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Bright can you motivate me to work on my animatic pls
if you dont make it nobody else ever will and the idea will die with you, unseen and unheard, in a world that needs more genuine human-made art, no matter what scale, more than ever
My Art Fight 2026 Attacks (Part 5/5)
Characters belong to: 1. Winnie - silversteampunk (was very hard to pick who to draw bcs I am quite weak for Victorian aesthetic... I do love Winnie's No Preservation Instinct (TM) mweheh)
2. Aries - PichiiCake (pathetic con artists? SIGN ME UP- also look at the colors, they are so well put together, honestly drawing goals!)
3. Delly - AusSenior (smth about their characters that just grabs my attention immediately - so detailed, streaks of colors for accents, worldbuilding... ouughh such goodness!!)
Artfight was such a pleasant experience for me! I already can't wait for the next one!!
My Art Fight 2026 Attacks (Part 4/5)
Characters belong to: 1. Captain Apollo Draconis - Kohaku_Dragon (the moment I saw the big hat... I knew this guy is destined for greatness, just look how fiery bright and cool he is!)
2. Illumi - Mina (got incredibly invested in Mina's webcomic Local Aliens, I'll provide a link because it's too good to pass by, visit yourself if you desire!! here)
3. Lior - Muffidoodle (found them through QSMP animations, still following on Youtube even if I am not a part of the fandom anymore because the creations are SMOOTH AS BUTTER, sin mencionar que puedo darle un buen uso a mi español ejeje)
My Art Fight 2026 Attacks (Part 3/5)
Characters belong to: 1. Sir Whiskers - mondayzs (very delicious art style, so much texture!!)
2. terminal-5 - thetechnician (goated when it comes to 3d models!)
3. Ophelia Beaufort - yellow-py (jack of all trades, Youtube channel has animatics about DARKEST DUNGEON, STATE SMP, TF2, HLVRAI, ORIGINAL CONTENT and even more so please go there and give some love!!)
My Art Fight 2026 Attacks (Part 2/5)
Characters belong to: 1. Emil Frederick Edelfelt - Venfaaniik (check out their Neocities, made with lots of love and creativity, not to mention THE LORE)
2. Oroya - Toonomon (lots of cool charas on Toyhouse! and Oroya is precious, I am feeling protective hpgph)
3. Astrophel - Conjured_Corvus (can you believe this one is based on a DICE SET? immediately grabbed my attention, wonderful execution)
My Art Fight 2026 Attacks (Part 1/5)
Characters belong to: 1. Saphapheme - justcherryqwq (if you love the game Slay the Princess, highly recommend checking the Youtube channel for animatics!)
2. Kree - Scribble Mama (loveloveLOVE the lore of Kree and company, there's a whole collection on the Youtube channel)
3. Deuce - HispanicPanic (attacked me out of nowhere!! how dare you hpgphp snakes stick together hell yeah 🐍)
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
we can still save her. but only loudly.
reblog. share. don't scroll past.
I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.
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I'll be extending my donation commissions offer to the Caroline Wildlife Center through the rest of the month!
Just send me an ask with a screenshot of your receipt and what animal you'd like to request, and I'll DM you to follow up!
An update from the center: they've reached their goal!
I will be keeping my offer open through the end of the month, since any extra money they can get will probably be a big help in keeping their doors open while they arrange more stable funding- but thank you to everyone who donated or shared! It's so great to see so many people rallying around a cause like this.
The example I like to use is roses.
Roses come in almost every color except blue (and black). We've worked very hard to breed all sorts of roses: climbers, shrubs, long-stem, tea roses, scented, and on and on. But in true human fashion, we want the one we don't have, and that's a blue rose. A true blue rose. We can't get them naturally, roses don't carry the gene(s) necessary to be bred blue on their own.
So of course, when genetic modification became real, one of the first projects started, and in fact still ongoing, is to create a blue rose. Efforts have been ongoing for about forty-something years now, and not from small labs. The first one to the finish line will have the patent on the color [yes, rose colors are patented] and the process. They will make money hand over fist. Not to mention the progress it will represent in the entire field.
40+ years.
[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A photo depicting a smiling Japanese woman with two large bouquets of Suntory's "Applause" roses, which are a lavender-grey color]
Closest we've gotten. And these make money, don't get me wrong. They're beautiful. But they're purple. Lavender. Technically blue, in the sense that "purple" doesn't exist in horticulture. (Thus why in the rhyme, "violets are blue")
"But when I put 'blue roses' in a search engine -"
Those are either photoshopped, or they're white roses that have been dyed blue. It's a really easy process. Florists do it all the time for specialty requests. It's so commonly done it even comes in spray paint form. They don't grow that color. They cannot grow that color.
(Yes, whatever one you think is real is photoshopped or dyed. Yes, I'm sure.)
All that work, from some of the best labs in the world. Decades of work. Absolute dedication to the task, the science needed being created just to do this, this one thing, make a rose blue. And we still can't do it.
Biology isn't just full of coconuts; biology is full of uncooperative coconuts who can react in entirely unpredictable ways to our meddling.
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A techbro told me that biology is easy because DNA is just code, right? I told him that DNA is 4 billion year old, completely undocumented, vibe-coded spaghetti, built by a blind evolutionary algorithm, which codes for its own compiler and runtime environment. His confidence popped like a balloon. I think of that programmer investigating Team Fortress 2, who found a jpg of a coconut in the game files and has no idea what it's doing there but if you remove it the game doesn't start. Biology is full of coconuts
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Yes, your fireworks are harming wildlife
Trigger warning for graphic descriptions of injured and dead wildlife.
