#but I need money for that

[quibbs126]

Here’s another random thing I’ve been doing the past couple days

It’s human versions of some of my Flight Rising dragons

I did this a long time ago with my original account back in junior high, and I decided I might as well bring it back with my new account. I think I’ve mentioned this fact before

I did still keep a few aspects of those designs that I can remember. Mainly, that the secondary color is the hair color, and the primary color is the outfit color, or at least for anything that isn’t a piece of Apparel

Anyways, here are the originals for reference

Side note, I usually play it on my computer, and I logged on on my iPad to get these references, and I was genuinely shocked to learn that Lajos is in fact purple. I’ve thought he’s blue the entire time and now it’s just shocking

Also for those curious, my Flight Rising username is Quibbs127. If you’re wondering why it’s not Quibbs126 like it usually is, that’s because Quibbs126 actually was my original account, but I lost the password to time, so I can no longer log in

I don’t think they look half bad, though I think Essex and Arathana are my favorites in terms of how they turned out

What I do know is that I probably need to work on the differences between dragon species in their human forms, and what makes them distinct from others. The Mirror dragons here are probably the most distinct looking, with the non-colored eyes and then the extra smaller ones. It’s a bit distracting in that way

But some of the other basic ideas I have here, at least for these species, is:

Guardian: small pointed ears (might change to fins? I don’t know, might look too weird), large and buff, some amount of a shaved head (this was a holdover from my original designs actually)

Fae: short and skinny, poofy hair, sideburns? (I’m not entirely sure on keeping the sideburns, though that’s what I did for Bugg here)

Tundra: big/wide but not buff, long hair, facial hair? (I want to give them something additional on the head for their fin things, but I’m not sure if it’d work)

Maybe I should just make a series of designs for each species (or at least the ones I have and plan to use), so I know what I’m doing

But that’s about it for general design things

I have vibes of each character’s personality, but I haven’t yet written them in the bios. I need to get on that

But I do have a semblance of a setup, mainly because of how I went about this account

Basically the idea is that it was originally Lajos and Maovesa, a traveling/hunting duo, and they were pretty solitary and didn’t make a lot of friends. But they eventually had their son, Essex, who is far more sociable, and so now they’ve somehow all just acquired more companions, mostly by being friends with Essex. It kind of makes Lajos and Maovesa like the de facto parents of the group, and they aren’t entirely sure what to do with this situation, but they’re going with it

Also we follow Warrior Cats rules in terms of how aging with kids works, in that people can have full grown kids or even grandkids and still be perfectly fine and not super old. I don’t really know how else to explain it other than Warrior Cats logic

Also I try to stick with specific pairings when it comes to my dragons, so I might as well give the ones that currently exist in my clan

Lajos/Maovesa

Arathana/Leicester

Bugg/Eleri (you don’t see her here, she’s a Spiral)

Essex/Iuriti (also not depicted, she’s a Snapper. Also I haven’t paired them in the Nesting Grounds yet, but I plan to)

I have some more potentially in my mind, but I haven’t gotten there yet

And that probably about does it. So yeah, take these

[kittykittycatboys]

i NEED a prehensile tail

[wheatormeat]

I made a little zine!

You can download and print it yourself for free here

[frenchublog]

[billcipherbong]

it's literally the best gift he's ever got in his life

[lastoneout]

"Violence only leads to more violence" TRUE! The thing is tho, a lot of people in power seem to think the start of the violence was the CEO getting shot, but they're wrong. The start of the violence was that very CEO running a company that turns immense, endless human suffering into money.

Violence did lead to more violence, decades of needless death and suffering willfully enacted by millionaires so they can make just a little bit more money, that was the start of the violence. If they didn't want it to escalate eventually, they should have maybe not made killing people the core functionality their entire company hinges on.

The people being tortured and killed by the health insurance industry are not the ones who started the violence, and tbh I don't really think it's on them to end the violence, either.

