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I'm perfectly fine with people criticizing my favorite stories and frequently do it myself but can you stop being so boring about it

wrigglewormz

"This scene made me so uncomfortable" given the subject matter, it would be really, really badly written if it wasn't.

#lol #oh are people being bad at reading again?#astronaut behind me with a gun: they always have been

dailyclassicart

Gustave Doré - "Loch Lomond" (1875)

#art #good god

musubiarte

UPDATE:

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other.

Outside: the purest/brightest colours from the tube.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: two equilateral triangles. One shows the triad of primary colors, and the other shows the triad of secondary colors. Triads are traditionally used to create vibrant yet perfectly balanced compositions.

Complementary colors: are those located directly opposite each other on the wheel.

Shadows I:

If you want to achieve rich, dark neutrals, the standard rule is to mix a color with its direct complementary (opposite) tone. However, doing this can often make your shadows look flat or muddy.

Instead of using the exact complementary color, the real trick is to use one of the colors right next to it (either to the left or the right). By doing this, you avoid a dull mix and introduce a beautiful, subtle color bias into your shadow, keeping it clean and full of life. You can see an example of this in the second image.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Reference: “Quiller Wheel” by Stephen Quiller (👈link)

#art #how fascinating

homunculus-argument

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

thekijs

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

weaselle

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

#constant penelope is the coolest #whether at her loom or in a shitty dive #writing

lleyksie

black bears ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ

#[kristen bell sobbing.gif]#the babyyyy #oh my godddddd #bear #art

emziess

Connor Storrie on For All Mankind For All Mankind, S05E08

#haha oh christ #here come all the fakehockey girlies trotting over #well you're in luck!#for all mankind #a show with a coherent script and solid characters #it'll be interesting to see how he does without the character prop of the accent

zmediaoutlet

fic: the treachery of images (chapter seven)

pairing: Jared/Jensen rating: E length: 13k (part 7) tags: Alternate Universe - Hollywood, Actor Jensen Ackles, YouTuber Jared Padalecki, Celebrity Crush, Recreational Drug Use, Closeted Character, Slow Burn

For as long as he’s been playing Captain America, Jensen Ackles can’t do anything in public without being recognized. As a result he spends a lot of time at home and in his trailer, watching YouTube. The opportunity to meet his favorite YouTuber comes as a surprise; what follows is a bigger one.

note: This is called out in the tags, but to be clear: this is an AU where Jensen and Jared live in Los Angeles, but the characters in this fic are only loosely based on the lives of the real actors. All other celebrities mentioned are ‘themselves,’ inasmuch as is possible for a fic depiction.

This is a multi-chapter story, intended to post once a week on Wednesdays. I expect it to be eight chapters, based on the current length.

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Chapter seven: in which one truly weighs the relative value between a pipe and an image of a pipe

(AO3)

#reblog for timezones #for some reason

michaelnordeman

Eurasian bullfinch/domherre. Värmland, Sweden (28 April 2018).

#bird #there he is!#margo's round bullfinch friend!#completely couldn't focus on the dialogue during that scene #the roumd birdie took up the whole screen <3

moonlightingcurse

mark watney vs. ryland grace

The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott // Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

#what working with schoolchildren does to a mfer #the martian #project hail mary

movie-gifs

‘This… stuff’? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff. The Devil Wears Prada (2006) dir. David Frankel

#iconic #more literally than usual #film #the devil wears prada