#that might make sense

[banditblvd]

Turns out that when you draw different things it helps improve your art faster! That’s news to me!

Completely unrelated but I redesigned Grian again

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

When I lived in my hometown after Japan I started playing guitar at our church, which was a pretty small one, and over time it became smaller and also less healthy, consequence being I became more involved (lack of volunteers) and by the end had started arranging services and music with my wife

This being exhausting, when we moved to do my PhD we decided to go to a big church were we could blend in and be anonymous (mission accomplished) but when I got back from London last year my wife began to insist that I start playing guitar again. This church was big enough that I had to go through a rather elaborate audition process but in the end I fooled them and they plugged me in and now I play about once a month.

It is a big church, they do things differently, I don't like all of the differences, but the surreal thing I have encountered is that they put me on "lead" guitar pretty nearly exclusively. Most of the time I am playing with another guitar player who is also singing, consequence being he plays less and usually defers to me. In all my musical existence I have never been the guitar player to whom is deferred, I usually get out of the way of other people

I say all this to say, that the sonic liberty of my last two musical positions--less so at my previous church, which had less interest in electric guitar--has meant that I've had to get a lot better at improvisation and also learning parts by ear, as the chord sheets are not especially useful, and there is no sheet music, and no tablature. The best I get is sometimes a hipster worship guitar player will make a youtube video "tutorial" that consists of him playing the guitar in front of you and you kind of intuit based on his hand position and your knowledge of what strings and frets make what sounds to piece together what he's doing

What is the point I am making

A little while ago I shared a video of a man talking about how you "fake" playing piano and then he proceeded to explain how you actually play piano, because if you know what "buttons to push" (in his case, if you know how to play a C major scale) you can push whatever ones you want

I've been kind of amazed at the extent to which, true enough, the whole thing is a confidence trick. In Western music there are twelve different notes total. Just about every piece of Western music you've ever heard since the monks figured out the circle of fifths in the middle ages has consisted of some combination of those twelve. A major scale has seven notes.

You just have to push those seven buttons. And even if you push one of the other five, if you do it with enough confidence, people will just think that you made a bold, if confusing, choice to introduce dissonance.

[cadillacjohnf1]

Can't explain this but it is correct.

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[chloesimaginationthings]

These clown animatronics in FNAF wild as hell..

[hesztia16]

*Wayne Manor, Family dinner*

*Barbara’s phone rings*

*she leaves and comes back a few minutes later, expression solemn*

Dick: what happened

Barbara: the Joker is dead

Jason: *shocked silence*

Tim: *shocked silence*

Damian: *shocked silence*

Alfred: *shocked silence*

Like a dozen other more: *shocked silence*

Bruce: *leaves the room*

Dick: Bruce!

Alfred: Master Bruce what-

Jason: *looks away, clenching his fist*

Bruce: *returns, with a bottle of champagne*

Again: *shocked silence*

Tim: why’s there a note on that saying: “For when the Joker dies”?

Bruce: it was a gag gift from Harvey when he was… you know, less murderous

*not so shocked, more of a hesitant silence*

Jason: *stands* pop it open, old man. I’m bringing the glasses

Alfred: the help is much appreciated, Master Jason

Steph: how did he die?

Barbara, a little confused: my dad said something along the lines of… a bunch of fans manifesting it after the writers were cowards for too long?

[ruporas]

need to exist in your warmth (id in alt)

[thebaldursmouthgazette]

I’m sure Dumat being defeated the same year andraste was born means nothing

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that andrastes mother was part of a tribe who helped the grey wardens fight and defeat dumat the same year she was born, meaning that she could have been a fetus affected by the taint in the proximity of a dying arch demon

And the fact that nobody knows which grey warden killed dumat, as seven wardens died from injuries from his death throes, and therefore we cannot actually identify a warden who absorbed his soul, means nothing

And I’m sure it is a complete coincidence that andraste had dreams and visions of the being later referred to as the maker her whole life, and behaved strangely, talking about hearing lost voices and seeing strange auras. That absolutely doesn’t sound like anyone else we know

[verflares]

(draconifies your zelink) oh whoops lol

+ an extra pic of em hanging out together :]

btw, you can find these guys on inprnt! both as a pair, or apart :] You Choose.

[soupinaboot]

In my opinion, Bruce should be above average height or at least average. But since he surrounds himself with demi-gods, aliens, meta humans, etc, he's just dwarfed next to them. Like maybe about 6'1 or 6'2, but that's NOTHING compared to Diana '7'3 feet tall' Prince. Or Clark '6'9' Kent.

All the tabloids claim he has to be at least 5 feet tall because the only photos they can get of him are when he's next to his giant ass friends.

It is also my personal headcannon that all the robins stay shorter than him, except Jason, who should be at least 4 inches taller.

[tealgoat]

Act 5- Odile this speedrun fucking sucks

[spliceyblues]

☆ He's a master of fright

and a demon of light ☆

[keferon]

“Mistakes on mistakes until” ch 69 spoilers below!

Ahahahahahahah here I go again

Mistakes on mistakes until until I can draw Jazz with my eyes closed

I woke up, checked my phone, woke up for real and decided that whatever plans I had for this day yeah no they can wait a little bit kfkgnfk

Also. Consider listening this while reading. Or don't who am I to tell you what to do~

[frownyalfred]

one of the Batfamily's protocols for someone going suddenly evil actually is what they jokingly call a percussive reset (slamming the evil person's head into the wall just hard enough to scramble any potential mind control but not enough to cause serious brain damage) and Bruce absolutely hates that they call it that. does that stop him from doing it? absolutely not, but he tends to default to throwing an explosive device close to the evil person's head instead (make that brain jiggle like Jell-o) and plays it off as a "distraction." this is step 6 on his potential mind control protocol/checklist, immediately preceding step 7 (calling Diana) and step 8 ("this isn't you, don't do this").

[foxgirltail]

Genuinely, the reason why so many discussions about transgenderism end up the way they do (in addition to the overt transmisogyny) is a complete unwillingness to view gender (and sexuality) as political categories, instead viewing them exclusively through the lens of "personal identity"

"Why do people use agab/tma? Is not the point of being trans to escape the shackles of your agab?" I cannot stress this enough but I am not the one doing the shackling, society has invented the shackles and I am using language to describe them and how they affect me

In a hypothetical future situation where society is no longer (trans)misogynistic and the patriarchy has been fully dismantled, these terms will have no real use. But it's important to recognize what is current actual material reality and what is simply idealism and hypotheticals

I would love to live in a world where tma vs tme is not a meaningful distinction. But that world doesn't exist (and also you are not helping make it so it does), and so those terms remain useful

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl