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#insects #beetles #YEAAAHH BOYY bug art #image

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this is such an enthralling image. I've heard of a fourth of these pies.

#dessert #food #umm french silk cherry and coconut #image

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#fire emblem fates #fe fates #op #baby corrins!! #image #fe camilla #fe corrin #fe sakura #fe felicia #fe flora #m!corrin #f!corrin

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the need to talk about the characters vs the fear that all of my analysis is just empty prose and surface level understanding

#me writing analysis of my own ocs: but what do I know? #text #previously unheard of levels of doubt reached

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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

#boost #text #gaza

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My friend is organising for their family to evacuate Gaza.

Please share and contribute if possible!

#boost #gaza

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WHO GOT CAUGHT!?

#image #looking at pics of themself in suits gotta be the funniest one

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I found this post I’d made a while ago and decided to animate it:

#video #once my sister placed her evil glitching robot toy in front of my door while I was showering so when I came out it was just standing there #blocking my path ominiously

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I cannot stop thinking about this BL panel. I’m obsessed with it.

#image #me posting crud #webcomic #punch drunk love is highly inappropriate but also the funniest thing ever #premise is literally what if the generic jaded rich bad boy met the world’s horniest autistic stickler for the rules #and somehow the miscommunication is funny every time

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Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

#linguistics #not a day goes by when i don't think about the kid calling a dragonfly a 'baby helicopter! :D' #text heavy #long post

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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.

#ref #reference #!!! #big text #save #text #art ref #(spamming similar tags bc sometimes tumblr's tag search breaks 😓)

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Teacher, can I..*sigh*🙄 MAY I kill myself?

#the private school experience in a nutshell #oc tag #text

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oh my god, laios

#dungeon meshi #image #she rlly said you will never be bishie stop trying 😭

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there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

#image #trees #ily stumpy #I wonder if I’ve passed this tree by but never noticed during my cherry festival trips? #long post

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google sucks can someone PLEASE tell me if oji-sama exclusively means uncle or does it/can it mean old man or prince? I can't tell if the subtitles I watching fucked up bad or if bravern seriously went for an inc3st angle with the lulu and superbia thing...

#am i stupid and missing something #ppl are talking about this show a lot why wouldn't anyone mention this 😭 #seems like a big caveat if you ask me #i'm tired of anime breaking my trust like 10 episodes in #*sigh* #me posting crud #bravern #my bad for trusting like that

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not posting this on my gamedev blog bc it's a spoiler ig but. here have a weird smeesh.

#me posting crud #idk #my art #i may have messed this sprite up by making it too small. upscaling it for now but we'll see

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here's the transgender fire emblem pegasus knight love interest I conjured up in a dream (feat. a pallet color-picked from fe1 portraits)

#fire emblem #my art #image #his secret talent is lighting magic #i'm pretty sure he runs away to avoid breaking his and the protags heart before i woke up? #i can see him becoming a late game antagonistic recruit 😭 the protag wouldn't realize it's him tho #why do i cook better yaoi when i'm asleep...