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hiya don't mind me I'm a nerd 21 nonbinary pansexual single and ready to sit at home with Pringles

[miyuliart]

I collected my art tips on hands over the years. It ended up being 54 pages of notes I took and some guides I tried to create for myself. Maybe some of these can be useful to others as well. You can buy the pdf here or join my Patreon to get it for free.

[joshuallyman]

love how olly's back pats for the girls are a little rough, but still encouraging.

and then when it comes to qifrey he just smacks him as hard as he can lmfao. enough to make qifrey stumble and olly isn't even a little bit sorry.

he's not sorry and he's ready to smack qifrey again if needed

[molabuddy]

also since its coming up and my last post about this got big but wasn't actually very informative and i felt bad

PSA TO ART FIGHTERS

if you want to put an image in the text portion of your profile / a character profile / etc, don't use discord image links, they expire in 24 hours

instead use an image hosting website! i can't really speak on any good ones other than filegarden, which is the one i use. if you don't feel like looking for an image hosting site you can also post the image as a private tumblr post, and link it from there, i believe that works ok

^ walter white thinks this info is very important

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

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[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, knee support edition

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[hymnism]

shirahama's hatching process

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[hymnism]

shirahama's hatching process

[lizardlicks]

A tip for fantasy artists, from a fellow artist who has raised both reptiles and birds, on drawing just hatched dragons: things that hatch from eggs fill up the space they have available in that egg before they hatch. That includes long snake-y style guys!

As a real life example a baby ball python hatches out of an egg that is roughly chicken sized. Hatchling weight and length can vary but this is a pretty accurate representation here:

If your character is walking around with an egg the size of an ostrich egg and their new buddy hatches out the size of one of these noodles, I can only assume there's a dozen more in there behind it.

It would be more accurate to expect a hatchling from an egg that big to be closer to an adult ball python in size

A dragon shaped more bird-y or lizard-like will also hatch pretty chunky! Baby ostriches are basically the size and shape of their eggs plus a long neck and head situation

And while most babies that hatch from eggs don't start out needing to eat for the first day or two because they're still absorbing the remainder of their yolk sack, they will very quickly develop an appetite. And will EAT. And they will GROW.

Little buddy will not stay so portable sized for very long!

[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

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

How to Draw Wisteria in Traditional Chinese Painting by 莜莜子国画

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I fucking hate it here

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

[d-e-w-p]

save

[dailyadventureprompts]

Bestiary: Wholly Bookworm

Scribes and historians fight an endless battle against time, looking to transcribe ancient knowledge before the paper it is written upon is lost to rot and oblivion. Wholly Bookworms seem to be the embodiment of this academic decay, appearing in abandoned libraries and neglected archives much in the same way that other fey protect sacred trees or minister to patches of mushrooms. 

Smelling of mold and, these creatures are rather docile when left alone, happy to putter about their ruins or feywild lairs scribbling out treatises on their obsessions or answering questions for passers by.  When confronted with the scent of magical writing however, particularly old or powerful ones, these creatures become ravenously hungry, quickly losing all of their scholarly demeanor and becoming engines of arcane destruction, more than willing to carve a warpath between them and their chosen morsel. 

Pretentious Gasbags: Bumbling about like a parody of some doddering scholar, the Bookworm mumbles to itself constantly, stroking its beard and concocting inexplicable theories on the functioning of everyday things. Birds don’t actually fly, they’re just very good at jumping, candles melt when they are lit because the light draws tiny men who wish to use the wax to build their homes, there is an elaborate legal code which determines which flowers can or cannot be pollinated by bees and violating this code risks exile from the hive. Frustratingly enough, Wholly Bookworms have the magical ability to know ANYTHING with alarming accuracy, though doing so unleashes a wretched burp of wildmagic infused gas. 

A Hunger for Knowledge: If it’s one thing that’s sure to draw the manifestation of a Bookworm, it’s an old tome succumbing to rot. The Smell of putrefying knowledge is enough to draw one or more of these Wholly beasts from Across the planes, who begins rummaging through the region’s bookshops and museums looking for the tome that drew them. A surefire way to banish the Bookworm is to destroy the volume, or to clean and restore it to pristine condition, but the latter option can take weeks or months without access to specialized magics. 

Bane of Mages: Among wizards  it is considered very, VERY bad form to summon a Wholly Bookworm to deal with one’s rivals, as the creatures can very rarely be contained by spellcasters and can undo centuries of hardwon research with their gorging. Druids have sometimes been known to use these creatures as living siege engines against arcanists that invade their territory, but such tactics only result in an angered wizard or a  massively empowered bookworm who may be even less reasonable in negotiations. 

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[hobbies306540111]

women should lift weights because it prevents osteoporosis in old age and makes you a more capable person in everyday life please shut up about butts and waists and hourglasses i'm going to fucking kill

[endangeredlove]

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[mothric]

genuine question from someone who would rather chew their arm off than go to a public gym, and also doesnt have a lot of money: how do you safely get into strength training? are there youtube channels, apps (android), etc anyone recommends that makes it approachable and don't lean into diet culture / body shaming?

also the biggest thing that keeps me from working out is that I already have joint and spinal issues and moving the wrong way can fuck up a knee or a shoulder or my spine for days. I really don't want to injure myself, and have unwittingly done so before. resources that are extremely clear on exactly how to move and offer gentler / alternative ways to move for people with limited range are vital.

[feenyxblue]

Okay, so this may not technically be strength training, but muscles are dumber than bricks and cannot tell the difference between your own bodyweight and actual weights.

So, may I recommend:

Hybrid Calisthenics

Hey everyone! My name is Hampton and my brand is Hybrid Calisthenics. You can find me by that name pretty much everywhere on social media.

He runs a YouTube channel where he goes over how to work your way up to more complex exercises (for instance, his pull-ups videos start with using a door jamb and moving your weight back and forth) so it's good for easing yourself into things.

[bundibird]

You also don't have to fork out for expensive weights and such if you don't want to/can't. Substitute with stuff you either already have at home or can get from the supermarket and build up the weight you can exercise with. 500 gram cans of butter beans then 750 gram bottles of pasta sauce. 1 litre drink bottle then your 1.5 litre milk bottle. 3 litre bulk-buy bottle of laundry detergent. Etc. One of my dogs weighs 13 kilos and I pick her up on the regular (to her delight). One weighs 16 kg and I pick him up too (to his consternation and mild disapproval). You don't have to fit out some fancy home gym before you can start strength training.

[theygender]

I second Hybrid Calisthenics, that's the program I use. It's run by one guy who's taken it upon himself to make exercising more accessible and it's completely free! Each exercise has different variations based on your ability and each variation is further divided into different levels of difficulty so you can work up to where you want to be. If you can't do a single push up for example then this program will help you work up to the point where you can, and if you're a master of push ups then there are more advanced body weight exercises you can tackle so you can keep moving forward in your training without stagnating. The routine offers a full body workout with absolutely no equipment required for the beginning levels. The only reason you would need to buy anything is if you want to work up to a full pull up, at which point you would need actual pull up rings

Here's his actual website which I feel is easier to navigate than the YouTube channel on its own and organizes things in a way that's easy to understand. He explains everything you need to know about the routine and each individual exercise has both a text description and a video tutorial

Hybrid Calisthenics

[aroaceauri]

@movementnudge