Be More Trash CAN, Not Trash Can’t

k. (trashmancer). she/her. art, reading, writing, occasional video game playing. big scifi nerd (especially the Murderbot Diaries)🛸. bg3 brainrot.

[skelotan]

I'm still Big Mad from the animation industry AI news, and I had some thoughts I needed to get out. There are lots of more important reasons why artists shouldn't use AI, but here is my philosophical take on it.

PATREON

[jacksloper]

incredible things happening on tonight’s game changer

[blazeofbones]

Happy Pride Month

[dragon-png]

[trashmancer]

writers who intentionally leave major emotional beats of their stories "to the imagination" are cowards! COWARDS! commit to your story!

[mmothmanners]

I often whisper 'hello ! i'm gale--' to myself because I just love the way he says that particular line.

Anyways here are some little Gale of Waterdeep sketches!

[trashmancer]

For half a second I thought there was a nuclear event in my Palette Town. That tree in the background in this lighting man 😮‍💨

[organicmatter]

i fucking love when halloween music is just surf rock with a ghoul laughing in the background

[queenofratz]

i love me some scooby doo ass music

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

I want someone to make one of these new sterile teen gay romance shows on Netflix but halfway through they pull a Doki Doki Literature Club and it turns into a fucked up fourth wall breaking psychological thriller that deconstructs the heteronormative and middle class ideals of the genre

[nachosforfree]

If you dont like horror then watch the normal cutesy netflix gay shows ???

[times-chu]

the phrase that's ruined every media ever

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[raptorific]

[aichu-dechu]

[pupucino]

follow your dreams at a sustainable pace

[alhilton]

500 words a day gets the novel written

[kaiasky]

Guesstimation game: no googling!

How far away is the moon?

No using the web, books, maps, etc. No checking the notes!

Put your guess and reasoning behind a readmore, so your followers also get a chance to play.

The goal isn't to get the RIGHT answer (or even get close), it's to see how you and others come up with a guess. It's also not a competition, don't worry about how you do in relation to others!

[trashmancer]

I don't know the distance between the Earth to the Moon whatsoever lmao (okay I do know it's less than 300,000 miles and more than 50,000 miles but that's it), BUT I am gonna do my best to guess with what knowledge about this I doooo know.

I know the distance from the Sun to Earth is called an AU (Astronomical Unit) and that it's around 93 million miles.

I know the time it takes for sunlight to reach Earth from the Sun is about 8 minutes-ish, and I know it takes moonlight about 1 second to get here. And also it took the astronauts like... four days or something to get there (but I have zero clue how fast they were going so that's... not helpful so I gotta disregard this).

This is all gonna be shit math lmao but 8 x 60 = 480, so that's 480 seconds for the sunlight to get to Earth. And 93,000,000 / 480 = 193,750, so that's 193,740 miles per second.

So that's my guess. Plus or minus a range. I am going to err on the "it's greater" size since I think I might be overly conservative on the time guess there on the light travel time. So between 193,740 and 210,000 or something?

Now I am going to look up the actual answer lmao

238,855 miles.

I'd like to say I wasn't too far off, but... that's a lot of miles I was off by lmao well I tried!

[lokihiddleston]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[astrotheyge]

Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord and Chris Miller + Rocky