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I don't even use a stylus, I use my finger.

For traditional art, I really love bic ballpoint pens on cheap blank notepads.

It takes practice, but that's a given.

"I can't make my own art because I can't afford a fancy drawing tablet and don't have room for physical items etc etc"

My friend, my pal, my buddy. Allie Brosh created the entirety of Hyperbole and a Half, a celebrated webcomic that influenced an entire generation of meme culture, with nothing but the trackpad of a shitty laptop, MSPaint, and fingers that barely avoided frostbite in the winter.

Go to the dollar store and buy a cheap stylus to use with a free app on your phone. Use the aforementioned shitty laptop and trackpad. Heck, draw on the back of your extortionate bills with a knockoff sharpie.

Just because your art doesn't look like Rembrandt, doesn't mean it's not worthwhile.

Just for the love of [insert something you care about here] please don't use fucking generative AI

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“This is your 35th attempt to elicit an emotional response from me.”

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Last night I witnessed Leslie Nielsen being murdered, and it wasn't even funny.

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I embroidered a jean jacket for my soon-to-be sister-in-law’s birthday, and then finally finished it just in time for Candlenights, 6 months later 🎉

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From my own independent research, a heck of a lot of trans people play board games.

i think trans people need more fun stereotypes. so many groups get at least one that is like, offensive but also kinda baffling, like "gays walk fast" or "germans are obsessed with efficiency." all we get are like "evil sex predator" shit

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If you guys are feeding Wildcoast Pet Foods I would throw it out now. Kikidoodle an illustrator has lost 2 cats and probably more soon already from an avain flu positive batch food from Wildcoast Pet Foods.

The company is not responding to this well at all and is scrubbing their social media. I highly recommend getting any cats you own OFF a raw diet as it has dire consequences, and these companies are not being as safe and transparent as you think they are!

The positive batch was batch 2266, the company is acting like it's a possibility that their feed infected these cats and more and not a fact since the feed has been tested and it has came back positive.

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This is legit a change and an improvement since I was a kid. They would absolutely pressure you, and if you didn't want alcohol in particular they looked at you as if you had three heads. The current generation is doing way better than mine at accepting people's diversity and autonomy.

heres the realest shit ever: literally no one is going to pressure you to do drugs in high school

literally no one

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Yes, and if you have a garage with power, you can put the slow cooker in the garage to do it so your house doesn't smell of onions forever. You're welcome.

i need you to be aware that you can make a giant batch of caramelized onions to keep in the freezer and defrost at will. that is legal and they can't stop you. they can't take this from you

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I was curious about this, not because I was surprised the cat was "neither male nor female" but because I was surprised this is a "first". I mean, intersex cats exist. Any time an apparently male cat is tortie/calico, for example, that's an intersex animal, probably XXY.

Turns out, though, that this kitty is very rare - they have no external genitals, and vets can find no evidence of internal reproductive organs either. So yeah, fair enough, I've literally never heard of an animal being born like that! Isn't nature something?

They/them pussy

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As a microcosm of this, I went on many strikes for pay while I worked at a college. The strikes were successful, we won pay rises. I personally never saw the benefit, because the pay I lost to the strikes was more than the raises, so why did I do it?

Because it had to be done. Because otherwise in ten years everyone would be poorer, because we didn't stand up now.

When you're in a situation where protest is the only way to express resistance, you have to do it, because the alternative is no resistance. The effects and benefits can sometimes be hard to quantify, especially on an individualistic basis, but the alternative just isn't acceptable.

Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.

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Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

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NTA

As seen on “Reddit” site

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Moon Rabbit

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being demisexual and reciprosexual is so fucking weird like what's next?? you gotta answer my riddles three to sleep with me???