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Every season has a distinct feel, I tried a new style to tell their stories through distinct shapes (and rl is like that for funsies)

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the winners

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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.

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Update on LMK

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my gift for @efoxkitty for @hermbi-discord's hermbimas!

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“If you see your art here and it needs to be credited message me” is basically just “Credit to the artist” with extra steps. Artists shouldn’t have to go out of their way to get you to credit them, if you’re running a blog or page using other peoples work its 100% on you to do it as ethically as possible and track the artist down before you go sharing their art. If it takes too much time, imagine how much longer the artist worked on that piece. Its not a clever loophole, its a sucky practice.

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Rest in peace, Jellie. I’m glad she’ll live on in every minecraft world ❤️

2006-2024

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farewell sweet girl

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This season, on Hermitcraft...

(speedpaint)

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The changing of the seasons

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Scar is The Earth.

  In 3rd Life, he asked for the lines of red and green to be blurred by giving freshly picked poppies and lilacs to his friend, his only ally, The Sun.

  In Hermitcraft season 8 he built great mountains and trees. He watched the world tear itself apart, shadowed by the moon, the earth's closest friend. 

  In 100 Hours, Scar was doomed to fly towards the sun, always wishing he could just ask him, "are we still friends?" Could those blood stained flowers cross through lives and timelines to hold them together? He became Icarus, falling to the earth for his love. 

  In Hermitcraft season 9, he was an elf, always caring for the land and his great trees. He was gentle and kind and brought the earth to life. He eventually would join the buttercups, the small resistance born by their hatred of Doc, ripping into the earth mercilessly. 

  In Secret Life, he lived amongst the flowers. "Do you want to be friends?" His lost ally smiles, holding sunflowers and offering his green life again. When Scar turns red, he is covered in poppies and lilacs. He is wrapped in earth, reminded forever of his past life. He joins The Moon in her quest to survive. She tries to sacrifice herself, but Scar can't bear to lose her. Even after what the moon had done to him in his past, he held on to his only friend. He still killed her in the end, but when he realized he stood in the grass and cried. "She's dead, Scar. You won." The Sun whispers, his eyes bearing into The Earth. Scar succeeds, cursed to live forever in that world. Forced to wander the earth alone. 

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CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW FUCKING FUNNY SCAR'S ENTIRE WINNING STRATEGY WAS THOUGH. like so much of his finale was exactly as dramatic and badass as the fandom is making it out to be, but his literal, ACTUAL strategy was to just wander around the server and whenever he was in the vicinity of anyone else to just act casual, like he expected them not to attack him, and hope they automatically went along with it out of confusion. in the series finale where he had made an enemy of the entire server and absolutely everybody was hostile and attacking each other. and it WORKED.

FOR REAL THO. HE WAS INSANE FOR THAT. HE JUST WENT AND TALKED PEOPLE INTO ALLYING WITH HIM EVEN THO THEY DIDNT TRUST HIM AND WANTED HIM DEAD SKDJFHBSKJ

HES INSANE. I LOVE HIM

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Damn o7

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WARNING: DOCTOR WHO SPOILERS EXPLAINING REGENERATION SHENANIGANS

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okay so I was kind of not on board with the concept of bi-regeneration, mainly because of how it seemed like all of the Sad and the Trauma that the Doctor had undergone got kind of handwaved away? i'm all for ncuti's Doctor being sort of a fresh start/jumping on point for new viewers, but i didn't get how that could work if like, literally 40 minutes ago he was David Tennant being a sad wet puppy dog of a man

however, after rewatching it, i've realized what i think happened there, and it goes all the way back to something introduced with the 4th doctor's regeneration that was never explained: the Watcher

^this spooky guy

so, for those that don't know (or haven't seen every episode of a show that is over half a century old), the Fourth Doctor regenerates at the end of a story called Logopolis (he falls off a satellite dish, but that's not important right now). all throughout the episode, this weird figure, The Watcher, stands off in the distance, and even intervenes slightly by saving the Fourth Doctor's companion. there's not much given in the way of an explanation until the Fourth Doctor regenerates, saying "it's the end. but the moment has been prepared for..."

the watcher walks up, and gets absorbed in a super rad 1980's digital effect (never change doctor who), while his companion just gives us the not-super-helpful-for-lore statement "He was the Doctor all the time!"

then, in a crossfade, the Doctor goes from Four to weird-powder-man to Five

canonically, the Watcher is explained as a future version of the doctor that comes about in sort of a weird overlapping thing with the doctor's timeline, it's very wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

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SO what does this have to do with biregeneration and satisfying character arcs/moving on from trauma?

Well, remember, Fifteen said this, about Time Lords doing rehab out of order:

so, here's the thing: Fifteen is the Doctor AFTER Fourteen (duh, I know?) But to be clear...Fourteen lives out an entire lifetime with Donna and family, gets to a ripe old age, and then, when his lifetime of healing is over, he gets yeeted back through his own timestream just to zoot himself out of David Tennant's chest.

Remember, his first words to Fourteen (after popping out of his chest) are "So good to see you! So good!", not the RTD classic "what?". He greets himself like he's almost expecting this, he then says "does anyone want to tell me what the hell is going on here?" which only makes sense if he's coming from a different point in his own timestream (remember, when two doctors interact, memory gets really weird, 10 and the War Doctor don't remember the events of Day of the Doctor until they live through them as 11).

SO TO BE CLEAR: Ncuti Gatwa is playing the Doctor AFTER he has spent years healing from his traumas. His Doctor is fine because Fourteen takes the time to rest and work on himself.

tl;dr: I didn't like biregeneration at first because I thought it looked like this:

In actuality, it looks more like this:

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I expected the latest episode of Doctor Who to make me cry

I did cry but for very different reasons

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Does anyone else feel like the only ways you know how to make decisions are "Be really impulsive and feel bad about it," "Never make the decision and feel bad about it," or "Do a ton of research, get so overwhelmed you can't process any of it, and then either never make the decision or choose something impulsively (and feel bad about it)"?