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Why must I suffer the horrors to enjoy what should be mine by divine right?

#I hate sheet masks so much #and if they didn’t make my skin less shitty I wouldn’t bother #but here we fucking are

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#I mean there are so many good things here #but I’ll take the songbird choir #the finches that nested outside my window for the last few years didn’t come back this year #and I miss waking up to them peeping

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Hey weird question,

If the Earth were to abruptly stop rotating, and at the point in which rotation ceases you are sky diving, what happens to you?

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I've heard this word pronounced two different ways pretty regularly, so I wonder if it's regional to where I live. Please say where you're from in the tags and ofc reblog for better reach <3

#look #I learned it from reading it #which means I pronounce it the way it’s spelled #I know it’s ‘wrong’ #I do not care #in much the same way I pronounce ‘hyperbole’ as hyper-bole unless I make an effort to remember its Hy-perbole

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog

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guy who is definitely not about to fall into a surprise midday nap with an aftermath worse than a hangover: it seems like a really good idea to lay in bed and get cozy under the blanket as part of my plan not to fall asleep. I do not know why.

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Animal reference photo compilation concept test!

I've been saving this project for a new website I'm planning, but that's been delayed by the grindstone of capitalism, so I'm going to set up this part early. This is the concept test for a repository of reference photos of a whole bunch of different species of exotic animals.

For every 50 or so photos I take of an animal, there's generally only a couple that I like and are also in focus and also framed correctly. But that led me to realize... all those slightly blurry or off-center photos are probably a great set of references for people interested in general shape/form/movement for their art! So I'm setting up of the idea before fully committing the time into making it happen.

I've been going through my photo backlog and pulling out the shots I think will be useful for art references. Lots of them show posture, facial movement, close-ups of feet or eyes, and walk cycles, but also other behaviors like jumping or drinking. They're not perfect - there's often stuff out of focus or reflections on the glass - but I think they'll still be useful for art?

The link below is to the Dropbox where I'll host these photos until I eventually get that new website/project up and running. Right now I've got folders of four species uploaded for this test: California Condor (CW for carcass feed photos), Jaguar, Komodo Dragon, and Moose. Please go check them out and tell me what you think!

~~WADTT Animal Reference Photos Dropbox Link~~

What I'm looking to learn from y'all is:

Is this type of reference photo repository useful / worth doing?

Do these photos work or are they too blurry/wonky/there's too many?

What things would make a project like this better? (Caveat, it has to stay on Dropbox for now).

If this turns out to be as useful as I'm hoping, and the photos work, I've got a whole bunch more species to upload.

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yeah I feel fine, why? oh, my hand tremors? yeah that's just a thing don't worry. yeahh it's a side effect of the dark arcane power boiling like magma inside my veins at all times. it's fine it makes some things hard to do but I get by yknow.

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HEY that's MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT

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Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, reading texts between former National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard and Howard's unnamed relative:

Howard: "He's just been named President-elect."

Howard: "At least if he wins I will be pardoned for electoral fraud."

#Jesus they were just saying they were committing crimes

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Great news everyone. There was a kitten wandering in the drive thru at work and my inner warrior cats kid tried to be a hero and capture him.

I have now suffered multiple puncture wounds and have to go to the emergency room.

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*pirate aesthetic intensifies* 🏴‍☠️

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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point. 

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again. 

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil. 

“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

#LotR is someone looking back at war and knowing it's horror trying to make sense of it #where more modern gritty war/political fantasy is the glorification without experience

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A question for the potential giveaway winner...

Reblog if you voted!!!

I currently have a giveaway active until October 1st or when the goal is met. The prize is a twin size quilt, handquilted by me. It will take two to three months for me to make, start to finish, and valued at around $2000 USD.

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Lil’ Caleb doodle 🧡

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Weirdly happy with how my eye makeup came out today.

I don’t usually fuck with glitter but I’m tying to figure something out for a closet cosplay of my star Druid.

#not seen as the stupid amount of glitter in my eyebrows