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bandaidfingers · 2 years
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In honor of Dracula Daily I’m going to be reposting Jonathan Harker’s Adventures in Castle Dracula, aka some little comics I made into a zine in 2017/18. Here’s the cover (og red and the pink version that ultimately looked better in print)
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And of course, happy Lizard Fashion day
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blaithnne · 1 year
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I forgot to queue this 💀 last Huevember is a redraw of the first day!
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Very happy with my improvement over the month :) and that’s it that’s tumblr all caught up with Huevember!
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kodamaghost00 · 1 month
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30 Charlie headcanons
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[Disclaimer!!]
I know Chaggie is canon but for the sakes of this post Charlie will be single. [Im a passionate chaggie shipper pls don’t kill me]
This post will contain: NSFW,Sfw, Fluff, Smut
It's also Genderless for the girls,gays and theys! You're a new resident at the Hotel in this scenario.
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Let’s begin!
Her favorite nicknames for you are “Sunshine” and “Pumpkin”. And everything sweet in general.
She makes you breakfast every morning and gets excited when you do the same.
Loves morning cuddles. She’d stay in bed just enjoying the embrace and warmth of your body.
Would not really understand your interests but enjoys seeing you being happy. So she will engage and learn about your interests and hobbies. “So you’re into that? Sounds interesting, Sunshine!”
She is definitely an early sleeper. She wants to get the most out of a day as possible.
Listens to 2017 white girl music on a daily basis and you guys vibe all the time.
After she got to meet Rosie she always went to her for advice or help in general.
She gets very flustered and ashamed when people as about her sexual life and declines to talk about it openly.
She likes PDA a lot though. Showing off her perfect partner with kisses and hand holding? Fuck yeah!
She definitely confessed her love to you first. She gave you flowers and a love letter wich read “Please be mine and go on a date with me!”. With an adorable doodle next to it.
She’s more of a dog person but loves KeeKee with her whole heart.
She’s is surprisingly dominant in bed. She pins you down aggressively but afterwards asks you if you are okay with it.
She is very flexible so there are many poses you guys could try out.
She enjoys oral a bit more than anything else. Seeing you shutter under her control makes her feel very reassured.
She definitely goes into her demon form when she’s close. Her tail wrapping around her waist trying to keep her composer.
Great at aftercare. She makes sure you feel reassured and comfortable once you’re finished. Cuddles and kisses are a must.
“Are you comfortable pumpkin? Would you like a towel?” And also whispering reassurance to you is important. “You did great by the way… you look so cute!”. A total sweetheart.
She is great with all sorts of people. Even the ones who are really disrespectful to her. So sometimes you keep those people in place.
Won’t curse until she needs to. She isn’t really going hard on the curses when she does curse. A simple “Fuck you” or “Motherfucker” is enough for her.
She absolutely adores kids. She also wants at least two in the future.
Gets shy easily. When you compliment her hair or her big round eyes she gets flustered right away.
In her emo phase she definitely said “ITS NOT A PHASE!” and now she looks back on it and laughs every time.
Hopes she will see Emily again one day. They definitely had a great time together.
If you’re not able to sleep at night she’s singing you to sleep. With your head on her lap and her playing with your hair.
LOVED the Barbie movie and rewatched it twice. And cried at the ending.
She is an hardworking woman so she’s encouraging you to help her out a lot. Trying to make you feel included!
When she gets overwhelmed she locks herself in her room and cries herself to sleep.
“Hey Charlie…? Are you okay…?” You asked knowing she’s feeling down. “Y-yeah! I’m fine pumpkin… don’t worry!!” “You don’t have to pretend my love…”
She sighed as she opened her door. You see her puffed up eyes so you open your arms wide. “Come here…” she hugs you deeply. “Thank you…”
You kiss her forehead as she embraces the hug. “No need to thank me sweetheart.”
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Yes I know no one asked for this but I love Charlie so you gotta listen to me rant about her. Give my girly more love and attention! So as always I’d love to get some requests for characters, I’ll try to do all of them but there’s so many! Thanks for reading my dear friends and have a lovely day/night!
