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that Diana Wynne Jones interview where she’s like “I don’t understand why so many girls are into Howl, it must be because they want the challenge of fixing him” is so optimistic, like DWJ’s out here hoping I at least want to make him a more functional person as if “rogue academic turned melodramatic fashion disaster whose social skills Do Not live up to his own hype” is not a perfectly valid thing to be attracted to

@corvidscorpse said: People who aren’t morosexual just don’t understand those of us who WANT a complete dumbass

DWJ, a reasonable woman: behold this undesirable man. look at him, he dresses weird and he keeps emotional support spiders and doesn’t even question people moving into his house without asking and he has to reverse psychology himself into doing anything he’s actually supposed to do.

every morosexual in a 100 mile radius: oh fuck yeah babey

god this isn’t even touching on the fact that Howl is??? apparently??? an ordinary-ass Welshman who was studying spells (????) at the doctoral level and then (somehow???) found a doorway into Actual Magic and promptly moved there to set up shop as a wizard with like five different names and two outfits but still goes home sometimes because he loves his niece and likes to hang out with the rugby lads (still working on processing Howl being a jock but?? okay), because PRESUMABLY all of this is supposed to further illustrate that Howl is an absolutely ridiculous sort of person but all I see is a man who made the exact decision I would make in a millisecond if given the opportunity

wind-to-your-sails

Howl Jenkins is what happens when the overpowered ‘thrust into a fantasy world’ man… is not the main character.

Howl Jenkins is what happens when an a normal man gets thrust into a fantasy setting and is mostly excited to dick around and learn some magic to turn his hair different colors, only to realize to his dismay that being a powerful wizard means that people are going to ask you to actually do shit for them

synebluetoo

DWJ, professor’s wife, academic’s daughter, Responsible Eldest Sister who only craves stability and mental acumen: okay so an ABD post doc who hogs the bathroom and lives in filth and is generally five leagues away from recognizing his emotions

Us, disaster bag monsterfuckers: HOT

star-squirrel-deactivated202401

I didn’t know DWJ’s background and I have to thank you, this explains everything

batmanisagatewaydrug

I was reading this and fully nodding along in agreement before I realized it was my own post jesus h

thebibliosphere

Admitting my star sign was a mistake.

thebibliosphere

“Oh, so that’s why you are they way you are. You’re two fire signs ruled over by water!”

Pretty sure it’s just the ADHD.

hugintheraven

A fun thing to do whenever someone asks you your sign is to lie about your birthday. It still means listening to them attempt to explain your entire personality badly for a few minutes, but then you can undercut them as soon as it gets too annoying.

gallusrostromegalus

So, for a while I was doing mailroom/account followup work for a nonprofit, and on my firt day there, one of the ladies, “Debbie” asked me when my Birthday was. Assuming she was planning office Birthday parties, I told her.

The next day she came in with my ENTIRE star chart with personality tropes, life advice, predicitons for my future and so on. Now, I don’t go in for Astrology but I can tell when someone is making a well-meaning gesture and I can say “Thank you” and shut up.

Especially because I told her the Wrong Birthday.

See, my birthday is in the middle of a cluster of a whole bunch of family birthdays and growing up I used to have to share my Birthday with my older cousins and while that’s not really a big deal (even fun if you’re older) it kinda sucks when you’re five and none of your cousins share your interests.

So mom made a deal with me: We’d celebrate my “Un-Birthday” in January, when nobody else in the family has a birthday or anything else, and the “real” birthday would be my Cousin’s. I got my own birthday and they got a second party and it was fun.

As I got older, I just started using my Un-Birthday for everything except paperwork, becuase January is boring and bereft of holidays except the one that’s really part of Xmas these days. On paperwork, I put my real one, but I’ve been celebrating my birthday in the wrong month for over 25 years now, and didn’t think about it when she asked, and told her my Un-Birthday.

And for a few weeks everything was fine.

But Debbie had a RIVAL.

Another woman in the office “Sharon” was also big into Astrology and was convinced Debbie was Doing It Wrong, so when she was going over payroll, she saw my Legal Birthday, realized Debbie had filled out the chart wrong, and then proceded to drag Debbie on the company facebook group, and a bunch of astrology groups they were both in.

I found out when I came in three days later from a long weekend and Debbie burst into tears and sobbed “HOW COULD YOU LIE TO MEEEEEE???”

After an extremely garbled recounting by our coworkers, a talk with my manager about “Hey yeah I don’t think it’s Legal for Sharon to take my name and date of birth from Payroll and put it all over facebook?”, the manager had a talk about “I know you are all over 50 but this is NOT WHAT THE COMPANY FACEBOOK IS FOR”, Sharon was ‘removed from the premesis’ and I finally got to sit down with Debbie.

I explained the slip-up and how I sort of have two birthdays and think of the January Birthday is my “Real” one.

