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had this vision of Batman full-naming his kids, but he has to preserve the secret identities
this is how you get bat-approval btw
by popular demand, here's the others
i started drawing this right after posting, but people in the notes have been brainstorming some amazing name ideas too lmao
Afternoon nap
Everything is cake!
āWhat a weird way to cut a gross squishy watermelon. Oh, itās cake, cooo-aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!ā
Shazam definitely has a verified twitter account & it's one of the more popular official superhero twitter accounts bcos Billy just posts whatever the fuck he wants
[image ID: a fake twitter thread by Shazamā”ļø@/ChampionOfMagic. He has a blue checkmark by his name and his profile picture is Shazam from the shoulders up. He is blowing bubblegum and on his phone (like in the movie promo posters). His first two tweets are posted jun 1. The first one reads: "Ever have one of those days where you just feel like tweeting out the Batman's secret identity and then turning off your phone" and the second one reads: "Superman just dmed me like 'delete this immediately' š anyway 1 mil likes and i do it let's get this show on the road people". The two tweets have 70.6K and 159.1K likes respectively.
The next seven tweets were all posted on Jun 2. Shazam tweets: "Batman making threats against my bluecheck in the League meeting this morning...smh" / amber @/no1SupergirlFan replied "Batman can get people unverified on twitter??? š®š®" / Shazam responds with "Yeah he can just do that".
The first one is by Shazam and it reads: "we're at 900K!! let's keep the ball rolling people" / batman > superman @/terranceG responds and asks: "what did he do to you to get his shit wrecked like this š" / Shazam replies "ate my poptarts" / wonder woman marry me challenge @/blogic responds to Shazam saying: "don't do the batman like this he's not on twitter he can't defend himself š" / Shazam replies "should have thought of that before he ate my poptarts"
The final 3 tweets were posted on Jun 3. Shazam says "thanks for all the likes guys. me & the Bat had a good talk this morning and he's gonna buy me another box of poptarts so i will no longer be ruining his life. peace & love." / the butts match @/vincent55 replied: "sorry im still stuck on the JL all sharing a kitchen" / Shazam responded "we don't" then "he broke into my house". /end image ID]
thank you for the transcription! <3
for all the people asking 'why would Bruce Wayne break into someone's house and steal poptarts, he's a billionaire': he did not break into Billy's house, Billy is just a lying little shit (he did eat the poptarts tho)
When you turn 18, your greatest skill is multiplied by 10. Amazing driver? Now youāre practically invincible in a car. Expert bow shot? You can angle your shots down to the millimeter. No one expects your skill.
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i noticed my burnout comic was making rounds but the full comic is no longer available after the collegehumor website went offlineā¦. so here it is!!!
i wrote/drew this back in 2018 when i was struggling w hella burnout and depression. i hope everyone is taking care of themselves :3
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THE SEA-THEMED ONES.
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Know what Iām salty about?
In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.
Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.
Iām 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.
tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.
WAIT INDIA INK JS WATERPROOF ONCE IT DRIES????? THE ENTIRE REASON IVE AVOIDED MARKERS MY ENTIRE LIFE IS BECAUSE JNK BLEEDS AND YOURE TELLING ME INDIA INK IS
F U C K I N G W A T E R P R O O F
yall calligraphers out there this is extremely fuckin important if u wanna get into illumination shenanigans because i swear to you there will b discoveries like these^
heres some of mine, pls take with a grain of salt im a total gotdamn amateur:
a lot of the time, the ability for colored ink to bleed will vary wildly WITHIN A SINGLE BRAND OF COLORED INKS. my cobalts bleed like fucking CRAZY compared to my reds, which, when u reference manuscripts that tend to put white ink ON TOP of either red or blueā¦ you see where shit gets real and real annoying.Ā
u can buy an aeresol, fully transparent workable sealant for like 5-10 dollars at your local art store. when i realize a piece ive been working on needs a color on TOP of a bleed happy ink, i give it a layer of this stuff. trouble is it CAN warp the paper so its important as soon as it dries to use heavy things (paperweights, books) to counteract the paper curling.
