A gay fae from outer space

She/they/fae An adventure of my own, into this lovely world. A blog with no direction :) 🏳️‍🌈

[black-raven200]

Fae Aesthetic

For requests see this post.

[kiwi]

HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

[kiwi]

so far we’ve got

senshi stock

croquis cafe

line-of-action.com

quickposes.com

posemaniacs

clip studio paint models

pexels.com

sketchdaily

eggazyoutatsu atarichan drawer

designdoll

if you have any more please reply!

[nohara]

Unsplash: All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated when possible. More precisely, Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.

Freeimages: You can use the images in digital format on websites, blog posts, social media, advertisements, film and television productions, web and mobile applications. In printed materials such as magazines, newspapers, books, brochures, flyers, product packaging for decorative use in your home, office or any public place or personal use. The rights granted to you by FreeImages.com are: Perpetual, meaning there is no expiration or end date on your rights to use the content. Non-exclusive, meaning that you do not have exclusive rights to use the content. FreeImages.com can license the same content to other customers. Unlimited, meaning you can use the content in an unlimited number of projects and in any media. For purposes of this agreement, “use” means to copy, reproduce, modify, edit, synchronize, perform, display, broadcast, publish, or otherwise make use of.

Stocksnap: Every single image on StockSnap are governed exclusively by the generous terms of the Creative Commons CC0 license. Specifically, that license means you can do any and all of the following: Download the image file.Publish, revise, copy, alter, and share that image. Use the image (as-is or as you’ve altered it), in both personal and commercial contexts. Moreover, you can put StockSnap CC0 images to any of these usages without buying the right to do it, acquiring written permission from the image’s creator, or attributing the work to the image creator. In other words, there’s no fee to download or use these StockSnap images in accordance with the CC0 license. They’re free to download, free to edit, and free to use - even in a commercial project! You don’t even need to attribute the image to the creator, the way you do with other CC or traditional copyright licensing schemes. (However, even though it’s not required, we here at StockSnap do encourage you to include an appropriate attribution. It’s a nice thing to do.)

Burst.Shopify: Burst is a free stock photo platform that is powered by Shopify. Their image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images that were shot by their global community of photographers. You can use their pictures for just about anything — your website, blog or online store, school projects, Instagram ads, facebook posts, desktop backgrounds, client work and more. All of their photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

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Viintage: All images hosted by Viintage.com are considered to be public domain images, each image is presumed to be in the public domain. It may be distributed or copied as permitted by applicable law. Viintage.com assumes no ownership of the images and they may be downloaded and can be used free of charge for any purpose. They may be downloaded and used for commercial and personal use. Understand “public domain” as the permission to freely use an image without asking permission from the photographer or the illustrator. Thus, the creator of the work will not sue you for violating his/her copyrights. It is your responsibility to make sure, displaying the image does not violate any other law. Viintage.com assumes no responsibility for how or where you use the images found on the site.

Gratisography: You may use Gratisography pictures as you please for both personal and commercial projects. You can adapt and modify the images and get paid for work that incorporates the pictures. This includes advertising campaigns, adding your logo or text to an image, printed in any size print runs (e.g., book covers, magazines, posters, etc.), on your website, blog, or other digital mediums, and on merchandise as long as the picture itself is not the merchandise.

[chiptunecreature]

As someone who draws a lot of faeries, Faestock is godlike.

[uselessarttips]

A wonderful addition to the list!

[sepdet]

Unsplash. Another whopping huge free images site like pixabay: free for commercial and noncommercial use and remixing; just don’t sell the photos unmodified or add them to other photo-sharing sites.

Morguefile. Big old free photo archive from the dawn of the web. “We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.”

Open Access at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 406,000 images of artworks from The Met collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction.”

Smithsonian Open Access. Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images […] from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Limited use, if you’re doing a Science and need control panels/rockets/futuristic an image search with qualifier site: nasa.gov You have to double-check a photo’s caption it’s really a NASA photo, but photos which were taken by NASA spacecraft and astronauts are public domain, since they’re funded by taxpayer dollars. (This also goes for images of animals archived at the USFWS Digital Library, i.e the US Fish and Wildlife Service, or rocks and landscapes on USGS websites.

