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The FDA has again expanded an ongoing recall of shrimp that could have radioactive contamination.
EDIT: THIS IS FROM DECEMBER 2025.
I DO NOT KNOW THE STATUS OF RADIOACTIVITY AND SHRIMP AND THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE TWO AND ANY OTHER TIME EXCEPT FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER IN THE YEAR 2025
UPDATE: it happened again ( February 20 2026)
The shrimp were exposed during manufacturing.
Pencil/2D Animation Resources Masterpost
5/10/24:
Hello, I broke into my old account so I could make a little masterpost of resources I come across for learning pencil/2D animation. (Free or affordable classes, places to get tools, videos to give insider insight, etc.) I may not be able to get everything included, so if you think of something, you can reach out and suggest things to add! I will be updating this over time, with notes on when it was last recently updated. And maybe I'll end up giving the old blog a refresh too. I likely won't be making new masterposts outside of this one any time soon, nor updating any old ones. It's been SEVERAL years, and the internet is a different place. I would assume most of the old links are out of date by now, unfortunately. I hope that this list is helpful to you as well, and if I'm incorrect in anything I list, I'm learning too! So please be patient with me and feel free to reach out with a correction. It's not finished yet, but Tumblr deletes my posts before I finish them, so I'm starting with posting the skeleton and slowly updating this)
Find a Community to Learn From!
(recommended groups to lurk/join/make connections and ask questions)
What Tools Do I Need?
PDF Guide to Animation Desks, as written by David Nethry
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Where Do I Get Tools?
(Places where you can buy art supplies, software, etc)
Cartoon Supplies
(Online seller who carries Ingram Bond paper, lightboxes, storyboard pads, blank cels, etc. See also: Lightfoot LTD, which is identical in every way to Cartoon Supplies and for the life of me I'm not sure the difference, though both are equally recommended along side each other.)
Jet Pens
(Ah... I love window-shopping this site. If you love stationary like I do, you'll be on this site for hours adding things to your cart... and inevitably removing them because it's not feasible to spend hundreds on pens and sticky-note pads.)
Dickblick
(I've found they have good prices on name brands, but I haven't purchased from them yet. Often, I'm too overwhelmed by all the choices.)
Improve Your Art/Learn the Basics!
(anatomy classes, starter tools, etc)
Aaron Blaise (Co-Director of Brother Bear)'s Online Classes
He runs very good deals on the classes occasional, but you can also do a year's access to all classes and keep what you download, which is very useful! They're short, quick lessons, and tend to veer into more "helpful tips" than teaching, from what I've personally noticed, but it's well worth the price if you get them at a good deal!
Inside Look at the Industry -- aka: the Special Features:
(behind the scenes stuff, etc)
Books are more useful than you might think!
(Richard Williams Animator's Survival Toolkit, etc) (check out gently used copies of these books on Thriftbooks for a good deal!)
Nifty Free Resources
(Things like height charts, references, color wheels, blog posts, videos, etc)
What Artists Can Learn From Aladdin's Incredible Color by J. Holt [VIDEO]
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The Art of Color Theory: Guide for Animators, Designers, and Artists (Animator Artist Life)
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Free software!
GIMP
(A classic, GIMP is an old friend of mine. The first software I downloaded for art, I used to use it almost entirely to create animated GIFs for the Warrior Cat forums. Ah, how time has passed. Nowadays I can't even remember how to animate a GIF on there, but such is life. I still use it to this day for digital art, even having Corel Painter. Before GIMP, I animated the old fashioned way -- MS paint and Windows Movie Maker. With determination, I scripted and animated a handful of Warrior Cat characters frame by frame. Each frame of Hollyleaf or whoever it was blinking was the likely source of death for our old computer, may she rest in peace.)
Storyboarder
(Storyboarder is a free software with which you can use to create professional and clean storyboards. It also provides printable storyboard templates so you can do you work traditionally and re-upload it easily into the software! It also works with Wacom tablets. Check it out! It's actually super cool.)
Pencil 2D
(A free, open source software. Simplistic design, switch between raster and vector, and best of all, again, it's free. I haven't used this one much yet, but I've seen it positively talked about by many! I'll update with more research when I have the chance.)
Krita
(I haven't used this one yet, so I can't speak on it either! But it's going on the list so I can come back and research it later. My poor laptop is not going to handle this many downloads lol.)
OpenToonz
(I also haven't tried this, but see above, haha.)
Blender - Grease Pencil
(Blender is well known for 3D animation, but they added a 2D feature called Grease Pencil as well.)
