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Reblogged archdemoning
GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH
If you haven't heard of Julia Donaldson, she's primarily a picture book author, who we can thank for extremely popular Halloween classic Room on the Broom as well as the Gruffalo.
Let this be a testament to the power of picture books.
I'm living for these jokes.
Also I need "GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH" on a T-shirt.
Reblogged mens-rights-activia
What is the funniest pokemon move
Obsessed with the description for this move
losing my mind at the animation as well
Reblogged anarchistmemecollective
reposting because i completely fucked the numbers up the first time and adding the list of reps below.
The Trump administration’s abrupt street arrests of legal immigrants, who subsequently disappear into government detention, should be a huge scandal met with swift action by Democrats in Congress. But for some reason, just 34 Democrats in the Senate and the House have signed on to a letter demanding answers about the arrest of Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk in Massachusetts and other international students who have had their legal immigration status swiftly revoked without due process and now face deportation.
House Members:
- Representative Yassamin Ansari—Arizona
- Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton—District of Columbia (nonvoting delegate)
- Representative Hank Johnson—Georgia
- Representative Delia Ramirez—Illinois
- Representative André Carson—Indiana
- Representative Jill Tokuda—Hawaii
- Representative Ayanna Pressley—Massachusetts
- Representative Lori Trahan—Massachusetts
- Representative Katherine Clark—Massachusetts
- Representative Stephen Lynch—Massachusetts
- Representative Seth Moulton—Massachusetts
- Representative James McGovern—Massachusetts
- Representative Jake Auchincloss—Massachusetts
- Representative Rashida Tlaib—Michigan
- Representative Ilhan Omar—Minnesota
- Representative LaMonica McIver—New Jersey
- Representative Bonne Watson Coleman—New Jersey
- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—New York
- Representative Summer Lee—Pennsylvania
- Representative Greg Casar—Texas
- Representative Lloyd Doggett—Texas
- Representative Donald S. Beyer Jr.—Virginia
- Representative Mark Pocan—Wisconsin
23/213 - 10.79%
Senators:
- Senator Jeff Merkley—Oregon
- Senator Tina Smith—Minnesota
- Senator Andy Kim—New Jersey
- Senator Chris Van Hollen—Maryland
- Senator Elizabeth Warren—Massachusetts
- Senator Edward Markey—Massachusetts
- Senator Brian Schatz—Hawaii
- Senator Adam Schiff—California
- Senator Bernie Sanders—Vermont
- Senator Peter Welch—Vermont
- Senator Tim Kaine—Virgina
11/45 - 24.44%
TOTAL: 34/258 (13.17%)
i will say it's kind of sad seeing liberals around the internet react to this with "where's chris murphy?! where's jasmine crockett?! where's cory booker?!" or whoever their blorbo from politics happens to be. newsflash: they don't give a fuck. but that isn't stopping reddit from now deciding that "letters don't matter" (they don't, but this was not the consensus opinion until now) and that "there's only so much time in the day, maybe they didn't know about it!" outstanding stuff.
Reblogged amariemelody
My dear lgbt+ kids,
Let’s talk about safety on first dates.
If you meet up with someone you met online (on a dating app or otherwise), you’ll probably have your safety in mind anyway. After all, you’re essentially meeting up with a total stranger and no matter how sweet they were online, they could be completely different in person. But even if you go on a date with someone you already know: dating is a vulnerable situation. It’s always better to keep some safety measures in mind, so it can be a comfortable experience.
Some things to consider:
- Tell a trusted friend about the date. (If you’re a minor, tell an adult.) Let them know who you are meeting, where you’ll meet them and when you expect to be back. If you are closeted, it’s better to lie and say you’re meeting an online friend than to not tell anyone at all!
- Choose a public location where other people are present. A coffee shop or a busy park are great options.
- It’s best to not rely on your date for a ride back home. Arrange your own transportation, so you have the freedom to cut the date short on your own terms. (This still applies if you don’t have your own car! Look up public transportation schedules and take enough money with you to be able to call a cab if necessary.)
- Don’t get drunk. You may think some drinks will ease your nerves, but it’ll also make you less aware of your surroundings and impair your judgement.
- Never leave your beverage unattended. Get a new one if you lost sight of it. (Spiking a beverage with a date rape drug can happen within seconds, and you won’t necessarily be able to taste or see that it has been tampered with!)
- If your date refuses to agree on safety measures (for example, they insist on meeting up at their house and get upset when you explain you want to meet up in a public space), take that as a red flag. Obviously this doesn’t have to mean they plan on murdering you, but it definitely shows that they’re not considerate and respectful of your boundaries.
