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i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy
reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy
Regarding the hemospectrum circle thing, the trouble is it already IS one. Karkat’s blood is the exact same hue as Aradia’s, just more saturated. I’m guessing Hussie went by RGB and not the hue wheel. TBH I think burgundy is actually closer to what human blood looks like IRL, at least from veins… This implies troll blood doesn’t change colour when it oxidises, which would kinda make sense with GHB’s blood paintings remaining vibrant. If their oxygen-carrying molecule is colourless and the blood is pigmented separately, so “hemospectrum” is only a rough translation and they don’t actually have hemoglobin at all, maybe that works?
It seems to be heavily implied to be a blood pigment thing. We don’t know if it’s a mechanical pigment that carries oxygen and other trace gases, or if it’s a separate cosmetic pigment. Implications lean a bit towards the latter, since the pigment shows up in other body fluids with enough concentration to turn them into a translucent glaze.
today's comic advice posting from the big boy published graphic novelist: stop thoughtlessly shading your comics. stop it. i see you reaching for the multiply layer, i see you selecting that slightly purple, slightly blue color to add shadows to the edges of your characters. oh my god get your hand away from the airbrush.
comics is a storytelling medium, which means that it's also a medium for conveying information. you are conveying information about the scene to me.
what information is your shading conveying, and what does that contribute to the scene? i mean, ideally you're telling me where the light is coming from, but...do i actually have to care about that? if the lighting isn't key to the mood of the scene...does it need to be there?
we're outside. things would have shadows, because there's a light source (The Sun) but don't you understand that just from the fact the characters are clearly drawn outside? does putting soft shadows under their arms and at the bottoms of their shirts convey that better? or is it already clear without that?
we're inside. there's probably some light coming in from the window, or maybe from a bulb in the ceiling. is there a mood you want to convey with the scene? is the light source contributing to the mood? is the light only coming in from the window, to remind us the room is dark? is there a spotlight on someone? is the lighting significant? if it's not, what is the shading telling me that i couldn't otherwise guess?
and in the same realm of that previous comic example i just used, and this one i will be explicitly prescriptivist about--if you MUST include shading, please don't put it on the panels where the characters are doing the big cartoonish expressions. it doesn't look good. it Just doesn't look good. you're turning a 2 dimensional shape into a 3 dimensional object for no reason other than 'well i did it to the rest of the comic' and it looks bad. it draws attention to itself, it makes everything stiff and constructed, you lose the animation inherent to the gesture. you are doing disney vhs cover shit to me.
but this all isn't to say that you should never ever involve shading in your comics. but it's more that you need to use it intelligently, not just because you think it 'would' be there. there 'would' be one million more wrinkles in everybody's shirts than we ever want to draw and nobody's advising you to do that in comics. but if there should be one million wrinkles in a shirt, to draw attention to the fact that it's wrinkled, that's a different story.
and comics are about telling a story.
if you found this advice useful, or liked the look of the examples i was using, you should read my comic.
Blackstar needs more guilt actually. I want Blackstar to look at his small clan, and see a space for every kit Brokenstar killed who should be a senior warrior now. I want him to visit the nursery and think about everyone who died in the stupid battle Tigerstar invited to the forest. I hope he sees Mistystar and Reedwhisker at gatherings and his heart drops.
But also I like when Blackstar is actually horrible and doesn’t regret anything at all. I wish he had been just as bad as Broken and Tiger. I also don’t like how he has a personality that says, “Yeah these evil people are great! I love helping them murder!“ and he just… doesn’t actually confront it outside of a novella retconning in some personal introspection YEARS after Firestar says “I’m watching you” at the end of TPB.
I hate him. But I want him to be worse.
Chore Trade (w/ Prize!)
It’s hard to do chores alone. Today I will offer you a trade.
I will do one of my chores, if you do one of your chores. Alternately, if I don’t claim a chore, anyone may claim a chore from someone else.
Reblog and reveal the chore you have done for this post AFTER this post was made (chores before seeing this post don't count).
I will reblog someone with the chore I do (after doing it) in exchange.
If me or someone else claims your chore, please edit your reblog to reflect it so people know to keep looking to play with others.
If you want to join in and help others do their chores, you can reblog their chores with the chore you’ve done in exchange.
If you want to join in and help others do their chores, you can reblog with your chore for others to claim to do in exchange.
repeat as many times as you want, I will lock reblogs tomorrow at 6pm eastern.
To make it extra fun, I will mail this primary feather of Bug's and these two wing feathers from the Larvae to someone 18+ (in a country that allows feathers through the mail) that plays (with me or anyone else on this post) between now and tomorrow at 6pm eastern.
Have fun doing chores!
I just cleaned my cat's litterboxes and switched my laundry from the washer to the dryer.
Good luck with your chores everybody!
the cruelest time for ao3 to go down. 4 hour tattoo session and I had none of my blorbos to distract me
major mood; 8 hour car ride today with nothing
your two recent hyperfixations just had a crossover! is it good?
