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[byjove]

My dad was a public defender when I was a child and he would have to drive all over the district to visit various defendants in various jails which I thought was very interesting and I liked to hear about his experiences in various jails and how different they all were. He drove me to school every day and sometimes I’d skip in and tell my classmates “My dad is going to the jail in [TOWN/CITY] today!” mind you, I went to public school in a not very nice little town so my teacher’s first thought wasn’t lawyer, she had other students with incarcerated parents. This was also occurring in the south where everyone is nosy as fuck so she eventually called my mother, presumably to scope out why her husband was a jail bird and if the chargers were relevant to me and my education in any way. My mom had to explain that my dad wasn’t an inmate who kept getting transferred and that going to jail is his job.

[cherrstarr]

I've cried like 6 times reading this and I'm still not even halfway through (I may be sensitive)

[byjove]

it’s really interesting how the guys that fight against paying child support the hardest are the ones that could afford to do it. these dudes will quit their well paying salaried job with benefits just to avoid their pay getting docked and potentially going to reimburse the mother of their child for buying their kid new shoes. they’ll leave their child without health insurance and work under the table jobs because they really hate their child and former S/O that much.

[5minyard]

Sick and TIRED of defending Aaron minyard. Guys I beg you to look at things from his perspective instead of Andrew's or Neil's.

MOST OF ALL I'm tired of people calling him plain homophobic. Aaron was not annoyed/upset with Nicky's jokes because he's gay, he was annoyed because they're plain WEIRD. No matter if Nicky was saying that shit to a woman or a man, he would still hate it. Second of all, he didn't dislike andreils relationship because they were gay, he disliked it for two main reasons.

1 - he was afraid that Neil would turn out like Drake or Proust. This seems a little out of pocket when reading from Neil's pov, but if you look at it from Aaron's perspective, it makes a lot of sense for him to be wary of that.

2 - he was tired of Andrew being so hypocritical. Aaron hadn't been allowed to have any close relationships with anyone, and when he did Andrew would threaten them. Of course he would be pissed off when Andrew does THE MOST hypocritical thing and gets in a relationship while still refusing to let Aaron see Katelyn.

I'll admit Aaron most likely does have some form of internalised homophobia from his family, but he is definitely not plain homophobic.

[queenconsort]

this feels like a lukewarm take but i really love how it’s implied (if not outright stated, i can’t remember) that kevin was made to be so unlikeable in the eyes of the other ravens because if kevin is the bitchy diva then riko is the likable one. riko can be the reasonable one, can act just as annoyed as the rest of them, roll his eyes and act the victim. and having kevin be the “common enemy” gives them all someone to bond over hating yknow

[wuzeio]

car mechanic au weeeee neil josten will kill u with his wrench #stay safe out there

[the-candy-racoon]

Andrew & Aaron Minyard

Finally done with this drawing, it took years out of my life for some reason.

[literary-claustrophobia]

[azoriawolf]

Andrew, Kevin, Aaron and Nicky, picking up Neil at the airport that first time. Yes, just like the gachiakuta meme. It's my headcanon 😎

Which song do you think they could have blasted?

[azoriawolf]

Andrew, Kevin, Aaron and Nicky, picking up Neil at the airport that first time. Yes, just like the gachiakuta meme. It's my headcanon 😎

Which song do you think they could have blasted?

[saiintval]

New andreil animation in the works 🗣🗣🗣

[vivenecii]

Life would be great if I could just chill and draw Zukka, alas, finals are approaching and my BA thesis takes up all my free time

[scavengre]

i have quiiiite the backlog to post here

[patitojus]

lazy andriel morning sketch

[hacvek]

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

[olyia-stories]

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

[dragonpyre]

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

[serinos-kitt]

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

[dragonpyre]

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

[serinos-kitt]

So what is a rain shadow?

[lethalbutterfly]

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

[roach-works]

this is because, as clouds are forced upwards by rising land, they cool and dump their rain. so the side of the mountain facing the ocean (or an inland sea, or a great lake) gets all the rain as the clouds are squeezed out, and the opposite side gets nothing.

my favorite thing is the american great lake snowbelts! so, the 'flow' of weather across north america, in very general terms, blows from the northwest on down south and east to the gulf of mexico.

so the wind is blowing from west to east, and in the winter it's a dryer wind than in the summer because it's colder. but after blowing across a great lake for a hundred miles, the wind is wet again. and that wet turns into snow. so for all of these lakes, the big cities are on the west side, not the east sides, because the east sides absolutely suck to live on.

the sole exception is buffalo, NY, which literally has to be there because, unfortunately, that's where all the important canal stuff between lake ontario and lake erie is happening.

also this always strikes me as cool, check out where cleveland is:

it's right at the edge of that snowbelt. and you see way more cities west of it than east, too.

[beatrice-otter]

#but again. mordor looks like that becaue sauron made it#and he's an ass

On a Watsonian level, sure.

