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Idk I’m just a person who likes to post stuff. Be warned, I do not listen to videos with the sound on — I’m learning Japanese via Duolingo and I have two fish tanks that I am very into — My pets are: Soup the cat Bengoshi-san the rabbit (Backstory below) Cosmo the male betta Venus the female betta And a handful of shrimp Hoping to get snails again soon and I’m all set to get a new leopard gecko — I’ve had my rabbit since she was 11 weeks old and she’s Spicy. I decided to do my Japanese lessons on the floor with her and she responded very well to the word “bengoshi”, which means “lawyer”. So now I have a rabbit roughly named “Ms. Lawyer”. I am emphasizing that she had never heard Japanese before I started learning. Now she’s my little companion when I’m clumsily sounding out Japanese words. I love her so much.

[skeletons-tears]

Not me finding the “PIERCE HERE TO VENT” part of the water container tonight… I always knew they’d work better if you stabbed them, I just didn’t know they had a PLEASE STAB ME HERE ➡️➡️➡️ bit

[gayvampyr]

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[gayvampyr]

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

[gayvampyr]

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

[moreclaypigeons]

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)

[rainycraze]

Reblogging to check this out later

[escuerzoresucitado]

[shutyourmoustache]

[demonicae]

Jurch

[eyewishing]

color theory: theres a lot of them

[kedreeva]

Aurora, on her final ride to the vet today.

In all my 16 years of keeping peafowl, I've never locked up a coop for the night without her. I don't know how I'm going to tonight. It feels wrong.

Back in the spring, when the tests finally turned up cancer, I made the decision not to put an old lady through treatment. I gave her the rest of a beautiful summer and autumn, a final week full of treats and free ranging, and a peaceful end.

May all my birds live so long and go so softly as my goodest girl.

[kedreeva]

There's really something else about letting Aurora go, and then immediately having two straight nights of auroras so intense that they're visible to the naked eye in many places, turning up on camera all the way to Mexico

I hope she is enjoying such a beautiful, joyful dance among the stars

[skeletons-tears]

Overheard a kiddo at Big Y loudly telling their mom about the guy farther down the aisle going, “HE LOOKS LIKE HE HAS A MOHAWK” (which I do, and I’m quite proud of, it’s rather long atm and needs to be freshly dyed but it doesn’t matter in this case) and the first time I saw one, I was seven or so years old and wanted one until I actually got one something like 13 years later. So apologies in advance to that kid’s mom, she might be fighting that desire for another decade or two. Spoops

[skeletons-tears]

I love gardening because sometimes it’s like, “and in a month or two, you’ll have flowers! 😊” and sometimes it’s like, “Lock in, bitch, cause this thing ain’t gonna do shit for for you for 3+ years”. Fun times

[partlysmith]

Spin the wheel. This is now your highest stat.

How fucked are you?

This owns

Pretty good actually

I can make this work

Not thrilled...

This sucks

My life is over

Voting ended onNov 14, 2025

[tastefullyoffensive]

35 Times Rabbits Were Total Menaces And Got Called Out By Their Humans

[corpse-toy]

all things considered i'm doing quite well for a living corpse

[thagomizersshow]

You ever think about how weird hippos are ecologically speaking?

There's literally no other megafauna on earth that spends the entire day lounging around in water, mostly just socializing, only to come onto land to feed at night.

I remember when I used to do education programs on hippos, most people assumed they ate aquatic plants, and that that's the whole reason they were in water. Meanwhile, hippos are basically just giant nocturnal cows that eat only grass.

[weaselle]

most animals that start adapting to live more of their lives in water:

"i must grow my bones lighter and less dense so that i don't get trapped on the bottom and may float easier in this new environment"

hippos: "denser. heavier bones. MOAR dense. Make sink the most."

mother nature: but how will you get off the bottom when you sink?

hippos: Make muscles more too, give all muscle.

mother nature: and to stay warm in the water? a big layer of fat?

hippos: no! no fat only muscle.

mother nature: o....kay. And, you eat aquatic plants, that's why you spend so much time in the water?

hippos: lol no. eat land grass, like cow.

mother nature: i see. right. You eat mostly grass, so, flat grinding teeth?

