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my parents aren’t teaching me life lessons.

#i need some adults to TEACH ME SHIT ABOUT LIFE

flutterjedi-deactivated20140413

I’m an adult.

thatsnicebutimmarried

Some shit about life, from a bonafide adult:

even if you get along great with your family you will get along even better with them after moving out

generic is almost always just as good as name brand. But there are some things you never buy generic, including: peanut butter, ketchup, liquid NyQuil, Chips-Ahoy chewy chocolate chip cookies

just imagine the person on the other end of the phone hates talking on the phone as much as you do. Even a receptionist. I worked as one and I hate talking on the phone

at least once in your life you will go to Wal-mart to buy something under $20 like an ironing board or something and your debit card will get rejected. No one will judge. Everyone at some point in their lives has had $2.98 in their bank account.

thrift stores

everyone else is too busy panicking about everyone else noticing every tiny thing that could possibly be wrong about them to notice any tiny thing that could possibly be wrong about you

you will screw up. a lot. you live and you learn. and when you start to think too hard about that embarrassing thing that happened and how you wish you could change it, just tell yourself that what’s done is done. There’s no changing it, so just forget it and move on. It’s the only way to stay sane.

do the dishes before the sink grows its own ecosystem

you can’t put Dawn dishsoap in the dishwasher.

if you are the only one in the aisle at the grocery store, and you need to get from one end to the other without even looking at anything in that aisle, then you should totally cart-surf down the aisle. Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. Hold on to the little things. They make all the difference.

never try to make cake from scratch at 3am. You end up with a topographical map of Middle Earth.

15% tip.

the best way to get money for food is to tell your grandparents about how you basically live on microwaved mac and cheese. Their horror may result in twenty bucks and orders to go out and get yourself “a real dinner”.

sometimes life sucks, and knowing that it might get better doesn’t always make it suck any less, but you’ll never get to the non-sucky days without enduring the suckiness.

no seriously, NEVER put Dawn in your dishwasher

250darkstars

Do not buy generic brand spaghetti sauce either.

Always check the type of light bulb that goes in lamps. A 60w is not interchangeable with a 40w.

Dollar store batteries work just as well as store brand.

shrineart

Reward yourself from time to time when you do things that you needed to get done. It’s a good way to remind yourself to do them. Going out to pay a bill? Get Starbucks or something you don’t get often. Rewards don’t have to be huge, they can be small things like that.

Rice, pasta, flour, sugar, cheese, eggs, milk, a pack of chicken, a pack of frozen veggies and a well stocked spice cabinet go a long way food-wise. Splurge and get the biggest container of rice you can. You don’t have to go back and buy it again anytime soon and it makes a TON of meals in the meantime.

Rice can be cooked on the stove. You don’t need a fancy rice cooker. Two parts water to every one part rice (two cups water for one cup of rice for example). Get your water boiling, add rice, put a plate or lid on it, put it on low for 20 minutes. It should be done.

Keep a calendar on your pc of bill due dates. If your bills are set up at inconvenient times, like all of the services started on the first or something, then call up the company and find out if you can get your billing date switched to something more manageable. A lot of places do try to work with you.

There is no shame in calling a company and asking for an extension on a bill. Let them know what you can pay, pay that amount, and they arrange when the rest of the payment is required. This can stop you from having services shut off man. It shows responsibility on your part.

Take time to eat, even when you don’t feel like eating. Your body needs energy to live.

Wash or rinse your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. It prevents gross caked on junk.

“The Works” is an excellent cheap toilet cleaner.

MAGIC. FUCKING. ERASERS. THEY WORK ON EVERYTHING JUST DON’T SCRUB HARD. I took the ring out of our bathtub with one. Also generic ones work just as well.

Keep some bleach around but if you use it for cleaning? Dillute it. There’s rarely ever a case where you need to pout straight bleach on anything. A cap full or two in a bucket of water works just fine.

DO NOT MIX CLEANERS. Chemical reactions are can be very dangerous. Here’s a good list. (Note that vinegar and baking soda can actually be a good combo for removing smells from things but it’s not very good at actually -cleaning-.)

If you drink? Don’t take meds at the same time it’s just not good.

Make sure you check the dosages on your pill bottles. No one wants to accidentally overdose on cough syrup or ibuprofen.

If you have a uterus make sure you have a heating pad and ibuprofen on hand for the pain. Hot baths also generally help and Ginger Tea is excellent for any nausea.

Buy a first aid kit. It’s worth it in the long run.

You can often do your taxes online at places like TurboTax.

Here’s some good sex ed resources because I had to explain what a yeast infection was recently.

