curly-queue whirligig

save your fork; there's pie!

[bludragongal]

"I should be posting this on Patreon."

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

invasive species encroach on lesbian territory

[dreaming-shark]

This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.

[ailithnight]

A properly raised and socialized Dad will be perfectly comfortable cohabiting with Lesbians. Its not really “encroaching on another’s territory”. You wouldn’t say that about foxes in a forest that also homes bobcats, would you? No. It’s just two different species that have both evolved to live in similar/the same environment. As long as they recognize each other as equals, Dads and Lesbians are more than capable of cohabitation.

Now, if you were to release a pack of Lumberjacks into a Lowes or Home Depot, that’s where chaos will reign. Being adapted to a far harsher and more demanding environment, the Lumberjacks would simply push Dads and Lesbians both out and also consume far more than a sustainable amount of resources. It would be like releasing bears at a country club.

[chequerootlurks]

As a former timber-harvester… I feel this is potentially accurate in theory. But highly improbable in actuality.

Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.

This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.

A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.

Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.

One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.

Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.

Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.

Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.

Please stop labeling Lumberjacks as dangerous roving social predators. They are intermediate level omnivores and remarkably peaceful unless threatened.

[thatdisasterauthor]

As a hardware store worker I can say that this is all 100% accurate.

[swindle94]

now how in the FUCK am i supposed to leave tumblr when a god tier post like THIS is just is just waiting for me daily?!?!?!

[fromchaostocosmos]

question where does the “art student” or “DIYer” “crafter” or “soap maker” or “miniaturist“ etc. who has ventured into the store for supplies fall into the ecosystem/what is their impact of said ecosystem?

[terulakimban]

Most of the above are native to craft and hobby stores (art students, historically, are native to museums, but having been introduced to hobby stores, have found a niche for themselves and thrived), but all can be seen in hardware stores on occasion due to territorial overlap. They are generally low-impact, as they tend to stick to specific small areas and primarily utilize different resources. While a large group of any of them can be disruptive (art students, in particular, are known to travel in packs), in general, they are more likely to have territorial disputes with one another than with the local fauna. 

A point of clarity -“crafter” is a bit misleading; while it conjures a specific image, much like ‘fish’ or ‘reptile’ it actually covers a broad array of wildly disparate species, and in general, more descriptive nomenclature is preferred. Fiber artists in particular are a genus to watch out for, particularly in groups. Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing, will go anywhere, and due to their social nature, will often seek interaction from other species that thrive best in solitude. They are quite friendly, and will happily adopt members of other species; the concern is that their adoptees do not always wish to be adopted. 

[midrashic]

#in search of taxonomic precision and peaceful coexistence (via welkinalauda)

[kriladoodles]

I do wonder how lesbian/bisexual lumberjack-mimickry fits into this

[marablake]

I can say as a former craft store worker that if you wish to see true fear, look into the eyes of a Dad who must venture into a craft store. Despite the overlap of familiar beings known to him from his native hardware store habitat, Dads are instinctively aware that craft stores are not for them; they contain unfamiliar perils and even the seemingly familiar may have strange variances and unnerving secrets. (”Why is this airbrush so small? What do you mean nails, why would you… WUT!!”)

Only experienced silverbacks or the boldest young Dads dare venture into a craft store for long without his mate or offspring to keep roving Craft Ladies at bay and guide him in this strange ecosystem. If a Dad enters with his mate and is separated from her, he will often scuttle for the seeming familiarity of Woodcrafts, Models, or Paints (the latter not to be confused with Fine Arts, unquestioned territory of art students), but he eyes Scrapbooking and Jewelry with trepidation and will usually venture into those exotic areas only in the company of females of his pack.

Lumberjacks are rarely spotted entering craft stores of their own volition, for while they do not fear it as Dads do, they know it is an environment unsuited for megafauna such as themselves.

Hardware store Lesbians generally adapt more easily to craft stores, although they may enlist another Lesbian of a subspecies more adapted to that environment to guide them until they find their niche. Lesbians have even been known to seek the aid of a Craft Lady, a native fauna that share similarities with Lesbians but are usually smaller and nimbler to suit their chosen habitat. Dads who witness this are often awed by the Lesbians’ temerity, for although larger, Dads are generally wary of the cunning and dexterous Craft Ladies and may mistake their enthusiastic pack greetings as predatory swarming.

