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I have made a pay-what-you-want zine about... How To Make Zines!

I go over my entire process, so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful!

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LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand

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should be able to leave kudos on scientific studies. i liked your paper dude keep at it

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HOLIDAY SPECIAL! 🎄✨️🎄✨️ I have these five Environmental Art Tutorials in my shop for this month of December! LAST DAY to grab all tutorials is DECEMBER 31st! I'll be moving onto new tutorials next month! Shop link below!

SHOP

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Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!

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Show, don’t tell

"Show, don’t tell" means letting readers experience a story through actions, senses, and dialogue instead of outright explaining things. Here are some practical tips to achieve that:

1. Use Sensory Details

Tell: "The room was cold."

Show: "Her breath puffed in faint clouds, and she shivered as frost clung to the edges of the window."

Tell: "He was scared."

Show: "His hands trembled, and his heart thudded so loudly he was sure they could hear it too."

2. Focus on Actions

Tell: "She was angry."

Show: "She slammed the mug onto the counter, coffee sloshing over the rim as her jaw clenched."

Tell: "He was exhausted."

Show: "He stumbled through the door, collapsing onto the couch without even bothering to remove his shoes."

3. Use Dialogue

What characters say and how they say it can reveal their emotions, intentions, or traits.

Tell: "She was worried about the storm."

Show: "Do you think it'll reach us?" she asked, her voice tight, her fingers twisting the hem of her shirt.

4. Show Internal Conflict Through Thoughts or Reactions

Tell: "He was jealous of his friend."

Show: "As his friend held up the trophy, he forced a smile, swallowing the bitter lump rising in his throat."

5. Describe the Environment to Reflect Mood

Use the setting to mirror or hint at emotions or themes.

Tell: "The town was eerie."

Show: "Empty streets stretched into the mist, and the only sound was the faint creak of a weathered sign swinging in the wind."

6. Let Readers Infer Through Context

Give enough clues for the reader to piece things together without spelling it out.

Tell: "The man was a thief."

Show: "He moved through the crowd, fingers brushing pockets, his hand darting away with a glint of gold."

7. Use Subtext in Interactions

What’s left unsaid can reveal as much as what’s spoken.

Tell: "They were uncomfortable around each other."

Show: "He avoided her eyes, pretending to study the painting on the wall. She smoothed her dress for the third time, her fingers fumbling with the hem."

8. Compare to Relatable Experiences

Use metaphors, similes, or comparisons to make an emotion or situation vivid.

Tell: "The mountain was huge."

Show: "The mountain loomed above them, its peak disappearing into the clouds, as if it pierced the heavens."

Practice Example:

Tell: "The village had been destroyed by the fire."

Show: "Charred beams jutted from the rubble like broken ribs, the acrid smell of ash lingering in the air. A child's shoe lay half-buried in the soot, its leather curled from the heat."

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AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok

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An old soft proofing tutorial of mine that I’ve been getting requests to post again.

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so crunchyroll is fucking evil

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They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”

88,000 new free images just dropped, to use however you like.

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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Senpai says you’re welcome

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i havent ranted i awhile but imma feelin the fight in me lad, oh boy am i feelin the urge to screm

anyways i think its funny everytime i see a new mental health professional and tell them my situation theyre like "adhd?" and like NO! long long ago i was treated with stimulants in 4th grade and they KO me immediately and like ... thats not whats supposed to happen and omg guess what i actually have schizophrenia and executive dysfunction can occur in schizophrenia not just adhd i told people I AM PAYING ATTENTION i happen to forget everything immediately bc working memory is a part of executive function and also yeah i didnt have my first ep of psychosis and was diagnosed with schizophrenia when i was 23 but prodrome is a thing and ive had the same brain my whole life and idk maybe it was riddled with schizophrenia when i was born and some of my struggles in childhood can be linked to it i dunno

anyways i had me some psych testing done i dont have adhd and i wish when i mentioned i get bored easy and cant start tasks and whatnot peeps would be saying i have adhd and ignoring the mental illness i am actually diagnosed with reeee

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CBC made a good documentary on adult ADHD and part of it really caught me off guard because i swear they repeated verbatim my life story for the past 3 years

full programme here:

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/adhd-not-just-for-kids

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Define schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a complicated mental illness which affects roughly 1% of the population. Schizophrenia symptoms are categorized in three groups - positive, negative and cognitive. Keep in mind that not every schizophrenic will experience every symptom, and that there’s just as many different ways to experience schizophrenia as there’s schizophrenic people.

