#Pencilgate

[sheepinthebigcity]

god some of y'all did not know me when pencilgate was a thing

[thee-leigh]

Dixon Ticonderoga is THAT girl.

Smells amazing like a fresh forest, feels so good in your hand, and that eraser, whew don’t even get me started on that eraser

[junsongs]

doesnt technically have any pencils in it but i saw other people taking notes and anyway here are some old notes from when i had to retake bio last semester because my bio courses didnt transfer when i transferred school 🥴

And anyway i just wanted to pit something in the tag because i miss you guys but i have so many exams rn and all my current notes are ugly.

also i exclusively use pens markers mild liners and occasionally colored pencils but dhdhdh

[cecexheart]

These pencils were IT for me. My easily distracted ass would just spin the eraser to feel the spring spin and a bitch was stingy with her pencils because people couldn’t be trusted to give back and it’ll always be the ones who don’t bring any sort of back to school asking for a pencil 🙄

[bbyikes]

what the fuck is pencilgate

[iorivalenti]

I remember whenever I forgot my pencil case the teachers always used to give me the smallest, dullest, broken, chewed up pencil & they always had such a bad smell, like damp wood & morning breath 🤢

[jaysar]

guys i spent nearly half an hour looking for the exact pencil i use at college and this is the one. i love this one. i have had it since i started uni but um i have apparently lost it recently so <3 rip

[terryians]

Pencil gate? Here’s what I’m using to take notes for my lecture right now!! Been using these cheap bic pencils for like 6 years now I refuse to use anything else

[lukeslywalkers]

i dont use pencils because im a sad writer who must write everything in ink so i can dramatically cross it out but i wish i was lying when i tell y’all i have two and a half cups filled with every color pilot g2 pens. they are superior and i will not take any criticism

also this is what heaven looks like

[whattheflameo]

no need to get defensive, I was just trying to help. your concepts would be a lot more interesting and probably popular if you started drawing digitally. pencil is pretty outdated at this point- theres no color or shadow. nobody ever got popular by doing what theyre used to. if your art is still growing, theres no reason not to grow it digitally.

Oh goodness, anon. Thank you for explaining art history to me. I’ve got a fairly long reply incoming and no, I’m not adding a read-more for you to ignore :)

Pencil art is my home. To clarify my previous answer, it is what I enjoy doing. That’s where my comfort stems from. But you’re right, my concepts are interesting. Like these ones:

I can draw baby Lin Beifong. I can draw an OC. I can draw Lin in a suit and sketch out three options for a complex menuki design.

Pencil travels. It resists water. Paper does too, relatively speaking, when the relative comparison is electronic. I can take a sketchbook with me anywhere. On a dive boat:

Up a volcano:

Hey anon, how many volcanoes have you climbed recently? Let me tell you, when you move sixteen miles through the garua (do you even know what garua is?) and sulfur clouds, you don’t want a tablet with you. Your tablet will die. My pencil lives on.

Color, you ask for?

Shading?

Have you any mountains to miss? Any whales you’ve swam with? Any drawings you’d like to share?

I like my pencil, fucker. I can do more with it than you can probably do with your hands overall. Digital art is amazing, I agree. Perhaps it translates to the internet better. And for now, I leave it to the digital artists. I’m not switching media entirely because some rando on Tumblr-dot-fucking-com that can’t even talk to me off anon thinks I’ll get more likes for it. And I have much more to say, if I weren’t about to block your pompous ass. 

TL;DR:

[mohlinas]

"Do you have a pencil?"

        julie had been wondering if reggie was aware that he was currently on his third ( fourth? even she’s lost track at this point ) pencil — but it looks like that question’s now been answered. 

        she could tell him. 

        or she could see how many it’ll take until he realizes. 

        in her defense, it’s been a reeeeeaaally long day. julie could use something to cheer her up, and it’s not like loading reggie up with pencils is going to do anything bad. if anything, it’ll make them more productive! the more pencils he collects, usually, the more focused he is on writing, so technically, she’s helping. julie grabs a pencil from the table, twirling it across her fingers once like a tiny purple baton before she holds it out to him eraser first. 

        ( he’s distracted, she doesn’t want him stabbing himself in the hand ‘cause he reached for it without looking. wait — can ghosts even stab themselves with pencils? ... she’s getting off track. )

        ❛ yeah, reg, here. ❜

[trascapades]

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💖👏🏿✏👩🏿‍🏫📺 #ArtIsAWeapon #PencilGate UPDATE: Taylor's pink perfect attendance pencil was taken by one of her classmates (I posted about this last week). After her Mom @tabgeezy's video of Taylor explaining this injustice went viral, she appeared on the @theellenshow! Check the video on @youtube: https://youtu.be/IKn4naaLuqs! Yay Taylor! ✊🏿 Yay Ellen! _____________________ Reposted from The Ellen Show: Ellen met 7-year-old Taylor James, who recently went viral with a video of her explaining how her perfect attendance pencil was stolen by a classmate. Taylor chatted about the situation, and not only did Ellen give Taylor a slip that will allow her to maintain her perfect attendance streak, Ellen’s friends at @Shutterfly surprised her with a special scholarship, and got a huge pencil none of her classmates can get away with taking. #TaylorJames #ProfessionalBlackGirl #EllenDeGeneres #Kindness #Generosity #Love #STEM #BlackGirlStudents #PinkPerfectAttendancePencil #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/B8easbpHVFc/?igshid=3v38qntipn24

[getbant]

You may lose your vote if you don’t take a pen!

[icave-dave]

iPad 2022 Apple PencilGate EXPLAINED!

[alysia-constantine-blog]

This ushers in the era of the opposite of those EAT THE RICH bumper stickers everyone had back in the day. It's EFF THE NOT-RICH.

[trascapades]

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😂✏💖✊🏿 #ArtIsAWeapon I feel you Taylor!! We gotta let folks know that we will not stand for our hard-earned awards being stolen!! 😂🥰 #JusticeForTaylor #BlackHistoryMonth #PencilGate Y'all, please watch Taylor state her entire case on her Mom's @igtv_id! Reposted from @tabgeezy She earned her ✏️ for perfect attendance so she was super serious😂 🤦🏽‍♀️. I told her it wasn’t that serious and they all do the same thing 😂 😂 😂#TraScapades #BlackGirlMagic #BabySisAintWithTheShits #ILoveHer https://www.instagram.com/p/B8CKIREg86L/?igshid=1aaf3fjk23lyf