Fangirls Don't do Calm!

[prideknights]

We are the Pride Knights, and this is our battle cry No enemy can shake us, as hard as they can try There’s a fire in our eyes that no hatred can kill A passion in our hearts that’s as strong as our will To our fellow queers who fight their battles on their own We promise to fight with you, you are never alone To our fellow queers who have fallen with the pain We thank you for your courage, your fight is not in vain

We are defenders of the right to be proud of who you are To love who you love and to accept every scar We are your knights, protectors of our pride Together we stand, together we ride

These are back! 

[Tees | Hoodies | Sweatshirts]

https://teespring.com/stores/prideknights

[rockellex-deactivated20250702]

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

[scolipiter]

HOLY SMOKES

[vellione]

*sparkly eyes* This is so god damn cool

[minninugget-deactivated20240220]

I JUST REALIZED THE BI PRIDE KNIGHT HAD STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS IM-

[niamhuncensored]

THE ARO KNIGHT IS AN ARCHER SOMEONE APPRECIATES A PUN!!!!!!!

[princess-vongola]

The Pansexual Knight has multiple/different weapons! (Two types of daggers/short swords, and more on their back!)

[prideknights]

With pride coming up soon we really want to do something to help raise spirits. Pride may be cancelled this year, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t celebrate it. We know some of you have been wanting a PK t-shirt for a long time. So, we are doing a giveaway of some Pride Knights merch!

Click here to enter!

[sapatolices]

podia ser a gente, mas você não colabora. 

[headspace-hotel]

things that have happened in art class

I’m four weeks into teaching y art class (the students are like 5-10) and here are some things that have happened 

a girl said, in a very very small voice, “im so glad you’re my art teacher.” my heart almost exploded

a boy followed me up the stairs with flippers on his hands (i have no idea at all where he got them) slapping them together and saying, “THIS IS THE SOUND OF WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO YOU.” I was very concerned. 

the same boy also chased me with a toy skeleton whose hands and feet he had removed, saying, “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY HANDS???” Why am I being blamed for the poor toy’s mutilation? 

A girl painted two paintings as gifts for me and my helper, respectively. On opposite sides of the same piece of paper. 

Girl: (incoherent screaming) Girl’s sister: Why are you screaming?? Girl: BECAUSE I LOVE ART 

A boy dipped his nose in his paint and asked if he could nose-paint. I normally encourage experimentation, but I told him no. 

A girl made a really lovely abstract piece and then in the last 5 minutes of class dumped so much paint onto it it turned into a literal puddle of gray sludge, which she had to literally pour into the trash. 

A girl, seeing my handwriting on my notes: “You did that? I thought one of the kids must have done it,” I know my handwriting was bad but I need some ice for that burn. 

In general, kids give the sickest and most unforgiving burns. They don’t even have to try. 

I told the kids at one point that they should say kind things about themselves. Around 8 or 9 they start to develop self critical attitudes. All throughout that class, whenever someone said something critical of their art, another kid would say, “Say kind things about yourself!” 

I showed the kids an abstract art piece I’d made and asked them what they thought they saw in it. Some saw stars, some fireflies, others “beans falling out of the sky.” The swirls were variously interpreted as waves, galaxies, or squirrel tails. 

I mistakenly described a painting (two-dimensional surface) as “2-D.” This was similar enough to “doody” to set the kids screaming with laughter. Oops.. 

Boy: I want to paint DEATH! *paints a face with X eyes and red streaks then declares himself done* 

Me: No killing in art class! 

Kids have surprisingly sophisticated ideas about what their favorite colors are. Almost always multiple colors, and almost always more complex descriptions than just “blue” or something. 

I’ve had to convince at least one kid that the paint should not be eaten. It was surprisingly difficult. 

Me, buying brushes: I hope these last (cut to kid viciously stabbing his paper with a brush, crushing the bristles into a matted mess)

A girl hugged me earlier today and i swear she physically returned my soul to my body 

I asked the class if they could define abstract art and a girl said it was “art made out of feelings.” 

Girl: My brother threw up yesterday. Twice. Me: Good to know. 

Girl: When I’m sixteen, I’m going to marry (celebrity I don’t know) 

The same girl was very fond of dabbing. 

Some kid had written “I am Butt” on the chalkboard before I arrived. I don’t know who, but my students found it hilarious. 

some favorite artworks: an angry bird’s nest (not a nest that belongs to an angry bird but anger represented by a bird’s nest, I think), a tic-tac-toe cat, rainbow-colored bison, a very lovely galaxy, a chubby horse, a train getting caught in a tornado, a fight between dinosaurs with a volcano in the background that i thought very well done, lots of beautiful abstract paintings, some enhanced by splattering techniques, a chubby tiger much chubbier than the chubby horse, a cow that the artist insisted was “bad” but that absolutely was not.  

