#Also-Rans

[whump-it-like-its-hot]

So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

[mywifeleftme]

343: Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club // English Garden

English Garden Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club 1979, Epic

Bruce Woolley was one third of the original Buggles trio, and cowrote their eventual massive hit single “Video Killed the Radio Star,” but split from partners Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes during the recording of their debut The Age of Plastic. I can’t figger it: guy quits the band, takes the two most promising songs they wrote together (“Radio Star” and “Clean, Clean”) and puts them out on his own album a few months before the Buggles can… and there’s no blood feud here? If you’re the Buggles in this situation, you’re like, hey, that guy fucked us! If you’re Woolley after the Buggles hit it big, you’re like, hey, I fucked myself, which is even more cause for pissiness. But everybody seems to have remained amicably detached in a perfectly new wave way, and within a year or two Woolley and Horn were even once again writing together.

Age of Plastic (and specifically its versions of the songs Woolley worked on with the Buggles) was a great success; meanwhile, Woolley and the Camera Club’s English Garden (self-titled for the North American release) became an instant footnote. Well, it’s no lost classic, but there’s plenty to like for new wave freaks. You can kind of think English Garden as a missing link between the superficially “futuristic” sound rock acts like the Cars flirted with and the fully synthesized pop the Buggles would soon codify (essentially “inventing the ‘80s”). A lot of it’s quite hard rocking in the general vein of the deeply underrated Sweet, but there’s also plenty of Gary Numan-esque knob twiddling (courtesy of a young Thomas Dolby). For what it’s worth, I actually like Woolley’s delicious power pop rendition of “Radio Star” a lot more than the Buggles’ landmark smash—it sounds like one of those treasured-by-fans demos that nails the sound more satisfyingly than the polished final product.

343/365

[silentvoidtreeshop]

asked my brother if he'd seen goncharov (1973) and he looked at me and grabbed this beanie that hes had for 2 years that ive seen but never read the tag on it and

turns out he and his friends got matching beanies and made lore a full TWO YEARS ago

[vmkhoneyy]

“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!!!!

[chloesimaginationthings]

This is Scott Cawthon’s biggest regret in FNAF..

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[kayawolfhorse]

Discuss

[captain-flint]

Tommy 'my priority is Evan' Kinard

[teruri-ruri]

Haitanis and their eyesight problems.

[tiresomespaceplant]

thinks about martin blackwood for the 1892938th time

[synthsays]

Monster Falls girlies how we feeling about this one.

Happy Fiddleford Friday Y'all

(Bonus art under cut)

And one for the fiddauthor peeps

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.

[almondpiglet]

was doodlin today… the new train attendent collab art goes hard

[eightw]

i know it’s not a popular opinion, but shuro is very cute about falin.

(these are from the last chapter of the manga, after falin wakes up. bottom left is after she's hugged everyone else, bottom right is him looking at falin)

[scatterbrainedbot]

cass, a professional: order of badass donbot, extra dramatic entrance!

me, nodding, banned from most kitchens: leo drama and angst, heard chef!

(shoutout to @somerandomdudelmao for yet again making feel emotions i cannot fully explain)