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[ everett | they/them ] the idea of detectives condensed like a canned soup. [ art blog ]

[julianbashir]

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[ceruleanheaven]

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

[ceruleanheaven]

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

[ceruleanheaven]

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

[ceruleanheaven]

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

[ceruleanheaven]

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

[ceruleanheaven]

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[eroscestlavie]

It’s like. People can tell if you don’t really like or connect with them. If you aren’t truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you don’t really like that person that much.

[possessedpasm]

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Comm for @hungry-joe!

[missinglaterals]

COMMISSIONS OPEN!

Here to announce my Commissions are open again and that I've moved to Vgen!

Current options available: are character Icons, Chibis, Monochrome Sketches, Custom Character Designs, and Full Character Illustrations!

If any of that interests you feel free to check it out here! ↓

MissingLaterals (@MissingLaterals)

Check out MissingLaterals's commissions and portfolio! | Hello! I'm a 3D and 2D digital artist. I'm mainly know for my character design work

[setulose]

This is a staunchly pro-bug zone. I may have contentious relationships with the ones that enjoy eating me or my food but that's life baby. The great web...

[isawken]

june vision board

[str-ngeloop]

everything you see on tumblr is biased towards the perspectives of the types of people who post a lot on tumblr. this is essential to remember

[oldinterneticons]

[mobietin]

🎈 Mobietin's 2026 Price Sheet 🐋

Hello! I'm a professional illustrator that specializes in comics + character art. This is my current prices for potential commissioners to reference!

I love what I do and my queue is now open indefinitely!

If you'd like to work together, please DM or contact me at [email protected] for official inquiries! Thanks for looking!

[julianbashir]

Five Geek Social Fallacies

As history/drama repeats itself in niche hobby circles and subcultures, I find myself turning back to the Five Geek Social Fallacies, a blog post written by Michael Suileabhain-Wilson in 2003.

I've run a lot of tabletop games, RP games, and other nerdy hobby groups throughout the years. I've both seen these behaviors before and I've been one to suffer from these fallacies, myself. (Personally, I'm a frequent sufferer of #1 and #4). But I feel that the more we're able to recognize these sorts of behaviors, the more we can work to mitigate them in our own spaces.

For those who have not seen the article, you can read it at the following link below:

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I am constantly seeing people trying to puzzle out what's "ruining books" and it makes me more and more tired. Read a different book. You have more choice in reading material than at any other point in all of history. No one thing can be ruining ALL of them.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"Are trope-obsessed tiktok book pitches ruining books?" Go read something that wasn't marketed on tiktok. There's so much of it. Is this a problem for would-be authors trying to get traditionally published? Possibly, I don't know, I'm not familiar with the market. Is it a problem for readers? Of course not. Stop being stupid.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"Okay Derin, how can I find books without scrolling tiktok or booktube for them, or only looking at the goodreads front page?":

Try a genre that isn't currently On Trend. If you don't like the current romantasy bestsellers because they all follow the same tropes in order to game the tiktok algorithm, try something that isn't romantasy.

Read something written before 2010. There are plenty of amazing books being written right now also, but if your problem is with current trends specifically, go read the books that people were complaining were "ruining literature" twenty years ago. They're great.

Walk into any second-hand bookshop and just start looking around. There will be a lot of the thing you don't like there and there will also be a lot of other stuff, some of which you do like.

Make friends who like the same sorts of books as you.

This might only apply to me, but I get a lot of recommendations by simply being into vaguely philosophical video essays. If you follow a lot of the Jacob Geller Types on youtube or nebula then you will get more truly awesome science fiction recommendations than you know what to do with.

Write a web serial and every few days somebody will pop into your inbox saying "this thing you wrote kind of reminds me of [x], have you read it?" and it's almost certainly something you've never heard of in your life but now you have another story to check out that you know touches on themes you've demonstrated interest in.

If you find yourself in truly desperate straits, go to tvtropes.org and type in a trope you like. Scroll down to 'examples'. There's a whole long list there of stories about a killer on a leash, or battle couples, or whatever else you're in the mood to read about today.

Read Time to Orbit: Unknown, which is a story that I'm super unbiased about, you can definitely trust me when I say that you specifically will like this no matter who you are, I totally wouldn't lie to you.

[feldfrog]

[patrickbatemanamericanpsycho]

When the group chat arguing and bro starts messaging you privately

[slfcare]

when you keep yourself small all the time (swallowing the words you want to say, seeing everybody else as though they’re automatically above you, downplaying your feelings and achievements), the entire world will constantly be looming over you. that’s not the way to live your life. you’re supposed to be experiencing it, not be subjected to it. (this is your sign to take up more space)

[humator]

Andromache Benoist (born January 8, 1875) was an American con artist. She is believed to have participated in most of the largest-scale thefts of the early 20th century. She is portrayed in the film As de Carreau (1976), a dramatized account of the Gabarre Train Heist of 1934. The film has been lost to time.

CARREAU, my Andy Benoist art book, is now available for download! Two years & a village of brilliant artists in the making, this book contains 170+ pages of illustrations old and new, original writing, and bibliographic material. I hope to open preorders for the print run later this year! Stay tuned for more information.

Everyone who has embraced Andy & her story: thank you. You made this possible.