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30s, queer, white. any pronouns. please only follow if you're 21+. icon by david aja & starklinqs.

[brittlepredatordemon]

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[linliketwotrees]

[thingsisaidweredumb]

joy oladokun has carried primetime on her back the way ed sheeran did in the mid 2010's but she's done it with no recognition.

every time I hear one of her songs in a primetime show I think about her song flowers and the journey it took her to learn she wasn't going to get them this way and this business model was destroying her.

this time it's her song "carry" in s7e10 of 911 "all fall down." thank you joy.

[pommepony]

parker :)

tonight i will draw jason todd, or fem sammy OR destiel. i have not decided yet.. 🤔

[metaphoricalcolours]

... this pipeline. 😵‍💫

[kierongillen]

381: vibe forward

Hullo LoadedPlanningLinksBye **** Out this week: DIE: Loaded #8, where things are escalating and we do something that readers have been dema

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.

[ceruleana]

"Grace and Rocky saved two planets of intelligent life." Yeah, so did Eva Stratt btw. Do you know how much caffeine that woman must've been on to get major power on earth to coordinate, to organize the world's first interstellar spaceship in just FOUR years, and you know,,, to tie her best friend to the train tracks and blast him to space. Yeah Grace and Rocky did all that. But holy shit Stratt did all that too.

[tulpamom]

Can't stop thinking about the scene in the movie where she has the two huge coffees and then the line in the book where Grace is like "whatever lets you sleep at night".

She isn't sleeping, Grace. She's not okay with any of it. She is the most heartbroken woman in the world. She is plagued and riddled. She wishes she could cry more and care less.

And yet, like a woman, she does the hard thing and lets him be celebrated as a hero. She goes to prison while statues are being erected.

[chirpchirpmuahaha]

so i recently started reading "Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India" by Shashi Tharoor.

and a name popped up! Thomas Pitt

which is Louis' alias in S3, when he's setting up the meeting with Lestat. a lot of fans, myself included, assumed this was a fun nod to Brad Pitt, who played Louis in the '90s movie. and that might've been the main reference, but i think it could've also been a historical nod, too

Louis de Pointe du Lac, the capitalist!!!

and there's a French connection, too...

the Pitt family rising, like Louis' family rose, intertwined with an unethical business!!!

i don't think it was meant to literally say, "Louis de Pointe du Lac is like this historical person who did horrible things," but given that one of Louis' greatest flaws in the series is what he will do for money, i don't think it's impossible that this was name was intentionally chosen for the above connections.

[sitta-pusilla]

We can't be wringing our hands about people not reading books while also shaming a highly visible group of fervent readers. Yes, this is about romantasy and booktok.

"Ugh, everyone's illiterate nobody reads anymore"

"No! Not like that!"

Pulpy genre fiction has always been more popular than highbrow literary fiction. For obvious reasons. This is true for every medium. And people have been saying romance novels in particular are frivolous drivel, and/or fomenting moral decay for centuries.

I'm not saying that anything is beyond critique. There's plenty to critique. But for perspective, the dime store sci-fi/fantasy paperbacks my uncle reads and the Tom Clancy style airport thrillers my grandpa likes are just as tropey and derivative as any romantasy. And just to put my own skin in the game, I am a documented fan of Hallmark Christmas movies. The more trite, the better. I love seeing grown people learn the magic of Christmas every year.

Some of this is just plain snobbery. And misogyny.

[roronqa]

I just think it's a waste of time for you to be hanging out here when there's something you want out there.

ONE PIECE (2023) | 1x01

[polarity-disturbed]

Being able to draw older people as attractive without reducing or erasing the visual signs of aging, and in fact showing that they're attractive because of those signs, is an artistic skill that should be valued so much more. Honestly, it should earn you an immediate fortune because holy fuck is it a rare commodity. There are so many artists who seem to think attractiveness and aging exist in opposition to each other, so they smooth every wrinkle, erase every crease, and de-age the character until they're basically thirty with silver hair. But when an artist can look at crow's feet, smile lines, weathered skin, deep-set wrinkles, and all the little traces of a life well lived and say, "No, that's what makes them beautiful," that's a level of artistic observation and care I wish we celebrated more often.

[brucespringsteencomments]

[000l]

[julykings]

winston running <3

[gaypeople]

i think they have a crush on each other