[soft-lily]

Okay updating and consolidating lots of info here; as well as adding links for ease of access. Adding a brief description for some too; as is the case that not all of them have descriptions above. (Warning that some of these links contain nude refs, I will try to mark where possible which ones have more prominent ones.)

Posing Sites and Apps:

Adorkastock. Stock photos for pose refs. DeviantArt gallery started in 2007.

FreePhotoMuscle.com. (translated page link click here) Japanese stock photo pose site that includes buff people, but in funny poses and costumes.

CroquoisCafe. (NSFW, nude model poses warning) A stock photo pose site. You should be aware this org has been linked as pro-Trump. I leave it to y’all to decide if you want to use the resources or not. I highly encourage not financially supporting them and trying to support the individual models if you can.

Line of Action. Fantastic site that includes posing refs, community discussions from other artists, figure study, anatomy, etc. So much stuff in here.

PoseSpace. Extensive library of poses. Some free resources others are paid. I’ve not fully evaluated both, but you should be able to use this all mostly free and get great use out of it.

SketchDaily. This one is one of the better ones out there. You can time yourself, search by pose, clothing options, body type, perspective, etc. All real models.

JustSketch.me. A pose app for any device. Has apps for most devices and a webapp. Customize and pose models/props/scenes.

Quickposes. Pose site that gives you timed challenges to become more proficient at poses.

POSEMANIACS. Ref site with anatomical poses. All the ref pics are of 3D models with only the bones and muscles. Can be helpful for seeing how muscles behave in certain poses. limited to two body types tho.

MagicPoser. A wonderful app that’s great on mobile. Lets you choose size of models, number of them, style, etc. Significant features are use of snap point with the physics engine, adjustable lighting, multiple perspective, 360 angle, articulated hand posing.

Clip Studio Paint Modeler. Free 3d tool that works with Clip Studio Paint. You can import your own data or other models you find online. Not quite an alternative to Blender, but the integration with CSP is very nice.

Egg a Zyoutatsu Atarichan Drawer. (requires enabling flash player or downloading and using standalone flashplayer) Drawing tool for pose practice. The developer is working on an html5 version.

DesignDoll. One of the best pose tool apps out there. You can customize so many things. They also have an extensive collection of ready made poses here. You can use the free or pay once for life and have the poses integrated into the client as well as the ability to export your obj to other programs like blender or smt.

Stock Photo Sites:

Unsplash. Giant free stock image site.

freeimages.com. Another stock photo site, less features than some others.

StockSnap.io. Stock photos with a creative commons CC0 license, which essentially means you can use the photos however you want and don’t have to attribute to them. (though its nice if you do attribute)

Burst.Shopify. Tons of royalty free high quality images. Similar licensing to StockSnap.

pixabay. I feel like most people know about this one, but it features entirely free CC0 licensed Photos, Videos, and Music. No attribution required, but still nice to support a giant site with all this content.

Viintage. Big collection of public domain vintage photos.

Gratisography. For commercial or personal use. They specialize in odd, quirky, wild stock photos.

pexels. Great free stock photos and videos. Only a few stipulations of what they don’t allow, but their license info can be found here.

Faestock. An artist and model with a huge amount of fantasy and fae and other types of photos available. Their terms for use are here.

MorgueFile. Old stock photo archive that’s been around a long time.

Museum and Institution Open Access sites:

USA National Gallery of Art. Over 50k works available for download.

New York Metropolitan Museum open access. 490k works to browse. Even codes for Animal Crossing New Horizons patterns.

The Smithsonian Institution open access. Probably one of the largest open access collections available online. Around 3.9 million items available to view.

Many More. This article from Apollo magazine has an extensive list of open access museums and institutions from around the world. A brief list of places includes: Art Institute of Chicago,  Belvedere, Vienna ,  Birmingham Museums Trust , Cleveland Art Museum , Harvard Art Museums , J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles , Kunstmuseum Basel , Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.,  Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Mauritshuis, The Hague , Minneapolis Institute of Art , Munch Museet, Norway , Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington , Národní galerie Praha , Nationalmuseet Danmark , Nationalmuseum, Stockholm  , New York Public Library , Paris Musées ,  Pinakotheken, Munich,  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam,  Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich,  Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen ,  Wellcome Collection, London ,  Yale University .

