to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!
i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies
its unfortunate that artists get talked out of their rare perspectives so often. ‘its just not done that way’ someone says and artist goes ‘oh okay guess ill sand that part off.’ bud that is your SPARK. so much of my success is from holding firm on the things i do that were called ridiculous
this timeline CRAVES your rare perspective. it CRAVES the thing that speaks from your heart but ‘isn’t the way things are done.’ when i talk about ‘what is your story OUTSIDE of the text?’ i am speaking of this. your personal tap into the cosmic is your rare perspective
fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you'll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don't do anything with them. life's too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn't have to be "complete" to be worth the time you put into it.
Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:
I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.
However...
If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.
If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.
Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.
If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.
It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.
That's what sucks.
I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.
Hey OP, thank you explaining this for us. I'd like to also add to please submit all feedback by commenting on tumblr's CHANGES sideblog (link below). based on the tumblr support email i just received and many others have already received, tumblr engineers are monitoring their feedback more closely there.
You can access it here.
Please.
We need all the feedback we can. Support tickets, reblogs, but most importantly THE CHANGES SIDE BLOG.
Haha, wow, would you look at the time! It's been quite a while since the @dcafanzine Glitches & Glitterglue wrapped and released. Though there's no time like the present, I do suppose, to share my works for the Backstage Pass Bonus Zine!
I'll share some thoughts, process pics, and concept wips down below ^^
First up is my solo page piece. I remember struggling for a long while trying to get the posing and line work to sit right. I wanted them to be intertwined but at odds. From a distance they read as a bit of a mess, but the closer you look, the more the lines flow from one to the other.
I had thought a lot on the symbolisms of the piece as I worked. How Sun casts a shadow; reading both as Moon "living in his shadow" in the sense of Sun getting to keep the "spot light" as a Daycare Attendant, but also Sun casting this shade as a means for Moon to exist at all. Kept safe in the dark.
Moon here has the flight cable. A means of mobility and freedom that is not granted to Sun, who is in freefall. But the cable coils around him. Each reaching for the other, able to catch and hold on at a moments notice.
Their hands, relaxed vs tense, in opposition with their corresponding bells, tightly wound vs haphazardly loose.
So many little bits and bobs to this work that I adore! (Though of course I see plenty of things now that I'd like tweak or change. Themes I could push more. Painting techniques I've learned that would be really fun to apply to this piece. But alas!)
The second work I did was my four panel Spot Art for the wonderful @naffeclipse! It was a joy to be paired with one of my fave writers. Her imagery made want to paint in a style I don't often use. I can only hope I was able capture the atmosphere of her writing half as well as she wrote it 💖
The last picture set I have here are some of my concept thumbnails! I had sooo many ideas bouncing around at the start of the project, it was a genuine struggle to choose. Even now, I'd love to revisit some of these as studies, if not fully rendered pieces.
If you made it this far, I'd love to know which layout is your favorite! And Thank You for taking the time to read all this ^^ have a lovely one!
Haha, wow, would you look at the time! It's been quite a while since the @dcafanzine Glitches & Glitterglue wrapped and released. Though there's no time like the present, I do suppose, to share my works for the Backstage Pass Bonus Zine!
I'll share some thoughts, process pics, and concept wips down below ^^
First up is my solo page piece. I remember struggling for a long while trying to get the posing and line work to sit right. I wanted them to be intertwined but at odds. From a distance they read as a bit of a mess, but the closer you look, the more the lines flow from one to the other.
I had thought a lot on the symbolisms of the piece as I worked. How Sun casts a shadow; reading both as Moon "living in his shadow" in the sense of Sun getting to keep the "spot light" as a Daycare Attendant, but also Sun casting this shade as a means for Moon to exist at all. Kept safe in the dark.
Moon here has the flight cable. A means of mobility and freedom that is not granted to Sun, who is in freefall. But the cable coils around him. Each reaching for the other, able to catch and hold on at a moments notice.
Their hands, relaxed vs tense, in opposition with their corresponding bells, tightly wound vs haphazardly loose.
So many little bits and bobs to this work that I adore! (Though of course I see plenty of things now that I'd like tweak or change. Themes I could push more. Painting techniques I've learned that would be really fun to apply to this piece. But alas!)
The second work I did was my four panel Spot Art for the wonderful @naffeclipse! It was a joy to be paired with one of my fave writers. Her imagery made want to paint in a style I don't often use. I can only hope I was able capture the atmosphere of her writing half as well as she wrote it 💖
The last picture set I have here are some of my concept thumbnails! I had sooo many ideas bouncing around at the start of the project, it was a genuine struggle to choose. Even now, I'd love to revisit some of these as studies, if not fully rendered pieces.
If you made it this far, I'd love to know which layout is your favorite! And Thank You for taking the time to read all this ^^ have a lovely one!
Haha, wow, would you look at the time! It's been quite a while since the @dcafanzine Glitches & Glitterglue wrapped and released. Though there's no time like the present, I do suppose, to share my works for the Backstage Pass Bonus Zine!
I'll share some thoughts, process pics, and concept wips down below ^^
First up is my solo page piece. I remember struggling for a long while trying to get the posing and line work to sit right. I wanted them to be intertwined but at odds. From a distance they read as a bit of a mess, but the closer you look, the more the lines flow from one to the other.
I had thought a lot on the symbolisms of the piece as I worked. How Sun casts a shadow; reading both as Moon "living in his shadow" in the sense of Sun getting to keep the "spot light" as a Daycare Attendant, but also Sun casting this shade as a means for Moon to exist at all. Kept safe in the dark.
Moon here has the flight cable. A means of mobility and freedom that is not granted to Sun, who is in freefall. But the cable coils around him. Each reaching for the other, able to catch and hold on at a moments notice.
Their hands, relaxed vs tense, in opposition with their corresponding bells, tightly wound vs haphazardly loose.
So many little bits and bobs to this work that I adore! (Though of course I see plenty of things now that I'd like tweak or change. Themes I could push more. Painting techniques I've learned that would be really fun to apply to this piece. But alas!)
The second work I did was my four panel Spot Art for the wonderful @naffeclipse! It was a joy to be paired with one of my fave writers. Her imagery made want to paint in a style I don't often use. I can only hope I was able capture the atmosphere of her writing half as well as she wrote it 💖
The last picture set I have here are some of my concept thumbnails! I had sooo many ideas bouncing around at the start of the project, it was a genuine struggle to choose. Even now, I'd love to revisit some of these as studies, if not fully rendered pieces.
If you made it this far, I'd love to know which layout is your favorite! And Thank You for taking the time to read all this ^^ have a lovely one!