Positive symptoms (positive as in “added to” - meaning things schizophrenic people may experience which neurotypicals don’t): 

Delusions. A delusion is a fixed belief that doesn’t fit into societal and cultural norms that doesn’t change when confronted with a contradicting reality. Delusions can take many different forms and can be everything from “people can read my mind” to “I’m being stalked by the government” to “I’m being possessed by demons” to “I’m the next Jesus.” 

Hallucinations. Hallucinations means experiencing sensory input that isn’t actually there. They can be both tactile (feeling touches that aren’t there - example: feeling that bugs are crawling on you when there isn’t any bugs), auditory (hearing voices or other sounds that aren’t there), visual (seeing things that aren’t there), olfactory (smelling things that aren’t there) and gustatory (to do with taste - example: having food taste rotten when it’s actually perfectly fine.) 

Disorganized thinking/behavior as in a lacking ability to organize ones thoughts and a resulting lack of ability to speak, act and express yourself normally. A person suffering from disorganized thinking may speak or act in obviously bizarre ways that doesn’t make sense to other people.

Negative symptoms (negative as in “removed from” meaning that these are symptoms which are defined by being things most people experience which people with schizophrenia may lack): 

Apathy. Apathy is the loss of interest in things that used to interest a person. This includes both jobs, hobbies, relationships and personal hygiene. (A person may go from being passionate about their job to laying in bed all day.) 

Inappropriate or lacking emotional responses. (A person may not react emotionally to things that most people would react emotionally to or may have an inappropriate emotional response - some examples could be laughing at a family members funeral or smiling at bad news or not reacting at all to hearing that someone died.) 

Lack of speech. (A person may go from speaking normally to giving one word answers or not speaking at all.) 

Social withdrawal. (A person may lose all interest in socializing and start isolating themselves from their friends and family members.) 

Anhedonia. Anhedonia is the lack of ability to feel pleasure as in no longer getting positive emotional responses from anything and feeling empty and grey when doing things that used to make you happy. (A person may go from really loving reading to not getting any enjoyment out of doing it.)

Sexual problems. (A person may lose their interest in sex partly or completely.) 

Lethargy. Lethargy means lack of energy. (A person may go from being able to go to school every day to not being able to get out of bed.) 

Impaired attention. (A person may struggle to follow conversations and focus on reading or television, etc). 

Cognitive symptoms:

Loss of long and short term memory. People with schizophrenia may struggle to remember things they’re supposed to remember more often than neurotypicals. (A person may frequently forget about plans, appointments and other things they’re supposed to do - and they may struggle to recall relevant information when they need it.)

Loss of working memory. Working memory is our ability to actively process and use information in the moment. (A person with impaired working memory may be slower at comprehending what’s happening around them or what they’re supposed to do in a given situation.)

Loss of ability to concentrate/focus. People with schizophrenia may have a hard time focusing on tasks and may be easily distracted. (A person may find themselves reading the same sentence over and over without comprehending anything because they can’t focus on actually processing the information they’re reading despite wanting and needing to.)

Loss of executive functioning. Executive functioning is a term for our ability to plan, start, perform and finish a certain task, so someone with executive dysfunction may often struggle to figure out how to go from wanting to do something to actually doing it. (A person may know that they need to do the laundry, but they can’t figure out how to get from “dirty laundry” to “clean laundry” because their brain can’t see all the individual steps. They know that they need to get from A to F - but they can’t see B, C, D and E, and may thus get stuck and be unable to perform the task.)

Learning difficulties. People with schizophrenia may struggle to learn and remember new skills and information. (A person may already have asked how to use the microwave 5 times, but every time someone explains it they end up forgetting how to do it and having to ask again.)