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please. i need frogs that look like not frogs

Hmmmm, highly subjective, but I think I have 3 candidatesfor you...

TURTLE FROG

Turtle Frog (Myobtrachus gouldii), family Myobatrachidae, found in SW Australia

These burrowing frogs dig forward, like a turtle, and not backwards into the soil, like most frogs.

After pairing up, a couple descends into a burrow, where they later mate, and then lay eggs. The offspring go through the larval stage in the eggs (not having a free swimming tadpole stage).

The feed on termites.

photograph by Jacob Loyacano

photograph by Akash Samuel

PURPLE FROG

Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), mating, family Nasikabatrachidae, endemic to the Wesxtern Ghats of India

photograph by Sandeep Das

photograph by SD Biju

SURINAME TOAD

Suriname Toad (Pipa pipa), family Pipidae, found in northern South America

The mother frog absorbs its eggs into pockets in the skin on its back. The tadpoles go through the tadpole stage in these pockets. They emerge later from these holes/skin pockets as froglets.

photographs by HelixBlue, 

photograph by Cowyeow

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Okay, so, friends. Occasionally I see an American post on here about “guillotine the rich,” and it turns out that “rich” means “anyone making over $50k.”

We need to clear this shit up REAL fast, because otherwise it’s gonna wind up like the French Revolution, where more middle class and poor people were killed for being “class traitors” than actual nobles. (Did you know that France has more nobles today than during the French Revolution? While there were a few showy executions, many nobles did just fine or experienced minor setbacks.)

If someone makes $60,000 a year, they are making about twice as much as a full time worker making minimum wage in California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Washington State.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of United HealthCare who was just assassinated in New York City, earned $10 million a year, which means he earned 333 times minimum wage in those states. Basically, he cleared an annual minimum wage salary in just over a day. And that “rich” person making $60k/year that you want to guillotine? He made their salary in a bit over two days of a year.

So he was rich, right?

Well. Tesla is trying to give Elon Musk a pay package of $101 billion. That is 10,100 times what Brian Thompson earned and 3,366,667 times more than a minimum wage worker. (Tesla hasn’t been successful yet because of a complicated lawsuit from a shareholder, but they’ll get there.) If you are a minimum wage worker, Elon Musk makes more every SECOND than you do in a year. And that “rich” person who you want to guillotine? He makes their salary in about 1.6 seconds. Even when he’s sleeping.

Now, remember. The Muskrat also is the head of SpaceX, the Boring Company, X.ai, and X.com, so this is just ONE pay package for him.

What I’m saying is — you have much more in common when it comes to economic grievances with someone earning $60,000 (or even $200,000) than the ultra wealthy that have real power. They are not the people you should expend your energy on.

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Scrolling through the most beauaitiful subreddit that exists yet again

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I found a guide for a no tape, easy to unwrap wrapping tutorial to make Christmas a little more accessible, wish I just found it sooner

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90% sure you've been asked this before but do you have any advice or resources on how to like. Plan a long term comic like this? How to write stuff out before getting to drawing and all that jazz

That’s ok! My best resource is just practice, and a tip from Rebecca Sugar about making a ‘roadmap’, basically the idea of what you want to do.

My advice for any story-maker is first know what you wanna accomplish for the comic/story you make. Do you want silly pointless action? Do you want deep topics? Both? Do you want a moral? Get that idea established first.

Once you know what you wanna do with the comic/story, plan the big picture. Point A to point B stuff. "I want protag to talk to antag and they fight, but verbal, no hitting. They agree but on one condition. Make it about X or Y" (that is literally how this comic was pieced together more or less. If your big-picture makes sense, you can fill in the journey to those points so much easier.

Once you get into the finer details, do a roadmap for the episode. Bullet points. Even write a short story. I do a mix of both. If I want something to happen but i dunno how, bullet points. If I can see the story already? I just write it down with prose and all.

Then, STORYBOARDS~

My sketching process is a hot, steaming mess, but that is because I sketch just to get the vibe, not perfection. I go in with the idea that it can -always- be changed.

This is episode 13 as we speak. I just finished sketching all the positional stuff so I can start putting the dialog in. Making sure it visually fits. If it doesn’t, then I’m not editing a huge picture into something. It is still flexible.

After this stage, I draw my roughs, then my lines, then color and background, and then post! I like to work on a whole episode at 1 time for consistency purposes and if I go ahead 4 pages I can look back and go ‘Ah crap the cup is in that frame but i forgot it on page 9’ or "oh shoot he isn’t supposed to have his jacket in page 12 because he got rid of it in page 3" long before the episode goes live.

Hope that helps!

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love was the law ⚖

based on this fanfic

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drew shadow like Madame X from Sargent's painting 🥺

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Shadowheart I Baldur's Gate 3

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[GL] their fav skinship 🐺👩‍🌾

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Drow words for love -> Drizzt Do'Urden's narration excerpt in The Legacy (1992), Ed Greenwood's Twitter, Minthara Baenre in Baldur's Gate 3

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I found a guide for a no tape, easy to unwrap wrapping tutorial to make Christmas a little more accessible, wish I just found it sooner

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love how she glows in the dark. I had to restart this piece twice because I didn't like it the first go and it crashed the second go yay

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Is it just me or does it seem like every bit of praise that Solas seems to have for Mythal is only kind of true about her but definitely true about HIMSELF? That she was "the best of them" and protected her people - but she didn't always, did she? Mythal has a vallaslin, after all. And she was going to let the others fuck with the Blight of Solas hadn't nagged her about it. Her efforts at tempering Elgar'nan before then weren't strong enough to keep him from doing everything that he did up to that point, and her method of doing that tempering always coincides with her getting more power and adulation for herself

I do think on some level, Solas knows that Mythal was the best of a bad bunch, and that "best" is not ideal. How many of the differences between Mythal and the other Evanuris were because of Solas's efforts and counsel? How many of the Dread Wolf's actions to look after the elves were attributed to Mythal's protection? Solas becomes extremely aware of just how dangerous and willing to override the free will of thinking creatures Mythal is if you drink from the Well of Sorrows.

I need to chew on the "Mythal has a vallaslin" thing a bit longer and decide how I want to interpret that if I ever write fic

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where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"

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Having a bad day?

Look at him. Listen to his jokes and silly pickup lines. Gossip (and invite Shadowheart, while you're at it). Go after a bulette or some bigger prey. Bicker with him about who killed more goblins back at the camp. Discuss drow fashion. Let him show you his best dagger moves. Brainstorm new ways to tease Gale… Just enjoy his company.