#t faq

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hi!! I love this series so much, and as someone who hasn’t really drawn since they were a kid but wants to start as a hobby, do you have any advice for sort of learning to doodle on paper and get better at it? I want to start but I don’t really know how/where

The most important step in getting better at any skill is Persistence and Consistency. Practice and keep practicing! The best way to do that is to keep it fun! Picking a project helps generate ideas (e.g. drawing Pokémon, or characters from a series you like). There are also a ton of monthly prompt lists out there!

I also highly recommend scheduling in a 'drawing/practice' time in your day. For me, I started with 30-60 min before bed (bonus: its a good 'no screentime' activity), and the habit took root there.

There are a lot of 'technical' things to study but find the fun first. At a certain point you will discover you've hit a wall, and have a specific aspect/goal you want to target (colour theory, anatomy, lighting, comic layout). Then it's time to go looking for resources.

Once you have the habit and some goals, go collect some inspiration! Find people who inspire you and study their work!

Another little 'art skill builder' I recommend is the Shrimp Method! Only if you find technical challenges like this fun though (Example of one of my studies below)

[swansong-if]

Hi! About the poly it's going to be a triad (everyone is in love with everyone) a V ( the ROs are friends and both of them love and are in a relationship with MC) or we'll be a or to decide? Must that be

Hey there, I've answered this here hope that clears things up 😉

[wutheringheightsfilm]

okay hot off the presses (aka directly from my outline and notes doc) is the fic summary!! might not be the final ver i put online but you know how it is:

Summary: In an alternate world where everyone’s cultivation is influenced by the elements, every cultivation disciple falls into one of five affinities: water, fire, earth, metal, and wood---except for one. 

Wei Wuxian is not a cultivation disciple. He is an impoverished orphan-turned-healer on the outskirts of Yunmeng, healing people in ways that no one has ever seen. He doesn’t have a traditional affinity either. What he does have is a power that has never been encountered or spoken of before, and it has the ability to change the tide of the oncoming war…or bring the entire cultivation world to its knees.

The problem is: Wei Wuxian does not want to bring the cultivation world to its knees, or be any figure of renown. He simply wants to heal people, reconnect with those he considers his family, and make a dour looking young man from Gusu smile. 

Of course, the world does not care what Wei Wuxian wants, and he has to learn the hard way that others may not think his good intentions matter. 

[Elemental Magic!AU, AU: Wei Wuxian is not raised in Lotus Pier]

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[kiochisato]

hello ! How do you make transparent gifs ? Ive been struggling with them ww ;;

haii anon , i've already answered something like that right over here !

[twistedappletree]

my faq: i do not engage in fandom discourse or respond to antis

ppl after reading my faq: ok *immediately sends an ask about fandom discourse & their anti BS*

[snoopdoggs]

hi jasmine!! your dongwook gifs are so stunning (as all your packs are <3) i was wondering where do you get your downloads? every site i've tried is either low quality or links are down 😭 thank you so much for your time and creations!! ♥️

oh thank you so much for the kind message omg <3 my go to for asian dramas is mkvdrama . org ! i usually download stuff in 720p but if you're looking for super good quality then i believe most of the stuff they upload is also in 1080p. for shows or movies i can't find on there, i usually search around either for a link that has web-dl in the title or i find a stream in good quality

[sinsandsweetness]

🪩 what are your thoughts ab wiring fan fiction for carl? i know some people age him up, and i was just wondering what you thought!!

i missed you too hehe🤭 and ready to read what you wrote!!

bby anon<3

I personally wouldn’t feel comfy doing it, and honestly even reading it at this point in my life. But I don’t judge those who do. He is a fictional character and I remember having a crush on Carl when I was young and watching the show, so I don’t really think it’s that big of a deal.

I wouldn’t want to read/write and my Carl fics now just given that in my mind he’s 17, and im 21 so just… not for me. But zero judgment to those who do.

I just personally want daddy grimes, not baby grimes🤭

[fallen-hq]

não rola de um server no discord? o tumblr tem muito bug no chat

amô, você pode chamar os players em particular e perguntar se eles querem partir para o discord para combinar os plots, eu fiz isso quase agora, inclusive!!! mas um server para os players nós não vamos fazer, não - a menos que todos queiram. em um grupo geral assim, normalmente tem o pessoal que interage mais enquanto outros menos, e sabemos que não é nada confortável não conseguir acompanhar um fluxo de conversas onde achamos não nos encaixar.

[actualnymph]

Maybe it’s bc I have a broken arm rn but I’m getting so fucking annoyed at people for saying I didn’t credit the og artist in that grace siblings art post when I literally linked the Twitter post in the caption. Like are people stupid it’s right there. No disrespect towards the artist no trying to claim it as mine or whatever the link is right there. Like. Hello???????

[mortalityplays]

Unprintable: Artists Against Authority

I am absolutely beside myself with excitement to announce the launch of Unprintable.

Unprintable is an online free shop, where original artwork and arts resources are released into the public domain.

Everything listed here is free to use, copy and remix any way you like. You can print off hi-res artwork to decorate your apartment, or to use in your own projects. You can use the writing in your own zines, anthologies or performances. You can put it on a t-shirt. You can read it on the radio. You can paint it on a truck. It's up to you, entirely and forever.

