hanging upside down

I've always thought that if I could hang upside-down from my ankles, the horrors would drip down from the top of my head in the form of tar. I have yet to find the courage to try.

[chestnutroan]

Hello, sorry to bother you, I just wanted to say that I really really loved the Irene Darkwater and Veronica Santangelo drawing you posted recently, and I was wondering how you get that newspaper effect on your drawings? hope you have a great day!

its no bother at all thank you so much!!!

i used a combination of the colorlabs halftone pack and the infinite pulp !! BUT i dont think that you necessarily need them. without using those packs i would:

(i would probably duplicate ur layers before hand to keep backups btw)

1. Take a worn/aged paper scan from this website and make it your base layer

2. convert the color layer to halftone using these actions i made, and then apply a slight Gaussian blur to the result. Set this layer to multiply mode (and adjust the colors if needed)

3. apply a VERY slight ripple effect (filter>distort>ripple) to the lineart, and then apply a slight Gaussian blur again

This is to make it looks as if the ink has sunk into the paper!

4. Then "erode" parts of the color and ink with a light, textured eraser brush, to give the effect of aging as well as original printing errors

5. Take another aged paper scan from here and apply it over the image in overlay mode. Take ANOTHER scan, enter layer styles and shift the bars to something like this

and set the result to screen. This should give the image a kind of washed out sheen, but it could take some tweaking and eyeballing to get it to ur liking.

6. Further damage the image. Add flecks of runaway ink, use the Gaussian blue on some areas on the lineart more than others. make it look like cheap, shitty printing 😆keep tweaking!!! i would err more on the side of desaturation, and low contrast. when all is done the pure black ink lines are closer to this:

if you have anymore questions feel free to ask!! ^_^

[halfhardtorock]

I think one of the most disturbing things about the popular narrative we teach around the Holocaust is how the “No one knew,” myth still flourishes and is still widely spoken and believed. “No one knew what was happening until the camps were liberated! The world was shocked!” was taught to me when I was a child and was likely taught to many of you too. I’ve even heard it said aloud in Holocaust testimonies classes, even after we’ve read testimonies that directly contradict this falsehood. People are really fucking attached to it.

“No one knew!” has been repeatedly disputed and disproven, to the point where the mass narrative of it has become terribly indicative of people’s need to dispel feelings of guilt and shame above all else. Even above telling the truth.

Im p sure the original narrative of “no one knew!” was in part the result of low-level German and Polish bureaucrats seeking to avoid arrest and prosecution, because there was a dearth of specific written orders in regards to outlining the machinations of The Final Solution. Which allowed many to claim ignorance and innocence. But it also has been useful in the reimagining of the allies role in the Holocaust, reimagining their complicit silence and inaction into the shock and disgust of witnesses and good liberators.

Because people DID know. Jan Karski infiltrated the Warsaw ghetto before it was liquidated and witnessed firsthand exactly what was happening to the Jewish people. He was sent by the Polish Underground to the UK carrying a message for the UN titled “The Mass Extermination of the Jews in German Occupied Poland.” He had a direct audience with Roosevelt, where he attempted to provide details of what was happening to compel the allied forces to act before it was too late. This was in 42-43.

In 1944, the New York Times published a story about the Warsaw ghetto uprising WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING. This wasn’t a mystery in the states. People knew about the forced ghettoization of the Polish Jews and what they faced as they fought back.

Lanzmann’s Shoah presents several interviews with Polish onlookers outside of Treblinka who, in laughing and awkward remembrance, explained how they would slash their fingers across their throats at Jewish people arriving in cattle cars to “warn them about their fate.” This was in the early period of the Holocaust, before the mechanized, mass exterminations of Auschwitz.

Also in Shoah, several Polish women and men in villages outside of Sobibor (who smilingly explain that their lot in life improved after the local Jews were rounded up and transported to the death camp) acknowledged that yes, at the time, they knew of the fate of their neighbors. They knew they were going to their death and would not be returning. Which is the only way we can explain how quickly Jewish homes and businesses were taken over by their neighbors and city councils.

Like. I’m neck deep in Holocaust testimonials lately and keep knocking my head against this specific Holocaust myth and I feel horrified that it continues and people keep fucking saying it with little introspection on why the narrative is so attractive to them.

[kaiisens-deactivated20210811]

oh no im late for zoom class (◯Δ◯∥) *trips and falls and mmy fat fucking tits break my laptop in half* kyaaaaa!!!! (*≧∀≦*)

[ace-of-clovers]

[wonderingwomb]

Nuestra Señora de la Vergüenza - Our Holy Lady of Shame

I think I never posted the full illustration, only a photo of it made into stickers, so here it is. Watercolor.

You can get this (and other illustrations) as a sticker on my Redbubble!