ink solvent, like koh i noorās rapido-eeze, is only compatible with SOME inks, but will work on most acrylics. If you happen to be working with sturdy vellum that you have pre-sealed, it can be possible to literally use ink solvent to wipe away your calligraphy mistake like a goddamn bounty commercial
Shit I Learned Working At Dick Blick:Ā
WD40, found at your local hardware store, will remove Sharpie marker from almost any hard surface.Ā
Ā Acrylic inks will show brush strokes in large areas but are waterproof and quick-drying.Ā
Ā Acrylic gouache is vivid, fluid, dried matte, is UTTERLY opaque on black paper, handles exactly like watercolor, and is waterproof.Ā
Putting an oil painting in the sun will turn the yellowed portions back to their original white and wont hurt the painting.Ā
Ā Cheap acrylic paintings will bleach out if left in the sun - get UV protectant spray or varnish. Nicer acrylic paints are less prone to sun bleaching, but they still do. Plan accordingly. Oil paints are much less prone to this.Ā
Solvent-based markers blend together MUSH MORE SMOOTHLY than alcohol-based markers.Ā
There is an acrylic paint medium for literally every effect you can conceivably think of (fabric paint medium, gloss medium, fluid medium, sand medium, fast-dying/slow-drying medium, etc.).Ā
Ā If youāre going to buy student-grade paint to save cash, buy earth-tones (burnt sienna, ochre, etc.); they are made with cheap pigments already, and you wont tell a difference. You WILL tell a difference between student-grade and artist-grade bright colors (all yellows, blues, and reds).Ā
If youāre working with markers but arenāt using marker paper, you need to switch. Markers donāt blend on printer paper, they just layer (even expensive markers).Ā
If you want a glass palette for paint mixing but donāt want to shell out the cash, buy a giant picture frame at Goodwill, take the glass out, and electrical tape it to a piece of foam board the same size for stability.Ā
Ā Hog bristle brushes are for oil paint, sable brushes are for watercolor, and synthetic brushes are for acrylic and oil (but not watercolor because synthetic bristles canāt absorb water).Ā
Ā If youāre going to splurge on any aspect of your creation, splurge on the paper. Get the good stuff - crappy markers/paint/pencils look good on good paper, but not the other way around.Ā (There is more, but these are the big ticket items)
Some more, also from working at Dick Blick:
- Palette knives are for mixing paint and TRUST ME you want to learn how to use them. When you mix with your brush you loose paint and itās hard in your brushes.
- DO NOT FIX YOUR ARTWORK WITH HAIRSPRAY. If youāre proud of your work and want to keep it, buy the actual spray fix. Hairspray is not archival in the slightest and will damage your work.
- On top of that, be careful how you store your work. Newsprint is handy and cheap, but also not acid-free and it will yellow your paper. Foamboard? Matboard? Also not always acid-free (but you can get them acid-free).
- There is no food-safe paint. Period. There are lots of ways you can decorate pottery that arenāt glazes, but only glazes are food safe (and even some of those arenāt).
- Also not food safe: Polymer clay (sculpey), air dry clay, oil-based clay, ceramics that have not been glaze fired, oil pastels, sharpie, glues of any kind, or mod podge (even the ādishwasher safeā kind).
- Donāt even get me started on mod podge. Itās not consistent. Itās not archival. Itās not a sealant, itās a glue (setting aside some of the weird hyper-specific ones they make that Iāve literally never seen in real life).
- If your glue isnāt archival or at least acid-free, donāt use it in your artwork.
- There are so many different kinds of paper out there, just go try them. But also make sure you know if itās acid-free or not (it probably is).
- Marker paper is usually 15 to 20 lbs. News print is usually 30 to 35 lbs. Tracing paper is usually 25 lbs. Rice paper can range from 20 to 50 lbs. Printer paper is 20 lbs. Vellum paper is usually 48 to 55 lbs. Sketchbook paper is usually 50 to 60 lbs. Drawing paper is usually 70 to 80 lbs. Cardstock can range from 50 to 110 lbs. Charcoal paper is usually 50 to 65 lbs. Pastel paper can range from 70 lbs to board. Bristol paper can range from 50 lbs to board. Mixed media paper can range from 90 to 140 lbs. Printmaking paper can range from lbs 90 to 300 lbs. Watercolor paper can range from 90 to 500 lbs.
- The heavier and rougher the paper is, the more it will absorb. If youāre using a paper too smooth for your medium it will take forever to dry and may smudge. If youāre using a paper too light for your medium, it will warp and curl.
- If youāre working heavily with water, you need to stretch your paper (aka seal down your edges of the paper to a hard, water resistant surface). If you donāt like doing that because itās a hassle, buy a watercolor block instead of a pad/individual peices.
- If youāre working on a thicker paper, and make a mistake that your canāt erase or cover- you can scrape and/or cut it out! With a really sharp exacto knife, you can very CAREFULLY remove the top layer of paper fibers on most paper.
- DO NOT USE ACRYLIC AS BODY PAINT. Itās plastic.
- If you paint with oil, buy a silicoil jar. Itās the best $10 youāve ever spent.
- Acrylic paint is basically water-based plastic. It will basically fuse with anything plastic (like a plastic palette), and will not stick to anything oil-based.
- Acrylic paint and house paint are not the same thing and you cannot mix them together. Acrylic paint is made from a water-based acrylic polymer, and house paint is almost always latex and can come both water-soluable and not.
