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[axolotolo]

Was bored, so decided to draw some stuff from my favourite book

[macaulaytwins]

“I’m gay” “I’m straight” …..okay?? I’m nothing in my soul if not obsessive

[wordswithoutaworld]

Media literacy hot take and I’m not sure some of you are ready for it:

if a fictional character is russian and lives during Russia’s military aggression against another country, and the work never addresses their thoughts or position on that war in any way, it automatically reinforces an already existing space where russians are not expected to reflect on the criminal actions of their state or their fellow citizens.

At the same time, it reassures russians — through foreign media — that the world also doesn’t see this as their problem.

If you believe that giving a fictional character a stance on their country’s military invasion "isn’t important", or that “there’s no reason to bring it up” because the story is just about their everyday life, then it’s hard to expect anything more responsible from real people.

“This is just a story about the struggles of an ordinary german dude during World War II — without touching on war or nazism, because he’s just a civilian and his personal life is already difficult” — i hope the analogy speaks for itself.

So please, don’t forget: while fictional films are being made about russians, documentaries are being made about the victims of their country.

[axolotolo]

I decided to re-read All of Our Hidden Gifts and as I've read almost half of the book I

1. Remembered it had prompted me to come out as bi

2. Felt like myself again

3. Fell in love with it again

4. Wished I was a cis guy

5. Explained the plot of three books to the wall

6. Felt like it was fast-paced just to realise that it's my own fault for reading it so fast

I love this book more than I thought I could ever love a story

[mirrorhunt]

Ukrainians: supporting russian products pays for the missiles that target civilians. Stop doing it. Stop spreading russian propaganda.

Westerners: BUT NOT ALL RUSSIANS

But have you checked? Have you checked none of their relatives were actively participating in killing Ukrainians? Be it serving in the army or building drones and missiles? Or even consuming the propaganda and calling Ukrainians nazis, when they are the nazis, like the literal definition of the word? Have you checked where they donate their money? Have you traced where their taxes go? Ukrainians did. Ukrainians, me in particular, check every post, every artist, in case they are russian or support them. We do the work for you, we tell you - stop paying ruzzians to kill our children - and you ignore it.

Honestly, I had a community I played online games with, but I left them because they started protecting russians who LITERALLY SAID IN PUBLIC CHAT derogatory things (in ruzzian of course, never in English), and everyone ignored me. Or, rather, they got defensive with NOT ALL RUSSIANS.

And we are called xenophobic. We. People who live through active war. Refugees, people who live days without electricity, water, and warmth. Children who are unable to go to school, because ruzzians destroyed it the evening before. People are scared to visit a hospital, because ruzzians target them constantly. Even a fucking mall - if there are a lot of people, and ruzzians send a missile - there will be a lot of casualties, it happened multiple times. Or when people are killed in their own homes, in beds, because ruzzians shelled the still sleeping city.

Even outside of Ukraine, I still get very nervous in crowds. I flinch when the helicopter passes by. Any loud noise? I'm jumping from fright, and my heart is racing. Fireworks? I want to be a small kid to cover my ears and scream (I'm preparing myself very hard for the holidays, because here they start fireworks like 25th of December and stop at 2nd of January, last year I went to hospital because I was pressing the earplugs so hard into my ear, they damaged the nerves there, and I was throwing up for three days straight. Yes, there is a law against fireworks. No, police gives no fucks, as per usual)

But sure. As always, it's just our problem, our trauma, and the world cares more for fear to appear non-inclusive than to actually listen to victims. Or, what is more scary, the world simply does not care.

