More like Juice than Tea...

26 she/her ISFP and having a grand ol time

[burntundertones]

[nerdjpg]

[celinethefeline]

[porcelain-doll-witch]

[mintteacookies]

Finally reached a great stopping point in splatoon raiders! I can finally leave!!

*pokopia dlc*

I'M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING-

[cannolicat31]

⚔️"You will scream as you die, and that sound will be the most beautiful song to my ears." ⚔️

Had to draw Leda! 🥺🫶💖💜💖💜💖 I am so excited to see more of her story when the game comes out!

[garnet-xx-rose]

Yes, I’ve done the work analyzing this relationship’s problematic traits and I’ve come to the educated conclusion that I still want them to fuck

[byjove]

Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”

There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”

There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.

[covington-shenanigans]

okay look i know this isn't relevant to this post past the second paragraph but. here's the thing. the facts of the case are as follows:

1) I am widowed. my Beloved Wife of Blessed Memory(tm) died in 2019

2) I got together with my current partner about 18 months later

3) when I am committing acts of Foolishness my current partner loves to gesture at the sky to my dead wife, like "do you see this shit, my liege" and regularly says to me things like "[wife's name] was right about this" when my Foolishness inevitably comes back to bite me in the ass

4) this happens. all the time

more importantly:

5) my current partner is on tumblr

6) they love to incessantly send me posts

WHICH MEANS:

7) they just sent me this post with this commentary:

8) they really, really are ganging up on me with her. god help us if there's an afterlife and those two ever actually meet. "eternal rest" my ass, i will never know peace again

[arienai]

[mochipuchi]

[catroidvania]

[babeyknife]

heat waves will have you say off-base things like "schon bisschen frisch, oder" when it's 26 degrees instead of 30

[babeyknife]

sorry i meant to say heat waves will have you say off-base things like "schon bisschen frisch, oder" when it's 30 degrees instead of 38

[hollowboobtheory]

knowing when not to open the comments is a skill

[hollowboobtheory]

internet soft skills

not opening the comments

letting people be wrong

letting people be wrong about YOU

letting people have a bad impression of you (see above)

knowing when your input isn't needed

spotting bot comments

block button

[hollowboobtheory]

blocking tip: you don't have to wait to have a negative interaction with someone to block them. you can block them without ever interacting with them. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone being rude to someone else and preemptively blocked them

[bigbigbigtruck]

"why'd they block me? we've never talked" bro if i see you being nasty to the bartender i'm not gonna chat you up

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[sturionic]

Oh my. This one seems to be in the process of breaching containment, so I'm going to add my own tags back to the post. For anything involving repetitive motions, book at least a few lessons with a teacher (or ask someone you know with expertise) to show you correct posture!! And continue to check in with someone knowledgeable IRL every few months in case your posture drifts as you are building your own practice habit. Yes, IRL - it's hard for people online to catch nuances in posture that could be harmful to you!

[chiefyarts]

pinatas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kedreeva]

I think that part of what irks me about AI being used even for "small" stuff like meme graphics (aside from all the larger problems obviously) is like.... the time spent on it was part of the humor. "this is a silly inconsequential joke but I had to stop everything and spend 5 minutes making it" was, at least for me, part of the joke. Someone really took time out of their day to make me look at something silly they took time out of their day to make. Now it's like someone took time out of my day to make me look at something no one even made. Stop wasting my time if you aren't wasting yours too.

[entryn17]

drawing is all sbout becoming good at illustrating one character at 3/4 angle and nothing else no backgrounds no props no furniture no money no job no future

[life-on-our-planet]

"For the first time, a team of filmmakers capture an extraordinary behaviour never seen before: two tiger mothers sharing and caring for each other's cubs."

©BBC Earth

[mintteacookies]

Realized Shinjiro never spends his birthday with SEES during p3. His first birthday with Kotone...?

Sleepy thoughts btw

Not sure if I've put it down in my notes, buuuut I think for my au, Kotone returns to school in person with the second semester (end of August/ beginning of September?) and has likely spent a few weeks readjusting to the dorm (like her bedroom on the third floor omg, yes Shinji talks her into carrying her upstairs a few times).

Shinjiro has already spent most of his summer break at that point chaperoning Kotone around Iwatodai for brief excursions (she's getting better, but still monitored). So not finding her in her hospital room is bizarre, much more the coy "Oh! I'm at the dorm actually!" Totally not a way to let him waste some time.

Ofc when he gets there she surprises him with cake (where Fuuka was actually a really big help ok). Maybe he'd like something simple, but really well executed? Alternatively, she gets him to come to a restaurant where SEES is already waiting, they eat, then when returning to the dorm, Kotone treats him to cake. (Imo neither of them are into big celebrations, Kotone just hides it better. Aki likes making a bigger deal, bc yk... it's Shinji!)

Not them literally having to wait until the following March for Koto's birthday (3/5 for my head canon)

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.