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this simple question goes to Phemus: whats your past with Lady Helia like? 👀

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Tested some lineless things with the 'roba

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Hey chat,guess who they tried to scam 😎

To all my artist friends who are starting doing comissions,be absolutly carefull with these people,this person asked me all nicely to basically comm me to make art of their cat ,when the p/yment got in process this all happened and basically they basically tried to scam me

Never and ever give money back in those cases cuz all the stuff of the email is 100% false if it isn't obvious enough

Im asking to ya all chat to mass report this mf and be carefull yourself,specially my younger followers who are starting to take comissions themselves🙏😔

dw about me i also reported it to paypal and its all ok

i just feel mad this comission wasn't real mainly cause of the cute idea and i did the sketch already

Fly high Jex 😔

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∧,,,∧ (• ⩊ •) |￣U U￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| | Happy New Year!! | ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣

You'll want to click on the image for the best quality. Likes and reblogs are super appreciated, <3 but please do not copy and repost my art. If you'd like to keep supporting me though, you can find this piece on my bsky, too! ^w^

https://bsky.app/profile/clown--bunny.bsky.social/post/3lewwvtb2ok2z

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From: @a-stardusted-sky

To: @kirbybecomesastarwarrior

Message from Santa: "Hello hello! Hope you're having a Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I first found your blog through the oc tournament but never reached out beyond 'Wow cool ocs and story!' because I got afraid of being parasocial and chickened out XD ^^; So this was a great excuse for me to binge your au and GOD I AM BLOWN AWAY BY HOW MUCH THOUGHT YOU'VE PUT INTO CELESTINE AND ARTHUR??? LOVE WINS (until it didn't but we don't have to look at that part just yet). I especially admire how *strong* Celestine is, not many people could be handed what is effectively a terminal diagnosis on top of already oppressive living circumstances, and use that to make the most of the time they have left instead of succumbing to despair. Hope you're not seeing this late but if you are I'm SO SORRY. I wanted to do more but that clearly did not pan out OTL Wishing you best of luck with your au and endeavors!

Happy holidays :D Hope you like this and so sorry again for any delay!"

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From: @dragongold-exe

To: @a-stardusted-sky

Message from Santa: "Hello and Happy Holidays! I absolutely love your OC designs, and as someone who really enjoys dragons I knew I had to draw these two :3

I also love Mags as well hehe, I hope you like this lil animation as well! - Dragongold"

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From: @icy-dark-star

To: @isaackkkbunn

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From: @eganmont (Instagram)

To: @gemapples (Twitter)

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There wasn't enough room to include Gryll in the poll but you may write-in votes for our favorite Onion Witch if you would like!

Also, "Why Taranza?" you may ask?

...Because Kirby Clash put forth the theory that what we consider to be Taranza's "hair" may in fact be an elaborate hat.

(It's Japanese name was Taranzura, a pun with "zura" meaning wig. Later posts backed up the fact that Magolor indeed thinks/jokes that Taranza's wearing a wig. This would also be strangely in-line with his "haughty nobility" personality as white powdered wigs were massively in fashion in the 17th-18th centuries.)

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Phoneme Chart by TheEndIsNearUs

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Workout For Daily Life

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1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

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note that it works best with thin lineart (I used SAI2 for this, but I think you can use any art program  with a overlay layer mode)

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How does a woman know? She listens. She listens in. Like light on waves.

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Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

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Let's talk stitches!

While a sewing machine is super convenient, having access to one is not required for mending. Most mends can easily be done by hand. If you're really patient, you can even make entire garments by hand, just like they did in ye olden days.

So, let's take a look at a few basic hand sewing stitches to get you started.

(Image source) [ID: hand stitches for quilters: the running stitch, slipstitch, backstitch, whipstitch, and blanket stitch.]

The running stitch

The running stitch can be used for many purposes. It's popular in embroidery, and can be used to outline shapes or baste (temporarily secure) pieces together. It can also be used to ruffle fabric by hand, and I personally use it a lot to secure patches in place when covering up holes in garments. The running stitch is also the base stitch for sashiko, a popular style of visible mending.

Video tutorial for the running stitch

Text tutorial for the running stitch

The slipstitch

The slipstitch, also known as the ladder stitch, is my go-to stitch for closing tears and fixing torn seams. This stitch is frequently used to sew pieces of knitting together, too. You can also use it to make small size corrections in a garment, for example to add a quick dart or to make a side seam smaller. It's invisible on the outside, which makes it a great stitch to fix up things like plushies, duvet covers, or pillows.

Video tutorial for the slipstitch

Text tutorial for the slipstitch

The backstitch

The backstitch will likely be the stitch you'll be using the most when working on a project. It's a strong, clean stitch that can be used for almost anything: seams, hems, embroidery, attaching two pieces of fabric together, zippers,... This is also the best stitch to imitate machine sewing with. If you're only going to learn one hand sewing stitch, then make it the backstitch!

Video tutorial for the backstitch

Text tutorial for the backstitch

The whipstitch

The whipstitch, also known as the overcast stitch, can be used to stop fabric edges from fraying and is great to finish seams off with. It can also be used to quickly sew two pieces of fabric together, for appliqué, or as a decorative technique. I personally prefer the blanket stitch over the whipstitch because it's a little cleaner, but the whipstitch is faster than the blanket stitch.

Video tutorial for the whipstitch

Text tutorial for the whipstitch

The blanket stitch

The blanket stitch is great for finishing off seams and stopping fabric from fraying. It's also frequently used for appliqué and embroidery, and can be used to make button holes by hand. It looks neater than the whipstitch, but is also slower to get done.

Video tutorial for the blanket stitch

Text tutorial for the blanket stitch

Conclusion

Get yourself a spare piece of fabric and try these stitches out before attempting them on a real project. I promise you'll get the hang of them quickly!

If you're only going to learn one of these, then make it the backstitch as it's the most versatile hand stitch.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free