Craft Ladies, secure in their ecological niche, have no fear of interlopers and take the presence of non-native beings in stride, although they may become territorial about scarcer resources.

The only truly invasive species that threaten craft stores are Brides-to-Be, who are mere annoyances individually, but like locusts may descend in hordes and lay waste, leaving swathes of destruction in their wake. Fortunately for the Craft Ladies, Brides-to-Be are seasonal and usually only a threat in the spring and early summer.

[link-the-feral-anon]

It Got Better

[fireflyfish]

Is anybody going to address the newly invasive species of BuJo enthusiasts into the craft store/art supply store environment? Why aren’t we talking about the dangerous proliferation of Leuchtturm 1917s and the growing threat of Dotted Moleskins? I had to liberate a Dad from a tangle of washi tape in the art supply store the other day and it wasn’t pretty.

[rpendleton]

The natural habitat of journalers was stationary stores, which have been replaced by office supplies stores, not the same. Journalers invade the craft stores and art supplies stores to get the markers and washi tape and Sakura pens they require for survival.

[greatatuintheworldturtle]

@great-art-and-a-purple-tongue @onbearfeet THE LORE HAS BEEN UPDATED.

[onbearfeet]

VERY IMPORTANT AND ENTIRELY ACCURATE now excuse me I gotta hit Lowes and Michaels.

[gothiccharmschool]

Another thing to note is all of those habitats must adapt to the seasonal migration of goths. As soon as the faintest hint of spooky can be detected at those stores, goths will arrive in packs. A small pack of goths determined to forage can strip the shelves of a seasonal section bare in 30 minutes.

[some-pers0n]

Saw a thread on Twitter of "gifts to give a person with ADHD and autism" that was full of stereotypical and quite frankly patronizing items, so here's a list of I (autistic individual) want instead as a gift

Money

Fourteen billion dollars

Free coupon to kill somebody with my teeth

Suitcase full of money

Cool looking rock

Scratching post for me to sink my claws into

An albino elephant

The head of Jeff Bezos mounted on my wall

Uncooked rice

A cup full of blood

100k in cash

[bluecanarykit]

I put them on other social media, so why not here? Some sketches from work meetings. I refuse to apologize for using lined paper. If it's what you have when you want to draw, then draw, dammit!

[calamitysong]

so you think you can stone miette and spit in miette’s eye?? so you think you can love miette and leave miette to DIE?? oh mother!! can’t do this to me mother!!!

[westbrookwestbooks]

All memes left on tumblr for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Queen

[bluecanarykit]

I feel so called out. Like, I slept most of yesterday and I'm still tired.

sauntering vaguely downwards

Time Source: Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson.

[bluecanarykit]

*peeks her head out and looks around her timeline on here for first time in ages. Sees nothing but crab posts.*

Yup, this place hasn't changed.

[bluecanarykit]

Coming back to Tumblr after years of just letting it sit here be like:

[direwolfs-stuff]

[surrealtiktoks]

finally living up to my URL

[unyanizedcatboys]

[wellntruly]

#GIRLS NIGHT [antiquesfreaks]

[rcmclachlan]

This Beauty and the Beast reboot looks wack.

[bluecanarykit]

If you find yourself disagreeing with anything here, just unfollow me now. Don't send a message saying why, that you're going to, or angry comments. Just unfollow.

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I don't normally get political on here, (usually I save that for twitter.) At first, the reason was just fear and trying to avoid angry comments and debate threads full of flames. I had already decided that some of the folks I knew were dead-set in their ways. It would be a waste of energy and time to try to argue and convince them. I was brought up to just not interact if I could, and take my views to the polls.

I can't be silent on this platform anymore. So today, I am stating what I believe.

Some lessons I knew already, but it took me a while to fully learn them.

Mom taught me well: "Those whose skin is different from your's are not bad people." It's only as an adult did I learn that there is more to it than that.

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I think I was about 5 – 6 six years old when I first learned about racism. For those who met me in college and after, I grew up in a tiny rural town in Northeast AR. Not the worst place, not the best. It was a place. Our little town was majority white, with only one black family in the whole town, like a token black kid on a late 60s sitcom.