[kiwi]

wow its been a while since ive seen this post, im so glad more useful info has been added!

[kirstielol]

An unanticipated problem with the game stray... My cats are going absolutely crazy 🤣 cooper especially is going nuts.. he's crying and walking around the tv looking for the cat he can see on the screen 🥺

[thesepaintedhands]

MY BOY DID THE SAME THING

[sunshine-tattoo]

cats have blorbos now

[the-doctored-pepper-deactivated]

cats have blorbos now

[11990904]

“When we reveal ourselves to our partner and find that this brings healing rather than harm, we make an important discovery - that intimate relationship can provide a sanctuary from the world of facades, a sacred space where we can be ourselves, as we are…  This kind of unmasking - speaking our truth, sharing our inner struggles, and revealing our raw edges - is sacred activity, which allows two souls to meet and touch more deeply.”  - John Welwood in all about love by bell hooks

[koivulehma]

Why do people keep reblogging that photo of a goth chick in a combine harvester

[mr-deep-downer]

[deathtokillian]

For context she made a tiktok dancing to a country song and people were saying "I bet she doesn't even know how to start a tractor". So she started the tracker up and drove it.

[codsfish]

Sleeping positions good for your spine: Stiff. Uncomfortable. Feels like a numb piece of driftwood stuck in wet sand. Positional equivalent of studying for an AP chem test.

Sleeping positions that are absolutely awful for your spine: Heavenly. Glorious. Elysian. The most comfortable shape you will ever make with your body. Clears your skin and fixes your mental health. Your dad comes home with the milk.

[luminarai]

*david attenborough voice* truly the most dangerous predator in the animal kingdom

[annieisyourfavourite]

once you understand that a vibrator is an accessibility tool, your understanding of disabled issues and of the world really widens

[annieisyourfavourite]

most people only think of accessibility tools in a barebones kind of way. a ramp is needed to physically enter spaces, a cane is needed so i don’t fall over while standing, captions are needed to literally be able to understand words being spoken.

some people go a little farther and understand them in terms of daily life functions, like adaptive clothing, or pre-cut food. still, these things are only seen as needing access tools because they’re baseline human functions. eating. walking. wearing clothes.

my vibrator is an access tool. because of my conditions, i can’t hold my hand where it needs to be long enough to masturbate. masturbating isn’t a necessary human function. i will not die if i don’t do it. i won’t lose my job if i don’t do it.

but the thing about a vibrator, is that it makes an aspect of life that i want to enjoy possible. disabled access is not only about the barebones basic necessities to literally be alive. if someone wants to have orgasms, a vibrator is an important tool to a pleasurable life. food delivery makes eating delicious food possible. sensory friendly live performances makes enjoying theatre and music possible. shower seats mean people can sit and enjoy a long shower that otherwise would have exhausted them. service dogs let people go out with their friends when they wouldn’t have otherwise. my cane doesn’t just help me walk, it helps me keep balance while i’m dancing at the club.

disabled people deserve so much more than to just get by. we deserve to have full, pleasurable lives, to experience all the kinds of things that able-bodied people get to experience too. access tools are meant to help us not only survive, but to really thrive too

[vaspider]

I literally said “YES!!!” out loud and then started reading this post out loud to my wife, and by the time I was finished reading it, I was crying, because this is it. This is the shit. This is the truth.

There is a sort of punitive mindset when it comes to disability – you cannot ask for accommodations if you don’t really need them, it has to be for something essential, something you can’t live without, can’t do your job without. I think this – in the end – comes from the very ableist idea that people aren’t disabled unless they have somehow failed to not be disabled. The Puritain mindset which says that disability is a punishment for failing to be good – somehow – and that it is a punishment for sin – somehow – informs this particularly noxious bit of garbage.

If you want help, you have to suffer for it, because you wouldn’t be in this situation at all if you didn’t deserve it somehow – and that goes double if the help that you need is disability payments or Medicaid/Medicare or something else that’s an ‘entitlement’. If disabled people aren’t in sackcloth and ashes, they can’t really need help.

And like, fuck that, actually, and fuck the idea that only ‘good’ disabled people deserve accommodations? Even if my disability was the result of having driven my car recklessly and crashed it into a tree, I don’t deserve to never know joy again. Even if my diabetes were because I had eaten nothing but spoonfuls of confectioner’s sugar for three years, I don’t deserve to suffer.

