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Ya boi is doing Emergency Commissions again cause im an idiot and cant count dates right
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Lined character + color - $10 per character
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Sketched reference page - $35 (Max 3 poses)
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Sketched comics or colored comics can be discussed
you know what i think should be illegal? like genuinely illegal? the thing that happens, when you search 'watch x movie' on google, where big streaming sites like netflix and hulu will have results pop up like this
that, when you click on them, lead you to a page that basically says "we dont have this movie but we have a button you can click to get notified if we ever do. anyway here's some movies that are sort of like this that you could watch instead." this is annoying enough if its a streaming site u pay for already but fucking insidious if it's dangling a fakeass carrot in front of your nose to try and get you to sign up, since it does in fact prompt me to log in to get to this page when i do this with netflix, at least. this is a fucking nightmare. this should not be allowed.
you know what i think should be illegal? like genuinely illegal? the thing that happens, when you search 'watch x movie' on google, where big streaming sites like netflix and hulu will have results pop up like this
that, when you click on them, lead you to a page that basically says "we dont have this movie but we have a button you can click to get notified if we ever do. anyway here's some movies that are sort of like this that you could watch instead." this is annoying enough if its a streaming site u pay for already but fucking insidious if it's dangling a fakeass carrot in front of your nose to try and get you to sign up, since it does in fact prompt me to log in to get to this page when i do this with netflix, at least. this is a fucking nightmare. this should not be allowed.
Actually, pokemon can't have voice acting because the switch wouldn't be able to handle it. It already has a hard enough time running the game, adding those extra files would just make it way to big of a game for the switch to handle.
have you??? ever played another game???
They've got fucking Outer Worlds and other ridiculously more complex games on the switch.
I make games yo. I have made games. It's abuse of the developers via applying pressure to generate profit from memorable titles every quarter, or more if possible.
It ain't the hardware, it's the capitalism
Hi Palana! I’m potentially interested in getting a car at some point down the road, and the only pet I had as a kid was a dog. I’ve heard it’s good to look for an adult cat to adopt since their personality will be more solidified, but what other advice would you have for a first-time owner, whether for how to look or pointers for training or anything else? Thanks!
hi! i would second the advice to seek out an adult cat.
miscellaneous advice off the top of my head:
for me one of the really big differences between cats and dogs is that you generally speaking do more to the environment for cats. you’ll want to make sure to give them high surfaces to jump into and appropriate things to scratch, and many of them will enjoy hidey-holes, soft beds and tunnels. look into “catification”!
if possible, you want to have at least n + 1 litter boxes where n is the number of cats you own
get a wide, shallow bowl for food and water. it’s uncomfortable for cats to bonk their whiskers against the rim of a bowl
stainless steel bowls tend to be less germy
look into cooperative care - it’s often pretty dog-oriented but can benefit any species and will make cat maintenance more painless :^)
cat people feel free to jump in!
when training a cat, it’s really hard to train them NOT to do something (like jumping on the counter). It’s much easier to train an ALTERNATIVE contradictory behavior (cat can’t jump on the counter if they’re too busy sitting in their cat tree that’s loaded with WAY more interesting things).
walking a cat on a leash generally isn’t like dog walking, unless you’ve got a very special cat. you just kinda let the cat do their own thing and you’re just along for the ride. that said, i still encourage teaching a cat ‘leave it’ (again, tying back to point one; it’s more about teaching the cat to Look At You and Away From The Thing They Are Doing) and ‘come’. Just in case they try to get Too Curious about things they shouldn’t be curious about.
cat training involves tiny, short lessons. like five minutes maximum, because cats just don’t have the same attention span and drive as dogs do. you also usually have to chop up a behavior into smaller bits for cats compared to dogs. their heads are just so tiny and they require more immediate rewards compared to dogs.
cats can’t read and have no idea if a toy is made for dogs or not. i heavily encourage getting dog toys, especially the kind that crinkle. they’re more durable and will stand up more to a cat kicking it.
likewise they have no idea if a treat is made for dogs or cats. i use a LOT of freeze dried meat treats made for dogs. i’ve never had a cat complain and they’re usually cheaper for dogs.
● Just make sure that your primary cat food is MADE FOR CATS. Cats require more taurine and such than dogs do, so it's super important that your cats main diet is built for them.
