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thalassata

child of divorce

#seal tag

stiinken

true and accurate self portrait

#art

rabbitscreams

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

rabbitscreams

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

rabbitscreams

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

gay-milton-quotes

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

vforvalensa

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

#art #where do comic panels go when they’re sad

I hate applying for library jobs. How the hell am I supposed to say I’m qualified to serve a diverse group of people without saying, “I can do this because I’m not an idiot and also because I live in a society that. You know. Contains a diverse group of people.”

croszukis

everyone please reblog and tell me what arts & craft supplies you're currently trying to resist buying

#but the silver black velvet brushes are tempting me crazy style #everyone says they’re like. the most goated watercolor brushes ever. so I bought an 8 round #and it was an incredible brush. but I would probably benefit from also have a 6 round too #also I want to fill out my roman szmal palette sooo bad #I’ve been seriously considering an art supply no-buy for the past month or so. and even just considering it is helping curtail my desires #and more or less I’m of the frame of mind that I’ll get that 6 round and complete my palette #and then do a no-buy for real #but now I’m thinking about getting into lino so I could make shirts… it’s so dire #technically it’s a business expense though skull emoji

choatic-bumblebee-agenda

the generational gap between me and the people my age who were allowed to watch spongebob

#if it was not airing on pbs kids or like. I suppose. pbs kids airing on tvo kids #then I was not watching it #this wasnt even like a contentious issue for me though #I wanted for nothing in the face of my educational television programming

translatingpostsinfrench

do you / your followers have any good reccomendations for sapphic french books? sorry if this isn't the right place for this.

anon is really asking if the blog with a baguette and a lesbian flag as a pp is the right place for that /silly but ☝️ while i do read wlw books your ask makes me realize not many of them are french :| i'll do my best and pass the mic to my followers so we can both expend our TBRs:

"dysfonctionnelle" by axl cendres: very personnal fav in the sense that i heavily relate to the main character but still i would recommend it to anyone)

"juste une fois pour essayer" by élodie garnier: sorry i couldn't stand this one but mostly because i'm more of a "romance/queerness as part of the story" than a "romance/queerness being the whole story" person, also i think garnier wrote some more wlw romances if that's your kick

"bien sûr que les poissons ont froid" by fanny ruwet: still in the "didn't enjoy but someone else might" category, i LOVE goofy books but this one just didn't work for me (je me suis souvenu.e après avoir lu que j'étais déjà tombé.e sur un extrait de sketch de ruwet et purée son humour est vraiment pas le mien) + tbh the ending was underwhelming to me, some solid bisexual goofyness tho

"le bleu est une couleur chaude" by jul' marot: haven’t read it yet but feels mandatory to mention it if we're talking lesbian french books

"l'absence de l'auteur" by miriam vieitez aka @girafeduvexin: still in the "haven't read yet but must mention" category, oui on parle peut-être de l'absence de l'auteur mais la présence de l'autrice sur tumblr m'a forcé.e à l'ajouter à ma PAL et à vous dire de faire pareil

(bonus as this one is more about mental illness and transgenderism but is so good i was just waiting for an excuse to recommend) "je vis dans une maison qui n'existe pas" by laurène marx: a monologue both available as a book and in its audio version, and always as a masterpiece that got me crying like a baby

#I think I’ll probably want to refer back to this

I was posting about white watercolour paint on my instagram story and was struck by this and like. I’m not going to post about it on instagram but I unfortunately do think it’s really funny

#if you’re at all curious about my opinions on white watercolour paint #I think that using white to lighten your mix within the context of a painting is unnecessary #and often counterintuitive to the transparent nature of watercolour #if you want to lighten colours with white. you’ll probably have a better time using gouache #and I think white paint is a waste of money. especially if you’re first buying paint #but I think that pastel convenience colours with white in them are sometimes sooo beautiful and interesting #and I like single pigment paints from a flexibility and cost saving perspective #but I think being a single pigments only no convenience colours elitist is weird and lame #I’m sorry I’m pretty sure these notes are basically unintelligible

undeadhousewife

eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy

Ok now I’m curious… Which do you prefer:

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer the city

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer out of the city

Bald/vanilla extract/I reject dichotomies under all circumstances/I can’t read

Voting ended onJul 26

shenanighenz

I have lived in a city. I live rurally. I love both. I hate suburbia and that in between place where people think they live rurally but they just live outside of public transit range. Still overcrowded but no way to get anywhere without getting in a car and being stuck in traffic.