Fuck the idea that only ‘good cripples’ who didn’t ‘do this to themselves’ deserve accommodations, and fuck the idea that disabled people don’t deserve the full experience of human life with all of its joy, all of its dancing, and yes, all of its orgasms.

[vinceaddams]

so tired of fake “traditional masculinity” fans who don’t even wear tight stockings to show off their legs.

[vinceaddams]

Do you even know any ballroom dances bro??

[vinceaddams]

you can’t spell “embroidery” without “bro”… can’t spell “brocade” without “bro”

[i-need-to-remake-my-blog]

idea for my spoonie + mentally ill buds out there: use a monthly + weekly planner as a meds/symptoms tracker. i've tried tracking symptoms in my journal, but there's too many sensitive/private entries in that book for me to feel comfortable taking it with me to doctor's appointments or elsewhere (fear of losing it + stranger reading it: high). there was also no structure.

so i bought a basic weekly/monthly planner and this is how i use it:

- the weekly pages with sections for every day aren't used as to-do lists, but rather as a place to record symptoms and changes, like a little journal entry for the day but specifically about disability/disorder stuff

- the monthly sections are used to keep my appointments and health-related obligations organized. it's also a good way to track your period, and it gives you a monthly overview of what meds you're taking (more on that below)

- for every day in the monthly and weekly sections, i'll make a little line of colored squares (using the chisel tip of a mildliner, easy peasy), with each color representing a different med. when i take the medication for that day, i'll treat the colored boxes like checkboxes and draw an ex through them. that way you can see on a weekly and monthly basis how often you're taking certain meds, and they serve as a colorful visual reminder, too. i also make a little legend on the monthly pages in case i forget which color goes with which med

just thought i would share! i've found this to work pretty well, and that's saying alot coming from someone who has tried and failed to be a 'planner person' many a times. turns out i just needed to make it work for me :)

[funnytwittertweets]

[akindplace]

You don't need to be at your breaking point to finally allow yourself to rest.

[lovecoralei]

Hot take, but if you see your baby struggle through five hours of homework and then you get pissy because they drag their feet about doing chores? You need to reevaluate.

[lovecoralei]

Like I’m not saying kids shouldn’t be taught responsibility and shown how to keep their house clean. I’m just saying maybe children get tired and frustrated too. Like. Your teenager doesn’t have an “attitude”. She’s just had 7 hours of school and then came home to do 5 more hours. Then, her parents implied she was lazy because she hadn’t gotten around to doing the laundry. I’d snap at you too.

[ice-cream-nekogirl]

PREACH.

[fizzydog-deactivated20240325]

hey no offense i mean this in the best way but if someone you love is talking about stuff you don’t understand and is very passionate about it (like idk nuclear energy or astronomy), you can a) listen anyway even if you can’t add anything because they’re probably just happy that someone can hear them b) ask them questions about it so you understand if you’re interested because they will surely be willing to answer and happy that you care

you may not care but it means the world to someone that you’re willing to just, listen, when anyone else would just not care about being nice to them about their interests.

[theconcealedweapon]

"I've seen you hold your breath underwater. You don't really need that scuba gear."

"I've seen you stand. You don't really need that wheelchair."

These statements use the same exact logic. So why is the first considered utterly ridiculous but the second considered a normal belief?

[deb0o]

Prom

[kelpforestdwellers]

basic self protection can look extreme if you don't understand the threat it's defending against.

a medical professional recently remarked on the spikes on my wheelchair. so i said they are to prevent people from grabbing me. then i had to clarify that yes, that does happen, with alarming regularity. and people become affronted and sometimes even violent when you tell them not to do this. he was shocked.

to him, and to many people who see me in public, the line of spikes on the back of my wheelchair probably looks extreme, if they don't think it's part of some punk aesthetic or whatever.

so perhaps before you judge someone's mode of self protection, as long as they aren't causing harm, it is worth considering they might be defending themselves against a threat you have no idea about.

[kipplekipple]

And just because a truly disturbing number of people don't understand this - pushing a wheelchair user without permission is as freaky and horrible as it would be if someone came and physically moved your legs for you.

[teaboot]

✨ And it's assault ✨