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[valtsv]

i hate love triangles but i AM a sucker for the trope that’s like (jealous asshole voice) “you could have had anyone in the entire kingdom/city/school and you chose THAT trashbag???” where the trashbag in question is indeed deserving of the title and even unapologetically embraces it, but also has proven themselves throughout the story to be a kind, compassionate, attentive and just genuinely good person who is willing to make an effort to deserve the love interest’s affection and even then still doesn’t expect anything from them as a ‘‘‘reward’’’

[valtsv]

before you all go tagging this with your otps i just want you to know this is about megamind and shrek

[valtsv]

THE FILMS!!! I MEANT THE FILMS!!!!!! FUCK

[papus-clown-enclosure]

How could u leave this out

[pazithigallifreya]

There’s this… phenomenon… I’ve witnessed in several fandoms, where a particular blog gets really popular within a fandom.

And suddenly that blog will start getting people literally asking them for permission to hold certain opinions. I don’t mean someone just asking “hey can I get your feelings/opinions on this subject” but “is it okay if I think/do xyz?” like some child asking their parent if they can go somewhere.

Worse, is when these blogs start taking these questions seriously and feeding them answers. Like they suddenly start believing that they truly have this authority. I mean it’s bad enough when people do this and the blogger is just like “well I have my own opinion but don’t ask me” but when they start to actually act like they can tell other people what they are “allowed” to do.

This I the creepiest fucking thing on tumblr I swear.

Why would you give some random stranger on the internet that much power over your mind? Why would you be so afraid of forming your own opinions that you have to ask someone else to give you opinions to hold?

And so often they end up with a rabble ready to crucify anyone who doesn’t do as they are told, and that’s when I really run for the hills…

[ultrafacts]

Source

Video of Tama

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[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

[ultrafacts]

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

[karinanotcinerina]

Beautiful.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

Now I’m crying thanks

[sapphic-matriarchy]

and a new cat was hired right?

[clarenecessities]

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

[beasti]

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

[lafayettelabaguette]

Law

[tooiconic]

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

[sighinastorm]

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

[linkislost]

a legacy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

[kindaoffkilter]

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

[northeastartist]

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

[redchrominance]

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

[radwolf76]

The inspurration for えきちょうさん / Conductor Whiskers in Neko Atsume:

[dean-cas-in-the-impala]

Bless your blog by reblogging this beautiful post💖💖💖

[punk-n-junk]

I used to be kinda sad that cats hadn’t been worshipped since Ancient Egypt

Japan never disappoints

[lokihiddleston]

His curls 🥰 🥰 🥰

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

[wolveswithhats]

I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).

I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.

[priderising]

As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.

[reapergrellsutcliff]

(( I am going to say this again, loud and clear for everyone:

USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!

If you can draw/paint without references, great!  But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them!  This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES! 

Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.

Do you know who else used references for their art?

Norman Rockwell

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Toulouse Lautrec

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Edgar Degas

Gil Elvgren

Frida Kahlo

Pablo Picasso

Disney Studios

And thousands of others!  So, artists! Go forth, and use references!!! ))

[armellin]

What do you think artists do when they ask someone to stand infron of them for 6 hours and then they draw this person. Do they cheat? Or when they place a still life and then paint it, cheating again? LOL

[euclase]

#literally one of the biggest fears I have #is for some douchefuck to dig out my reference #and point at it and say that I’m not a real artist #I don’t want you to dig out my references to prove that I didn’t make up a realistic picture out of fucking thin air #that’s not how art works #but especially on this site it happens CONSTANTLY #it’s so fucking scary #when people who’ve never touched a pen in their lives think they’re qualified to judge you #and ‘reveal’ how you’ve ‘scammed’ people

Soooo. I made this post originally on my personal blog (I’m eliciaforever), and it was nothing more than a little rant about a specific incident that I deleted after five minutes. But before I could delete it, it took the hell off on me, and now it has all these notes. And LOTS OF AMAZING INPUT.

