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nezhanetwork · 1 year ago

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have some grian sketches while i'm trying to convince myself that it's okay to draw just for the process itself. not everything has to be perfect and meaningful!

#hermitcraft #grian #my art #nezha talks #i used to draw him a lot just to relax but ceased to #perhaps out of fear that if my art doesn't have some unique idea it's worth nothing #but i'm learning to take it easy!

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andsewingishalfthebattle · 7 months ago

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Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.

Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU

#knitting #no it's not a real pattern but I can't write one that makes sense because I have no freaking clue what any of that means #How do you make things that aren't basic rectangles #Why has every knitter I've asked for help just said 'patterns are easy; you just have to know how to read them' & then refused to teach me #Where do I even find a goat to sacrifice #How do I join the pattern cult #I am so confused #I've been knitting for almost a decade but I can only make scarves and potholders #I learned one (1) stitch by watching a YouTube video and none of my friends or family knit so I have no IRL resources #And nobody I meet seems to want to take the time to explain the rest to me #I taught myself to sew through trial and error but that doesn't really work with knitting because error is pretty much just... Unraveling?#Anyway sorry for the tag rant I'm just frustrated that I see pretty things I want to make but the instructions are in an alien language #And the gap between 'absolute novice' and 'intermediate' seems to be about 20 years of experience and formal instruction

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fictionadventurer · 1 year ago

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There's something about reading really great writing that's so relaxing. You can just sit back and let the words wash over you, knowing that you can trust the writer.

#random thought of the day #books #part of the reason i'm not getting writing done today was because i spent most of my free time reading from books i've let sit for too long #i haven't been able to sink into good fiction for a while #so elizabeth goudge felt like a spiritual experience #cleansing and uplifting #it always takes me a while to get into her books #there's a learning curve of a couple of chapters to adjust to the style #but once i break through it's bliss #it becomes easy as breathing #there's nothing quite like what she does #i love books that understand that goodness isn't boring or trite #you don't need to have 'darkness' and 'grit' to be complex #like one bit that took my breath away was the talk about sallie and david's marriage struggles #they're both good people who love each other #but they also have their differences because they're human and that causes struggles #not marriage-breaking struggles just nuanced life struggles #and i'm not sure i've seen something like that in a book before #it's a good marriage they married the right people but that doesn't mean life is perfect #goudge uderstands that marriage isn't happily ever after--heaven is #and a good marriage is two people partnering up to help each other reach that goal #it's so much more adult than any 'complex adult' work i've seen

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barghest-land · 1 year ago

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how i was drawing horses when i was 4yo, and how i draw them now (i'm 27)

thought all my childhood drawings were gone but i was wrong! i've found some of them and i'm still giggling looking at all the goofy horses. it was pretty much all i was drawing back then

i guess it took me 23 years to draw them like i do now whoops

#this big ass journey is always in my mind when some people expect me to give some kind of sercet advice so they could be good at drawing #like right after they hear it #it's not gonna happen. it takes time to gain skills. even if u know a fuck ton of “lifehacks” or whatever #u still need time to actually learn how to be good at something #oh and when people tell me drawing is easy as fuck for me bc im natually talanted... like.... are u serious...#yes it's kind of easy now. easier than before at least. u know why?#bc of many years of ripping apart my works and crying and beating myself and hating everything bc “i'm not good enough”#many years of pain in my wrists. many years of learning everything. observing. and millions of mistakes.#anyway...#barghestland #art #artists on tumblr

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n30draws · 1 year ago

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I wanna do this to Ozzie so bad

#fanart #helluva boss #helluva fanart #helluva fizzarolli #helluva asmodeus #helluva ozzie #fizzmodeus #fizzarozzie #fizz x ozzie #doodle #desperately trying to learn the art of doodling #I have a bad habit of doing fully finished art even when I'm trying to take it easy and just doodle #also trying to spare my wrist #my art

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icewindandboringhorror · 6 months ago

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finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

