#of course all of this is an exaggeration

[deep-down-in-drowsy-town]

WANT TO SAVE AMERICA?

Fine then. Go to your local park and pick up litter. Get a library card, donate books if you can. Join a community chess club. If you can, start one. Print zines and spread them around town. Host a music concert in your backyard. Teach free classes in whatever you're good at. Take free classes in whatever you want to learn. Support local businesses. Go to a coffee shop poetry night. Talk to your neighbors. Buy from a farmers market.

Want to do more? Run for your library board. Start an "Anti-Littering League". Find a local political issue, spread petitions, raise awareness. Start new traditions, or continue old ones.

The point us, political extremists want you to think that only IDEOLOGIES and REVOLUTIONS will save this country. Billionaires want you to think that only TECHNOLOGIES and MONOPOLIES will do. Influencers will have you believe that if only we shouted louder on the internet, everything will be fixed. They are all wrong. What we need, most of all, is community. Once community breaks down, everything else falls down with it. The more disengaged we are- from bad urban design, from the scourge of the internet, from the epidemic of loneliness- the easier it is to become radicalized.

So. Take a deep breath. Pick up a trash bag. Go to your local park, and pick up some litter.

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[mitskiluvr]

that body never belonged to you in the first place

[minweber]

Well, thank you, Veilguard, for supplying me, for the next few years, with something over which to agonize how great it could have been if just about everything about it was different - or, as it is better known, The Essential Dragon Age Experience.

[tsireyast]

I feel like we dont talk about one of the main reasons nico was ostracized at camp, not just because hes a son of hades.

Camp half blood is small enough so that rumors and information spread fast, but that doesn't mean they are always right. So imagine you're a random camper, and you're told nico, one of the new campers, gets in a big fight with Percy. During which he makes skeletons appear and somehow opens a huge crack in the floor. But percy wins and nico leaves camp.

Don't you think it would've rang a bell?

Don't you think it would've reminded them too much of two summers ago, with luke?

Dont you think everyone would've been even more scared, because now they know nico is a child of hades, one of the big three, and therefore very powerful?

There must have been so many rumors that summer of nico being part of the kronos army. Betraying camp just like luke did.

Of course after the battle of manhattan many people would've changed their minds. Hes in their side now, after all. But there are probably still many campers who think nico left them to join luke, before he changed their mind and helped them win against luke and kronos. People who still hold a grudge against him for joining the "enemy".

[numericalbridge]

if Darius ever starts seriously dating post-canon, i imagine that Eber would give the shovel talk, but it is a typical cartoon shovel talk that can be played for laughs: Oh, Eber is just protective even if a little scary.

But then Raine gives the shovel talk too, and they are very polite, but it is understood that they would actually kill if necessary.

[ducktracy]

proper reupload in the high quality this fantastic segment so deserves; eagle pig and duck bias notwithstanding, this will forever be my favorite variant of the fabled switcheroo (and a reminder that Daffy was first at his own game!) the committal on behalf of both characters--especially the sincerity of Daffy's feigned sincerity--really sets it apart

[paluding]

Do you hear me SCREAM of joy? Well I am. Once again, Blender saves the day! I managed to go over Milkshape's limit and add a bunch of face morphs to the mesh! HUGE progress! 🎉

I know it looks quite weird right now, especially with the human body lol. I decided to separate the head from the body and make it a hair mesh, since clothing outfits don't show up when you use the pie menu, I figured it'd be more convenient to have this separated and see the yeti head instead of whatever the Sim's face behind is (kinda like the uni cow mascots). And yeah that eyebrows situation... wow. I will tone it down a bit because right now they're flying so high with the Sim's expressions, it's wild.

You have no idea how happy I am right now. Learning more stuff and slowly but surely getting more and more away from Milkshape's evil hands.

[lloydfrontera]

male authors, writing m/m friendships: their bond will develop through hundreds of chapters, we will get to see each stage of their budding relationship, they'll constantly be in each other thoughts, their first instinct will always be to reach for the other, their first worry will always be the other's safety, they'll spend every minute of the day together, they'll be complete opposites and yet perfectly compliment each other, they will put everything they ever loved in risk just to keep the other safe, they will give their life without hesitation to save the other's, they will fight and argue and tease and joke around but they will always be at each other's side at the end of the day, they will plan to spend the rest of their lives together, sharing the happy moments and the hard times, the idea of being without the other being unthinkable, the thought of being always together coming naturally, as easy as breathing.

the same male authors, writing m/f romance: she'll like,, smile once at him and he'll start thinking of marrying her and having children with her idk

[gelatinous-globster]

Presenting... Lady Fredericka and Madame Maximus!

I've already drawn Mini-Max in drag here but was inspired by @freedom-barricades-bighero16 to draw Fred too. Now they're a duo! I think they'd have fun looking fabulous together.

[sunnibits]

slowly getting back into drawing that old man (not that I ever really stopped, but still)

unnecessarily lengthy art thoughts under the cut

started with that more realistic portrait in the corner but then I tried doing this new exercise where I just drew him as fast as I could without really thinking, trying to just be really quick and confident with my strokes, and I actually really love how those couple doodles turned out!! they have this really fun stylized quality that I enjoy a lot, like as someone who tends towards a more realistic style?? I feel like I don’t really allow myself to experiment with more cartoony/dynamic styles but this was a really effective way of forcing myself to make it happen naturally. anyways, I highly recommend trying it if you’re like me and maybe have a hard time stylizing faces, or if you just wanna do a fun exercise! just don’t overthink it and see what shapes you naturally chose to exaggerate :)

sorry for rambling sghshsh I just had a lot of fun with these doodles and izzy has always been so fun to stylize for me :) he just naturally has this sort of silly cartoonish quality to him, it’s so easy to exaggerate all his shapes <3

[horizoncollective]

What are you even doing here if you don't think evil mad scientists with ghoulish plans and body mods aren't hot in a fucked up (complimentary) way

[mira-likes]

Rewatching s1, and in light of everything that comes later it’s incredible how for like 12 episodes Fan Xian is sincerely convinced that his romance is the most important thing that's going on with his life. And everything else is incidental

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Good god I love how everything in the world is so fucking blatantly inverse to whatever the shit is happening on this hellsite. I will talk with irl people, see irl news, see a consensus of opinion regarding some media or subject, read some research articles about something, anything, and then say to all that 'excuse me, I must away to the upside down world' and hop into here only to get smashed by the toxic train that is every opposite opinion and perceived reality to anything I've experienced thus far with my five physical senses on earth

[espurr-roba]

studying sora's kh2 combat animations is so genuinely riveting, because not only is it fascinating to see what choices the animators were making to convey such snappy movement, but it's also so funny bc sora's wrists should absolutely Not be bending that way. my guy think about ur bones.........

[viperwhispered]

I do love it that from what I see, Jamil stans are like "he's totally justified for what he's doing and also I'd let him commit crimes with me 🥰". And meanwhile, Azul stans are that meme of holding up your cat and calling it names (if someone knows what I'm talking about please point me in the right direction I'd love to include it here ty Bibi for knowing what I was talking about).