Crow Teeth and Coyote Kisses

|| Personal/Aesthetic blog || |Shitposting and reblobs| |She/her|

[elethart]

● High Priestess ●

[niyarest]

rb to change your fate

[myspacebabe2007-deactivated2021]

[bled]

[theme-maverick]

The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog. Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps. Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs. Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex! Fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz. Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox. Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack. Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.

[jumpedoverthemoon]

Oh how I long to run away to a sleepy town on the edge of a great forest, where I can reopen the shuttered bakery store and bake bread all day, and at night roam underneath the stars that shine through the thick canopy of ancient trees

[ancientson]

URGENT! If you're in Colorado, please, please be careful! If you know any trans men or transmasc people who might be in Colorado soon, please let them know about this. If you know any trans or LGBTQ+ groups, community centers, etc. in Colorado, make sure they're aware!

If you're cis, it's encouraged that you reblog this. Just spreading the word is a great opportunity to be an ally.

[lipglossdyke]

WTF

[needtobeasleep-yethereiam-deact]

NOT KIDDING GUYS BE VERY CAREFUL HERE ARE SOME SCREENSHOTS OF CONVERSATIONS THIS DICK HAD WITH AN LGBT ACCT ON IINSTAGRAM

Be very very very very very careful my dudes and please stay safe

[spooky-soup]

UPDATE:

This guy hellsing_ultimate700 deleted his account and started a new one under the name of axel_van_hellsing. Spread the word and stay safe!!!

[jefferoni-quotes]

[positivepatton]

I hate to reblog something like this onto a blog that’s supposed to be a safe space, but I want as many people to see it as possible

[theygender]

OP 9/26/19

[1nesky1nedestiny-deactivated202]

!!!UPDATE!!!!

Now going by four_string_dude

[glumshoe]

Hey everyone, stop and think before you reblog this uncritically.

Are the first screenshots upsetting? Yes. Clearly hellsing_ultimate700 is a creep and a predator.

But “Axel Helmig” appears to be a random bassist in Germany who has never been to Colorado. The “four_strings_dude” Instagram account has been active for months, before those screenshots of “hellsing_ultimate700” were taken, and his account is used to like pictures of his German friends and family—no evidence that he’s ever followed or interacted with any of the trans man bodybuilding instagrams that the “hellsing_ultimate700” guy did.

Is there any reason AT ALL to believe that these accounts are in any way affiliated? I can’t find any. @bi-bii-biii do you have any evidence for why you believe they are the same person, other than having the same first name and might think a Bram Stoker character is cool?

The display photo for “hellsing_ultimate700” looks like this, and might be stolen in the first place:

While Axel the German bassist looks like this:

The first man lacks tattoos and seems to have a longer, older face with a wider septum and upturned lips, and has no shoulder tattoos. They don’t look like the same person to me. I think Axel Helmig/four_strings_dude is just some random guy whose face and name are now being dragged through the mud by panicking people.

In any case, as always, be careful who you sleep with, use protection, don’t trust strangers any further than you can throw them even if they are Your Type and say all the right things, get yourselves tested regularly, and don’t let stories of one predator turn you into another serophobic jerk peddling dangerous stereotypes about people with HIV.

[glumshoe]

Guys please spread only the original post and NOT the version adding this random German guy’s Instagram. It makes no sense that this could be the same person and there is no credible evidence that this guy is involved at all. They’re obviously not the same person! You’re stalking and harassing and calling for the death of a random guy who’s been misidentified based on a random tumblr user’s assumption. Stop! Think! Internet vigilantism can easily victimize innocent people! It doesn’t help to spread misinformation!

[perks-of-being-absolutelynothing]

not my photo just my blue 

source 

[praying]

[decatris]

[destroymylife]

[the-boss-skeleton]

[cheshireinthemiddle]

“I’m gonna block you before you disprove my assumptions, as you are clearly knowledgable on the subject.”

Thank you. #teamblocked

[gservator]

Cree chief Pitikwahanapiwiyin with locked hair. 1885.

Two sadhus (holy hermits) with their hair in jata style dreadlocks.

Young boxers with long dreadlocks depicted on a fresco from Akrotiri (modern Santorini, Greece) 1600–1500 BCE.

Some of the earliest depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 3600 years to the Minoan Civilization, one of Europe’s earliest civilizations, centred in Crete (now part of Greece). Frescoes discovered on the Aegean island of Thera (modern Santorini, Greece) depict individuals with braided hair styled in long dreadlocks.

In ancient Egypt, examples of Egyptians wearing locked hairstyles and wigs have appeared on bas-reliefs, statuary and other artifacts. Mummified remains of ancient Egyptians with locked wigs have also been recovered from archaeological sites.

