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Coffee. Cats. Pizza. Manga

[bethfuller]

here's a landscape tutorial!

i focused on natural environments for this one, if you find it helpful I'll be back with how I learned to draw buildings.

let me know if it helps! and have fun drawing ✨

[wvlfhowl]

Every time I return here from the dead bird app I feel like a prodigal child.

*gone for months* *checks notifs* DEAR GOD I'VE GOT ENGAGEMENT??????

[swordmaid]

lunachai. com /blog/how-to -make-enamel-pins-without-dying Maybe this link can help you. I know some who used alibaba with great success. good quality pins made for a cheap price. for the costs maybe the jaime and brienne fandom can help pitch in. i would be happy to put in some money too.

I’ve been looking into alibaba actually, but I know most have a minimum amount they’ll let you make (50 I think?) and I’m not looking to have a huge stack sitting around my room lol I also want to avoid asking people to pitch in for this project, especially if I’m still not sure about it!!!

[ytphobia-deactivated20210908]

portraits

[wvlfhowl]

Here's my take on Luffy visiting Ace's grave after he has become pirate king.

[smiggles]

A speed draw of an artfight i did

[faremises]

CLOUD & TIFA IN CRISIS CORE REUNION

[terraterracotta]

My contribution to this meme

[terraterracotta]

Because I’m standing firm with this I decided to update it to be a little more specific since some people aren’t getting the hint.

[yumeka-sxf]

Spy x Family Anime Official Guidebook HD scans - part 1

Wanted to make some HD scans of the Spy x Family Anime Official Guidebook, particularly of all the lovely promotional key visuals ❤

There's several more pages of these illustrations that I'll share in subsequent posts (hence the "part 1" in the title!)

[tare-anime]

Ohoh, yaaasss 🥰🥰

[wvlfhowl]

Still lightyears away from my goals but where I am right now is exactly where I prayed to be back then.

I'm grateful.

[wvlfhowl]

Forgers having a lil r&r. It's when they're taking a break from being a "fake" family that they seem all the more like a real family.

[wvlfhowl]

We should have gone to fucking Sicily!

Goncharov (1973)

My god, if it finally gets a cinematic release here in my country, my whole squad will cosplay the cast on premiere night. Make it happen, Martin.

[wvlfhowl]

I hate-

that sometimes I feel like I have to justify why I like a certain ship. I could make an essay about their journey and connection, yada yada~ but at the bottom of my heart is- I just love them, above others. I don't need any other reason than that.

[the-cinnaminion]

Some of my most recent Cloti art! Everything about them makes me so happy, and I hope we get to see more development in their relationship come pt2. 

[r4cs0]

[sreegs]

i said this before to my friends but i guess it's worth posting here: i truly did not expect the scope of how bad the twitter acquisition would go. i genuinely thought musk was going to talk big and whine before the deal, then slowly over time wreck the site with a series of poor decisions.

the pace and magnitude of the fuckups he managed to pull in such a short period of time is unprecedented. it's SO fucking bad. since i at least have some technical understanding behind running a social network, i feel like i'm staring into the sun every time a new headline comes out. there is no hyperbole when it comes to describing how badly elon musk is fumbling the bag.

if you're absorbing this news and think that maybe it's not as bad as it sounds, i assure you it is probably WORSE than what we're hearing. this isn't just haters amplifying small mistakes, musk is weaving the goddamn rope.

it's a goddamn tragedy that billionaires never really suffer for their choices, but i think this is as close as we're gonna get before we start beheading them in the streets

[foone]

The really funny thing? For as bad as it gotten, as quickly as it has... None of the current problems are what's going to kill Twitter.

Like yes, users are leaving because they have no trust in the site. Executives are resigning. Advertisers are pulling their ads. Companies are getting impersonated and are going to sue them. The FTC is going to fine them a bazillion dollars.

But all those things take time. They're all bad, bad things, but they won't kill Twitter overnight. They're a slow bleed, an eventual demise when a court case resolves, that kind of thing.

But one of the first things Musk did was fire much of the SRE teams, the on-call staff. These are the people who work to keep the site up and running, and they're the kind of people you pay to do nothing most of the time because what you're really paying them for is to be there at 3am when some server goes down and you need someone to log in and quickly fix it.

They're the server administration equivalent of firefighters. Musk fired THOUSANDS of them. And just like getting rid of all the firefighters, this might seem to be going fine for a little while... Because there's not a fire yet. But once there is, oh boy. Things are going to get Real Exciting fast.

Twitter is one bad day away from just ceasing to LOAD at all. Someone hacks a server, someone famous dies and a system gets a little too overloaded due to the traffic spike, or hey, maybe a server just fills up with junk files because the person who had been manually cleaning them up lost their job a week ago... And Twitter dot Com is just gonna be a big message saying "sorry we couldn't load that information, try Twitter/help or try again later".

For hours. Or days. Because the other thing about firing all your SREs... They're also the people who know the weak points of the system, and know where things go wrong when they do go wrong. You can't just replace them with any warm bodies, elm sku just had a ton of institutional knowledge walk out the front door and it's not coming back.

Yes, Twitter is the titanic, but we haven't even hit the iceberg yet. The CEO has demanded full speed on a dark night and no one has the binoculars. It's only a matter of time.

[auncyen]

"Twitter, whose communication department has been laid off, did not respond to a request for comment."

This line from a NYT article published yesterday just got me about how big the trash fire is over there.

[elfwreck]

Yeah, the financial/legal aspects are not what's going to kill Twitter. At least, not soon. Twitter has been leaking money for years; leaking money faster isn't noticeable at the end-user level.

Getting sued, getting fined: Also not noticeable to us.

Bankruptcy: ALSO NOT NOTICEABLE, and when Musk says he's considering bankruptcy, it does NOT mean what "I'm fuckin' broke" means to most of us. It does not mean he's in danger of losing his house(s), his car(s), even his other companies. It means he may wind up offloading the debt in some weird way. (Oh, and that might involve selling off Twitter somehow and losing control - but he wouldn't lose real money over it. He'd still be a multibillionaire.)

What IS noticeable: Firing the software security team.

If there's a problem with the payment server, they now have nobody to fix it. And banks take a very dim view of weird payment shenanigans; one hint of "server's been hacked" and they slam all payments to & from Twitter shut.

Which may mean no paychecks. (This. Um. Also, potentially not immediately noticeable; plenty of companies have managed wtih "oops there's a bank problem; keep working and we'll pay you next week." Which is lawsuit-worthy, but not a shutdown event.) (HEY TWITTER EMPLOYEES: IT'S UNION TIME.)

But. As mentioned.

One super-spike in focused activity, one support server getting overwhelmed, one "oops the routers switched to the new system and we're locked out of the building because we can't reach the server that authenticates the key-cards"... and Twitter shuts off.

Remember when Facebook went down (and Tumblr barely noticed)? Like that.

...If they don't get hacked. Because being told that Twitter has no security team and no communications team, means every glory-seeking hacker on the planet is trying to figure out if there's an opening somewhere.

[miscreantbread]

the real reason howl kept his castle moving was tax evasion

[never-forget-viva-la-pluto]

This sounds like a joke but I read the book this is the literal reason

[floral-alchemist]

And in the movie he’s trying to avoid the draft. He just does not wanna help the government