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Month 4, day 29

More character modeling progress! In today's episode: a neck!

Also I tweaked the face and apparently missed a whole step in there somewhere because in the part of the tutorial video I'm trying to follow the whole soft part below the jaw is, like, gone. But mine still has it there, and I tried to follow every step? But I may have missed something. So now I have to scrub through the whole two hours of video I've already covered to see where I missed this step. Or see if I didn't miss it and he forgot to tell us. And then I get to try to catch back up! Yay! @_@

3D modeling is hard, y'all lol

#the great artscapade of 2024 #art #my art #blender #blender 3d #character modeling #I been knew 3D modeling is hard tho so I'm not too upset #I do wish I could re-find these tutorials I was following back in 2016 #that were literally just ''grab this here. move it five clicks to the left there'' #like they were so good and precise and I want them back but I can't find them!!! #oh well I'll just make due with whatever I can get my grubby little paws on lol

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okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something

#polls #americanisms #yes it's a thing #i did not participate

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People who switch pronouns in songs to no-homo the situation are so funny. The idea literally never even occurred to me as a kid. Couldn’t be me. I am a woman scorned. I am a man who had his heart broken. I am a guy who hates his hometown. I’m a country boy, I’m a city girl. I’m a slut. I’m addicted to cocaine. It’s a song, man.

#I'm a bitch I'm a lover I'm a child I'm a mother I'm a sinner I'm a saint #don't queue yourself a mischief #songs #singing #pronouns

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reblog to bonk prev with yr forehead like a cat

#my head go clunk against your head 💜 #reblog bait #kitty cats #affection

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u ever wake up from a dream like “damn i guess i’m not coping with THAT as well as i thought i was”

#STOP REMINDING ME OF THE VOMITING CLAY DREAM #I'M AWARE I'M NOT HANDLING EVERY DAY STRESS AND THE EXISTENCE OF CAPITALISM WELL THANK YOU #don't queue yourself a mischief #dreams

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Me when I smush my face into the wall

#cute kitty #pretty kitty #don't queue yourself a mischief

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One of the things that’s really struck me while rereading the Lord of the Rings–knowing much more about Tolkien than I did the last time I read it–is how individual a story it is.

We tend to think of it as a genre story now, I think–because it’s so good, and so unprecedented, that Tolkien accidentally inspired a whole new fantasy culture, which is kind of hilarious. Wanting to “write like Tolkien,” I think, is generally seen as “writing an Epic Fantasy Universe with invented races and geography and history and languages, world-saving quests and dragons and kings.” But… But…

Here’s the thing. I don’t think those elements are at all what make The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings so good. Because I’m realizing, as I did not realize when I was a kid, that Tolkien didn’t use those elements because they’re somehow inherently better than other things. He used them purely because they were what he liked and what he knew.

The Shire exists because he was an Englishman who partially grew up in, and loved, the British countryside, and Hobbits are born out of his very English, very traditionalist values. Tom Bombadil was one of his kids’ toys that he had already invented stories about and then incorporated into Middle-Earth. He wrote about elves and dwarves because he knew elves and dwarves from the old literature/mythology that he’d made his career. The Rohirrim are an expression of the ancient cultures he studied. There are a half-dozen invented languages in Middle-Earth because he was a linguist. The themes of war and loss and corruption were important to him, and were things he knew intimately, because of the point in history during which he lived; and all the morality of the stories, the grace and humility and hope-in-despair, was an expression of his Catholic faith. 

J. R. R. Tolkien created an incredible, beautiful, unparalleled world not specifically by writing about elves and dwarves and linguistics, but by embracing all of his strengths and loves and all the things he best understood, and writing about them with all of his skill and talent. The fact that those things happened to be elves and dwarves and linguistics is what makes Middle-Earth Middle-Earth; but it is not what makes Middle-Earth good.

What makes it good is that every element that went into it was an element J. R. R. Tolkien knew and loved and understood. He brought it out of his scholarship and hobbies and life experience and ideals, and he wrote the story no one else could have written… And did it so well that other people have been trying to write it ever since.

So… I think, if we really want to write like Tolkien (as I do), we shouldn’t specifically be trying to write like linguists, or historical experts, or veterans, or or or… We should try to write like people who’ve gathered all their favorite and most important things together, and are playing with the stuff those things are made of just for the joy of it. We need to write like ourselves.

#writing #tolkien #don't queue yourself a mischief

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Conversation Prompt

“Would it kill you to admit that I’m right?”

“Potentially. Why risk it?”

#Frey and Cuff in that order on a fairly regular basis #I can't even put this in my WIPs bc I'm like 99% sure I've used this dialogue at least three times in other fics lol #writing prompt #forspoken #edit: I put it in my WIPs anyway :P #I'm sure I can center a whole oneshot around this

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Conversation Prompt

“I was fine with my life until I met you.”

“Oh, well I’m sorry that I ruined your life.”

“It was ruined long before you came along. I was happy with you. You made me realise that I was settling for my misery because I was too afraid to go out and try to get some happiness. I found that with you and now I’m left with nothing but the memories, nothing but the knowledge that I could be so much better than this if I only bothered to try.”

#I don't know which one of these is Frey and which one is Cuff but this is them #forspoken #writing prompt

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She already has Homer to stare at her while she eats, she doesn't need him to do it, too :P

It's actually quite good that @flyingwide kept Starling a dorky little guy because that means that my instinct to feed him can remain intact.

Excellent.

#forspoken #urban fantasy au

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Fanfic writers are like crows. If you give them treats (comments) they will bring you shiny things (fanfic)

#fanfic #fandom #ao3 #can confirm am a cow :) moo :) #plz give pats #and also comments/kudos lol

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The female goat herders of Hadhramaut, Yemen

Goat herding is traditionally done by females in Eastern Yemen. The women cover all their skin from the heat and sun, protecting themselves from dehydration and skin damage, the socks and gloves keep their hands and feet soft despite the unforgiving desert sun. The hat (made from dried palm leaves) besides being a drip by itself serves an important role, it insulates air on top of their head thus keeping it cool, besides providing the obvious shade. The layered clothing also helps with the desert changing mood, where it can shift from hot days to cold nights.

#culture #yemen #goat herders #goat herding #don't queue yourself a mischief

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#elephant #backhoe loader #don't queue yourself a mischief #look at the coordination of that backhoe operator #the dexterity with that machine to help the elephant without hurting it or pinning it on accident #people are awesome 💜

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#polls #showers #I don't shower I bathe #and I bathe every Tuesday Thursday and Sunday #been doing twice on Sundays lately; once in the morning to get clean and once in the evenings to wash off my parents' cigarette stank #I love them but they're heavy chain smokers and I REEK when I come home from their place :/

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eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

#depression #suicide #recovery #don't queue yourself a mischief

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#psa #resources #fuck ai #art resource #block ai #don't queue yourself a mischief

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comic commission for @vfclayr, based on this post by @kkirincorrectquotes

Calli ty so much for commissioning me to draw THE BLORBOS

#naruto #fanart #fan comic #this is canon and I won't hear a word otherwise