hippos: hell no. big spike teeth. sharp big teeth. Biggest

mother nature: what, like lions? 3 inch fangs?

hippos: course not. giant fuck-off teeth, 18 inches. Also, not just one pair, three pairs of giant sharp teeth. give

mother nature: but you eat... grass?

hippos: yeah. lol. Sometimes eat a zebra tho. Or a antelope. Maybe eat a crocodile, you don't know. Give all teeth, giant fuck-off teeth. Most bone! most muscle! most teeth! Me.

mother nature: y'know what? fuck it, sure, here you go

hippo: ...

hippo: i'm very angry now

[weaselle]

so idk about layers, and they are not all the same size, but they have three pairs of large sharp teeth on each side of their mouth, or you could say six pairs of ...? anyway they have a bunch of molars you can barely see through the gums, and then they have these teeth:

looks like this in the mouth

so those are their, yeah i guess actually six pair of giant fuck-off teeth

[mythopoeticlicense]

They're less teeth and more of a defensive stockade

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[wizardarchetypes]

I've noticed more and more in public bathrooms that people skip the handwash and just take a squirt of hand sanitizer from wall dispensers on the way out. hand sanitizer is NOT effective against most things that come out of your ass. i cannot stress this enough. i'm begging y'all. please. please please please please please use the soap.

i'm out here immunosupressed fighting for my life to not get naturally selected while people around me touch a public toilet handles and walk back to their tables to immediately eat a burger

[wizardarchetypes]

Thank you for bringing this up! Many hand sanitizers and household cleaners proudly claim to "Kill 99.99% of germs."

In fact, this does not mean that the product kills 99.99% of all germs known to exist.

It means that, during product testing in a controlled environment, the product killed 99.99% of the germs it was specifically tested against. As you might imagine, Lysol isn't testing its kitchen disinfectant spray against millions and millions of unique microbes.

In the U.S., labeling laws usually require that companies actually identify somewhere else on the label which germs are being tested and killed. Next time you see a "kills 99.99% of germs" label, check out the rest of the label, and you'll find the small print which specifies that it kills 99.9% of one type of flu, or Covid, or E. Coli, etc. This is why many labels even include an asterisk, i.e.: "Kills 99.99% of Germs!*" Look for the companion asterisk elsewhere on the label for more info.

There are different kinds of germs, like Viruses; Bacteria, Fungi, and Protozoans.

The way we kill these germs to prevent infections varies based on the germs' structure. Essentially, we need different "weapons" (cleaning methods) to fight different microbes. A product that kills Flu Viruses and E. Coli can't necessarily destroy Norovirus or Giardia.

No product is effective against every type of germ, even common germs which regularly cause illness in households and communities.

Hand washing is effective against more germs, not only because it can destroy germs which hand sanitizer cannot, but because it simply washes them off your hands.

More on the many personal, community, & global benefits of hand washing.

[wizardarchetypes]

People raising important notes here, like allergies to hand soaps in public toilets or the fact that public toilets often don't bother to refill their dispensers. My advice is to grab an empty little hand sanitizer bottle and put some hand soap in there. Or cut a small sliver of bar soap and keep it in a durable lil' ziploc bag. I'm not being funny. If access to soap is prohibitive to handwashing in your day 2 day life, bring the soap with you. You can take your fate into your own (clean) hands.

[theonion]

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani made history Tuesday night when he was elected the first Muslim mayor of New York City. The Onion fact-checks the claims being made about Mamdani.

[novas-stellar-archive]

good article

[dangerkrakeninnit]

[dramatic-dolphin]

i think some of you guys are insane 👍 it's actually possible for a 16 year old to be online friends with someone in their 20s. source: teenagers are actually people who can talk to other people about shared interests.

[dramatic-dolphin]

21 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 that 18 year old is literally your college classmate. you are the same age. You Are The Same Age

[dramatic-dolphin]

like, the moral panic about age gaps in dating is one thing but this reddit thread was literally about Being Online Friends. you can be online friends with a teenager. they are actually people you can talk to. i promise.

it's very easy to not be a creepy adult when talking to a minor. step one: don't act creepy. that's it. that's all you need to do.

[skeletons-tears]

Duolingo… I had no idea you felt this way about me 😳