[sergle]

ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE, people dropping mad mad sums of money on gfms and charities and stuff are extremely impressive but that DOES NOT MEAN that putting like $5 towards someone's fund or any good cause is any less valuable, a lot of crowdfunding is about momentum and those single digits add up super fast, you do not need to be Rolling In The Dough to make someone's day!! moving the dial at all is extremely positive!!

[esspurrr]

not a new observation by any means but it still blows my mind how whenever a natural disaster happens in a supposed Bad State every white gay city slicker will be cheering about it like its actual 4 year old morality. grow the fuck up

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

We all know the semi-canonical ‘all the Robins know to hide/duck inside of Batman’s cape, even as adults’ thing.

We also know that Danny ‘is LITERALLY a ghost’ Fenton sucks at remembering his own intangibility while ALSO forgetting to look ahead of him.

All I’m saying is, Danny Fenton (or Phantom, if you’d really like) would absolutely SLAM into Batman on accident while running on roof tops and Bruce ‘Brooding Instinct’ Wayne doesn’t even think twice about letting the kid hide and scanning around for danger before there’s a record scratch of ‘wait who tf is this?’ kicks in.

[glittergroovy]

(if the full rent is $2000/month but you split that with a roommate, vote $1000. This is just about what you pay)

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[heartorbit]

happy halloween! 🎃🐈‍⬛👻🐇

[rika-mortis]

Made a silly alternate version for the previous comic

[stil-lindigo]

HELP PALESTINIAN ARCHITECT EVACUATE HER FAMILY FROM GAZA

This is a verified fundraiser for a family of four to evacuate to Cairo. The fund's creator, Amal Abu Shammala, reached out to me personally to share this since she's failed to get her fund on Operation Olive Branch and Let's Talk Palestine's fundraising linktree.

As of right now, she has raised €2,397/ €42,000. You can see the breakdown of what the money will be used for in the fund description.

Please give generously!

[is-this-yuri]

help me move out of my tiny car and into a vehicle like this!

i'm disabled and homeless, and while i'm in the process of getting approved for disability, i need more safety and stability.

with a larger vehicle like these, i could have enough space to install a kitchen, bed, electricity, shower, etc, and essentially make a home out of it. if you've ever wanted to help house a homeless person, please consider donating to my fundraiser!

the goal is 10k, but vehicles like this sell for much cheaper! as soon as i can, i'll purchase a suitable vehicle and start the project immediately. i'll use whatever i don't spend buying the vehicle for maintenence it might need, the tools and materials i'll need to convert it, plus the legal stuff surrounding registration, first year of insurance, etc. anything still left after that will be used to just allow me to live longer and have a safety net while i get income.

this is something i've been dreaming of for a long time, and as the housing market gets crazier i've realized it's probably the only way i'll have a stable home. i've been researching this project for years and i'll have some helping hands, so your money will be used well to create a home for me.

we're on pace to get me into a van by the end of summer or early autumn, and i could finish the conversion before it starts snowing! this is way sooner than i ever expected. please consider donating, and/or boost this post to keep up the momentum!

GFM

$733/10k

[thatfrenchacademic]

Got once again told that I was "good at making conversation" and had "people and communication skills"

and that is the biggest lie I ever heard

so a girl will end up writing some sort of "practical guide to making conversation, by a recovering agoraphobic".

But also. If you need a "how to people when no social skills" guide right now, my absolute no bullshit guide is The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook (2018, 3rd ed), esp chap 8 and 10. Includes: how long is appropriate to look at someone in the eyes? What are good conversation topics for your neighbors, your colleagues, your boss, your date? How to safely practice social skills/conversation? How to handle shaking/blushing/sweating/nervous stuttering? How is talking to a group different from talking to one person? How to gracefully end a conversation? How to ask for a change at your work schedule? How to start getting better at it *progressively* without being overwhelmed?

It's not a feel good self help/self improvement book, it is not a magic remedy with secret formula, it is more of a "let's learn a new language", with homework and notes to take. Give it a try, it is very easy to find it online