Maverick

verick | male | multi-fandom | queer dude obsessed with horrific monsters and super cute stationery. / / / / / Requests: CLOSED Commissions: OPEN - DM me or contact [email protected]

[dontsharethings]

[solnecco]

a quick grass tutorial

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.

6. basically more of the same idea of eyedropping and drawing. for more variety so things look interesting, I like to add random plant shapes.

7. and so the grass doesn’t look too plain, I add random dots of color and pretend it’s flowers and stuff.

and there you have it, this is how I approach drawing grass.

[mlekonya]

oblivious

[naamahdarling]

i lost my shit at the last panel

[kat-the-dog-trainer]

Things that work to calm your dog when they’re barking in public:

Removing them from the scenario

Rewarding for quiet behaviour

Staying calm and quiet, using positive language

Things that don’t work:

Yelling “NO!”

Yanking them/hitting them/otherwise stressing them further.

If someone slapped me every time I shrieked at a spider, that spider’s going to become 10x scarier to me. If someone gave me a $50 note for being calm around the spider, I’m probably going to chill out.

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

Ominous positivity

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

You will be okay. You have no choice.

[lookskindadeadinside]

god I hate when straights do that dumb shit of correcting gay ppl’s pronoun usage. U know how many times I’ve said “my ex” in convo and followed up with “she” and they go “…he?” like don’t be a smartass u heard me. I was just talking to a lady about babies and mentioned the babies in my friend’s wedding and very intentionally said “my friend and her wife”, and the lady used “he” and “groom” for the rest of the convo. they really think we don’t notice that shit

[cwote]

[royalharkinian]

If we’re all going down I'm going the way I lived, making shitty memes in the face of peril.

[that-twink-over-there]

This is a MASTERPIECE

[the-kouchfort]

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

[lingy000]

swim with fish

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I was working with a seagull and I said “as someone in Wildlife I know I should never anthropomorphize animals or hold them to any human moral standard, but seagulls are capable of and regularly knowingly commit evil” and the vet tech with me said “no yeah that’s true.”

[beaky-peartree]

i would lay down my life for her

[twloha]

“We often hear from people that they’re nervous to speak up about their depression, suicidal thoughts, addiction, anxiety or self-injury because they fear it will hurt their relationships or make them appear weak and damaged. Our hope is that by sharing your own story, you will inspire others to share theirs. Our hope is that you can be a safe space to listen, encourage, and accept people as they are.”

— TWLOHA, “Tomorrow Needs Us to Continue the Work”

[danger]

‘Wildfire’ by David Uzochukwu

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Native cultures are not interchangeable.

Every single Native culture is distinct and unique, though many share similarities, and lumping them together is ridiculous. And while some practices are pan-Indian, the vast majority are not.

Kokopelli isn’t “Native American,” He’s Hopi.

Dreamcatchers aren’t “Native American,” they’re Ojibwe.

War bonnets aren’t “Native American,” they’re Plains Indian.

Wendigoag aren’t “Native American,” they’re Algonquian.

Totem poles aren’t “Native American,” they’re Northwest Coastal Indian.

Skinwalkers aren’t “Native American,” they’re Navajo.

Stop homogenizing our cultures. Every Native culture is beautiful and unique and deserves to be treated that way.

[toothmuncher3000]

Don’t fall into the trope of “pan Indian”. Fucking teepees and totem poles never existed together. Totem poles are permanent structures, teepees are fucking tents for nomadic peoples. First Nations and indigenous cultures are all deep and uniquely complex, it would be like confusing England with Russia.

[commodorecliche]

pull the trigger, Cards Against Humanity.

[nobodybetterhavethisoneoriswear]

pull the trigger, Cards Against Humanity.

[opisthokontology]

PULL THE TRIGGER, CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY.

[bluerats]

“I’ll remember” is the ADHD demon talking. You won’t remember. Write it down.

[septemberbells]

bold of you to assume i’ll remember where i wrote it, or even that i wrote it

[finnglas]

Visual exhaustion is another symptom of ADHD, which means that if we see something enough times (or we see enough instances of something), it fades into background noise and we fail to notice it. This is why a lot of ADHD people can stand living surrounded by mess/clutter, because it’s just visual background noise to us. We don’t even notice it anymore. So if we write something down and see the note stuck up somewhere a lot – or if we write a LOT of somethings down and have a lot of notes hanging around – then we’re even less likely to think of/remember the thing because it’s just part of the scenery now. ADHD is the Catch-22 of brains.

[spoonie-living]

A very good thing to know about ADHD. Don’t fall into the trap.

A lot of folks in the comments are talking about writing on themselves or setting phone/calendar reminders. Your mileage may vary on those. You may also want to consider ways to set a habit of referring back to a planner or similar every day/hour.

To get those brain juices flowing, check out this Buzzfeed article on different ways folks with ADHD stay on top of things.

Readers, let us know if you have specific advice for this situation!

[allthingshyper]

This is why sticky note reminders don’t work??

[hesaidsidhesaid]

SKLJDGBKJEDSBBV

VISUAL BACKGROUND NOISE?!

THERE’S A WORD FOR IT?

[mixingpumpkins]

Always reblog “THAT’S WHAT THAT IS???” posts. Chances are someone hasn’t seen it that needs to.