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I fell victim to one of the classic blunders (drawing a load of fan art when I should have been working)

#omg????? #Princess Bride #Íñigo Montoya #Westley #Fezzik

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blood

yours and mine

runs red all the same

#Iliad #Achilles #Hector #Priam #Patroclus

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I think it is very important for new Star Trek fans, especially new TOS fans to know that in 2008, George Takei, who played Sulu, got married to his partner of 23 years, Brad Altman, and at their wedding, Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, and Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, served as Best Lady and Best Man.

#oh this os really cute #NICE!!! #George Takei

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#me dará #Darth Vader #Luke Skywalker #Star Wars

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Here they are all together! 💍✨ I have also officialy decided to make an artbook (or two) with all the characters! Hopefully it'll be printed and ready in summer!

Big thank you to all of you who reserved some of the originals. I'll send you the info and ship the drawings during next two weeks 💖

If there is someone still interested in getting some of the original drawings please let me know. These characters are left - Warg, Bard, Thorin, Ghan-burin-Ghan, Beorn, Roäc, Wormtongue.

The prices are from 50 to 80USD (shipping included). All the earnings will be sent to charities.

Thank you! 🌿

#AAAAAAH #Lord of the Rings #I usually tag every character but there are so many rjsndnandkd #Frodo #Sam #Merry #Pippin #Gandalf #Aragorn #Legolas #Gimli #Boromir

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Og clickbait

#OG CLICKBAIT ME DARÁ #sonando la escena de Detective Conan de fondo #Enjolras #Les Mis

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Cultural Practices: Fire Nation Greetings Pt. 2 - Standard Greeting

While the Fire Nation’s culture gets the most development out of the four nations, their world-building isn’t always entirely consistent. For example, the series experiments with a quite few different forms of greeting for the empire during ATLA’s three seasons. I’ll try to cover all of these unique gestures in three posts.

Wushu Baoquan Li + Bak Mei Li

By Book 3, ATLA had finally settled on a torch-like hand gesture paired with a bow as the standard greeting of the Fire Nation (and the Sun Warriors). This courtesy is likely inspired by two different martial art customs:

Wushu Baoquan Li (武术抱拳礼), which literally translates to “Martial Arts Fist-Covering Custom”, is better known in the English-speaking world as the “Kung-Fu Salute”. As its name implies, it’s a common greeting among Chinese martial artists and a show of respect. The custom consists of a right-handed horizontal fist covered by a open-palmed, straight-fingered left hand. The hand gesture is demonstrated in the bottom color photo.

There are many different explanations for how this gesture came to be. Some say it’s a symbol of peace and trust, as it’s meant to show that the martial artist is not holding any weapons. Others say the fist and open palm represent opposing elements that create a cohesive whole. The fist represents the moon, the tiger, and physical strength; the open palm represents the sun, the dragon, and wisdom.

Bak Mei Li (白眉礼) is a custom unique to Bak Mei practitioners. This gesture is performed by using the left hand to make a vertical fist with the knuckles pointing forward and positioning the open-palmed right hand above the fist. The hand gesture is demonstrated in the bottom black-and-white photo. The martial art was said to be invented by and named after a monk known as Bak Mei, meaning “White Eyebrows”. According to legend, he was a monk who betrayed his peers by teaching Qing soldiers his style of martial arts and aiding the Qing imperial army in destroying the Shaolin Temple in Henan.

Like the Kung-Fu Salute, the standard Fire Nation greeting involves a right-handed fist and a left-handed open-palm. However, the torch-like shape of the hand positioning more closely resembles the Bak Mei salute. In terms of cultural significance, both salutes are relevant inspirations for the Fire Nation. The Fire Nation version of the Kung-Fu Salute positions the sun-and-dragon hand above the moon-and-tiger fist, which is fitting for a culture descended from the Sun Warriors. The parallels between the standard Fire Nation greeting and the Bak Mei Li might be in reference to the Fire Nation’s similar history of killing monks and destroying temples. Either way, it’s very fitting that the most militant of the four nations would have a greeting so deeply rooted in combat.

Like what I’m doing? Tips always appreciated, never expected. ^_^

https://ko-fi.com/atlaculture

#cool! #Avatar #greetings #info #reference

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by @tarrevizsla (w/context)

#VRNADBMAKSLSKSID #Benjamin Sisko #Star Trek #DS9

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#ME REÍ #Anakin Skywalker #Padmé Amidala #Star Wars

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Reblog for a larger sample size!

No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

#I started writing fic at like 9 I'm 32 now and will be 33 in a month so

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the thing about me is i get hannibal and hamilton confused

#simplemente me dará ALGO #musicals #Hannibal #Hamilton #Sweeney Todd #Billy Elliot

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#oh cool #info #reference

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#oh my god #print

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drake?

#me estoy

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Here's the notes on the Medieval Fantasy Star Wars au! I'll add to this as I do more. If you're new here, this is the saga of me drawing Star Wars but like what if it was Fantasy?

#SIUUUUUUUU #Star Wars #Qui-Gon Jinn #Obi-wan Kenobi #Anakin Skywalker #Padmé Amidala #Leia Organa #C3PO #R2D2 #Mace Windu #Count Dooku #Sheev Palpatine #Ahsoka Tano #Luke Skywalker

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THESE OLD MEN (THE NORTHERN BOYS) SHOULD BE DOING NUMBERS HERE ON TUMBLR DOT COM !!!!!!!!!

PENANICAL VAGANICAL MECHANICAL MAN!!!!!!!! C'MON!!!

#no sé qué esperaba que sonara viéndoles bailar pero simplemente espectacular #video #PENANICAL VAGANICAL MECHANICAL MAN?????

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Sokka: It's not that children make me uncomfortable, it's just that, why be a dad when you can be a fun uncle? I've never heard of anyone rebelling against their fun uncle!

#ME REÍ #Sokka #Avatar