Petroleum jelly (aka Vaseline) is good for chapped lips and you can get a decent sized tube or tub of it (generic brand version) for cheaper/same price as Chapstick.

KEEP TRIPLE ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT IN YOUR HOUSE FOR CUTS AND SCRAPES AND SORES.

~~Medications~~

Over the counter medications (stuff you can buy right off the shelf no prescription needed) have a name brand and a generic name. ALWAYS buy generic if it’s available it is literally the same thing and way cheaper usually.

Some names to remember when you’re looking for meds!

Acetaminophen = Tylenol

Used to treat pain and reduce fever. Do not take with Ibuprofen.

Ibuprofen = Advil, Midol, Motrin

Used for pain and fever, is an anti-inflammtory. Is good for period cramps because it is an NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug).

Naproxen = Aleve, Naprosyn

Treats fever, pain, arthritis pain, gout, period cramps, tendinitis, headache, backache, and toothache. Is also an NSAID.

Acetaminophen + Asprin + Caffeine = Excedrin

Usually marketed as “Migraine Relief” as a generic.

Asprin = Bayer

Use for pain, fever, arthritis, and inflammation. Makes you bleed easily so should not be used for periods. Might reduce risk of heart attacks.\

Triple Antibiotic Ointment = Neosporin

Used on cuts, sores, and scrapes to reduce risk of infection and promote healing.

Also a general mutli-vitamin isn’t a bad idea and if you don’t get a lot of fruits or milk/sunshine in your diet you might want to get vitamins C and D specifically for daily use.

kiokushitakaa

if you do accidentally lapse and put dawn in your dishwasher, run it empty and put hair conditioner where the detergent goes. that’ll clean it out (tip given to me by dorm custodian when roommate did the thing).

if you live off ramen, add stuff to it! add veggies you like, don’t use the whole flavor packet to cut down on sodium and msg or don’t use it at all and add your own spices.

if you’re making something with potatoes in it (beans, stew) potatoes are done when you can easily stab a fork through them.

you can microwave a hotdog as long as you put it in a microwave safe container of water. microwaves work by making water molecules vibrate. also, when reheating rice leftovers, add a small amount of water, like maybe a spoonfull, so it doesn’t get hard and crunchy.

the rice cooking advice above is for long grain rice. if you’re making short or medium grain rice, a 1:1 ratio (one cup water for one cup rice) is better, so the rice doesn’t come out too mushy.

buy a few cans of chicken. wholesale club stores like sam’s, costco, or bj’s tend to carry multipacks for a good price. they’re incredibly useful for when you forget to defrost meat.

buy meat on sale and put it in the freezer. buy vegetables on sale, and put them in the freezer. frozen veggies are often as flavorful and good as fresh ones, keep longer, and often come in microwaveable bags or with microwave directions.

soak ink stains in milk to help get them out or at least lighten them.

soak blood stains in water as soon as possible, with a bit of detergent or stain remover. scrub at them. use cold water, heat binds proteins to fabric. tbh, there’s no real need to change the washer from cold-cold setting unless the thing you’re washing says to wash in warm water.

acetone, found in most nail polish removers, dissolves super glue.

cloningmycat

YOU’RE ALL DOING GOD’S WORK BLESS YOU

lifelovebooksnshit

Takes pictures, have prints made and put them in photo albums. Be IN the pictures, have someone take pictures of you and your friends. Get over not looking perfect in thw picture. Someday that friend might be gone and those pictures might be all you’ll have, you will want to be in them. I made that mistake with my best friend, i always felt weird asking for a picture together… he died of cancer January of 2014 and now i have no pictures of us together. Its my only regret in life.

boasamishipper

This is really helpful, thank you all!

batsandhatsinunderland-deactiva

I’m the newest of new adults but I’m gonna throw these little tips in there. IF YOU HAVE AN OLD CAR:

-coolant or water if your car overheats (coolant is preferable cause it won’t hurt the engine in the long run but hey i know money is tight)

-flashlight in case you break down at night and need to check under the hood and your phone is dead

-SPARE TIRE.

-jumper cables.you will at some point leave your lights on. you just will.

AAA or any other road side service is never a bad investment i swear. (try to mooch it off your parents as long as you can though)

shipperqueen93

Know how to change a tire. You’re going to need to do it at some point in time and you can’t always rely on someone else to do it for you.

Don’t be afraid to go to your local food bank. They are there for a reason.

