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how do draw good

fill 14 sketch book

bad stuff is good stuff bc you made stuff

do you like sparkle???? draw sparkle

draw what make your heart do the smiley emote

member to drink lotsa agua or else bad time

d ont stress friend all is well

your art is hot like potato crisps

don’t let anyone piss on your good mood amigo

if they do

eat

them

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The Birdcage is one of my absolute favorite films, I use its dialog in my daily life and, until this very moment, I would have said a remake should never be attempted.

You get Pedro Pascal and Andrew Scott to play the roles done by Robin Williams and Nathan Lane though?

I'm the innest in that ever inned.

The only acceptable casting for a remake of “The Birdcage”

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My new favourite archery image!

This painting is located in the Church of the Nativity in Prague, and is dated to 1663. It is also the basis of at least 3 D&D character concepts that are stuck in my head now.

If you want more info, art references, and tutorials, check my Patreon!

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to all my period-having buds in the US, make sure you delete that shit

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Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

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there is a judge in Seattle who does the weekly name change hearings, and who says it's her favorite part of the week. she says she doesn't read out previous names, or ask about the reasons why people want to change them. she says it's a beautiful moment, and a celebration; a claiming of a new identity, or a reclamation of an old identity. she encourages the room to clap for folks. then she welcomes everyone up, one by one, by last name and with warmth; she shows them the court order where nobody else can see, asks them to double check the spelling, and then they're done! do they want a picture? do they want their friends and loved ones who came with them to be in it too? do they want the court order in the photo? she helps everyone pose, shakes hands and stands with them for as long as they need to take it, recruits the clerk for help taking photos of the folks who came alone. then she tells them where to go next, congratulates them, and claps along with the rest of the room.

probably three quarters of the people there were trans, and she centered their experience quietly, with love and joy.

I think I'll be thinking about her a lot this January, and for a long time after. it's good to know she's there.

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Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

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"When the rich rob the poor it's called business, when the poor fight back it's called violence"

Poster spotted in Brunswick, Melbourne

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RRR where everything is the same but the movie multiplies at 2x speed for every time ram has a hotness makeover (new runtime of 23 minutes)

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When I was a very suicidal trans activist in Texas, Benjamin Sisko saying “sure, you would [die for your people]. Dying gets you off the hook. The question is: are you willing to live for your people?” changed and possibly saved my life. It’s up there with “if we are going to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are” from Picard. Star Trek not only shows us a better world, it teaches us how to make it there

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Over 10 years ago I drew this mother naga with her kid and a bowl of gulab jamun, and I was blown away to see people still reblogging it and saying kind things here. I decided to draw a sequel, the PTA (People That are Anacondas) meeting is over, and she finally gets to have some gulab jamun. c: I really hope this cheers you up some.

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ライオン・キング：ムファサ（Mufasa:The Lion King）見たよ。

絵は立て髪が短い若きムファサの横顔に小さな花が舞っている様子。

リンマニュエルミランダの歌曲最高です。

お話は皆がさすらう状況に立ってしまい、それぞれがどのような選択をしていくのか、というのが通底としてあり、それが成長し、試練を乗り越えることで王となる、というシンバの物語のテーマとも繋がるのが面白かった。

タカ（スカー）はその試練を乗り越える機会を逃し、自らを卑屈に貶めていくのが悲しかったなぁ。最初は母を助けられず、しかしいつか勇気を出せるよ、と励まされるのだから、チャンスはあったのに拗らせていく過程が描かれていて、そこらへんは人間描写に優れているバリージェンキンス節なのかなと思った。

歌を先に聞いてたけど、ドラマと一緒に見たら二人の心境の深みがさらにギュンと伝わってきますね。tell me it’s you は映像を見てこれはオスカーノミネートしてほしい！となった。

まぁせっかくラフィキを出してきたのだから、もう少し神話的・幻想的な映像を作っても良かったのでは？と思った。だってこの展開って「そのもの蒼き衣を着て金色の野に降り立つ」とかバーフバリみたいな感じじゃないですか〜。超実写だからと言ってアニメ的表現を避けてるのだろうか？「バイバイ」とかもミュージカルシーンの演出としては弱い。

あと最後はもう少しムファサがスカーを許したい、しかしスカーがその機会を持てなかった、そして遺恨が残る、みたいな流れは強調して欲しかったかな〜。

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Change it to "a man who doesn't want babies" and all those "reasons" read like someone with the brain development of a five year old said them.

Which is to say they're jokes. Unreal reasons. Dumb as bricks and if they were bricks it'd be lovely to lob them at the bare feet of anyone saying even one of them.

Babies are like cooking are like woodworking are like drawing are like baseball are like knitting:

IF YOU LIKE THAT STUFF GO FOR IT.

You're allowed to not like any of that. Go figure. And go to hell if you tell anyone what they should want or do with their one single life.

Women who don't want babies

• are not selfish • are not less of a woman • are not weird • are not immature • won’t necessarily change her mind • won’t necessary be a lonely old lady • “a lonely old crazy cat lady” is a patriarchal asshole stereotype:):):):) • doesn’t necessarily hate kids • doesn’t need to give you an explanation

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Do it anyway please!

I'm a writer and I end up writing my way past-around-through where I started and the older stuff IS outdated but a good way to think of it is: So am I.

Twenty year old me was a clown shoe compared to 60 year old me. Totally outdated. Yet it's the same me anyway, and I keep going.

SO PLEASE KEEP GOING! "Outdated" art is better than no art!

I have a question for people with ocs cause I have this weird thing that’s blocking me from creating any art with mine, that if I don’t have their story finished then I’m afraid to draw anything related to the current story cause what if I change it? what if I change the characters designs again and then all the previous art is outdated? so the question is — does it bother you too or do you just go with the flow and draw them regardless? it might be a stupid thing really but it’s always in the back of my head when I think about my characters and universe that if it’s not finished then it’s not worth sharing with others

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affirmations

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

i am able to make phone calls and appointments

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Well now you've done it. I have to add more Ram Charan eyelash photos to this because watch a few of his films and you'll see directors love his eeyyyes.

Magadheera ^

Dhruva ^^^

Acharya ^^

Also Acharya ^

And these two are him just existing on this earth…

Basically Charan's a deva.

ram charan's eyelashes are so crazy. like hello . put those doe eyes away boy you have a british raj to overthrow. this is not an endorsement of rrr, im just simply making an observation.