#it sucks trying to get anywhere else

[smidge-j]

Shout out to the bus journey planner website which told me I should walk for 12 minutes, ride the bus 1 (one) stop, and then walk for 17 minutes to get to where I need to go

[0xeyedaisy]

It seems I have lost all of my art on my computer. Very unfortunate

[kachimera]

Seeing ppl here brag about how they use generative AI to cheat on their university work and its like. You're not learning anything. Why are you even there if you're not gonna do anything. You dont even have to be here.

Look the education system is unfair n shitty and often chews and spits it's students, and yea it's riddled with ableism specially for mental illness that wont let you work on homeworks like adhd for example, but the solution is not giving ppl degrees for doing nothing. Its like the ppl who buy diplomas for social clout n prestige instead of proof that you know about about an specific career. It makes the whole thing pointless. You just got a degree on how to write prompts on chatgtp.

[edge-oftheworld]

when I was in high school there was a tendency whenever there was an attractive boy to simply fan over him. in a way that talked over everything he might say for himself and created a narrative that completely ignored, the fact in some cases, that he was really struggling—or if he was struggling, to pin all the blame on the girl he’s dating and completely ignore the thousands of other factors (no it can’t be mental illness or unaccommodated disability or systemic abuse or exploitation and if he is in an abusive relationship we won’t ever consider the factors that put him at risk for that)

and I’m not saying this fandom is like that. I get the need for privacy around some things and how in public conversations sometimes it’s a lot more respectful to stick to the positives (everyone who does that, I admire you) or even the struggles that are talked about publicly, show respect by not reading too far into them. there’s a time and place for that. but sometimes I feel like our only options are shitty and ableist gossip or totally ignoring the systemic and structural issues we know exist in something like the music industry until someone dies and then we’re looking for someone to blame. friends, there is a point where the respectful thing is to listen to what someone says and come together to make things better. and you can learn how to have that conversation respectfully. please do

[kelocitta]

I love your RW art month tiles. What art program do you use and how do you get those really clean textures and shapes?

I use PaintToolSai, both 1 and 2- but most of the drawing gets done in SAI1 since I couldn't get my brushes to import right for 2. Its an extremely bare bones program all things considered (Sai2 less so, it has a bit more tool-wise, but I only draw in it if i *have* too or for minor stuff) so its nothing really fancy being employed, everything geometric I do just by using a self made grid to measure out shapes like you would a piece of paper.

Literally its just a measured out grid of like... 50 by 50 px squares with cross sections? I just paste it as needed and draw the lines around it and since the measurements are consistent it just works.

my default pen is already "crunchy" so being perfectly matched isnt a huge deal, and you can general paste and rotate to make it look a little cleaner. Honestly I've used this same grid for forever (and it was off by like one pixel at one point lol) its just really useful for quick matching things for a program that doesn't have stuff built in for lining things up As for the textures, those are all default to SAI (I think?). The brush I use lightly uses of fabri (which mostly just makes the edges of the brush grainier) and then I usually also put some various level of a layer texture overlay thats just one of SAI's default 'watercolor' textures. It mostly just adds a little bit of a noise/grain effect. Heres that on max

For ArtMonth itself I just draw out a tile canvas using the grid with all the layers broken up- then I just reuse it over and over as needed. There's probably smarter ways to do it, but eh it works

And yeah, theres just two borders. One for the bottom and one for the top, makes it easy to make something that goes 'in and out' of the tiles without having to think to much. Just snip as needed

[tchotchkez]

😮‍💨

[sorry for the hardcore tag rants, y'all]

[chibishortdeath]

Man, social media is hard.

I have an account on Instagram, but I just wanna leave it. And it sucks cause I had ok luck with it for a while, but it’s barely useable at this point. Hashtags are completely fucked, the algorithm changes every two seconds, the switch of focus to video content kills all hope for most people posting images, and now they’re doing stupid Ai shit soon! Great! Wow! So lovely!

I’m debating making an account on some newer smaller social media and seeing how that turns out. Bigger ones just have all been going straight to shit. I’ve heard a little buzz about Cara, but eh idk about it yet.

Anyway, I think I’m going to be officially moving my main focus to maybe here in tumblr, the few discord servers I’m in, and then whatever other smaller platform I decide on. Maybe eventually I’ll have a toyhouse account and can hopefully start selling adopts or something.

But yeah, social media is hard, ugh…

[eternatuslesbian]

i think i need to bite the bullet and start fundraising for a new car

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

the worst part of having a crush is that it makes me feel inutterably stupid at all times

[jensonsbuttons]

one thing i am livid about rn is the accessibility and disability assistance. my dad has to walk with a cane and can barely stand for long amounts of time. we had to FIGHT to get a golf kart to go up to the gate from ADA assistance. when i texted the number cota gave me, i got an error message and was told my passcode was invalid when there wasn’t even a passcode given. and then on top of it all two girls had the audacity to try and make us go all the way to the back of the line after we got dropped off even though they can see my dad is quite literally about to fall over.

then once you get inside, there’s no shuttle or anything to help you get where you need to go even though!!!! the track is like what? 3 miles?? there is wheelchair rental tbf but only after we get through the gates. there’s also barely any ADA seating.

overall it’s just been really disappointing but dad loves it here so we’ll keep fighting and try again tomorrow. hopefully it’ll be better next year.

[surreal-duck]

messing around a bit

[asherasgayagenda]

listen so

[milo-is-rambling]

Between Millie not responding to me since getting back home, ignoring 💨 bc my family hates her and think she’s a bad influence on me, and now Levi’s account being deactivated,,, it’s like the universe simply does not want me to have any friends. I am not built for it I guess. I just want to have anyone to talk to other than my mom and my brother who my mom likes more than me 😭😭😭

[hyunebear]

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[forestryfae]

can i just say tho. the washing machine broke on friday (altho i didnt talk to my guardian until sunday tbh cus i froze up a lil from the stress) anyways guardian went to the store for me on monday, i would gladly have gone too but i dont think he felt it was neccessary, and ordered a new one of the exact same type (which is nice,its a good machine and it didnt break from techincal fault) and i was told theyd "call me later this week" but its friday already and its 1 pm and they still havent called and im running out of clothes and its stressing me out

like i still have enough clothes and underwear for the weekend ig, but im really hoping itll be there like. tuesday latest. after that i have to call grandma and ask to borrow her machine.

[wimdywhimsy]

i hope non americans that say they hate every single american knows that we didnt like. choose this. like a lot of us didnt choose this. theres several million people that didnt choose this and are trying so very hard to make it better. hate the government not us dude i literally couldnt even vote for most of my life the fuck did you want from me like??? this fall is gonna be the first time i can vote. your just being an asshole. and if you dont mean literally everyone then. dont say literally everyone. idk this irks me so much bc it makes me feel like shit for living in a place i cant escape that wants me dead.