- Your Ghost ༼ つ ╹ ╹ ༽つ
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daily-trapinch · 3 months
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I just rediscovered this blog, which has been completely inactive since 2017. If you're still following me, I'm so incredibly grateful that you've stuck with it through the long silence. Truthfully, I'd forgotten about my dear Sandi in the rush of life, you know how these things go. But I have so many fond memories from running this blog, at the peak of the daily pokemon hype! I truly hope all the folks from back in the day are doing well.
After losing both the email and password to for this blog, I managed to crack the code to get back in. I don't really know what I'm going to do with it now, but rest assured, I won't be deleting anything.
The last post on this blog was about getting to know me, so I figure it's about time for a life update. Pardon me for getting sentimental for a moment.
Since this blog went on hiatus, I have entered and graduated from my university with a Bachelor's in Marine Biology, with honors, and a minor in Chemistry. I traveled abroad and swam through coral reefs, rescued stranded sea life, and cleaned up beaches. Out of everything, I'm proudest of the time I spent building oyster reefs and restoring our shoreline habitats. I've met so many amazing people, and we've made a real difference in this world. Through working with oysters, I discovered a deep love of the little things, the tiny humble creatures living in crevices, within mud, and on rocks of the seafloor. There are miniature worlds of infinite wonder there, if you take the time to look.
I met the love of my life, nearly got engaged after five truly divine years, and was promptly dumped before I could propose. I still have the ring. At the same time, I moved across the country to an unfamiliar city, where I thought I would be with my love, but instead was completely on my own. Things have been hard. Things have been very, very hard. There are good days and bad days, but I am picking myself up, pulling myself out of the dark. I am building myself a home here, and it is so worth living in. There is so much beauty in this world. There is so much love in the hearts of the people around us.
Art has settled into a pleasant supporter in the background of my life. I don't draw nearly as much as I used to, and my sense of creativity has changed a lot over the years. But I always know that the art will be there for me whenever I decide to pick up pencil and paper again. This blog from years ago taught me the joy of silly little doodles, and I'm so so so grateful for that!
I go by Frankie, these days. They/them or xe/xem pronouns. Currently, I'm in graduate school, preparing to get my PhD in Marine Science. I study little marine worms - how they move, how they affect their environment, and how important they are to the whole ocean. Ask me about my polychaete pictures, I think they're really cute! Honestly, I wish I could go back and tell my 2017-self just how much we've accomplished. Back then, I never thought I'd make it this far. I could never have imagined the breadth of experiences life had waiting for me.
There's still so much more out there to experience. If you followed me in 2017 and you're reading this now - I hope life has treated you well. I hope you've had so many good days since the last time you saw my dear Sandi. And I hope you have so many more good days for years to come!
Some of you may notice that when I went on hiatus, I left some loose ends unresolved. Unanswered messages and asks, comic ideas, that kind of thing. I promise that I didn't do it on purpose at the time! I was a lot younger, didn't understand exactly how to handle my blog getting this big. But I hope you will respect my decision to leave these things alone and not reopen a bunch of threads from seven years ago. Thank you <3
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evelhak · 9 months
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Since some people have evidently found my books through Tumblr despite of me not being very active on the Finnish side of it, I thought: why shouldn't I post about my books? It doesn't matter they are not available in English (yet, anyway) because I would be curious enough to read about stuff my mutuals do even if I couldn't read the actual material.
So, I plan to make a post about every book I write, do cover art for, or am otherwise involved with. Best case scenario is someone finds something new to read, worst case scenario is someone is bored.
This time, I'll introduce you to my debut novel:
☁️ Unitytöt ☁️
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(dream girls)
Published: 2021 by Nysalor
Genre: New Adult, Fantasy, Slice of Life, LGBT+
Certainly not the first book that I wrote but this is my first published novel and my first cover project. ✨ I wrote this book in 2017 when I was about to graduate university, trying to juggle a full-time job as a mail carrier, nearly daily ballet training and writing both my original work and fanfiction which I also started doing the same year. The schedule turned out to be too much for my autistic brain and physical conditions. Regardless, I'm so happy I wrote this book!
