Full of Energy and Terrible Social Skills

I post/reblog literally anything I want to! Which is usually resources I want easy access to for webdesign and writing and whatever else (mostly webdesign) and art (other peoples and my own!) I have a #my art tag if u want to see just my art :)

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[fartoomanynames]

A playlist I made for frankenstein's creature-- it's only seven songs but I really like it so here it is :) The Playlist art was made by me Because I have the time I'm gonna yap about each song under the cut :)

Sparrow -- Big Thief I just really love big thief tbh, and the allusions to the garden of eden really fit the creature :) I can also tie it into how the creature in Mary's Shelley's original novel, the Creature's only place of safety and love is in nature "she talks to snakes and they guide her" <-- from the song, tbh tho it's mainly here though because my queer platonic partner sung it a decent amount and it got stuck in my head while I was making this playlist Creature Comfort -- Arcadia fire one of my favourite songs of all time, is definitely a comfort song to me, have also cried upon listening to it many times. The Creature commits suicide in the original novel and this song is very explicitly about suicide, so I guess that's how I would justify it's place on the playlist. We Don't Deserve Love -- Arcadia fire Was listening to Arcadia fire's other songs because I really really like Creature Comfort, I thought this fit well enough for the playlist, sort of constant melancholy rejection vibes :) Creep -- Radiohead hehhehehhehehehhehehhehhe, crepe :) Masterpiece - 2023 Remaster -- Big Thief I really like Big Thief :D Selfless, Cold and Composed -- Ben Folds Five Friend got me to listen to this one, cried because the paino was just soooo something. would highly recommend ben folds, a very underappreciated artist, Take Off ur pants -- Indigo De Souza Cried instantly upon listening to this song for the first time-- "when am I gonna get a better head like everybody else does?" hit like a truck, frustration with how you exist is very real.

Overall, upon reflection, I think I mostly chose songs that I cry with occasionally, so probably don't have any significant to anyone else, but I also think these songs (excluding creep) are just enough outside of mainstream to be incredibly fun to engage with (even if they aren't your thing!) just to appreciate how cool it is that everyone sort of gravitates to different things :)

[fartoomanynames]

puts him in a tree

[fartoomanynames]

Show-Only enjoyers need to be aware that in the books Drew and Hector spent a significant portion of time alone together in the woods where Drew was wearing a green cloak and nothing else. And also that Hector gave up his job, title, family and became a fugitive to help drew-- who he only knew for like less than week, all because drew asked him to-- no 'getting stuck together due to shenanigans' required, Hector just full on decided to bust this punk loose, even though it meant losing everything he's ever known. That time they spent together in the woods uncertain of their futures is like, something I think about whenever I think about them. Because they're both going through so much, and all they have is each other, but even then, they don't even really know each other and it's just AUGH-- MY BOYS, my precious boys! These strangers who are now inexplicably tied to each other! Who come from completely different lives but have this intense kindness and understanding between them AUSDGHASJSHDAKJH

[bentleydings]

Jinx and Drew would've gotten along!

Jinx and Drew are from Adult Animation shows Wolf King and Arcane

[noko444]

You're starting to look really weird, oh, yeah Your face is out of place and I can't make you out And I forget just what you said Yeah, it's not clear, it was about fear and getting out of here

insp. mihifuhi on twitter

[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

[bedupolker]

I've recommended this one before, but for all the non-human vertebrate likers out there... the art of animal drawing

[fartoomanynames]

A vocal stim of mine I must share

it's in my head and it won't leave, but I ain't spending any time on it (edit: He's being asked his views on same-sex marriage)

[daylightisminetoconsume]

Trollhunters:

The Missing Episodes

Wizards

Do your part to keep Tales of Arcadia from becoming lost media!

[nephilejon]

i have my own tales of arcadia drive, attaching it here just in case! has all 3 shows as well as ROTT

Tales of Arcadia - Google Drive

[rotten-m3]

Can you do queen wasp 👉👈

Quee Wathp 😥

[radicallymaxton]

twlight princess doodles to cure art block

[seaglassosprey]

quick doodle i did while watching @/fourleafisland draw ospreys . i am normal

[cloudyrorrii]

try it out here!! this is a small passion project me and my friend have been tinkering with on and off over the past few weeks, and i'm really happy to finally share it with you all! (warning we're still tinkering with the css so the website might look kind of wonky depending on what device/browser you're on) in a lot of ways this is also a gift to fourleafisland's lovely art community, so i want to say thanks to them for inspiring the concept and letting use their minnow design! ^^

[coconutxav]

Fourleafisland page stamps for your artfight profile so you can get got by other minnows

[depsidase]

[solisbury]

[xxhorsmaxx-deactivated20260511]

GOD FUCKING BLESS

[starfilled-galaxy]

?!?!??!??!?!?

[fartoomanynames]

Trying to have fun on tf2 (pt1)

side note: I'm only playing solo atm The fun is in completing the goal, and getting the big numbers/kills and stuff which is reliant on skill and luck, of which I have neither, so I'm trying to reshift the way I think about the game into being more enjoyable, which is kinda difficult without that aspect of community play -- my two angles I'm going to be going at this from is : 1) BREAKS, tf2 is incredibly addicting, because the dopamine rush of getting a nice kill and play is awesome, so I for one still play it long after I've stopped actively enjoying the simple process of the game, my solution? Every thirty minutes I step away for ten minutes and reflect on how much I wanna play and whether or not I'm enjoying it 2) play with intrinsic motivation, set a lot of easily achievable goals which feel challenging and fun-- and write them down on a cheklist! Checklists make me happy! these are my goals for this session, they're easy and they're fun, my ideas for this stuff is: hit five enemies with scout's melee; play three rounds of engi without building anything; play spy for three rounds using only the revolver etc etc! Hopefully I'll step away from the game without feeling tired! (I do enjoy it, but literally every play session up til now I've felt kinda demoralised after I stepped away!) Documenting whether this works or not! It feels like it will, these are like simple ADHD strategies and I have had success with them in the past but we'll see!