On a Doylistic level, Mordor looks like that because plate tectonics was a fringe, ludicrous, laughable theory that nobody outside serious geology nerds had ever heard of until scientists proved seafloor spreading in the early 1960s. The first edition of the LotR trilogy was published in 54-55. We literally did not know that plate tectonics was real until almost a decade after the book was published, so obviously, it was not something Tolkien could have been considering as he made his maps.

I don't know enough meteorological history to know when white people figured out about rain shadows and added it to geology classes, or what would have been taught about volcanoes and such. But any education Tolkien got on the subject would have been in childhood/adolescence; his college education focused on the liberal arts, not the sciences, and his professional study was linguistics and the middle ages. So anything Medieval and earlier European authors wrote about he had a pretty good chance of knowing about. But not much exposure to modern science. So his science knowledge was probably limited to "what English schools taught at the turn of the 20th Century."

[whetstonefires]

I mean, it's true he didn't know about plate tectonics, but he did know what mountains look like, and that it's not normally That. And it wasn't his style to break that kind of norm without cause.

LotR has recurring themes of the reckless imposition of one's will on the natural world creating ugliness, an order you thought was inherently an improvement that in fact is inferior to what you have displaced. (Typified by reckless tree-felling; a reflection of the despoiling of the English countryside and the world by Progress.)

Mordor is a rectangle because Sauron is an asshole.

[beatrice-otter]

#the rain shadow thing otoh was undoubtedly total ignorance#but those mountains were made as the fortress of a demigod#too steeped in evil to understand beauty#it's *supposed* to look like something that Shouldn't Exist#like quite often this is something that happens in worldbuilding yes#things are arranged Wrong because a person doesn't grasp the underlying logic#but mordor is a bad example for the same reason it's an obvious one#it's So Very Wrong because it was designed to be wrong#to give you a bad feeling with how much it shouldn't look like that#if he just wanted it unapproachable on all sides it could've been in a caldera formation it didn't *need* corners#the corners were a choice#tolkien's job involved lots of looking at maps and things okay#meanwhile people whose lives revolved around the weather generally knew where the rain happened#long before it was formalized into 'rain shadow effect'#people not having The Science doesn't mean they don't have eyes and brains

[cannibalcharon]

Western Washington vs Eastern Washington is a good example of a rain shadows effects for fellow writers.

Western Washington:

Eastern Washington:

For fantasy writers, Washington is a really cool state to study because we have nearly every biome from alpine forests, desert, alpine desert, rainforest, riparian forests, wetlands, coastal, and so on. We have two main mountain ranges, the Olympics and the Cascades. We sit on three tectonic plates which give us said mountains (and earthquakes). Our ecology is really neat here.

[sixseisliu]

I highly recommend the novel Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die, by Greer Stothers.

Spoiler alert below image.

This takes place on Earth in the future, but after some powerful celestial being obtained a copy of a very popular fantasy series that was sent out into space as a representation of human culture and decided to shape Earth into the world from the fantasy series. The devastating tectonic shifting that happened at the start killed a lot of people. A super computer turned magical dragon is working hard to turn the world back, now hundreds of years after the shift (i forget what they call it in the book). Drama and hilarity (and love!) ensue.

[vintacha]

for all the artists out there, here are my favorite resources i use to learn!

Files

The Complete Famous Artist Course

Art Books and Resources

Art, Anatomy, and Color Books

PDF Files of Art Books

Morpho and Other Art Books

Mega Folder

Internet Archive

YouTube

My YouTube Playlist of Tutorials

How to Draw Facial Features

Drawing and Art Advice

Drawing Lessons

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Anatomy of the Human Body

2D Animation

Perspective Drawing

Tyler Edlin Fundamentals

Drawing Sessions

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Pinterest Board for Poses

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Reference Angle

AdorkaStock

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Humanae - Angélica Dass

Fine Art - Jimmy Nelson

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Fashion Museum

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Character Design References

CDR's Twitter Account

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taco1704's Twitter Account

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Drawabox

Color Wheel

Color Palette Cinema

Free Images and Pictures

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FILMGRAB

Shot Cafe

William Nguyen Light Reference Tool

SketchFab - 3D Skeleton Model

Animation References - sakugabooru

Animation Screen Caps

Animation References - Bodies in Motion

[estavs]

I wasn’t gonna post this originally cus it was my piece for the AFTG RBB 2026 but my writer dropped out. It’s also a little steamier than my usual art, yes that’s Neil’s back and Andrew is underneath :3

This was for a Severance AU cus I really loved the idea of a Nathaniel/Neil in place of Helena/Helly plot fuckery. This scene specifically is Nathaniel pretending to be Neil which I’m sure is gonna not be fun for Andrew to process 😈

I’d love to see this in fic form some day… I can dream. Maybe when season 3 comes out