It's a story about a technically bodiless creature, Venna, and a human, Aiju. Venna's species lives in people's heads or musical instruments because they need music to live. Venna is an outcast, and has been living in a wind chime to avoid people and their overwhelming array of feelings, which Venna's kind experiences directly in the human brain they are living in. Circumstances force Venna to move into the head of a young woman, Aiju, who is starting her studies at a temple (=a magic university). Unlike Venna's previous humans, Aiju can hear and feel Venna and is curious for, rather than scared of a new friend in her head. Aiju is also able to control and create elaborate dreamworlds where she and Venna can meet in their own separate forms. The two begin to live their life together, studying, enjoying music, maybe even falling in love when an older student is intrigued by Aiju's peculiar behaviour. It's a story about sharing a body and partially a mind, about merging, sense of self, neurodiversity and particularly sensitivity, and also abuse and healing. It's a slow love story, a fantastical exploration of the subconscious, a fantasy focused on characters and dreams that also touches on the larger context of the universe and existence.
I wrote this book because I had read many body sharing stories and was dissatisfied with the lack of portrayal of the ordinary every day experiences that would come with it, as well as I was with the ease with which body shifting creatures always seem to adapt to their new circumstances. I wanted to see more of the reality. I wrote this book because I had briefly introduced and later edited out a music eating demon in another fantasy story of mine, who possessed a girl and made her dance in a tavern until she fainted. I was curious what a story about a similar but gentle creature would be like. I wrote this book because themes of merging and separating your sense of self were relevant to me and I wanted to explore them through a fantastical world but also reality based concepts.
I was so much more nervous about the cover project than I was about actually publishing the story. I had zero experience apart from my personal cover doodles, no graphic design studies, and had only recently started learning Photoshop. Thankfully I'm still pretty happy with the cover, although there are technical details I would do differently. The most glaringly obvious one is the ginormous bar code. It was hard to tell how big it would actually look and my publisher had warned me not to make it too small, so I overdid it. My publisher is small so there are no resources to make test copies of the books, and it's due to the smallness of my publisher that I even had the opportunity to design the cover myself despite having no experience, just some visual skills.
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I still like the cover art itself, the only problem which I did suspect back then too, is that in an attempt to make the cover dreamlike, it turned out a bit like children's literature. I was the only one who was worried about it, but in some libraries people have clearly thought this is aimed at 12-year-olds. I'm sure some of them would enjoy this, but it's a bit off. A lot of people have told me not to underestimate children, but it's not that I'm doing that, I'm simply aware that this book is not written in a way nor does it contain themes or life events that are relevant to very young people. It's a very psychological story and its issues are the most relevant to people in their late teens and early twenties. It's not that there's anything in this book that a 12-year-old couldn't handle, it's just going to be boring for most of them because it would be a lot to ask from a child's attention span to be interested in stuff they can't relate to for 400 pages. Even if many 12-year-olds still like to read about characters older than them, characters they can look up to, this book is written with people in mind who can relate to 20-year-olds. Of course there are exceptions. I probably would have loved this book as a 12-year-old. But I'm sure 90% of my peers would not have cared enough to finish it.
The cover seems to have done some of its job well too, because I know some people (adults) bought this book because they thought the cover was pretty, so that's good at least. Most of the feedback I've received has been really positive, the book seems to have found some of the readers it was clearly meant for. Some relevant criticism has also come my way and I believe I've learned some things since writing this book. The only really negative review I came across so far contained so many factual errors that it seemed the reviewer had been too busy to actually process the book. From that perspective it seems like the cover has also worked well enough to draw mostly the intended people towards the book.
The most memorable experience in its publication process was probably how it was chosen for an interview at the biggest national book fair by high school presentation/communication students who hold interviews on one of the stages there every year. It was such a good interview because the two students interviewing me clearly loved the book, related to it, and were excited to talk about it with me, and asked really thoughtful questions. I couldn't imagine a better first interview as an author. It was also the day the book officially came out. It was also my first time at that book fair (I don't often visit the capital) and I was the first author from my publisher to land an interview there, so I was really very nervous at first. I was unfortunately a COVID debut author so this was the only place I was able to present my book physically that year, which obviously affected its already marginal distribution. But it was such a lovely event for me that it is the more memorable for it.
I wish this book would find more readers who love dreamy, character driven and fairytale-esque fantasy. It's not without plot, mystery, or danger, but it's definitely not the best pick for someone who needs an epic, fast paced and world-shaking chain of events from their reading experience. This is for the other sensitive dreamers out there who just love to drown in characters, experiences and subtle magic, and would rather stop to contemplate it than to rush forward at all times.
