Life so Random

~23~ Forever youthful soul

[lyannaripper]

They're the same age btw

[barzella]

Just want to sketch these thoughts away

[gramnel]

Viltrumites on Earth + bonus

[barzella]

Corporate life suck, need to draw my favourite Tallest duo

[plaguedoctormemes]

Hello, everyone. To keep this brief and succinct, I currently know of many people being abused by a manager at work. This guy is a manipulative jerk and uses intimidation tactics, and is incredibly two-faced. I've recently learned of an incident directly involving someone I deeply care about and the abusive manager. The people and the manager I speak of work in library services and HR is biased in the manager's favor. It doesn't help that the manager is a skilled liar. This manager is also responsible for union-busting, as he insists to every new employee that the union involved with the library is unreliable and hostile until they believe him. This man runs the library like a business and has eliminated various crucial services typical of basically any other library in the US. I want to do something about it. I'm want to get involved and, as an outsider, voice displeasure and complaints but I don't want my loved ones and their friends to have their jobs at risk. I will be doing everything in my power to make sure that my hijinks affect their everyday work lives as little as possible and I want to avoid any kind of retaliatory actions. To my knowledge, the manager does not recognize me or would know my name, or my relationship to the employees. Most of the people that directly work under him also do not know me, but I know them, and I know they are good people. One thing I want to do is create a zine to hand out to the main branch to illustrate the signs of an abusive boss and the signs of a hostile workplace, and include information for recording conversations and how to safely document and keep a record of unprofessional and abusive behavior (we are in a one-party consent state). I don't necessarily just want to get this guy fired. I just want to do something to advocate for the workers and, at minimum, intimidate him back in line. I have learned he is also quite cowardly and spineless. Please reply, reblog, or DM me with any resources or personal experiences/advice that can help me as an outsider of the institution, as well as resources for the workers of the library to employ.

[ismaurice]

Thragg on Earth

[lyannaripper]

Need more Viltrumites doing unhinged Earth stuff in order to 'blend in'

[anxietyproblem]

[lyannaripper]

Guys, I can't find that one comic post about ao3 ask whats the 'safe word' to a fan. And something², and lastly Ao3 ask what do you want while grabbing their faces, kinda like kinky humour shi but I loved it and I can't find itt. Anyone please reblog it if you saw it!

[convelocity]

75 free to use hand refs for you! Use them however you want.

You can get all the high res files for free here ✨

[backfliips]

A lot of people on twitter wanted me to explain how I draw expressions, so here you go

Unless you're drawing explicit realism, in my opinion, expressions should be exaggerated to some degree. If you aren't doing a 1:1 recreation, the point is to get the FEELING across. Try making the expression you want to draw and feeling how your face pinches and stretches.

Skin doesn't just "disappear" when your face moves it around --- that's where wrinkles come from! Pay attention to where your skin creases when you emote, and use it to your benefit. It's a fine line between overdoing it and underdoing it -- find your own balance.

Ultimately, every expression has a little bit of push and pull, unless your face is completely neutral (and even then, there are still some wrinkles...). Learning to think of expressions as actions and reactions is VERY helpful in learning to draw them without needing a reference, and in learning how to stylize and push expressions based on references as well!

I think a lot of people end up with stiff or unexpressive emotions in their art because they're just trying to recreate a picture instead of understanding WHY and HOW the face is moving --- and it's a tough thing that takes a while to really pick up and learn. Hopefully is helpful in showing a way of thinking about it that can influence your process and approach to emotions!!!

Also, bonus: even without the lines, the planes alone still show a LOT of emotion.

[lyannaripper]

If all of Black Clover openings were turned into rockstar singers

[pwettyepic]

userbase: hey tumblr here's a list of actual improvements you can make to this platform to improve the user experience, also maybe stop banning trans women

tumblr: so what if. get this. we swap the button placements AGAIN

[pwettyepic]

isa it's so annoying

[pwettyepic]

so on android mobile it used to look like this, to me literally yesterday it was still like this

infinitely better imo and they also removed the total note count which. fuck you for making me do simple addition, but also my main gripe is the reblog button which i could previously just hold and move up to quick reblog or if i wanted to add anything just click it, now the reblog button is awkwardly near the middle of the screen so i HAVE to either bring up my left hand for it or move my right thumb wayyy too much, and if i, you know, wanna browse the reblogs of a post i have to click the reblog button which as previously stated is Annoying and THEN click an additional view notes button that's lowkey hidden aldjfkakg

[ungovernablecrow]

This reblog explains all my gripes with it well lol

[zephlovesspacestuff]

@staff if I wanted my dashboard to look like that shithole Twitter, ID GO TO FUCKING TWITTER. PUT THE NOTES BACK.

If it ain't broke don't fix it you fucking morons

Stop trying to make it like every other social media. At least add us an option in settings to choose our layouts ffs

[barzella]

I can't get over the fic so here's more Tallest Blue

[barzella]

This is probably THE BEST Invader Zim fic I have ever encountered. Ever since they posted them in ff.net I have been an unhealthy stalker/obsessed fan of their work. Hoping to post this very old fanart for their legendary update but doesn't seem likely to happen so here you go. Meet Tallest Irkin!Dib with Zim!

Check out their amazing fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/2297732/chapters/5053496

And also their works on Transformers and ATLA are also fucking amazing!

[maxieverse]

Megatron in skybound is wild so I had to draw him

[hellou4]

Amorra fics

Guys, I collected some of the recommended Amorra fics (a lot of them have been deleted - so I scraped archives of fanfiction.net, I hope that's ok? because these authors are god tier and it's such a shame they don't exist on Internet anymore)

[Existing ones] No particular order:

Reflection

The Caress of Water (there's a FF version as well)

The departure

Выбор

A man whose heart is hollow

The Castaway

The Cave (everyone knows this one 🫡)

The Code

Radiance

Love & Corruption

Gateway

The Secret Admirer

The Sunbeam of the Soul

Vessels

Finally I See You

Bending Can Be Fun

Reversal

Talk

Healing

Masks

Temptation and Salvation

Mending

Body Talk

Mascara

Book Air

Haunted

Palindrome

The evils of cactus juice

Love and Corruption

Mending

Unter Wolfen

[Deleted ones] No particular order:

Perhaps In Another Life

Turning The Tables

Equilibrium

The First

Vacation

Four Seasons, Four loves

Haunted

Smirk

How to Win at Stalemate

Eternal Return

Shadows and Wakes

Synergy

Hell's Chance

Thicker than Water

Taming you

I might expand this later with the ones I've read but forgot to add. I literally read all this in a span of 2-3 weeks and I regret nothing lol.

All credits go to respectful authors - you guys are amazing, god tier writers, and literally some of this is so much better than the 'official' books and novels that you'd buy in a bookstore.

Also, if you have a fic in mind which you can't find anymore, message me, perhaps I can help.