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Thinking about it, I’m pretty sure my ancestors would be horrified with me.

Not because I’m lazy or unworthy or anything like that…

…but because one of my distant uncles was among the eight survivors of the Essex, the ship that inspired the ending of Moby Dick and sank after being rammed by a whale, and what do I fuckin do after my bloodline has this Ordeal at Sea?

I get a fuckin degree in Marine Science and go back the fuck out there.

retroactivebakeries

#op its your job to kill that whale

gaygalaxys

gayvampyr

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

gayvampyr

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

gayvampyr

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

moreclaypigeons

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

gayvampyr

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

trickerycleric

ok so i dont really care about bts. to preface this. but i think the phenomenon of bts fans who think jungkook is princess diana reincarnated is really funny. so if i had to be bts/jungkook’s manager i’d make him lean into it. make him give fake interviews about being scared of car crashes and other things to feed the princess diana jungkook bts girlies

sixthrock

merosmenagerie

What do you mean you hatched an egg you bought at the SUPER MARKET

Ohohoho

So there’s this company in the UK, right. They brand themselves on producing fancy free range eggs and as part of that they have breed information written on the carton.

I did some snooping and found that every miracle news story of a supermarket egg hatching in the UK traced back to duck eggs, specifically the Braddock White duck eggs produced by this one company for the supermarket Waitrose.

And one day my mum brings them home and says “I bought these to eat but aren’t they the ones that hatch?”

And it’s spring and I’m hatching a ton this year so in they went.

On candling we had three fertile eggs! That’s a fertility of 50% - the same as shipped eggs from a breeder!

Hatch day comes and we get 2 ducklings, Curie and Becquerel. Sadly, Curie contracts duck septicaemia from an infected navel and doesn’t make it, but Becquerel is a healthy bird and growing like a weed.

I had put 4 breeder eggs in a week after them in case just one hatched, so Becque now has two Khaki Campbell cross friends called Tsuki and Hoshi so she isn’t lonely.

And as of today’s 7am Quacking - Becque is a female! Which means she’s capable of laying eggs and therefore I have pirated a duck.

steprhia

You wouldn’t download a duck

teaboot

Everyone has a ripcord phrase or topic you can pull when they're on their bullshit to totally sidetrack them while you make your escape. My dad's is "who won the Vietnam war?"

sofadoodlez

arven my bestie

cigardoesart

resident evil 4 (2005)

a-dumb-bitch-apparently

Do you ever see something that fills you with so much joy that if you don’t share it with people you’re going to explode? Yeah that’s this

🌺 Cheyenne

runcibility

I really super appreciate that the music wasn’t dubbed over, but live audio was included because I cannot overemphasize HOW MUCH the flailing noises add to this

cipheramnesia

I don’t know who this person is or where they are but I adore them and their absolute commitment to being the very best of whatever the fuck this is that they are.

ironinkpen

best thing about uncle iroh is that if you pay attention he is actually just as much of an idiot as zuko but has just mastered the art of coming across as a wise old man. the even better thing is that zuko is the only one on the planet who somewhat realizes this and no one would ever believe him because he's zuko

ironinkpen

like uncle iroh 100% does dumb shit on purpose sometimes to get people to underestimate him and keep zuko from capturing the avatar, but other times he just, and i cannot emphasize this enough, does impulsive dumb shit for no reason other than the fact that terminal stupid presumably runs in the royal family's blood

ironinkpen

uncle: "you never think things through, prince zuko!"

also uncle:

once got captured by the earth kingdom army buck ass naked bc he really wanted to go to a hot spring in enemy territory

betrayed zhao at the Northern Water Tribe with no escape plan and then spent 3 weeks starving on a boat

immediately went to a spa resort upon publicly committing treason

ate a poisonous plant and, in the spirit of Two Fish Hook Sokka, was going to solve the problem by eating another potentially poisonous plant

decided the safest place in the world they could go was the city he once FAMOUSLY laid siege to for 600 days

instead of lying low or giving a modicum of a shit about people recognizing him, overachieved himself into becoming one of the most well-known restaurant owners in said city

in fact overachieved so hard that he got an invite to meet the earth king (whose city he, again, once FAMOUSLY LAID SIEGE TO) which he fucking? accepted????

prettybirdy979

#no wonder zuko was constantly frothing at the mouth! he's the only one who knows the truth!#god just imagine the number of times people have seen zuko yelling at iroh#and assumed zuko was just being mean#when zuko was actually yelling at his uncle for wasting all their money bartering with pirates AGAIN#everyone assumes iroh is babysitting zuko but really they're pingponging responsibility back and forth#and zuko at least has the excuse of being 16#anyway I love Uncle Hypocrite so much; funniest motherfucker on the planet (via OP)

agoldengalaxy

always thinking about the narumitsu wedding. just.

- desiree delite plans it

- miles shyly asks gumshoe to be his best man a few months before. gumshoe bursts into tears and does not stop crying whenever he sees miles from then on. he cries even harder during the ceremony

- maya and larry duke it out to be nick’s best man. maya wins, so larry settles for being a made up title that he doesn’t know is made up, since he’s friends with both of them and kinda got them together in the first place

- ray shields walks miles down the aisle

- pearl is the flower girl, and when she reaches the end of the aisle, she rushes over to hug phoenix before taking her seat

- trucy is the ring bearer. she makes the rings magically disappear, but just as phoenix is freaking out, she pulls them from her pocket with a smirk

- the judge is in tears during the ceremony because he’s seen them both grow up so much since they began and he’s grateful he doesn’t have to deal with their blatant pining in the courtroom anymore

- franziska sits in the very front row, her whip out and ready ‘in case anyone wants to object to this foolish marriage’. nobody dares comment on the tears rolling down her cheeks

- apollo’s chords of steel officiate the wedding

- ema is so happy she’s crying, but to take attention off of herself she turns to klavier and whispers, ‘you’ll be next, glamour boy’ while she nods toward apollo. klavier turns bright red

- athena is the first to cheer when they kiss. simon has to hold her down

- at the reception, kay and sebastian give a toast to That Man™, while miles buries his face in his hands and phoenix laughs

- lotta hart takes pictures for them. she’s the one who catches the bouquet. for the rest of the night, she dances with larry, much to his surprise and delight

- at the end of the night, maya channels mia, who tells phoenix she’s very proud and happy for him. she does the same for miles with gregory, who cries upon seeing his son all dressed up and smiling

wrightfamily

more here! (alt IDs in images)

7clubs

world's worst club

soaptaculart

I think these two deserve more recognition than they get for being one of the most legendary duos of all time

falseknees

Happy Febuary everyone!

thewritingumbrellas

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

writerlyn

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.