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[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[laurenwalshart]

One more hat. Where do they all keep going?

[velinxi]

A dance that never ends

[Prints available here]

[pixelp-deactivated20230109]

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ( art dump part ¼ )

Yay we won the Oscars~ Here are some of the art and design I did for Spider-Verse. I included some sketches to show my process. Feel very proud and lucky to be part of this project~ Congrats to Sony and the team!

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Visual development for Ralph Breaks the Internet by Ryan Lang 

[japhers]

a Night or Day Toni skin comes free with a specific version of your game but you get both plus this Special Lily Toni as free DLC if you buy the Extended Bundle Edition

[japhers]

more reformations~

[gahdamnpunk]

[pigcatapult]

The importance of “water is wet” studies should not be understated. Because now you have a study to point to when someone who doesn’t already know this asks you for a source, as opposed to relying on anecdotal evidence or “common knowledge”.

[gayfeatherfiend]

Here is a link to the study. Use it profusely.

[real-pcys-deactivated20190118]

hot take: moms need to learn how to listen to and comfort their daughters without making everything about their own traumas

[real-pcys-deactivated20190118]

a classic example

daughter: hey this thing you do bothers me very much and i wish you wouldn’t do it

mom: well my parents abused me and im not even as bad as they were and i had to sit through it so you gotta sit through whatever i do to you too

[daeranilen]

a common variant

mom: well i’m having a really hard time right now and you know that i’m doing my best and that i didn’t mean to hurt you ergo you are in fact the asshole for asking me to consider your feelings and change my behavior during this hard hard time i’m having

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

least favorite

mom: fine. you’re right and i’m wrong and i’m a horrible person. there. are you happy now?

see also

mom: you can’t be mad at me. you’re not allowed to be mad at me. i can’t stand it.

[hawaiian-monk-selkie]

Most Americans: “MONARCHY IS BAAAAADDD!!”

Me, a Hawaiian: “While Hawai’i had a queen we were at the forefront of innovation, technological advancement, and international alliances. All the way up until the “democratic” government of the US illegally arrested her in her own palace and threatened to kill her and massacre her people unless she signed her country over to them. I’d like to have a queen who cares more about her peoples lives than her power again. Also, fuck Trump.”

[hawaiian-monk-selkie]

Reposting cause I can and it’s still relevant

[awkwardpariah]

Its worth mentioning that Hawaii is also one of the few countries with a mythic, “Hero King” who they can actually prove existed. King Kamehameha the Great (yes like in Dragon Ball Z), was seven feet tall, the guardian of the war god Kukaʻ ilimoku, and took Hawaii from an archipelago of rival Kingdoms who hadn’t really gotten out of the Bronze Age, unified him under his dominion, and turned the Kingdom of Hawaii into a global trading empire who’s monarchs were greeted at the Court of Queen Victoria.

[hawaiian-monk-selkie]

Guys I’m legit about to cry.

A post I made has over a thousand notes!! And most importantly it’s starting a conversation and spreading knowledge about what was done to my culture.

It is also so heartwarming to go in the notes and find people sharing more information and sources! And even more so to see that only two idiots decided to chime in with their misinformation.

Like, I am damn PROUD of y’all tumblr, we out here learning how to respect each other’s cultures and it’s dooooope!!!!

[goobra]

i HATE when a woman character is oversexualized and people are like “it’s her CHOICE as a woman to wear makeup and a push-up bra as body armor!!” like ????

do y’all realize that characters aren’t real? that someone like wonder woman did not “decide” to wear a miniskirt and heels? someone else, a creator, a designer, chose that?

[goobra]

like black widow is not a real person. she’s not “empowering” herself by wearing a tight leather suit with a bunch of cleavage showing. she’s playing into a fantasy.

somewhere down the line, a real life human being is making the decision for the female character in question to be oversexualized. that’s not a character “reclaiming” anything. that’s some guy in charge being horny on set. and that guy is probably joss whedon.

[pea-green]

the real lie about who gives kids presents at christmas isn’t that they’re from santa (bc everyone over the age of 10 knows that), it’s that they’re from mum ‘and dad’ because 90% of fathers see taking an interest in their kids’ likes and hobbies, let alone actually planning and shopping for things that are ‘from’ them, as something they can opt out of (and nobody talks about it!!!!!!!)

