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[hel7l7]

hi! i was thinking on trying to make vent art but i have no idea where or how to start? what do i need? like programs and stuff? could you help me out a bit?

thank you and hope you are well!

Hi there,

You don't really need anything but paper and pencils or markers. There's so many different ways of making art. People often think I do all of this digitally, but everything is made in a little cheap journal. Just start small, try things out, find what works best for you.

If you want to know more about which journals I use you can click this link. If you want to know more about which markers I use you can click this link. If you wonder where I get my magazines, I answered that question here. If you want to see more from my process there's a few video's on youtube. If you want to know which scanner I have and how I edit my pictures I made this reel on instagram.

-Bear

[heartz4shauna]

How do you do head cannons for characters. It’s so hardddd. Also how do you make them look so pretty???

how i write headcanons is like. okay. i imagine a scenario, say for example; i’m baking cookies with jackie taylor, right? i’d try to think of what she would be like if were baking cookies together if that makes sense. so like, she always ends up spilling something and you have to kick her out of the kitchen. that’s a headcanon.

to make them look pretty i choose 3 photos from pinterest that go well together, fit the vibe of the character and the scenarios! emoticons are good, so are regular emojis! for example

jackie taylor headcanons

she does this this and this

OR

jackie taylor headcanons !!

🍓 she loves when this this and this ^_^

which one would you pick?

[accessibleaesthetics]

Hi! I love your blog! If it's okay, I'd like to request a bit of advice.

I have a physical disability (born legally blind due to albinism). I had spent a lot of time "masking" my blindness since I was 8 or so. I stopped using my cane in public, only used a screen reader when I had  earbuds, read braille in private, etc. I suppose in retrospect it was me trying to play into respectability politics, so I would stop getting the "how many fingers?" routine. It feels even more reinforced that the field I'm studying is considered too dangerous for someone with low vision.

As an adult, I want to let go of that shame and integrate properly with this incredible community. Yet, I feel like a fraud just by interacting. I know that my disability affects me in a multitude of ways that makes me qualified to be here, but I struggle to shake the feeling that others have it worse than me. I am privileged enough to be able to mask myself at all. Short version is: how do I know that I'm enough to be here? If I am enough, how can I get over this imposter syndrome and support my fellow disabled people?

Thank you for reading this, regardless of if you respond or not. Sincerely, I hope you have a good day! :D

First off, I invite any of my followers to comment or reblog this with their own input, especially those who are blind or low vision, since I am not. But I will do my best to answer based on what I know and believe, and what has helped me with my own imposter syndrome.

While it is obviously a privilege to be able to pass as abled, anyone with an invisible disability will tell you that it is sometimes as much a curse as it is a blessing. I'd be willing to bet you could think of some examples from your life that exemplify that too.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say that not being able to mask is also a privilege in some contexts. Being so visibly disabled that society no longer expects you to pretend like you are abled is a privilege, and not one that you enjoy, by the sound of it.

And that's the thing about privilege; too often, I think it's easy to get caught up in conversations about privileged groups and start to think that those are groups of people: the privileged and the not privileged. But it doesn't work like that. Literally every person on the planet is part of at least one privileged group and not part of at least one other privileged group.

You asked if you were enough to be "here," but where is "here"? I think defining that might help you zero in on exactly what arguments you are compiling against yourself, and more easily allow you to counter them.

For example, is "here" the disabled community? If so, I think it would be useful to remind yourself that everyone is part of some privileged groups and not part of others. Do others have it worse than you in some ways? Absolutely. But they might also have advantages that you do not enjoy. At the end of the day, the community isn't so much a place you need to earn a spot in as it is a collaborative effort to pool resources and find solace in the fact that we are not alone in our struggles.

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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[librarylexicon]

The volumes mean each comic book series ("series" here meaning a single title serialised as individual issues), ongoing or limited, and the word "volume" is used to differentiate between series that have the exact same name. For example, the first issue of the first series called Robin was published in 1991, and so the series can be called either Robin (1991) or Robin (Volume 1), depending on preference.

