Avasaurus (Monstrum timidus)

Not a spoiler free blog. Hallo, I wanna be a vtuber but for now I'll be chronically online. Mostly made this cause I like Tumblr more than Twitter and I have no idea what's going on there anymore. Anyways, I like spooky stuff and animation stuff. My Twitter is @AvaVtuber if you wanna join me in the abyss for some reason. Content Warning, I do like horror content, so scroll at your own risk. I'll tag stuff, but I don't know the best way to go about that. Here's my carrd: https://avathemonster.carrd.co/

[snippit-crickit]

so um i mightve gotten sick and speedrunned another ps1 model

its an old oc of mine,,,, animating in 3d is still a challenge for me but i feel like im getting the hang of it and i made my first 3d walkcycle im proud of mahself!! i understand rigging more now too

i really like the grainy texture that cycles (more realistic render engine) gives off, when i get back to uni PC's ill render the hell out of this file

also i try to keep fairly accurate sizes for these models, look at how small jackalope is compared to the dragonfly model (jackalope is 1,50m whilst dragonfly is 1,96m)

have a recent dragonfly render as a treat too!! and color tests

[artsy-biggirl]

Mobility assistance

[kittensforbrowncoats]

Roll Mobility

Roll Mobility

[pikadxrat]

you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers

[teathattast]

get creatured idiot

[cupsofjade-deactivated20250509]

oh thank fuck i thought i was never gonna get creatured

[midwinterhunt]

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.

[ms-demeanor]

Things that will make your computer meaningfully faster:

Replacing a HDD with an SSD

Adding RAM

Graphics cards if you're nasty

Uninstalling resource hogs like Norton or McAfee (if you're using Windows then the built-in Windows Security is perfectly fine; if you're using a mac consider bitdefender as a free antivirus or eset as a less resource intensive paid option)

Customizing what runs on startup for your computer

Things that are likely to make internet browsing specifically meaningfully faster:

Installing firefox and setting it up with ublock origin

adding the Auto Tab Discard extension to firefox to sleep unused tabs so that they aren't constantly reloading

Closing some fucking tabs bud I'm sorry I know it hurts I'm guilty of this too

Things that will make your computer faster if you are actually having a problem:

Running malwarebytes and shutting down any malicious programs it finds.

Correcting disk utilization errors

Things that will make your computer superficially faster and may slightly improve your user experience temporarily:

Clearing cache and cookies on your browser

Restarting the computer

Changing your screen resolution

Uninstalling unused browser extensions

Things that do not actually make your computer faster:

Deleting files

Registry cleaners

Defragging your drive

Passively wishing that your computer was faster instead of actually just adding more fucking RAM.

This post is brought to you by the lady with the 7-year-old laptop that she refuses to leave overnight for us to run scans on or take apart so that we can put RAM in it and who insists on coming by for 30-minute visits hoping we can make her computer faster.

[rainbowgazes-archive]

I love how the search function on this site is absolute garbage. I can look up a post word for word and I will NEVER find it

[simons-quest-deactivated2019091]

[strangerdarkerbetter]

Pro tip:

Wanna find a post?

Write out what you remember into a Google search.

After you write that out, end with site:tumblr.com

Google will search for your text on just tumblr

In my experience, it’s way more effective than searching through Tumblr

(you can use site:SITENAME.com to search any site btws)

[rainbowgazes-archive]

This usually works but for some reason a lot of posts get indexed on google from a person’s URL based on the posts that were recently reblogged on page 1, meaning that this is only a tiny bit more reliable.

[archivehead]

I HAVE a solution to this, you have to write down site:tumblr.com/post “ “

and then write a direct quote (could be a fraction of a sentence) into the quotations, I’ve been doing this for years, and it’s so useful, it works like 99% of the time 

(the more popular a post is the more likely you’ll find it)

[rainbowgazes-archive]

you’re a genius holy shit

[krisdoesart]

Just used this to find a post I’ve been desperately searching for, thank you so much

[schakerin]

Also google is fucking busted these days and won’t show you shit you’re actually looking for, so yeah, this is way better 😭

[outsidewolves]

[broken-horn-of-equius]

Is this about how ppl born in the late 20th century have a unique and fluid experience of navigating barriers to information access and its our responsibility to teach the younger folks how to tinker with technology to avoid being spoonfed everything we experience in order to have critical skills that keep us informed, autonomous, and able to hold power despite looming threats of authoritarianism or..........???

[plastiboo]

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[sukinapan]

your local forecast

[yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20]

tweet

Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

[ama-kitkat123]

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

[penanatomy-studies]

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

[zheida]

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

[ava-monstrum]

Here's my contest entry for the Objectified Comic Desolate Winter Contest!

SPOILERS FOR OBJECTIFIED EP. 35 It's a fun comic so I recommend it.

IM DONE. There was a lot of firsts for me here. First finished 3d model, learned texture modeling and some blender nodes. Some after effects stuff to add the fog and dithering. Wanted to finish this before I went MIA again

Here's a preview

Keep her warm

[moths-daily]

hi!

do you know any books or sources where I can read more about moths and/or lepidoptera?

I made a post on some book your can read, you can find it here! As for websites, some I find extremely useful are Butterfly Conservation, Mothidentification, and the youtuber Bart Coppens!

[astfut]

Please if you have the means consider donating to the following:

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions

Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english helping transgender people in Russia

КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota

Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

[werechicken-deactivated20241121]

Don’t think for a moment that conservatives in the states won’t be studying the legalese used in this bill and will attempt to use it here.

Help these agencies out. Help people get out.

[the-name-unspoken]

I'm an admin in one of the Centre-T chats. I can't speak for CT itself, since i'm essentially just a volunteer, but i guess i can offer some perspective.

At this point Putin has already signed the bill and you can't legally transition in literally any way. Trans folks also can't adopt kids, drive, marry people with the same agab, since same-sex marriage isn't a thing and you can't legally change gender, and a bunch of other stuff. It also legalizes surgery on intersex children.

I'm pretty sure it's just the start of repressions, since it's the second major anti-LGBTQ+ law after the start of the war in Ukraine, and I believe the whole thing to be motivated by failures in war. This is essentially just a piece in a propaganda narrative. And I don't think it'll ever change under the current government and Putin's rule.

Centre-T has already received a foreign agent status (considered a medal of honor by the opposition, it's mostly just a really annoying garbage. don't look into the name too much, it's propaganda too, that status can be given to literally anyone who even got as much as a 1$ donation from outside of Russia). КилькоТ-Действие actually was a Т-Действие before, but rebranded to avoid foreign agent status. I don't know much about other organisations, i like my doom and gloom to be rationed in an (almost) healthy manner.

So yeah, please share all of this mess, and donate if you can! Oppression is one thing, but the fact that you just can't transition at all is a whole new level. It doesn't really leaves much options, and all of them suck.

[graskip]

Made a funny little Halloween-themed game last year for a college assignment. It's called Ghost Catchers, you play as a cat that has to catch all the ghosts haunting the school. You can download it here:

Ghost Catchers by graskip

Little spooky Halloween themed game, where you catch ghosts at a school.

[courtesycalling]

Transmission Received - a 1-minute browser game in which you decode an alien transmission. A friend and I made this for a game jam. Please check it out!

Transmission Received by computeruser, courtesy

Decode an alien transmission. No Words Jam 2023

[neozoid]

my game ASTRONAUTILUS is coming out to steam on 3/30!

[courtesycalling]

@neozoid’s ASTRONAUTILUS comes out March 30!

I helped out with some of the story and writing - please check it out when it releases!