Don’t be ashamed to ask for help period. Life is hard, everyone needs help occasionally.

woodelf68

You can put a LOWER wattage bulb in a lamp that says it’s for a higher one, but don’t put a HIGHER wattage bulb in. Also, watts refer to the amount of electricity used. LUMENS refers to the amount of light put out, and can vary quite a bit between brands, even though the wattage is the same. Look for the one with the highest lumens unless you actually want a slightly dimmer bulb in a certain location. Those dollar store batteries? Fine if they’re alkaline. “Heavy-duty” batteries, however, won’t last nearly as long. You can microwave a hot dog and bun simply by wrapping them in a toweling for a minute, less if you don’t want them scalding hot.

blue-pixiedust

Reblogging to save lives.

faranae-moved

Two adulting (kitchen-related) tips from me!

1. Buy a roll of parchment paper from the cooking shit aisle. A big roll will last you for-fucking-ever. Pretty much any time you’re using a baking pan you can line it with that stuff and save yourself A: food sticking to the pan and B: it’s a quick rinse and it’s clean.

2. Bread can get fucking expensive, so make your own. A bigass bag of flour and a bag of active dry yeast (store it in the friiiiidge!!!) works out a FUCK of a lot cheaper than buying bread at the store, and you can do so much more with it. Bread, pizza, rolls, cinnibuns, homemade pizza pockets. It seems intimidating but it’s stupid easy.

Seriously. It’s stupid simple to make, and most of the “3 hours” to make it is sitting around surfing the internet or doing whatever the fuck you want while the dough rises. If you have an afternoon free once a week to sit and play video games or surf the net, you have the time to make your own bread on the cheap. Here’s my simple-as-fuck recipe:

2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast (You can buy a bag of this stuff CHEAP in bulk stores, the little packets are hella stupid priced) 1 cup warm water (think a hot bath) 1 ½ teaspoons sugar 2 tablespoons oil (any kind works for the most part) 2 ¼ cups flour 1 teaspoon salt

1. Stir the yeast, water, sugar, and oil up in a bowl. Let it sit for about 10 minutes. It will foam up VERY high, this is the yeast getting happy! If it doesn’t get all foamy, the water may have been too hot or not hot enough. Remember, Yeast is alive! Treat it like a nice girlfriend!

2. Mix your flour, salt, and the yeast concoction up in a bowl.

3. Knead that shit for about 5 minutes. It will start sticky as heck, but will come together into a nice dough. If it’s still super sticky, toss in a bit more flour. Here’s how to knead it:

4. Put your dough in a covered, lightly oiled bowl and leave it someplace warmish for an hour. At that point it will have roughly doubled in size, give it a gentle punch to release the gasses that have built up inside. Cover it again and let it sit for a bit longer.

Boom. You have bread dough. Here are some baking times and uses for ya:

Optional egg-wash: Just crack an egg into a bowl, add a pinch of salt, and mix the bejeebus out of it with a fork. Brush (or if you’re like me, goop it on with said fork) that shit thinly on bread before baking for a nice crust.

Pizza: Stretch it on a pan, stab the fucker all over with a fork, add toppings, bake 425*F 15-20 minutes.

Bread Sticks: Make snake-shapes, let rest on pan 10-ish minutes, bake 400*F 10-20 minutes.

Dinner rolls: Make ball-sized (yes those balls) balls. Place on greased pan, let rest 10-20 minutes to rise. Egg-wash and bake 375*F 25 minutes.

Bread: Lightly score (cut) the top, let sit for 20-ish minutes on/in whatever you’re using to bake it, egg-wash, bake at 375*F for 20-ish minutes. It’s done when it sounds hollow if you knock on the bottom.

You bet your ass you can deep-fry this shit for cheapie yeast doughnuts. Roll that shit in sugar or dip it in whatever, it’s fucking tasty.

Bagels: YES. YOU. CAN. Form bagel-shapes out of the dough and boil them in salty water for about 2 minutes. Egg-wash them and bake them at 400*F for 10 minutes.

Cinnamon Rolls: Roll that shit out into a rectangle. Brush it with a mix of butter, cinnamon, sugar, and a pinch of salt (no exact amounts here, do it to your taste). Roll it up into a log, and cut it into discs. Let them sit 20 minutes in a pan and then bake at 375*F 15-17 minutes.

You can add whatever you want to the dough for some variety, just if it’s dried spices remember you really only need 1-ish tablespoons. I personally like making bread with about 1 tablespoon of dill in the dough. Roll it out flat, sprinkle it with cheddar, roll it into a log, squeeze the ends shut, and bake it like a regular loaf of bread. Cheesy dill bread OMNOMNOM.

*ahem* That got a bit long. But yeah. Bread’s expensive, yo. Save your wallet.

