pencils and paper and pondering

art and other interests side blogs below! GW2: @divinitys-bleach Sonic: @sonk-the-hedgeblog

[teaboot]

Highly unlikely to be of use but I want a card I can carry in my wallet that says “If I Die First In A Traumatic Survival Scenario I Want You To Know I’m Okay With You Cannibalizing Me, It’s Fine, Don’t Be Weird And Guilty About it”. And then on the back there could be like. A list of recipes n shit

[teaboot]

To be clear, I don’t WANT to be cannibalized. It’s not my personal preference. It’s just that if I beef it out in the open somewhere and some poor starving fuck has to have a crisis of ethics over using the protein or dying in a hole, I’d want to some way to let them know my dead ass is rooting for them

[teaboot]

New Hot Take: I Think An Organ Donor Card Counts In A Pinch, Actually

[tyquu]

Sorry, I know I’m usually the Star Wars guy … but I’ve started watching DS9

[the-emdash]

DS9 my beloved!

[i-am-a-fish]

fuck, I just realized that if I spend my life being too intimidated to make art then that means I don't even get to make bad art. I end up making NO art. that's way worse

[darksilversoul]

Ready for winter!

[sakrafka]

sketchbook page of pine martens

[the-punforgiven]

You say something really weird to the headless horseman and in response he just stares at you fully maintaining eye contact as he grabs a second pumpkin out of one of his saddlebags and carves a confused/mildly offended face onto it and then replaces the first pumpkin head that's been staring at you the whole time with it

[mayra-quijotescx]

I got inspired

[raychleadele]

So there’s this artist, Alex Schaefer, who makes a bunch of paintings of Chase Bank burning.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.

And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.

[a-garibaldi-is-a-fish]

an addition from his insta:

[cyle]

perfect t-shirt

[the-emdash]

HIS SHIRT

[importantcatpics]

[tenthfloorghostgirl]

[uni416]

...There I was, veritably myself again.

[uni416]

This life is a F*CKING NIGHTMARE

[incorrectskyrimquotes]

I love everything about this. 

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[juniepops]

Frog Emoji Review

8/10 - A well-executed frog. His realistic details are appealing without clashing with his cartoonish qualities. Apple’s style of shading leaves something to be desired.

3/10 - This frog cannot be trusted. His wide grin and glaring eyes make him look unhinged. His bright red tongue clashes with his muddy skin and his human teeth are awful to consider. He earns a point for the outline, however.

9/10 - A very cute frog! His colors work nicely together. The thick black outline is sure to make him stand out. Microsoft tends to make their emojis geometric, and that makes this frog look slightly robotic, but not enough to detract from his appeal.

5/10 - Samsung takes the same approach as Google, to only moderately more success. The eye shine and lack of teeth make this frog much more friendly than Google’s, but the lemon lime skin looks bad, and the smaller eyes seem off in some way.

4/10 - This frog is trying his best – just look at that kind smile! – but the unusual shading around his edge and the lighter patch in the middle of his face just look strange.

9/10 - You can tell from his smile that this frog has never had a bad day in his life. His flat colors are far more appealing than the bad shading of some other frogs, and the border matching his smile is a good touch. The only thing keeping him from being flawless is his large soulless pitch black eyes.

10/10 - The frog factor is off the charts on this frog. He looks both realistic and cartoony, and pulls it off better than Apple. His horizontal pupils are a risk that pays off fully and his blep is like a cherry on top of this perfect frog.

7/10 - This frog shares many high points with Facebook’s, but the brighter green isn’t a good look. He shines in weird places and he’s clearly up to something. He earns a point for looking like that angry Kermit face.

6/10 - Oh dear. Twitter fell into the same pit as Google and made their frog’s eyes too large and too round, making him look shell-shocked. Barring that, though, his colors and shape work well and make him a perfectly passable frog.

8/10 - The bright green is this frog’s biggest downfall, but his shape is appealing. His perfectly black eyes are smaller than HTC’s and look better for it. This is a frog you can trust.

7/10 - EmojiOne’s frog looks like if Messenger’s frog realized you were looking at him and tried to pretend he wasn’t doing anything suspicious. His colors and proportions look nice, but his eyes are looking in opposite directions and his smile is aggressive and uncomfortable.

4/10 - The blush stickers on this frog feel like a lazy attempt to make an otherwise mediocre frog more appealing. The mouth having its own outline is also a weird choice, and the pie chart eyes fail to have the same effect as proper shading or coloring. This is definitely a frog, and that’s all that can be said about it.

[wolfvalkyrie-blog]

@frogsuggest here is your frog offering O Mighty Swamp God 

[frogsuggest]

the true face of frog is

frog

[cantanopeshitthatwastaken]

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

[thatgiraffebutt]

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

[literallyaflame]

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”

[madd-catter]

Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.

[gen-is-gone]

this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”

(note the dates)

[anarchistmemedistro]

this post aged like an ice cube in an oven

[deathcomes4u]

worst part is! IT’S STILL HAPPENING! SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES ARE STILL LIKE THIS!!! THEY LEARNED NOTHING!!!!!!!

[mod2amaryllis]

[thotsoflore]

Literally looking like the kind of note you find in a post apocalyptic horror game jesus

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[targetedknowledge]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

How to disable Copilot in Windows 11

Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11

You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.

[wholesome-animal-images]

[chikooritajjk]

oh dear.

[the-emdash]

oh— oh deer.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

I love it when headlines get cut off

[jazzy-mint-219]

[happinessasthebaddest]

💙🩰

[everlastingrandom]

Misty Copeland is the first African American woman to be promoted to a principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre’s 75-year history.

Growing up, she had to learn how to “pancake” her own shoes because the nude ones were never made to match brown skin, and shoes were expected to elongate the look of the leg. There are now shoes made in a variety of skin tones.