[isnotanoctopus]

⎯ INFO ⎯

Calamari / Michael | 21 (+) | he / him / his

Commissions: Maybe | Requests: Yes | Trades: Sure?

TIP ME ON KO-FI !

This account is inactive like, 80% of the time, until I come on randomly either to post a bunch of built-up art, a fuck ton of unrelated text posts, or reblog an occasional random shitpost-y thing.

Some... stuff abt me:

I have a special interest in entomology! specifically in coleoptera and arachnids

Partners w/ the lovely wonderful amazing @anderstiaagain

I love clowns! All things clowns!! I fucking LOVE CLOWNS

⎯ TAG NAVIGATION⎯

art | #Calas Art Tag. personal | #Unrelated tag.

⎯ LINKS⎯

Toyhou.se X | https://toyhou.se/isnotanoctopus Artfight X | https://artfight.net/~isnotanoctopus

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flowr powr

[bingokill]

settings > my shower > manage my shower

water 🟩

soap 🟩

corner spider ⬜️

[sanguinewolves]

​me but i would turn the corner spider setting on #spiderlover #spiderfan #spidersarecool #spider #spiders

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[rumwik]

DO YOU SEE???

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Hyperspecific post but does anyone left on this website know where to find amateur voice actors who take commissions for a handful of voice lines, b/c I am ridiculously desperate for voicelines of my OCs just... to have them.

[medusadyke]

tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

[princessnijireiki]

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Don't recognize your face in this glow ( gone, gone, gone )

[cottoncandylesbo]

oh hello delightful forest boar. why are you charging at me so fast

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arts director @ my job has made several comments abt my art like "oh man, you gotta do something with this" and i'm always like . yeah u right . like never posting it anywhere or showing it to anyone

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thoughts & concepts

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draw them in w/ clowns and insects then kneecap them w/ furry porn. as god intended.

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do you ever. do you ever think about. do you. do you ever. have you ever thought. have you. do. do you.

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pupate.

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bait n' switch

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So I work at an afterschool program, and I love working w/ kids so much, but I especially love working with teens who have the same sarcastic friend-foe sense of humor I do, cuz like...

I have a ''rivalry'' with a fourteen y/o at my job. He has proclaimed himself the best artist in the building, and routinely says he can draw better than me, based off of having only ever seen my shitty one minute whiteboard doodles - and anything I show him he responds to with 'I could do better tho'.

So today he was showing off his artist skills, and I whipped out my phone to show him what I drew last night, expecting the usual response.

Only for him to stand there gaping. And then finally gesturing and going ''ok well that's GOTTA BE CGI--''

I had to zoom in to show him the grainy pen texture. And finally... I have won the hard-won battle. He admitted defeat, and proclaimed himself second best artist in the entire building. I am the winner. ᕙ(•̀‸•́‶)ᕗ take that, fourteen year old child.