#ask the animator!

[norman-heckin-polk]

you should tell the story of you and norman baking bread for the first time together. at some point

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alright, but if this gets a little sappy, that's not my fault. you asked for this. /silly

we'd been living together maybe... five weeks at this point? norman's had my bread before at this point, and expressed interest in learning to make it. so when i got around to making another loaf, i was going to make banana bread (i was really into banana bread around that time since it was a pretty new concept, only really showing up in cookbooks once baking powder entered the market in the 1930s. man, i feel old thinking about that...) but i decided against it since norman wanted to help, and opted for a normal loaf.

issues started almost immediately when i asked norman to grab the flour, and... it immediately dropped the bag onto the floor. i'm still not sure how it happened, i was too busy putting the sugar into the bowl. i also don't know why the bag was open when norman grabbed it. but whatever occurred, the result was our kitchen floor being covered in flour.

so we had to stop what we were doing to grab a broom and clean that up, and i had to try my best not to laugh the whole time because norman was deeply embarrassed by the situation.

luckily, we still had enough flour in the bag after that.

combining the dry ingredients went off without any other issues, but then i made the mistake of asking norman to crack the eggs for me. cue our counters, as well as both our faces, being splattered with egg and egg shell. yet another pause to clean the egg mess (and wash our faces)

i had it try again, this time with me assisting it, and we got it done with minimal egg shells entering the bowl.

once the wet and dry ingredients were combined, i started kneading it, i asked if norman wanted to try, it said sure. it tried for about two seconds before grimacing and saying "nevermind," it washed its hands immediately, and then complained about the texture of raw bread dough for a good ten minutes while i finished kneading it.

the rest of the process went relatively smoothly, aside from us forgetting the bread in the oven and subsequently burning it.

essentially, several messes were made, there were a couple egg shells in the final product, and we burnt it. but we had fun (i did, at the very least.) and norman swore it would never do that again. spoiler alert, it asked to help me with the very next loaf i made a couple weeks later. things went much smoother that time.

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[beebfreeb]

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[tofupixel]

witch's treehouse (updated)

cross stitch pattern here

support me | commission me | buy a print | buy a sticker

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[notrobinsomethingworse]

Dick, deadpan: You hid a racoon in your room.

Jason, crouched by a sleeping racoon currently sleeping on a pillow. Theres scratches all over his arms and legs. He doesn’t seem bothered: yeah? What ya gonna do about it?

Dick: Un-hide? The goddamn racoon in your room?

Jason: But I’ve named him.

Dick: Well, un-name him.

Jason: He’s Barty.

Dick: I don’t care.

Jason: …

Jason: We can use him to fuck with Bruce.

Dick: …

Dick: Would Barty like some food?

[great-and-small]

I recently watched a video of a pair of Sandhill Cranes raising a Canada Gosling, and it seems that it isn't the first example of it in the last few years. Are cranes like penguins where they will steal eggs/hatchlings if they had an unsuccessful breeding season, or is there some other reason that they 'adopt' baby geese?

If you follow enough birding groups in Sandhill crane territory, you’ll eventually see someone post a baby duckling or goose that is following around a pair of cranes. It’s not common, but it happens enough to be a thing!

Sandhill cranes don’t seem to steal babies, but they have an extremely strong parenting instinct. If they find a baby that needs taking care of, you can bet they’re going to take damn good care of it. There are documented cases of Sandhill cranes adopting unrelated crane chicks as well as geese and domestic ducks. They just love babies. There has even been some research into using Sandhill cranes as foster parents for endangered whooping cranes in order to re-establish a non migrating population of the latter. Sandhill cranes are super parents!

