Lone Caveman

[vrabia]

ok but like. space shanties. 

there’s a thing that should definitely be a thing in sci-fi.

[vrabia]

my brain went straight to the ‘put him in the airlock ‘till he’s sober’ part of ‘what can you do with a drunken spacer’ and i never want to look back from this. 

[honestmerchantsailor]

THIS IS 100% A THING. It’s usually considered a subset of filk, so naturally a lot of prolific filk artists like Leslie Fish have a selection. Sci-fi filk is possibly my favorite genre of music.

Most of these are actually ballads, not true shanties, but still:

The Senate - Space Shanty

Kristoph Klover - Fire in the Sky

Duane Elms - Dawson’s Christian

Catherine Faber - Providence Skies

Julia Ecklar - Ballad of a Spaceman

Leslie Fish & Ann Prather - Hanrahan’s Bar

Julia Ecklar & Ann Prather - Pushin’ the Speed of Light

Leslie Fish - Ship of Stone

Leslie Fish - Guardians

Leslie Fish - Sam Jones

Vic Tyler - Space Hero

Vic Tyler & Duane Elms - Spacer’s Home

You can probably just google “sci-fi filk” and get a zillion more. It’s a surprisingly rich genre for one so unknown to most people.

[nailsofvecna]

I don’t normally reblog this kind of post, but this seems so perfect as background music for a dark matter game, I had to share it with you all. SPACE SHANTIES HO!

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

For those unaware reblogging this post, “What Shall We Do With A Drunk Space Pirate” was the close out song for the Mechanisms concerts. Their entire discography was taking folk songs and making them sci-fi epic concept albums. 

Some of my favorite songs include:

Matty Groves, now with electric violin, about a lute that controls the dead.

Pump Me Boys, now a shanty about keeping the life support systems running on a dying ship.

Gently Johnny, now about sirens in a neo-noir sci-fi city lulling people into complacency.

Rising of the Moon, now about a doomed manager of a space station that descends into chaos and mutiny, left abandoned.

[blessthosewhocurseyou]

What does filk stand for here?

[pjbuckley]

What this has taught me, is a criminally low number of people know the word Spacer.

[pjbuckley]

Reasonable Prices for Commissions

Ok, I am writing this as a guide to anyone who might be interested in selling or buying commissions. So that young artists can have a simple guide to understand how to price their work, and perspective patrons won't be going into it without understanding why prices look like they do.

When pricing your work the first thing you need to think about is time. While the labor theory of value is ultimately pure nonsense on the broader field of economics, time invested is just about the only objective resource we have to work with in regards to art. Though if your working traditionally, you will also need to factor in the cost of supplies.

Figure out how long it takes you to draw a subject in a certain art style. Once you do that figure out how much you want to charge per hour of work. If your just a student or a hobbyist, you can afford to charge casually, between 5-10 dollars per hour of work, as of the current market. While if your trying to support yourself with your art, you need to charge as if those hours where worth the same as going to a job. 10-15, even as high as 20 dollars per hour if your really good. Anything over that is for famous people just trying to cut down on their workload. This is in part why speed is so important, if you can produce great art quickly then you can charge less for commissions and make MORE money. This is in part why I would suggest students and hobbyiests consider charging based on how quickly they think they should be able to finish a piece (given they know how quickly they normally do so) as a kind of reward mechanism for getting work done more quickly. Though I would not recommend this to those seeking to support themselves.

[depsidase]

[pjbuckley]

...So your telling me there is hope that we can kill socialism. Cause that would be the trajectory ending slavery and monarchy would put us on.

[cheerfullycatholic]

Stolen borrowed from prolifemaronite on Instagram

[pjbuckley]

OK, before we get started. I want to apologize for my abysmal handwriting... Today's Art lesson covers two subjects; proportions, and male, and female body shape. Notably, these are rough rules that will differ by body type, which I intend to cover later. All you need to know right now, in that regard, is: A.) all of these figures have a neutral "Mesomorph" body type. B.) Everyone's body is different. This is a helpful starting point for learning anatomy. If you really want to get it right you need to use real reference.