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These two are amazing!
@x-heesy 💃🏻🕺🏻 Friday vibes!
I want whatever it is that these two have
Context! This is called a Jack and Jill! It's a contest in a style called West Coast Swing.
Here's the thing... it's ALL improv. The whole thing. And those two? Randomly matched.
Dance is a sport where strangers fall madly in love for a few minutes. And I need more all the time.
damn, what sorcery that she's doing that in BOOTS?
I’m sorry, wait stop. That was IMPROV???
Dance like this is a magic I just can’t fathom.
Oh yeah the fun thing about being even a base level performance dancer is that you can actively see their communication the entire time! Some of it is more obvious than other but if this was choreographed they wouldn’t need to communicate hardly at all. Lemme break down a few spots!
The moment in the beginning when they started dancing helped them set the tone and energy for eachother so they knew what type of dancing to expect, and they proceeded to pull from that vibe the entire time.
Around the quarter mark when they’re spinning around, green shirt looks at purple shirt’s feet, watching to see if purple was going to move. Purple then takes that and begins to move backwards, into the hand switch (which would have been far more fluid choreographed) and as purple raises their arm, green does the dramatic lean back utilizing the visual element of her hair. Unclear if purple necessarily was the reason but they were definitely asking for some sort of flair and green definitely delivered.
An easier one to see was that the trust fall was not planned but you could see the Very Direct Communication from the purple to the green offering that opportunity. Green didn’t have to take it but when they saw the opportunity they then positioned themselves and timed it with the music so the drop in the music coincided with their torso hitting purple’s arms.
Also the little coordinated butt wiggle at the end when green let purple lead was hilarious loved that.
There’s more but I don’t feel like giving a play-by-play but maybe y’all can see more of it now that I’ve pointed out examples! Remember folks, dancing with others is about communication!
This line killed me
What Color Do You Associate With Time (any hue)
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orange
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blue
purple
brown
pink
grey
black
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A metallic color
alright I reflected on the self. I’m 100% sure the beasts are the issue here
Hell yeah bro. 🤝Time for top surgery
sorry homie. I see now you said beasts. Like, The animal . Not breasts. The word for boobs. Did not mean to threaten you.
this is so fucking funny
good things will happen 🧿
things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿
THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.
this for real fucking works
Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.
"Every language is valid, regional dialects are a normal and natural part of the evolution of language even on a national scale, the names that other English-speaking countries give things are just as valid as yours" I say to myself through gritted teeth as I listen to Americans describe breakfast foods
Ok so I was going to launch into an explanation of how breakfast sausage is just a type of fresh sausage which, like many types of fresh sausage, can now be purchased sans casing to save you the trouble of removing it from the casing yourself...
...but then I started wondering what meat they put on breakfast sandwichs in AU if they don't use breakfast sausage and it turns out they DO use breakfast sausage, at least at McDonalds, which brings me to why I'm actually here:
What the hell is this
That's a big brekkie burger what's confusing
I want to consume that immediately with a violence of need that can only be American.
#WHY THE FUCK AUSSIES GOT BETTER BURGER THAN US#WE NEED TO INVADE
DON'T BLAME US IT'S YOUR FUCKING CHAIN RESTAURANT
Also @batmanthighhighboots - you can’t buy “sausage meat” in Australia. You can buy minced meat, but it seems to be a lot less fine than what I see Americans use in recipes online.
To try and use those recipes i just have to buy actual sausages and take the meat out of the skins.
Sausage only refers to actual sausages here. Also I’d call that a hamburger patty in the pic above, but that might just be me?
Also as Derin says- American chain 🤷🏻♀️
Also I gotta say, not once in my life have I considered peeling a sausage before cooking it. You can't just slice it up? Why have you gotta take his clothes off?
TIL that Australian Maccies just bung the hash browns in their McMuffin equivalent rather than having them as a side.
And is that barbecue or HP sauce, I wonder?
No we also have McMuffins, this is a burger.
ok so im on the mcdonalds AU site comparing things
is this actually sausage patty? or is this another burger patty?
Americans would call that one a sausage patty I think
yeah, it’s spiced in a way the normal beef patty isn’t, and we need some way to differentiate it so…it gets called sausage, even though it’s flat
Kinda like how, waffle variant aside, we only call the julienned potatoes prepared in hot oil fries if they’ve come from Maccas. They’re chips otherwise.
you absolutely can buy sausage meat for making patties in australia
the reason it's very easy to miss this is the profoundly unfortunate choice of many supermarkets to store it directly next to the chilled dogfood that comes in nigh identical packaging
Yeah I always just assumed that that whole fridge area was dog food
But why's it beef? Breakfast sausage is seasoned and minced pork.
In Australia, sausages are beef by default. You can buy pork or chicken or lamb sausages but your standard sausage is beef. Sausage rolls and pasties (the things that people would likely buy this to make) are also beef by default. I've never seen a pork sausage roll or pork pastie in my life (although I'm sure you can probably get them in some places).
