#I took way too long on this

[rainofthetwilight]

BE A NINJA FOR WHATS RIGHT!!

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i finally finished this wip omg, and i finally made my own designs for the kiddos (even if ive drawn sora and arin 'lotta times before i didnt have a proper design for them yet)

and they have lil pins on my lgbtq+ hcs for them for funsies 💫

you can even use them as pfps! here: (credit must be given if you do use them!!)

(click for better quality too ;D)

also an extra lil thing:

#i took way too long on this #ninjago dragons rising #levi's art #my art #ninjago sora #ninjago arin #ninjago euphrasia #ninjago wyldfyre #ninjago spoilers #ninjago fanart #dragons rising #euphrasia ninjago #i stand by my hc that 'rasia has vitiligo and she and arin have dimples #sour patch family #sour patch siblings

[gendervapor14]

finally made a character sheet for sora now that she’s been a thing for like over a year oops

#i took WAY too long on this #for such a normal looking character #tried to include a whole bunch tho #my favorite part is probably the last portrait to the left #yes sora be feral #one piece original character #one piece oc #original character #character sheet #gensart #one piece fanart #01746

[ask-witch-doctorwhooves]

Misty is a show off-

#doctor who #doctor whooves #furry #mlp #mlp au #ask me things #ask blog #witch #drawing #art #the master #the time master #the witch master #kelpie #i did an art #i took way too long on this #horse #fish #misty #missy

[lovelenivy]

mouse bites™

#anybody do this yet? #house md #hate crimes md #house md game #mouse bites #gregory house #hilson #james wilson #lisa cuddy #robert chase #allison cameron #eric foreman #house md meme #he needs mouse bites to live #shoutout to whoever made the house game generator thing #this took me way too long #house #dr house #also if you notice house's clothes kinda changing colors when he holds the mouse bite serum #its because i had to recolor it myself #i couldn't get the shades of gray to be exact #oh well #i also drew the nosebleed lmao #every house episode ever #generic house episode #editing this to say #this is not an original meme at all #I just ds-ified it tbh #ive seen some people not know it but i recommend you look it up #or like iykyk i guess

[jackdawandicarus]

My character naming process

My friend @robinsinthesummer did a post like this so now I’m doing one too. Also I’m probably going to put more effort into this than is really necessary but idc.

The first method is just giving them a name that randomly spawns in my brain and fucking haunts my thoughts until a name a character it or create a new character solely to name something that name. The current name haunting my brain is Sidney fwi. I have an OC named it but I don’t really like said character, they are too un-queer. Sidney is a name for the gays. A name-ghost I actually went through with naming the character is Michael for my main project’s protag’s father and Sandy for this little cryptic hunter character I have. Honestly might give her a sister just to name said sister Sidney lol. Or a friend or something. Maybe-

If there’s another character with a name too similar to the current name-ghost (e.g. my *other* potential Sidney, who is very queer, is a main character for my book in which there is already a main character named Kit, I found the start of the names too similar to use Sidney for the character, Sydney might’ve worked but I hate that spelling), I begin an actual active naming process. I think of names with similar sounds and vibes (to continue with my example, Macey or Darcy which have the ending sound which I want for the character), using Behind the Name to assist if necessary. Usually I’ll have around 3 names on the list.

I’ll try to to think about themes, personality, arc, etc. with some more important characters. My protagonist in one of my current projects is named Ophelia. While Ophelia was a name-ghost, I gave it to the character I did because I thought that the meaning of ‘help’ fit for the character (also something something Hamlet something something idk I don’t know shit about Hamlet, I just know Ophelia goes mad and kills herself, which actually fits my Ophelia tbh) because she begins the story very passive, she very much views herself as a supporting character. It also fits as a silent cry for help hidden within her name, she is unable to reach out for help, and attempts to repress her negative emotions. Pretty sure Hamlet also had something to do with it at the time but I’ve genuinely forgotten.

Her sister Casandra’s name was chosen in a similar fashion. Only I know for sure that I named her after the Greek mythological figure of Cassandra. I dropped an S because I like the way it looks like that. Casandra has Schizotypal Personality Disorder, which is a pretty recent addition to her character but I think makes sense with my pre-existing characterisation of her as having ‘magical thinking’, to quote Wikipedia’s page on STPD lol. Cassandra in Greek mythology is obviously most known for being cursed to see the future and have no one believe her (though she’s a personal interest of mine and I could probably tell you everything about her if you asked me to), which is how Casandra perceives herself. I’m still working on figuring out how I’m going to adapt her character now I’ve decided to give her STPD.

There’s also a little (read- pathetic) guy I named Pigeon. They’re my most recent character because I’m tired of not writing about anthropomorphic cats, I’m a Warriors fan goddamn it it is in my blood. Pigeon is named after a bird species which absolutely no one will be able to guess from his name! He’s named after the bird because said bird has this whole tragic ‘used to be a valued pet and working animal and then we abandoned them and call them sky-rats’ thing going on which fits their character arc.

Sometimes I’ll just go to Behind the Name and look through it to find a suitable name though lol. After naming Ophelia and Casandra I needed to name their triplet brother. I literally just looked through the masculine Ancient Greek list on Behind the Name until I found Zopyrus at the very bottom and thought it worked well enough. He dies half way through anyway.

