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Headcanon: like in real life, when two security programs get put on the same system, it’s tradition to immediately fight each other, and whoever wins gets to be the system defender. Like roosters.

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Fanart Friday #24: Color Study

There's a screencap buried somewhere under there. I was in a mood to do colors rather than draw. I set a challenge for myself to work with a limited palette, and achieve the rest of the variation by blending and layer effects. Overall I'm very pleased with the result, and I'd like to try to use this method again.

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The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

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I had to do it to 'em.

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Bruh

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Fabio Viale, marble sculpture.

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Fanart Friday #23: Choso Deserves a Pumpkin Spice Latte and a Scone

JJK has taken over my brain. I'm really happy with the colors on this one.

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originally these were just for a groupchat but i want to save them actually.

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Garmadon in the Garden 🍎🐍

Making this one its own post as well, + some progress pics below!

Once again the "Garmadon literally being eve" idea was inspired by @crowleycorvid – I'm excited to see what you end up making w the concept !!

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He's a golden retriever at heart who can't help getting attached to people even when he's trying to avoid it. He tries to keep some emotional distance from Beck but fails miserably at it almost immediately, and afterwards is pretty unabashedly Beck's friend. His sense of humor has gotten dry, but it's still very much there, and he likes to snark. The only programs he ever *really* seems to make fights personal with are two whom he used to be close friends with. After he's healed, he has an absolutely wonderful time beating the snot out of those soldiers.

He's a golden retriever, but he's a golden retriever who's been abused, and that's the compelling part. He tries to suppress the friendly, silly guy because he's trying not to let himself get hurt again, but he fundamentally can't.

A pet peeve of mine is when people characterize tron as a fully serious guy with a thousand yard stare like guys he's a dorky knight he isn't batman "oh but he gets super serious during and after uprising" HES STILL SILLY THERE you can make him only a shadow of what he used to be without taking away entire traits

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I saw this used as the cover image for one of my favorite orchestral pieces on youtube. Nice to be able to put a name to the painting as well as the piece--Danse Macabre by Saint Saens, incidentally.

Remedios Varo - Les Feuilles mortes (Les heures mortes, El hilo), 1956. Oil on board (74 x 60.3 cm).

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to