● Wet food is also very important for cats since cats tend to get most of their moisture from their food, and many are poor drinkers. Gravy is usually the recommendation, but adding a small amount of water to pate is often more cost effective. (Cats often love dry food tho, so if you can start them on wet right away it's often better. Some cats will like normal cat crunchies as treats if their normal meals are wet)
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something to be said in the fact that in the end it wasn't the manufactured cringeposting that drove them off but the sincere reality of the tumblr ecosystem
YO FOR REAL THOUGH JACOB NASH IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST
He founded a charity called Margie’s Hope that helps trans people in NE Ohio, which operates a not-for-profit secondhand store in Cleveland geared towards the trans community. Dude is an absolute class-act.
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The name "Utahraptor" always makes me feel as though I'm living in a world where each American state has its own raptor species. I want to see what a Connecticutraptor looks like.
Alabamaraptor: A basal eudromaeosaur closely related to Deinonychus, adapted for hunting on open ground.
Alaskaraptor: An artic-adapted saurornitholestine raptor; compact and powerful.
Arizonaraptor: Triassic pseudosuchian with a passing resemblance to a dromaeosaur.
Arkansasraptor: A long, lean unenlagiine raptor specialized for slinking through dense underbrush.
Californiaraptor: Semi-aquatic diving halszkaraptorine, sleek and cormorant-like.
Coloradoraptor: A primitive dromaeosaur from the Late Jurassic, still very generalized with small talons and the ability to glide.
Connecticutraptor: A highly derived eudromaeosaur from an Appalachian ghost lineage, with large, lobed feet for hunting shellfish during low tide.
Dakotaraptor: A turtle, for some reason.
This is made even funnier by the fact that Dakotaraptor does, in fact, exist, and while it was found in a formation that is INFAMOUS for the number of goddamn turtles we keep finding there, is actually a legit raptor.
Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.
And it is a trap.
An ask like this has several purposes.
First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.
The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.
Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)
The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.
Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:
Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.
The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.
Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG
If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*
They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.
It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.
This is what bullying on social media can look like especially in left-leaning/social justice minded circles. This is how otherwise caring people get roped into participating in harassment campaigns.
Wow, this is like looking at a certain fandom right now. Insert any hot topic word like homophobic, racist, misogynist, or anything like it.
This is why bullying if any kind is never good. There is no such thing as a good bully. Anyone who tells you to bully someone is trying to get more people to their cause when usually the cause is just to start a fandom war because their take on fandom is different than other takes and they hate it.
Can we stop referring to JKR as a "violent transmisogynist" instead of a "violent transphobe"? Unless you're specifically discussing the transmisogyny aspect of her bigotry, only acknowledging her transmisogyny erases the significant damage she's caused to other trans people. Her words are influencing laws even in America that are targeting young trans men, transmascs, and non binary people specifically, so it's about time we stop pretending she's only a transmisognynist instead of an all around horrible transphobe.
she literally talked about how neurodivergent people who were assigned female at birth can't make decisions about their own bodies, and I kid you not, her explanation as to why could have been reduced to a single use of the r slur.
she is not only a violent transphobe, she decided that, to back up her transphobia, she might just be ableist as well. Why the fuck not.
TERFs are gonna keep harming transmasculine people if we don't acknowledge it.
Also, never forget Irreversible Damage. If you think that transmasculine people are protected from radfem bigotry, I'd recommend giving that a read.
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realized i could use my seasonal depression lamp as a light box so that I can give traditional animation a try. check out this guy
Contratulatuons op, this tiger cured my seasonal depression
Putting this here because apparently Tesla wants it taken down and the og post was already deleted.
I saw a news story about how Teslas were slowing down early for a junction and it turned out the STOP signs were about 50% bigger than regular, and the car brain which has no LIDAR or other depth sensing tech other than smooshing several camera inputs together was just assuming the signs were closer and so needed to be stopped sooner.
lol, lmao etc but someone in the comments posited 'Hey maybe a TESLA just sees a child as an adult who is further away and thus there's no need to brake just yet' *THUD*
It's just Muskbrained enough to be the truth.
Reading anything ridiculous about Elon Musk (even tangentially) after watching Glass Onion just heightens the experience, with a dash of Daniel Craig's amazing dialect expressing what I'm thinking with ever greater incredulity.
here is my one bit of wisdom as a 32 year old with no interest in being a "fandom elder" or "community mom" or whatever -
if someone a little older in your friend group takes care of things and has good advice to offer and whatever, and you all sometimes joke abt them being the mom friend, that's fine and normal
if someone self declares themselves as the mom friend, and begins to act like that is a role with actual authority, Fucking Run
People who seek power are rarely the ones best suited to its use. This is true in politics, the workplace, and social dynamics.
Yesterday evening I went to my cousin's anime/manga club and played a bit with her friend and we messed around with the camera in selfie mode
A glitch happened while I was doing emotes and I HAD to make it a gif because I was dead and immediately pressed his screenshot button to record it