#Given some of it IS lines of code and stuff but like.. minus all that it's still probably at least 85 - 95k words hhhhhh #AND I have to do this for another 3 characters. Then a few partial quests for 3 others. THEN the other random misc stuff in the game #(like there are public areas in the city like a park and a forest that you can go and do a few things at. and chat with a few random #townsfolk that aren't actually full characters or anything. And there's a community board where you can #browse some of the random job advertisments or silly things that happen to be posted around #and also pick up a few odd jobs of your own to help earn coin to buy gifts for the npcs. etc. etc.)#Originally I was thinking like 'ah I'll make a short little game just to try it out! :3 It'll take maybe a few months!''#haha........................hee hee........................................hoho #Also evil that it would have been done already if I didn't totally drop itand stop working on it for like 5 years randomly #i could have made 5 years of steady slow progress gradually. instead of like 'one initial idea dump + about a month of art and writing'#...... 5 year break..... 'sudden mad dash to try to get probably 400.000 words written in a year or less' lol #I just really want to be done and have something out there already so it can lead to doing other things in my world..!!!!!! T o T #Like this can be an introduction and then maybe from that I can make other games. or short story anthologies. or other such things #But there needs to be some initially not very complex easy to interact with starting point first I guess... if that makes sense #That's part of why I stopped posting worldbuilding lore dump stuff as often because its' like.. massive walls of novella length #text are much more inacessible to engage with than like.. ooh a game! and there's characters! so its more approachable! and theres #visuals! oo! and the text is broken up in small bits line by line with other things in betwen! oo! etc. etc. lol #Not that THIS is even very accessible. I think dialogue heavy interactive fiction/visual novel type stuff is pretty niche and considered #boring or tedious compared to something with more ''gamplay'' like where you can actually move around in a world #and shoot things or whatever lol. But its an inbetween point. something SLIGHTLY #more accesible for now. Since i just dont have the budget or means or ability to make some skyrim type thing obviously LOL #Though maybe if theres any interest in the visual novel that could lead to making other things too. or at least I hope. I have a VERY cool #idea for a more ''gamey'' type of game that is a super fun concept and etc. but I would need to hire at least 2 people to make it.. ough..#I could do all the writing and probably half of the art. But I think I'd inevitably need a 3d artist and someone who can Code For Real hbjh #the system for ren'py (the thing I'm making a visual novel in) is not that complicated if you stick to just simple dialogue and stuff.#Making a whole moderately sized 3d game with minigames in it and a bunch of quest features and etc. would be out of my simplistic scope #''just learn it yourself!!' ... i barely manage to eat and sleep reliably every day lol... i do not function well enough to spend months #learning that many new skills. I already have a lot of of things I'm good at (not in a braggy way but just factually like.. i already have #a wide variety of different things under my belt).. at some point I have to just be happy with what i CAN already do and focus on that #and admit I need to get outside help sometimes ghjbh... NO more new skills/hobbies!!! ... ANYWAY

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tetedurfarm · 20 days ago

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having a snack on their shiny new floor ✨

#putting them on a new feed protocol to see if it helps my whole.....situation #high high high fiber and just enough pellet to keep them at an ok weight #annoyed their wean date is....the day before i leave but what can you do #and if anyone is sick when i get home it'll be calling waddl time. and hopefully i learn some answers #i'm kinda worried the answers are gonna be 'yep that's enterotoxaemia and there's nothing you can do' which will be a net zero information #but that's why i'm also trying this new diet at the same time #high fiber and low carb diets are supposed to help kits with weaning stress and prevent enteric diseases according to every college ever #so may as well try!! hay and oats is cheap. ish #also happy that the feed i'd like to switch to is also higher in fiber than any of the local options i have #so maybe it'll also help. but probably the biggest help will be finally getting in the new barn and off these damn dirt floors #glad that it's the slow breeding season anyway so i can take a little break to figure this out without impacting my food supply #i really did think i had this figured out last year but i can never have anything easy #rabbits #blanc de hotot #kits

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the-dye-stained-socialite · 2 months ago

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thinking about how elias went from learning how to take care of themself and exist as a person from the neath's servants, to becoming a paramount presence and London's Adored Regent in a few short years

#elias leroux #oc chatter #like. talk about a fucking jump in station and status holy shit elias #this is also why eluas was practically living in scandalland their first year and a half in the ndath #they were learning how to be a Fucking Person AND a Proper Member of Society at the same time and they were learning BOTH fast and dirty #when they lived with their parents they read lots of books so they had tons of technical knowledge #but they didn't have much practical knowledge until they escaped to the neath #I'm also thinking about possibly having them actually work as a servant for a little while. doing jobs that could be done in their chair #while starting on light fingers.#to be fair. probably not many jobs they could have done! i imagine helping with food prep a lot and mending clothes #how did they leave servantry? uh. combination nadir + lethean tea leaves they probably just. fucking forgot they had a job fjdbdhhd #and shortly after that they talked themself into being on the railway and made up a new identity at the house of chimes #and also going through the Genders tm so. lots of conning and scheming and elias brutally claeing their way to the top #and with the railway started The Swan Bride happened and then they rapidly gained Actual Position and Power (and money) so the climb got #easier from there. still not EASY but. easier.#and then 'winning' the Marvellous just fucking. skyrocketed them to the top. but elias started very very low and is always terrified someone #will find out and uncover their secrets and take away all elias has

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venusinsilk · 3 months ago

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One thing that my bestie pointed out to me tonight that disgusted me and made me immediately recoil- my behavior has been changing because of the Boy and whether or not he engages with me, and my mood is hinged on whether or not he gives me attention. 🤮 ewwwww!!! Cut that out right now!! Of course it's normal and fine but I don't need that! Especially right now, post breakup, my life is a mess. The sex was amazing but I need to start detaching myself from him because he changed SO MUCH in the past 4 weeks. He played a looooong game to get to me. Bought pastries from me twice in the past year, sent me messages every day, got his tattoos at a shop in my neighborhood, asked me out, and now he barely talks to me. Which is so bizarre. But maybe he believes he can kick back and stop trying because he thinks I've fallen to my knees for him? I really can't try to decipher his behavior nor do I want to. He is pretty immature (hence "the Boy") and if he wasn't so talented in bed I would've stopped engaging with him from the first time we hung out.

