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It's hilarious when older kids' cartoons and movies do the thing where the main villain has some comically Explicitly Villainous Name, and is also the sibling of another character who has a normal name. Like having the villain be foreign to the setting, and it being plausible that their name doesn't have negative associations where they're from is one thing, or having the name only be associated with villainous things because the villain was bad enough to have that shit named after them, but a setting where it's obvious that their parents just did that for no reason is hilarious.

Like oh damn, you have no idea why your other child Malice Ever-Bitter The Foul just can't be liked and get along with people like your favourite Princess Goldenchild The Third? That must be so hard for you, can't imagine what you're going through rn.

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I think Gandalf's problem was spending too much time with the elves. Like yeah I know he's fucking ancient and was probably there when the world was being built, but the elvish languages are so damn incomprehensible that I could imagine he'd be walking around with his head so full of quenyan verb conjugations that he'd walk past an innocent hobbit telling him "good morning" and answer with "what the fuck does that even mean?"

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found one of your posts on pinterest. Thoughts?

No thanks, I'm trying to quit. Been successfully thought-free for the past three years now.

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Mashed potatoe. For dinner.

no nuance you gotta answer, the leading answer after the first hour from posting wins

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I was trying to look up whether other languages have a specific word for first snow, and instead stumbled upon a language I had never encountered before, which has one of the most beautiful written alphabets that I have ever seen. Assamese, or Asamiya, which is spoken mainly in the state of Assam in India. Like holy shit look at how pretty that is.

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no nuance you gotta answer, the leading answer after the first hour from posting wins

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This is so baffling to me because I honestly grew up thinking that small kids all hate other small kids like they're territorial animals fighting for space and resources.

Passed by a woman with one of those double-stroller things with a small baby in the top container and about ~2-year-old in the bottom one, and overheard her conversation with the toddler.

"Baby."

"Yes, we've got the baby right here."

"Baby :c"

"The baby is right here sweetie, above you in the carrier."

"Onni. :c"

"Baby Onni is right here. He's still with us sweetie."

"Baby. :c"

"Darling I can't put him down there with you. He's safe in his own seat."

"Baby. :C"

(Onni is a finnish male name, which means "luck", "fortune", and "happiness", in the sense of being perfectly content, wanting and needing nothing that one does not already have.)

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Passed by a woman with one of those double-stroller things with a small baby in the top container and about ~2-year-old in the bottom one, and overheard her conversation with the toddler.

"Baby."

"Yes, we've got the baby right here."

"Baby :c"

"The baby is right here sweetie, above you in the carrier."

"Onni. :c"

"Baby Onni is right here. He's still with us sweetie."

"Baby. :c"

"Darling I can't put him down there with you. He's safe in his own seat."

"Baby. :C"

(Onni is a finnish male name, which means "luck", "fortune", and "happiness", in the sense of being perfectly content, wanting and needing nothing that one does not already have.)

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The women you draw reminded me about the ancient Greek courtesan Phryne, who famously was the model for a sculpture of Aphrodite. The sculpture doesn't exist anymore, but I like to imagine it would look very much like the women you draw.

I thought I recognised the name, and I did:

This was the woman who - according to the legend - was taken to court for blasphemy, and got out of the accusation by stripping in front of the court and having the jury agree that she did, in fact, possess a flawless figure. Greeks being funny the way they were, they considered beauty to be a sign of the favour of the gods, and her entire argument was "if the gods weren't in my favour, they would not have given me such spectacular tits."

And the jury simply could not debunk such a solid argument.

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Hey I figured out an easy perspective trick on Gimp:

Yeah my Gimp is 50-75% in finnish because I'm a funny bitch. Anyway you make a new layer and then go down the selection to "render grid" and render a grid of your own preferences, though I recommend starting big.

Then you go to the "perspective" tool. I recommend copying the grid layer before this, so you've got multiples of the same size and layout available. But take the one you're going to use now, and grab the perspective tool.

yooooooooooo

Repeat with as many as you like/want and/or need.

