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#gonna change our pinned and blog name when we come up with something good

metalgearemily

Do you guys remember how mad this made everyone ❤️ remember how we used to run

grimark

did you see they made jane prentiss from the magnus archives real

this is the correct way to feel about having a wasp's nest in your house.

grimark

oh fuck you were not kidding

punkitt-is-here

lining the timeline up with the clues we have so far and realizing dess was probably an early teen when she went missing makes the roaring knights behavior make wayyyy more sense. Of course they'd be a stupid aura farming idiot they're permanently 15 with magic powers

demilypyro

I tried makeup for a while in college but I could tell it was actually making my dysphoria *worse* because I'd feel alright about myself but then take it off at the end of the day and I'd see my face without makeup and suddenly be hit by how ugly I felt without it and I was like oh. this doesn't seem healthy. so I swore it off and threw it all out and now my bare face doesn't really bother me anymore. I want to feel good about myself at all hours of the day, actually

demilypyro

Oh yeah this isn't even really a trans thing, this is a woman thing.

muffinlance

"Trans women are women!" say make-up companies, your equal opportunity source for corporate-backed dysphoria

dogpuppy

lobsteritus

Thrice sketch commission, for Thricetus.

velartis

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

puppygirllaika

"what radicalized you" well in kindergarten they told me to share things and be nice to people.

trina-makes-an-entrance

There should've been a point in chapter 5 where you could save and the text would read "the power of mean girls shines within you!", so that the general audience could go "oh! Nice chapter 1 callback! Although it's a sorta cheap reference since Susie isn't even being that mean this time!"

Meanwhile the suspiciously mean girl shaped "Prince":

athimbustanut

she won the idgaf war

squeakitties

somie

A world only the two of us can go

victusinveritas

jackhawksmoor

weaselle

"adventurers are actually more scared of you than you are of them"

"he's literally just doing what an adventurer is supposed to do"

"do you think they think of us as Giant Adventurers?"

"do you know how many other creatures would be infesting our cave if there were no adventurers?"

"how would you like it if you were bumbling along on your little adventurer day, and some giant dragon thing squished you for the crime of being yourself?"

"y'know, so many dragons are grossed out by them, but i think they're fascinating! Did you know some adventurers form symbiotic relationships with small monsters? Some of them even do a simplified form of spellcraft! Like, with actual magic and everything!"

sturionic

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).