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iluvnyasm1th · 10 months
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random ninjagay headcanons
they r all under cut because its kinda long lol
kai: tries 2 make jokes but laughs at them b4 he can say them, has a bunch of merch of himself, carries bandages and bandaids 4 lloyd when he was lil bcuz his like gi was 2 big 4 him and he fell all the time, radiator, takes showers daily and nightly (zane had to convince him to only take them nightly)
cole: knows how 2 sew and fixed lloyds lil gi 4 him (he face plants bcuz of the tmrs tea incident and had 2 fix it all over again), he has had a bunch of pets and is a big animal lover, literally oblitareates everybody at just dance 2017, he has all of them memorized, has a rock collection (his favorite rock is named rocky lol)
lloyd: names eveyrything and anything, gets emotionally attached 2 stuff too easily, (cried all the times the bounty got destroyed), left handed weirdo, often fantasized about doing generic father son activites with his dad when he becoems good again, terrified of snakes, its the trauma, he gets sick a lot (my brother core), curls up and hugs his knees when he sleeps, hates vegetables (cole has 2 pin him down and force feed him any type of greens)
jay: horror movie fanatic (mostly why hes paranoid all the time), autistic about mechanics and video games, has a game reviewing yt channel, loves physical aftection but cuz of electric things others dont rlly appreciate it they try 4 him tho, hes so cold all the time, has won multiple gaming tournaments, vocally stims a lot and gets overstimulated easily, spends all of his money on random ass things nobody needs and tries 2 tell the ninjas it was a life long valuable investment, obsessed with orange juice, doesnt brush his teeeth, what does that make? yellow ass teeth
nya: loves going 2 the aqaurium, celebrates random national days, plays mermaid with lloyd whenever they go to a pool, will punch u in the face for anything and everything, loves sharing way too personal things, kind of a grimy girl, has a scrapbook thats rlly thick with pictures and scraps of paper or stickers
zane: rlly quiet, he sneaks up on ppl all the time (he says its on accident but the ninja rnt rlly convinced of that), literally looks like the epitome of some guy, so confused when they text, he sent a list of tone indicators 4 them 2 use bcuz hes austistic and confused, night light, is air conditioner in the summer, often gets confilcted about being a nindroid and if he ever truly feels things, tells the same joke 100 times and still thinks its funny, he doesnt need 2 sleep so he kinda just cleans at night and keeps watch 4 the ninja in case sormthing bad happens, nya often has 2 like oil up his joints bcuz if they rnt treated after a while they get rlly squeaky
pixal: hangs out with zane a lot at night cuz no need 2 sleep, also looks like some girl, cooks a lot, she may be a nindroid but she does not cook well, she loves building random like yk hings where u put a marble in and its like a beautiful just like continuenous movement that knocks stuff over and triggers stuff yk? likes to doodle and lloyd hangs up her drawings on the fridge, has a secret cat hidden in the monastery that she named screws, jays allergic 2 cats, she avoids jay a lot bcuz of this and jay thinks she doesnt like him, also she just isnt fond of the little blue one
i have more about other random things if u guys wud like it
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midomon · 6 months
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My favourite pieces from Cringetober this year.
Vent about art struggles and mental health below break.
Man, this October kicked my ass. I've been doing all sorts of October challenges every year since 2017 and usually half of the year's best art comes from them. For 2021 and 2022 I did a promptless artober/drawtober challenge just to get me back into drawing and painting after burnout and it's worked wonders to get the creative juices flowing.
This year was different though. Massive stress and negative life events have been kicking my ass since May and I had 1-2 months of no drawing in July and August because of moving houses. I've felt like I lost my art ability in that time (not that I was that great to begin with lol) and I hit a slump, with a feeling of regression.
I had high hopes for October though. The daily drawing spurt usually helps with those slumps and I get many sparks of happiness and inspiration. I felt like the art burnout was far enough behind me, that I could challenge myself with a fun prompt list and just enjoy doodling silly stuff.
Instead, I just struggled. Everything felt bad since day 1 (I tried making a new drawing then, but after 2 hours of struggling and just not being able to draw what I wanted, I posted a drawing I completed 2 days earlier that happened to fit the prompt. It was cheating, but at the same time not, because I had made it in one day).
