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[bigfatbreak]

how do you feel about completing Birds Of A Feather after 2 years and 6 months?

IT WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE THIS LONG

[dlight98]

The way my dad does it:

get a 2 cup measuring cup full.

Put in like 5 teabags.

Microwave for like 5+ minutes

Put a plate on top and put the whole thing in the fridge

Drink it throughout the week

Asking Americans specifically: reblog and put in the tags how do you make tea.

[perplexingly]

Hey there! Where do you find reference for people being physically intimate with each other? You do all this gorgeous art of people where you can really feel their presence with each other. I want to learn how to convey that kind of embodied tenderness but am having a really hard time finding useful references for it. Do you have any resources or recommendations?

Oh! Thank you so much for thinking so ��‍♀️ For references, I don’t think I do anything different than most people — I’ll make a very rough sketch then, then reference different body parts separately by looking up generic terms like “person leaning back” and go from there. However, there are some things that I do that aren’t related to references.

First is that, well, drawing comes very difficult to me and I don’t see images very well in my head, so I do these stick figure-like sketches A Lot; for every drawing or a sketch I post here, I probably made at the very least 5 different variations just to think it through, and only when I have some idea, I begin to search for anatomy references.

Second is that if I see something not working for me, if I don’t like it or have a hard time, I put it on ~30% opacity and sketch on top just tweaking until I find something I like better.

And lastly is probably the most obvious, but I love art, I love to analyze it and get inspired, I go to museums in every city I visit, note down names of the artists I like and look them up again, I take pictures of every sculpture I come across, I visit websites of auction houses to find the less renown artists, if a book has a painted cover I’ll analyze it too (the old Harlequin romance novels used to have these beautifully illustrated ones!).

Sorry if there isn’t any new information here but hope it’ll still be helpful anyhow…

[atlaculture]

please do a real life face inspiration for Mai because she is so beautiful and the asian beauty standards post was interesting.

Doing a face inspo for Mai sounds fun! She definitely has the most distinctive face of all the young, female characters in the show. It's very strong, sharp and high fashion... So sharp it could puncture the hull of an Empire-class Fire Nation battleship...

Top Row: Sheena Liam (Chinese-Malaysian) and Soo Joo Park (Korean)

Bottom Row: Sora Choi (Korean) and Ai Tominaga (Japanese)

Her face is also very interesting because her facial proportions are very similar to pre-Meiji Japanese beauty ideals, before their standards became more Westernized. She's got features that you see in most Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) paintings of women: Slim face, narrow eyes, long nose, and pale skin.

This is also why the Kyoshi Warrior look--- which is heavily inspired by traditional Japanese theatre--- suits her so well.

[quinngefail]

I can imagine Lawrence getting Adam mcdonalds, he's like eating it in the car as Lawrence stares out the window, and Adam says something like "So uh... are... are you my sugar daddy now or something." as they sit in slightly awkwarder more confused silence lol -🃏🧁

HRJSKKGGSK

Okay like. I've actually had this in mind for a while now with my little version/au/story (?) of them, I imagine this comes up at the hospital while they're both recovering- and like, I'm just gonna throw in screenshots from the doc I'm working on LMAO

So uhh this would absolutely come up about a year later, when they're intimately together. And it would also come up again and again coz Adam just cannot get enough of the way Lawrence reacts to it, tending to get all flustered and shit-

...Until the time Lar absolutely catches him off guard with a very sultry little response, 😩

And how the tables turn lmaoo

[completeoveranalysis]

IT'S A MIRACLE NICK THE LADIES OF CLAMP HEARD YOU WERE ALMOST DONE WITH TSUBASA AND XXXHOLIC AND DECIDED TO RESUME XXXHOLIC'S SEQUEL

[gideonisms]

ive been waiting for you to turn anon asks on so i can say your blog is... kinda hot

HELP. fellas is it hot to post constantly from the work bathroom about how much I want to keep gideon nav in a jar

[nopony-ask-mclovin]

That idea is.... terrible.

[rubyfunkey]

Gay /pos /hj

which part is the half-joke the gay part or the pos part. my friend hannah wants to know

[bob-artist]

Since the Canada griffin was proudly mentioned recently I figure it can’t hurt to ask if you do happen to have plans to design Canada griffin goslings at some point in the future? (muse permitting)

I DO NOW.

I present to you

honklings

[queermania]

Wait are you really pro-ship?

back in my day we just called it minding your own business

[kedreeva]

My favorite bird is Bug

Right there. That bird.

pssttt if you see this post tell me what your favorite bird is

[bigfatbreak]

Since 4 leaf clovers grow where Marinette sits, what would Adrien's equivalent be??

Nothing grows where he sits, but things sour if he holds onto them for too long. This means, if he times it juuuust right, with juuust the right amount of prep, he can turn grape juice into wine~

[quinngefail]

me and my friend were goofing on animal adoption sites in our area AND WE FOUND A KITTEN NAMED SGT PEPPER THAT WAS BLACK AND WHITE!!!!

Ha ha that's crazy, he's right h

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...Oh, dear

[shesnake]

some of us just don’t want to read problematic white authors so ao3 is our only option 🤷‍♀️

oh there is no saving youse

[sunsetcarnation264]

When I was little, about five or six, I wanted a dog. On the way there, though, I changed my mind and said I wanted a cat. Something about mom saying I can't change my mind like that, I can't really recall it correctly (memory issues) and I'm going by what she told me.

When we got there, we saw a little kitten that was getting picked on by other cats. A little tortoise shell cat. We felt bad for her and we got her, thus making my first pet a cat.

She was born sick. If we wanted her to have kittens herself, she wouldn't be able to without some kinda issues (i.e. her dying).

You wanna know what we did though?

We loved her. We loved her to fucking pieces for the nine years we had her. Yeah she became more and more grouchy over the years with her little fat self, but she was loved. It broke my heart when she passed away.

If I were to get another pet at any point, and I see a cat who's just like that, or blind or deaf or doesn't have all four legs or anything else that seems "less adoptable" to other people, guess what?

I'd get that one every single time. If I had my first cat show up the way she was before she died, grouchy and grumpy as hell, I'd grab that one in a heartbeat.

I dunno why I just went on about my first cat on a post like this, but pets like that are just as perfect to me as any other pet who aren't grouchy or deaf or anything else.

I'm just gonna stop before I go on for eternity and make myself cry even more lol

This was meant to be a quick warm up, but it turned into a comic that I’ve wanted to draw for a while. This is something that is extremely important to me, and I appreciate it if you read it.

A while ago, I heard a story that broke my heart. A family went a cat shelter to adopt. The daughter fell in love with a 3-legged cat. The father straight up said “absolutely not”. Because he was missing a leg. That cat was that close to having a family that loved him, but the missing leg held him back. Why?!

Many people have the initial instinct of “nope” when they see an imperfect animal. I get it, but less-adoptable does NOT mean less loveable. 9 out of 10 people will choose a kitten over an adult cat. And those 10% that would get an adult cat often overlook “different” animals.

All I want people to do is be open to the idea of having a “different” pet in their lives. Choose the pet that you fall in love with, but at least give all of them a fair shot at winning your heart.

Don’t dismiss them, they deserve a loving home just as much as any other cat. They still purr, they still love a warm lap, they still play, they still love you. Trust me, next time you are in the market for a new kitty, just go over to that one cat that’s missing an eye and see what he’s all about!