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Years on the internet and somehow i still click on comments sections with the insanely optimistic idea that I'll learn something new instead of being subjected to the dumbest motherfuckers online typing like their sole purpose in life is to make me want to end mine

parkchanwoohoo

"Wow, what an interesting post! I want to see what sort of fascinating discourse is being generated by the idea posited by the original poster" <- Me, operating under levels of delusion yet unexplained by modern science

#i never learn

We got heat-death of the universe before GTA 6.

millionfish

i have midterms tomorrow and here i am

bexofalltrades

Happy 10 year to Ponyo loves Revolution

may we all live and love as a form of revolution for another 10 year

please-be-nice-im-sensitivee

wait is this the og? It’s perfect

lovers-reblogs

THE OG!!!

artfight

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Prompt List Transcript

Graphics made by Scribedhearts. Illustrations made by Arakkami & Hanuh.

Happy October!

strayknight

we should make a show thats about personified opressions. so for example theres mrs racism and mr transphobia and also mrs homophobia. homophobia and transphobia kiss and misogyny is a woman in her 60s. i thimk your art style would be perfect for this

can you just tell me to kill myself like a normal person

w0nderland42

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

box-number-two

on this note i'd like to give a shoutout to Marta Abramowicz, Anna Grodzka, Szymon Niemiec, Maja Heban, Tomasz Szypuła, Maria Szyszkowska, Robert Biedroń, and Kolektyw "Rada Jezyka Neutralnego"

i'm sorry it takes so much time to change anything in this godforsaken country. we'll be like Aotearoa some day

likopinina

W Polsce legalizacja homoseksualizmu nastąpiła kilkukrotnie: w 1808, w 1932 i w 1948, bo po każdej wojnie trzeba było sprzątać systemy karne najeźdźców. Z czysto prawnego punktu widzenia wyprzedziliśmy USA trzy razy.

safety-pin-punk

Hahahahahahahahhaah

Dude interviewed for a job today 100% didn’t get it because of how much he talked about ai.

We are interviewing for a software engineer/ engineering manager. When presented with questions about how to navigate problems, almost every single one of his answers were ‘oh use ai to fix it’.

Now dont get me wrong, this dude is super smart and very very skilled. But not a single person was impressed by his unwillingness to elaborate details on how to fix issues. And instead his focus of using three different ai programs to fix issues.

And on top of that, the entire team’s feedback was ‘I dont really want to have him as a manager because I dont want to be forced to use chatgpt every day’

lynati

So he was basically responding with, "I don't know how to fix those issues," at an interview for a job where context suggests that knowing how to fix those issues is a pretty important part of said job?

safety-pin-punk

Yes and no. He was. Almost shockingly confident that he could fix the issues we presented him with (issues we’ve been working on for months). And to be honest, his resume and previous projects were extremely impressive.

The main problem preventing him from being hired was that he would not elaborate on how he would use ai to aid in the problem solving process. Simply that he would use ai to help fix the problem with no other elaboration about other problem solving steps.

This very much was a case of an extremely smart and skilled person who started to use ai for the things that exercised their brain. And now the brain rot has taken over so much that he cant fathom why ‘use ai to fix it’ is not a perfectly acceptable answer.

lesvegas

environmental storytelling

#“profession”#bitch its not even a job

When you stop on an ad for 0.01 milisecond, and now tumblr thinks you want a dildo from temu

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

craving pathetic wet old women characters. where is the feminism

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

give me middle aged butches w/ anxiety & cats. older femmes w/ arm flab who refuse to age "gracefully." gimme a bilingual bisexual with a trench coat & crows feet & and no retirement savings. i want them bitter & jaded & dysfunctional & menopausal! i want to watch them make poor financial dietary romantic decisions (and probably commit crimes) where are they???

verypiratecat

#just rb for myself #Youtube

Everyday I live for bagieta czosnkowa

midwinterhunt

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.