[reaj3asa]

@pea-green hey look, more fuel for your rage

[cryptogamist]

In shitty but unsurprising news, men leaving their wives who have been diagnosed with cancer is 5x more common than women leaving their husbands who have been diagnosed with cancer.

[insertlennyfacehereee]

where are you getting your stats? what source of information brought you to this conclusion? none I assume, but I would love for you to prove me wrong.

[suspiciously-cislesbain]

It’s literally a hyper link to the study

[justanoldacc]

“Chamberlain and his team found that although overall divorce rates of couples with one seriously ill spouse were comparable to the general divorce rate in the US, there was a marked difference depending on which partner had received the diagnosis. In cases where the husband became seriously ill, divorce rates were actually far lower than average at three per cent. However, a staggering 21 per cent of wives who had been diagnosed with serious illness ended up separated or divorced within the same time frame.

In fact, Chamberlain’s study revealed that in ninety per cent of post-diagnosis divorce cases, the wife was the sick party. The researchers suggested that a possible explanation for this striking difference could be that men find it harder to take on a care-giving role.”

WHAT THE FUCK!?!? this is goddamn horrifying.

[auntiewanda]

“Find it harder to take on a care-giving role.” 

Bullshit.

They don’t want the burden of a sick wife who won’t be taking care of them. Like good ‘ol “sanctity of marriage” Newt Gingrich divorcing his wife who developed cancer. 

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

I always want to point out that not abandoning your wife is the lowest possible bar, and husbands who don’t do it are unfortunately not necessarily supportive beyond this bare minimum—I once read a blog article by a guy who volunteered at a breast cancer resource centre (he was their first male volunteer, ever) and who wrote, about the boutique where the women tried on wigs:

Many clients came in with female family members or friends. These clients only came in with female family members or friends. During my two years at the center, I never once saw a client go into the boutique with a husband or male relative. I asked the staff about it. One manager said, “Same as the volunteers: guys won’t go near the wigs. Guys are wimps.” Sometimes a woman would come in for a wig… nervous, uncomfortable…and she’d get help from me or the staff, total strangers… and you could see her husband out in the parking lot… sitting in the car, listening to the radio; they couldn’t even come inside.

I’m also reminded of that study on organ donation rates across Europe, that found that among married hetero couples, 36% of women who could donate a kidney to their husband did so, while only 6.5% of clinically suitable men donate a kidney to their wives.

[xerospaced]

Men ain’t shit

[deutschtaeglich]

Sometimes I look at German and think “Are you guys okay??” Like when I learned that the word “morgue” in German is “Leichenschauhaus”. THAT LITERALLY TRANSLATES TO “CORPSE VIEWING HOUSE”. I know German is a very logical language but that’s taking it a tad too far guys

[official-german-puns]

Do you know about “Leichenschmaus” yet?

[deutschtaeglich]

WHY GERMAN

For everyone who doesn’t know (I had to look it up myself), this is the word for a wake or funeral reception THAT LITERALLY TRANSLATES TO CORPSE FEAST

[jeonsdear]

Listen I’m laughing so hard because being german you never really think of these things but oh my god

[viralfrog]

On using the term "Nazi"

https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/922202212457070592?lang=en

[catchymemes]

[vaspider]

Hey @mistresskabooms do you think something like this would work for us?

[exceptionallyautistic]

@candidlyautistic check this out! :o

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

This is pretty cool!

[auressea]

For my peeps with executive dysfunction!  

You can even make it double sided! 

Fabulous for breaking large/intimidating goals into bite-sized-bits

[somadyoucouldbite]

Oh my -god-

[mmcoconut]

It’s out!

I illustrated for Disney’s MULAN book “Mulan’s Lunar New Year”, (you can see the book here!) a children’s book about little Mulan spending Lunar New Year with her family.

It’s my first book and I want to share some illustrations  :D [*will also have this book at my table at CTNx 2018 this year on display at T55!]

Looking back, there are lots that I want to improve on the crafting of my drawings for this book, but overall… I’m really glad I get to illustrate and to remember the joy and excitement I had celebrating Lunar New Years and lighting fireworks with my parents as a kid.

It was pretty magical.