(Also it’s ridiculous amounts of therapeutic to bake, for me anyway)

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about the medicine: know the difference between ibuprofen and paracetamol!! paracetamol is a painkiller and is probably the way to go if you have a headache or period pain since it’s easier on the stomach, while ibuprofen is anti inflammatory! that means it will work well as a painkiller, but it’s also good for common colds - just take it two times a day (make sure to check the dosage with a pharmacologist or read the instructions that come with the medicine tho) for up to three days to lower your temperature (if it lasts longer than that pls go see a doctor) another tip: always have a few painkiller pills on you they will save your life and last thing: take the medical advice on tumblr with a grain of salt most of us aren’t specialists so please double and triple check all the info

#reference

clairesapphitz

he was talking about when you’re a little kid but i relate to this as a college student

nananana-bpdman

Me: I’m totally independent, I don’t need anyone’s help

Also me:

the--kite

Any advice on what to do first if someone wants to learn how to draw like you?

Hi! Well thanks for your question, I will try to answer it at the best of my capacity!

1°) Anatomy

My first and most important advice is to acquire a steady knowledge of anatomy and figure drawing. Whether stylized or not, a bad anatomy will be spotted right away and it will kill any drawing, no matter how awesome it may look or no matter how original the idea is. A lot of artists uses the excuse “but it’s my style!”… I was once told that style can not be an excuse for a half-assed work. There are a tons of websites with free contents to practice anatomy studies, such as http://www.quickposes.com/, http://artists.pixelovely.com/, etc. I will provide at the end of this a complete list of art resources I frequent daily.

Even the weirdest aliens and creature you see in movies, games and else have anatomies inspired by animals/humans/etc. That is what makes them believable and lifelike.

You also have a free access to AliceX ( @alicexblog )’s life drawing streaming sessions, where she assumes themed poses for a limite time (2 to 10 minutes) and provide a lot of useful anatomical and figure drawing advices.

2°) Perspective.

It could easily be the first, as perspective is as important as anatomy to an artist. Perspective is a way of creating the illusion of real, three dimensional life on a two dimensional medium. Everything has a volume in space, unless you are drawing a flat surface seen from above (and you could still skew the angle). Perspective will gives depth and volume to your drawing, and a flawed perspective will kill any drawing in the same why as a bad anatomy. Please note that combining a bad anatomy and a bad perspective is overkill.

A great perspective will strengthen your composition and allow you to direct the viewer’s eyes to the point you deem important. Which leads us to the 3rd point…

3°) … Composition

Composition is the term used for the arrangements of the elements in or the subject matter of a drawing or a painting. Done successfully, it draws in the viewer and pulls their eye across the whole painting so that everything is taken in and finally settles on the main subject of the painting. As important as perspective.

4°) Color and Light

Ultimately, this is what will make a painting realistic or not. Learning the fundamental of lighting and the fundamental of colors can be tedious and hard, but it is very important. Understanding how color works around light is the key to producing believable and solid drawings. No matter the style, an artist mastering his or her coloring and light will lead to amazing results. It can go from the most psychedelic anime paints to the misleading “simplicity” of hyper realism. Some good examples of my personal inspirations are Johannes Voß and Jana Schirmer, Maciej Kuciara, RupertEverton ( @rupertneverton ). I will provide my influence map as well.

5°) Process

Learn to organize your thought in an efficient work process.

Process your thoughts, sketches, brainstormings in a way that suits you and that allow you to save time while remaining efficient. It is honestly not very useful to have a 200+ hours process for something you could do in 20. There’s a lot of tricks and time savers, but I think I’ll make an entire post for them.

An efficient work process can be a great time saver, where a “random” process can be the greatest loss of time you’d ever know, with it’s lot of..

6°) Frustration

Do you like salt? I hope you do; learning to paint, and art in general can and will be frustrating. Results are often long to come, require a great deal of patience and dedication. Painting realistically more than the others; it requires a lot of time and passion. It will almost never come out like you wanted, and this can be the source of a endless frustration (this is my case). But fear not, dear citizen, this only mean that you still have a lot to learn. And believe me, learning is fun, and it is really worth it in the long run. Do not give up. Do not be lazy. Do not find excuses. You will fail a drawing, and a lot of time. It doesn’t matter, we all do. All artist does. It only means you can, and will improve.

This would require a far longer post than this to cover everything I want to say, but I believe I’ll keep it “short” for now. Here are some handy resources for artists:

MY RESOURCES:

Training (from FusRoDa.com) :

Ctrl+Paint

A simply awesome website with loads of free digital art training!

