getting into knives

leo, they/any, your friend the gay little cat. likes drawing, library science, and videogames. the kalos region's strongest soldier. i make art sometimes over on @sketchbloom

[astraldemise]

Sizz-lorr

[gabumattfur]

This was a result from drawing at a coffee shop. It helped that I was sitting next to my boyfriend, who was writing. "Contagious creativity" as Lynda Barry calls the phenomenon. And caffeine. Mmm.

Actually, I tried drawing at the library alone first, without caffeine, and had a worse experience! It was upsetting.

This was the homework after our guest lecture from @outsidewolves. I recommended we try to draw like him - go to a cafe, free draw, and lean into the absurd.

My gay dog characters Thag & Dio showed up. I didn't know I was drawing a comic when I first started drawing Thag playing Pokemon TCG. I know how the comic was going to end until maybe panel 3 or 4.

[bonesbeetle]

please somebody help me what's the pokemon that looks like if lugia & groudon had a baby

it's red & has the hand-wings. i scrolled thru a list of all of them & it didnt catch my eye. madness

[bonesbeetle]

it's like this i think?

[bonesbeetle]

scrolled through again & can't find it. am i losing my mind i swear this thing exists i can picture it so vividly. is it a digimon??

[bonesbeetle]

[bonesbeetle]

SHINY KYOGRE 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[combinecremator]

editing this to include a warner brothers ass "the cartoon you are about to watch is a product of its time" disclaimer completely in reference to the gross wheatley apologism of my 14/15 year old self

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Spring garden.

Toyota, Japan.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Feb. 6: MEW gave birth. We named the newborn MEWTWO.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

#I don't think I've seen a characterization of mew as... apathetic? it's an intriguing interpretation of it I like it #the serene acceptance that it did its job; it birthed something grander than itself. the offspring needs nothing more from it. #what is mewtwo's success to mew here? what is that? it is 'evolution endgoal' but now what #does mew care about its emotional state? does it Understand? is this mew old as they are sometimes described as being #disconnected from how other pokemon think and feel? #the raw vulnerability of 'I think I needed you regardless' and callousness of mew's reply wounds me

(via @pangolin-404)

Hiii I'm eating your tags <333 also, have this from about 6 hours ago

[greenriverzzz-deactivated202006]

[pierogiy]

guy who says eep

[theyshapedlikefriends]

TST Advance - Tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini)

[closet-keys]

Israel systematically targets the health of pregnant mothers and infants in Gaza. This is a reality every parent in Gaza knows. It has also been confirmed repeatedly by others. Pediatric healthcare professionals in Gaza have been bravely speaking out about how Israel is currently using restrictions of formula into Gaza to torture and kill Palestinian babies.

[closet-keys]

My friend Nader recently became an uncle to his newborn baby niece, Masa. Due to the traumatic stress and malnutrition experienced under genocidal conditions, many mothers cannot produce breast-milk. Masa, like tens of thousands of other babies in Gaza, relies on formula to survive. Today, Nader told me that this little girl is in the hospital now due to a severe chest infection. She is only 8 days old. Please help her.

[abdalsalam-2000]

I woke up today to the tears of my brother's wife, the mother of little Masa, who is suffering from a severe chest infection and is currently in the hospital under medical care. We implore you, friends, to help us get out of this situation and donate to buy milk and other necessary baby supplies for this child so we can leave Gaza. Please don't hesitate to donate.

[closet-keys]

Nader's fundraising is vetted (gazavetters #4) and supports his large family of nine people, including small children of which little Masa is the youngest. Israel's systematic targeting of children means that the price of formula, diapers, medicine, and other basic supplies are extremely expensive. Please help him raise the funds needed to help innocent Masa survive genocidal conditions.

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[chilewithcarnage]

this is the second case ive seen of a black child going missing and then found lynched, what the fuck is going on

[glamygdala]

Her name is Juliana Nzita.

[d1anna]

Donate in MEMORY OF JULIANA NZITA, organized by Bueia Umba

Hi, my name is Bueia Umba and I am fundraising for Juliana Nzita. It is with deep sorrow… Bueia Umba necesita tu apoyo para Donate in MEMOR

her family’s gofundme!!

[lyril]

the best part of using secret pronouns for a character is when other people go what the hell sure and start using them too

[sab3rtooth]

patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

[bevsi]

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You

[probuccalfat]

you actually feel gaslit when you try to tell white people of a certain age that pewdiepie, with a platform so vast and catering to youth, helped reinvigorate racism and casual dehumanization towards indians because they get all “omg you can’t blame One man for that” like yes i can actually :) we were very incrementally making our way past the gas station indian popularized by apu and indian creatives were finally being given legitimate and serious opportunities (like say what you will about aziz and mindy in hindsight but at the time that was a shift culturally) only for this dumb swedish pig to get online and spark that vile shit right back up. ask any indian with a modicum of pride in their heritage and they can tell you how uncomfortable pewdiepie made us with ourselves

[heedra]

sitting every male indie animator and cartoonist and game dev down in a saw-trap-like scenario where the cost of their freedom is designing at least one main female character who doesn't look like she's from the shantae games, and working our way forward from there