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I feel like I'm more Cleric than Paladin...🤔

Tagging whoever wants to do it!

I was expecting anything but not Bard

#tag game #dungeons and dragons

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#lol #I've seen worse #penguins

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this moment from work has lasted in my head for months and i think its finally time to draw it out

#lol #nice #perfect

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Thanks for tagging me @lhenn! 😄

Last song I listened to: Taylor Swift - Fortnight

Favorite color: I prefer wearing black & red colors, but I love shades of blue when it comes to gemstones.

Currently watching: Last Week Tonight (finally caught up after being behind for a month!)

Sweet/savoury/spicy?: Savory, just barely over sweet. I enjoy a bit of spice in my food, but I don't often crave spiciness.

Relationship status: Married

Last thing you googled: "Taylor Swift Fortnight" so I could click on the Wikipedia page and read it 😋

Current obsession: Still weirdly obsessed with the USPS ever since I gave my mailman a Christmas present and he wrote a nice card back (I don't get out much, y'all 😅🤣) I enjoy lurking on the USPS subreddit and reading about their shenanigans 🤪

Tagging: @heather-destler @jennyfair7 @obesessedwbeautiesandbeasts @alyss-madelyn @rienerose @mysticscorpia @nerdywriter36 @shinyfire-0 @forestscribe4

Tag 9 people you'd like to get to know better

Tagged by @rakaiawriter a while back. Thank you!

Here goes:

Last song I listened to: Piccola canzone dei contrari by Angelo Branduardi. Today is his 50th career anniversary 😁

Favorite color: Black

Currently watching: Kitchen Impossible (cooking show)

Sweet/savoury/spicy?: All? But I got a sweet tooth

Relationship status: single

Last thing you googled: the weather forecast. Riveting, I know.

Current obsession: Same old, same old (Savos) and a certain Italian folk musician… 🙃

Tagging: @elavoria @nostalgic-breton-girl @dirty-bosmer @alma-amentet and uhh, you're all usual suspects so go for it.

#tag game #personal #my tags keep having issues

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Lucy and Cooper | Height difference

#as a phan I'm suddenly intrigued 👀 #fallout

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Indulge me, if you will:

#my bed is against the wall so I have a bunch of them against the wall (not under or over the blanket) #I also have some between my pillow and my spouse's pillow #then there are many more in the cubbies of the headboard 😊 #plushies

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#whoa that's amazing #ice tie-dyeing

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Thanks for tagging me @heather-destler!! This one is so cute 😆

Tagging: @jennyfair7 @obesessedwbeautiesandbeasts @alyss-madelyn @mysticscorpia @lhenn @nerdywriter36 @forestscribe4 @happinessisntfun and anyone else who'd like to do it!

i just found this adorable picrew and i had to share with everyone!!!

look at the little terrarium jars🥺💕 challenging ppl to make matching jars of them and their favs hehe!

tagging!! @hheun @azulashengrottospiano @dove-da-birb @v-anrouge @kirexa @ceruleancattail @siren-serenity @officialdaydreamer00 @moonlit-midnight @akiseochi @pandoa @taruruchi and anyone else who wants to join!!!

#picrew #tag game #sorry about taking so long to do this! #i've been kinda busy 😅 #I liked all those random bug options

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Today's crab is: radioactive swirl

#hermit crab

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🥤🐇 A special drink

#aww this is adorable #bunny boba

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#I identify a little too much with the eBay song 😂 #weird al yankovic #birbs

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Did you guys know that Hoggle from Labyrinth (1986) has been at Unclaimed Baggage in Alabama since 1997?!? He recently got a restoration in 2022 to look closer to his movie self because his first restoration wasn't that accurate.

If anyone wants to see photos of the condition he was in when they found him rotting in a suitcase and trust me—THEY ARE NIGHTMARE FUEL—then take a look below ⬇

If you're a Labyrinth fan like me, you'll definitely want to see Hoggle in the flesh! There's nothing quite like being inches away from him and really getting a feel for what it must've been like acting opposite him 😆

#I've edited this to be less about me and more about Hoggle! #I've also added some horrifying images of unrestored Hoggle! #(courtesy of Gary Sowatzka)

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Thanks for tagging me @lhenn 😊

The original post was getting really long, so I started a new one.

The task: This picrew + the last song you listened to

Tagging: @heather-destler @jennyfair7 @obesessedwbeautiesandbeasts @alyss-madelyn @mysticscorpia @nerdywriter36 @forestscribe4 @happinessisntfun and anyone else who wants to do it!

#picrew #tag game

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#lol #floppy disk drive

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it's cool how these cost almost as much as my house

#i will definitely give these a wide berth #tesla #cybertruck

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Why One Detail of Disney’s Robin Hood Bothers Me And Always Will

Hi, welcome to my Ted Talk, today we will be dealing with something that has bothered me about Disney’s Robin Hood since I was a kid and I still cannot get over to this very day.

