#good luck OP!

[marmastry]

do you have any tips for an artist that wants to draw comics?

I honestly still dont see myself as a comic artist, anon, but what i do know is that the hardest part is starting one.

When you're new to it, you gotta learn how to make it easier for yourself because if you're aim is to make a fully colored 20+ pages comic, you will burn yourself out before you finish a single page.

Dont put too much expectations on yourself. Let it be your aim to finish it rather than perfect it. Once you finish it, don't dwell too much into it. Don't let engagements be the measure of its value. The best part of finishing something is looking back on them and learning what you can do better next time.

When you're new, you're also building your stamina in the process and when you understand how much you can do in a certain time, you will learn how to pace yourself better. For ex. In my earlier comics, like my abandoned zelda AU, i didn't really put much thought in the specs and dimension of my comics. I didnt even draw it well lol. I limit working on every entry under 2 to 4 days and that includes the writing. I spent less time on it and it shows! Compare that to my splatoon comics, they're more organized and put together in comparison. This is because I saw what I can do before, I learned what I can do better and it made me put more time into them. I don't really wanna rush myself as much as possible because i dont really earn from this rn lol but most of my entries lately takes 1 month to draw with drafts Ive written 3 months earlier. I work very slow but more robust than before because of all the stamina I accumulated with other finished work :)

I hope this helps at least haha

#i think being excited with your ideas is important too #it's literally your motivation #but that feeling will not always be there once u start working. #most of the time you'll be questioning why ur doing this and lose steam #this is why i think building a stamina for something new is important #building that grit to finish a work is important! #so far working on comics made me appreciate my art more #because everything i reread them I get so proud that I finished them and it's entertaining me now as well #but yeah #i think it will be worth it if you can start first #good luck OP!

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 4 #a deadly state of mind #columbo loves being a cheeky little bitch but note well that he never actually operates outside the margins #under arrest? got a warrant. searching your shit? got a warrant. planting evidence? nope; creating a honeypot. entrapment? nope; sting op #he knows exactly how close to the line he can get without crossing it. good luck dipshitte

[frownyalfred]

Batman really embodies “I do what I do and you do what you can do about it” whenever he disagrees with the Justice League and it’s fucking hilarious

#bruce wayne #batman #dc #justice league #Bruce said ope not gonna listen to that #or you #or that plan #good luck #jl

[gothamcity-official]

Joker is out and fooling around

As is typical for April Fool's, the Joker has escaped and is making a mess. Please be careful and follow guidelines for proper masking for general toxins and specifics for Joker Toxin in particular. Stay safe!

#one of these links in a rickroll :3 good luck! #only in gotham #only in gotham rp #dc #the Joker #batman series #onlyingotham #op #in character #April Fool's day #April Fools

[sapphixxx]

Signalis, Authority, and History

There's a level of nuance to how Signalis presents the violence of the authority of the nation that doesn't call attention to itself but which I really appreciate. Which is basically just, all the officers and cops and spies who make life hell for people like the Gestalt mine workers, Ariane, and the Itou family--we get little glimpses into who they are in Adler and Kolibri's diaries and despite the propaganda and the authoritative tone they take in official communications, for the most part they don't seem to actually be particularly invested in the hard line of national ideology. They uphold it though, viciously, both because things were worse under imperial rule (we don't get hard details on what it was like but it's mentioned in passing enough that I believe it) and because they're scared that if they don't they will be decommissioned and easily replaced. They are literally stamped out of a production line after all. There's a subtext of well, if I don't do it my replacement will anyway and I'm not trying to die so what's the point of rocking the boat?

I think Kolibri stands out to me most clearly on this because in communications from the block warden regarding Ariane there is emphasis put on how it is unacceptable and suspicious that she should be so interested and invested in art and literature that does not serve the purpose of furthering the goals of the nation. But we know that Kolibris themselves are bookworms, Adlers are fiends for stimulating experiences, and both get miserable FAST when deprived of art and puzzles and entertainment and hobbies. Y'know, just like anyone. Far be it from being a paragon of The Nation only interested in productive labor, we are reminded that the block warden, too, hates this shitty town and wants to transfer but is denied. They're hypocrites, but not monsters, nor brainwashed puppets of the state.