Sometimes I’ll name a character after a real life person I went to Primary school with or something. This is most common with my Sims, though, tbh. I named a character Jessica, but I think that’s literally it for OCs so far

And thus ends my overly long post!

#hope at least 2 people enjoy this lol #I took way too long on this #writing #oc

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

#really happy with how michael turned out :] i might stick to this design #rapunzel ah glowy hair <3 #i do need to workshop gerry though orz #have been working on this during breaks from my other projects and god it took way too long to finish #fun fact the final file for this is over 2gb 👍 forgot i was recording the timelapse #i could post it if anyone would be interested #the magnus archives #tma #michael distortion #michael shelley #tma michael #tma distortion #gerard keay #gerry keay #tma gerry #gerrymichael #doorkeay #technically? i’m not one to draw ship art usually but this one’s close enough i think #tma fanart #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #magpod

[scarletlarvesta]

A fun Pyro for you

And a closeup of the profile picture cause I think it's cute

#scarletlarvesta art #my art #team fortress 2 #tf2 #pyro team fortress 2 #pyro #pyro tf2 #tf2 pyro #fanart #where are all the other gas cans you ask? #shhhhh dont worry about it #(i got lazy) #idk whos taking the picture #demo or soldier maybe #also i need to learn how to draw faster this took way too long

[nonasbirthday]

Clear as mud! But I expect nothing less from a Homestuck 🫡

#this is a fine and perfectly reasonable way to have ordered groups of nine relate to each other :) #this took me way too long to make and i know people are gonna come into my notes and tell me what i got wrong #which is fine lol there are many smart folks here #i am not budging on Anastasia being responsible for the 'reconstruction' step though. TWICE in GTN the Ninth is linked to reconstruction #and i think the fifth preserves the spirit (step 1). #perfunctory image id in alt text #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #the locked tomb spoilers #nonasbirthday #enumeration in the locked tomb

[lcs-scar]

this is how senshi sees the party

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #chilchuck #chilchuck tims #marcille #marcille donato #laois #laois touden #💌 -- handmade postcard #//this took me way too long to finish. it's just a shitpost. what the heck #//i hate it but i won't redo it we ball #//if you saw this yesterday no you didn't

[arundolyn]

today i bring you aba stimming. tomorrow? who knows

#aba #paracelsus #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #crow.gif #guilty gif #i love her so bad. fucked up silly little girlthing #huge fan of her and her illness #just hanging around. being sillay #took way too long to notice her shirt is pants it made me giggle. just chopped up some shorts and went Yeah thats a shirt #50 notes in under 20 minutes. i see were all not okay here JFJSJJFX

[plumadot]

a paladin and a sorcerer :]

#plume art #THIS TOOK SO LONG #BUT I LIKE IT #I REALLY HOPE YOU LIKE IT TOO... #AM I ACTUALLY GOING TO DRAW THE REST THIS WAY AS WELL #SWEATS #flower husbands #life series #plume dnd au

[fudgecake-charlie]

I wanted to play around on aggie drawing BigB because he deserves to have more exploration in his design!! I think I quite like the blue and purple

#bigbst4tz2 #bigbstatz #secret life #slsmp #Also wanted to try something else with his hairstyle that style somewhat resembled his IRL hair #maybe one day i will go crazy with giving him really fun locs #this is both rushed and also took like way too long lmao like uhh 2 ish hours??? #art out the oven #[scheduled]

[ask-witch-doctorwhooves]

#doctor who #doctor whooves #furry #mlp #mlp au #drawing #comic #ask blog #witch doctor #i took way too long on this #i am not dead

[reasonsforhope]

"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

#united states #us politics #conservation #climate change #sustainability #forests #old growth forest #national forest #carbon emissions #climate action #climate crisis #forest service #biden #biden administration #public comment #good news #hope #it took me soooo long to hunt down the actual public comment link #by which I mean like 10 minutes but like #that's too long! especially considering I am way better at navigating language and bureaucratic websites like this #than A LOT of people #why tf can't you just comment on the Official Website For Public Commenting? #aka regulations.gov #baffling #anyway the good news is I did find it so pls do go ahead and submit a comment if you can

[ofswordsandpens]

This Kid's Not Alright

perseus // unknown // The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan // unknown // The House of Hades, Rick Riordan // unknown // @ vialjarhorn // The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan // The House of Hades, Rick Riordan // @ dying-dog // The House of Hades, Rick Riordan // brutal, Olivia Rodrigo // The Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan // unknown // The Gods Show Up, Michael Kinnucan // The Chalice of the Gods, Rick Riordan

#my first attempt at web weaving(?) #I believe that's the term #this took way too long lmao #anyways this me connecting the dots in the saddest way possible #the boy is angry he's spiraling he's deranged no one is helping #pjo #percy jackson #mine #web weaving #powerful percy jackson #dark percy #words

[thirdchildart]

Jon wth that's so RUDE

#The Magnus archives #I love this lighting but it took WAY too long to complete #we'll see if I have the patience to replicate it for future vids #Tma #Jonathan sims #Martin Blackwood #Jmart #Jonmartin #Tma22 #Mag 22 #magnuspod