[bunnymallows]

I also made MoonKitty backgrounds/patterns ! :) More patterns HERE

[fan-troll]

this pepper is way too small

[direhuman]

can you please put a little blanket or a tiny sweater on him

[direhuman]

because he’s a little chili

[lochnessie]

Can we as millennials and gen-z’s collectively agree that NObody Cares about elbows on the table like Why was that Ever A Problem for Anyone?? We can chill right?

[hollowtones]

FUCK!! MY TOP 10 LIST!!!!!!

Number 2 is trees. Number eight is some so old cardboard. Have a wonderful day.

[hollowtones]

usually i find them in the sky or at the park.

[girlbosshermione]

I’ve been misgendered plenty of times and I’ve never assaulted someone over it 🤷‍♀️

[bedhed]

[anthonybourdainpartsunknown]

[scornpios]

Libertarians are probably in nirvana right now

[bomberqueen17]

OK BUT THE THREAD??? Tumblr this is what kills me, you screenshot an amazing Tweet but don’t link to the source or UNROLL THE THREAD! So then I have to go read Twitter myself and lose my entire goddamn mind. Anyway!

here’s the OP and here’s the followup: 

There was another amazing thread on how fucked the Domino’s pothole-filling squad was, but this was from the same poster so it was easy to find. The other thread was about the concept of “prevailing wage” and how Domino’s was surely paying their workers minimum, meaning the job wasn’t going to skilled tradesmen and is further aiding the slippage of the former middle classes into poverty, but now I can’t find it. Anyway! There’s some underpinnings for that punchline.

[eroscestlavie]

I think so much of the like… “i’m Lesbian/Gay And Forever Alone” type blogging that irks me so much on tumblr would go away & the general climate would be healthier if some of these people just admitted they were in the closet. like tbh I haven’t seen the word “closeted” used on tumblr in YEARS and that’s weird to me, because while being out on social media and therefore to yourself is certainly a step, I think so many of the posts that are like “ahh im a scared lesbian i just never talk to girls irl!!” have this unnecessary tone of anxiety to them because if the OP makes post after post about that it becomes pretty clear they are just…Not in a place to be on the gay dating scene yet. 

and that’s OKAY! is the thing! that’s a normal phase in the development of a gay person’s life! but it’s not a FUN part and it DOES require you making an effort to come out and I think somewhere we’ve lost that truth that coming out is more than just identifying somewhere online or even telling people that you’re gay. it involves BEING out and living an open life that involves gay love! and if you feel you can’t do that yet, it’s uhhh. it’s not because gay dating is inherently, like, harder in terms of social interactions being more difficult than straight dating or because lesbians are Scary in General. it’s probably scary to you because you’re not all the way out yet. and I feel like if people could just admit that it’d be easier to give themselves a break so we don’t get lesbian text posts that seem about a hop skip & jump away from some like weird incel “where is my gf ): im forever alone ): can’t talk to wamen…that requires going outside!” bullshit 

[ilytz-deactivated20180723]

hey wanna know why a lot of gay people hate being called queer

this is why. good night

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

i feel like KH3 having a frozen world was such a predictable announcement that it’s like if they’d devoted a whole trailer to the fact that there are keyblades in the game

[areyouorhaveyoueverbeen]

Libfems are always celebrating those women’s bathrooms in restaurants etc that have posters with code words if your date’s a creep and you need to get out. So it’s recognised that women use the women’s bathroom to hide from men… yet they’re advocating for letting anyone in the bathroom because you’re not allowed to ask a person’s gender identity. A man can literally just walk in and no one can say anything because he might identify as a woman. I don’t know how to get this through their heads lmao.

[charmed-introvert-deactivated20]

Libfems are walking oxymorons

[totallyradicalblog-blog]

I just reblogged this without commentary but thought I should add this: trans women often for their inclusion in women’s spaces by saying they fear male violence in the men’s room. Now even if the person is “genuinely” Trans, by opening up the Women’s room to anyone who says the identify as a woman, it thereby means that even if these trans women can now enter the space, the men they were trying to escape from can too. They’re no safer. Only difference is now cis women aren’t safe either. I mean short of having a mind reader security guard there’s no way you can screen people’s intentions before going in, but everytime women express fear over this they’re pretty much denounced as hysterical, never mind the long list of women who have been attacked by men in women’s bathrooms. (I’m on mobile so I can’t include links but there is a masterpost on here so search it) Everytime one of these cases crops up they are either conveniently ignored or denounced as “not really trans” but in the same breath they will say that no one has the right to question anyone’s gender.

I’m really sorry this was downright convoluted and incomprehensible I’m so tired

[jadenvargen]

i made this for twitter ages ago but i never uploaded it here rip

[inactivemcgee]

@dougalmcguires

[gothicprep]

are you gonna pick those penne noodles out of the boiling water one by one like a man, or are you gonna use a strainer like some kind of democrat?