Rhon's World

Odds and sods, bits and bobs. I like fitness, frogs and crafts.

[toadschooled]

A perfect little Marine toad butt [Rhinella marina] photographed by Ron Joseph.

[clientsfromhell]

I’m currently trying to make a name for myself as a freelance illustrator, and was approached through Instagram about an illustration job for a novel:

Client: I’m looking for an illustrator to make eight illustrations plus a cover design for a book I’m writing! I really like your work and I think it would fit what I’m looking for!

Me: So nine complete illustrations?

Client: Correct.

Me: I charge about 60 dollars for complete illustrations (I’m still trying to build a client base so cheap prices bring people in right now), so the total for all nine illustrations would be about 550 dollars.

Client: Okay, let me put together a contract and I’ll get back to you.

Client puts together contract and emails it to me. The whole thing looks good so far. I told them in would not sign the contract until I had been paid upfront for the work. A few weeks later I get another message from the client.

Client: I know we talked about a payment of 550 dollars for the illustrations, but I found another illustrator who is willing to do them with less detail for 450. Would you still be willing to the same amount of detail for 450? I need an illustrator who is affordable and serious.

Me: I would love to help you bring your vision to life, but getting paid less for my work would go against my moral standing as an artist. I’ve worked very hard to get to where I am, and I cannot compromise what I believe my art is worth. 

Client: I know exactly what you mean. I’m working very hard on my novel and I wouldn’t cut any corners myself. 

Me: Thank you for understanding - I’m looking forward to working with you!

Client: Oh, no. I’m going with the other illustrator. It’ll save me 100 bucks!

Me: …. 

> Want to know if freelancing is for you?

[lhazaar]

look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

[darkandstormyslash]

There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.

The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.

But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.

All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.

The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) - they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.

The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?

tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.

[vhsvulpes]

AMEN this goes for anything too!!! drawing, painting, sewing, knitting you name it. Its so much better to just do the thing your working on, shitty or not it takes less of a toll on you to just finish a thing than to worry about fucking it up first time.

[gaelfox]

EVERYBODY MAKE YOUR POTS!

[baetology]

Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.

[bumblebeebats]

And people say stuff like ‘lol don’t you hate it when you look up in the middle of the night and see a spider on your ceiling’ like bitch (!!) i could have Nicholas II last czar of Russia hangin from my ceiling fan and i would be none the wiser

[venusiancarbondioxide]

For 2017 I vote that we bring capes back into fashion.

[kingofdersecest]

[cr-est]

He yelled at me until we adopted him

[somekindofhelicoptervalentine]

that is the happiest looking cat ever

[vcmiting]

[nno-risk-deactivated20220210]

this is what i came here for

[potter-snitch]

Credit to the amazing artist “George Rottkamp”

[toadschooled]

Me at 1:26 AM: who tf is making that noise

Me a few seconds later: Oh of course

[libutron]

Tomato frog, Maroantsetra, Madagascar by Markus Fleute 

Dyscophus antongilii

[redditfront]

Adrian Shine, the leader of the Loch Ness Project, looks exactly like how I imagined the leader of the Loch Ness Project looks like - via http://ift.tt/23z6vND

[gaslampsglow]

What a masterpiece of a photo.

[poonany]

He looks like he knows everything

[giffingcartoons]

[markscherz]

Caring for my supervisor’s herps while he’s away. First time I’ve gotten to interact with Agalychnis! So cool.

[elizabethmarten]

when youre running late for saving your soulmate from a cursed pirate ship

[samaelschain]

The single greatest scene in anything ever 😂😂😂😂 @skillzyo

[allisonpregler]

this is the single greatest fuck you to physics that ever came out of this show

[nolongeroccupied]

[jilliianclaire]

@lindsay-kat

[stopitsgingertime]

Why does the man behind 'Doctor Who' and 'Sherlock' still have a job?

Steven Moffat’s dismissive attitude toward women somehow seems to help his career.

this article is so so important please read it

[viewovermerryton-deactivated202]

holy shit, though. wow.

[smaugy-k]

OH.MY.GOD. it has EVERY QUOTE. WITH A LINK. this article must’ve been burning in this writer’s mind for ages…well done.

[bookshop]

True story: when I initially pitched this article, my editor thought I was joking and squelched it, and I went back and screamed at him a lot until he understood there is NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THE RAGE-INDUCING EFFECTS OF STEVEN MOFFAT and let me write it, haha.

(Also, since a lot of people have been questioning the veracity of the quotes, I just want to say that everything in “” in the article is a word-for-word quote that comes from either a video/radio or print interview by Moffat, or a tweet from his now-deleted twitter, or a line one of his characters says. Every other link is tied to arguments about the narratives of his series, so yes, it’s all as verified as we could possibly make it.)

[vaspider]

I haven’t watched Sherlock or Doctor Who in a long time. This is basically why.

[ladyfogg]

[soleil-moon-bye]

there’s this guy on twitter who floods the timelines of women who are getting rape threats from the alt-right with pictures of his very cute dog tucker

he calls it the ‘daily tucker service’ & ppl who are looking to drown out hate in their timelines can subscribe to it.

I just thought that you should know, in case you were losing faith in humanity.

[soleil-moon-bye]

[captainclownshow]

There are still heroes in the world. 

[pardonmewhileipanic]

i adore this

it just also breaks my heart that this is even needed