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Caddo Lake, Texas by Fred R Cox

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GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3

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say whatever you want about how groundbreaking Yuri!!! on Ice is and how it’s revolutionary representation for queer people in the media and deep characterization and development and healthy relationships but I’ll have u know the only reason I started watching it was bc of this screencap 

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You’re a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You’ve actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer’s business, you finally reveal yourself.

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Rewatched the Howl's Moving Castle movie (fantastic animated movie, definitely inspired by more than an adaptation of the book) while doing something else and I was struck this time by the fact that the Prince (Turniphead the Scarecrow) says that he intends to go tell his king to call off the war, but THEN he intends on COMING BACK to Ingary to shoot his shot with Sophie again because (as he says to the flirtatious Witch of the Wastes) "hearts change".

And maybe he will come back to make Sophie an offer of marriage and then leave again when he's turned down, but I imagined for a moment that the Prince (who is possibly the movie's version of Prince Justin, so let's call him Justin) might just... move back into Howl's house without asking and stay there. There are several cases of precedent for this. Also, as Turniphead, he's shown several times helping Sophie with laundry, or playing with Markl, or helping the Witch of the Wastes move around, and Sophie deserves that kind of help around the house! Howl isn't going to reliably do chores.

And you know what? I think Howl would be into that shit. There's something very Wynne-Jonesian about it all still. It's tempting to write a post-canon fic about this situation from the movie with an extra dash of flavoring from the books. Like:

This is the infamous wizard Howl Pendragon/Jenkins, a vain draft-dodging flirt who likes to build moving castles to evade taxes too. The beautifully angry young woman with the silver hair over there is his wife, Sophie Hatter, who may or may not be an extremely powerful witch, but right now she's dusting and do not get in her way. This is Calcifer, the fire demon who used to have Howl's heart and is arguably his other life partner and also might be in love with Sophie, and this is arguably kind of actually his house. The old lady smoking a cigar over there is Howl's ex-girlfriend and former nemesis, the Witch of the Wastes, who now lives in their house. This is Markl, Howl's apprentice, kind of his kid, and there is no explanation of where he comes from or what happened to his parents. The dog used to be(?) the Royal Wizard's spy (Howl used to be her apprentice and potential successor) but now he also just lives here. And that's Prince Justin of Strangia, Sophie's house-boyfriend. Don't listen to the propaganda, he wasn't kidnapped by a heart-eating wizard; he used to be a cursed scarecrow and now he wants to be here to help Sophie do laundry. He's trying to homewreck and Howl thinks it's both funny and hot.

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hello google chrome refugees

don't use any of these browsers, they're also chrome

Here are my favorite firefox plugins for security/anti-tracking/anti-ad that I recommend you get

please get off chrome google is currently being investigated for being an Illegal Monopoly so get outta there okay love you bye

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Oh look, it seems everyone has been opted into the unfortunate "experiment" now. For everyone who has been blissfully using the old UI up until now, welcome to hell :)

Do you not like hell? Do you want to leave and crawl back up into the sunlight of the old UI? Well, have I got a link for you! A beautiful tumblr user has gone and fixed things beautifully for you already: https://github.com/enchanted-sword/dashboard-unfucker

You will need you have Tampermonkey installed on your browser of choice, and once that's done, just go to the github link above, and peruse the readme to install. And voila! You have your old dash back!

The authors of XKit Rewritten said during the experiments that at the time, since this was an "experiment" they weren't going to implement anything to revert to the old UI (although who knows if they'll do it now). And the dashboard unfucker has worked beautifully enough for me to where I genuinely couldn't tell if they had ended the experiment or not.

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I’m not going to explain myself

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i collect images with powerful ot3/third wheel energies so you don’t have to. i am releasing them to you, the public, so you may share in my bounty

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Low effort doodles. I was bored and caught up on get schooled again after like a year, weirdly enough- for as odd the beginning was, I’m intrigued. 

also hwajin na so uhhhhh yeah I mean lets be real, we all know what I default to when I dunno what to draw. 

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i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other, as in theyre the retelling of the same war with one saying here’s what happened, we all died, and it did not matter at all and another going hush little boy, of course we won, of course your friends came back

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Glaze is out!

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I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

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I love the idea of dead gods. Not in the sense of “hey i killed something supernaturally strong” but in the sense of “i killed it and it’s still a god.” It is still worshipped. prayers are still answered. miracles are performed in its name, even as it lies pierced by a thousand swords and burning with chemical fire. even as it drifts through vacuum, decapitated and bleeding molten rock. in cosmic spite of being shot through each eye and hurled into a plasma reactor, it still radiates the power of the divine in a way that primitive death cannot smother. the nature of godchild is not so simple as to be tied to the mortality, or immortality, of any living being.

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Images only, link to original Twitter at the bottom of post.

Full🧵 here:

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ishizu doodle

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If you’re still doing the animation q, what makes a portfolio stand out/what should someone do for a portfolio to best interest people? I always get mixed reviews, some people say having a personal art style is key, others say I should’ve have one, etc.

