[wetheurban]

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

[16tinyfrogs]

on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

[theriu]

OP, this is genuinely a masterpiece, three poems in one, moving and well craft. Please tell me you have submitted it to at least some poetry contests, and if not, please do so.

[16tinyfrogs]

to the person who reposted my poem a couple days ago, i read the tags and i'm so sorry for your loss. there are not words adequate to comfort you right now, but here is a piece on grief i wrote a few months ago that i hope you may relate to someday

[sirenofthetimes]

the whole point of girls doing the not like other girls thing is basically them believing that the girls around them lack an interior life. they were raised on depictions of women as shallow caricatures and they recognize themselves to be actual people with thoughts and feelings, but instead of drawing the conclusion that these depictions of women are incorrect, they draw the conclusion that those depictions of women are correct and that must mean they're smarter and have more substance than the "average" woman. to exit the not like other girls phase means recognizing that all real life women have the same level of interiority as you do, and that depictions of women in the media as consistently empty headed and frivolous are misogynistic stereotypes not grounded in reality.

i say all this to say that to exit a not like other girls phase does not necessitate taking an interest in "traditionally feminine" ways of dress and makeup, nor does it mean never saying anything negative about the beauty industry

[adhdxxsdiary]

[axolotlandalite]

[teomodo]

art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

[kitto-paint]

hell yeah, I’m using it pretty often for post-processing

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

[xenobotanist]

[61below]

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

[flowerbleedme]

is anyone imagining a dog with a propeller hat on

[lakevida]

god remember when there were no ads AND you could post dick on here. take me back i'll be grateful this time

[trezvennik]

is this talking about tumblr or the internet in general

[lakevida]

allrecipes.com

[lokihiddleston]

PRATICAL MAGIC (1998)

[depsidase]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

The screaming 20s are here, are you screaming?

this is actually my favorite ask

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this post is from january, it’s become my very least favorite ask

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this post from January 2020 is singlehandedly the worst thing that's ever happened to me

[kaity--did]

Today my toddler INSISTED we open every sauce that came with our Chinese take out so she could sample every single one. She didn’t care for the spicy mustard, she LOVED the soy sauce, she said BLEH BLEH to duck sauce, and she said OH SO GOOD to sweet and sour

She then decided she needed to shove an ENTIRE crab Rangoon into her mouth which gave me a heart attack but she did in fact manage to eat the entire thing with minimal effort on her part. This was after she chanted “RANGOON RANGOON RANGOON!” at us until we gave her one.

Kids are fun and I am exhausted

[hope-resurrected]

[inksplattersandearlyhours]

“When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.”

— Rebecca Solnit, Grandmother Spider in Men Explain Things To Me and Other Essays

[dracusfyre]

…Wow…it’s sad how much this blew my mind. Brilliant.

[slitherpunk]

people talk too much about "slender man" and not enough about "fat girl"

[realest-slenderman]

yeah

[fat-girl-enjoyer]

yeah

[r3ked]

[kaijuno]

i have hired this cat to stare at you

[captain-starskull]

How are you paying them?

[kaijuno]

Fishes

[misscryptidart]

my favorite part of the week is when we watch a guy turn chocolate into a fucking bike and we have to just accept that it happened.

[knitmeapony]

AND THE HE SAT ON IT LIKE IT WAS A NORMAL BIKE

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]