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[tapakah0]

Wait... Tapa, you're FUCKING 19 Y/O?! (Big /POS) I'M ADMIRING SOMEONE WHO'S MY AGE BUT WITH THE SKILLS OF A GOD?! (HUGE /POS)

Oh, Lord. Might faint if I don't sit down *says the one laying in bed cause executive dysfunction wont let them wake up*.

Tapa, really, I hugely admire and look up to you. Maybe I don't interact that often with your content, and rather I follow you because of Cass or not, I really admire how versatile you are when it comes to art. Want comic? Don't worry, there's really good and amazing comics in the master post. Want animatics? BAM! This artist's known for it's CAS animatics, and literally have done most of these in the span of, what? THREE FUCKING HOURS?! (really, that's sick and cool. Hope you rested after those /Pos). Want illustrations? Well, my my, look furthermore and you shall receive.

I really admire and look up to you, and now that you might be my age, or a little older, it both, Ups and Downs me: Up's because the fact that you got to this point and have such a progress behind you, means that I can too. Just need a bit more of discipline and focus, because I would really need the focus. And Down's because, I could be there, and just can't one way or the other. I barely know the theorics about animation/animatic and illustration, even less about doing so, and I can't really focus for more than 12hs, (and I really tried).

You're amazing, Tapa, and you truly are someone admirable. Someone loveable (Still can't forget you about your animatic “Twins”, it broke me into shards to a different level /Pos). And someone I aspire to be. When it comes to skills Ofc.

Hope you're well rested, feed, and drink enough water. I really love your art and how you have improve into them /POS /LH

Ohhh, sweet, thank you ;;~;; But I need you to know that I myself don't know a lot of things, still learning them, don't know a lot of basics about animation, I know artists my age that worked so much more then me, but it's interesting that over time you just get used to it, don't get jealous, don't push yourself, just start enjoying what you do I hope you'll get to the height you wanna climb!

[starrypawu]

hug?

yes

[space-writer]

pointed this out to one of my friends, in this image, j looks like she has eyebags

i feel so bad for her

@lotusthegreatdragon this is the friend btw!!

(maybe follow them, their art is good!)

[rakiah]

will you make keychains of other twst characters? Side characters? Baul, Della, Vil’s dad, etc

Hi there! Oh I wish I can, I enjoyed doing Maleanor very much~ So maybe, when the spark will come!

[joannaliangart]

and, hold (2024) series of 3 books made from walnut shell, hazelnut shell, and scarlet runner bean pod. woodcut prints and poetry.

About the wonderful magic, hope, and love that is a seed.

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Was introduced to the fun and beauty that is those lil diy Staples stamps back in my democratic multiples class, and was happy at the chance to use the one I bought haha. Was a little tedious putting in all the lil letters for each word, but stamping it was sooo satisfying

this ones cute and fun! Enjoyed carving the lil bean stamp C: I just used some scrap wood, it was kinda. a struggle lol And was my first time trying to make a woodcut but they turned out not bad I think

partly inspired by the word Encased, with its various definitions being:

be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).

provide (a spirit) with a physical form.

include or contain (something) as a constituent part.

Twas the first project I made for my art+text studio course!

[artichow]

big sigh... the depression is depressioning yeah

[lunarsands]

Feeling Tired(tm) atm, but there is a purring sleepy cat on my lap.

[70slesbian]

i think i’ve undone years of self care this week (i haven’t been home more than for sleeping i couldn’t even tell u what meals i’ve had and i don’t even want to know how much alcohol and i’m coming down with a cold)

[bypatia]

WHHHHHYYYYY am i so stressed and anxious and high strung? I got the fellowship of my dreams, i successfully got into the course for the career change(!!!) i was working so hard for, i am moving out of my parents’ house (again) and soon!!! babe all there’s left to do is chill and binge read.

[n3bismel]

MY LIFE IS A BIG FAT JOKE BECAUSE IM LITERALLY JUST CAME HOME FROM THAILAND AND THEY'RE GOING THERE ☠️☠️

[wastedonthesebutterflies]

Ughhhhh

[therainbowinhell]

Take a breath and take a break, Charlie.

[phagethemage]

A recurring theme of my life is being trapped in the building again (at work)

And it's getting to be, I'm here more frequently than home.

This sucks.

[marvelsmostwanted]

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

• Betches News on Instagram (screencaps)

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

I took a 6yo boy to his placement and as soon as I got him situated in the back he saw my SpongeBob driver’s license air freshener hanging on my rearview mirror. He asked if that’s really SpongeBob’s driver’s license and I said yeah it’s real. Then he asked where I got it if SpongeBob’s underwater so I told him I wore a helmet like Sandy and stole it from SpongeBob when he slept, and without missing a beat he goes “That’s identity fraud”