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Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:

extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example

entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.

S H A R E D  with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E  to do it. 

Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.

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BREAKING |The Ministry of Health: Israel committed 5 massacres in the past 24 hours in Gaza, killing 51 civilians and wounding 75 others.

(source: QUDS news network)

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I loooove when I send art to my mom and she doesn't say anything about it like haha okay it's not like this took me 2+ hours and I thought you'd like it and say "cute" or something but it's fine haha

#rant #vent #mini rant #mini vent #random

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Woe stardew chickens be upon ye

Based on my ideal chicken doodle

#art #my art #fanart #stardew valley #stardew valley fanart #stardew chickens

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YOU'D BETTER TAG ME IN IT IF YOU DO

WHY ARENT THERE MORE FICS ABOUT HARVEY'S TEN HEART EVENT???? CUTEST SHIT EVER AND I NEED MORE OF IT

#/lh #sdv harvey #stardew valley

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I need y'all to look at this perfect drawing of a chicken I did in class like

✨Effervescent✨

#random #art #my art #doodle #doodles #chicken

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cant get more fascist police state than snipers on rooftops overlooking peaceful protests.

this is what democracy looks like.

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Very weird how there’s been multiple people called out for being extremely transphobic towards trans men (misgendering, sending death threats, sending rape threats, accusing them of fetishizing gay men, etc.) and they just start posting shit like “oh but misandry isn’t real. Are people not allowed to hate their oppressors anymore?” and people on this website will just go “oh yep okay” and just completely ignore the fact the original reason they were called out is because they were transphobic

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How about a Durge with some artistic ability filling up a sketchbook with etchings of faces they only vaguely remember in their mind's eye. Entire pages of a pale woman with milky eyes, long hair and a manic grin splattered in blood, an older elf with tired eyes and sad faraway expression...

Maybe next to portraits of past victims they're overcome by muscle memory and write down notes pertaining to vivisections and cruel experiments half remembered. They hold out a hand, reverting to what must have been habit before their loss of memory, expecting to have their pen taken and replaced by a sharpened scalpel by the clawed green hand of their butler.

When doing a hand study they realise they're drawing a specific pair, strong and scarred and adorned with a gilded gauntlet. It brings up a memory of being held tight and securely as those same hands print themselves across their body in congealing blood and black engine grease — a mess that was getting all over the workshop table, staining the schematics for his tin soldiers. A name sits heavily on the tip of their tongue and a horrible feeling of homesickness overtakes them, quickly followed by unexplained guilt and paranoia.

The need to ask forgiveness nags at the back of their mind for the rest of the day.

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Random BG3 drawing stuff that might be useful:

This BG3 Face Reference Library; I really only draw Gale, Halsin and Gale at the moment (Wyll's horns elude me, sorry beautiful boy), so that's who's in my library. Most of it is pulled from Tumblr, so please don't repost it. I am slowly adding the other companions, as well as Withers, Rolan, Rugan, Zevlor and taking requests for others.

Astarion (92 images)

Gale (45 images)

Halsin (72 images)

The high-elven font from the game - probably most memorable from Astarion's grave. First font I ever made, so it's not too fancy, but it gets the job done.

AdorkaStock on Deviant Art;

A pose library, one of the best IMHO. Formerly SeishiStock. Some fantastic group poses.

TheMaleNudeStock:

make sure you read that name before you click on it. No photos for this one, you'll have to use your imagination or click the link.

Daestock:

an inactive account with some AWESEOME action poses

Magic Poser:

Posable reference tool on iPad. My go to, I've been using it for six years and it's lovingly reliable. Plus it's fun to make their hips swish when I'm bored. I paid the $10 one-time pro charge to have a decent amount of the presents unlocked. It's super basic, but it does work on ipad, which is super handy!

Face Model for iPad:

a posable model for faces with a steep learning curve. It's glitchy, hitchy and all around itchy, but is very worth it when you're struggling with a particular facial expression that you couldn't find a perfectly angled reference for. Cost me $3.99, one time cost.

Procreate:

trusty, rusty Procreate, does it even need to be mentioned?

What tools do you use? What should I add to this list?

#oooooh hell yeah #reference #references #saving this for later

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They need to make an eyedrops that don't taste bad down back of throat

#my least favorite part of eyedrops EVER #kept putting off using some for this reason alone i hate it sm #random

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Reblog if you write fanfic and would be totally down with your followers coming into you askbox and talking to you about your fic

#every writer's dream fr #i think the most invested i ever have been for fics is when people talk to me about them #when people ask questions about the lore or just provide their own insight and experiences #i love it sm #i miss it

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When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.

We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide

America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die

To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail

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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.

But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.

In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.

One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.

Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.

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It is vital that we keep the efforts of so many students across the United States from going to waste. We need to keep the momentum going and ensure that news of the cruelty happening to the people of Palestine is not ignored or suppressed.

Despite what many news outlets may have you believe, what is happening in our world is not minor in the slightest. It is a genocide that is happening before our eyes, day after day. Do not forget the administrative responses these colleges have given to the act of bringing attention this inhumanity. This is history happening now, and these colleges are on the wrong side of it.

These students are calling to divest college funds from Israel. Do not let the media warp their efforts and paint them as an antisemitic mob. Do not let those opposing these demonstrations hide behind claims of antisemitism to justify their actions. This is about stopping human suffering, and to believe anything different is willful ignorance.

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I'm addicted to this game (and Shane). 💜💙🌶️

#AHH!!!! IM EATING HIM #I AM EATING THIS ART #HE LOOKS SO SOFT AND CUTE AHHHH #AND THE TEXTURES!!!!!!! #sdv shane #stardew valley