Fridge Friendly Artist

Freelance illustrator and shitpost lover. I typically reblog whatever I find interesting, so my blog is something of an amalgam of art references, cute animals, anime stuff, and just outright weird and eldritch stuff! I try to post art when I can, but occasionally I forget. Commission information coming soon! For now, feel free to message me for basic comission info!

[fantasybeeismoving-deactivated2]

you: the age of consent in japan is 13 me, an intellectual: 

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

if you see a person using that argument you kill them

[babyanimalgifs]

Doggie wins 

(via)

[magicath-420]

What does the dog think the stakes of this game are

[everythingfox]

Dogs playing a game. Rules are a mystery

[pajamboree]

for anyone curious both dogs are wanting to chase the other so they keep saying imma get you in dog body language to initiate one of them to take off but neither one wants to be the chase-ee so it’s just spin time babeey

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

reblog if you think she’s Beautiful

[pangur-and-grim]

Pangur thanks you all for the Support

[pangur-and-grim]

hello friend, Pangur has laid a curse on you: from now on your toenails will grow at 4x their natural speed

[legally-a-bastard]

Dear anon; I will literally send my geese after you.

[nudityandnerdery]

“Your cat isn’t conventionally attractive enough,” really, internet? Fuck off, that’s a lovely cat.

[pangur-and-grim]

thank you guys!! I pride myself on being objective, and if this isnt a conventionally attractive cat then i dont know what is

[ampervadasz]

[oneheadtoanother]

[amezure]

Some expression notes ! 💖 | Instagram

[shencomix]

[justcatposts]

“Cat steals some milk during Dean of Canterbury Cathedral’s morning sermon" 

(Source)

[inkwell-attitude]

all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

[fatal-blow]

okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao

Cities - go near water!  freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there.  Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.

for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end.  rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat

mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains!  mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey).  a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half.  These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks

Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact.  think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies

forests - depends on how warm the area might be.  coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too

If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower).  if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)

You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)

and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains

tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules

[possiblypedanticrpgideas]

The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.

Worldbuilding Videos - YouTube

All my worldbuilding videos

Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:

With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:

Or

Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:

This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:

But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:

Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:

[inkwell-attitude]

holy shit?

[catsbeaversandducks]

[newgoofbootin]

this photo set gets me every single time. The absolute chaotic narrative of if all. The feral expression of sheer blissful abandon. How much did they already EAT to get so much gooey crumb mess on their face. What even is the PHYSIQUE of this cat?? Spindly slenderman of a creature must, can, and WILL have pink frosting at all costs

[tirednoceur]

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[woshibai]

Hole

[autobotsrollout]

please tell me no one has done this yet

[itzbatz-deactivated20240722]

can you imagine if coronavirus happened in like 2013. this site would be like "ALRIGHT LISTEN UP MOTHERFUCKERS TODAY YOU ARE GOING TO DO A LEARN ABOUT ~SOCIAL DISTANCING~"

[kiddthemaniac]

LUCKILY FOR *YOU* HANDSOME BASTARDS, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS E X A C T L Y SIX FEET TALL.

SO NEXT TIME YOU’RE CHILLING WITH YOUR MOIRAILS, IMAGINE A BEAUTIFUL BENDYPOO LYING ARSE NEKKID ON THE FLOOR BETWEEN YOU. CAN’T FIT A WHOLE SHERLOCK?

THEN YOU’RE T O O  F U C K I N G C L O S E GOD DAMN IT. 

[neon-nobody]

[chunkecheeks]

i couldn’t stop thinking about him so i made this

[jade-lop]