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[He/They] Isa / 25 / completely erratic on main || icon by @kerubinart!

[jennerallydrawing]

what’s better than 2000s electro? NOTHING!!!

[eliotbaum]

Ravenloft 🩸 3rd foiled sticker design of my Curse of Strahd campaign

[runfreebirdrun]

clean up crew

[mintish0]

BOOK COVER REDRAW of one of the most insane and gutwretching books ever written. (Art without text and full process on my insta!)

It was my first time designing a book cover and I have to say the process was painful. I started with a strong idea in mind: I wanted to portray Harrow at the exact moment she got her memories back. It had to be spectacular, dramatic, atrocious. There had to be skeletons, lots of skeletons, the castle of her House, and of course, Gideon's sword. Then came the hard part, colors. I changed the colors I think 4 times, just couldn't get them right, but in the end can say I'm quite happy with the result. During the whole process I kept looking at the original cover from @studiotommy.co (insta) trying to grasp even a small fragment of his tenique (ps. Posting this 2 days before a big tit announcement wasn't in my plans👀)

I hope I've done this book justice, because at the end, that's what it's all about.

Ty @noblenico for sharing the We Do Bones font, it really made the difference!

[thattrashbinoverthere]

Steven Universe designs for fun. Experimenting. Enjoy.🩷

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[cimicherrychanga]

hey girl its me. the sensitive feminist boy. i just want to say tha *i am carried away by large birds before i can say anything else*

[cartoon-thembo]

hm. i should post more art here

[cartoon-thembo]

wanted to draw ez now that my players are gonna be spending more time with her. she's too cool and I DO NOT do her character justice when i play her lmao

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Story Idea: A minion for a an evil Overlord from a High Fantasy Real and a Goon working for Prohibition-Era Mafia Gangster got transported into each other's worlds.

They quickly acclimated to their respective situations and started serving their new bosses with gutso!

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Gangster Boss: Dat Rat Fink double-crossed me! ME! Why I oughta...

Minion: Prithee, milord, may I suggest boiling him in oil for this transgression?

Gangster Boss: Yer a sick fuck, Ferdinand. Love da way ya think!

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Goon: 'ey boss, I notice dat de Hero of Light and Providence gets supplies in dem towns on da way to yer liar on the regular. You want me to go over dere to dem shops and uh *winks and clicks tongue* convince them to close up shop?

Overlord, embers gleaming inside his dark helm: ....make it so, Robert.

[magicmooshka]

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

[thestuffedalligator]

I love any kind of festival that boils down to “Big Dumb Puppet Show Because Someone Killed A Monster Here Once.”

Look at this. This rules.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Gonna toss a few more (specifically French processional dragons) in there :3

[serendipityshow]

Let's not forget the Dragon dances with fireworks and other "beasts" around Catalonia!

Surely @useless-catalanfacts can add more :)

[useless-catalanfacts]

Someone domesticated a monster, someone killed a monster, a monster lives near here, or a monster was somehow involved in founding this town. And now they dance :)

Processional eagles and lions are their own thing, they're just because they're elegant and formal.

Credit: all the photos are from the website of Association of Folk Bestiary of Catalonia.

[zsofiarosebud]

In Galiza we also have this!! In Redondela, Pontevedra, they celebrate the slaying of the Coca (a.k.a. Tarasca) by the young boys of the town with a dragon-ish figure, a sword dance by the boys (danza das espadas) and other dance by the girls saved from the Coca (danza das penlas).

There's also similar festivities in other galizan towns like Betanzos and even some portuguese towns as well! But Redondela is the only place where the tradition has remain uninterrupted since medieval times... so it's also the most famous coca!

[ratbastard69420]

Man, I almost drank myself to death yesterday, I can't even remember my name, if only there was someone that could help me.

The the trustworthy and saint-like lieutenant:

[rusemary]

sunrise, parabellum

[ratbastard69420]

Sorry but I can't allow this to remain just in the tags

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[ailuromantic-deactivated2022122]

nobody tears through library books quite as fast as a 12 yr old girl with no friends

[shortlesbian]

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