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im reading about cowboy phrases and sayings and like 95% of them are just solid life advice

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I find it kind of stupid how 'half full' vs 'half empty' is framed as an optimist/pessimist thing. If it starts full and gets halfway drained, it's half empty. If it starts empty and gets halfway filled, it's half full. If you don't know the starting state it's both simultaneously.

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face of a man who has known sorrow

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beavers are one of those things you just accept without question as soon as adults tell you about it as a kid and then many years later in your adulthood you look up one day and go wait, what do you mean there exists a species of rodent hydrological engineer that knows how to build properly ventilated freestanding houses for itself, that doesn't make any sense

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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

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Interestingly framed view of ‘Europa’ at the ice, by Dun Iroise

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anyway look how foggy it was the other day

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I want emo versions of idioms

Like, instead of ““you’re barking up the wrong tree” it’s “you’re panicking at the wrong disco”

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im not a huge fan of genderbends but ive gotta say i do have a lot of respect for when you can tell someone has put actual thought into how a character would be affected by being raised a different gender. like some characters have gender related hang ups and toxic ideals and perform such a heightened ideal of their gender that you just know genderbending them would completely change their character design. and others its like. you could make this man a woman and it would change absolutely nothing.

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Salmon mindset mspaint !

It's up as a print on my inprint <3

I didn't realise how much I missed doing this ;w; I love drawing in mspaint it's great ! And I'm so so proud of this one- it's the best thing I ever did in paint by far

And a speedraw to prove I really made it in paint/to see my process...ect...it's a bit of an eye strain tho so if you're sensitive be careful ! (Especially toward the end when I accidentaly zoomed in then got very confused because I couldn't find the zoom out option fjfjfk)

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Yapping and showing how I cheated for the typo below vvv

I must admit............ I used photoshop to plan the typo and design elements jdjddjdk

Using tracing paper on my wacom felt so wrong ngl

If you never tried (seriously) painting in mspaint, you should ! It's not as hard as a lot of people say it is, and it's a great exercise in painting (at least if you do it like me) :) it forces you to analyse the colors more because you can't color pick, you can't correct them with like hues or levels and you don't have special layers to help you. But it's still digital art so it's cheaper than to buy real paints and you don't have to mix them or worry about them drying ...ect... It's actually pretty close to my gouache process now that I think about it- but less annoying and hard and nerve wracking (when I was forced by art school to make gouache studies- terrible memories) And at the end you get a mix of digital painting and pixel art ! How fun

Also ! This is heavily based on a reference :) here is the little salmon I used for this !

PS : fur is still the worse thing to draw in mspaint

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he makes me so happy and so profoundly sad at the same time

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I don't want to be "private jet" rich, I want to be "buy everything I want in a museum shop" rich

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Guy whose wife comes out to him as a lesbian and he just sighs and starts googling ‘estrogen near me’

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Naming the female razor brand Venus is so personally offensive to me....you think Venus the goddess of love and sex and beauty was shaving her PUSSY? Go kill yourself

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i never want to read the words "live action remake" ever AGAIN!!!!

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ppl are always like “ao3 authors LOVE when you kudos and comment on an old fic!!” but one time i kudos’d an old fic and the next day the author orphaned it. so.