No worries at all! I’ve actually already did an IndustryQ about what I believe makes a solid portfolio and you can find that here! But you do bring up a very good question about personal art style. Even when I was a student the debate about whether or not it’s good to have a specific style was always an on-going topic. So before we begin, everything I will write below from my personal experience and opinion. Nothing I say is the absolute and something you have to follow, it’s always important to do what’s best for you and your voice as an artist.

And with that, let’s answer your question! Should I strive to have a distinct personal art style?

If I may be honest and candid, I don’t believe young artists should be stressed and worried about having a personal art style.

This is coming from someone who has been publicly ridiculed multiple times for drawing in an anime style all throughout my schooling. And even when I changed my style to something more cartoony or more realistic, I was still told the same thing. That was very much from my personal experience and I hope that has never happened to you ‘cause it’s very damaging to an artist’s growth. But if you’re wondering why I don’t think style should be stressed about, it’s because of an experience I had in college.

In college, I had a life drawing class with a very old man (he was like 70 when I was student). This man is the epitome of “fine art is the only true art that exists and I hate commercial arts.” You can imagine how I felt about him every class when he disregards anything that’s not “high art”. One day, when having a homework critique, a student raised his hand and asked the age-old question, “How do I develop a style?”

And he just scoffed at the student and replied, “You’re too young to even think about style. Learn how to execute first.”

That was seriously his answer. And it made me so mad. Not only was it dismissive and plain rude, but in the moment it felt like he didn’t even give the slightest solution to the student’s problem.

The semester continued and one day during break I was looking through some the art books in the classroom (it was the teacher’s personal collection). I always picked the Impressionist art books (Manet, Degas, Lautrec) and I think at some point the teacher noticed me doing that. So, he walked over to me, peered at the book in my hand and suggested I should look at a different artist (I believe it was a Baroque artist). And I just said, “Mm, I don’t really like that.”

“Why not?” He asked.

“I don’t know…I think I like how these guys depict the human body better.” I said with a shrug. We sat in a silence for a moment and when I looked at my teacher, he was smiling. And that shocked me ‘cause he doesn’t smile very often. After that he just walks off saying, “Then you should learn how and why they draw the human body the way they do.”

In the moment, I didn’t realize that he’d given me a hint about what he meant to the other student days prior. It didn’t take me until after college to realize what he was trying to say (and I still think was rude in delivery) was that style is a result of analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, experimenting and executing many different foundation techniques.

There are so many different types of styles in the world and it can be easy to feel like, “I have to draw like this if I wanna get job or be popular! If I don’t no one will notice me! How do I stand out?” I’ve had my fair share of those thoughts during my school days. But after college, I realized I was so focused on the end result (the style) that I wasn’t taking the time to understand the how and why they were able to execute art in that particular way (the analyzing, deconstruction, reconstruction). And since learning that lesson way back in college, how I view art styles is drastically now. From realistic, to graphic, to anime, to cartoony, I can look at a style and break down how that artist executed it in that way.

And the coolest thing about it, is that you can acquire multiple styles if you have exceptional foundational skills! It’s kind of like switching out a weapon for a specific type of enemy in a game. You don’t have to lose the style, you can just add it to your inventory and use it again when it’s needed again.

That’s why I don’t think younger artists should be so stressed and worried about developing a style. An artist’s style is a result of them spending years of learning, breaking down, experimenting, executing so many different methods of the core fundamentals and it’s ever changing. I know I say it in almost every IndustryQ but I cannot stress enough how vital it is to learn those foundation skills. It makes you a versatile artist. The reason why I can go from Rugrats to Spiderman to Bleach and adapt super quickly is because of my foundation skills. I learned how to analyze, break down, and reconstruct the art. Once I understand how the foundation rules work in the realm of a specific production, I can execute it in that style (also called on-model) of that show.

Now can you not be hired because you draw in a particular style? Yes, but you can also get hired for drawing in a particular style. How do you think design leads, directors and such get picked? Often times it’s because they have a personal style that aligns with a production’s particular sensibilities. There isn’t like…a real right or wrong when it comes to style because it always different and depends on the production. As long as you present solid drawing skills, you can be taught to draw in style of the production. So instead of worrying about having a personal style, I would implore you to hone your foundation skills while also studying/breaking down your favorite artists’ styles and try to understand what methods are they using to executing art in that specific way. You don’t have to have only one style, you can allow yourself to have an arsenal of them.

Of course, I can’t force you to listen to what I say nor do I expect you to take everything I write here wholeheartedly. All of this is from my personal experience and growth as an artist from school to now working in TV animation and even then I’m still developing my own “style”. I don’t know what that style is or what the outcome will be (just like how you, Anon, might not know what that will be for you). But if anything, don’t worry too much about having a style ‘cause as long as you have solid drawing skills you can adapt to any style.

I hope that answered your question!

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