- Don’t be afraid to „make a scene“. If your date is trying to coerce or intimidate you into something you don’t feel comfortable with, if they’re touching you against your will etc., you don’t need to be polite. Draw attention to the situation. Get loud. Call for help. Scream. Don’t worry about being „rude“, do what you need to do to get away from a dangerous situation.
With all my love,
Your Tumblr Dad
Reblogged the--anarchists
ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up
suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this
Pulling this out of my tags but for real one of the best webcomics(and also best story in general) I have ever read started out looking like this:
You do not have to be Michaelangelo to make art, just make it. Also, obligatory quote from my good man Bob Ross:
Sorry to pull this out of the tags also but I absolutely agree and wanted to elaborate further, bcs like another reason I genuinely think anyone who is interested in art but feels like they suck too much to make it should really just stay away from AI and actually just give drawing a chance is because AI cannot create new art styles. It can only make copies of what you put into it, so much so that if you want something in a specific style you have to tell it the name of the artist you want it to mimic because it cannot make something that doesn't already exist. If all you ever fed it were drawings of stick figures that's all it would ever know how to do.
But humans can make new art styles, every person's art is unique. And when it comes to ONE(author/artist behind Mob Psycho 100 and One Punch Man) and Rich Berlew(author and artist of Order of the Stick), if these guys never just started making their comics we wouldn't have ever been able to see these expressive, funny, strange, and just all around captivating pieces of art!
The image I used of Order of the Stick isn't actually exactly what it looked like at this start, this is:
And THIS is what Order of the Stick looks like now:
And while it does still look similar, it's clear how much Burlew has improved and grown comfortable in his unique artstyle, how far he's come in the last 21 years. The lighting, the line art, the panel layout, all of it has improved while still essentially just being stick figures. And I cannot even begin to describe how much I fucking LOVE the way this comic looks.
Switching to ONE, his art started out super rough
And while One Punch Man did get a new artist...I genuinely think the "better" art has lost a lot of the charm the original had. I'm so glad that ONE did Mob Psycho 100 himself and that the anime mimicked his style rather than trying to make it look more standard like OPM did, because my god, this guy's stuff conveys humor in a way that is as brilliant as it is unique. It's rough, but the roughness doesn't take away from the impact or emotions, it honestly adds to them, and overall it's incredible to see how much ONE has improved, but also how much it still looks like his art:
I do not want to live in a world where ONE and Rich Burlew didn't make their comics because they were too scared of their art looking bad. I don't want to live in a world without these stories and these dynamic and original art styles. Burlew's art legit has given me confidence, I always felt bad that when I finished and colored my art all my lines were so thick and smooth and coloring-book-esque, it's why most of what I post is like, sketches, colored or not. But after reading Order of the Stick I legit cried a little because for the first time I didn't feel bad about just doing the kind of line art that feels right to me, which looks like this:
So fr, please if you want to make art just make art. Everyone's art is unique in one way or another and if you just rely on AI all the time we'll never get to see styles like ONE and Rich Burlew's and again, I don't want to live in a world where we don't get to see all of these amazing, imperfect works of art. I want to see YOUR art, because it's yours, and the world is a better place with your art in it.
Reblogged the--anarchists
feels nice just to be wanted. even if it is for murder
Reblogged the--anarchists
"Anything is fine as long as it's legal" is not the sex positive position you think it is. Anything can be criminalised. Anything can be decriminalised.
In some places it's illegal to consensually choke your boyfriend. In other places marital rape is not a crime. Develop a moral compass instead of expecting your government to tell you what is right and wrong.
Reblogged the--anarchists
women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life
people weren’t designed to do anything because they weren’t designed at all. Hope this helps 🤩
It's normal to be hard on yourself, because you want to do the best you can and accomplish everything, even when your time or energy is limited. However, sometimes the criticism towards yourself is too much, and it has a negative impact on your mood and motivation. The next time you catch yourself thinking that you "should" be doing more, pause and see if that's actually helpful, because maybe you're doing as much as you can already.
Source: chibird.com
Reblogged dreamofbecoming
Reblogged zekedms
Shit man, this wizard war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "the ten hells" or some similar shit, and every one around him turned inside out, had their tibia explode and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting frostbite and level 2 poison. I think I just heard "power word:scrunch" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.
Reblogged anarchopuppy
Trans Texas flag for all your Trans Texas needs
Reblogged amariemelody
fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.
Reblogged dxmedstudent
’cold showers are actually much better for you’ I don’t care if they gave me the power to manipulate time. you can pry scorching hot showers out of my dead hands. and even if I got time manipulation powers I would just use them to take more hot showers. btw