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Shran couldn’t pick his emotions out of a police line-up

Shran: Newsflash, pinkskin! I’ve been in love with you the entire goddamn time!!!

Archer: Why wouldn’t you say something?!

Shran: BECAUSE I HATE YOUUUUUU

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This is so beautiful

Bury me in a meadow of flowers

Without covering my withered eyelids

That something may sprout from them, if

I didn't grow up to be a happy man...

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Hey guys. It’s been awhile, so I thought I’d share some of the art I’ve been doing this past year.

They’re all quite different from what I used to do, I know. This past year, I’ve been going back to more traditional roots, especially the painting style of Impressionism, and working to apply that in a digital format and experimenting with what brushes and settings work best.

It’s never too late to learn and grow as an artist - everyone’s style changes eventually with time. Someday I might get back into the more usual manga style fanart, but for now, this is where I’ve been. Thanks so much for all of your support! You are few, but you are deeply loved and appreciated.

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I’m just saying, if Romeo had dramatically wept over Juliet’s body for 15 minutes everything would have been fine

#romeo and juliet #shakespeare

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This is so beautiful wtf

Nie Mess-With-Me-I-Mess-With-You HuaiSang

// ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴜᴘʟᴏᴀᴅ //

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Did the Uchiha ever think about just, idk, trading eyes? Like my guy, you’re going blind, your brother’s also going blind, you need to wear his eyes to stop it and vice versa. Just trade eyes. Sharing is caring. Stop fighting or I will turn this perfect ninja sprinting formation around so help me

#naruto #uchiha #uchiha clan #uchiha family #uchiha izuna #uchiha madara #uchiha sasuke #uchiha itachi #naruto shippuden

