can we maybe not.

yippee

[fairycosmos]

you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

[paper-starz]

Look what i found!

Afro Index – Black Hairstyle Reference Library

A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming, structured filtering, and curated reference images.

I found a cool site with a lot of black hairstyles! Use em as references!

[artist-refs]

EDIT: the website owner has a tumblr; you can find it [here].

[20th-centuryghost]

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

[philoponella]

@demonladytakkuri

[demonladytakkuri]

Excellent. Now you may accurately choose Nice Clothes for your bois in this RP.

[artist-refs]

The link takes you to a 404 page, but it can all still be found by clicking on the “catalogue” link (or just click here:  [link] )

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026 🟩🟦🟦🟩🟩🟩🟥🟦🟦🟩 79,001 · top 3% of players today!

[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026 🟩🟦🟦🟨🟨🟦🟥🟩🟩🟦 68,088 · top 12% of players today!

[hatbabo]

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[cynicallyneutral]

some sketchbook pages hehe

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

Visit Original Link

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[hyumjim]

Starting a collection

[hyumjim]

[drawingden]

Colour Tips by yuming_art

Support the artist and check out their painting course!

[drenched-in-sunlight]

thank you for the amazing halftime show 💙❤️🥰

[hatbabo]

favorites

[hatbabo]

hearts rail

[no-129]

【Art Journal – 11/09/2025】

Some personal reflections: To create, you need money.

I don't mean that art requires a lot of money, but rather that sustaining creative work over time requires a healthy mindset—and for most people, having financial comfort is the most reliable way to keep that mindset stable.

What counts as “financial comfort” depends entirely on one’s lifestyle. For someone who spends less than $10,000 a year, having $100,000 might already be enough to sustain ten years of creation. But for someone who needs $100,000 a year just to feel secure, that person would need a million to feel the same sense of freedom.

Then there are those rare people who, despite having little, feel genuinely fulfilled just by creating. The act of creation itself brings them joy, which becomes their source of mental stability. For them, creation costs nothing—they are the purest form of creators. Sometimes their mindset and work even lead them out of poverty in the end.

Among these three types, the last one is obviously the most admirable. But not everyone can reach that state of mind. The temptations and pressures of modern life are strong, and not having that kind of spiritual endurance or talent is completely normal. What matters is that creation itself doesn’t require prerequisites—it’s something anyone can start. But when it comes to long-term creative goals, each person needs to find the path that fits them best.

For the first type, a bit of effort might be enough to secure a comfortable creative fund and begin working freely. For the second type, pursuing wealth or a stable income becomes a necessary foundation—or, if they’re fortunate enough to have a supportive family background, they can use that privilege to focus purely on art. As for the third type, I believe they already possess everything they need for lifelong creation. Unless they give up by choice, nothing can truly stop them from reaching the end of their creative journey—or continuing an endless one.

Once different people secure their own mental stability in different ways, the real challenge becomes consistency. The goal is to protect the creative mindset from being eroded by outside factors. Ironically, chasing fame or money often becomes the biggest threat to long-term perseverance.

So this brings me back to my original statement: Creation requires money; creation benefits from money; money improves creative sustainability—but it should never be the goal of creation.

What earns money is a product. What results from creation is a work. You can sell your work as a product, of course—but whether it’s a good product follows business logic, not creative logic. From an economic perspective, creation is the least reliable path to financial success, because art made purely for artistic reasons doesn’t necessarily meet market standards. And when “making money” becomes the purpose of creation, creators risk alienating themselves—losing the very motivation that drives genuine art. Even those “pure” creators can destroy their own gift if they let commercial motives replace their creative ones.

That said, I’m not preaching artistic purity for its own sake. I’m writing this because I believe understanding this distinction helps maintain a healthy creative mindset.

If your goal is to make money through creation, that’s perfectly fine—this post just isn’t written for that purpose. In that case, I’d suggest focusing less on “improving your work” and more on understanding business logic first. Shift your mindset from creating a work of art to producing a valuable content product.

Because a product can bring profit. A work can bring meaning. And each has its own path.

(The above content was translated from my original Chinese writing. If there are any translation inaccuracies, please be understanding.)

原文如下：

一些个人感想：搞创作需要有钱。

并不是说搞创作需要很多钱，而是长期坚持搞创作需要一个好心态，对大部分人来说，十分宽裕的经济条件能保障好心态。

而对“宽裕的经济条件”是根据需求决定的。有的人一年可能都花不了1w，那么可能10w对这个人来说就已经够ta坚持10年的创作。

而有的人一年要花100w才觉得自己有了最低限度的生活保障，那么这个人就需要1000w才能获得和前者一样的感受。

当然还有的人，虽然生活拮据，但创作这个行为就能让ta们快乐，创作本身就是他们好心态的来源，那么(在坚持创作这一方面）ta就一分钱都不需要。这种人是创作圣体，可能ta们的这种心态和ta们的作品最终也帮ta们走出了贫困。

上面3种中的最后一种大概是最喜闻乐见的一种形式。但并不是所有人都能做到，毕竟现代生活的物质诱惑太强了，没有这样的精神力和天赋也很正常。但不论是哪一种，想要创作就可以创作，并不需要更多的前提条件。只是如果要追求一个必须要长期坚持才能获得的成果时，不同的人有适合自己的不同路线。

可能第一种人只需稍微努力一下就能获得一笔充分的创作资金，便能尽情去创作了。而第二种人则要把追求大量财富/稳定的高收入当作优先事项，或如果ta们足够幸运家境优渥，可以利用这个优势专心创作。而第三种人……我认为已经获得了完成长期创作的充分条件，除了主动放弃，没有事情能阻止他们走到创作旅途的终点（或持续一场无尽的旅途）。

显而易见的是，即便不同的人都通过适合自己的方式保障了长期创作的心态，难点也同样回归到了“坚持执行”这一点项，此时要尽可能保证创作心态不会被其他因素所影响。而“追逐名利上的成功”，反而在这一阶段会成为长期坚持最大的敌人。

到这就补充了我最开始的观点：创作需要有钱；创作最好有钱；有了钱能提高创作的可持续性，但不要把“有钱”当作创作的目的。

能稳定赚钱的是商品，而创作的结果是作品。（你可以把作品当商品卖，但作品是否是一个好商品主要遵循的是商业逻辑，不是创作逻辑。）对经济成功最没有保障的行为就是创作，因为纯粹以创作为目的的创作往往不一定具备商业成功的标准。所以当把“有钱"作为创作目的时，创作者最容易自我异化，丧失创作的原动力。哪怕是上文提到的的第三种创作者，也可能会因为长期异化自己的创作动机而摧毁自己宝贵的天赋。

当然我并不是倡导大家都去追求创作的纯洁性，写下这些文字是因为我认为它在保障创作心态上有实用。如果你的创作目的就是为了赚钱也没有问题，只是以上内容并不是来帮助你的。我会建议比起专注于提升作品质量，更应该先了解商业规则，将思路转换成“生产一个好的内容类商品”，而不是非要一味追求一个需要大量时间成本才能完成，而收益高度不确定的作品。

共勉。

[woogimbap]

myungseok is the funniest EAW character to me. in the first episode he's like yeah it's true i have prejudices against disabled people. you shouldn't have hired her. and then in the third episode he's done a complete 180 and yelling to the prosecution about how autism is a spectrum and that they're being insulting. ally