[headspace-hotel]

In this last class a kid showed me his work and I JUST restrained myself from saying “that’s badass” 

[headspace-hotel]

Having begun a new semester, I have some new anecdotal goodness 

I was discussing ideas and inspiration in the first class and this one kid was just like “i don’t have any ideas my brain is very small” 

I told the kids ideas could come from feelings and one girl said “I have 3 feelings: happiness, sadness, and horses.” (Same kid who said his brain was very small: “I don’t have any feelings.” Damn u ok kiddo?) 

Girl giving me a paintbrush with smashed bristles as I am at the sink washing brushes: “(other kid’s name) doesn’t DESERVE to have this paintbrush anymore.”

Same girl: “I did hand painting. It’s very artsy.”  

[autumncuddles]

Just finished this super cute graphic novel that captures the essence of autumn perfectly 🧡🎃

[fangirlsdontdocalm]

!!!!!!!

[marauders4evr]

It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

[spacedlexi]

if anyone would like to learn a couple tricks for carving pumpkins:

- dont cut out the top to scoop out the seeds, cut out the bottom instead. this way the pumpkin doesnt cave in on itself and lasts longer - sprinkle some cinnamon inside at the top after carving. this way when you put the candle in it smells like pumpkin pie

[topsiders-tanlines]

this is the quality content I wanna see on my dash

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

- rub the i sides with lemon after you’re done scooping. This will also help preserve the pumpkin

[dashaibo]

It’s fucking June, at least wait until the fourth of July, you animal.

[frowningfox]

I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of me disemboweling this pumpkin.

[katesattic]

Halloween is a year-long event and I will not be limited by your perception of time.

[lord-kitschener]

Obviously I want you to take care of your pets and make sure they get food and fresh water on a regular basis, but cats being huge drama queens and screaming hysterically at you and acting like they’re tragic famine victims who haven’t eaten in weeks and are about to drop dead from starvation right mcfuckin now, because you’re 10 minutes late feeding them is always going to be one of the funniest things to me

[artaeum]

the cat who lives at the vet clinic i volunteer at was mad yesterday because his dinner was half an hour late due to a busy day. he proceeded to go to all the (empty dw) garbage cans and tried to knock them over and started desperately scavenging for scraps of food because obviously no one loves him or cares about him and if he must eat garbage to survive then so be it

[instructionsfordancing]

not food related, but one time my cat cried at me for 20 minutes before i worked out that the reason why she was upset was because there was a coat hanger on her favourite cushion

[lord-kitschener]

This is absolutely beautiful and changed my life, thank you so much. Please protect her from hangers at all costs

[catsuggest]

wow. am STORVING and humaines here making joke laugh at cate honger ?!

[goldenmeme]

My cat is a social eater who is not food motivated at all, so I was baffled when I first got him because he didn’t seem to care about food but he would SCREAM at me for hours when I knew his bowl was full. Any time I went to double check that he did indeed have food, he’d book it to the bowl and snarf like his life depended on it, but as soon as I walked away he’d follow me screaming again.

Eventually I figured out that he just wanted a dining companion and was screaming about how we’re a family and families eat together, god damnit! I moved his food bowl under my computer desk and it fixed the problem. But if I’m ever out for more than 12 hours I’ll come home to find him in a passive-aggressive kitty huff because dinner has been ready for hours but he’s been trying to be considerate (unlike some humans) and waiting for me to eat it. 

[leeferal]

My cats are indoor cats. Being indoor cats, they can’t go outside to hunt for food (mice, rats, birds, etc) to gift to my sister and I.

But they know that the kitchen has food. They know where the easily accessible cat food is. And obviously my sister and I are just Really Big Stupid Hairless cats.

So if my sister and I go without leaving our rooms for too long? My cats will sit outside our doors and scream for our attention, lead us to their food bowls, and then only stop the screaming and leading once they see us sit down at the table and eat something. Because they think we’re hungry.

[akuyaku-reijou]

Your cats are the sweetest beings on the Earth, it makes my heart warm knowing that they exist. They love you very much and they care so much, they want you healthy and happy and will make sure you don’t neglect yourself and oh god they are so perfect. Real pure love exists, I am happy to be alive today.

[mylove-isnot-fragile]

My neighbor is a hardcore drunk. Like, 9am and dude is drinking vodka, but he had a cat that’s pretty much his honest to god caregiver because I have seen this cat visibly screaming at this man to keep him from hurting himself and sometimes when he hasn’t been outside for a while, the cat will scream at my door until I go outside to knock on the door to check on him. Cats are literal angels.

[dragonkitty]

I have a cat named a Kitty Pryde who has an extra thumb and these giant paws and while she’s not super bright she did learn that she likes being pet. So I must like being petted right? So if I’m watching TV alone she’ll come up and just with her giant paw gently stroke my arm or hand until I pet her back and she waits and pets me again and it goes on a while. Cats are angels.

[trinandtonic-deactivated2022102]

My cat once stuffed my bath mat into the litter box

[dvasxmeka]

Mine wakes me up if I sleep in too long cuz she wants me to take my pills. Fiance said she was yelling at him all day yesterday. She stopped whwn I got home…and asked him if he tooks his meds. He hadn’t.

[sharing-of-words]

My girlie screams at me if she thinks I’m up past bedtime. Apparently this transfers to my new roommates too: Maeve led @katculator to her room, yelled until she was under the covers, then came back to the kitchen to do the same to me.