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I’m bored and procrastinating on an animation, so instead of actually doing it, I decided to rant about animation! Here are tons of my tips and tricks for animating. Feel free to use any of them to improve your own works fellow animators! This post will be divided into four sections; Motivation and burnout, Art/drawing tips, Transitions, and Programs. Please keep in mind I am in no way an expert or claiming to be one, however I do art for a living, and I’ve been animating for nearly six years now, so I feel like I probably know a thing or two. Motivation and Burnout: -Take constant breaks however often you need. This can be every 30 minutes, every time you finish a scene, hell, even every time you finish a frame. Stretch, watch a short YouTube video, get something to eat, ex. I personally don’t have a break schedule, just whenever I’m bored, tired, or have finished an amount I feel satisfied with for the day. Find what works best for you! -Listen to something as background noise. This can be songs you really like, a podcast, a musical soundtrack, youtube videos, streams, audio books, or whatever else your heart desires. You can listen to white noise or rain sounds or something like that, but I personally prefer something that engages my brain. (You can also use this to encourage breaks. If you’re at a bit of a podcast that you just can’t focus on whilst drawing, take a five minute break to focus on it alone! Your favorite song to bop out to comes on? Stand up and dance around in your workspace, sing along, just have fun!  -Have a food or drink next to you! I always like having something to munch or slurp on when drawing or animating. Make sure these snacks are smaller though, I’d recommend dedicating actual meal time to break time.  -This is a bad habit of mine and I’m sure many other artists, but if you’re demotivated, don’t try and trudge through unless there’s some form of deadline. If you’re simply animating for YouTube or something, just take a break! There’s no shame in doing so, and you’ll find that you actually work much faster when you are motivated, so the break helps with efficiency rather than hinders it. -Set goals for yourself! Make them reasonable and not too out of reach. Say something like, “I’d like to draw 20 frames today.”, “I’d like to finish this storyboard by the end of the week.”, “I’d like to finish this scene today.”, “I’d like the animation to be done within a month and a half.” Make some bigger ones as well as smaller ones to give yourself short bursts of motivation, but also to keep that motivation going in the long run. Art/Drawing Tips: -Choose a simple style. This one kind of goes with motivation, but choosing a super complex art style often leads to the product just never being finished, especially if you’re a beginner. -Practice drawing. Bring a sketchbook with you everywhere and just draw. The better you get at drawing, the better you get at animation -Study other artists work. You can even trace! (Don’t post/claim it as your own EVER), but tracing for personal study is absolutely fine. It helps you figure out the shapes the artist used to make their character look how it does.  -Never be ashamed to use references, they help a ton. -Color matters and can make an animation really pop. Choose a simple palate, what I normally do is assign one color per character, have a color for background objects, and maybe some others if I really want a certain scene or object to stand out against the rest. -Shape language is a really cool tool. Learn it.  -Don’t worry about developing a style. Just draw. The style will come along the way.  Transitions: -(First off, please note that in this section, I say the word ‘character’ a lot. However, these methods apply on objects too! Just wanted to clear that up, you can use them on more than just people.) -Yes, frame by frame looks pretty, and you can use it in that sick action sequence, but also, try making things easier for yourself when you can. The following points will be describing some of my favorite easy transitions.  -Bounce back effects, the one I use the most. Basically, think of a ball bouncing. This ball will smoosh down against the ground, then spring back up, looking elongated as it does so. Or think of a car jerking forwards, before coming back a bit and to a complete stop. These are both bounce back effects. If your character is just changing poses, I’d recommend doing the ball method. smoosh your drawing down, then spring it back up. If your character is moving across the screen, move them just a bit further than their final destination, then bring them back. This makes animation look smoother and saves a ton of time.  -Smear or smudge frames! These are usually used when a character or object is going really fast. Smear the drawing and add a bit of motion blur in the direction a character is going.  -Partial movement frames! Not sure what the technical definition of this is, but this is when a character isn’t fully moving, just a small bit of them is, say they’re waving, or their hair is blowing in the breeze. Copy paste the rest without this bit, and only worry about redrawing that part! -Tweening, okay.. I know what you’re going to say, because the animation community these days is so against tweening. I’ll admit, it doesn’t look the greatest when using excessively, but in small amounts? It can look good. Don’t overuse it, but don’t completely avoid it either. (Tweening is when different body parts are drawn on different layers so that movement can be done without redrawing. However, this only really works for simple movements, so use it sparingly.)  -Even when you are drawing frame by frame, these methods can be important. More so smear and smudge and bounce back, but tweening in some cases as well. You can incorporate these tricks into your frame by frame animation to make it look better as well. They aren’t just used to trick the minds eye into thinking there are in-betweens when there’s not. Programs: -Study your program. This’ll make things go much faster and allow for shortcuts. Animation is all about shortcuts. -Start out with something cheap or free. You don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on a drawing tablet and expensive programs when you first start. Draw on your ipad or phone if you have one, use flipaclip, imovie, ibis paint, kinemaster, or other free programs. Animation takes a ton of time and if you find in a month that you hate it and want to quit, you don’t want to have waisted hundreds or thousands of dollars.  -That being said, the creative cloud is pretty sweet. If you’re invested and have the money, I’d recommend it.  -Procreate is also amazing. I love it and actually use it to this day, even with having the creative cloud. You can’t do any complex editing but you can make some neat stuff on there.  -Decide what kind of animation you want to do. Do you want it more frame by frame? Get a program like procreate, flipaclip, or adobe animate. More drawn and edited? Try using a drawing and editing program combo. One of my friends uses ibispaint and imovie on her phone. I used to use ibispaint and kinemaster. I now use photoshop and premiere pro.  -Watch tons of YouTube tutorials. Google stuff. Chances are, you may find an easier way to do that thing that’s taken you five hours in the past. And that’s it! Thank you for reading all the way through, I hope these helped! Feel free to ask questions, I’ll try to answer any I may get. Cya! Happy animating

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Things every writer needs

useful websites i forget about when i actually need them

feel good & feel better

Good News Network - exactly what it says, good news only from all around the world

you feel like shit - the website asks you questions that guide you through the process of figuring out why you might be feeling unwell right now

information & research & books

Z-Library and Library Genesis - a place to find & download books, scientific articles, etc. very useful especially for academic purposes

