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Stop for a while. do not cross . My name is Amna from Gaza. We lost everything, home, dreams, and everything that gives life. My children are living in bad conditions. I ask you to help me for the sake of my children, for the sake of humanity. Those who cannot donate can share the post and link

@occupationsurfer @northgazaupdates @nabulsi @elierlick @evelyn-art-05 @soon-palestine @fairuzfan @bibyebae @riding-with-the-wild-hunt

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The latter is more of a priority for me, cause imagine if I have abundant knowledge, it'll have to include knowledge of like the best diet and like exercises and stuff so I'll just get pretty by it y'know.

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wind breaker • some stills from the ending credits

i've rediscovered the joys of collecting anime stills lmao

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Rotten to the Core

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PRETTY BOYS🩷

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I look at this one uh from time to time -

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This is such a cute thing to do!

• No matter how much I procrastinate I'll always come through with the work (a work well done)

• I can keep secrets and I don't talk behind people's back

• I don't hold unnecessary grudges

• I try to be friendly with everyone

• I'm cute (?)

Tags: @rain-is-studying @an-atlas-or-other @kaleidoscopicsilverstar @red-velvet-eyeballs @kendall1n

Idk more people lol

Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 💗

aweee thank you smmm!! i dont like a lot of things about myself but here are someeeee!

im brave (well except for when it comes to bugs. then im a scaredy cat 🙀)

i can keep a secret (oh yeah v well)

i never talk about others behind their back

im intelligent (???)

okayy so since positivity is cool i wanna send this to all my moots and not just 10 so imma just be tagging yall here i hope you don't mind!!

@patheticintp (right back at yaaa ♡) @study-with-aura @o2studies @justiceforplutoo @very-sleepy-princess @study-diaries @anna--studies @haunteddreamersoul @iwishyouback28 @sparklingstarr-tv @suchita-tries-to-study @studylexie @wandering-whisperer @rain-is-studying @valiantcoffeelove @whozkay @letshavebrownies @kanha-sakhi @bluesuitcrusade @queer-red-panda + did i miss anyone else? 🤧

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Ivan knew how to do it

Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

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Whatever helps you sleep at night Oscar

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

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i will die without routine. also this routine is killing me

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Bruh nature just makes less and less sense everyday

Look at this cutie! And somehow this cutie's genes knew that if I evolve myself to look like this very specific caterpillar, I'll live more

Caterpillar-Mimicking Spider (Uroballus carlei): these jumping spiders are able to mimic the caterpillars of local lichen moths, possibly as a way to deter predators

This species is sometimes referred to as a "caterpillar jumping spider" or "caterpillar jumper." It was discovered in Hong Kong just a few years ago.

Researchers believe that the spiders are mimicking the caterpillars of lichen moths, which might help them to avoid being preyed upon. Lichen moth caterpillars ingest toxic substances that make them unpalatable to most predators, and their bodies are covered in urticating hairs that would be very unpleasant to eat; those defenses make the caterpillars excellent models for mimicry.

This article described the discovery back in 2019:

A new spider has been discovered, hiding in plain sight in one of the most populated places on the planet. And there’s a good chance it went undiscovered for so long because it doesn’t really look like a spider at all, but more like a fuzzy baby caterpillar.

Its cute, fuzzy appearance has led the newly discovered spider to be named Uroballus carlei after Eric Carle – author of the wildly popular children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 

One thing that is particularly striking about the new species is that it actually looks more like a caterpillar than a spider – hence its name. This intrigued Obenauer and Dr. Logunov, who contacted C&R Wildlife’s Roger Kendrick – an expert in the moths and butterflies native to Hong Kong. Kendrick revealed that living alongside Uroballus carlei in the wooded areas of the Eastern District were lichen moths. During the caterpillar stage, these moths are covered in bristly brown fur not dissimilar to Uroballus carlei. They live on a diet of lichen ... and it’s this diet that gives them their name.