#I have lived in a very dense part of a big city and in a very suburban part of a medium sized city #and like. living in the dense part of a city is the best thing that has ever happened to me #I think the denser parts of my medium sized hometown are actually also very nice. the suburbs are just painful in a lot of ways #although at least the suburb I will be moving back to at the end of the summer is extremely close to some really beautiful forest trails #so it’s not like I’ll be stranded with nothing but sidewalk and lawn and identical house #but I’m gonna be so far from anything at all that it’ll be painful and isolating in other ways #and I’m gonna dream of moving back to the city #despite the locational shortcomings of my parents house #my hometown has pretty good transit and great food options #and isn’t one of those places where there are so many white peoples that you’re looking around like. ‘where is everybody else?’#like guelph. guelph is a beautiful city. but you walk around sometimes and you’re like. why are there so many white people #where are all the other people who live here #also my hometown. the beautiful city of waterloo. has an lrt that works a significant amount of the time #and did not take a full decade to build

woman-becomer

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

#in my head I was thinking this was like. a little prince situation where the hat is actually a snake that’s eaten an elephant #or that I would not be very good at drawing goats so I would draw a box with holes in it and say there’s a goat in there #so I actually hadn’t imagined anything yet

offslime

is adobe acrobat actually worth it in college (my school is a microsoft school) or should i change my adobe subscription to just ps & lightroom. ive never used any other adobe products lmfao

yes just pay for photoshop and lightroom

no you do need acrobat

i dont know or i dont care or ive never been to college or my name is chuck etc

Voting ended onJul 19

#okay so like. big caveat I went to art school and I paid for the full adobe suite as part of my tuition #I used acrobats’ pdf combiner and compressor all the time #acrobat’s like. built in signing tool is also very convenient I think #I also use indesign to automatically paginate booklets whenever I make a zine and acrobat will automatically distill a postscript file #and then open it into a pdf which is very convenient #oh also! if you want to print something really big and you only have a letter sized printer. acrobat will automatically cut it up #into pieces so you can print it on multiple sheets of paper #this is everything I have done with acrobat off the top of my head. idk if these are things you expect to do #I also use indesign for zine making! great! really convenient!#photoshop for colour correcting and removing dust from scans of my artwork #and illustrator for when I want to place things on paper/a canvas at a specific size/location #I can type into those little fields and say. I want this to be 3 inches. and it’ll resize it. and it’s great #and I don’t have to use the stupid ruler tool or do it by eye

charl0ttan

long distance friends pets feel like celebrities because you can only be parasocial with them

#not even long distance friends. my in-person friends who commute to the beautiful city of my city that I live in #when am I gonna see Cheerio? maybe never #is Cheerio my Best Friend? obviously #this is a huge post for me. I’m talking about my parasocial relationship with Cheerio Friend’s Last Name all the time

iraprince

i hit the bong as hard as i was able and wrote this game in an hour and 20 mins for low effort jam 22 and it was really fun. i am posting it all here for free!

if u want a pdf u can dl it on my itchio (also for free), + u can also toss me some coins there if u thought it was funny or nice or it helped u do something or u are into the idea of me making more games: https://iraprince.itch.io/smoke-weed-and-do-something

#I think I'll probably want to refer back to this #queue queue queue

dreadwedge

salad is mostly items

#everyone thinks a salad is only items until I start suggesting things like what if granola is a salad

storm-of-feathers

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

#our diary. hashtag our diary

crownkeeper

before there were blorbos there were little meow meows and before there were little meow meows there were cinnamon rolls

crownkeeper

and smol beans.

crownkeeper

i have to kill this post because people keep trying to explain the difference between blorbos and little meow meows and smol beans and cinnamon rolls to me . man i literally don't ca(opens my trench coat revealing a bomb strapped to my chest) EVERYONE GET ON THE GROUND NOW. GET ON THE GROUND.

#but this is essential literature to me

summerskies

this was a conversation clay and I had genuinely over a month ago but I have to know. How do you say the abbreviation of the mountain equipment co-op/company

M-E-C (each letter individually)

MEC (as one word)

I have never heard of this store

Voting ended onJul 9

#MEC MENTIONED!! ILY MEC #my partner got me a drybag for christmas #(I say one word)

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