I was being baby-sat while my mom worked a shift at her factory job, which was a 30 minute drive away. Another little boy, the son of one of her co-workers, was being babysat with me. The sitter had driven to the post office to check her mail. We kids waited in the backseat of her old Brown Duster, when the boy saw an elderly black man cross the street, headed to the post office. The boy pointed him out, telling me we should hide, about how the gentleman was bad and of the devil, because of his skin. We hunkered down in the back seat to hide from the windows until the sitter came back and drove us back to her house.

The next day, Mom is off work and I'm with her when she goes to the post office. Before she gets out, she sees me hiding–the elderly black man had returned and was once again on his way to get his mail.

Mom questioned my actions, and upon learning what the boy had taught me, corrected me. That's when I first became aware.

Eventually, that little boy's family moved away. I was kinda of relieved I didn't have to be baby-sat with him anymore.

It's not enough, though, to just say we aren't racist and believe that African-Americans are "good people". They are, but there is more to do.

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It’s not about me.* It’s not about you. It’s about Blacks – friends, neighbors, family, strangers…but fellow human beings worthy of dignity and rights.

They are the ones getting shot, watching their loved ones get arrested and wondering if they will see them alive again, having authorities called on them while they are just minding their own business. They are the ones consistently getting the short end of the stick.

Too many times this year, I hear someone say, "This isn't who we are," in response to scenes of violence and injustice. But in reality, it is exactly who we as a country are. We’ve just been unaware of the this fact or turned a blind eye to it.

My generation was taught a lie: that all this had been settled and solved by our parents' generation; that equality was won. Things were better than before.

The truth however, is that the system had been rigged from long before we were born, from the time of the failure of Reconstruction, and some of us are just now opening our eyes to it fully. Once you know, how can you just stand or sit there, doing nothing?

Some take it personal, say they didn't cause the hate, the violence, the fear. They use common arguments, such as "black-on-black crime" to disavow the truth so they don't feel shame. While we should feel shame, we can work to make this right. Don’t let that shame make you slip back into justifying the horrible actions of the past.

Get uncomfortable and do the hard work.

I aim to be quiet when black voices are speaking, to use my ears and really listen to their words. I aim to promote my fellow artists and crafters who are black, and support their work; by either telling others about it, recommending them for jobs or commissions, or buying their work myself. I aim to support local black businesses and buy their wares when possible. I aim to use my privilege to help those that need it, or to help others escape injustice, until such a time as privilege is no longer a thing.

If I learn of a protest in my area that I can attend, I will. If I can’t go but have funds to spare, I will support bail funds for protesters who get arrested and other social justice organizations, local and national, to help balance the scales towards justice again. Please join me in doing the same.

Things may be better then they were, but there is still a long way to go.

Be sure you register to vote, too. Much of the change needs to be made on local levels, not just national.

This is not a completely new way of thinking for me. Just locking in all the details of the big picture. And don't come for me, saying I was radicalized in college. Pa-leaze. I had some of these thoughts way before I left High School.

I just kept quiet about it.

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Here's a few organizations you can support. Looking for a gift for my birthday tomorrow? Send it to one of these fine folks instead:

• BLM Mississippi: https://www.facebook.com/blmmiss/

• MS Bail Fund Collective: bit.ly/MSBailOut

• NAACP: https://www.naacp.org/find-local-unit/

• SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org

• ACLU of MS: https://www.aclu-ms.org/

• Big House Books: https://bighousebooksms.org

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* Yes, I realize that I just rambled on with my point-of-view. However, this will be my only post here on the matter.

[tnerdbean]

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

[spookyscaryscouticus]

WAIT INDIA INK JS WATERPROOF ONCE IT DRIES????? THE ENTIRE REASON IVE AVOIDED MARKERS MY ENTIRE LIFE IS BECAUSE JNK BLEEDS AND YOURE TELLING ME INDIA INK IS

F U C K I N G W A T E R P R O O F

[cinderteethe]

oh man your teachers did not do there jobs!

-Yo painters, use pencil if u must underdraw beneath an oil painting, the lead is archival but ideally you should be doing underdrawings in a muted earth tones (siennas, umbers, ochres or earth green) with some titanium white added to it. (The white nearly matches the canvas and earth tones naturally blend with all colors on top unless u do super thin glaze washes).

-Trying to make a natural looking warm black? Don’t use black straight from tube, Mix alizarin crimson and viridan. add raw umber to adjust for light depth.

