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I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.

prismatic-bell

OP there is an entire Broadway musical explaining why you don’t want that

bbcwhereareyou

There’s a Broadway musical about them, too.

midwinterhunt

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

tofupixel

MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.

ghostpainters

You're awsome OP

sundancekidkidd

i just want team biscuit to have fun adventures and be happy let me have this

badjokesbyjeff

What’s big and white and will kill you if it falls out a tree?

A freezer.

asquidjigwouldworkonme

If, at any point in the past year, you and I have talked to each other to the extent of saying three sentences strung together, I have probably mentioned Natalie Ironside and “The Last Girl Scout”. To recap, The Last Girl Scout (hereafter TLGS) is one of the most moving, genuinely captivating stories about love, hope, and the process of healing that I’ve ever read, very cleverly disguised as 600 pages of rollicking post-apocalyptic road-trip adventure novel about two transbians who shoot Nazis, save the world, and h*ld h*nds.

Well, Ms. Ironside has gone and done it again, in the form of her new anthology “Lead and Roses”, a collection of short stories exploring the characters and world of TLGS. It’s available right now for preorder (links below) and yours truly managed to get her grubby little anarchist hands on a copy to review!

I don’t want to spoil too much, so I’ll just say a sentence or two about each piece in the Anthology.

Stories: Two women love each other very, very much. An exploration of the different kinds of leadership needed to create something wonderful.

The Last American: Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a strong right hook.

The White Goddess: Young love and a double-bit felling axe can overcome any obstacle.

Werewolf: A young man experiences regret. From a write-craft standpoint, probably the best depiction of the mental experience of near-starvation I’ve ever seen in a work of fiction.

That’s A Christmas To Me: One young woman’s journey to find the true meaning of Christmas. (This one is a longer piece, featuring the principal characters of TLGS)

You don’t have to have read TLGS to read “Lead and Roses”, although again I cannot recommend TLGS strongly enough. Set either far before or in the years immediately following the events of the first book, the stories in “Lead and Roses” are perfect for existing fans wanting more and for new readers who want to sample Ms. Ironside’s wasteland world before deciding whether to pick up TLGS (you should).

A word of caution, though. Ms. Ironside’s work deals with some real heavy shit at times. That’s why both TLGS and “Lead and Roses” come with thorough content warnings in the author’s notes at the beginning. Read the warnings, heed the warnings, abide by the warnings, and you shouldn’t have any trouble enjoying these books as much as I have.

If you want to take a look for yourself, “Lead and Roses” e-books are available for a $3 preorder through either Amazon or Gumroad. Help out a new author and get yourself a damn fine read in the process.

Pre-order on Amazon

Pre-order on Gumroad

Paperback release is July 1

Yours, humbly

asquidjigwouldworkonme

@natalieironside Your review, ma’am.

natalieironside

Oh golly <3 tysm so much

adoratato

Well here’s yet another book to add to my trl

natalieironside

bandersnatchcrumplesnort

I pre-ordered!! Pre-orders count towards first day sales, which is good! Getcha self something nice (this book). 😘

libraryogre

I’ll see if I can’t get them on order at my library. My current boss is about to become head of collection development, and maybe I can get them in a couple puurchase carts.

natalieironside

Oh my whole goodness, I would die

libraryogre

Well, I have put in a request for my library to buy The Last Girl Scout. I’ll harass my boss when she gets back, before she leaves here, to see if there’s more I can do.

For those who want to boost a book but don’t necessarily have your own cash, go to your local library (any library you can get a card at), go to the library webpage. Chances are pretty good they have something like “Suggest a purchase”. If several people request it, they’re likely to buy it. If books get checked out, it tells the library that this type of book has a local audience, which can help drive other book purchases.

This can be especially important with independently published books. Those get less prominence on our purchasing sites, of they’re even available. Many libraries have “outside the usual channel” practices (i.e. We can order shit from Amazon), but the public needs to be calling for it.

natalieironside

I owe you my life

natalieironside

Lead and Roses: Love Songs at the End of the World - Kindle edition by Ironside, Natalie. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device