I love these damn LED sketch pad things
I do commissions - digital, can do simple portraits or doodles. Hmu!! 15% off month of September
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Converts, please do not sell yourself short or underestimate the position that you hold within Jewish communities. Your love for Judaism, the Jewish people, and the Jewish culture is infectious and can make people realize the value of the culture they've simply grown up in. When people ask you, "Why did you want to convert?" don't take it as them really asking "Are your reasons for converting up to my standards, to which I will thereby judge whether you're worthy or not?" Most of the time, what we're really saying is, "Please tell me why you love the thing I just grew up in. Tell me why someone would choose this."
Many Jews grew up facing antisemitism in school. So it's baffling to think that someone would willingly subject themselves to this, and some of us grew up internalizing this shame and rejecting our Jewish identity in order to fit in. But you, as a convert, spark light within these people. You, as a convert, have boldly gone against the grain because you see the value in our way of life, one that is not easy. You've joined a people, many times at the expense of your friends and family, and your safety. You're something to aspire to. You rekindle the love and connection we have to our nation. If you don't already realize the value in this, you will when you notice those around you being moved by your words.
Being a convert is not a mark of shame because you're "different," it's a badge of honor. In many ways, you are lighting the torch for the next generation of Jews you come in contact with.
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Today I'm thinking about this:
Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that’s how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.
And about how Murderbot slowly starts calling its humans its friends in Exit Strategy, tentatively at first:
Were they my sort-of human friends? My clients? My ex-owners, though legally that was only Dr. Mensah. Were they going to see me and yell for help, alert security?
but also more confidently later:
Maybe that was why I had been nervous about meeting Mensah again, and not all the other dumb reasons I had come up with. I hadn’t been afraid that she wasn’t my friend, I had been afraid that she was, and what it did to me.
The only tag I can access on Ratthi is a partial that says my human friend. That’s strange and unlikely, but the pre-catastrophic-failure version of me seemed sure about it, and I don’t have anything else to go on.
and Mensah confirms this at the end of the book too:
I just want you to know you already have options here, and I expect you’ll have more offers for your services or advice as a security consultant. And that you have friends here you can discuss things with, whatever you decide to do, or wherever you decide to go.
The thought that a bot could see its humans as its friends (and because they treat it as a friend too) made Murderbot so emotional in Rogue Protocol that it needed a minute to process it. And later on in the series it starts to understand that its own humans are its friends too - and how much they care about it and that it can go to them for help if it needs them and I just. I think I need to withdraw and have an emotion about this in private too.
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Fucked up having a goofy ass romantic nature when you're not in a relationship or even have a crush on anyone specific. You'll be sitting there thinking "oooh I wish I had someone to kiss and take on gayass dates and dedicate my soul to" with complete sincerity like some kinda 18th century nerd who courts ladies just so he can have someone to write poems for. I have all this love in me and nowhere to put it, what a fuckin waste dude. You were right Freddie find me somebody to love
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Come gather 'round people. Wherever you roam. And admit that the waters. Around you have grown. And accept it that soon. You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin'. And you better start swimmin'. Or you'll sink like a stone. For the times they are a-changin'
-the times they are a-changin', bob dylan
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Some of you might remember the gorgeous bakudeku painting my husband made me a year or two ago. Well, we got a new fridge... I swear this connects... And he's been drawing me pictures every day. This was his birthday picture for me this year:
Look at it! He did it with expo markers! I'm dying!
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did some shape studies to alter my art style :] heres my favorite one featuring sadie (sadie my beloved)
more art (sketches and shape studies) under the cut :3
these were really fun!! playing with shapes has been super fun, it reminded me a lot of my old fnf phase art style tm.
i dont love all of these, no, but i made them and each thing i dont enjoy is just a creation closer to something ill love.
speaking of loving things monster prom my fucking beloved thats all bye kiss kiss
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spiderverse thoughts under the cut cause. holy fuck. spoilers abviously
• one of the best movies i have ever seen. legitimately. having a hard time forming coherent thoughts about it right now
• shameik moore’s voice acting is phenomenal. out of this world. you can feel every ounce of miles’s emotions through his performance
• SO MANY REFERENCES!!! off the top of my head: andrew garfield’s spiderman, toby maguire’s spiderman, donald glover as the prowler, ps4 spiderman, animated tasm spiderman, PS2 SPIDERMAN!!!!!
• about the love triangle. it wasnt as big of a thing as everyone was afraid it was gonna be (thank god) and it seemed like hobie had no interest in gwen at all really?? (in fact he seemed more interested in miles but i DIGRESS—) like he really just seemed like a friend to her but because miles is 15 and like. in love he overthinks things. small win for the love triangle hater community (me)
• on that note. hobie. fucking. brown. the way he’s animated was nuts, he was so unique yet he fit right in with the rest of the cast. his characterization, the anarchism, his lil quips, him and mayday?? and the way he helped miles go against miguel and eventually helped gwen too?? i cannot WAIT to see him in beyond the spiderverse
• PENI IS BACK!!!! AND SHE GOT A NEW BOT!!!!
• miles being the original anomaly omg. it makes so much sense but i NEVER would have guessed that’s part of why everyone hates him (also i KNEW the hunt for miles would have something to do with jefferson’s death. i have receipts that i predicted that MONTHS AGO!!!!)
• they knew what they were doing when they designed miguel ohhhhhmygod. also i hope we get to see more of his vampire qualities in beyond the spiderverse
• THE BEYOND THE SPIDERVERSE SQUAD IS SO SICK. gwen, peter b (and mayday), pavitr, hobie, spider-byte, spider-noir, spider-ham, and peni!!!!! THE COOLEST SPIDER PEOPLE
• literally cant wait for beyond the spiderverse. it might kill me to wait for beyond the spiderverse
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when the stunningly talented and generous @lilyoffandoms offered to gift me some art to celebrate my beating cancer, (first, I just sat there like 🥺 because how are you so sweet??), but second, I jumped at the chance to see Gabriel in a flower crown!
Marigold: joy, warmth, energy, prosperity
Cosmos: harmony, peace, determination, resilience
Gabriel's story is one of pain and healing, so seeing him at peace means so freaking much to me. His contentment is my contentment, his joy is my joy.
Coincidentally, we also share a birth month! Marigolds and Cosmos are the October birth flowers, and they have a multitude of meanings that just felt so fitting for this kind of celebration 🌸
Thank you for your generosity, love. This art is truly a gift of the greatest kind, and I'll cherish it. You never fail to make me smile 🌻
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