WriterDuet
(Free for up to 3 projects, very simple, but upgrades to a $10 a month plan, which is... eh, I'll keep my Scrivener for now. I used to write scripts in Microsoft Word or the Notepad on PC back in the day, I don't think I personally need the fancy features.)
Trelby
(A free screenwriting software, very basic and simple, good for beginners.)
Keep an eye out for
(Humblebundle occasionally does software deals -- a good art bundle at a discount can give you an easy start!)
I drew a bunch of silly stuff with my werewolf woman and decided to gather it one post. Updated it with even more art and a little animation! Sometimes you just have to decompress through being goofy 🐺 You can read about her here --- If you like my art, consider joining my Patreon, it's even cooler there: https://www.patreon.com/c/ndc1992
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These comics are just some silliness I drew for fun. It's not really canon, she lives in a separate setting (not our world) and isn't able to talk as a werewolf. Her original story is also pretty rough and tragic.
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Pumpkin carving comic was a reward I drew for my patron Taxis; Beach comic was a reward I drew for my patron Shroom; The Gordon Ramsay art is a result of a silly Patreon discussion x)
Watched Ernst Lubistch's I Don't Want to Be a Man yesterday for a class. 1910s transmasc yaoi goes fucking crazy.
Tomboyish girl hates acting feminine and family brings in a male doctor to "break her down" and teach her manners. Out of spite, she buys a suit and crossdresses as a dapper boy to sneak into a party. Immediately gets flirted with and chased by a literal crowd of girls. Runs into the doctor and decides to try and seduce his girlfriend for revenge. While she and the doctor are fighting (doctor thinks she's a boy), they realize his girlfriend's already gone and they get drunk. They start kissing and making out and fall in love (doctor still thinks she's a boy). They accidentally run into each other the morning after and flirtatiously promise not to talk about yesterday's "adventure." Later, the girl reveals she was the boy and teasingly tells the doctor that she'll "break him down." Instead of getting angry, the doctor smiles, knowing he got his ass handed to him, and they kiss again.
Do you guys think anyone fujoshi'd out in 1918.
Did you MIDST us?
Oh hello! Long time no see, or hear as the case may be. Speaking of which, did you hear an all-new season is hurtling towards us like a certain falling moon this Wednesday on YouTube and your favorite podcast apps? Naturally we had to return to the place the tangled tales of our crotchety outlaw, freakishly virtuous cultist, and diabolical basta-, er, businessman began to celebrate… Right here on Tumblr!
To ring in the final season, join us right here TOMORROW, Feb 13th, for a special behind the scenes AMA with the series creators, Third Person! Join 🔮Sara, 🎷Xen, and Matt 📜 all day long as they answer your burning questions submitted right here on our ask page.
There’s plenty in store this season and beyond - so be sure to follow and check back for updates, and join us over at Midst.co where you can find behind the scenes extras, be the first to hear new episodes, and view in world appendices that expand the story of our doomed spinning sphere. Now, let’s blow the dust off this old blog and rev our submersible engines for an all new journey into MIDST!
what is Midst about?
Oh, this is a QUESTION.
Midst is space fantasy New Weird about three people whose lives are disrupted when The Trust, a society based around quantifying the value of good and bad deeds, takes interest in the planet-like islet of Midst.
Midst is about how the moon will explode and the government will spend more time talking about how bad this is for the economy than organizing disaster relief.
Midst is about what happens if The Good Place point system was an economic policy.
Midst is about a cult expanding its sphere of influence and its attempts to maintain hold on a cast of new converts, increasingly disillusioned devotees, and escaped apostates.
Midst is about the mechanics of blame, guilt, fault, accountability, and culpability and how emphasizing sole individual responsibility (for good and bad) deflects from the role of institutions, structures, environments, cycles, and ideologies in perpetuating harm.
Midst is about trying to balance the metaphorical books by making them very much not-metaphorical and how understanding that you can never (figuratively) zero out in reality shapes the way different people face or run from what they've done, hope for redemption and absolution (or not), and relate to themselves and others.
Midst is about taking the phrase capitalism as religion literally.
Midst is about a murder case in a frontier town that swiftly escalates into a major public scandal that reaches into the highest ranks of the federal capital and threatens to destabilize its most prominent institutions.
I promise none of these are exaggerations in the slightest.