[fartoomanynames]

Trying to have fun on tf2 (pt2)

Okay-- first thiry minutes was semi-succesfull! This was my list of goals:

I completed all of them in time! I only had to play one round with each of the first four goals because I was leaving myself open to be flexible in case I didn't enjoy the gameplay-- but I think the unspecificity and easiness of the goals made them less enjoyable, I had more fun trying to do the last two, they took much more time because the boston basher is evil, but they weren't unachievable, and I had more of a sense of achievement and joy whenever I contributed to them (I hit people three times in like five seconds with the boston basher at one point it was awesome) Still felt sort of drained by the end??? It might just be a game that drains me a little bit, because dying is always a bit of an eugh moment-- might try and turn dying into another of the fun parts? tokenify it a bit by putting different types of deaths into a bingo board? The reward for getting bingo is to put on 'back in black' by AC/DC and kill as many scouts as I can before the song ends (could keep a record of the PBs too lol)

[fartoomanynames]

Trying to have fun in tf2 (pt3)

Here's my goals sheet for this session! including the AC/DC death bingo!

Very enjoyable time! The death bingo definitely helped, whenever I got bored of my class (or had completed all my goals), I could try and aggravate players from specific classes and get them to kill me so that I could tick them off of my death bingo! unfortunately there were no pyros so I couldn't die by fire, so back in black was not featured this session lol The session felt very guided! I could move from one goal to the next and they were specific enough to engage me! I get the feeling people would probably get mad at me for playing like this in a match with real people who want to complete the objective and win (this *is* a team game)--- but as a solo player I think this is an excellent way to maximise my fun/relaxation. I'm not exactly in the business of being especially good at games, I'm in playground of fun and whimsy! I might just be in a good mood to play though?? there will be a part 4, where I try this method at a different time and we'll see how it goes!

[fartoomanynames]

Trying to have fun in tf2 (pt4)

give it a go using the same method one day afterward, this was my checklist for this session:

I definitely found it enjoyable and invigorating! (Even though my team lost literally every round lol)

I might make the death bingo slightly easier to achieve, as I would like AC/DC to play at least once every session, revised rules may be that I have to die in five different ways, instead of trying to predict how I'll die in a session!

[fartoomanynames]

Trying to have fun on tf2 (pt1)

side note: I'm only playing solo atm The fun is in completing the goal, and getting the big numbers/kills and stuff which is reliant on skill and luck, of which I have neither, so I'm trying to reshift the way I think about the game into being more enjoyable, which is kinda difficult without that aspect of community play -- my two angles I'm going to be going at this from is : 1) BREAKS, tf2 is incredibly addicting, because the dopamine rush of getting a nice kill and play is awesome, so I for one still play it long after I've stopped actively enjoying the simple process of the game, my solution? Every thirty minutes I step away for ten minutes and reflect on how much I wanna play and whether or not I'm enjoying it 2) play with intrinsic motivation, set a lot of easily achievable goals which feel challenging and fun-- and write them down on a cheklist! Checklists make me happy! these are my goals for this session, they're easy and they're fun, my ideas for this stuff is: hit five enemies with scout's melee; play three rounds of engi without building anything; play spy for three rounds using only the revolver etc etc! Hopefully I'll step away from the game without feeling tired! (I do enjoy it, but literally every play session up til now I've felt kinda demoralised after I stepped away!) Documenting whether this works or not! It feels like it will, these are like simple ADHD strategies and I have had success with them in the past but we'll see!

[fartoomanynames]

Trying to have fun on tf2 (pt2)

Okay-- first thiry minutes was semi-succesfull! This was my list of goals:

I completed all of them in time! I only had to play one round with each of the first four goals because I was leaving myself open to be flexible in case I didn't enjoy the gameplay-- but I think the unspecificity and easiness of the goals made them less enjoyable, I had more fun trying to do the last two, they took much more time because the boston basher is evil, but they weren't unachievable, and I had more of a sense of achievement and joy whenever I contributed to them (I hit people three times in like five seconds with the boston basher at one point it was awesome) Still felt sort of drained by the end??? It might just be a game that drains me a little bit, because dying is always a bit of an eugh moment-- might try and turn dying into another of the fun parts? tokenify it a bit by putting different types of deaths into a bingo board? The reward for getting bingo is to put on 'back in black' by AC/DC and kill as many scouts as I can before the song ends (could keep a record of the PBs too lol)

[fartoomanynames]

Trying to have fun in tf2 (pt3)

Here's my goals sheet for this session! including the AC/DC death bingo!

Very enjoyable time! The death bingo definitely helped, whenever I got bored of my class (or had completed all my goals), I could try and aggravate players from specific classes and get them to kill me so that I could tick them off of my death bingo! unfortunately there were no pyros so I couldn't die by fire, so back in black was not featured this session lol The session felt very guided! I could move from one goal to the next and they were specific enough to engage me! I get the feeling people would probably get mad at me for playing like this in a match with real people who want to complete the objective and win (this *is* a team game)--- but as a solo player I think this is an excellent way to maximise my fun/relaxation. I'm not exactly in the business of being especially good at games, I'm in playground of fun and whimsy! I might just be in a good mood to play though?? there will be a part 4, where I try this method at a different time and we'll see how it goes!