Now let's get started...

As you can see, I have listed height's not based on feet, but heads. This is a common technique that you're going to learn from any two-bit "How to Draw" book or Youtube video. But, it's true that regardless of height most adult's heads are "roughly" the same size and you can easily convey an individuals height, even without another person next to them using simple proportions. A shorter persons body will be more squat compared to his head, while a taller persons body will be less so. Furthermore, you can break the body into two overlapping segments. The first being from crown to the bottom of the pelvis. The other being from the heel to the top of the thigh. The two segments overlap at the pelvis. Now realistically, this pelvic area tends to vary a bit more in size, but I pretty much always draw it at about half a head tall.

While this is really not entirely accurate, Exceptions not withstanding, it's a pretty safe and reliable standard. Now most of the time both of these segments are going to be the same height, for a 7.5 head figure, both segments will be about 4-ish heads tall. For every half a head you remove, you will shave about half as much height from the two segments. So the two segments will be 3.75 heads for a 7 head tall figure, and 3.5 heads for a 6.5 head figure. This rule holds for both men and woman.

Now for male and female body shape. As a rule, you can draw the human torso with two triangles, one facing up, and the other down. However, unlike proportions by height, which tend to only skew in children, or those with Dwarfism/Gigantism. This will very a bit more from body type to body type, so it's best to practice with varied referances.

The top of the downward triangle represents the shoulders, and the bottom should go just a bit past the bottom of the pelvis, where you will cut it off. For a male figure this traingle should be a bit wider at the top, while for a female figure it should be more narrow.

The bottom of the upward facing triangle should end at the top of the thighs, though you can take it down to the pelvis to help track the curvature of the thigh's on a female figure. On a male figure this triangle should be narrower and it's tip should hit the chin. while on a female figure this should be wider than, or of the same width as the upwards facing triangle, and it's tip should meet the bottom of the chest. The reason you are placing the tips differently is to manipulate the curve of the body, though this curve can very a bit. So feel free to move the tips around, and be sure to look at real human bodies for reference. I really wanted to do this little tutorial for a while now, so here ya go.

[stonetheskooks]

With all the events going on recently I think it’s time to post this image againbc i’m tired of this shit 

[ziggy-starstop]

Thanks, I really needed this today!

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

@strawberry-muffin-crisis

[donuteater13]

Reblog to kill it faster

[lesbian-toddhoward]

[yourscreechingruinscollector]

This is to good to get buried in the tags

[c-u-r-s-e-d-i-m-a-g-e-s]

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

this is a boss fight but i don't know which one the boss is

[blade-liger-4ever]

My money's on the older gent.

[vitamaeternum]

Yeah the Tuba guy looks like a player wearing goofy gear to get the best stats.

[pjbuckley]

Wrong guess; https://youtu.be/87yJvnDGSFA

[kingdomreigns]

Whatever is of God, there is order and truth. Whatever is not of God, there is chaos and confusion.

[sandmandaddy69]

[oarfjsh]

they probably cant love me back in a human or even mammalian sense, but my goldfish with their smooth pea-sized brain have learned to trust that i will make them better when they are sick. i feel like crying about this often

[cantabilechaos]

Maybe Princess the tarantula never had anything resembling what we as humans know as emotions, but she still came out of her burrow and up to the glass when we’d talk to her and used to stare at the drawing I’d tape to her terrarium. Maybe she couldn’t even comprehend what we were, but she knew we were there to take care of her. And even if she never showed that sort of curiosity or trust we’d still love her.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Idk if Munchie the praying mantis felt love for me, but I do know he trusted me enough to climb onto my hand when offered and was comfortable with allowing me to carry him places despite me being absolutely massive in comparison to him. So that's close enough in my book.

[dykevirgo]

my tortoise wakes up every morning and looks up outside of her enclosure as she waits for me to put fresh food in her enclosure, and when i pick her up she doesn't hide in her shell or flinch when my hand reaches for her. when she's out of her enclosure and tired of walking around, she walks over to me and tries to hide under my legs because she knows it's safe there. she doesn't know who i am, but there's love for me in what she does around me.

