I got an ask from someone who felt timid about drawing curlier hair and wanted some advice! This is by NO means exhaustive and is mostly just my thought process for my own stylization. There are tons of resources for drawing more textured hair, so for this I just wanted to focus on curls. hope it helps!

Another little sketchbook piece, experimenting with low light and a glow effect. Been loving these light-focussed works lately!

🎵 Blue Wednesday - Cascadia ft. Dillan Witherow

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

Marcia Lynn Walker circa 1941

Old Gods of Appalachia is off of hiatus which means I get to draw my favourite characters in this silly little podcast so expect at least a few more pieces with more horror elements for sure

So I was writing a small paper in Microsoft Word and the program suddenly crashed (I saved a couple minutes before, thank god) and I get this message in the corner of my screen two seconds afterward

what the fuck

i have decided to do a poll for fun because of a video im watching while im eating

for those curious i started playing during 1.6!! i played the demo worlds of the game on the minecraft.net website before my parents bought it for me

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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someone with a major in literature and/or poetry tell me what's so poetic about this that it captivated me because i have no idea honestly

Hey so there's a debate I've been having with myself. I'm a big proponent of Ship and Let Ship, Your Thing is Not My Thing and That's Ok, and DLDR. On the other hand, I have trouble when I see fan pieces that are obvs racist af. I feel like it's important to be actively anti-racist, and I don't know how to fit this into my fairly laissez-faire vision of fandom. How can calling out racist material fit nicely in with DLDR? Fandom can be a bad space for POC, and as a white person I wanna (1/2)

(2/2) actively work to make it better, but I’m not sure how to do so without overstepping my boundaries as someone who does have white privilege, and also not falling into an anti mindset. Would your thoughts and the thoughts of your readers on this. Thank you!

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I’ll start my answer by saying I’m also white, so do with that what you will. 

Any time you see something you deem ‘problematic’ in a fanwork, you have three options. Say something to the author, say something to a friend, say nothing at all. I tend to choose on a case-by-case basis, myself. 

If I know the author, I’ll have a conversation with them in a message window. I start by asking questions and go from there. They might be using a racist trope without realizing it. Giving them some compassion while educating them on the issue tends to have a good result for me. Attacking and accusing tends to shut things down. 

If I don’t know the author, then I might comment. If I’m able to say something else about the story and if the issue is an easy fix. Once, I was really enjoying a fic but I noticed that a black man was the only character who called a white woman “Miss __”. I commented that I was enjoying the story and I asked if I was misremembering canon or if the author had a particular headcanon about it. They hadn’t even noticed they were doing it, and they immediately edited the fic. They’d just been trying to write him as polite and hadn’t realized the implications. 

If I don’t know the author and the change would require a large effort on their part then I’ll nope out of the fic and probably mention to fandom friends that the fic made me uncomfortable. If I’m reading in a fandom where I don’t know anyone else, then I won’t say anything at all. 

What about the rest of you? How would you handle this?

Jonathan Sims • The Archivist

it really is so insanely funny that american identity is so fucking tied to consumerism and nothing else at all that the oldest concept of american tradtion fascists have to retvrn to is the wold of catalog ads

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Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

“we’re taking a group of people who have insider knowledge of the English language (or at least a good grasp of it) and placing them in a new, unfamiliar, virtual space. This space introduces visual aids to language in the form of photos and gifs, the ability to comment on someone else’s text in a reblog and the ability to communicate a lot of information in very few words using hashtags. We also see the creation of tone in a toneless medium. In order to simulate conversational patterns in writing we SHOUT WHEN WE’RE SUPER EXCITED or *psssst whisper when we’re pretending to tell someone a secret while perfectly aware that anyone on the internet can read what we’re saying.* slash the coolest bit tho is that u can like ironically forgo all capitalization and punctuation just write in a weird speech pattern its ok everyone will still understand maybe it even helps read the text more quickly because nothing is interrupting the flow of words In short, this dialect results when people who already share a language are given new tools. The result isn’t a butchering of English language but a creative experiment with it. Am I claiming that the Internet as a whole is operating on a level of postmodernism that would make Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon seem like novices? maybe i am maybe im not u punk wut of it like who r u to tell me otherwise”

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Internet Linguistics (via forglemmegei)

That last bit of loosely-structured syntax suggests a casual playfulness intended to inform the reader that the writer does not, in fact, believe his audience be be comprised of punks.