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finally set up a lil carrd site with my socials, commission deets, and separate portfolios :^)

#yeah okay my adobe subscription did lapse now that i’m out of the safety of academia #goodbye curated portfolio site i’ll raise u from the ashes later #but for now! she’s simple she’s cute :^)

theshitpostcalligrapher

y'ever get haunted by the fear you will never write anything as beautiful as the US Steel Pipe Works Slag Dump Youtube Comment cuz hoo boy i sure do:

shoutout to you, youtube user mrc109, wherever you may be today

kosmogrl

I really am just living for the hope of it all

swagvo1d

horsesource

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

magnesiumflare

Important tags from @sashayed

After everything, is it still you?

new art for an older character I’ve respec’ed as an Awakened Undead Revenant to fit into our current campaign! her original story revolved around navigating moral injury and using that friction to discover a personal sense of duty— how do you learn to act in accordance with your beliefs? in this new setting, we get to see someone who agrees to bear moral (and physical) decomposition for the sake of fulfilling a personal sense of duty— how wrong are you willing to be to protect what matters to you?

I’m excited to see what direction the story takes her! I hope she gets to change.

#dnd5e #half orc #my art #character design #dnd character #lmao she makes me so fucking emo #our last session with her… we got to reveal who she followed into death #and they are disgusted with who she became #uGH AAUUGHH AGONIES I did it all for you VS I would have never asked for this

mutationgirl

(having a good week) that’s right. the goal is to increase my baseline. make the spirals shallower until they spin lazily on the surface of the water, lose their suction. im not trying to fix it all at once, im trying to incrementally improve my way into something tolerable. and once im there maybe i can shoot for good

(having a bad week) and in my terrible forge i will temper the flames of ruin

bladeweave

cannot understand why people like youtubers who are yelling the entire time. why do you let that man raise his voice at you.

koolthing0

ratbastarddotfuck

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

digitalsymbiote

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

rederiswrites

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.