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Janaina Medeiros
trying on a metaphor
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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DEAR READER
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noise dept.
Three Goblin Art
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Today's Document
JBB: An Artblog!
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YOU ARE THE REASON
if i look back, i am lost
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oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this
what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)
0, 1, or 2
3
4 or 5
6
7, 8, or 9
Pride (2014)
since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons
Average Deep Space Nine A plot: "What are you willing to sacrifice for the chance at a better world? Who are you willing to hurt? Will the pain you cause now outweigh the peace that it might bring? When both choices are bad, and you do what you think is best, can you live with yourself after? Could you live with yourself if you made the opposite choice?"
Average Deep Space Nine B plot: "What do we do with all this hot sauce!?"
And sometimes, with DS9, the A plot is about the hot sauce and the B plot is about the moral complexities, and I love it either way round.
Yes, this is quite literally “In the Cards”!
I had to go and LOOK UP what those “more serious political machinations” were because I couldn’t remember, and it’s only negotiating Bajor’s non-aggression pact with the Dominion. So, you know, nothing major compared to Jake really loving his dad. Chef’s kiss; perfection.
[ID: excerpt from the wiki page for In The Cards, reading “[In this] episode, Jake Sisko, the son of station captain Benjamin Sisko, and his friend Nog try to acquire a baseball card, while running afoul of more serious political machinations.” end ID]
Flashbacks to a very serious con discussion with @singlecrow, @always-theocean et al c.2015 on whether yamok sauce was made of yamoks, or it was sauce originally formulated to put on your yamoks. (The secret third option I don’t remember if we got on to is, I guess, that it’s like Worcestershire sauce and named after the Cardassia Prime district of Yamok, and dropped the capitalisation over time as some kind of genericisation. Probably no protected designation of origin laws when all production is for the greater glory of the centralised state.)
Quark can't say Fuck because Fuck is a valid ferengi name and he doesn't know what cousin Fuck did to the hu-mons that they say his name with such vitriol but Quark is proud of him for it
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
A finished cross stitch! I'm waiting for it to dry before making it into a needle book. This was a test to see if 25ct cross stitch was fun. It was!
I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter
good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week
divert all power to the funk engine
guys i just found out about this site that does a daily guessing game, it’s phylogenetic wordle- so fun!!!
Sometimes I'll be looking at bullshit online that I know will just rile me up and I have to think of this image to get myself to stop
Hast thou thy morning meds consumed?
Off with ye, then, and do so! (And also should’st thou some water imbibe.)
And thine evening medications, as well?
Hast thou taken them? If not, and if it be at or past the time for thy medicines, I urge thee to take them in a timely manner, as well.
Art thou avoiding (as thou canst) those activities which exacerbate thine infirmities, and engaging in those (again, as thou canst) beneficial to thyself? Please, I urge thee to care for thyself.
Johanna Tarkela, the artist from the unspeakably* gorgeous Bamboo Kingdom covers, has produced some new official Warriors character art, and it is all SO GOOD. And there's more to come! A little bit more info about each one here: https://warriorcats.com/content/article/new-character-artwork-from-johanna-tarkela
(Mostly obvious but in order: Firestar, Greystripe, Brightheart, Jayfeather, Tawnypelt, Squirrelflight, Scourge and Tigerstar I)
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Happy black cat day!!
Here are some black cats I've drawn through the years
people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.
My very first job was at Taco Bell, and most of us working there were horrible young adults with horrible young adult problems, but one of my coworkers was a woman in (I think) her 50s.
And us horrid young adults would ask her why she still worked at Taco Bell, because it was starter job and who would want to stay there forever? Her response?
“I make enough money to make sure I always have roses in my bedroom.”
This answer changed me as a person. It changed the way I thought about what makes someone successful, and made me step back and realize that I was so caught up in what I thought success and happiness should mean that I didn’t know what I wanted them to mean.
Which is to say that sometimes ambition is making enough money to keep fresh roses in your bedroom, and you should be able to do that working at Taco Bell.
