It's Me

Smile more. I'm 22, bi/ace/poly, love animals, memes. That is all. continue. Also check out thebabsofmine for all my animals.

[wayward-delver]

Creature of the Night: 

“Feathered Dinosaurs aren’t scary,” is false, it’s about how it is presented and nothing is more terrifying than a bitter truth. 

by Jayson Duria/WobblyWorks

[jaubaius]

Frog wizard is the best…Unmute🔊

Source

[vespertinecat]

Well. I needed that and now I’m quiet crying in the early hours of the morning.

Thank you, frog wizard.

Here’s the long version of the end if you, like me, needed a long version.

[clickbeetle]

shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

[clickbeetle]

[bathroomcube]

i dont like staff calling this website a "hellsite". WHOS FAULT IS THAT!???

[yiffmaster]

staff is reclaiming it like a slur

[piratedllama-art]

Quarters only, please

(done in procreate)

[piratedllama]

@todaysbird

[injuredsongbird]

SWOLE WORM

[lilboreddev-blog]

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

[thatblackwatchdouche-blog-blog]

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

[iceslushii]

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

[yiffmaster]

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

[cinnnabunnn]

Hey jsyk it’s 2018 and if you’re still drawing characters with big lips like THIS, even if they’re pale/not black, it’s fucking racist. Stop doing it.

No excuses. “It’s a stylistic choice!” It’s a RACIST stylistic choice.

“Idk how else to draw big lips!” That’s because you relied on racist caricatures and are a bad artist. Teach yourself. Learn. If you’re not willing to do that, then you are a bad, racist artist.

“But it’s part of the character design!” Yeah, and it’s racist. If it’s your OC, then change it. If it’s not your OC, make the right choice and draw them with normal looking bigger lips instead of this racist monstrosity.

And if this post makes you uncomfortable because it’s calling you out for stuff you’ve done, good. Fix it. Own up to it. Grow.

If you see this and you’re first thought is to defend this: you are racist. You are part of the problem. Congrats. Now work on yourself and unlearn that.

[mizgrownnonsense]

Here’s how to do it right:

[mizgrownnonsense]

(some troll gave me shit about only providing overly “feminine” examples. I would have been happy to ignore them…but there are so many great examples on how to draw perfectly acceptable (not racist) full-lipped male characters, in the end, I couldn’t resist.)

[mizgrownnonsense]

Since this is making the rounds again, I’m reblogging the version with both sets of examples.

[cinnnabunnn]

Hey jsyk it’s 2018 and if you’re still drawing characters with big lips like THIS, even if they’re pale/not black, it’s fucking racist. Stop doing it.

No excuses. “It’s a stylistic choice!” It’s a RACIST stylistic choice.

“Idk how else to draw big lips!” That’s because you relied on racist caricatures and are a bad artist. Teach yourself. Learn. If you’re not willing to do that, then you are a bad, racist artist.

“But it’s part of the character design!” Yeah, and it’s racist. If it’s your OC, then change it. If it’s not your OC, make the right choice and draw them with normal looking bigger lips instead of this racist monstrosity.

And if this post makes you uncomfortable because it’s calling you out for stuff you’ve done, good. Fix it. Own up to it. Grow.

If you see this and you’re first thought is to defend this: you are racist. You are part of the problem. Congrats. Now work on yourself and unlearn that.

[mizgrownnonsense]

Here’s how to do it right:

[mizgrownnonsense]

(some troll gave me shit about only providing overly “feminine” examples. I would have been happy to ignore them…but there are so many great examples on how to draw perfectly acceptable (not racist) full-lipped male characters, in the end, I couldn’t resist.)

[mizgrownnonsense]

Since this is making the rounds again, I’m reblogging the version with both sets of examples.

[chronicallytiredofeverything]

The problem with being chronically ill is that when you become more sick, with more symptoms, people do not understand why its so upsetting.

"But weren't you in pain before?". Yes but this is a new pain that I haven't dealt with before.

"I thought you already had stomach problems?". Yes but this is a new symptom of it that scares me.

"Arent you used to this by now?". No, and I never will be.

Symptoms that have been had for months or years are hard enough to manage in the first place. Developing a new one is scary, and trying to find ways to cope while still juggling everything else is even more so. We are allowed to be upset at our symptoms progressing. It doesn't mean it wasn't bad before. It just means now its bad in another way we arent familiar with. And that sucks.