-If your into mixed media ALWAYS use acrylic first and oil on top (the gesso on primed canvas is acrylic based and oil sits on top of it great). NEVER put acrylic paint on top of oil, the acrylic will crackle/decompose and fall apart/off the canvas.

-India ink is permanent and if your using ink from a jar it should say it’s permanence. professional art grade pens usually have there permanace listed either on the pen or the companies website.

-Red cinnabar is poisonous, DO NOT EAT IT, no matter how much like fruit loops it smells.

-Translucent and transparent are NOT the same. translucent is *shiny* and a cloudier color, ideal for mixing usually ordor making vibrant colors like for eyes, cars, etc. Transparent is matte and usually a 50% transparency from an opaque color.

-ALWAYS DO A TEST SWATCH OF ANY NEW MATERIAL.

-any paint made with “true alizarin crimson” “red lake” and “chrome yellow” pigment is a fugitive paint. Fugitive means the pigment fades dramatically and disappears over time, (usually 5 to 15 years) lots of van goghs paintings have this problem. be very careful with these pigments. Alizarin crimson especially smells extremely sweet and like fruit loops or fruit loops, don’t eat it.

-gauche is a mix of watercolor and ink, proceed with caution as this material can be an asshole.

-Watercolor can be made darker/thicker by letting it dry slightly in cake form or in liquid form and can be dry brushed if u get the timing down.

-Paint liquid rubber or lay down thin pieces of painters tape on edges in watercolor paintings to Prevent bleeding between lines if u need super sharp edges.

-always tape down the entire paper edges when u paint with watercolor to a board to prevent the paper from curling as it dries.

-add salt directly into wet watercolor paintings to absorb pigment and make shit look like space.

-Always paint in well ventilated areas and avoid getting lots of paint on your hands. lots of paint is made with heavy metals and can cause cancer.

-natural materials aren’t always safe, especially

-Ones u collect yourself, do your research before grinding, burning, sanding these things especially indoors.

-use NATURAL bristles on your brushes with oil paint and SYNTHETIC bristles on your brushes for acrylic and watercolor. synthetic bristles literally break off into oil paint and stick into your painting, and natural bristles can’t handle the weight of acrylic paint and rip into 15 directions. Use hard boar bristle for the underdrawing/underpainting of an oil painting as it will force the paint into the canvas pours more effectively cause it’s stronger, use softer bristles for outer layers of oil painting and blending, boar will pierce outer layers and is to hard for anything but the first layer. can’t tell what u have? clean it up and brush it on your face, softer it is the better it is as doing outer layers of color.

[teratocybernetics]

-if you have a decent painters’ tape, you can prewet your watercolor paper, tape it to a surface & weight it down with some books to press it flat while it’s wet and help keep it from buckling later once dry, this is especially useful because for some reason, watercolor block is half again as expensive or more than a comparable sized pad or large sheets to cut down, even by the same brand

-natural sable is good for watercolor if you can afford it, i have two smaller brushes i shelled out for to try it, and while i probably didn’t treat the finer point one right, the other one is a miracle i’ve had for nearly 20 years.

-chinese calligraphy brush sets are fantastic for large work and washes and way, way cheaper most times than standard brushes, and it doesn’t seem to matter how cheap they are, either. they may shed a little, but they do a really good job holding and distributing water.

[feliosfarkus]

Rb for any art students

[everythingstarstuff]

do art

[sonateharder]

Bad art happens to good artists.

[bluecanarykit]

So I'm gonna hop of here for awhile, but you can still find me online.

I'm bluecanarykit on Instagram and Twitter.

[bluecanarykit]

Here's a few of my most recent works. Playing with paint pens on canvas and paper, and attempting limited pallettes.

[bluecanarykit]

ARTIST ALLEY Reminder:

This weekend, Oct. 20-21 it's Memphis Comic Expo at Agricenter International in Memphis, TN. Come say hi to me and Kevin Hayman of Everywhen Comics (The Errant Apprentice, Mailbox Rocketship, Kota's World).

This con is creator friendly and you will find tons of comic artists, from small and just starting out, to some big names work with DC and Marvel. I always enjoy this show! There are cool guests and awesome cosplay, too.

If your up around the Tennessee & Arkansas Mississippi River Delta, moseying through the Mid-South, or hanging out in Olive Branch, Hernando, or Southaven, MS–come on out to the con!

[bluecanarykit]

Finished up the Inktober prompts from the MS Museum of Art.