#innate style

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[weirdmageddon]

help whats with him clinging to shit. almost every panel he is shown theres something hes clinging to

[innatestyling]

[fennel-tea]

all i ever draw these days is shit that's only funny to me and a handful of people in a niche discord channel

[bytebun]

some notes on the details i pay attention to when drawing certain characters in “my style”

[neige-leblanche]

the scene in epel's second birthday vignette where floyd gave him the watch absolutely ruined me btw. like ik not everybody headcanons epel as trans but as someone who does it just put such a fine point on his struggle with being seen as masculine, like a fancy wristwatch wouldnt particularly help him look strong enough to overcome his bullies or whatever its literally just. something a man would own. and he gets so overjoyed. because he consistently has to *prove* that he wants to be masculine despite his appearance; even more sensitive characters like deuce take a while to catch on to the fact, and then here he gets the watch as a gift & gets called handsome without asking for it. even though its a happy scene it fucked me up so bad 😭

[astramachina]

i thought my doodle folder would be filled with bad attempts at drawing silly willy afton but instead it's just?????? jack walten????

????????

i guess he's amorphous enough that i can just play around with his face and go "no yeah that actually looks like him" sldkfjhsdf

[peppermintbiotics]

now that i've almost finished working through my brain worms, the only thing i've left to do is to make a post contrasting ais and leander bc goddAMN if these guys aren't foils to each other

[kinfraught]

kind of want to plot w someone yasuko training Arc: since she probably sees herself as weaker sorcerer given her innate technique isn’t necessarily combat orientated. shikigami use is probably her go to as a means to hide behind them initially.

i think a cool character development moment could be someone instructing her in close-combat strategy; wherein she learns how to utilize her innate technique offensively - i guess sort of like a discount version of nanami’s technique. using the precognition of lethality / death to know when to strike, when to back off, how to minimize collateral damage ect

[alice-in-phantasyland]

this needs to be studied. i think this would make a good doctoral thesis.

[ooglywooglies]

man tbh i dont think npd is a real thing

i dont really think any personality disorders are real (how can a personality trait be a "disorder" - its not a disorder just because you dont like it) but like, people calling others ableist over it feels like a bit much

[tani-b-art]

Florence Hill in A Bundle of Blues

Prancing J-Settes at Jackson State University

[absentlyabbie]

seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.

[jesterjamz]

we do a little selfshipping

ok that's kinda bitchin honestly. can you please elaborate on the court thing though

[boyheros]

I crossover my mvrck story with every thing conceivable so here we go: saw a lot of cool MLP designs on my dashboard today so I was considered what ponyified versions of some characters would be like and I've come across a conundrum: would clones have cutie marks. because they're not literal exact copies they wouldn't have the same mark as their template BUT as much as clones are supposed to be the same as humans (or in this case. ponies.) they're decidedly Off. and not having cutie marks would be an interesting tell but it's also kinda really sad.

[headspace-hotel]

I have been reading about the history of landscape architecture and apparently there was this theory that humans have an inherent, innate preference for "savanna-like" open grassy environments with scattered trees due to our evolutionary past, with the reasoning that open grassy understories allow us to see predators coming. And for some reason everyone just accepted it as the truth for decades.

And then this lady Margaret Grose in a book called Constructed Ecologies is like "wait, why did we accept this as the truth for decades? How do we know this is innate and not a cultural preference ingrained by European style landscaping? Did the human species actually evolve in mostly savanna-type landscapes, or did we just randomly decide that because we associate Africa with savannas? Throughout millions of years of recent evolutionary history we've been in a shit ton of different environments because there were a bunch of ice ages. Also African savanna grasses get like 4 meters tall and predators can hide just fine in that."

and it's like wow when you put it that way it's kinda stupid that people decided this idea was true for no reason