When a fireworks display occurs near a wild bird roost, the birds simultaneously explode into the night skies in utter panic, which can lead to huge numbers of deaths, usually because these birds either smash their skulls or break their necks as the result of flying into trees, fences, billboards, houses and other solid objects that they cannot see in the gloom and ensuing chaos.
Many of the startled birds who take flight fly at much higher altitudes and for much longer durations than they’re used to to escape the noise, which is energetically costly and physiologically stressful.
Small birds and bats can be knocked from the air and killed by the sonic shock. In 2010, 40 dead sparrows were discovered dead under a roost in a nature reserve after a local fireworks display. The manager of the reserve witnessed a tawny owl fluttering and convulsing on the ground after a particularly loud explosion. It died shortly after.
In Arkansas in 2010, some 5,000 red-winged blackbirds, European starlings, common grackles and brown-headed cowbirds suffered blunt-force trauma after colliding with cars, trees and buildings, an ornithologist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission would tell National Geographic.
In 2008, federal officials showed that seabirds in the northern California town of Gualala abandoned their nests after a fireworks show, leaving their eggs vulnerable to predators.
Each year in Austin, Texas, the Congress Bridge bats can be seen fleeing the fireworks display en masse on weather radar, and emergences from their roost diminish noticeably in the days following the Fourth.
In 2018, the Galapagos banned the sale and use of pyrotechnics. According to the BBC, conservationists said that fireworks caused elevated heart rates, trembling and anxiety in many animals.
The threat to wildlife doesn’t stop at startling lights and sounds; fireworks also have the potential of starting wildfires, directly affecting wildlife and destroying essential habitat. Litter from firecrackers, bottle rockets and other explosives can be choking hazards for wildlife and may be toxic if ingested.
So what do you do if you want to watch fireworks responsibly? Experts say municipalities are more likely to be aware of these dangers than private consumers. Their best advice is to stick to the shows put on by professionals and local governments, which tend to follow guidelines put forth by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, among others, about animal safety.
The National Audubon Society offers similar guidelines: “Commercial fireworks are concentrated in one location, rather than in several locations at once, which is what often happens in neighborhoods. This allows birds to take off and land again in a ‘safer’ location rather than continuing to flee noises coming at them from all directions.”
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Hi, beloved people inside my phone.
Things have been a bit bumpy lately, but I'm trying to keep my spirits up and my head above water. Unfortunately, I'm very much struggling to pay my phone bill for the last two months and a half. Which means that as of today I can't even get calls and texts anymore. And I need to be reachable via phone. It's vital for my gig as a medical interpreter for Ukrainian refugees. I need it to earn income.
It would help a looot if I could sort this out.
If you have a coin to spare (but only if you really do!), I'd appreciate your help with this. Likes and reblogs are appreciated just as much 😚
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$1.6M in youth homelessness funding ends July 1. Help protect 200+ LGBTQ+ youth and give now before Pride ends.
Help Build a World Where LGBTQ+ People Thrive - Pride 2026 (MetaA) - Los Angeles LGBT Center
informative post i made for instagram regarding the catastrophic earthquakes here in my country but i thought i'd share it here too
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➡️here's the link to the document mentioned
The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.
As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:
WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!
Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.
In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.
Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.
Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.
Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.
Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.
If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.
Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.
Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.
Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.
Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.
If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.
Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.
Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.
Bringing this back for my dying mutuals
Get long hair off your neck.
ice tucked in a hair bun = great cooling.
Or soak a baseball cap or other cloth hat that won’t be damaged by water.
Water needs energy to evaporate. As it dries, it consumes a little heat in its immediate vicinity.
Therefore any significant amount of water — buckets, wet towels, damp laundry— in a small room can cool it a degree or two, although this doesn’t work as well if the air is already humid.
This principle has been used since ancient times, from wet blankets hung over doors in ancient Egypt to the “swamp coolers” of the southern U.S. before modern AC, to modern “evaporative coolers.” And, of course, it’s the function of sweat.
exorcising my artblock demons looking for moots for an upcoming artfight!!
BOT/SCAM/HACK WARNING
siiiighh.
the hackerbait/scam bots have changed up their wording - I've seen this and another, differently phrased message getting repeatedly used now.
PLEASE DO NOT ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE COMMENTING THAT THEY NEED TO TALK TO YOU ABT SOMETHING IMPORTANT IN DMS.
it is a scare tactic!
They will tell you that they accidentally reported you/your account and that you need to "resolve this with tumblr", maybe even send you a fake email telling you to reach out to someone on discord - IT'S ALL FAKE TO GET YOUR LOGIN DATA SO THEY CAN SPAM THOSE TRICK COMMENTS THROUGH YOUR ACCOUNT TOO.
EDIT:
an easy way to check if they're a bot or a hacked account is if they have their username as their title and their posts/reblogs don't go back further than 1 day and their first post is something like "hiiii" - those are fine to report as spam/bot!
Real accounts that got hacked would have more personalization and got way further back and the original owner is likely already trying to get it back, so no reporting and just blocking would be better there.
Kharkiv Art Museum after russian drone attacked it