And it all stems from THESE THREE PEOPLE:

Maid Marian, Prince John, and King Richard

I’m going to preface this entire thing by saying THIS version of Robin Hood is very very VERY different than the source material, much like all Disney animated films, but it wasn’t really DISNEY who did the big changes… those just came over time with making things more… I’m just going to say “normal for society”, which is ultra double lame.

BUT that’s not the point, because that stuff happens everywhere and with everything, and if I started to complain about THAT we’d be here all day, and I’m already going to take more of your time than needed to complain about something SUPER unimportant from a children’s animated movie made in 1973.

ANYWAY!

So, in the movie the titular character, Robin Hood, is a fox.  Makes total sense, foxes are crafty, hard to catch, cunning, and known for getting into and out of situations that other animals would have difficulty with.  Take that and turn it into an anthropomorphic character and you’d get someone who would easily be against the normal laws, not BAD, but would do BAD to do GOOD. Robin is a show off when he wants to be, and quiet when he has to be.

He’s a pretty perfect Robin Hood, especially in the case of animated kids movies, his characteristics just work SO WELL with his personification as a fox. GOOD STUFF, if I do say so myself!

Little John, meanwhile, is a bear. Not just any bear, but a big ol’ lovable brown bear. This plays on the idea of Little John being a cheeky nickname because Little John is a big, strong, and above all the calm, cool, and rationally smart one of the two. Robin may be clever, but John is the big picture guy. Pun intended.

These two designs and animal choices work SO well with each other, and it’s because these two are so different yet they get along and honestly NEED one another that makes the differences so perfect.

ALAN-A-DALE IS A ROOSTER. BRILLIANT. I don’t even have to go into this, do I? What a GREAT call by making Alan-A-Dale a rooster.  Though, I feel a bit of his characteristics were also borrowed from Will Scarlet for the Disney version, but even that still fits everything. And, honestly, I don’t mind the blending of Alan and Will, it kinda works? Especially with the movie being as short as it is.

ROOSTER BARD. ROOSTER. BARD. So good, I mean c’mon. It’s perfection.

The Sheriff of Nottingham being a wolf is… okay. It’s okay. I get it though, having the wolf hunt the fox. Haha. Cheeky. Cliche, but cheeky.

I really have nothing to say about him, he’s just…okay. Dude’s a cop, so whatever. Not a fan of bootlickers, and the fact that they’re dragging wolves in the mud by making a wolf into a cop is… whatever. /He’s A Wolf Cop/

Personally, I don’t like Friar Tuck as a badger. It really doesn’t make sense to me, and I lowkey hate it that they totally missed so many opportunities. DOVE OF PEACE? LAMB OF GOD? Like FOR REAL, you coulda done something super cute like that, but NOoOoOoOoOoO… he’s a badger. And they kinda pick on him for half the movie, for no reason, and I don’t like that.

Still, Friar Tuck is cute, and a really fun character and they do some clever animation stuff with his “badger”-ness. Still a bit of a missed opportunity.

OKAY NOW THAT WE’VE GOT THESE OTHER BIG ONES OUT OF THE WAY, IT’S TIME FOR MY ACTUAL PROBLEM!

MAID FRICKIN MARIAN IS A FOX.

WHAT THE FRICKEN FRICKITY FRACK?!

ABSOLUTELY NOT! Disney did this JUST because they wanted Maid Marian and Robin Hood to be THE SAME ANIMAL, and that’s ABSOLUTE BUNK!

WHY? Well there’s two BIG reasons that is irks me!

First, the idea that they HAD to be together because they were the same animal or they were made to be the same animal so it wouldn’t be “weird” that they were together.

LAME! UNINSPIRED! BULLSHI-

*ehem* Nonsense. Nonsense.

And it’s even MORE nonsense because of this little fact…

PRINCE JOHN AND KING RICHARD ARE HER RELATIVES!

MAID MARIAN THE NIECE OF PRINCE JOHN AND KING RICHARD!

Okay, you could argue that Maid Marian was adopted, or that King Richard married a lovely fox woman and the fox woman’s relative had a daughter and THAT was Maid Marian. And YES, that would make the situation plausible…

EXCEPT!

This is MEDIEVAL ENGLAND and they are ROYALTY and that kinda stuff wouldn’t fly even IF King Richard is the King.

WHAT I’M SAYING IS…

DISNEY ARE COWARDS FOR NOT HAVING A BIG LIONESS LADY DATE A TINY FOX MAN AND WE WERE ROBBED!

#lol #robin hood

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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.

#amazing #resources #reference #art reference