Debie looked up from where she’d been sobbing into her tissue all morning, realization dawning on her less like the illumination of the sun and more like a baby sea turtle headed in the wrong direction because of light Pollution.

“Oh!” She said “You’re TRANS-ZODIAC! You might have been born as an Aries, but you’re really a Capricorn!”

As someone who’s been hit by a minivan and gotten a minor skull fracture from it, I’m pretty sure hearing that sentence gave me more brain damage.

“Sure Debbie.”

thebibliosphere

You know, I had no idea where this ride was going to take us, but of all the outcomes I expected, that was not it.

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck.

gallusrostromegalus

Debbie was a kind woman with room in her heart for all the people of the world and the critical thinking skills of a Sea Cucumber.

arrghigiveup

Beauty pageant website Missosology posted a bunch of the contestants of Mister Global 2019 in their official national costume portraits. Several of them are very 👀👀🔥

And then there is this guy 🤣:

All of these guys can GET IT, but especially Panama 😍😍

a-lazy-sailor

You’re missing a lot.

one-time-i-dreamt

inviernodel95

stop im already gay

devinellekurtz

Click here to download the brushset!

Type in 0 to download for free, tips are very much appreciated but not required! Hope you all enjoy these brushes! Please share them with friends if you like them!

halfarsedhermit

Archery Tutorial in art and stock photography! You can find all these images and more reference photos on https://gumroad.com/syccas

blowingoffsteam2

Ok, let’s try this again, shall we?

An acquaintance of sorts pointed out the origin of the name Scala ad Caelum as being “Jacob’s Ladder” and possible connections to Sora and Riku, spurring my interest to look into it more.

Scala ad Caelum means “Ladder to Heaven” (stairway and sky being interchangeable with ladder and heaven). This is a reference to the tale of “Jacob’s Ladder” in the Book of Genesis, and there’s certainly good reason they gave Scala ad Caelum its name.

Genesis 28:10 : And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood beside him, and said: ‘I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.’ And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: ‘Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.’ And he was afraid, and said: ‘How full of awe is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.’

“It is the nexus from which all worlds spring.”

Just as in the Jacob’s dream (a dream, huh), “And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south.”. Scala is the “seed” that gave birth to all other worlds, it’s the origin. It’s also interesting that despite it being a “stairway to heaven”, it’s as if it hides a portal to hell literally right beneath it. Daybreak town flipped upside down and drowned in water, or in the symbolic language of Kingdom Hearts, drowned in darkness. Scala ad Caelum is almost a representation of Yin and Yang in itself, not just the idea of dark and light, but that death gives way to new life.

Back on the topic of Jacob’s ladder, in many interpretations the ladder symbolizes the “bridge” between or reunion of Heaven and Earth:

“Jesus said in John 1:51 "And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.” This statement has been interpreted as associating or implicating Jesus with the mythical ladder, in that Christ bridges the gap between Heaven and Earth. Jesus presents himself as the reality to which the ladder points; as Jacob saw in a dream the reunion of Heaven and Earth, Jesus brought this reunion, metaphorically the ladder, into reality. “

This might seem completely off the wall (though let’s remember what series we are talking about) but if my suspicions about Yozora being some kind of fusion of Sora and Riku are correct, that would literally make him the union of heaven and earth… And with the heavy association the Ultima weapon has with both Sora/Riku/Yozora and Scala ad Caelum, I’m left wondering just how ancient a being Yozora is…or the heart(s) he is made up of. I’m almost certain we haven’t seen the last of Scala ad Caelum.

#KH3 theory

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honestlyprettychill

reblog to save a liFE

jerkdouglas

Up to now, I have been drawing random generic suit jackets.

Never again.

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@x-1432

neechees

How to Draw Native People: a Tutorial/Reference Guide

As requested, here is a basic guide for how to draw Indigenous peoples (mostly focused on North America)! Also please note that this is not an exhaustive list of Native American phenotypes/features, and more like an intro on very common features that can be found in us, and even then, not altogether at once on a single person’s face. I highly encourage the use of references and care taken into research when drawing. I may do a part 2 that goes slightly more into depth, but for now, enjoy part one.

Resouces:

How to draw Native Skin tutorial (don’t draw us red!)

List of Native American Celebrities, which include their tribe(s) and home country, with 1,250 names, to use for your referencing pleasure

How to draw black people by Peachdeluxe, & Black hair in depth by misslaney for mixed black Natives

How to draw East Asian People, a guide by Chuwenjie, for mixed Asian Natives AND because it includes a lovely tutorial on monolid eyes, a shared feature of Native people

get drawin!!

thedragonflywarrior

The Body Shapes of the World’s Best Athletes Compared Side By Side

All different shapes and sizes… Every single one of these athletes is a certified bad-ass.

chuwenjie

A compilation of stuff I know about drawing Asian faces and Asian culture! I feel like many “How-To-Draw” tutorials often default to European faces and are not really helpful when drawing people of other races. So I thought I’d put this together in case anyone is interested! Feel free to share this guide and shoot me questions if you have any! I’m by no means an expert, I just know a few things from drawing experience and from my own cultural background.

