BARBECUE DRAGONS
[Image ID: A digital drawing of a blue dragon flipping burgers at a grill with one hand, holding four kebabs in the other, and chopping meat with a cleaver held by it's tail. A second blue dragon off to the side is breathing blue fire under the grill to heat it. /. End ID]
The semester is finally finished! This is a style frame from my story development project. Even though I've decided to change the project's final style to something less polished, I'm still quite happy with this.
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50 excuses for not eating
1. You’re not hungry
2. You don’t like that certain food
3. You ate a big breakfast and are still full.
4. You’re allergic to that food
5. You ate earlier
6. You have a sore throat
7. You’re vegetarian/vegan
8. You’re saving your hunger for a big family dinner
9. You have tooth ache
10. You have stomach cramps
11. You feel sick
12. You have a stomach ache
13. You’ll eat something later
14. You have a mouth ulcer
15. You bit your tongue and it hurts too much to eat
16. You’ll eat when you get home
17. You’ll eat when you get hungry
18. You don’t have any money to buy anything
19. Invent an illness where it hurts when you eat but when you don’t it’s fine
20. You don’t feel like eating right now
21. You just ate something
22. If you have braces say you just got them tightened and they hurt
23. You’re still full from lunch
24. You have a nut allergy
25. You don’t like that food unless it has a particular sauce/dip/dressing that isn’t there
26. You’re craving one particular food which you’ll have later
27. You ate too much earlier
29. You ate all your food and have none left
30. You can’t be bothered right now
31. You’re fasting for religious reasons
32. You ate with someone else
33. You need to finish your homework
34. You need to finish studying
35. You’re busy doing something ‘important’
36. You have an intolerance to a kind of food
37. You want to go for a run later and don’t want a full stomach
38. You forgot your lunch
39. You forgot to bring a snack with you
40. You overate earlier
41. There was a bake sale earlier and you’re stuffed
42. You’re going out to eat later
43. You ate out earlier
44. Your doctor put you on a special diet
45. Your dietitian put you on a special diet
46. You’re fasting because you have a fasting blood test soon
47. You don’t want anything right now
48. You’re taking part in a famine
49. You don’t have time to eat
50. Nothing looks appealing
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The irony of saying #landback and “we live on stolen land” while condemning Israel’s existence is so strange.
You want land to go back to the natives - no matter how long ago the land was taken - unless it belongs to Jews. Then they can go F off.
And because you don’t have a reasonable defense for this weird combo of beliefs, you just deny the indigeneity of Jews altogether. This is something that can be proven with simple google searches and logic. Our ancient artifacts and structures are in the land, and our “origin stories” are largely about the land and us residing in it. Yet, you refuse to believe we are indigenous.
Even more funny is that you then argue Arabs are the real indigenous people to this land. Arabs are colonizers in the Middle East and North Africa. Arabic is a colonial language. They originated in the Arabian peninsula, and took over MENA countries. They had nationalist policies that largely eradicated the people and/or cultures already present in those lands. A lot of the people present were Jews, who were killed or driven out by pogroms.
Educate yourself for crying out loud.
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I'm not interested in detailed arguments about why machine-generated "art" is okay anymore. We've already seen that people's art has been taken and used in order to cut the living, working artists out of the process of making art in their specific style without paying them, and none of the pro-Tech Bro Tracing Machine art arguments address the fact that this shit is specifically intended to cut actual artists (and actual actors, writers, etc.) out of the process while taking styles they created.
It isn't just about whether a machine has a "right" to "scan" - as if "looking" is all the computer is doing - it's about the fact that the billionaires behind this have literally said "we don't think we should have to pay for your art, it would cost us too much to do that." They absolutely intend to use this to not have to pay artists and actors and writers and and ... and to be able to use our work and our faces and our words in ways we would never have consented to.
Bitching about how copyright is fucked and heavily slanted in the favor of corporations and then being "pro-AI" is some of the most ridiculous mental contortionist shit I've ever heard. "Copyright as it exists is slanted in favor of corporations, so let's make the art world even MORE unbalanced in favor of the few billionaires behind this bullshit!"
Like, do you hear yourself?
This shit is the Uber and AirBnB of the art world - same tactic, same intentions - and any "actual artist" supporting it is, as far as I give a fuck, a fucking quisling. :)
The only thing that might actually save actual living and working artists in this mess is the fact that computer-vomited "art" and "writing" can't be copyrighted.
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Snape haters: How do people even like Snape?
Also Snape:
“Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.”
*****
“Would you like me to do it now?” asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. “Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?”
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“I was just showing Harry my grindylow,” said Lupin pleasantly, pointing at the tank.
“Fascinating,” said Snape, without looking at it.
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As Harry raised himself into a sitting position, his head still swimming from its last contact with the ground, he saw Snape running as hard as he could, the enormous beast [Buckbeak] flapping behind him and screeching as Harry had never heard him screech —
. . . Snape had managed to Disapparate just beyond the school’s boundaries.
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Snape gave her [Umbridge] an ironic bow and turned to leave.
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“The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter — or at least, most minds are.” He smirked.
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“Potter, when I want nonsense shouted at me I shall give you a Babbling Beverage. And Crabbe, loosen your hold a little, if Longbottom suffocates it will mean a lot of tedious paperwork, and I am afraid I shall have to mention it on your reference if ever you apply for a job.”
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