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

[nerdygaymormon]

A reminder that sell-buy dates or best-used-by dates are not the same as expiration dates.

I love that a food bank is providing this info as they are experts in stretching food budgets and knowledgable in shelf-stable food items

[etakeh]

So I followed the link to the website and found the longer list.

The website puts a link to the USDA site which links to foodsafety dot gov who really wants you to use the app, but you can bypass it.

Also a link to the Canadian government's advisory on best-before dates.

Both sites have links to pages that get more into food storage.

[tweetsongs]

i agree so much about making your blorbos pathetic but i do fear that many take this to mean 'make them more traditionally feminine/submissive' which genuinely hurts my soul. make your blorbos pathetic in interesting character-oriented ways. understand their neuroses and turn the dials up to eleven. juxtapose the parts of life they handle extremely well with the parts of their lives that make them eat shit. make them angry. make them cold. make them pave their own way to hell while building walls preventing them from seeing any other way. please i'm begging you no more pathetic as an euphemism for bottoming im gonna mclose it.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[sparklylovegiver]

Some good news for everyone today.

[saathiray]

I went to a conference showing off this tech back in 2013 and I am so glad to see a TikTok because it means that the technology is getting more popular and ubiquitous

[gatheringbones]

that whole "make your characters want things" does so much work for you in a story, even if what your characters want is stupid and irrelevant, because how people go about pursuing their desires tells you about them as a person.

do they actually move toward what they desire? how far are they willing to go for it? do they pursue their desires directly or indirectly? do they acquire what they desire through force, trickery, or negotiation? do they tell themselves they aren't supposed to feel desire and suppress it? does the suppressed desire wither away and die, or does it mutate and grow even stronger? is the initially expressed desire actually an inadequate and poorly translated different desire that they lack language for? does the desire change once the language has been updated, or when new experiences outline the desire more clearly? do they want something else once they have better words for it, or once they know that they definitely don't want something they thought they wanted before?

how does the world accommodate those desires? what does the world present to your character and in what order to update and clarify their desires? how does your magic system or sci-fi device correspond to those desires and the pursuit of them?

there's so much good story meat on those bones; you just have to be brave and decisive enough to let characters want specific things instead of letting them float in the current of the plot.

[gatheringbones]

and I loved the responses of “Well, my character is very passive and doesn’t know how to want things, the story is about their process of learning to do that exactly”, because that’s fine, that’s all well and good, but passive people still want things. passive human beings who have been so thoroughly neglected that the articulation of a single desire is beyond them want what their internal sphere of control tells them they are allowed to want. they desire constancy and a lack of conflict. they desire nostalgic artifacts that remind them of prior constancy and lack of conflict. the desire to float is an engineered desire that runs in conflict with the development of a happy healthy human being. Who engineered it? How do you begin to chip away at something like that? How do small, passive desires lead up to that?

[cedarwool]

yesterday i was at the woodworking store getting a knife sharpener because i've been really into whittling hair sticks out of hardwoods which dulls your blades like mad. and the lady who was helping me said "oh yeah i know the feeling of jumping into a project that turns out more complex, that's how i feel about my cable knit right now"

which in turn activated my sleeper autist, and we ended up talking about fiber arts, where i learned that this woman is part of the local lacemaker's guild and uses her woodworking experience to carve lace bobbins on the lathe. she then gave me the email address of the woman who runs it, because their group has no social media and only meets when the lead lady says 'everyone come to my house.'

while all of this was going on, another woman walks up. her partner was shopping for wood repair stuff and she heard us talking about fiber- she's a spinner who does historical reenactments nearby. period accurate, processes the wool herself. of course i ask her if they need volunteers and she gives me her contact info

long story short. autism is everywhere you look and you have to be okay with chatting with strangers. i don't remember where this post was going

[sycamorality]

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again

[pikamusume]

[kosmogrl]

[owlcreme]

My redraw of Team Magma's Lairon for @poketcg-art hosted Hoenn card redraw event! I had a great time working on this, I really got to stretch my digital drawing muscles.

Original card art by Hiromichi Sugiyama below the cut + still image

I wasn't ambitious enough to attempt to replicate the shiny metal effects fully for this

[starplatimoon]

ft. @kuttblueberry 's benrey

based on this:

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[gregorio-the-great-for-real]

Visit Original Link

OP doing a major disservice by not allowing this gem to come back around every year, so i made this a thing again, enjoy

[the-quasar-hero]

We all got that one mutual that be going through the most treacherous situations a person could endure and then posting a few minutes later about why such and such should get fucked through a concrete wall.

[the-quasar-hero]

Mutual: my situationship partner just got caught in a tornado at a broken glass factory where they were cheating on me with my landlord who just increased my rent by 6000% and my pet marmot has a disease so rare they’re naming it after him and all my bones are becoming apricot jelly which I’m allergic to.

Same mutual 16 minutes later: Do you think Ronald McDonald and the Burger King ever explored each other’s bodies?

[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 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