#the person at the store was very nice

[purple-is-great]

I bought a trans flag today! We'll see if I have the guts to bring it to pride this year (my town's pride week is rather late in the summer), but i own one now!

[theminecraftbee]

you know, there are a lot of posts about how transitioning as an adult is like going through puberty all over again. and I’m not medically transitioning (at least not yet, maybe one day), so I don’t know if I ever expected to exactly experience that. after all, my hormones are at normal adult levels for someone on birth control. but no, some of the stuff I experience does make me feel like a teenager awkwardly becoming an adult again, actually.

see, I’m attending a friend’s wedding, and I need new formalwear for it (protip: it is generally frowned upon to wear a wedding dress to someone else’s wedding, and that’s the last formalwear I purchased). and I just… really didn’t want to wear a dress, so I went to go get a suit. and I didn’t know how to get any of the required clothes for it and had to have a salesperson help me figure out how dress shirts work and nervously stood there while getting shown how to try stuff on and it really did feel like I was a lost teenager, despite being, you know, almost twenty-six.

but also: I own a three-piece suit now! it’s grey! it looks pretty good on me! I even got a blue tie with bees on it! so it was worth the temporary embarrassment of suddenly realizing I don’t know how men’s formalwear sizes work and, oh god, why are there so many variations of “white dress shirt” what does this mean.

and I figure as I very slowly work up the confidence to be out more irl there will be more and more moments like this, and I’ll lament the fact I didn’t do all this stuff as an actual teenager, but as weird and scary as it is, so far, it’s been worth it.

[midnight-mismanagement]

I watched season 3 and rewatched season 1 and 2 of the umbrella academy and what I can gather is:

Five (season 1): Denial, anger

Five (season 2): Bargaining

Five (season 3): Depression, acceptance

[bogkeep]

the Classic. the Beloved. the Cumulus Cloud

[skinreflectsthesun]

Moms day out🖤💀✌🏻

[danhausensboots]

Y’all I actually met danhausen today holy crap

He was very nice!

[sleepgarden]

now in theory if I made little note pads like this would anyone be interested? 🌷 with a better binding (higher quality glue lol) and adjusting the illustration of course, as this was just a test ^^

[solar-halos]

for this mood board monday, i present yet another ficboard. the board in question is of franka by @ongreenergrasses

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Vegetta is so handsome but if you line up every single one of his photos side by side he straight up looks like he could be 5 completely different dudes. How the frick does he look so different in every single photo

[hauntedselves]

hmm. just realised my still problematic physical anxiety may not be anxiety but hypervigilance. sertraline is supposed to treat PTSD as well as anxiety so I'm still hoping a higher dose will finally settle me down for good.

it doesn't help that i haven't been able to see my psych since November...

oh. lol, i just realised that days where I'm anxious correlate with trauma dreams. why didn't i connect the dots earlier lmao

[mantisgodsart]

(via @cordycepsbian)

We can answer this actually we love talking about Cool Art Stuff.

Despite what one may assume, sharp edges in watercolor is actually quite easy! Come, sit, allow us to share our secrets. It's like 50% "materials" and 50% "we spent a long-ass time figuring out how to do sharp edges in watercolor and now we're really good at figuring out the exact combos of consistency and brush stroke required to make those really hard edges"

The first trick is, of course, to not try and do it at the beginning of the painting. When you're just starting to block shapes in to your watercolor, pursuing sharp edges is a fool's ordeal, and you can only really get those sharp edges in as finishing touches near the end of the work.

The second trick is to work wet-on-dry - this limits the spread of the watercolor and allows you to prevent bleeding, but you have to make sure your painting is COMPLETELY dry before painting, or you'll risk having some ill-defined lines and bleeding.

The third trick is to work with... cake watercolors? There's a tern for it, we just can't remember it - dry pan watercolors, where you have to wet the paint to "activate" it, offer you a LOT more control over the consistency of your paint, and using a relatively thick paint will allow you some REALLY sharp lines! Fair warning, your mileage may vary based on the specific paints you use just because pigment is Expensive and cheaper brands of watercolor will almost definitely be, like, cutting out as much pigment as they can manage in order to cut corners, and the sharp edges will be less obvious the more transparent they are.

As a general rule of thumb when you pay for Fancy watercolor you're paying for the insane amount of pigment that they put in their Fancy Stuff and that lends itself a lot more to Sharp Lines (plus one thing of it will last Fucking Forever). The black we use Specifically is an Artisanal Fancy Brand that we don't remember the name of and we've been using the same ~$10 thing for more than a year without even using up half of it, but honestly the actual paints you use are the Least important part of doing watercolor, you can do like the exact same thing with dollar store paints it'll just be a bit less pigmented.

The fourth trick is to just, like, practice a TON. You WILL have to spend time getting it right. It will take a Long-Ass Time. You will have So Much Trouble. Unfortunately this step cannot be avoided but we can still warn you that you'll be trying to make really sharp lines for like an hour and it still won't quite work.

The last trick is to uhh

[im-goin-mad]

alt people thinking others don't like them because they're alt like no babe you're trying to gatekeep stuff i could find on amazon

[starlooove]

I feel like ppl ignore hobie is a BLACK punk and it’s so tiring

[crescentfool]

ohh the joy of videos and streams... i like listening to people talk about things they like/think about it’s very contagious... 🥺

[dockaspbrak]

i feel like im not actually connected to the world anymore like i used to be and i lost whatever i had

[earmo-imni]

This is a reminder to everyone who wears glasses to make sure you have a FUNCTIONAL back up pair at all times especially if you have a strong prescription

I did not. My glasses broke unexpectedly yesterday. I am now stressed as hell and unable to get new glasses for a minimum of 3-5 business days, possibly longer, because my prescription is too strong for the same-day company in my area to actually get them done on the same day. The only pair I can currently wear are a pair of glasses so old my left eye is practically useless because the lens isn’t anywhere close to strong enough (the right, at least, I can see well enough in).

Don’t be me. Make sure you have a back up that works.