The monstrousness at play is not contained within any particular subset of evil individuals, or even an inherent universal force of evil contained in the broad notion of The Nation. There is no cosmic evil force that makes them all do these things to each other. The monstrousness is within the social systems, the mechanisms of how authority perpetuates on a structural procedural level, held in place by fear and tangible threats of violence, each link in the chain restraining the next through those threats out of fear that if they don't, then they'll be next. Regardless how many, if any, of those people in this chain are true dogmatic hardliners, they must act as such because failing to do so opens them up to danger.

Here then I think of the quote that is so prominent, "Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl", from Lovecraft's The Festival. This is not just a chilling abstract visual that conveniently evokes a mineshaft-- in Lovecraft's story, this line refers to worms which ate the decomposing bodies of wizards whose wretched souls had remained after death, complete with the terrible powers they gained through contracts with demons. Those worms inherited both their power, and also the evil. The Nation, despite having overthrown the Empire, is built on imperial technology, in particular Replikas and bioresonance. So too, then, we can imply that The Nation inherited with those things some of the monstrousness of The Empire as well. There is no end of history, nor clean break with the past, no matter how violently it may seem to be rejected. That which remains from the past--and something inevitably always does--creates the present.

This is a game that is not shy about evoking East Germany. And I think all of this provides a sophisticated picture of repressive authority that we rarely see in fiction of the English speaking world, especially in games. The year the S23 incident takes place is notably 84, but, frankly, I find this to be more compelling and illustrative than 1984 (and I'm a librarian and have taught English classes so I get to say that). Orwell, let's be honest, presents a fairly one dimensional picture of authority, where people seize power and wield it against others out of seeming mustache twirling evil or malice.

Here though we get a more humanistic view. Authority did not come from nowhere and is not wielded arbitrarily out of gleeful cruelty or mindless brainwashed allegiance. People aren't "just following orders". Individuals have rich inner lives. They make decisions, and those decisions are based in the context they're in. Even the decision to carry repressive tools of the past into the present is a decision that was made strategically with the big picture in mind. Nobody woke up and decided to be evil that day. Everyone operates on self interest, and, we must assume, an earnest desire for things to get better. Even the [spoiler] program which served as an inspirational demonstration of The Nation's power, you can imagine the chain of officers and bureaucrats who genuinely wanted the people of the nation to believe in the future, to confidently trust that everyone was working together towards something great and beautiful. And, through a long chain of those people who couldn't say "No" without being decommissioned, we ended up with something unbelievably cruel.

We get to know Adler and Kolibri and the other officers not to say well they're human too, maybe it wasn't so bad that they condemned all those people to agonizing suffering, but to remember that if we keep looking for true monsters we will not find them. There are no monsters and there are no demons. There are only people making decisions. A better world is possible. A better world, where Adler is just a paper pusher who does puzzles after work instead of signing papers to authorize torture, where Kolibris are librarians instead of spies and cops, where EULEs can gossip and play piano and ARARs can do maintenance on facilities that don't contain torture rooms, is one that would not have led to the Ariane and Elster's tragic cycle and ultimate end.

Authority and its attendant cruelty is not contained, radiating forth from The Great Revolutionary and Her Daughter, it is within the social systems of control. When those two women die, that cruelty will continue so long as those social systems continue. Like Lovecraft's worms, no matter how long dead the evil of the past is, so long as it continues to be fed upon, that evil will not only remain, but evolve into something new in the present. A better world can't be achieved through the death of the old world alone, even if violent overthrow is warranted. There is no end of history. There is no clean break from the past.