We don't really do "breakfast sausage" here. If you have a sausage for breakfast in Australia you'd be having one of these:
alongside your eggs or whatever for a big heavy breakfast.
You know, that's the one thing that's pretty uncommon here in the US to the best of my knowledge. We have chicken and pork sausage but minced beef is never a "sausage" per se.
Everything is beef in Australia. We raise a LOT of cows here.
Everything that isn't beef is lamb.
Come to think of it I'm starting to understand the common US reaction to our sausages in bread.
You guys aren't trying to replicate this dish with a PORK sausage, are you???
if you tell an american “sausage” with no other descriptors theyre going to think pork sausage before anything else so probably
This revelation that your sausages aren't beef by default is fucking me up. I rescind the sentiment of the original post, there is a right and wrong way to do these things, and "sausage" being assumed to be beef is the correct way. Pork sausages should be a niche item. I'm not going to be able to get over this. Your country is fucking weird.
But without pork sausage, how're you gonna have a proper pig in a blanket?
IS THAT WHY THEY'RE CALLED THAT???
Yes, but like rarely are they called that. The vast majority of the time they're just called sausage roles.
We have sausage rolls here, there's beef mince in them.
Okay but do the sandwiches posted earlier just taste like regular burger? In the US them being pork is part of it but also they're spiced completely differently than burgers
McDonald's hamburger patties are beef in Australia. If you're gonna tell me that your default McDonald's hamburger patties are pork I am going to McFuckin Lose It.
no our hamburgers are not actually HAMburgers, thankfully. I want to come live in your world where everything is beef, as I can't stand pork sausage and it's in fucking everything breakfast, alongside horrid yellow sponges (scrambled eggs) instead of whatever beautiful fried egg thing you've got going on up there.
I absolutely hate the folded thing on the left, but it's in a lot of the mcdonald's breakfast shit here. I used to get the bacon, egg, and cheese bagel if I ever went in the morning, and. I would just end up taking off the egg and giving it to the peafowl, because it's so grossly textured.
Do you have this nonsense?
also i cannot believe I've never thought to slam a hashbrown straight into the sandwich... I don't really ever go to mcdonalds (maybe to get a Big Drink on a Long Road Trip) but now i kinda want to go just to ask them to replace the egg sponge with a hashbrown... like damn. Y'all got some great ideas.
I’m hung up on the fact you seem to think that sausage rolls are the same thing as pigs in blankets.
They’re so totally different things!
actually you're right and in my anger about the eggs, I forgot I was astounded that what Derin posted in response to pigs in a blanket was.... not remotely close and it made me wonder if this exists over there
Australians I must know... do you not have these lil guys? It's a tiny mini hotdog or sausage wrapped in crescent roll dough (savory, flaky pastry) and baked. The meat that goes in them are finger sized hotdogs/sausages called cocktail sausages/weiners (I'm gonna be real honest, the American definition of "sausage" is LOOSE, way looser than what some people want to believe). Some people make them with full sized hot dogs as well but usually if someone says pigs in a blanket, this is what I picture. The thing is, the biggest brand company that sells these particular kind of cocktail weiner is lil' smokies, and I think I've only ever seen them as beef, or pork/beef mixes. And I don't think I've EVER had pigs in a blanket that was pure pork like a breakfast sausage.
for that matter, most people I know differentiate between "breakfast sausage" and "dinner sausage" and they're not particularly interchangeable. Like unless you were eating "breakfast for dinner" or something, these:
(which are small, the long thin ones are small finger sized, maybe 3-4 inches long) would not be served for dinner. If someone invited you to dinner and said they were serving sausage, you'd expect like... kielbasa or bratwurst or something similar, a bun length (6-8 inches) of sausage, and THOSE don't have to be pork, and often are not.
not to distract from the sausage discussion, but @kedreeva the fried egg you see in the sandwich that you want is called a 'round egg' at mcdonald's and we have those in america. it only comes on the muffins by default but you can ask to substitute literally any egg for the round egg and you will get it.
Book accurate Meursault
And yeah @citr0nnade 's Marie is cutie
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That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.
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Noooooo this doesn't sound fun :(
Not what I would have picked for myself, but... I'll make it work
Eh. Could be better, but could be a lot worse
Okay, I can work with this!
I WAS BORN TO PLAY THIS ROLE
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Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NON FACE EMOJIS
I CAN NOT READ
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thumbsup makes sense, so do the eyes considering how often I use those
no clue where the trademark and bat came from though
i hate when ppl act like the only reason to not like a "sad" ending is because you can't take it or whatever. personally as a tragedy enjoyer, i hate a poorly written ending. i hate an ending that is just kind of a bummer. i hate an ending that feels mean-spirited to the audience. i hate an ending that's redundant. i love a sad ending that is thematically consistent, poignant, and bespoke to the rest of its narrative.
#if you've got to earn a happy ending you've got to earn a sad one too