Due to my apartment ceiling caving in, I'm couch surfing. He knows this and offered to get us a hotel room this weekend. This is a final chance to see if he can do something an adult man would do, and follow through with a plan. If he doesn't, I'm going to tell him he disappointed me and I don't have space for that right now in my very busy, very stressful life. So he won't be coming back to my apartment after the ceiling is fixed.... and I guess I'll never be invited over to his place because he lives with his parents! Oops 😬 🤭

#god the head he gave was amazing. please let another person that good wander into my life #but this time can that person be a normal adult? lol #i've thought about keeping him around just as a fuckboy and letting him come over whenever he decides to #but the issue with that is i'm discovering that i dont separate emotions from sex like some other people can.#i need to date the people i sleep with. i enjoy feeling the full range of emotions i get #and the idea of trying to compartmentalize them for the sake of casual sex isn't as easy ir fun as i thought it would be 4 weeks ago #i've been learning a LOT from the interactions i'm having with him #he is also younger than me and super insecure #and he has low self esteem :( i wish i could help him but i can barely take care of myself rn #and he cant communicate to save his life. oh well. he would be sooooo sexy if he owned up to how he felt and showed any vulnerability!

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thenixkat · 2 years ago

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Anyway, if you aren’t Black don’t use any variation of woke. I don’t care what conservatives are calling fuckers/using as the new sjw/political correctness/what have you.

If you know what fuckers mean use what they mean, and if you don’t why are you copying what people are saying?

Woke ain’t for you. If the discussion isn’t about Black people being aware of and/or educating other Black people about racism/antiblackness/structural inequality/all the other bullshit then it doesn’t need to be used in the discussion.

#nix meows #aave #woke #aave misuse #apparently that one post i made where i directly mentioned how i don't wanna see boogleech no more showed up in his tags #which is generally how tumblr's search function works; if a word in there it shows up #anyway i do wish a motherfucker would learn to take a hint that i do not wish to continue a conversation #cause all i'm getting is excuses about how he's just paraphrasing so its fine #that other people don't have an issue and not 'to shoot the messenger #my wigga i was forced to see the word 'wokeist' (yall know i can't spell) on a post from someone i know is white #who's posts show up everyfucking where in the corner of tumblr i generally operate in #why would i give a damn what the rest of the post was about when a wigga shouldn't be using words like that period #aint no fucking changing my mind #ya ruined my night and i don't wanna see ya #i aint ask nobody to block you or some shit like that #i personally don't wanna get microaggressed on my own damn dash cause my white mutuals (who mean well but dont all ways catch shit)#decided to reblog it untagged #like yeah its pretty easy to drop a bitch i only occasionally interacted with over the course of a few years over #it just on the innitial 'it's not an issue' dismissal #told me everything i needed to know #bogleech #may as well actually tag them cause I've been feeling a lot less charitible given how they handled shit and kept trying to shut me up #plus they're a vote blue no matter who fucker like genocide joe is harm reduction

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agir1ukn0w · 6 months ago

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me when I learned that the german govt is also funding Israel

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the-alan-price-combo · 3 months ago

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"There is no other pianist/organist in Europe today who has moved, and I think ever will move me as much as much as Alan does." - Eric Burdon, 1966

#hi hello hiiiiiii happy 'i'm crying/take it easy' recording day <3 #wanted to deviate a little from band-related things and make a little piece celebrating the price-burdon aaaaa #since they don't have an immortalized meeting-date like some other songwriting duos do 😔#when i do learn the date they met believe me i'll make it a national holiday but until then....#i will celebrate on the same day that they recorded two of the songs they wrote together 🙏🙏🙏 TWO ABSOLUTE BOPS MIGHT I ADD #g o s h they get me so emotional.... contrasting and complementing one another in the best ways #alan so distant at first and even a little jealous #but then warming up to him completely.... dare i say developing quite a soft spot for eric.....#meanwhile eric was always impressed by him and wanted him to go far #aGGGhGHgHgHGG their musical partnership and general relationship is just so... aaaaaaAAA even if the songwriting didn't go far #it's not the 'what if' between alan and eric that makes them so compelling to me... it's 1000% what we have in front of us #(that 32000 word essay is my pride and joy) (STILL NEED TO UPDATE IT AGGHH)#anyway.... celebrating price-burdon today <3 #eric burdon #alan price #the animals #1964 #60s fanart #60s rock #classic rock fanart #classic rock #british invasion #british rock #worried life arts