Archive - the Internet Library to know and love. Also, Internet Wayback Machine - lets you access ‘screenshots’ of websites etc that no longer exist (or shows you what they used to look like)

Asexual Research - a user-created and updated Zotero repository of academic asexual research

Recommend Me a Book - lets you read a page from a book with the cover, title, and author hidden. You can reveal the book information with a click

Whichbook - helps you find a book to read based on several categories: mood & emotion (comes with sliders), books from… (world map; click on the map, select a continent and a country, and browse), and character & plot (sections: race, age, sexuality, gender, plot)

writing & writing prompts

Calmly Writer Online and ZenPen - online minimalistic writing software, both come with such handy options as dark mode and manually saving your progress. Calmly comes with several preferences you can adjust, ZenPen lets you set up a target word count.

Tip of My Tongue - helps you find the word you’re thinking of so you can carry on (sections: partial word - starts with…, contains…, ends with…; letters - unscramble, must have, can’t have; word meaning - word 1, word 2, word 3; and refine search - min. length, max. length, sounds like…)

Prompt generator - generates multiple writing prompts for you, you can refresh each section separately or everything at once (sections: genre, setting, relationship, period/time, profession, book/movie/show au, theme, fantasy/sci-fi, prompt idea, dialogue idea)

OTP Fluff Generator - generates one fluffy ship-oriented prompt at a time

Fic Prompt Generator - SFW and NSFW version (sfw sections: setting, genre, trope, prompts; the nsfw one has a bonus kink section)

misc

show all tumblr tags - type in a tumblr blog handle and it’ll show you a list of all the tags that have been used (takes a while to load the tags up)

GeneratorMix - a website full of different random generators

Online OCR - extracts text from an image or a pdf file

TuneFind - gives you a list of songs/music used in TV shows (per episode), movies, and games

midomi - find the song stuck in your head by humming or singing it

waifu2x - lets you upscale images/artwork 1.6x or 2x with minimal quality reduction (works best on lineart)

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The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download

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Reblogging because this quote seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth and I love it too much to lose it even if the gifset sucks

“Such is the fate of heroes” - lostcap

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O my god

Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?

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Um can I have this please.

Someone write it I’m begging you

wouldn't it be fantastic if wwx really did get stabbed at nevernight instead of jyl, and then consequently dies in lwj's arms.

A) we have the added benefit of jyl living

B) jc wouldn't hate wwx

C) lwj still gets his tragic love interest arc but now it's like...he gets to actually go apeshit

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Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

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Due to all the recent reblogs on this I might just have to redraw it all fancy-like just for y’all 😂

I decided NMJ deserves to be pretty, mustache and muscles and all.

(It was Huaisang’s fault.)

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Reblogging because I never want to forget that this exists

Justice League fic concept:

- ok we suddenly & urgently need somewhere safe to lie low for a couple of days that our enemies definitely don't know about. anyone have any ideas.'

Superman, with intense reluctance: I know a place

Cyborg: oh? where is it?

Superman: Kansas

& that's how the rest of the league finds out Superman's secret identity and also gets to meet Ma & Pa Kent

highlights:

- passive aggressive comments from the Kents about how pLeAsED they are to finally meet Clark's co-workers

- 'your name is Clark? Clark??'

- Clark: *hanging out in civilian clothes*

Everyone: o___o

Clark: guys stop staring, this isn't that weird. remember when we all found out Billy was a fifteen year old boy?

Flash: hmm I think this might be weirder?

Cyborg: it's a close thing

Clark: ok let's put this to a vote. hands up everyone who thinks this is as weird or weirder as Billy's secret identity.

Clark: .......Bruce put your hand down, you already knew my real name.

- the Kent house definitely doesn't have enough bedrooms for everyone so most of the league has to camp out on the floor. justice league slumber party baby!!

- no-one brought a change of clothes so they all have to borrow stuff from the Kents. everyone is in plaid whether they like it or not. Ma Kent takes some delight in dressing Billy in Clark's old clothes.

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New lineart! Bonus points if you spot the not-so-hidden Easter eggs lol

#my art #do not repost