[scretladyspider]

BABIES

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[babybat98]

[succubusboyfriend]

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

[succubusboyfriend]

someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help

me: my what

[suave-eddboy]

[thepioden]

What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.

[sparksel]

when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much. 

Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential. 

So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’ 

1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust! 

2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:

a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it! 

In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support. 

I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose

b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me! 

c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface

d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)

e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them

f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics. 

g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper. 

h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more. 

And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc. 

This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah. 

Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks. 

so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings! 

[concerningwolves]

[highlandvalley]

なんか並んでくれた😍💕 https://twitter.com/kikechi776/status/1130288022795145222/photo/1

[lanternist]

[fangirlsdontdocalm]

kets

[itsleahelaine]

take care of your familiars this halloween!

[fangirlsdontdocalm]

pretty!

[blithefool]

This was mostly @shoujocowboy ‘s idea.

[everythingfox]

[fangirlsdontdocalm]

CUTE DUCK!!!!!!!!!

[fanonical]

peter pettigrew totally used his animagus powers to cheat at hide and seek

[sixpenceee]

Time-lapse of a rain storm. This is located in a lake in Carinthia, Austria called “Millstättersee”. Video taken by Peter Maier. More interesting posts here: sixpenceee.com/tagged/world

[seldo]

I never noticed before the way a rainstorm depletes the cloud it comes from.

[naturedouche-deactivated2019030]

this is so cool omg

[he-is-in-the-cellar]

Rain is essentially the sky saying, “This cloud is too heavy.” And like trying to hold a wet paper towel in slow motion, it tears at one point and drags the rest of the water down with it.

[fangirlsdontdocalm]

This is awesome

[disneybound]

via Disney Canada

[otppromptuniverse-blog]

Sad OTP Starters

“It’s alright. I’m right here.”

“Why did you choose me?” “You know very well why, [ NAME ].”

“I’m a monster.” “No, you’re not.”

“You deserve so much better than me.” “Stop lying.”

“Why are you being like this?”

“Please hold me.”

“I can’t take this anymore.”

“Please don’t cry.”

“I’m begging you, please don’t lock yourself in your room.”

“Don’t shut me out.”

“Give me one single fucking reason why I shouldn’t leave.”

“Can’t you tell (s)he’s broken?”

“You’d better put that knife down.”

“Don’t listen to them.”

“Just leave.”

“I don’t need you.”

“Get away from her/him/them before I break every bone in your body.”

“No, wait!”

“Hear me out.” “Why the fuck should I listen to you?”

—

Funny OTP Starters

“Why the fuck is there a cat in my bed?”

“Might I ask why there’s Doritos everywhere?” “No.”

“I found out that your so-called composition notebook is really an Ipad and that you were using a cover to trick everyone at school. By the way, the principal wants to see you.”

“There’s a lot of hair in the toaster should I be concerned?”

“YOU WATCHED ALL THE DISNEY MOVIES WITHOUT ME?”

“YOU WATCHED HARRY POTTER WITHOUT ME?”

“Why is there a dog following you around?”

“WHERE DID YOU PUT MY COOKIES?”

“Oh my god did we actually do it?”

“I found hair in my food. Guess who’s.” “Your imaginary partner’s?”

“We’re gonna binge-watch ALL the Musicals on your birthday and you can’t stop me.” “My plane ticket says otherwise.”

“Your mother keeps on making me sweaters and dude I’m sorry I love her but these are making me ITCH.”

“This little girl/boy keeps staring at me at the restaurant we’re at while chewing food and it’s making me really uncomfortable so I’m gonna stare back.” “Wow.”

“This girl/boy keeps staring at me during classes and they’re making me feel really uncomfortable please help me.”

—

Cute OTP Starters

“Okay so it’s storming and I’m really scared of storms…can we possibly cuddle?…”

“You’re my medicine.”

“I found this really cute meme and it reminded me of you.”

“I can’t help but giggle when you kiss my neck.” “You also squeak.”

“Oh my god you have such an adorable sneeze?”

“I always catch you leaving small notes on my locker/desk. Your handwriting is so pretty and your messages are so sweet.”

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope you don’t mind kisses and cuddles as your gift.”

“How the hell did you get sick so quickly?” “I’m sorry.” “No don’t apologize! I’m here to take care of you.”

“WAIT why is there cake batter everywhere? Are you trying to bake a cake?” “It was supposed to be your favorite…”

“I love you but PLEASE STOP WASTING YOUR MONEY ON ME…”

“I can’t help but think of you. When I do it’s always at school, during classes. It distracts me.”

“You’re always leaving sticky notes with written clues all around the house on my birthday and our anniversary which always ends up with us going to some theme park or restaurant…and I love it.”

“We were in the middle of watching a Disney movie but you fell asleep, so I paused the movie and fell asleep with you just in case you wanted to continue watching when we both woke up.”

“I know you’re a geek for a lot of movies, video games, and musicals, so I bought you a lot of merchandise!”