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bro i was homoerotically cleaning and patching up my friend’s wounds and you ruined it. i was scolding him for being an idiot in an exasperated but fond tone of voice while i tenderly bandaged his knuckles and we both tried unsuccessfully to avoid looking into each other’s eyes until the tension between us became unbearable when you entered the room without knocking and fucking killed the mood. what the hell, man.
Another day without being able to mind speak with a hot dark haired tattooed man….
me reading the fourth wing:
hi i brought some memes based on fourth wing
and i also created a playlist:
upd: i don't know what the problem is with the playlist showing, i'll try to fix it
IYKYK
my brother had a brilliant idea that i wanted to share with other people who have four-legged family members: he trained our two cats to go directly to the door when they hear the fire alarm.
obviously at first the fire alarm sent them scrambling for cover, but he started slowly by giving them treats whenever it went off, when someone burned food or forgot to open the fireplace flu. he then progressed to calling them to the door to offer treats immediately after the alarm went off. and it actually wasn't too long before the cats voluntarily started going to the door upon hearing the alarm.
i think this was genius because in the event of a real emergency we know exactly where the cats will be and we will not have to waste precious time trying to find them to rescue them. i think this method would work equally well with dogs and probably other free-roaming pets such as rabbits, ferrets, etc. and i certainly encourage others to give it a shot!
My funniest ventriloquism story starts with the fact that I was obsessed with ventriloquism from a young age. I used to obsessively practice speaking without moving my lips, practicing the different tongue and air tricks and everything. Then I got sick with Bell’s Palsy, and it hit both sides of my face at the same time. Bell’s Palsy is like a headcold that hits your facial nerves. Anyway- This meant my entire face was paralyzed. I couldn’t speak using my lips. The doctor stared at me, dumbfounded that I was able to speak very fluently without my face moving at all.
the doctor
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oh my gdO CAN YOU DRAW GODZILLA MOMMA CARRYING LIKE A HUNDRED LIZARD BABIES ON HER BACK FOR TAKE YOUR CHILD (lizard) TO WORK DAY
oh SHOOT well i cant swing 100 but how bout
If I don’t always reblog this assume I am dead
SHES SO PROUD OF HER BBY
Girl I just found out that Project MKUltra is like… a real thing
I’m laughing at how adorable it is that you found this out cus of Stranger Things.
i’m dumb as shit!! i don’t know nothing!!!!
The wildest stuff about a lot of these projects is that they’re a matter of public record, but lost in a sea of information noise.
MKUltra
Operation Condor (terror campaign in South America)
Operation Bootstraps (transform Puerto Ricos economy into exploitable industrial model)
Project Artichoke (forced morphine addiction for mind control and use of LSD to induce amnesia)
Strawberry Fields (hidden black site for CIA prisoners located near prisons at Guantanamo Bay)
Project FUBELT (operation in Chile to stop rise of Allende and put Pinochet in power
GREYSTONE (a multitude of subprograms, mostly illegal renditions and interrogations in Afghanistan)
Project MKNaomi (Biological and chemical warfare capabilities)
Operation Mockingbird (Domestic op, manipulation of US media. Wiretaps, included purchasing of media companies)
Project Merrimac and Project Resistance (sub programs of parent project, Operation Chaos, which was focused on infiltration and dismantling of anti war and civil rights groups)
Operation Merlin (Provide Iran with sabatoged design for nuclear component in hope to cause accident)
Operation Mongoose (Assassinate Castro)
JMWAVE (Using University of Miami radio station as front for CIA communications station)
Project Azorian (Spent 800million [3.9 billion adjusted for inflation] on recovering Soviet Sub. One of most expensive, secret and complex ops of Cold War, theorized to be front for either tapping undersea communication cables, setting up underwater missile silo or submarine surveilance systems)
Operation 40 (Intended to seize control of Cuba after Bay of Pigs, which was enough of a fiasco to cancel op)
Disposition Matrix (The “kill list”, created by Obama Admin in 2010, database for tracking, rendition and execution of suspected enemies of the United States government. The criteria are not public, and are shaped by National Counterterrorism Director. Contains Dossier and strategies for rendition/assassination)
Operation Charly (Collab with Argentinian fascists to hunt down leftists)
Operation IA Feature (supporting sides during Angolan civil war)
Operation Kufire (track all communists coming to and frok Guatamala)
Operation Kugown aka PB History (dissemination of anti-communist propoganda in Guatemala)
Operation MIAS aka Missing in Action Stingers (Attempt to buyback Stinger missiles gifted to Mujahideen [predecessor to Al-Queda] during Cold War. Still mostly classified)
Operation Midnight Climax (CIA set up safehouses in New York and San Francisco, used sex workers to lure people back to safehouse, were given LSD and monitored through one way mirror, developed surveillance techniques and sexual blackmail tactics. Eventually program expanded to just dosing people in public. Beaches, restaurants and bars.)
Operation Momentum (Infiltrate Hmong tribes in Laos and radicalize them into clandestine operatives during Laotian civil war. After Vietnam and Laotian civil war ended many Hmong were forced to resettle in the US)
Operation Washtub (False flag, planting arms to make it look like Soviets were tied to President of Guatemala. Part of larger series of operations built around sponsoring coup in 1954)
Project CHATTER (Collab with Navy, studying use of anabsine (an alkaloid), scopopamine and mescaline for interrogation.