[purpleisnotacolor]

#because love isn’t an emotion#it’s trust and kindness and loyalty

[sadclowncentral]

my family is fucking addicted to macgyvering and it's becoming a problem. every time something in this house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.

it's a beautiful bonding activity, but the "creative" fixes have turned our house into a quasihaunted escape room like contraption where everything works, but only in the wonkiest of ways. you need a huge block of iron to turn on the stove. the oven only works if a specific clock is plugged in. the bread machine has a huge wood block just stapled to it that has become foundational to its function. sometimes when you use the toaster the doorbell rings. and that's just the kitchen.

it's all fun and games until you have guests over and you have to lay out the rules of the house like it's a fucking board game. welcome to the beautiful guest room. don't pull out the couch yourself you need a screwdriver for that, and that metal rod makes the lamp work so don't move it. it also made me a terrifying roommate in college, because it makes me think i can fix anything with enough hubris and a drill. you want to call the landlord about a leaky faucet? as if. one time my dad made me install a new power socket because we ran our of extension cords

[sadclowncentral]

to the people saying this isn't safe in the tags: my dad has a engineering degree and my brother is a mechanic this is like. state sanctioned macgyvering. safe sane and consensual macgyvering. our house will not burn down. in fact, i think it has made us all better in approaching problems from all angles when they arise, which has served me well in life, especially in high stress situations.

does our hot water switch off every thirty seconds making showers an exiting exercise in counting and resilience? yes. but one time the door of the train toilet broke, trapping me inside, and i went "well i can either succumb to the panic of claustrophobia or do this family-style" and then spent twenty minutes breaking down the lock with my shoelace and the belt i was wearing. so i'll take the cold water any day

[myothertardisisonthemun]

Never have I wanted to see inside a stranger's home more

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

OP lives in a point-and-click adventure game

[disgruntledexplainer]

[pjbuckley]

Clown's to the left of me, Joker's to the right...

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

Well the "OmniLiberal" that's supposed to be the sane, not Marxist, "good guy" has more or less finally showed his true colors.

This is disgusting and I expect this rhetoric to get worse in the coming days. The left will get worse. And I'm not going to share my thoughts on this.

[pjbuckley]

Yeah I am ashamed to say, I thought he was "possessed of a modicum of sanity." Before all this.

[anarcho-communism-revolution]

[pjbuckley]

Environmentalism WITH class struggle is just authoritarian gardening.

[queenlucythevaliant]

Chiming in on the Bad Christian Art discourse. Christian art is bad when

A) It's trying to be a sermon rather than a work of art and

B) The sermon is bad

[queenlucythevaliant]

So like

These are just off-the-top-of-my-head examples. But I'd argue Q3 is danger territory while Qs 1, 2, and 4 are generally worthwhile.

[pjbuckley]

I wonder if this could to some degree be applied to most message media in general?

[anarchist-art]

[tlaquetzqui]

In what way, exactly, was the militant wing of the Democrat Party KKK rightwing?

Not to even get into the fact they began as the anarchist alternative to law enforcement: a vigilante group.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I see the leftist wheel has landed on “hide behind the Dems” instead of “hate people less left-wing and more liberal than we are” today. Also, left-wing rage gave us countless racial riots, in the 60s, in the 90s, and throughout BLM’s entire existence. Up to and including straight up terrorist murderers.

[beardedmrbean]

Left and right wing were coined as terms used during the French revolution, so technically one of the first things the left wing did was start off the reign of terror.

[mornington-the-crescent]

Also, it was Henry Ford who gave you the weekend. You know, the capitalist industrialist.

[pjbuckley]

Stop stop, he's already dead!

[ned7-what-now]

Conservatives are stupid for wanting the public schools to teach the Bible now.

[ned7-what-now]

You're really going to let people who are openly your enemies teach your holy book to your children? You think that's a good idea?

[quonunc]

Parents need to stop expecting schools to teach their children anything...but especially religion.

[pjbuckley]

Exactly my thoughts on the matter... Homeschool your children.