They're everything to me
What is the best part of this image?
the cross-species fucking
choosing a tiger of all things an animal infamous for its 15-second-long coitus
the ghost of Albert Einstein watching approvingly from the skies like Mufasa
“NO BONE ROT!”, implying that other gas station dick pills do cause bone rot
dick pills solemly swear to increase your IQ and spatial awareness
implication that Increased Deductive Reasoning is a highly desired sex squality
encourages minors to ask their parents permission to consume drugs
the combination of all of the above
This may sound mean, but...
If you send me an ask containing links to Good Omens fan fiction you think I should read, I'll delete it. Do it again and I'll (regretfully) block you. This is a general blanket sort of thing -- I don't want to read it, legally I can't read it, no I won't make it into the next series, and, no matter how pure your motives, it's crossing a line.
I’m reading a lot of baffled responses to this. People, I’m showrunning and co-writing the Good Omens TV series. I can’t legally read unsolicited plot ideas. Think of Netflix. Their terms of service include
8.2. Unsolicited Materials. Netflix does not accept unsolicited materials or ideas for Netflix content and is not responsible for the similarity of any of its content or programming in any media to materials or ideas transmitted to Netflix.
…and you’ll find similar clauses out there for other production entities. They are trying to safeguard themselves. There are people out there who are certain that a hit film or TV series is based on their stolen idea. The easiest way to avoid that is to make sure that their ideas can’t get to you.
It’s nothing to do with not approving of what you do. It’s about not putting me, the producers, the BBC or Prime Video at risk — or about having to throw away plans for the future because someone did that in fanfiction first. I can’t legally read unsolicited scripts or story proposals or manuscripts and sending me a link to your or someone else’s Good Omens fiction counts as those things. If I read your story and then did something close to it you could sue. So I’m not going to read it. There’s no emotional baggage in this. I’m definitely not telling you that what you are doing isn’t valid. (And If I wasn’t showrunning I wouldn’t be so Please Don’t and I Will Delete about it. But I am. So don’t. Thank you!)
Reminder that "By Any Means Necessary," one of the best episodes of Babylon 5, nearly didn't get made because some fan suggested a similar idea (a workers' strike on the space station, dealing with workers' safety and labor issues at a time when Star Trek: TNG was still on the air).
I can't remember how far along the episode was in production — I think a rough draft of the script had been written —but showrunner J. Michael Straczynski had to pull the plug on the episode until they finally tracked down the fan who'd suggested a "workers' strike" story on Usenet and get legal documents signed that the fan wouldn't sue or ask for a cut of the proceeds. AND the documents had to be watertight enough that Warner Bros' legal dept was satisfied all financial/legal risk had been eliminated. In other words, it wasn't up to JMS to make the call.
Sadly, after that, he could no longer participate in the old Babylon 5 Usenet discussion list, where he used to interact directly with fans, answering questions. It was just safer if he stayed away, because that way nobody could accuse him of lifting ideas for the show. We don't want Neil to have to pull back for the same reason.
A lot of creators avoid social media for the same reason. Those that are here @neil-gaiman , @dduane , have a hard and fast rule not to look at unasked solicitations.
And now that Babylon 5 might get a reboot, JMS has issued a similar request:
One of the most ambitious sci-fi series ever made, Babylon 5, is potentially coming back for a reboot series at The CW.
Reblogging for people who think I'm overreacting or whatever.
haven’t seen this on tumblr yet, and tis the season
fuck letting racist fucktwat feel comfortable. make them feel hella uncomfortable and call that shit out. fuck them and their whole ass bloodline. i would have put his whole face on the internet but that's me.
oh the gates are really baldering.
from the thread
here is a link to the full article!
Industry groups and politicians are sounding alarms over the thefts. But in some cases, the statistics they cite are inflated or flat-out wr
mob murdering serizawa with autism
“shishou, is it alright if i tell serizawa you are gay? he was wonderi-“
“YES. YES YES NOW MOB NOW TELL HIM NOW”
THIS TIME ON ART TELEPHONE: A modern monocerus marathons against a monster down the checkered halls of time, together transforming into their most primal promethean compositions, and ultimately, they decide… eh, you’re chill. Let’s split tailoring costs.
OUR PROTECTIVE PARTICIPANTS: @cesya @slowedmountains @mawchops @tytonidaeus @pinkbat5 @delta-hexagon @ryankingdomart @cryptovexillologist @bowelfly @vurm @tickfleato
Holy hell, this is the first game I’ve hosted in 3 YEARS! My fire for this game has been burning steady, and impressively, so has the flame in these drawings. It’s always fun seeing what survives to the end. Um, we lost… a lot of limbs.
One whole minute of a deaf Kitty getting excited that her owner is home
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