Project MKSEARCH and MKCHICKWIT (Identify drugs in Europe/Asia for MK Ultra program)
MKOFTEN (partner to MK Ultra, according to Chief of CIA Technical services branch Dr. Sidney Gottlieb was to “explore forces of dark magic” and “harness the forces of darkness”)
Take that as you will
Stargate Program [prior program names; Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, Scante, settled on Stargate in 1991] (program investigating application of psychic phenomenon for intelligence gathering, mostly focused on remote viewing)
Timber Sycamore (program through which we pump arms into Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern intelligence services. Obama secretly [at the time] authorized arming Syrian rebels in 2013, but the CIA had been already funneling weapons into those groups for over a year in a joint op with UK, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.)
And of course Vault 7, a trove of documents released March 2017 by WikiLeaks, detailing the extent to which the CIA had compromised commercial tech, listing things like cars, smart TVs, web browsers [including chrome, firefox, edge and asa] and all smartphone operating systems. Also linked to UMBRAGE, a CIA group that collects Malware and hacks used by other groups to add to US arsenal and allowing them to disguise cyberattacks to forensic investigators as being done by other nations/factions.) Something to think about as the CIA asserts that forensically the hack was done by Russia.
guarantee you that stranger things has woken up a LOT of people to the CIA’s actions
funny, ain’t it, the amount of money they pour into media liason and they still can’t get it all nailed down
Bringing this back
I think about this moment a lot
okay if you’re like “what is TAZ” this is UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this is good
being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five
someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help
me: my what
What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.
when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much.
Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential.
So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’
1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust!
2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:
a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it!
In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support.
I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose
b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me!
c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface
d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)
e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them
f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics.
g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper.
h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more.
And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc.
This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah.
Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks.
so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings!
How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense
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every time someone talks about how “capitalism breeds innovation”, i think about the fact that capitalism killed the streaming service in less than ten years
like…the entire point of netflix when it started was that you could log into one service and you could find thousands of different tv shows and movies in one place, for one price, AND you didn’t have to wait for several weeks to watch the conclusion of a tv show AND you didn’t have to worry about your favorite new show getting cancelled half-way through a season for lack of viewership.
and then every single other channel out there thought “hm. why are we using a third party site to do what WE could do ourselves?” except not a single one of them had enough material in their libraries to do what netflix was doing. but they still pulled all their content out of netflix anyway and tried to do what netflix was doing. and then disney decided to do it as well, which… essentially just killed netflix.
but not only did they kill netflix, they just restarted cable! the whole point of a streaming service was being able to watch one show in one go, over a weekend or something. but bc these services don’t have enough material to keep people invested on paying every month, they have… to…. release shows one episode at a time, so that by the time one show ends they can roll out a new one and keep the subscriptions. which just? defeats the point?
and now we’re all just. back to torrenting one episode at a time, because nobody is paying for “cable…but on the internet”. all because capitalism breeds innovation
Fuck I’m at a fencing tournament and literally a minute after I reblogged this my dad told me that he talked to the point people and I’m probably going to win a medal.
BURN BAGEL BURN
OH WHY NOT?
I need to follow up to say I reblogged this last night, and this morning I got some of the best news of my life, like, a life dream come true news thing.
Bagel what are your powers
FUCK, I though it was just another lucky meme but LISTEN. Since a week ago I was waiting a phone call to confirm me if I got a job or not in my university. I reblogged this yesterday’s night “just for fun and because I don’t want any bagel to be mad with me”, and today’s afternoon, while I was losing my time as always, the professor I was supposed to work with called me and asked me for my personal information to start working with her.
THE BAGEL POWERS ARE WAY TOO MUCH FOR THIS WORLD
I GOT A JOB THE DAY AFTER MY QUEUE POSTED THIS THE FIRST TIME AND I JUST REALIZED IT WHEN I SAW IT AGAIN HOLY GOD
The bagel hasn’t let me down yet!
I got a job offer after reblogging the bagel. Believe in the bagel!
Worth a try lol
i could use some good news or even a good girl
Go lil bagle! Show me your power!
Okii then!
THIS IS THE FIRST THING ON MY BLOG
I GOT ASKED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER I REBLOGGED IT
wait but whats happening with the bagel tho
It’s burning, as is everything I’ve hoped for whenever I’ve reblogged a post like this
I just kinda wanna watch something burn?
Mood
You guys didn’t listen when I said Bagels hold an ancient and wonderous power.
Bagel time
I need this
do it
I’m at an all time low I need this
ok sure
no loss in trying. so here wo go
Its bagel time. I believe in you bagel. 🥯
Ok so.
Last time I reblogged this, I was complaining to my mum how I never got to go on walks alone. Then, she legit said to me, “well why don’t you go down to *censored*?” Which she’d never let me do before. I had three hours. In a place half an hour from home. It works.
I need all the luck i can get
(*-*)
Uhhhh worth a try
I doubt it will work but….
i dont lose anything trying…
again, YES?!
OK SO I DID THIS ON THE MORNING AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED AT SCHOOL?
TWO TESTS WERE CANCELLED!
NO HOMEWORK!!
WE HAD A BREAK OF 30 MINUTES (we normally have a break of 5-10 min)
AND MY CRUSH ASKED ME TO WORK ON A PROJECT WITH HIM!!!
I don’t know how you do it bagel, but you’re awesome!
Bagel time
guys the more you add text to your reblogs the more time it takes to reblog, therefore stealing our good news
Bagel Time!
In danganronpa, we call this
In a culture where people ask how you’re doing as a symbol of politeness and not out of any sincere desire to actually Know, you are equally expected to answer with some vague polite affirmative (“it’s going good/fine/ok”). Being truthful and saying “it’s not going well/its going bad” implies intimacy and invites further questions about your personal life. So somehow the alternative has become that being exactly neutral conveys a sense of negativity and gets the point across without opening yourself to invasive questions from strangers (Who, once again, are probably only asking them because this is the politness script) and honestly it’s kinda buckwild.