If you click that link in the previous paragraph, you'll notice that the fan-run DC Database uses volume numbering instead of year of inception to differentiate between series with the same title. This is why the long-running Robin series is known as either Robin (1993) or Robin (Volume 2).

You can usually differentiate the end of one series and the beginning of another by looking at the issue numbers: each new series begins with issue #1. For example, when the original Detective Comics series that commenced in 1937 was cancelled in 2011 and replaced with Detective Comics (2011), the first issue of Detective Comics (2011) was numbered #1 to show it was a new series. (Unfortunately, comic book companies are notorious for breaking their own rules! In 2016, DC declared that Detective Comics (2011) would be retroactively considered issues #882-933 of Detective Comics, which is why the numbering of Detective Comics today is past 1000, despite the series technically restarting twice.)

BUT! When individual issues of a series or storyline are collected into books, these books are often called volumes, which is where I suspect the confusion arises. For example, the first collected volume of Nightwing (2016) is titled Nightwing Vol. 1: Better Than Batman. This is doubly (triply?) confusing because of the fact that each new author's run in a series may mean that the first collected volume or book of their writing may be titled as Volume 1, even if it's a continuation of a long-running series like Nightwing (2016). For example, the first collected book of Tom Taylor's run on Nightwing (2016) is titled Nightwing Vol. 1: Leaping into the Light and collects issues #78-83.

based on a convo with my brother

[hansoeii]

look at you, you're gorgeous!

[ikuzeminna]

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

[aluminumneedles]

I'm knitting in the corner at a party

and guys my age stop by to tell me I remind them of their aunt, of their grandmother. This is a compliment and I take it as such. They confess to having tried crochet once, and I smile. They get back in line for the bathroom.

I'm knitting in the corner at a party and a queer woman sits on the floor next to me, arranges her skirt, and smiles up at me. (I try not to blush.) She asks me all the questions on her mind about my craft and I answer them, hands still moving. We swap yarn sources. She doesn't stay, but she knows where to find me.

I'm knitting in the corner at a party and everyone knows where to find me when they need a minute, when socializing is too much and the music is too loud and they need to catch their breath. They pretend to be checking in on me, which is sweet, but I can see the relief in their eyes the moment they stop performing for a house full of people. They sit down and tell me things and all the while they never take their eyes off my hands.

The party has wound down and I'm still knitting and the hosts, two guys in their twenties, thank me for "helping to curate the vibe." I had no idea that's what I was doing. I leave the party having forgotten to drink anything and without that woman's number but with many rows added to my top-down raglan sweater. I call it a night, and a good one.

[bug-s0da]

blehhh...

i made an aa/lawyersona of @snapscube :3 we all know and love the lawyer+silly girl duos of ace attorney but it's about time the silly girl became the lawyer

[martyrbat]

the memes and jokes about biden dropping out are all great but PLEASE dont turn away and forget the victims of him directly funding a genocide. these are real people that are still being impacted by his cruelty, their tragedies are still ongoing and they need our support more than ever.

if I can suggest a Palestinian family to support, I'll highly recommend Yusuf and his family—who has been vetted for [here]. The GoFundMe breaks down the costs, including the urgent need for an eight year old child to have a kidney replacement, but only €8,404 is currently needed for his family to pay crossing and coordination fees!!

[callisteios]

i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like

[thundersbugs]

rich boy get your ass up and FIGHT!!!

[1st year au]

[bluegiragi]

december night.

early access + nsfw on patreon

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[diss-track]

what is "instagram face"? i've never heard of that term

Basically, it's a societal attractive face but online.

The men and women kind of look like models yet not. Kind of slender faces that look contoured with maybe makeup or they got plastic surgery. These people can wear makeup too. These people also have semi generic faces without makeup, like you could see them at a store or something (or a semi nice place). They also can commonly do makeup to have like slender almond eyes or something (for sexy mysterious eyes).

You could also google "instagram face", "pretty instagram face", and other terms for examples cause it is a whole online phenomenon that a lot of people do.