…I’ll always reblog the frog.
Counterpoint: Matsumoto Hoji, active c. 1875
That’s a compelling counterpoint
Another by Itō Jakuchu. Truly this genre is some of the greatest art of the last two centuries.
Functional website
Ever seen frog art so good it’s too dangerous for under-18s to see?
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but reminder that you didn’t choose to play life on hard mode. You didn’t choose for “simple” or “small” things to be so excruciating or overwhelming to you: No one would choose that. You are doing what you can, all while bearing a tremendous burden on your back. You are so strong, and I’m proud of you for making it this far.
rb if you’re a bi bitch who loves carbs
someday im gonna wake up and everything is gonna look like this
earth post-rapture
I was reading this shitty horror novella, and one detail that really stuck out to me is that this girl main character (who wore a nightgown throughout) was surprised by her period, and out of shame took off her soiled underwear and hid them. this wasn’t her first period or anything, it just caught her off guard. which, sure, that happens. but she then proceeded to walk around the house underwearless for the rest of the novella. I was reading this like………so is she just freebleeding??? is she leaving a trail everywhere she goes? what’s happening here? is the nightgown white? is she bleeding up the place in her white nightgown while everyone else is too polite to comment on it? she has multiple conversations with other people. are they blind? do they not care? is this normal?
after I finished the book I looked up the author, and it was a cis dude. that was a big ohhhh moment. like he just didn’t know…..that he wrote a novella about a freebleeder. he didn’t know that he was creating this insanity-inducing situation with no explanation. but did his editor not know? did nobody who initially read it know? why didn’t they know? what’s happening?
this is what I imagine the house looked like by the end of the novella
Today's aesthetic: when a video game does the YOU DIED thing, but the developers neglected to give the baddies a victory pose, or even provide their AI with any sort of general script for what to do when the player character ceases to be a valid target, so they just keep milling around periodically attacking the air three feet above your character's prone corpse until the screen fades out.
(Bonus points for the ones that will knock you into some lethal hazard, killing you instantly, then proceed to conga-line into that exact same hazard and die themselves because their code prioritises "get within punching range of the player character" above "living".)
1. wait until you’re absolutely sure the ink is dry
2. wrong
Hi!! Reblogging this a second time to inform everyone theyre nonbinary!! They use they/them pronouns!! (also check them out on tiktok their videos are wonderful)
when a pelican bites you there's no malice in their eyes. they aren't upset at you. they are just hungry and want to see if you fit in their mouths. and if you don't then it's no problem and everything is fine. and if you do then well i guess your fate is sealed but that's ok it's a beautiful animal
Okay, see, I knew about the capybara gif:
But I didn’t know that they really are That Dense, All The Time. The same way sharks will bite anything that might be a seal, just in case, these birdbrains will apparently test just about anything for beak size.
Behold a short list of bad ideas:
Human foot is not food, bird.
That is clearly bigger than your entire body.
...You do know what a bear cub is, right? Right??
That is a BICYCLE SEAT.
That’s it; arrested for bird crimes.
Crushing on a fictional character specifically in an "I want to suck their dick" way is inconvenient as hell. Like, at least an aesthetic attraction for a fictional character is actionable: the aesthetic qualities that draw you to them exist and can be engaged with. What are you going to do about a fictitious penis? At least half the time there isn't any textual evidence that they even have one, and if they do, so what? You're not gonna suck that dick – it's ephemeral, my dude. The dick is a lie.
My shit idiot brain: I want their dick in my mouth right now.
The cruel lash of material reality:
So, I'm playing the new map on Medieval Dynasty as a woman (because they finally decided to let you play as a woman), and I was curious how the pregnancy dynamic was going to work because historically, in the game, when your wife gets pregnant, she goes on an 18-year maternity leave until your kid is grown, and I was like, well I'm the main character, so what's going to happen?
Am I just not going to be able to work or complete quests while I run around after my kiddo? Surely not. That'd be ludicrous. I wonder how they'll handle this...
Well, they handled it. They handled it by making my husband pregnant.
My beloved lumberjack husband, Teodoryk, is with child and very happy about it.
This game went from "you can't play as a woman because it's historically inaccurate" to "we're not going to fix the ridiculous game dynamic of an 18-year maternity leave, but we will make it so you can get your husband pregnant instead."
Incredible. Fully headcanoning this as a t4t marriage in 11th century Poland. I can't wait to meet our beautiful child. I will, however, be hiring a new lumberjack because I am not cutting down trees for the next 18 years. Fuck that. I've got wolves to fist-fight in the woods.
Also, I just want to clarify in case the tone of the post wasn't clear: men being pregnant isn't the funny part. That's normal.
The funny part is that this game was so heavily cis and heteronormative and vaguely misogynistic, but when faced with correcting a glaring oversight in the game mechanic that people have been complaining about for years, they decided to accidentally say "trans rights" instead because it was easier than correcting the 18-year maternity leave.
Anyway. I need someone to mod this so you can have same-sex partners. I want to build the first literal gay village in history. And then we're going to kill the King.
Announcing our beautiful baby, Wolfram, born on the first day of Autumn. Both father and baby are doing well.
I'm gonna go fight a bear that's harassing some beehives to celebrate, as is traditional.
I don't usually make text post on this blog, but a nice artist I know was asking for tutorials a while back and I forgot to send some to them while in school. So here's a post on it since it's easiest to grab and go this way. :)
This list focuses on the basics. I'm focusing on the foundations of art, so medium is generally irrelevant and you can use physical or digital with these. You'll have to google more specific tutorials on things like character design and such.
One of the biggest pieces of advice I can give to you is strangely, introduce things to yourself one at a time. In art class, we took whole topics week by week. For high school, we did a few exercises then spent a week drawing/painting and doing your piece(s). For basic art 1 & 2 in college, we did 1-2 exercises and then did 1-2 drawings, followed by HW (which we turned in next week) and sketchbook practice (which she'd check at midpoints). For basic art lessons with a tutor, we did practice then our own art. You can see the pattern here - the point is don't be distressed if you don't get everything at once, or the lesson in 2 weeks, or the lesson in 3 years - we practice and do a lot over time, and you'll pick up on things you need to improve naturally and through help with others. Take time to be proud of your art in mini steps too, even if it's not the best! You tried and attempting to climb an obstacle over and over again before finally leapfrogging it is still progress to it.
DrawABox.com is a site that's dedicated to art exercises and practicing when you can. They talk about the basics of art as well as how practice is important. It can get tough at times and it's ok to stop and do a balance of say those practices and doodles if you choose to try and do all of it's stuff - but you don't have to either. It's just a nice basic education done by some art nerds who like going hard.
Ethering Brothers - these guys are famous for their 40billion tutorials. If you need help on a specific idea, search their gallery and you'll likely find something.
Thundercluck's Art Fundamentals - She did a good huge ass tutorials on how things work, and it's the least overwhelming of the 3 I got in this section, so I suggest it as one of the first to look at for digital stuff.
Thanks for the mention and putting this together! @artfromsaturn