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mountmortar · 6 months ago

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how to very politely tell the TA teaching my introduction to java class (who is a python programmer) that he's accidentally using snake case for naming variables instead of camel case and it's very likely that he's confusing the people in this class who are actually new to programming

#the IDE is yelling at him for it but i don't think he's noticed at all......#i'm happy to not be learning csharp anymore but this class is kind of like pulling teeth because i already. know all of this stuff.#it's just porting my knowledge of csharp over to java which is EXTREMELY easy. already did it. can i take the upper level classes now

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kingwaino · 17 hours ago

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i don't talk about him a lot on here but a couple years ago i got a beta fish which i so sweetly named sebass-tian hamil-fin. i'd never had a fish before but at the time, since i wasn't in my apartment a lot, a fish was really the only thing i could care for. unfortunately, he passed away today.

i didn't think i'd be this upset by it because i could kind of tell over the past week or two that he wasn't doing too well. i tried my best to make him feel better but unfortunately, it wasn't enough.

i plan to go and get another fish tomorrow but i just...don't really know how to feel about it right now. he was my first fish and certainly won't be my last.

#tw animal death #cw animal death #i do recognize that i gave him a better quality of life than being on some pet store shelf in a small container #but this still isn't easy to take. i know he wasn't doing well and i tried my best dammit. i really did.#the shittiest part is that it really is my fault. you're supposed to change the tank water every two weeks or so and i just...i couldn't #whether it be work or depression or executive function i just usually got to it around four weeks #and the water just wasn't healthy at that point. so i'm really kind of beating myself up for it because by the time i realized it #it was too late. but wow did that little guy fight. he survived a move with me! i didn't move him properly in any way shape or form #and yet he did it. anyway. i've expected this every day for the last week or two but it was just confirmed and it really hit me #i've just been sitting here crying because i loved him but also! idk i just needed some company at first ya know?#not to sound like. detached from the situation but like...it really was an experiment? bc i never owned a fish before and wanted to see #if i could actually do it and i'm so so glad i did #he was a beautiful fish and i appreciated his company because beta's are actually pretty smart and usually grow to recognize you.#i lovingly joked with one of my friends that seabass was in hospice the past few weeks so truthfully i know i did what i could #but it was also realistically a learning experiment. now i know how to properly take care of a fish and the next seabass will have a great #experience and tank already ready for him. anyway if you've read this far gold star! i'm gonna log off now #i’m rambling again aren’t i

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depressedhatakekakashi · 5 months ago

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I hate certain ships as much as the next person, but if you make a blog just to 'call out those shippers' which involves you taking screenshots of their content and posting it without ANY warning

you're actually part of them problem <3

Draw your line in the sand, tell them not to cross it, block them if you see them, and move on. You litterally cannot change anyone's view point and make them not ship something gross af, but you sure as shit are not helping anyone by posting untagged screenshots that can upset people who have the ship tag filtered specificlly to avoid seeing that shit

#like look #i get it #i hate the ship #we all probably know what ship/ships i'm talking about #but god DAMN #it's so easy to block #and if they harrasse you report them and block #you are only doing more harm by taking screen shots and posting them untagged #on that note #i need to go cleanse my fucking brain #and god DAMN learn the difference between someone supporting a ship and someone just reblogging a post they like that actually has NOTHING #to do with that ship but the OP tagged it with the ship tag for some god aweful reason #people can't see the op's tags unless they have the ship filtered or they go to the op's post #they're not all gonna know they're reblogging from someone who ships that shit

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temtamtom · 6 months ago

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Does gaul have a human name?

After scratching my head for a while I've settled on the name Vindiorix!

I came up with a list based on a paper I found, and I kept gravitating towards this one in particular. I love the -rix suffix, and maybe it's because of Vercingetorix and the character Asterix, but I automatically associate it with Gaul lmfao

Also Vindiorix kinda fucks

But now I'm wondering what kind of name he could have in a modern AU 🤔

#tbh I'm not 100% sure if Vindiorix is pronounced with a “V” or with a “U”#Also uhm please take my research with a grain of salt!!#I try my best but there are many gray areas for me when it comes to Gaul- it's not very easy for me to find a lot of information #Compared to the Romans (for example)#Also (ofc) pre-roman Gaul was composed of various Celtic tribes with a fair few cultural similarities to celtic britain and iberia and and #listen I'm trying my best to learn n understand things <3 jghfk #temmie thoughts #telegram for tem

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