During the Bronze Age and Iron Age, many peoples in the Near East, Asia Minor, Caucasus, East Mediterranean and North Africa such as the Sumerians, Elamites, Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks, Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, Amorites, Mitanni, Hattians, Hurrians, Arameans, Eblaites, Israelites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Medes, Parthians, Chaldeans, Armenians, Georgians, Cilicians and Canaanites/Phoenicians/Carthaginians are depicted in art with braided or plaited hair and beards.

Dreadlocks are one of the earliest known Human hairstyles, it can be found dating back thousands of years in various cultures from the Americas to Australia, it can be found in every culture of every continent.

To the people claiming that dreadlocks are uniquely a non-white hairstyle I say you are not only ignorant of human history but of cultural development as a whole, you take offense from white people using Dreadlocks simply for racist reasons, claiming they can’t despite the hair style being prevalent across Europe for thousands of years most likely originating in pre-bronze age civilizations across the globe, it’s the same phenomena that allowed most of humanity to master fire at the same time, a type of convergence of progress(I actually forget the name of the phenomena).

@littledemonlorne you really need to reevaluate your view of cultures and the wider world, your perception is a narrow and quite frankly a nonsensical one.

[gservator]

Dreadlocks, also locs, dreads, or in Sanskrit, Jaṭā, are ropelike strands of hair formed by matting or braiding hair. Dreadlocks can also be formed through a technique called “twist and rip”, as well as backcombing and rolling.

This is what dreadlocks are, and the cunt blocked me.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Yes, thank you.

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God i wish all real life billionaires were more like tony stark 😩

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dead

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

its been 15 days since i made this post and in them both jeffrey epstein & david koch died maybe this site really is cursed after all

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there was one more istg if fbi puts me on a watchlist,

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oh my Godddd five in 17 days

[y0urbestie]

like to charge reblog to cast

[keybladesoras]

The many shades of Pikachu in Detective Pikachu.

[dungeons-and-danis]

I’ve compiled every raw ass quote from tumblr shitposts into my phone and i’m gonna use every single one of them in my campaign at some point.

[dungeons-and-danis]

peruse my quotes, if u want

[dungeons-and-danis]

So I recently got a wealth of new quotes to add to the list, thanks to @gayotic-stupid ! DISCLAIMER: Very few of these are from tumblr shit posts. Like my previous reblog, some of these are just cool quotes you can use in your writing or your dnd campaign. Reblog away!

“I’ll do whatever you want" “Then Perish”

I thought there were no heroes left in this world

You kneel before my throne unaware it was born on lies

Take this gift, for the gods surely won’t

God wishes he were me

God gave me depression because if my ambitions went unchecked I would’ve bested him in hand to hand combat by age 16

“I know you’ve all heard talk of being the emperor’s chosen and heroes of the Imperium, but the truth is, you are essentially nothing to this Imperium. You’re farmers, workers, and criminals, picked to be a part of the most expendable force known to man. You will be sent into battle. You will be sent often. Many of you will die, and you will die often. I do not expect you to like it, but I am asking that you accept this and make your peace with it.

My father taught me as a child that if you shoot for the moon and miss, the cold vacuum of space will suck out your eyeballs. Failure is not an option. Go kill them.

All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.

You are alone, child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army, and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end, and I have come for you.

To feel sorrow is to deserve peace.

No pet is perfect, it becomes perfect when you accept it for what it is.

You could sooner divert a river from its course than deny my nature 

You cant shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.

No one will know the violence it took become this gentle.

Theres no light at the end of the tunnel so it’s a good thing we brought matches.

It’s not my job to pry, it’s the government’s. 

And lo, he did reach into his bag of talent, and verily, it was found to be barren -Yamaha 10:99

Every comment is a prayer, bringing me closer to emerging from my cursed plane. Thank you for heralding the apocalypse this old god brings.

People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.

The answer to dispair is action 

EDIT: “you’ll be reduced down to a single atom once im done with you” because its fucking hilarious in context and raw as fuck without it

[musherum]

okay but how could you all forget:

“Can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within? The fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. You cannot kill me in a way that matters.”

[starfoozle]

An Area X Rec List

If you loved Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy as much as I did, here’s some similar-in-spirit media that I’ve come across over the last few years. This rec list includes novels, short stories, nonfiction books and articles, a few films, and multimedia projects, with heavy emphasis on dark ecology, novel ecosystems, and New Weird literature. I’ve included PDFs where I’ve been able to find them online and indicated them with an asterisk below.

