Once more, with feeling!

Adorning || semidead artist || tiny wizard

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[electricheart]

a little reminder! by annalaura_art

[filibusterfrog]

bugs!

[tilthat]

TIL English inventor Joseph Merlin designed the first roller skates for a masquerade party in 1760. Not bothering to practice, he smashed into a wall length mirror upon entrance.

via ift.tt

[allawander]

This is the best, most on-brand way for roller skates to be introduced to the world.

[gurguliare]

“One of his ingenious novelties was a pair of skaites contrived to run on wheels. Supplied with these and a violin, he mixed in the motley group of one of Mrs Cowley’s masquerades at Carlisle House; when not having provided the means of retarding his velocity, or commanding its direction, he impelled himself against a mirror of more than five hundred pounds value, dashed it to atoms, broke his instrument to pieces and wounded himself most severely”

[argumate]

the internet tells me that five hundred pounds in 1760 is the equivalent of over a hundred thousand dollars today, nice work.

[distinguishedbaloney]

[eilooxara]

Non cooking spray stick

[eilooxara]

Non spray stick cooking

[that-house]

Non cooking stick spray

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[autism-official]

[justcuriouspolls]

Can you win against your pfp/icon in a fight (in the sense of asking which one is physically stronger)? Assume you both have the drive and the motivation to fight eachother, and both of you are unarmed (unless your pfp explicitly shows them with a weapon, or they physically cannot survive without their weapon).

I can easily win against them with no issues

I can win against them, but it wouldn’t exactly be instantaneous

I can most likely win against them, but I would be struggling

I can juuuust barely beat them in a fight

We tie

They will win against me, but it would be a very close match

They will win against me, but they would be struggling

They will win, but at least I would have survived the first few moments

They can easily win against me with zero issues

I can’t imagine my pfp in a fight*

Infinite many nuance

Show answers

Voting ended onApr 14

*Not being able to conceptualize the idea of what a fight against your pfp would even look like, e.g. if your pfp is just a solid blue circle with no inherent meaning behind it

Is this a regular fight or a fight to the death? I don’t know, but odds are it wouldn’t make much of a difference

[mirroreclipse]

My contributions to @theunwantedguestproject! These pages were really fun to do and play around with. Processes under the cut.

I did a quick mock-up for character design before pages (as a lot of us did) to have a general idea of what I wanted my version of Ianthe and Palamedes to look like and what details to keep consistent.

I also did my version of a stagehand even though none of my pages ended up having them so I could experiment with a photobash style- I'll talk about that later.

Gideon/Kiriona was only included after I thumbed pages. Since she only gets one panel I decided to skip the character design stage and just freestyle it.

I'm usually not much of a fanart person so it was a welcome change of pace from what I usually do (honestly in retrospect I don't feel like either them are emaciated enough but eh, it's a mindscape).

Fun fact: I gave Ianthe freckles because as a NZ-raised person most of the Pakeha girls I've seen and interacted with has at least a little freckling even if they're super pale.

Here are my silly lil thumbs that I do on paper, because I like thumbing on paper:

(As you can probably tell there were a few metaphorical panels that didn't jive and were redesigned on the fly. The Virgin Mary pose was immaculate for inspiration.)

The wine glass ended up being too much of a hassle so I made Ianthe throw it away and pick up a new one in time for the next person's part.

Style wise I had three parts to keep in mind: my usual linework + paintshading for the characters, a photobash for the mindscape itself a la Madoka Magica, and soft lines/ paintwork for metaphors. These interact with each other as it fits.

(dark linework Ianthe + real curtain/ couch/ wineglass/ ivy leaves- I had to actually paint the wine because there were no stock photos of exactly what I needed)

(dark linework Ianthe + metaphorical skeleton, robes, and background)

So yeah! Lots of thinking for 9 months of work. I totally didn't burn out near the end. No sir.

[modmad]

want to help? you can!

Thank you to everyone who has been sending such kind messages, I promise I really do read them all, even if I can't reply, but while these messages are wonderful (and really. I mean it. just the nicest and most heartfelt things I've ever seen) the sad fact is they don't change my situation. But you can change it. You can help me.

If you know my situation, if you want to help me, please write to Glitch Productions. They are the only people who can, and I believe, might, be able and willing to save me. SMG4 has ignored me, even through a legal letter. I have no hope that they will do otherwise, but Glitch are a different case and I think they just genuinely don't know I exist. I have sent them a message, to no reply, but more messages means more of a chance they will notice. IF you are on twitter please message that way, I closed my account there years ago, and please be polite: I am not asking for hate, even if I've received it.

Even a short message will help. I need numbers, I need voices. My own voice is being drowned out, but you can speak for me as well.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

[cloacatak]

This (studying in Chile for a year) is more or less how I realized my two PhD-having, tenured professor expat parents raised me to speak the most disrespectful and swearword-riddled version of Spanish possible (with plenty of ancient slang I didn't know was slang thrown in). It was like:

[rereredoubt]

yeah the thing about learning a language exclusively in the home and only speaking it within the same small group for most of your life is that you will not learn code-switching. and this can become very apparent when you speak to somebody outside your group

[shinyjolteon]

im gonna cry this person is so sweet to their fish

[entity56]

it is a CRIME to just leave this in the comments. peace and FUCKING love on planet earth

[cannibal-sarracenian]

"Alright, time to see what this animated poetry movie is like-

Oh jesus christ"

[cannibal-sarracenian]

To elaborate outside of initial tags:

So this is from 30,000 Miles From Chang’an, which is a 2 hours 47 minutes(!!?) long Chinese animated film that is basically an actually legitimate historical epic and historical biopic (think Gladiator & Amadeus) made into animation, and also passionate tribute to classical art and culture, similar to something like Miss Hokusai or Millennium Actress.

I heard it was decent before, but was not expecting it to be This Ambitious. The Criminally Underrated Champ of 2023 Animation

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you have to explain the nearest item on your left side to a mediaeval peasant, can you do it?

yes

no

way too easy

way too hard

they call me a witch

results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[tastefullyoffensive]

(photos by Bill Watterson and an octopus)

[transparasite-deactivated201806]

I think this is the best scientist photograph I have ever seen.

[shellysbees-blog]

But people didn’t believe him on reddit. So Watterson made the photo sequence into a gif.

[moonlit-hedge]

Here’s the gif for anyone curious.

[siren-kitten-his-deactivated202]

I had to go through the notes to find the gif. Not because I didn’t believe him but because I wanted to see it.

[illisidifan]

Fantastic

[foxpopvli]

Generational differences!

[were--ralph]

[joyflameball]

Please for the love of god unmute

[laws-long-ass-sword]

It’s like, One Piece is a dystopian fiction, it’s a great modern day epic, it’s an annoying cartoon, it’s a technical marvel, it’s a work of a genius, it’s a shitty beat ‘em up shonen anime, it’s annoying, it’s an impressive piece of character writing and world building, it’s about pirates, it made me cry until I threw up, it’s annoying, it’s a one of a kind spectacular story, it’s bad, it’s incredible, its got lots of big boobs

[brawltogethernow]

And the big boobs, this is really critical, all suck.

[technofeudalism]

god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

[flamei7]

[postpoeticparadox]

holy shit bronze age pro sheep bone gamer girl

[roach-works]

this is hilarious but also im gonna cry like this teenage gamer died and they buried her with her high score. no one took back the pot or divided it up because no one would play against her again. her family and friends buried her with her wins. im crying