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

#Signalis #Didn't include everything because this is already very long #But there's a lot to add to this kind of reading from other former Eastern Bloc states that go beyond a kind of braindead #Simplistic Authoritarianism bad communism bad freedom good type of view common in the English speaking world #That go more into well what is authority and how does it work and how has it remained durable and violent before during and after the cold #The Romanian movie Bad Luck Banging is very good for this in expressing how things have been more similar than different #Under monarchy fascism communism and liberal democracy over the last 150 years there #replika joker voice maybe the real monster is SOCIETY #op #quality content

[oscarskirt]

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE directed by Sophie Hyde

#good luck to you leo grande #daryl mccormack #emma thompson #filmgifs #moviehub #cinematv #fyeahmovies #cinemapix #userfilm #tvandfilm #filmtvdaily #dailyflicks #filmdaily #mediagifs #mensource #flawlessgentlemen #ops I did it #*this movie is wonderful I really recommend it

[oshiawaseni]

People be saying that Izuku would go feral when anyone gets hurt... and I'm like are you sure you ain't talking bout Tokoyami. Tokoyami went feral when Shoji had one of his arms chopped off during the end of the Forest Summer Camp arc and when Mina got stabbed in the second MHA movie. We don't see many of Tokoyami 's interactions, so it is safe to assume. Deku's ferals moments only happen when BAKUGO KATSUKI is hurt or going to be hurt. Bro, I mean like what?

Sure, 1-A are all very protective over each other. But if that's all certain fans think is between BkDk, then their understanding of the content is so basic. I can't for the life of me figure out why they don't see the very pronounced difference in the way Izuku feels/acts towards Kacchan vs the way he feels/acts towards everyone else.

Izuku feels so much empathy for Katsuki that he takes everything that happens to him so damn personal. Like it were an affront to his own honour, dignity, pride, heart and life. It's so clear that Katsuki has been taking up so much space in his whole heart for hundreds of chapters now, and here they are, still denying it. Why?

The reason Izuku's heart is feral only for Kacchan is becoming so sooo obvious too now, like. I mean, seriously..! Can Hori spell it out for them anymore louder than he has been doing already?

There is no one who can take the place of Izuku's Kacchan. He is irreplaceable. Just like there is no other possible love interest that has been built up as beautifully as he. Because Katsuki is it. He's the only one Izuku's ever needed and fought to protect, like his whole soul was on the line.

At the end of the day we know the truth of them and the others can think what they think and become shocked pikachu face when Hori finally lets BkDk love each other the way they were always meant to and has them kiss or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#and then they'll probably cope some more lol #DEKU LOVES KACCHAN #HE LOVES HIM HES IN LOVE WIHT H IM THEY WANT TO BE BY EAHC OTHER'S SIDE #gentle/la brava exist as foil to aid people in realising that #asks #thanks anon #good luck ignoring the dudebros #bkdk canon #bakudeku #op #bkdk parallels

[kokoa-la]

Do yall know how many powers Danny acc has in the show

Cus I looked at the page from the Fandom, and I counted like 52 (including some I didn't believe in or had other explanations)

Let me list them here

1. Intangibility

2. Invisibility

3. Flight

4. Cryokinesis (ice)

5. Ghostly wail

6. Overshadowing

7. Ghost rays

8. Ghost sense

9. Healing

10. Reconstruction

11 - 18. Super strength, speed, durability, agility, balance, endurance, stamina, reflexes

19. Fuse two halves together - fuse with other ghosts

20. Gravity Manipulation (only on himself)

21. Back slide

22. Space travel

23. Repulsion Field

24. Energy strike

25. Ghost shield

26. Energy constructs

27. Power absorption

28. Energy absorption

29. Electrokinesis (electricity)

30. Power augmentation

31. Ghost stinger

32. Thermokinesis (temperature) [I was 50/50 on it- don't rly count it but I'll put it here]

33. Photokinesis (light)

34. Telekinesis

35. Restoration (only inanimate)

36. Technopathy - potential (dan used it)

37. Exorcism

38. Dream Invasion

39. Fusion

40. Pyrokinesis (fire) [he makes ectoplasmic fire at one point don't question it - I didn't]

41. Duplication

42. Spectral Body Manipulation (can make himself swiss cheese)

43. Plasticity

44. Size alteration

45. The void (not a Canon power- Butch Hartman headcanoned it for dp - thank u @madametamma )

46. Paranormal immunity

47. Vacuum resistant

48. Aural shock

Now some are very similar and for a lot of the kinesis (kinesi?) Only had like one small instance so they're a possible power (like making stuff melt or using ectofire- and that's not even counting the one time he had weather powers albeit temporarily)

Oh, and yes, I did count each super human ability as its own (strength, speed, endurance, etc.). My logic was if a superhero had a singular one of those and it was counted as a power (super strength, most common example), then it should be counted as separate ones for danny, too.