[spyres-moved]

[kelddaa]

I was plagued by a vision

[ot3]

i love the artistic stylings of studio ghibli as much as anyone else does but im kind of sick of anything with like vivid environments and big blue skies being branded as ghibliesque. because its like. you know where else you can hypothetically find some vivid environments with big blue skies? my friend the great and wonderful outdoors are here for you

[norman-heckin-polk]

hiya, norman 'ere, it/its pronouns. nice t' meet ya.

quick note, doubles please don' interact. y' make me damn uncomfortable. nothin' 'gainst y' personally, 'm jus' not good wi' doubles.

i also aint interested in talkin' to mister drew 'r mister piedmont, thomas connor, 'n especially not lawrence. so if yer an irl or kin or fictive o' any o' 'em, please don' interact. 'm sure yer wonderful people, but i aint interested.

m' friends wally franks (he/they) an' audrey drew (she/he) @wally-friggin-franks, shawn flynn (any pronouns, she/her pref), susie campbell (she/they), grant cohen (they/them), 'n m' husband henry stein (he/him)

'n quick note, 'm a system, grant, susie, shawn, stein, 'n i are fictives. the other 4 might post here occasionally.

thanks fer stoppin' by.

#the projection booth -> answerin' asks, if i get any.

#torn film -> vents, feel free t' block 'at.

#reel repairs -> memories i feel like sharin'.

#flickering lenses -> my original posts.

#projected film -> things ive reblogged.

#from th' page t' th' screen -> posts where 'm gettin' a bit mushy 'bout stein.

#my biggest inspiration -> posts where steins gettin' a bit mushy 'bout me.

#sketches and rambles -> steins talkin' tag.

#sketch references -> things stein reblogged.

#the key frames -> mems stein has posted.

#ask the animator! -> stein answering asks.

#angelic musings -> susies talkin' tag.

#cartoon gospel -> things susie reblogged.

#i just had a great idea -> shawns talkin' tag.

#do ye think i could reach that? -> things shawn reblogged.

#sharp tools... -> shawns vent tag.

#sawdust in the dolls -> memories shawn posted.

#crooked answers -> shawn answering asks.

#accounting troubles -> grants talkin' tag.

#how do i file taxes? -> grant answering asks.

#ink-stained checkbook -> memories grant posted.

[sukunas-wife]

Yuji stood there with teary eyes, sniffling and ready to scream

His father was sat there with a smug smile staring down at him

You could barely see over your husband’s shoulder who was leaning on his side over your lap. Yuji’s hands coming up reaching for you only to lightly be swatted away by Ryomen

“No, mine.”

Yuji let out a silent cry, Sukuna’s grin widened as you sighed

“Moommmyyy” he tried to push past his dad hands reaching out for you again

“No,” Sukuna swatted his little hands away again, “Mine.”

Yuji let out a small scream and started crying falling back and down onto his little butt, “MooMMMYyyyy”

You had watched this happen for five minutes and you shook your head with a smile, “Come here baby.” Sukuna moved out the way and you lightly shouldered him with a smile, he still had a grin on his face as he picked up Yuji dropping him on your lap

Yuji’s hands clinging to your shirt as he sniffled into your chest, only for Sukuna to lean down to his ear, “still mine.”

Yuji wailed looking up at you before you placed a hand on his head kissing his forehead, his smile was wobbly with teary eyes as he buried his face into your chest again and Sukuna chuckled placing his hand over yours on Yuji’s head. “Heh, brat.”

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[egophiliac]

back at it again with the extremely self-indulgent diafams! I am being emotionally supported by overly-cutesy interactions between anime characters right now, don't judge me.

(also continuing with my headcanons that 1) mustache Bauru, and 2) he'll be hugely tsundere about it but you can, ultimately, convince him to do just about anything via careful application of Sebek.)

[the-herdier]

I love how the movie doesn't show Fiyero arriving in a carriage, but simply atop a horse. An Animal horse. An Animal horse with whom he actually seems to be good friends. It adds a possible reason for why he felt enough compassion for the lion cub to rescue it.

Also, notice how Fiyero is not riding the horse when they whisk the cub away to safety. He's on a bicycle, just like Elphaba. In my mind it's partially because he didn't want to risk having his Animal friend be deemed the mastermind behind this act and accused of treason for his assistance.

[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!!!!