Just a drifting viewer...

You'd think that after 22 years I would have gotten used to waking up.

[dimetrodone]

I like the classification of “Hard vs Soft magic systems” in fantasy only because I can say that Game of Thrones has softer magic system then Fairly Odd Parents

[grundlegitch]

GoT magic: plot armor, special effects fiasco

Fairly Odd Parents magic: has consequences, is limited in power and the time in which it is available to a given non-magical creature, is utterly neutral and entirely dependent on the wishes of the user

[feitanswife]

What I love about the FOP magic system most is you don’t get to know the rules before using it though. You don’t get to figure out what you can’t do until you try to do it and some buff dude with wings shows up and yells at you for trying to do it.

…and then you re-word your request and somehow do it anyway and they have to re-edit the book again cause the hubris of mistreated 10-year-olds knows no bounds.

[justeraaron]

[officialfist]

I’m here for this. I’m here for supportive anime Dad and heavy metal son.

[thenylesfiles]

Same energy

[artbyshinji]

It’s my birthday! So I decided to draw one of my favorite characters which also have a personality really close to mine haha: Oreki from Hyouka

[funnytwittertweets]

[nevertheless-moving]

same energy as that buffy episode where the big bad ‘can’t be hurt by any weapon forged’ and she’s like ‘it’s been a 500 years are you sure’ and annihilates it with a fuckin M136 rocket launcher

[jewishevelinebaker]

Its always "why is this mom selling her daughter" and never "why is one direction buying a person" smh

[snorkelinginabathtub]

We are the daughters of the girls you couldn't sell to one direction

[jannaphia]

I’m deep in the 19th century art hole and every time I think I’ve seen them all I find another painting that makes me go !!!!

[appeltaart27]

?? you cant just say this and then not share the painting in question!!

[jannaphia]

you are absolutely right!!

Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1887 - Captives

Honestly where do I start? The movement? The composition? The lighting?

Look how much more it seems like she's leaning forward because the tree and the man curve away and around her? Like Tantalos who reached for fruit but the tree would bend away from him? That's what this feels like. And then there are these other two, pulling her away into the opposite direction. So there's a lot of movement! But what makes it even better is how he still stabilized the image with a lot of hidden vertical lines!

Also the contrasts? Fantastic! Like the one between the metal of his armor and her flowly dress or her light face vs the other faces kept in darkness or the light foreground vs the dark background,...

Also the edges are amazing! Everyone tells you corners are not important but here? Wrong! Her foot is like an anchor that stop the eye from falling out of the image so it's a lot more rendered than the flower petals.

And don't even get me started on the rendering...

Ok I'll stop here tl;dr: BEAUTIFUL 10/10

[jannaphia]

you know what I'm not done, I found something else:

The reason why it doesn't look like they're senselessly pulling at her? Because the action is actually built up like a spiral, whoa! There's a lot going on behind her back, but because of the spiral your eyes don't linger there and instead are lead towards her body and then towards her head.

It's not just the spiral, though, there's another line of movement hidden in those hands:

And not only that, they're grouped together in the shape of a pentagon! Simple shapes are easy to recognize, so it tells your eye where to go immediately.

who gave you the right

[jannaphia]

I'm very sorry to single you out like this, but as an artist myself I feel like saying they did 'for fun' diminishes the incredible work and foresight that goes into creating a great composition.

Some of it might be intuition, yes, but back then most artists didn't have the luxury to paint things on a whim. Oil paint is expensive and was even more so in the past. The paint tube was only invented in 1840 and painters still mixed their own paint for decades after. Many pigments weren't readily available either. What I'm saying is, painting something big like this was an undertaking, not a fun project you could kick in the bucket if it didn't work out.

If you want to get more info I can only recommend reading Harold Speed's "The Practice and Science of Drawing"! The book came out in 1913, a time when some of these painters were still alive and it's truly fascinating! Especially the chapter where he breaks down "The Surrender of Breda" by Velasquez opened my eyes to a lot of things.

Anyways, I'll just leave you with this:

"Every line must be a conscious decision to further your design." - Steve Houston

[sometimesiwrite]

Do not mistake the application of embodied knowledge and technique as “coincidence”. Even something as simple-seeming as intuition is fed, fuelled, and honed by thousands of hours of practice, mistakes, and the lifelong never-ending cycle of learning-questioning-relearning. Furthermore, just because some artists are more articulate about the intentionality of their processes does not mean that the artists who say “I don’t know how I managed to do that” are just randomly doing stuff. It all depends on the artist’s relationship to their nervous system, and whether or not their creativity lives in a verbal space. Flow state, generally-speaking, is not a verbal physiological state. 

[birf]

Oh to be laying face down in a pool rn pretending to be dead

[mishalnr]

why did my last two braincells had to be a sad one and a stupid one

[dawnblade]

i just learned from animal crossing that pondskaters stay on top of the water by secreting an oil from their feet

that seems kinda obvious in hindsight. i always figured they were just, like, light enough to not break surface tension

[undeadnecromancer]

They do it by using fucked up and evil magic and they hate god

[tomorroejones-deactivated202209]

[thesassyducks]

These ten ducklings were found orphaned and they were brought to a pet duck called Stella who had just hatched nine of her own two weeks prior. She immediately claimed the ten as her own. 

via @thesassyducks​ instagram

(Source)

[kindness-and-sunshine]

she released those babies like a ramen flavour packet

[kelssiel]

love how stella swims over like “oh shit i must’ve misplaced these ten whole babies!”

[azzandra]

Love how the li’l ramen flavor packets swim over like ‘oh shit that must be mom, she’s mom-shaped’

[lurlur]

[flipocrite]

found-family speedrun

[synthient]

If Pegasus had won, would Bakura and Dartz have just, like, killed him and had a fistfight over his body for Atem's soul card

[guccixcucci]

People are complaining that certain places are gonna start requiring a covid vaccine as if this is the first ever "mandatory" (not even) vaccine. You received like 6 vaccines when you were a baby and a couple more as you got older. Countries have been requiring yellow fever vaccines. Most schools you need certain vaccines to attend this isn't new. Immunization cards are not a new concept

[ultrafacts]

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[spacedyke]

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[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Day 51:  They have accepted me as their leader & still do not know that i am a robot.

[foulserpent]

literally nothing more uncomfortable than straight couples in public doing that thing where the man is doing something disgusting/rude/actively cruel and the woman is going like “stoppp.... seriously derek stopppp” which only causes the dude to escalate his behaviors. like ma’am you need to kill him i think

[vykodlak]

I’m pretty sure that as far as “infuriating helmets you’d hate to see before you get stabbed” go, this one is definitely up there

[mousedoodlesss]

don’t try to power through a dungeon in one (in-game) day

[tonystank]

hard same