[cinnnabunnn]

Hey jsyk it’s 2018 and if you’re still drawing characters with big lips like THIS, even if they’re pale/not black, it’s fucking racist. Stop doing it.

No excuses. “It’s a stylistic choice!” It’s a RACIST stylistic choice.

“Idk how else to draw big lips!” That’s because you relied on racist caricatures and are a bad artist. Teach yourself. Learn. If you’re not willing to do that, then you are a bad, racist artist.

“But it’s part of the character design!” Yeah, and it’s racist. If it’s your OC, then change it. If it’s not your OC, make the right choice and draw them with normal looking bigger lips instead of this racist monstrosity.

And if this post makes you uncomfortable because it’s calling you out for stuff you’ve done, good. Fix it. Own up to it. Grow.

If you see this and you’re first thought is to defend this: you are racist. You are part of the problem. Congrats. Now work on yourself and unlearn that.

[mizgrownnonsense]

Here’s how to do it right:

[mizgrownnonsense]

(some troll gave me shit about only providing overly “feminine” examples. I would have been happy to ignore them…but there are so many great examples on how to draw perfectly acceptable (not racist) full-lipped male characters, in the end, I couldn’t resist.)

[mizgrownnonsense]

Since this is making the rounds again, I’m reblogging the version with both sets of examples.

[faisdm]

[faisdm]

Every time I return to Tumblr, this flowchart has more likes.

Sometimes it turns up on Facebook, or friends alert me that some dick has put it on merch or uploaded it somewhere without credit…

People have written entire blogs about it…

It’s just something I made at like 11pm at night one time in a very “RRGH!” mood and shoved up on Tumblr and went to bed.

Sometimes it’s fun to read though what the latest comments are. Some people get it or feel encouraged, and some people are SO angry at me for encouraging people to keep trying, like how DARE people make art while not being already great at making art or feeling confident!? Absolutely hilarious. Cry harder!

Just remember two things:

1. This flow chart was made by a professional illustrator called Kate Holden, inexplicably the same person who voices Kanaya in Let’s Read Homestuck, because hey, it’s Tumblr, of course I’m a Homestuck.

2. You ARE an Artist. Make more art. 🧡

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[loveandmojitos]

I can tell it's snoops technique for sure

[ecrivainsolitaire]

He sure knows a lot about rolling mint

[roach-works]

listen. aging into your thirties rocks. yes your joints get a little creaky. yes you can’t sleep in a pretzel on the floor anymore after a concert or a convention. and you lose some friends. but the thing is that you sort out who your real friends are and you sort out who you really are. and you get to see your friends settling into careers they like, and adopt new dogs and cats, and you find a job you can stand, and get really good at arts and crafts, and maybe that book you loved as a kid gets a movie deal and it doesn’t suck, and you learn to like new food and bake your own bread, and you realize that the great portfolio of self harm scars you all used to curate are going white with age and not updated, and half your friends are a different gender now and so much happier and maybe you are too, and you know who you are, and that it’s a journey and not a revelation. it’s a direction you’re headed, and you’re enjoying the trip.

reaching your 30′s rocks. and i’m hearing good things about what comes next, too.

[roach-works]

i am looking into your eyes, i am holding your hand. i absolutely promise.

if you can just live long enough, your soul will build your body into a home. you will live there and you will find a way to be at peace. it’s worth the time and it’s worth the work. i promise.

[theunvanquishedzims]

it’s not all sunshine and roses      but it’s soup and sunsets and cats and not hurting yourself so much   it’s enough                                                                                                                                                

[she-waves-at-cats]

I think it needs to become common knowledge that "inability to read social cues" can show up as overcompensating.

You don't know how much misbehaviour is allowed, so you become the perfect child who never tests rules.

You don't know if someone is irritated with you, so you'll be extra generous and self-effacing.

You don't know how much is expected of you at work so you'll kill yourself in a minimum-wage job and not notice that nobody else is working like this.

"Hardworking and quiet" should be as much of an autism red flag as "ignores rules and doesn't know when to stop talking". Or why don't we just start using words to communicate so i can stop tracking everybody's eyebrow twitches, that would be great.

[qiyra]

This may be a little controversial, but to be honest, I hate people who are mean to me. I think they are not very niceys...

[the-smartaleck]