grease and beef, is all i need

so i just sat down to eat my ‘im really drunk meal’ at 4am and sat next to this guy drawing and asked if i could check out his work and this is what he had just finished working on

I think about him often. Where is he now? Does he take commissions? Who was he? Is he still drawing? Is he single? I feel like Cinderella with no slippers.

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it

but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.

Reblog if your ask box is open.

driving fucking blows this is nothing like dragula by rob zombie

voicemail from my boss: your performance is so abysmal we're not even firing you we've skipped straight to sending the GHOULS unit after you. may god have mercy on you

landlord from outside my door: oouuhhh auuhhhh hnnnn uhh nnhh eeee heee heee (wheezing in pain from bear trap i placed for him)

me humminh to myself at my computer: iiii wanna rocking roll all niiight. and part of every day :) alexa google "hunter biden spit for sale"

One of the most dangerous things in the world is not being able to say no to people because you don't want to upset them or dissapoint them. This will completely ruin your life in every way possible, at work, in your private life, your sex life and your friendships. It's a way of removing your own consent in your own decisions and go against your wishes, it is always a crime against yourself. Let yourself have a say. Upsetting people is better than traumatizing yourself.

Al Jourgensen ( Ministry) ,William S. Burroughs and Jim Rose ,1992.

from the anthony new mexico library

if you don't booyah back i am killing both of us

THEY WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE

Never fear! I know the solution!

i was scrolling through the tags on the 'how many books have you read this year' poll and i just want every 0-5 book reader to know that whether you're dyslexic, you have trouble focusing, you have a job or other full time responsibilities, or perhaps you are just a slow reader by nature, that you're a better reader than this person

wifi? if you're looking to read internet posts i have 8000 pages of icanhascheezburger printout from 2009 on the 2nd shelf.

Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT JUST A MAC PROBLEM

GUYS IT HAPPENS WITH KRITA TOO

It's important that instead of making these changes as a kneejerk reaction that we understand why the setting should be changed for a digital artist, especially in this case because some people might use CSP for their physical prints they sell. Doing some quick reading on this, I came across this article that has a seemingly decent explanation of why the four options here do what they do. Also here is the explanation of this setting from Clip Studio Paint's website.

From CSP:

The article linked explaining the two options we are discussing (but also explains the other options on this drop down) :

TLDR, the options are to make it so that if you are to print the artwork to a physical copy, the colors are reproduced better and are still accurate to your art.

If you don't understand what color gamut is, its basically the colors that a printer is capable of reproducing and if you want accurate looking colors in print you need to consider how the piece is actually going to be reproduced by the printer.

Since your reference is something that you want the colors to be consistent on, you will want to change the setting as mentioned above. But if you are making a piece to actually print out then you might want to care more about this setting than just changing it and forgetting about it.

my growing collection