Lichen commonly contains toxins. Lichen moths have adapted to safely eat lichen, but other creatures aren’t so lucky. For this reason, predators tend not to target lichen caterpillars, as they are as toxic and distasteful as their diet. Add to this their hairy bodies and the caterpillars aren’t exactly Cordon bleu.

Which brings us to our friend Uroballus carlei – because its athletic figure is long and slim line, and it also has a magnificent coat of brown hair, it closely resembles the lichen caterpillar. Dr. Logunov concludes that this may help it to mislead and therefore escape hungry predators.

Sources & More Info:

University of Manchester: Newly Discovered Jumping Spider is Master of Disguise

University of Manchester: Newly Discovered Jumping Spider Named for Children's Author

Journal of Entomology: A New Species of Uroballus from Hong Kong

BBC: Spider Named After the Very Hungry Caterpillar Author, Eric Carle

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Thanks!

Uhhhh okayyy, so I'm just in the wrong place always huh lmao at least I got potential

Picrew was so fun though, made me feel like 2018 with "Choose your story"

Saw this going around twitter, looked like fun. What? I'm not procrastinating (I am, I really am)

Make this picrew of yourself

Take this uquiz

Post the results side-by-side. No pressure tags: @alypink, @revnah1406, @madefordvarka, @deadbranch, @welldonekhushi, @kaitaiga, @applbottmjeens, @froglights-and-pearls

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Practicing the Arabic Alphabet

I honestly lucked out so much taking Arabic in college and learning basic MSA reading/writing/grammar from an excellent professor but I’m gonna compile the most useful things we did in class here to help people learning on their own (this isn’t focused on resources, just strategies, might do a separate post with worksheets and videos but they’re pretty easy to find):

Get the alphabet in front of you. We had a packet with a page for every letter with the letter written in the three positions, pronunciations, names, and lines to trace and write like 100 times. And then a page with all the diacritics. These sheets abound for free online. Make yourself an alphabet packet. Watch copious videos/listen to recordings going over the letters and how they sound. Repeat it back. Work in chunks and don’t move to the next set until you can recognize and write the current set.

Tracing! Learn to write the letters right to left and with the proper order from day one. This sounds obvious but people in my class were still drawing letters left to right as isolated shapes next to each other so idk maybe it’s not. Having nice handwriting in Arabic is both satisfying and absurdly helpful. Learn how the letters connect. Spend more time than you think is necessary on this.

Write English words and sentences phonetically using diacritics and Arabic letters. Do not worry about translation and spelling. Just make the connection between shape -> sound. Use anything you have. Lists of names, entire pages from books and magazines, texts from friends, menus. Literally anything. Work through how to make those words with the new alphabet. You will learn a surprising amount about the language and pronunciation by doing this. How do you translate sounds that don’t exist? What about multiple sounds where English only has one? Read it back with the accent.

Transcribe English phonetically. Same as above but do it without the English in front of you and just listening. Make that voice to visual connection.

Hand write word lists once you get to vocab. Then type them on your laptop and phone (if you want to be able to type in Arabic, also highly recommend a keyboard cover with the letters next to the Latin alphabet). Copy all the diacritics even though that’s not necessarily how native speakers do it. I have a notebook that looks like it belongs to lunatic toddler because it just has the same words and snippets written over and over again lmao.

Finally, transcribe Arabic. If you can use something with a transcript or captions to check your work even better! But don’t check for perfect spelling, check you used mostly the right letters and marks. You will definitely smash some words together and miss a silent or elided letter or something but try and hear the difference between ع and ا or ق and ك etc. The more sources you use the better.

We did this for one full semester of 50 minute classes 3 times a week while sprinkling in some basic vocab towards the second half. It felt like forever at the time but I never lost my ability to phonetically read and write in Arabic despite 4 years of complete non-use while living in America in an area without any significant Arabic-speaking population or language presence. It is absolutely CHISELED into my brain.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Simone DiMeo killing it as always

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Happy Father's Day to Atticus Finch and Atticus Finch only

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To be, or not to be (a wolf)