Scott Robertson Design

Scott Robertson’s channel with loads of free videos about digital and traditional art and design.

Art Cafe

Art Cafe mission is to open the world of art to everyone. Livestream is hosted by industry-leading conceptual designer Maciej Kuciara.

Ross Draws

Extremely fun YouTube Channel, created by talented Ross Tran will make you learn and laugh!

FZD School

FZD’s channel has loads of videos with painting demos and knowledge about the entertainment industry.

Sycra Art Videos

Art videos that inspire, instruct, and entertain!

Digital Tutors

Training videos for teaching artists and creative professionals how to make movies, games, digital art and more.

Robot Pencil

Affordable tutorials for aspiring digital artists by Anthony Jones. Must watch!

The Collective Podcast

The Collective Podcast brings you weekly episodes of entertaining, informative, and honest discussions with creative industry leaders from around the world. Created and hosted by designer/director Ash Thorp.

Ben Mauro

Ben Mauro’s channel has some great tutorials, be sure to check out all the ZBrush goodies.

How to Draw-Proko

Interesting Youtube channel where you can learn how to draw with Stan Prokopenko.

Gumroad Tutorials List

Compilation of all gumroad tutorials released to this date, formatted into an easy to browse list on the polycount.com forums.

Reddit: Art Fundamentals

A subreddit to help those who are either entirely new to drawing, are self taught and stagnating, or otherwise feel that their understanding of the fundamentals of drawing are lacking.

Struggling with value - Marek Okoń

In this tutorial Marek Okoń explains the basics of values structure and shows some indispensable knowledge about working in values.

LearnSquared

Masterclasses from lead industry artists

Quickposes.comFigure/gesture drawing sites with a tracker to save your progress

Alice’s Life Drawing StreamLife drawing stream with the model Alice and 2 other artists (I generally tag along)

Books

Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist

Creative Illustration

Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers

Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth

Mastery

Sketching from the Imagination: An Insight into Creative Drawing

The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media

Drawing and Painting Fantasy Landscapes and Cityscapes

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (personal favorite of mine)

Art Fundamentals

CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

Visual Encyclopedia of Architecture

Figure Drrawing: Design and Invention

How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination

The Skillful Huntsman: Visual Development of a Grimm Tale

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Panel Discussions: Design In Sequential Art Storytelling

Animals Real and Imagined: Fantasy of What Is and What Might Be

Alla Prima II: Everything I Know About Painting

What about our fellow porn artists?(non-patreon only content)

Please feel free to suggest me any porn artist who have published handy tutorials!

CLOSER TO WHAT I DO

@daily-commissionA lot of handing drawing, colors and body structure tips

@joixxx has some handy process for semi-realistic painting closer to concept art

PicartoSometimes, lurking on streams can be very instructive

ON CELL SHADING (feel free to suggest more peoples to me, I don’t follow a lot of cell-shading artists, shame on me :( )

Doxy ( @doxydoo )Great tutorials/videos on cell-shading on his Youtube Channel, Tumblr and website, PrismBlush.

@norasuko-art‘s tips on SinnerGate

My personal (SFW) inspirations:

Stjepan Šejić - shiniez

Maciej Kuciara

Wojtek Fus

Hannes

Houston Sharp

Lisa Keene

And many others

Cheers,TheKite

#reference #art reference

memewhore

jac5ob

WHERE’S HIS MOTHER BURIED

iv-fischer

“a bit larger than we expected”

trapcard

they gave birth to Hagrid bye.

imnickjamesbitch

This needs answers

eat-thin-wheat-thins

that's a two year old not a newborn smh

micdotcom

Yes, Ted Cruz actually said this on national TV — and then he brought up serial killers (!).

the-stray-liger

I’m 330% here for the Zodiac Killer taking down Trump

arisell-i

The Zodiac Killers final victim.

thingsonhazelshead

iwillmindfuckyou

the internet is getting too smart

IT CAN TRANSLATE ILLITERATE COMMENTS TO READ AS PROPER ENGLISH

sporeblossom

browsing tinder is such a brutal confrontation with the harsh reality we live in. you’re just swiping through, awful guy, awful guy, awful guy, and you’re thinking like how is this real, how are there so many awful men in this world. surely there can’t be more. but there are always more.

flourescentbadolescent

*makes eye contact with a pretty girl for more than 5 seconds* me: yes,,, my soul mate. i can not believe it, here in this Burger King

jakey-beefed-it

I’m very glad that movies like Pacific Rim and Fury Road and The Force Awakens are as colorful as they are, because I am really, really tired of desaturated movies.