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every fandom with a character who has a non-human skin tone can say Thank You to the homestuck fandom for the plentiful SEAL YOUR FUCKING PAINT warnings, reminders, tutorials, begging, pleading, etc. for your cosplays

we were forged in those fires, you don't understand, hotels were PISSED and for good fucking reason. gray everywhere. unsealed paint on other people's cosplays. Seal Your Fucking Paint became second nature to shout even if you weren't cosplaying in gray. it was a sea of body paint and swapped tutorials and tips and DIYs and makeshift and what worked and what didn't, it was a fucking SCIENCE, an ART

a very very very hard won art that was drilled in peoples heads over and over and over to salvage what little reputation we had at conventions lmfao

that said, if you hadn't seen a tutorial or heard that yet and were gonna cosplay a non-human toned character. SEAL. YOUR. FUCKING. BODY. PAINT. SEAL IT. SEAL IT GOOD. DO NOT SKIP SEALING. NOBODY LIKES UNSEALED BODY PAINT, ESPECIALLY IN PHOTOSHOOTS AND BUSY ARTIST ALLEYS. LOOK UP THE OPTIONS FOR SEALING PRODUCTS AND USE THEM. PLEASE. SAVE YOURSELF. SAVE YOUR FRIENDS. SAVE US ALL. FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS GO ONTO THE CON FLOOR WITHOUT SEALING THEIR BODY PAINT.

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Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

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Every day I learn something baffling about Massachusetts

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They got an alleged killer of 1 guy in fucking time prison with all the kings horses and all the kings men gaurding him and dudes with rifles pointed at him as if he has super strength and can fly away but a school shooter gets arrested and they take him out for burger king

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This is quite possibly the greatest thing that has ever happened to me

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japanese game dev in the 90s: hey dude can you make some music for our game about anime girls getting fucked sloppy style

guy who's about to push the PC-98 sound card to its absolute limit and create the most heartachingly beautiful music you've ever heard: Yeah okay

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news just in!!! a lot of fandom issues could be resolved by recognising that characters aren't real people, and real people aren't characters!!! situation still developing, more at 10

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I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

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*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

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🍔🍟❤️

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Mini vampire hunting kit

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actually that reblog's making me think. what's something you think I'd be into/am into? curious to see what I've been Assigned, with a bonus of maybe finding new media or games or something that sound fun if it's something I'm not familiar with :)

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fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever

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it’s okay if this takes longer than you expected