I just felt frustrated, like I couldn't draw or paint at all and those art muscles just wouldn't wake up. And that feeling hit me in the face again and again 31 times. I'm still not sure, what was different this year... Am I not fully aware of the toll this year has had on me and this was just a symptom? Is my dead beat job fucking me up so bad? Was my new and very different sketchbook contributing to the feel and look of making art? Was doing prompts adding too much challenge for me after all? Did the fact that I didn't get as much external validation, affect the feel of everything? (I had 600+ followers on Twitter and this was my first year not posting there, but to new platforms instead so there was wayyyyyy less likes and such. I know you shouldn't care about that but external validation feeds my nonexistent self esteem too well). Did I have too much internal mental pressure to only make amazing shit, because I'm on new platforms where I should build an audience?
I don't know. We'll see how I think and feel about all this as time goes by. We'll see if I'll do promptless stuff next year instead or not even do a challenge at all.
My mental health overall is in shambles and the feeling of isolation, hopelessness, anxiety and dread gnaw up on me every day more and more. I don't know when I'll pick up the pen next, but when I do, I hope I have found a chill and easy way to loosen up and build back that deteriorated skill.
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melisendevector · 1 year
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Daily sketch Inspiration Gucci Spring 2017 For the hair I used : - Supracolor Soft Caran D'Ache golden ocre - Finecolor Marker yr157 - Luminance Caran D'Ache Burnt Sienna - Ohuhu marker Y12 - Supracolor Soft Caran D'Ache light lemon yellow - Molotow one4all white #gucci #fashionsketch #fashiondraw #fashiondrawing #hairdrawing #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #doodle #promarkers #pencildrawing #doodling #artwork #portrait #pencildraw #draw #instaart #instartwork #instadraw #instasketch #sketching #drawinghair #instadrawing #doodles #dailysketches (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUUPVooaqx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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kcyars520 · 9 months
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Next week marks hip hop 50th anniversary! Who do you think is the greatest hip hop rapper of all time?
Hip-Hop 50: How Nas Orchestrated a Golden Celebration
The 50th anniversary of the genre could have passed without the recognition it deserved. Then Nas and his company, Mass Appeal, got involved.
In 2017, Google reached out to Peter Bittenbender for his input on an edition of the search engine's daily Doodle. The tech giant had called on Bittenbender, CEO of entertainment company Mass Appeal, to help it recognize hip-hop's 44th anniversary. As he and Mass Appeal worked on the Doodle -- which ended up featuring a graffiti version of the Google logo -- Bittenbender had a realization: The genre's 50th anniversary was right around the corner.
"It was all focused on 50," he says of his game plan since. "Let's get ahead of this. This is the most important moment in this generation of hip-hop and, culturally, the most important movement of our lifetime. So let's not think about it a month before -- let's set it up years in advance."
On Aug. 11, hip-hop will celebrate 50 years since the night in 1973 when legendary DJ Kool Herc lit up a house party in the Bronx with his turntables and sparked a cultural movement that embraced personal style and flavor among DJs, MCs and dancers. Bittenbender, a hip-hop connoisseur, didn't want to let the monumental anniversary pass without due recognition, so he called his Mass Appeal co-partner, Nas, to begin planning the biggest celebration of the genre in its history.
"For a couple of years, we've been talking about this day coming," says the revered Queens MC. "It's great to see everything happening, too. You see some of the pioneers outside more and being celebrated. Everybody's gathering around this whole moment to make the world know not to sweep this under the rug. This is real."
For the last five years, Nas and Bittenbender have worked tirelessly on what has become #HipHop50, rallying partners such as Sony Music Entertainment, Live Nation, Yankee Stadium and more. According to Bittenbender, Nas was hands-on, making personal phone calls to sponsors, pitching ideas and watching edits of the upcoming Mass Appeal-produced Biz Markie documentary, All Up in the Biz, that will debut Aug. 11 -- all while carving out time to make his own music with Grammy-winning producer Hit-Boy. Between 2020 and 2022, the two worked on Nas' King's Disease trilogy, which yielded his first-ever Grammy win in 2021 (best rap album, for King's Disease) and his first headlining show at Madison Square Garden earlier this year. In July, he also released the sequel to his acclaimed 2021 album, Magic -- both projects also created with Hit-Boy -- further solidifying his status as one of the most heralded rap MCs of all time.
