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though I might accidentally post here sometimes 28 y/o

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if any of my old followers from here want to follow my new blog

I'm now @mossmerized.

oh, and if I follow you and you want to be mutuals follow that blog instead of this one bc I'm not posting here anymore lol.

[cultofweird]

[ghostofyesterday]

Luna Park, Coney Island circa 1940s.

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[scenetorrents]

[capnsoapy]

do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

[the-drunk-game-master-deactivat]

I suppose? You can just replace that with what kind of bender tribe you'd be, or if you're a Jedi or a Sith.

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[grumpy-bat-central]

I'll do you one better, identify with your choice of lightsaber color and form you'd use~!

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[totally-lyrical]

ok but power rangers are dope as hell and also are FREE to watch on youtube so tag yrself im light blue

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[smolbluegoblin]

tumblr user capnsoapy

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my eternal punishment defined by any futile boulders for kings because I have a three-dimensional sense of eternal torment,

[obsob]

feeling blue awooo

[navnavprime]

White Pikmin widdalwy hiddin the gwiddy

[psychonauts-textposts]

Psychonauts +Textposts Pt. 92/?~

[poetrylesbian]

so many of the "i only use chat gpt for ___" excuses are concerning because people use it in place of learning basic, valuable skills.

you don't need chat gpt to write professional sounding emails for you, there are many many guides on the internet and with a bit of practise you can learn to write them yourself. a very important skill for a professional to have, and some of the basic rules will carry over into irl conversations!

you don't need chat gpt to be a "more detailed search engine", because you're robbing yourself of the chance to learn how to find and filter information on the internet and evaluate the credibility of sources. which is a VITAL skill. plus, chat gpt is notorious for being wrong?

if you use it to write essays, you're taking away your ability to hone your research skills, your writing skills, your critical thinking skills. your ability to create persuasive arguments!

and for most of the other reasons people use chat gpt, there are non-ai websites for that! for maths, wolfram alpha. for figuring out what you can cook with the ingredients you have there's supercook and the like. for creating routines, there's about a million apps!

whatever you "only" use chatgpt for i promise there are better websites out there that you don't have to worry will produce complete bullshit???? and destroy the environment???

[beardedmrbean]

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[gayvampyr]

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[gayvampyr]

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

[gayvampyr]

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

[moreclaypigeons]

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[fox-bright]

Years before the covid pandemic began, author Naomi Kritzer wrote the charming, emotionally genuine short story "So Much Cooking," which was a pandemic log through the eyes of a cooking blog. The premise is that the author is a home cooking blogger raising her kids, and then a pandemic hits--and bit by bit she's feeding not only her own, but her sister's kids, some neighbors' kids, and so on, in a situation of pandemic lockdown and food shortages.

It's very good, and was prescient for a lot of the early days of the covid pandemic. I found myself returning to it often in the first couple of years because of how steadfast it was in its hopefulness.

Last year she wrote a novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine," which attacks a similar problem in a similar way; instead of pandemic, this one is about the aftereffects of a distant nuke or a massive volcano explosion (it doesn't say), which has churned a great deal of dust into the air, causing massive damage to society and agriculture. The story covers one neighborhood, pulling together to keep each other alive--not through violence, but through lawn potatoes and message pinboards and bicycle-powered oxygen concentrators.

I recommend both stories. They're uplifting in a way that a lot of what I see lately isn't. They're a bit of a panacea for constant fearmongering about intracommunity violence and grinding hatefulness. We can be good to each other, if we try.

[hussyknee]

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[croissant-updates-deactivated20]

I just found out about Beacon, the Team USA Gymnastics therapy dog 🐕 How adorable 🥹

[sissa-arrows]

This is the only kind of positive posts I accept to see about the Olympics.

Image description + translation: Tweet from the French Algerian user “Poenalis” the tweet says “So cool! Stuck in traffic jams near the Olympic village (normal eh), an official Olympic 2024 van in front of me, a guy gets off the van, comes to see me and gives me something, saying: “it's for you”, before closing the palm of my hand. He leaves, I open my hand, what do I see?” The Twitter user then posted a picture of his open hand with a Palestinian pin inside. The Olympics van in front of him was from the Palestinian delegation and the Palestinian man gave him a pin of the flag.

When you know that the Israeli terrorists and colonizers killed many Palestinians athletes who should be able to attend the Olympics but won’t be able to, it’s important to show support to these Palestinians athletes.

(For the Algerians reading this: You know how serious we are about football? Remember a couple years ago there was that game between the Palestinian team and the Algerian team and Algerians were cheering for the Palestinian team more than for our own team. The football pundit on Algerian TV was so happy when Palestine scored a goal he almost cried. That’s the kind of support we need to show because like it or not sports is incredibly political and as Algerians we are aware of it with the FLN team. I personally intend to boycott the Olympics but I will make an exception for Palestine.)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🍉 Queer Palestinian Books 🍉

🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜

🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha 🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham 🍉 Birthright by George Abraham 🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad 🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman

🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy 🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi 🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro 🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As 🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya 🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou 🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers 🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad

[rongzhi]

A performance by 蔡宏毅 (Cai Hongyi), whose specialty is sword dance.

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wait that's fucking sick