For those of you that are wondering, please have one of the fiest pieces of radio comedy ever:
the first time i watched this i laughed so hard i nearly puked
THIRD BASE
Since I was 8 and found out about this for the first time my family has always followed up on someone saying āI donāt know,ā with shouting āTHIRD BASEā
That animatronic video is great for people who may not be as familiar with the game of baseball, too. The different positions, and such.
That this would be a great five-minute fandom for people who like baseball RPF but without the R.
good things will happenĀ š§æ
things that are meant to be will fall into placeĀ š§æ
THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.
this for real fucking works
when did tumblr collectively decide not to use punctuation like when did this happen why is this a thing
it just looks so smooth I mean look at this sentence flow like a jungle river
ACTUALLY
This is really exciting, linguistically speaking.
Because itās not true that Tumblr never uses punctuation. But it is true that lack of punctuation has become, itself, a form of punctuation. On Tumblr the lack of punctuation in multisentence-long posts creates the function of rhetorical speech, or speech that is not intended to have an answer, usually in the form of a question. Consider the following two potential posts. Each individual line should be taken as a post:
ugh is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know theyāre not going to use like god put that back we have to pay for that stuff
Ugh. Is there any particular reason people at work have to take these massive handfuls of sauce packets they know theyāre not going to use? Like god, put that back. We have to pay for that stuff.
In your head, those two potential posts sound totally different. In the first one Iām ranting about work, and this requires no answer. The second may actually engage you to give an answer about hoarding sauce packets. And if you answer the first post, you will likely do so in the same style.Ā
Hereās what makes this exciting: the English language has no actual punctuation for rhetorical speechāthat is, there are no special marks that specifically indicate āthis speech is in the abstract, and requires no answer.ā Not only that, it never has. The first written record of English (actually proto-English, predating even Old English) dates to the 400s CE, so weāre talking about 1600 years of having absolutely no marker whatsoever for rhetorical speech.
A group of teens and young adults on a blogging website literally reshaped a deficit a millennium and a half old in our language to fit their language needs. More! This group has agreed on a more or less universal standard for these new rules, which fits the definition of ālanguage.ā Which is to say Tumblr English is its own actual, real, separate dialect of the English language, and because it is spoken by people worldwide who have introduced concepts from their own languages into it, it may qualify as a written form of pidgin.Ā
Tumblr English should literally be treated as its own language, because it does not follow the rules of any form of formal written English, and yet it does have its own consistent internal rules. If you donāt think thatās cool as fuck then I donāt even know what to tell you.
i love this post
This is super cool! Also idk if this has any relevance whatsoever but if you wanna have an argument inside one tag you cannot have commas in it so thatās a real existing constraint that has forced tumblrites to construct commaless sentences and perhaps this has helped in adopting the custom into posts as well ok I have no idea if this is whatās happened just I think itās a reasonable assumption there might be a connection
^this.
The tags are absolutely a factor. You want someone to take a breath in the middle of a sentence, you start a new tag. You want to have, as seen here, this removable piece between commas (does it have a name?) - you have 5 tags in this sentence alone. And sometimes you just
pause in the middle of a sentenceā¦
and let your voice
trail away
look at all you precious brilliant nerds nerding about language you make me so fucking happy omg
language is this constantly evolving thing tbh, it doesnāt remain the same unless itās dead and the people who used it gone so seeing the evolution of the language used on tumblr is literally so fucking amazing i want to cry with joy at it
because we also add in words from other languages, or make entirely new words up as additional terms to denote something (see ātolā and āsmolā in relation toĀ ātallā andĀ āsmallā) and this is constant. we are doing this daily without any sort of breathing space because thereās millions of us on this hellsite and we are constantly talkingĀ and so the language changes day-by-day until we have general, universal rules for what to do in a post, what to add in our tags, how to add it, why we add it, what we mean by it
weāve created a language in the same way our ancestors all did: by building on the ones that came before and changing them to suit our needs and our system
and thatās fucking awesome okay
awesome
I love this so much and language is so great and Iāve noticed the lack of punctuation thing recently, even on twitter, and used it for like a specific kind of rhetorical effect. idk itās so fun I fucking love linguistics and the evolution of language
I also loved that the following one-word responses all sound drastically different out loud and showcase different reactions:
What?
What.
what
Oh hey! This is the post that caused me to write a thesis. Yall know this post is cited in like five different academic papers that I found while researching for it? @prismatic-bell is a username I see screenshots of in academia these days. P sure theyāre in the tumblr book too. Wild.Ā
Iām sorry, I WHAT?!
I swear I felt my brain twist while I stared at this and tried to follow a particular segment.
That is SO COOL Iāve never seen one moving before!
Ohhh, three sided Mobius strip.
SEGMENTED 3D MOBIUS STRIP BABEY
ITS FREAKING MY BRAIN OUT