"Being five albums in with Nas is something I never thought would happen, but here we are," Hit-Boy says. "The creative freedom he allows me to have is a major blessing and an opportunity to continuously show my growth through my production. You can't buy a working relationship this pure."
But as he worked on his music, Nas remained laser-focused on ensuring #HipHop50's success. The effort came to fruition this year when the celebration's rollout commenced, with components including the immersive Hip-Hop Til Infinity digital installation at New York's Hall de Lumières and an expansive photography exhibit at the city's Fotografiska gallery highlighting the genre's evolution. The festivities will culminate Aug. 11 in the Bronx with Hip-Hop 50 Live at Yankee Stadium, a concert featuring a stacked bill of rap luminaries including Lil Wayne, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Slick Rick, Common, Lil Kim, Eve and the night's headliners, Run-D.M.C.
Bittenbender calls 2023 "a big year" for Nas, who, for one, will celebrate the same major birthday as hip-hop itself when he turns 50 in September. "And he has been more active over the past couple of years than ever," Bittenbender continues. "He's in a creative renaissance. #HipHop50 has been a beautiful vehicle for him to apply that creativity."
What does it mean to you knowing we made it to 50 years of hip-hop?
It's crazy because growing up, you always heard things about the other music forms like rock'n'roll, R&B, opera; all these great genres. They had celebratory moments and big houses to celebrate the greatness of those particular art forms. To really give hip-hop its time, it needed to happen. To start with DJ Kool Herc -- he's loved and revered and a historic figure in hip-hop who most hip-hop fans today probably don't even know about. They probably don't even know me. (Laughs.)
He's from back in the beginning days. No one, I think, was doing it on the level of the Bronx at that time. To celebrate the Bronx and celebrate hip-hop [is special]. This lyric KRSOne once said -- "Rap on a whole/Isn't even 20 years old/50 years down the line, you can start this/Cuz we'll be the old school artists/And even in that time, I'll say a rhyme" -- he saw it. Artists from that era were fighting for hip-hop to live and be around this long.
I made an album called Hip Hop Is Dead [in 2006]. Sorry not sorry, but I did because there were so many times the power of this music was in the wrong hands -- not artists, [but] businesspeople. To see that we're here and [hip-hop is] thriving [is incredible]. The art form is crazy right now. That's a beautiful thing, and for younger artists that are just 20 years old to realize the history that is there and was laid down for them, to look at it and go, "Wow, this is a long history with deep roots," is a great feeling.
When did you first realize that the genre had the potential for this kind of longevity?
I felt it. As a kid, Run-D.M.C. was breaking barriers, and I figured there was no limit to how far it could go. I figured when they were talking about adidas, that thing of connecting brands with artists could happen. Bigger stars were doing this before hip-hop, and I felt the hood's going to get a voice and connect with super brands and connect around the world.
How did you and Peter Bittenbender decide you had to do something for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop?
The work I do with Mass Appeal is based on all things that really move people culturally. Hip-hop is one of our things that we hug and love, and I posted on Instagram a couple of years back that the flyer for [DJ Kool Herc's party on] Aug. 11, 1973, is the birth certificate of hip-hop. I'm probably not the first person that said it, but I just love it.
I love the art form so much, and so does Pete. He really wanted to push #HipHop50, and I was down. Just seeing everybody else doing it at the same time is cool. It's growing every day up until Aug. 11, when Mass Appeal has put together the Yankee Stadium in the Bronx concert on the birthday of hip-hop. Other artists and networks are doing cool things, too.
What was the hardest part about doing this right?
We wanted everyone to feel good. We wanted everyone to join the celebration. We're releasing the Hip-Hop 50 Vol. EPs, one [produced] by Swizz [Beatz], one by DJ Premier and more in the works. [The EP series features MCs from Slick Rick to A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.] There's films we released [including Showtime's Supreme Team and You're Watching Video Music Box documentaries]. There's [an immersive] experience that's coming out where you go inside this museum art vibe. There's Fotografiska. We just doing the things that dudes might want to pull up to and be like, "This is cool. Look at that picture." I've been inspired by a lot of the #HipHop50 stuff we've been doing. It feeds you.