The collection will be updated continuously, on an unfixed schedule, with contributions from a wide range of named and anonymous artists and activists. You can read the FAQ for a full rundown of what Unprintable is and why it exists, but these are the really important parts:

Can I download/print/use the work listed here? Yes. Can I use it for [X]? You can do whatever you want with it forever. But what if I want to [Y]? You can do whatever you want with it forever. Why do this? A few reasons: 1. We want a space to just share things, no strings attached. We recognise that copyright is an irrational system that was designed to protect the profit interests of publishing middlemen and IP hoarders. In fact, copyright is often weaponised against the creators it pretends to protect. As long as it exists, we are unlikely to win any other form of protection for our work, and we are profoundly limited from engaging in the kind of communal artistic and storytelling practices that were the norm around the world for thousands of years. 2. Radical art is often unprintable. Profit motives make people cautious. A lot of print-on-demand or local print shop services will refuse artwork with controversial, sensitive or political content. This is very frustrating when these themes are the focus of so much of our work (and indeed our lives). Rather than waste any more breath trying to explain why a trans artist might want to print the word ‘faggot’, we can give our work away for free. Got a printer? It’s yours. 3. It feels good. Sharing is joyful. It’s the reason we love making things in the first place. We don’t write poems because we look forward to filleting them for consumption, or layer colours so that we can sell a canvas by the ounce. We have only ever wanted to be able to support ourselves so that we can make, but that relationship is deeply dysfunctional under capitalism. We made these things, and we want you to have them. It doesn’t need to be complicated.

I'll write up some more posts introducing the launch collection soon. In the meantime...be free, enjoy, explore, have fun!

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[xeneric-shrooms]

STARES AT YOU WITH MY AUTISTIC EYES. clown has a site detailing what welcome home is!!! this is just the prolouge btw ^_^ https://www.clownillustration.com/from-me-to-you here ya goooo :3

please be warned that it focuses HEAVILY on unreality. as this is an arg and is meant to take place in a world where this was an actual show

Oh ! I already know about the site I'm just trying to figure out if it has a much darker undertone or if it's supposed to be a genuine silly cute arg !

Edit: OHKAY I SEE THISLL BE FUN TO KEEP UP WITH!!! OOOOoooohhh i love me some good horror!!!!! (⁠��⁠▽⁠≦⁠)~!!

[hellsitegenetics]

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[sachermorte]

so the thing about english is that people think it's so divorced from other germanic languages based on like. words. I've even heard people try to insist that english is a romance language. because of that whole messy business in 1066 with out-of-wedlock willy and his band of naughty normans. and now a good chunk of the vocabulary is french or whatever and they're prestigious so not using them makes you sound like a rube and this and that and the other

and yes william the conqueror will never be safe from me. I will have my revenge on him. he fucked up a perfectly good germanic language is what he did. this will be me in hell

but the thing is that most words in, say, german do have a one to one english equivalent. not all hope is lost, for those who still dare to see it. it's just that you 1066pilled normancels aren't looking in the right place

dog (en) ≠ der Hund (de) but der Hund (de) -> hound (en)

look with your special eyes. that one was easier. not all of them are this intuitive because of semantic narrowing and broadening and waltzing and hokey-pokeying and whatever else. I'll give you a few more

animal (en) ≠ das Tier (de)

aha! you think. I've got him on the ropes now.

but then

das Tier (de) -> deer (en)

nooooo!! you whine and cry in gay baby jail. the consonants are different!!! listen to me. listen, I say, putting both my hands on your shoulder. /t/and /d/ are the same sound. you just put your voice behind one of them.

nooooooooo!! you wail. deer are animals but not all animals are deer!!! listen to me. LISTEN. they used to be. animals used to be deer. that's just what we called them. it was a long time ago. it was a weird time in all our lives. it's okay.

let's try for a verb this time

to die (en) ≠ sterben (de) but sterben (de) -> to starve

same principle with the consonants, we're just changing a stop (where we completely stop the airflow and then let it through) for a fricative (where we still let some air go through. idk where it's going. maybe to its job or something.)

to starve used to mean generally to die, not just to die of malnourishment. we do that a lot. we take one word for a lot of things and make it mean one thing. or take one word for one thing and make it mean a lot of things. this is common and normal.

"okay but roland," you say, suddenly coming up with an argument. "what about tree? trees are super common. I don't think we'd fuck around too much with that. the german word is baum! what about THAT?"

"when did you learn german?" I ask, but then decide it isn't relevant right at this very moment. but fine.

tree (en) ≠ der Baum (de) but der Baum (de) -> beam (en)

beam??? you ask incredulously. beam???? BEAM?????? you continue with the same tone and cadence of captain holt from brooklyn 99.

yes. beam. like the evil beams from my eye I'm going to hit you with if you don't stop shouting.

but the vowels!!! you howl.

listen. listen to me. the vowels mean nothing. absolutely nothing. they're fluid like water. it got raised in english.

"WHAT DOES RAISED MEAN"

it doesn't matter right now. they were raised better than you, at least. stop shouting. open your eyes and see what god has given you. they're the same word.

"they're NOT the same word. they mean different things!"

we've been over this. they didn't used to. a beam was (and is) a long solid piece of wood. much like the long solid piece of wood I showed your mother last night.

FAQ:

Q: could english be some kind of germanic-romance hybrid?

A: do you become a sexy thing from the black lagoon just because you dressed up as one for halloween? english may have gotten a lot of vocabulary from norman french, but its history and syntax are distinctly germanic. that's what we base these things on.

Q: okay but what does it matter? this doesn't actually affect my day to day life

A: you come into my house? you come into my house, the house of an autistic man living in vienna austria and studying english linguistics and you ask me what does it matter? sit back down. I was going to let you go but now I have powerpoints to show you

Q: you're stupid and wrong and gay and a bad person

A: I know it's you, Willy

[thedeacanedous]