8 Editable screenshots HD (text, houses and bars of progress) of #FireEmblem3Houses #FE3H #FE3Hrp for making #FE3Hoc Presentations by Leaders (and without), Informations: Status, Skills, Notes Certifications, Waiting screenshot Ending alone, or in relationship. You can CHOOSE your HOUSE (5 available: Blue lions, Black eagles, Golden Deers, Church of Seiros, Ashen Wolves)

Include exemples however items in LQ sorry >w<

Font Garamond Free to USE

Get them (psd)=> HERE

#fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #more 5 houses here #FE3Hoc #FE3Hrp #template #oc #blue lions #golden deers #black eagles #ashen wolves #church of seiros

ikimaru

I was wondering, since you make lots of comics and the like, if you might have any sources or advice yourself in understanding how to set up comic panels? I've struggled for forever to figure out the formula, and always hit brick walls of answers that are too vague or say that there aren't hard rules. I understand that, but I still don't understand the 'flow' concept and how that effects panel size or shape. There must be SOME structure, surly! Some concept or formula to creating pages! Help ;-;

hi! well I’m still learning too but usually it depends from page to page and what’s going on in it!

if you want a page to have more breathing room you can even have just 2-3 panels for page, most pages have 4-6 panels (usually never more than 6 regular panels, that’s way too crammed by most comics standards, unless the panels are very “fragmented”, then it can be a few more)

I usually just do very quick sketches and write down some text first the way I imagine them spaced out on the page, then I do some rearranging and sketch the panels around them, so rather than just adapting the picture to the panels, I also adapt the panel to the picture

there’s also something like text to image ratio, if there’s too much text I prefer to have it spaced out through more pages rather than covering half of the same page with text skdjf

the panels related to flow part is tricky to explain bc a larger panel can be for reasons like context (background, other characters), and be a “slow”/still panel but it could also be a more action-y panel and stuff like that

and ngl a lot of panels will just be rectangles when characters are talking or if the pacing is slow

this variant is also common

the other kinds of panels are usually just if it’s an action page of some sort

there’s also stuff like personal preference etc, hope this helps lmaoo

frankdelflno

Surnames are just as important as given names. So, I compiled a list of the websites I use to find my surnames.

English Surnames

Dutch Surnames

Spanish Surnames

Scottish Surnames

German Surnames

Italian Surnames

Irish Surnames

French Surnames

Scandinavian Surnames

Welsh Surnames

Jewish Surnames

Surnames By Ethnicity

Most Common Surnames in the USA

Most Common Surnames in Great Britan

Most Common Surnames in Asia

bee-earthly

old-manrupee

For whoever needs these.

dragons-arrow

I NEED THE ITALIAN LAST NAMES SO BAD

ebvoice-deactivated20150727

We are like fireworks…: Surnames Master Post.

chronophobica

Chinese surnames

Indian surnames

Indonesian surnames

Pakistani surnames

Bengali surnames

Japanese surnames

Filipino surnames

Korean surnames

Syrian surnames

Mongolian naming and clan names

Thai surnames

Asia is not a single country.

miraculousladybug-confessions

“Confession: I dont like Marinette. While she is a good character, the way she acts with Adrien is annoying and it seems like she has a celebrity crush on him which is why Adrinette is my least fav ship.”

@rushire Exactly! After the origin episodes, Marinette mostly acts like a fangirl around Adrien, rather than his actual friend. Sometimes she progresses, but then she regresses right back.

@landing-amongst-the-planets yep :///

I hope with how the s3 ends. It’ll become better and they’ll finally become friend!

Yeah, same here!

@landing-amongst-the-planets yep :/ but they seem to finally take an another temporary round to the ship. I think to make it more healthy? (S3 ending)

But I think Mari never really apolize for most of her mistakes.

You’re right, Marinette didn’t really acknowledge some of her worst mistakes and didn’t apologise for them! I really hope she makes amends next season.

miraculousladybug-confessions

@landing-amongst-the-planets

Yep... Let’s wait! But they said she’ll grow up.

I hope so.

@rushire Exactly! After the origin episodes, Marinette mostly acts like a fangirl around Adrien, rather than his actual friend. Sometimes she progresses, but then she regresses right back.

@landing-amongst-the-planets yep :///

I hope with how the s3 ends. It’ll become better and they’ll finally become friend!

Yeah, same here!

miraculousladybug-confessions

@landing-amongst-the-planets yep :/ but they seem to finally take an another temporary round to the ship. I think to make it more healthy? (S3 ending)

But I think Mari never really apolize for most of her mistakes.

@rushire Exactly! After the origin episodes, Marinette mostly acts like a fangirl around Adrien, rather than his actual friend. Sometimes she progresses, but then she regresses right back.