For the Aug. 11 concert, you tapped artists from every coast, which would have been impossible in the '90s. Talk about breaking down that divisiveness and bringing everyone together.
I recently saw an interview with Ice Cube, and he was talking about how the East Coast/West Coast feud didn't start with Biggie and 2Pac. It was kind of before that. It was normal territorial vibes: "We represent this, y'all represent that." The essence of hip-hop is the battle, so everything was competitive. New York was on they bulls-t. West Coast was on they bulls-t. The South and so on. So to have everyone together is what the birthday of hip-hop should be about. It shouldn't just be one region. Everybody should be celebrating together.
What happens to hip-hop after this anniversary? How does it maintain this kind of energy going forward?
It's going to feed us and teach us, and we'll relearn what the culture is. We read the history books of it, so to speak. We see the artists that were here before us, and we think about it. It sits with us, and we marinate on it. We think, "What does this mean?" The ideas that will pour from it are because it has given back to us. You have to know your history. I think incredible ideas on every level are going to happen, from filmmakers to writers and producers. I think that this is the seed to open up all different types of ideas for years to come.
You've said you don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to keep smart people around you. How has that made you a better businessman and artist?
I always learn. I'm always soaking up the knowledge. Whoever got far coming from zero, I love to hear them talk. You find out you could relate to a lot of things they got to say. Then you realize what's in them is also in you. Then you have your own unique things. It's cool to rub shoulders with people who you think are smarter than you. It's not a who's smarter contest. It's just some people you think are smarter than you, but you realize, "Nah! I look at this differently."
At the same time, I'm learning about business decisions from people who are really about the business. There's some things I can learn from them. I'm about business, but I'm not all about business. There's things I could pick up, and there's things people could pick up from me. You put yourself around people who you might admire. Put yourself around people who are doing something that have this kind of gravitational pull that's pulling you to them. Something about them has got your attention. I pay attention to that to find out what it is.
There's still a disconnect today in hip-hop about how artists address conflicts with one another. How do you feel things should be handled to ensure the safety of the genre's artists?
That's a hard one for us because the streets are the streets. We listen to music from people directly from those circumstances. Young people making the hit records are telling you what's happening: education, disease, miseducation. Life is a tough test. The streets are the stomping grounds of warriors and good and bad people. There's kids that come from these environments with something to say. When you ignore them, you ignore the youth. I don't think we can stop the street mentality overnight. It's a thing that's in place that is strong.
For everybody to change it would take a miracle, but at the same time, once these artists get in the game and realize, "You're going to change your family's life for generations to come if you could stay alive and stay out of jail," that seems like an easy thing to do -- but when you're fresh from that, it's all you know. You don't trust somebody that has been rich for 20 years telling you to chill out when you just came from an environment where nobody's on chill. You think they over the hill and don't know what they talking about. To get them to get where we're at, it's going to take a lot of work. They on their thing. They doing what they do to represent their lifestyle they were just leaving.
Now, as they get successful, they have to come into their senses on their own. When you look at hip-hop's history, you see all the companies and empires that fell because of stupidity. If they see that, they have to realize they are the next one if they don't change. There's a lot of stories they could watch about hip-hop empires that made terrible mistakes that destroyed families and lives. All they have to do is check the history. It's their decision and their maturity level, and when they are going to figure it out because time is ticking -- the next thing you know, you're in the wrong place at the wrong time. I just pray for them and hope for the best because talking to them is one thing, but they have to be ready for it. Sometimes they have to learn on their own.
After winning your first Grammy and finding a new collaborative partner in Hit-Boy, how would you sum up your last three years musically?
It's magic to get together and do what we're doing. I didn't see anybody doing it like [Hit-Boy]. Not to sound like I'm feeling myself, but to really look and say, "All right, what do I do now? I'm going to do what I want to do." It's the freedom of creating records because I just feel like it. It's a hobby to me now to go to work. I don't know how long this feeling to make music is going to last, but I'm going for it at the moment. It's making me have so much fun.