Lighten the grid layer and sketch on that shiiiiit

Use this power for good, evil, or whatever way your little heart desires. I am not your mother, your god, or your conscience.

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A lot of the time parents who themselves had a traumatic childhood will simply repeat the cycle, treating their children the exact same way that their own parents did, so the same cycle keeps repeating. And some parents who themselves had a traumatic childhood will decide to not do that to their kids, and instead fuck up parenting their own kids in some completely different sort of way. Throw some freestyle in there to spice things up.

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getting some rough shading down...

what kind of clothes do I give her?

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Had a dream that was apparently some YA story, where the protagonist was a 12-14-year-old kid who was inexplicably weak on the left side of his body and needed to use crutches to walk.

Then enters some distant uncle he never knew he had - who had been in the news some years earlier due to strangling a bear to death in self-defense, so the protagonist knew of him as some Florida Man type legend, but had no idea that Holy Shit The Bear Guy Is My Uncle - and the uncle explains that yeah no you've got a shard of magical powers lodged between your nerves. Wizard shrapnel. I feel like the uncle knew how it had gotten there but the protagonist didn't think to ask and the uncle wasn't volunteering the information.

And the process of getting the shrapnel removed was excruciating and turns out that the uncle may not have been as much "tough love because you need to get through this" type of a guy as just a harsh dickwad who was just feigning to be doing this for the kid's sake but was personally benefitting from this in some unseen way. But he wasn't lying about the shard thing, that thing needed to be removed, and getting it dislodged would allow the protagonist to get better and also unlock his dormant wizard powers.

Then once it was out neither of the two happened. The weakness was caused by something else and it seemed like he never had secret magic powers in the first place. I woke up.

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I'm going to use this as an experiment on what'll happen if I use the same lineart and colours on mirrored figures who are shaded differently.

what kind of clothes do I give her?

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Yeah that's why I never get anything good from those Roast Me things where you post a picture of yourself and the funniest/most scorching insult wins. Like come on why would they think that somebody who's clearly wearing pink hair, a scraggly beard and skinny jeans on purpose would be insulted by "I genuinely literally from the bottom of my heart can't tell what gender you are."

As a rule of thumb, the difference in smart and stupid peoples' insults is that intelligent people try to insult people by saying things that they personally would be insulted by, and stupid people insult people by the same insults that they've personally received. So while both types can adjust their selections according to the context at hand, they both are bound by the human tendency to assume their own experiences to be universal, and that deep down everybody else also thinks and feels exactly like they do.

So someone generally highly intelligent would try to choose an insult and opt for something like "you have no original insights, all of your points that are not worthless nonsense are ideas that you parrot from your betters, hoping to be mistaken for one. Your ideas of yourself as an intelligent person are delusions of grandeur, and the only original thought you've ever had, that nobody else has ever thought, is thinking that you would have anything worthwile to say."

Whereas someone who is not very bright would go for something like "no, you are too stupid to argue with and don't know what ad hominem means!"

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As a rule of thumb, the difference in smart and stupid peoples' insults is that intelligent people try to insult people by saying things that they personally would be insulted by, and stupid people insult people by the same insults that they've personally received. So while both types can adjust their selections according to the context at hand, they both are bound by the human tendency to assume their own experiences to be universal, and that deep down everybody else also thinks and feels exactly like they do.

So someone generally highly intelligent would try to choose an insult and opt for something like "you have no original insights, all of your points that are not worthless nonsense are ideas that you parrot from your betters, hoping to be mistaken for one. Your ideas of yourself as an intelligent person are delusions of grandeur, and the only original thought you've ever had, that nobody else has ever thought, is thinking that you would have anything worthwile to say."

Whereas someone who is not very bright would go for something like "no, you are too stupid to argue with and don't know what ad hominem means!"