Anyways, the fanfic writers should go insane with this list.

It's insane.

Here's the link for it

#danny phantom #danny fenton #BAMF danny phantom #powers #super human abilities #now i get what the fanfics meant by “i got a new power every week” #i understand when the fanfics say danny loses track of the amount of powers #i wouldnt know what to do with all this #danny phantom is op #dp #danny phantoms super power list #good luck #im going to have a lot of fun with electrokinesis <3 #anyone who explores and uses this list and writes smth please tag me i love reading 🙏

[ao3screenshotss]

#submission #ops og tags #THIS IS THE LAST ONE YAYYYYYYY or: if this shows up on the top of your notifs good luck. :D #this did show up at the top of my notifs so i appreciate it #it took a while but it was enjoyable the whole time #thank you for submitting!! #but fr ty cause 100 was amazing #also love the fic name the bro and no homo?? chefs kiss

[sergle]

thank you so much for posting abt your experience with getting reduction, because it’s made it a lot less scary of a concept to me. i have a lot of paid and discomfort caused by my chest but surgery of any kind is terrifying to me- seeing your joy and honesty about your reduction gives me a lot of hope for my own future. thank you for sharing :)

I'm glad it's relieving some of your anxiety about it!!! tbh I was shot back in time knowing what I know now, I'd go into surgery again feeling a lot more confident. If I knew that the healing would be so manageable, I coulda saved myself a lot of stress LMAO

#it's impossible not to feel scared abt surgery. you're getting into a knife fight on purpose #but I'm wishing you luck and it's good to hear that reading abt my experience is easing *some* of the worry!! #I was so worried about pain and about healing right and the shape and the look and sleeping and meowmehwmewowow #I was a 2-3 on the pain scale by the end of week 1 and footloose and fancy free by the time I hit a month #I can only hope it's the same for you!!! #THE PART THAT SUCKED THE WORST OF ALL. were the two weeks pre-op that I couldn't have ibuprofen or caffeine. #hey! guess what I take for a migraine. #guess what substances. #that was probably worse than my post-op pain. #sergle answers

[thychesters]

this duval guy apparently has it out for sanji because he pissed him off, which is saying a lot about a guy who's part of a crew that spends a lot of their time pissing people off

#sanji: i have spent all of my life pissing people off this does NOT narrow it down #sanji's general existence incites a lot of anger so like. good luck #kate watches op #sabaody #i think i have that right lmao

[borderline-culture-is]

BPD culture is both my FP’s stopped messaging me two hours ago and I’m trying so hard to pretend it doesnt bother me!

-📽️

.

#good luck OP #borderline culture is #borderline personality disorder #bpd #bpd culture is #bpd culture #bpd safe #actually borderline #actually bpd #bpd fp #fp #fp bpd #- 📽

[aslostaszoro]

Benn: I prevented a murder today. Lucky: Really? How’d you do that? Benn: self control.

#one piece #op #one peice #incorrect quotes #benn beckman #benn is crying inside #lucky roo #good luck #one piece incorrect quotes #incorrect one piece quotes #red hair pirates

[stepfordgoth]

Reblog for an actually pleasant October surprise

#good god please #the op of these kinds of posts gets extra luck right? right???

[onepiece-polls]

Despite me not shipping this ship at all, I cannot do anything else but say you are totally right in this.

#like this is not even an exaggeration #good luck to everyone (but the person submitting this) guessing which ship this is about #not a poll #op shipping war

[oscarskirt]

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE directed by Sophie Hyde

#good luck to you leo grande #daryl mccormack #emma thompson #filmgifs #moviegifs #chewieblog #userbbelcher #moviehub #cinematv #fyeahmovies #userfilm #tvandfilm #filmdaily #mediagifs #ops I did it