I want more people to join me from my era; release your records and work hard on them sh-ts. I want to hear how people feel, and I want to hear their art. I don't want to hear the trends, I want to hear the art. Express it, do it and be free. That's what I'm trying to give to the game now. I don't pay attention to anything except what I'm doing at this point because I'm having so much fun that I don't even look up to see what's going on. I could say that I never had this amount of fun, but I've had a lot of fun in my life in the business. But this feeling is unmatched.
This story will appear in the Aug. 5, 2023, issue of Billboard.
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Which Top online games are popular on YouTube?
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Top YouTube-generated live games: Mobile Legends: 93 thousand viewers worldwide.
• Minecraft has 49K, worldwide viewers.
• 26K people worldwide are watching Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
• There are 25,000 viewers worldwide.
• 22K people watch Apex Legends worldwide.
• The New Dragon Quest: Michibikareshi Monotachi attracted 20 million viewers worldwide.
Which 2017 game is the most popular worldwide?
1. The Zelda Series: Which Nintendo Switch game, Breath of the Wild, is most popular in India in 2022
The award for the best game of 2022 went to Apex Legends Online, a well-known battle royale top online game.
Which game is most popular in India?
Ludo King is one of the 15 most played mobile games in India in 2021. Over 500 million copies of the popular two- to four-player board game Ludo King have been downloaded.
• Mobile India's Battlegrounds
• Doodle Army 2: Mini Militia
• Within Us....
• Hill Climbing Competitions.
• Master of Coins...
• Riders of the Subway...
• Saga of Candy Crush
Which game has ever sold the most copies the fastest?
Scarlet and Violet are the most popular Pokémon games ever released for Nintendo consoles. In just 72 hours, the most recent Pokémon games sold 10 million copies, both physically and digitally. Who is 1 on YouTube's gaming trending topic?
With 46.8 million subscribers as of December 2022, Chilean gamer Germán Garmendia, also known as JuegaGerman, ranked first among the most popular gaming channels on YouTube.
What is gaming's future?
The video game industry is being transformed by three major trends: new monetization strategies, environments reminiscent of the metaverse, and improved technology. Because big games are expensive to make and need a large global audience to succeed, scale will become even more important as competition grows.
Which cool games are most played?
• Traditional Solitaire
• Bob the Robber, Part 2
• Klondike Solitaire
• The Tiny, Big Snake.
• The Worms Zone
• Vex 4.
• Agor.io
• Minimal Alchemy
What is Google's best online game?
• Boxel Rebound, one of the best games for Google Chrome for 2022.
• Town has robbers.
• Good Friday!
• HTML5 Spelunky
• HD Free Rider
Which game is free to play?
Hurdle is one of the free online games. Hurdle is a new take on the well-known word guessing game. Try it out right now.
• Discord in the Family
• Word Wipe Game Arkadium To clear the rows and advance, make as many words as possible.
• The Bubble Shooter from Arkadium
• Solitaire Mahjong...
• A game of Mahjong for free
• A free eight-ball pool game
• Daily crossword puzzle online for free
Which PC game is currently the most popular?
Genshin Impact is one of the 25 best PC games available right now.
• The Stardew Valley
• Command
• The second Red Dead Redemption
• Dota 2
• Prey (2017)
• Civilization VI by Sid Meier.
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Which games were awarded the Game of the Year award?
The 2022 Game Awards: The complete list of winners includes God of War Ragnarök, which won a hefty six awards. However, Elden Ring managed to steal the spotlight by winning Game of the Year and Best Game Direction.
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55 days until st4: rewatched IT today and they are two sides of the same coin
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Daily Doodle for November 27th. Happy Kitty. I've been trying to make a fun holiday pic to put on merch, but it hasn't been going well. This may be the best attempt yet.
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Hey everyone, long time no post!  So I’ve been focusing more on my artwork recently and have pretty much moved over to the profile @kristinpaullus for all of my tumbling. I post daily doodles there and on my Instagram (kristinpaullus as well). If anyone is interested on following me over there, great! If not, it’s been a fun ride. I’m still keeping this profile open and will post every now and then but my main focus is gonna be over there from now on. Thanks guys! :) 
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Darkwing Doodle! 10/21/2020
It’s been a while since I’ve done some fanart, and I was so excited to watch the new Ducktales episode, “Let’s Get Dangerous!” I really loved all the references and callbacks to the original Darkwing Duck, and I’m excited to see where it goes in the future!
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