Vanessa von Skittles @vanessavonskittles - Tumblr Blog

Hey, I know I RARELY make original posts, but given that I'm going to potentially point a bunch of people here over this weekend, I want to confirm that yes, I am a real person with an active Tumblr account.

My two modes of engagement swing WILDLY between passively reblogging shitposts and fifteen page rambles with citations. Unfortunately, it's been a hot minute since I've had the time/energy to do the latter on Tumblr.

If you're lucky enough to be at Dashcon2 this weekend and encounter me in the wild, I've got goodies. :3 I'm not going to spill the beans here ahead of time, but I WILL say that I've been messing about with block printing lately and have Put An Effort in.

gemini-enthusiast

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

songofsaraneth

#famously few birds in space#probably the safest place to take him

sevserez

Soup incident

acorviart

ceramic previews are now in the shop so you can read descriptions and prices! these drop on aug 8, 2PM CT and have historically sold quite fast, so make sure you set an alarm

especially if you want the black cat, because you'll have to compete with the person who's snagged multiple of my previous black cat figures within seconds in the past 👀

vanessavonskittles

Haha, that would be meeeeee~~~~~~. I love your little cats SO MUCH and the only thing protecting my bank account from utter ruin is that you don't take commissions on ceramics and I respect that.

I will note, however, that out of the three cats in your last shop drop that someone else beat me to the punch on the one I wanted the most badly and had targeted first. So you've got at least two sets of twitchy fingers gunning for them.

I'll also throw in that I've been bringing one of your little guys along with me on most of my trips in the last few months and taking photos. I've been planning to put together a small album of them to share with you, but, well, effort and the intimidation of initiating contact. As a teaser, here's a shot from this weekend at an event that has notoriously sold out quickly as well:

And here's where the whole collection lives at home:

The mini canvas is the work of @iambittythings, bought at last year's round of the quick-ticket event.

rainbowbeansprout

hold up that wouldn't be this one by any chance???

vanessavonskittles

YES. Congratulations on having the twitchiest fingers across the land.

And to throw another pic in the pile, this bugger came to Toledo with me during the Greatest Week in American Birding earlier this year. I wasn't quick enough to snap any shots WITH a bird, but they got to see so. Many. Warblers.

acorviart

ceramic previews are now in the shop so you can read descriptions and prices! these drop on aug 8, 2PM CT and have historically sold quite fast, so make sure you set an alarm

especially if you want the black cat, because you'll have to compete with the person who's snagged multiple of my previous black cat figures within seconds in the past 👀

vanessavonskittles

Haha, that would be meeeeee~~~~~~. I love your little cats SO MUCH and the only thing protecting my bank account from utter ruin is that you don't take commissions on ceramics and I respect that.

I will note, however, that out of the three cats in your last shop drop that someone else beat me to the punch on the one I wanted the most badly and had targeted first. So you've got at least two sets of twitchy fingers gunning for them.

I'll also throw in that I've been bringing one of your little guys along with me on most of my trips in the last few months and taking photos. I've been planning to put together a small album of them to share with you, but, well, effort and the intimidation of initiating contact. As a teaser, here's a shot from this weekend at an event that has notoriously sold out quickly as well:

And here's where the whole collection lives at home:

The mini canvas is the work of @iambittythings, bought at last year's round of the quick-ticket event.

intactics

"rickrolling is mean" rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url

astercontrol

Rickrolling is deceptive, but it's among the most harmless forms of deception available

in other words, it may tell a lie, but it will never tell a lie and hurt you

drakensberg-blog

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

poupon

how dare you say we piss on the poor

distant-screaming

there really is nothing better than getting asked an innocuous question and being like

beesmygod

i feel like im not a completely stupid person and able to do "media literacy" to some degree. so it does seem evident that "witch hat atelier"'s story revolves around realizing that everyone has the capacity for art and that by cordoning it off to a privileged class and teaching it in only one specific way, the entire field suffers from stagnation and a lack of novel ideas. coco's presence in the field invigorates it and causes it to lurch forward in technique and utility. and i also understand what a plot hook is, and that something things need to happen to move the plot along or create stakes for a story.

but still. but still. its so funny that coco was so bad at art her mom basically died

beesmygod

similarly, my husband was like "what is agott's problem. why is she acting like this" and i had to explain it like. imagine, since the moment you were born, you dedicated yourself to art. your parents were artists and expect great things from you, so when your childhood revolved around art, everyone embraced it and pushed you forward in the hopes that you would surpass them. you draw every single day. you skip meals to study and draw. your body is permanently altered with stained fingertips because of how often you draw. you work yourself to the bone to understand the principles, the history, the intricacies of art so that you might be considered a true master of that which you adore. you get into one of, if not the, most prestigious art school of all time after years of grinding. but its not enough, you can see you have so much more to learn and the field is so vast you worry you may never master it. and then the next day some girl who blew up her mom in a drawing incident shows up at the school and everyone coos over her lopsided circles. and she's your roommate

cartoon-fanaticism

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

wassuppeas

kuttithevangu

One of the things about writing that feels the silliest is when there’s a detail in the scene that the character doesn’t think is important but you know the reader will know it’s important because otherwise it wouldn’t be there, so you’re just sort of making eye contact with the reader over the character’s head and whispering “don’t tell them”

kuttithevangu

Yes, the principle that details only be included if they’re plot-relevant is known as Chekhov’s gun. What Chekhov neglected to mention in his letters to younger playwrights outlining this principle is that sometimes as the writer you feel as if you are barging onstage in the middle of a scene to hang your loaded gun over the mantel while wearing giant clown shoes. Even if you’re actually dressed all in black and sneaking and the conventions of theater mean the audience politely decline to notice that you’re there

whetstonefires

'dramatic irony turns you into a kabuki ninja'

doriangraysrockcollection

i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while

doriangraysrockcollection

i am kissing you on the mouth right now

you are the only person who understands me. you and the person who tagged a series of unfortunate events

gamemakerm

just noticed the funniest review of one of my games. Thank you for your succinct summary

drakeanddice

Pinpanar9 is an unsung hero, leaving a simple and understated "good" on all manner of indie games. Every creator that I know who has an itch.io counts it as a mark of pride to have a "good" from pinpanar9.

I've got a couple, and every time I get one, I feel a little more like I've made it. That I'm a real designer.

And then I got this.

This is what I imagine an Ennie win feels like. It can't feel any better.

swordy-da-goat

maow mow maw

drtrinitysantos

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

dizzyhslightlyvoided

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)