high school art to 17 year olds who have never taken an art class before. this means many of them have already begun to identify as "bad at art" - b/c they never do it - and compare themselves to their classmates who are "good at art" - who are almost always self-taught

the thing i always tell my students is that you will get better at something if you like it enough to do it when you're bad at it. if you like the act of drawing, then focus on that, and draw and draw, and eventually the product will also be something you like. if the act of drawing itself is miserable, then there's no need to be hard on yourself for it. try it, explore it, but it's not a reflection of your "goodness". (sidenote: for my jock-y students i often use sports as a metaphor - itd be silly to expect me to be good at basketball when the last time i played was 4th grade. that doesnt mean im Incapable of Basketball, but that i've yet to invest the time necessary to play well)

if you want to make art and its just fucking miserable for you, its possible 1 of 2 things are happening.

1. your inner critic is too loud. slow down and enjoy the process of making. this is the hard part that also gets easier with practice. take the small wins as you go

2. honestly, its possible you're not doing the right art medium for you! i love how ceramicware looks - i absolutely hate the process of doing ceramics. it's not intuitive to me and sensually overwhelming. but lots of my students that HATE drawing start to come alive when we work with clay. find the method of artmaking that nourishes you!

tl;dr - do the things that you like doing even when you're bad at it, and you will end up good.

[sh5]

if you have Norton Antivirus or Norton VPN, delete the software ASAP.

Norton is automatically installing and running a cryptocurrency mining program in the backgrounds of their users. There is no text box asking to confirm the use of this program and is installed automatically, it runs during “downtime” on your computer . While the official announcement said that this program was exclusive to the US, international users are reporting it as well. We don’t know the exact scope yet.

To delete this program, must go into the files (Program Files/Norton) and delete the file NCrypt.exe. It will ask for the admin permission. (Some report having admin permissions on their computer but being unable to delete the program.) If the software is already downloaded to your computer, I would NOT recommend continuing to use Norton, as there is no guarantee that the .exe file won’t return in another update.

Tell your friends and family, reblog, spread this, please. It’s barely been getting any attention, and I worry that Norton is setting a precedent that other companies will repeat. However, if a large (or very vocal) part of the userbase continues to complain, it may make Norton or other companies think twice before mining crypto on your computer.

[redsixwing]

Confirmed on Norton's website 1/4/22.

This was trialed in their early access program in June of last year, and is now included with all subscriptions.

Don't want to mine cryptocurrency? You should use a different antivirus.

Windows Defender is actually pretty good last I checked.

[dduane]

...UGH. :/

[wandererriha]

May I offer as a superior alternative:

- Avira

Basic free version works on both phone and computer. One year package starts at $15. The bundles tend to be a hair pricey but the coverage is genuinely good.

- Hitman Pro

Specifically destroys malware and mining software. Sadly, it is not free, but a 1yr plan is $25 which isn’t bad.

[wandererriha]

UPDATE: According to a Norton customer service rep, the crypto feature is “integral to the software running properly” and cannot be manually disabled. Norton has now blocked any method of manually disabling the feature, and has deleted several posts outlining how to do so.

The only way to remove the feature is to uninstall Norton.

[furbearingbrick]

[ousia-poetica]

Making crafts releases stress and encourages creativity. By stowaways_toys

[prokopetz]

I misread a post observing that a tyrannosaurus is chronologically closer to an iPhone than it is to a stegosaurus as claiming that a tyrannosaurus is taxonomically closer to an iPhone than it is to a stegosaurus, and I swear my first thought was “okay, what have those cladistics weirdos done this time“.

[velociraptrix]

iphones are actually genetically modified pigeons

[nudityandnerdery]

“Look, the chronology from carrier pigeon to smart phone is very clear.”

[curiousobsession101]

*runs in holding an iphone with no carrying case* Behold! A bird!

[colormush]