And I just wanted to add in response to the above tags in particular, that shaming people for using references is something that happens to so many of us SO OFTEN. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are. People think art is supposed to be magical or whatever, and anything else is a crime. The reality of course is that art is a thousand times more deliberate than a lot of people think it is.

So yeah. Good info to pass along. Use references, kids. <3

[lindblut]

Reblogging because I think it’s important especially for young artists to gain the confidence to use references.

Seriously, references are esssential! Use them!

[majestras]

This is so relevant to my struggle.

[stars-bean]

“One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”

[pleasekeepthisasecret]

Keanu Reeves having an age appropriate girlfriend is quite frankly the most Keanu Reeves thing he's ever done..... and it's very sexy of him.

[snapeingturtle]

Severus Snape hated himself and he still got shit done and if that’s not inspiring I don’t know what is

[sayssnape]

mcgonagall: okay severus, truth or dare?

snape: truth.

mcgonagall: hm, lets see. oh! how many hours have you slept this week?

snape:

mcgonagall:

snape: dare.

mcgonagall: go to sleep.

snape: i don’t like this game.

[supervillainphd]

I’m at Leviosa, a Harry Potter convention and Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood) is here. During the Q&A he was asked about Alan Rickman and he said that Alan had such an intense charisma that he could have shown you nothing but kindness for 20 years and you would still be terrified of him. He said that he had worked with Alan on a film before Harry Potter and that he thinks Alan May have put in a good word with the casting director for him. But the best take away was when he was describing the security in set to make sure that people didn’t steal any props but Alan was the only one who got away with it. He wouldn’t even hide what he was doing. He would give props to children who were visiting the set or just take things to give to charity auctions and that when one of the producers finally worked up the courage to tell him to stop Alan flat out said no. Sean said it was “benevolent thievery”

[handweavers]

the concept of people being born in the 00s and being on this website or the internet in general will never stop giving me a minor heart attack every time bc my brain stopped processing time in like 2008 so anyone born in like 2003 is automatically assumed to be in kindergarten until i realize they're old enough to drive

[handweavers]

someone: im 16

me: ok cool

someone: that means i was born in 2003

me:

[alessiajontrunfio]

Snape.

[serpoundalotarchive132]

I’m concerned when people seem to be incapable of conceiving that a character can have a good heart while occasionally being a jerk, selfish, hypocritical, unfair, unreasonable, hurtful, etc etc because last I checked, that’s what real people were like

[emotionalmorphine]

“What this character did was problematic!”

“Ah yes…that was the point. People do problematic things.”

[myrosecolouredgirl]

“FANART IS NOT REAL ART!!!”

Do we need to talk about the relationship between the Renaissance and the Bible

[soumeki]

I never laughed so hard.

[lilyprongspotter]

Friendly reminder that Lily initially rejected both James and Severus. James responded by maturing and stopping the bullying that had made Lily hate him. Severus responded by joining the extremist group intent on slaughtering muggle borns. 

[shady-brain-farm]

Actually no.

Severus’ joining of the Death Eaters wasn’t because of Lily’s “rejection”. It was because of his rejection from society in general. He was manipulated by them, and when he realised how serious they were he changed. Also Lily never rejected Severus. All she did was say that she didn’t want to be friends any more, and although crushed - he accepted it and left her alone. He never pursued her romantically.

James responded to Lily’s rejection by sexually assaulting her best friend and threatening to continue if she didn’ go on a date with him. He also threatened to harm her physically (”don’t make me hex you Evans”), and likened her to a trophy that he stole - comparing her to an object that he stole in a sick power-play. His pursuit of Lily was so worrying that even Harry, who practically worshipped his father, was concerned he forced her into a relationship.

Besides, Sirius and Remus told Harry that James never stopped bullying. He just stopped doing it in front of Lily so she’d think he changed. However he continued to do it behind her back.

Next time you make a ‘friendly reminder’, make sure you know what you’re talking about.

[watsonlove]

Emma Watson photographed by Andrea Carter-Bowman (2010)

[heedvvig]

so i was on hiatus for a while and now my dash is kinda dead :( if you like snape and post a lot about hp pls like this post or follow me i’ll follow you back