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.
“For a moment, Beatrice thought time stood still. Everyone around them seemed to disappear. With the sound of firecrackers in her ears, Beatrice imagined colors bursting from Ava in her arms.”
Soft moment from “If You Missed the Mistletoe” by Pinechips
Saint Cecilia, Patron Saint of musicians and music (because she was storied to have "sung to God" as she was dying - her legend inspired artists and musicians despite her original martyrdom having nothing to do with music) by Stefano Maderno, 1600
A vintage postcard shows Saint Cecilia playing the organ and singing a psalm to three girls, circa 1912, Germany, Artist unknown
Death of Saint Cecilia by Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix, CA. 1599-1605
"With the establishment of musicians’ guilds under Cecilia’s patronage and the composition of music in her honor, singers in France and the Netherlands entrusted to her a role-- as a saint who was theirs alone-- that Mary could never play. In the words “Sancta Cecilia, ora pro nobis” that musicians sang at the end of several motets, we can recognize one of the “self- referential features” found in Marian music of the previous century, but with Cecilia, rather than Mary, as the object of the singers’ devotion and the recipient of their appeals."
From Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon by John C. Rice
the short version of her story is that after being forced to marry a pagan man, she convinced him to convert to christianity (with the help of an angel by her side), but she, her new husband and his brother were persecuted and killed for refusing to honor pagan gods. st. cecilia was killed by three blows to the back of the neck and eventually bled out three days later. so. glad that didn't happen to camila on the actual show! probably not, anyway. st. cecilia was also the first incorruptible saint, meaning that it is recognized by the church that her body showed no physical evidence of decay even after death