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cotgar2 · 4 months

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A shoutout to the fma community for silently agreeing that if Ling is pictured anywhere, there must be a Greed somewhere. That doesn’t mean he’s a person, nono he could be a tiny little sticker. A little crumpled up piece of paper on the floor. Ling’s fucking shoes, idk.

The bounds of this homunculus’s form are not defined by reality. He is space and time itself.

#A where’s waldo hunt but for greed #just saw one where he’s a fruit gummy. yup thats greed #put him anywhere. it’s accepted and appreciated like the real bastard himself #the shoes part Ling could just be wearing those shitty addidas you get on a google search of fma greed #not my art #not even art #cotgar rambles #cotgar’s being random #fma greed #fma ling

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squirreledawayart · 2 years

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So that 'oh naur' joke has definitely made me watch this show and I have no regrets

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malwarechips · 18 days

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

#i used to be pretty intimidated by the idea of having to describe my art but. it isnt as hard as it sounds #i just treat it like im describing an image i dont have at the time really #plus ive been told that even a simple id is better than no id #lev.txt

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bookpdf · 3 months

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there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

#heartbroken that i can't play video game and read a book and work on my art in a single evening when im already tired from work!!!

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wildbasil · 29 days

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things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷

#personal #comics #tw abuse #digital art #personal comic #for the record no i don't think my mother loves me #but the idea that she did kept me in an awful situation for a very long time #the number of times people said “she's your mother. she's trying her best. of course she loves you” etc etc #but i don't think “love” and abuse are mutually exclusive #like even if someone DOES love you it doesn't mean it's not abuse and it doesn't mean it's ok #art tag

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suiheisen · 1 month

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"i would know her by reformed body alone... i would know her in death"

also... there's official art

#happy national lesbian necromancy day #studio trigger somehow made it even gayer #between this and senshi pantyshot... we were fed #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #spoilers #yes i needed to make my gifs huge #for... you know...#science #farcille #falin touden #marcille donato #long post #anime #art #autoplay warning

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ruporas · 2 months

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don’t worry about me. goodbye, big brother

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #falin touden #blood tw #ruporas art #the anime adaption of this scene was kinda crazy i wont lie… the development and build towards #this reveal was likee woahhh Damnnnn…. even with all the knowledge of the rest of the manga #it gave me a diff sense of horror to laios’ loss

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hansoeii · 9 months

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we go just right.

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hamletthedane · 3 months

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I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

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willgrahamscock · 8 months

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Hey tumblr maybe instead of flagging queer people’s posts you could take down ai art of celebrities nudes which they did not consent to, from the TRENDING page.

#alex says things #ai art #FU CK you for even doing that

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ato-dato · 9 months

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Road help.

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cotgar2 · 7 months

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Hello Clean Out The Garage 2, would you share those cursed in-betweens with the world? I'm an enjoyer of that type of screenshot from animated shows

Oh, full name I see? Lmao forget that’s what cotgar is 99% of the time

Of course I can, but do note that there’s different genres of “in-betweens” so I’ll give a sampling of a good chunk of them lmao

Ofc this is gonna be long cause of the images so this is gonna be under a cut ^^

All these names are made up by me so have fun with them lmao. They’re gonna become progressively worse so brace yourself

Type 1: Hidden Greeds

Typically an actually well drawn frame that makes me overjoyed because it made my extra effort worthwhile loll. The drawing I did and the one on the left I consider a Hidden Greed because it’s very well drawn, it just lasts a single frame though. The right one’s just got a good enough expression that it goes here too

Type 2: Funnies

These ones are usually good reaction images cause while they ARE well drawn, they just have a completely different aura than the actual scene. Love these ones a lot. To the left is one I commonly caption “Greed shits his pants”. Amazing content. The middle one I dub as Roy Mustang Greed, and the right one is them about to start a diss track

Type 3: In-Betweens

Although this whole post is in-betweens, these ones (from an animator perspective) are literally just there as a transition from one frame or shot to the next. They usually look pretty weird out of context but flow totally fine when watching. Proportions usually get screwed up at this point as well, but again. It’s for the big picture

Type 4: Oh god I can’t unsee it Help, why did I pause here

These ones suck because they either last for just long enough or stand out enough that now the watching experience is never the same. If you rewatch the scenes that this kind is from, you will be able to pinpoint the frame(s). Please never pause during OG and Bradley’s final fight cause it’s… it’s all cursed lmao, spare your eyes and just let the animation ride out

#there aren’t any smears really where something looks insanely distorted #at least not any of note. there’s a few in the first greedling bradley fight but it’s nothing too special besides duplicated arms / swords #there’s a crap ton of shitty in between drawings though! and oh man have they ruined my viewing experience #in a good way though lmao I did this to myself after all #it’s super fascinating stuff as someone who (despite not animating in ages) has a strong interest in animation #not my art #not even art #ask #cotgar rambles #fma greed #greedling #yup this is going in the tag sorry not sorry #it’s him. you want more greed content and you know it. so here it is :)

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stil-lindigo · 14 days

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lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.