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Fiction

Roadside Picnic*, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. A classic of Soviet science fiction, eerily prescient pre-Chernobyl, and a direct inspiration for Area X.

Borne, by Jeff VanderMeer. Set in a different world than the Southern Reach trilogy, this book nonetheless contains shapeshifters, bizarre biotech, and landscapes that aren’t at all what they seem. (Dark Tower fans will get a kick out of this one.)

Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente. An alternate universe where Old Hollywood colonizes the solar system, wherein a young filmmaker sets out to determine what caused reality to go terribly wrong on Venus and goes missing herself.

Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong*, from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. A war story about how to tell a war story and a nice midwestern girl turning into something else entirely in Vietnam. 

The Long Rain*, by Ray Bradbury. Another short story about a group of people stranded in an alien jungle, this time on another world.

The New Weird, an anthology edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer.

Nonfiction

The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. If all of humanity disappeared overnight, how would the rest of the planet respond, recover, or be permanently marked?

Ecology Without Nature, by Timothy Morton. Heavy-duty ecological philosophy on how and why there’s no such thing as a “pristine wilderness” and how we can rethink our relationships with what’s left of the natural world in the Anthropocene – whatever that means.

The Mushroom at the End of the World, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. An exploration of the ecological and human networks bound by the matsutake mushroom across continents and in the face of ecological destruction.

Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy, by David Tompkins. The article that first introduced me to Timothy Morton’s writing on hyperobjects and dark ecology, connecting it to The Southern Reach Trilogy, Lovecraft, and other New Weird themes.

Dark Ecology, by Paul Kingsnorth. An essay questioning what even counts as “nature” in the Anthropocene, how it is valued, and how to begin to get our heads around it in the first place.

Multimedia

The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015). A documentary about the community of elderly women who continue to live within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, focusing on the connections between landscapes, hazards, and where people call home.

Stalker (1979), a film by Andrei Tarkovsky. Based on Roadside Picnic – beautiful and very atmospheric.

Princess Mononoke (1999). A classic Miyazaki film about human-environmental conflict and ecological devastation brought on by industrial progress.

The Dark Ecology Project. A multi-year experimental art and writing project that brings researchers and artists to the edge of the Arctic Circle to study a zone along the Russian-Finnish border split between heavy industry and pristine wilderness. Very much worth checking out the creative works that have been produced through these trips.

Additional Rec Lists

14 Heart-Pounding Books Like Jeff VanderMeer’s “Annihilation”

A dark ecology literature primer from tumblr user @fatehbaz

A crowdsourced rec list for other media reminiscent of The Southern Reach Trilogy (contains many other books I haven’t read yet!)

Enjoy, and try not to breathe in any glowing spores in the meantime.

[cansofbeans]

Do you have advice on drawing backgrounds with characters?

First, don’t imagine backgrounds as “backgrounds,” like some kind of giant placard you place behind characters on a stageplay. Think of them as “environments!” A place where your characters interact, make conversation, eat food, sleep, grab stuff, jump around on, fight, etc. The environment is just as important to the visuals as the characters, nobody exists in a void. 

The most important thing to do is to plan to draw the character(s) IN the background/environment, not as an afterthought.

I also like imagining myself as a cinematographer in my own comic, somebody with a camera, who is on the set with the characters. I think about the best way to “shoot” the characters doing what they’re doing based on what they’re doing and the tone. Is it a happy scene? A sad scene? I also think about the environment they’re in and what are some interesting ways to frame the character.

I’ll give a quick and dirty example. Say you Character1 is waiting at a bus stop. It’s a very boring and normal bus stop. It’s got a bush, a tree and a bus sign on a sidewalk. 

Not a very exciting drawing, but it establishes what Character1 is doing and where at. Notice I used the underside of the tree and the bus sign to make a little “window” around Character1′s head. It puts the viewer’s attention right on them. But what if Character1 is really anxious? How would you convey that?

Now, the “camera” moved to the side. It puts Character1 more on the bottom-left corner of the drawing, making them look more on edge. Once again, notice that I used the tree, bush, and sign to frame around Character1.

Now the camera is behind the bush AND tree, so we’re now looking at Character1′s back. Maybe you don’t want people to know what Character1 is thinking. 

Or what if Character1 is having an existential crisis while waiting for the bus? Here, I’m shooting upward on them and dutch angled the drawing (which means tilting the camera) to give it a jarring, disoriented feeling. 

These are just some ways to draw the environment with the characters in it. And note, this works best if you’re doing comics or storyboarding, but it might not be necessarily true for some illustration styles. This is just the way I do it. :)