[antlersoldier]

the whole "sometime the person you love doesn't love you back and it's ok" is a good moral, yeah, for a character like STEVE. Not for someone who has NEVER experienced romantic love and felt shame for it.

but ig that's my take

[zephyrins]

I don't have enough words and energy to describe how awful I'm feeling right now

russians shelled the capital nonstop for 10 hours. All night.

and now we have our fourth air raid sirens in a day

russians specifically waited for cold weather and New Year's Eve to leave us without electricity and heating for the holidays

[i-am-a-fish]

*publishes this post with my paws*

[magooli11]

A fish

With paws

Nothing out of the ordinary here

[i-am-a-fish]

reblogs this post with my cool antenna, (left)

[axolotolo]

A real catfish (with antenna)

[badjokesbyjeff]

A tourist is hiking through the Scottish Highlands and stops to take a drink from a stream. 

He hears a voice call out "Dinnae drink frae that, meester, it's a' fu' o' coo piss an' shite!".

Turning, the hiker sees a Scottish shepherd leaning on a stick, and he replies "I'm terribly sorry, but could you kindly repeat that in the King's English?"

And the shepherd says "Two hands sir - cup your two hands together or you'll spill it!"

[axolotolo]

Це прям як той жарт про росіянина, що п'є помийну воду в селі в Україні

[axolotolo]

A business idea:

A café chain that also has a comic/book shop, but each is decorated in a different fandom style and has special dishes accordingly. And so you get a witch hat atelier café where different ingredients are runes and you can draw them to create your own drink or a Steven Universe café where you can have the cat ice cream. The loyalty card could be made into a passport and once you have travelled to every universe you get a drink and a cake of your choice for free or a discount on a book (the usual loyalty card still exists and can be used for either drinks or books).

[gwenllianwales]

Продовжую українізацію мемів з "Капітошкою"

[factual-fantasy]

[danidarkarts]

@factual-fantasy

[fynori]

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

[danidarkarts]

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

[labrador-entity]

My good friends this is called using a

Gamut Mask

(image via )

James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!

I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.

[technecat-scratchings]

Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.

While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.

An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!

Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl

[ameoca]

They are very dear to me 🌿

[melmili]

just wanna say i am a big fan of this trope specifically

[tatsumi-rin]

[axolotolo]

Didn't even realise that it was about characters until I saw the repost

[patroclus-topped]

so i found a translation of Plato’s Symposium because i heard he shipped achilles and patroclus and i was like “nice”.

and the first time i read it i was like “no, plato, Achilles totally was totally in love with Patroclus, what even are you trying to prove” and then i was like “but why can’t they both love each other” and THEN I REALIZED

“plato isn’t talking about love”

“PLATO IS NOT TALKING ABOUT LOVE" 

"that sneaky bastard”

to clarify, i realized that “lover” and “beloved” are not used here as we use them today.

if you’re still confused, replace “love/belove” with f*** and “in love with” with f***ing

Plato is saying that Achilles is the “beloved” in the relationship (wink wink) because he is more beautiful, and unbearded, and younger than Patroclus (note- in Plato’s time, it was common for older men to take younger men as- for lack of a better word- boy toys. This social phenomenon is known as pederasty. in this, the older male is the “erastes” and the younger male is the “eromenos”. Erastes means “lover”, from the verb eran, to be in love with. Eromenos means “beloved” from the same verb. So yeah, Plato’s argument was that Patroclus topped. 

hence the url

(The important thing is that Plato thought Achilles and Patroclus were gay as f*** and Achilles’ love for Patroclus was more the reason for his acceptance into the isles of the blest than his heroic deeds goodbye friends I am gone)

[shapeshiftingcreature]

shoutout to Richard Papen I, too, would rather freeze to death than, GOD FORBID, ask for help and possibly be annoying and insufferable with my very basic very normal needs

[axolotolo]

Мене вже довго не покидає думка про серіал про будинок Слово, де кожна серія розповідає про життя письменників, чий номер квартири відповідає епізоду.

Зробити це у вигляді старих касет, наче вони записували свій мистецький шлях з самого початку, вступне слово від кожного і історія їхнього життя до того, як вони почали відчувати репресії під час вже самого життя в будинку.