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would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

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on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport the first person on the moon went there by accident and promptly died. The next dozen or so people also went by accident, and also died. Number 14 figured out that people who go to the moon die and very cleverly brought a sword and six weeks of travel rations. This did not help.

No one on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport ever figured out why people die in space because they don’t need airplanes and never found it particularly interesting to climb tall mountains. Astronomers use telescopes to take pictures of the ever-growing pile of corpses on the moon.

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Reading articles about MrBeast's dominance of YouTube is fucking bizarre because, from my perspective, the dude isn't even on YouTube. I've never watched one of his videos. YouTube has, to the best of my knowledge, never recommended one of his videos to me. Every thumbnail screenshot of his looks like something you could tell me was a photoshopped parody of YouTube culture, and I'd believe you. No one I follow on YouTube ever mentions him, even negatively or in passing. The first time I ever heard his name was in regards to the quality of his ghost kitchens. The only way I know he isn't a mass, shared hallucination is that I've witnessed the thoroughly mid-looking chocolate bars he sells at Walmart for some reason

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I'm fucking dying at this page someone shared on Bluesky.

Behold, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide that forgot to close its <h3> tags.

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The voices in my head.

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Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

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Big news from Tartarus I'm just so proud of him

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Eggman’s suped-up kart can be unlocked in the ‘Sonic Adventure 2: Battle’ racing mini-game by clearing all of Eggman’s missions. Support us on Patreon

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Because I was now a man, I could not speak about what it was like to be a woman. Because I had been a woman, I could never really speak about what it was like to be a man. Do the math: I could not speak. It was a double erasure, a double bind, in which every experience I had was false, and so nothing I said was credible. I could no longer derive authority from my experiences before transition, and shouldn’t even cite them — I had never “really” been a woman, so those things hadn’t happened — but those experiences could always be weaponized against me to prove I wasn’t “really” the man I claimed to be. They call it erasure, when this happens. I wasn’t prepared for how literal the term was. Every day, I could feel myself disappear.

— Eraserhead: On writer's block and being a gender traitor by Jude Doyle

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People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

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i’ve been trying to teach myself how to draw and your art has been a huge inspiration for me, do you have any tips on how to do line art like you do?

to be quite honest i try to avoid doing proper lineart whenever possible! it used to be a prominent feature of my art but I realized i just kinda felt miserable doing it. any lines you see are either painted on top, the sketch, or im doing something heavily stylized so I'll just show my process & share some general tips!

I try to stay as loose as possible and let myself leave in some mistakes as if I were inking with a real pen and paper. Another thing I recommend is playing around with whatever brushes and seeing what sticks! I prefer a much more textured gritty line over something super smooth but that isnt for everyone so playing around with different options is ideal

Also will leave some external resources under the cut!

FRAMED INK: book about comic/storyboarding composition but still has some bits in there about how different inking techniques can change the mood of a scene.

GUIDE TO SPOTTING TANGENTS: Self explanatory. Tangents can be a real pain when it comes to lineart so its best to learn What they are and How to spot them

SPOTTING BLACK AREAS: going more in depth with laying down your black areas

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Concepting a different form for my character Thay! This time in the flavor of a skinned beast…

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time