SamuraiLibrarian

Books, food, gardening, comics. Maybe even in that order.

[petaltexturedskies]

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

[samurailibrarian]

Add tea and dogs and I’m in.

[anne-adler]

(x)

[samurailibrarian]

Headcanon accepted!

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth 💕

[samurailibrarian]

Oh yes. Sooo much this.

[beaswellgirl]

yep, pretty much

[transtenzin]

not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community. 

[transtenzin]

you can reblog this 😔

[samurailibrarian]

I did not know this, thank you.

[myheartflutters]

I Need This Pin (VIA AVAILABLE HERE)

[samurailibrarian]

Yep.

[supertaliart]

Happy May the Fourth! I added a second page to this comic from last year!

[samurailibrarian]

**giggles helplessly **

[medusaspeach]

Artemis, Persephone, and Cerberus - just a silly thing

[samurailibrarian]

D’aww!

[taibhsearachd]

I really didn't realize how much the Columbia explosion scared me until I was watching Artemis II take off. My heart was pounding so fast. I was so scared for them.

We have humans in deep space for the first time in years. In two years, ideally, we will land on the moon again.

It's just nice to have good things from a government agency. Novel, these days. They're orbiting the earth and working out minor issues with their toilet and comms and probably at this moment at least one of them is sleeping. In space. And I think that's incredible.

[samurailibrarian]

Same here. I’m pretty sure I was holding my breath for a while.

[eliyahu613]

[samurailibrarian]

Chag Pesach Sameach, folks!

[stuckinapril]

Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

[stuckinapril]

She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

[mintedwitcher]

read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[narrettwist]

Homie gonna share this

[samurailibrarian]

Reblogging!

[phosphorus-noodles]

Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

[tired-shipper]

being a tumblr user is fun : the staff look like they're trying their hardest to kill the platform, half of the internet thinks we're dead, the other half reblogs our posts on pinterest, and we celebrate the murder of julius caesar every year.

[samurailibrarian]

…. There are people who DON’T celebrate the murder of Julius Caesar every year?

[theocseason4]

Scream

[judgingyourgrammar]

So this was in the Boston globe, and if I hadn’t read it myself I would have thought it was an Onion article. The lady wants walls again because now when she is working in the kitchen, her husband is in full view sitting watching TV and doing nothing. When they had walls, she was basically less aware of how ignored she was while being a hard-working woman and housewife. They don’t need walls, they need a marriage counselor.

[feenyxblue]

Okay, but also: the walls are there for a reason.

In particular, the kitchen walls are there so that you can leave the kitchen messy when entertaining guests or having a meal (to the point that some open floor concept homes have a second, secret kitchen called a mess kitchen). The walls of the kitchen confine smells to the kitchen area, so your sofa doesn’t smell of bacon. Mess spreads from room to room.

Noise too, travels in an open floor concept. You’re confined to a bedroom or outside to make phone calls, listen to podcasts, etc. etc. without disturbing the rest of the household. The minute someone needs to cook? The entire house becomes unusable.

Open floor concepts have higher heating (cuz drafty) and cooling (kitchen) costs. They also require ALL of your decor to match if that’s a thing that’s important to you.

The noise and mess spreading in particular seem to me they could exacerbate marital problems. Do they need counseling? Oh yeah. Does the house make for a less hospitable home, that puts stress on a marriage? Yes.

[samurailibrarian]

A second. Secret. Kitchen?!?!??!

Do they have a second secret maid to clean two fucking kitchens?!

(Don’t anyone answer that)

[deus-ex-aquila]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Rome has got a tyrant who we need dead now

CALL MJ BRUTUS, 877-STAB-NOW

[samurailibrarian]

This wins every Ides of March post from here on out.

[memewhore]

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

This man took so much longer to crack than I would have what a PROFESSIONAL

[peripetyy]

Plotting, scheming, etc.

[whatagrump]

This was filmed at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which rescues, rehabilitates, and releases orphaned elephants in Kenya (among other conservation efforts). Charity Navigator has given it a 4/4 star rating, and you can make donations here or “adopt” a baby elephant here.

[samurailibrarian]

This will never not make me giggle madly.