forgive me if you've been asked this before or if its annoying, but how did you learn to use colored pencils like that? your art is so special to me.

ty :) I took an art class for a few years where our teacher had us buy prismacolor pencils as one of the art supplies and had us use them kinda like paints, pressing down hard right away and blending the colors together. its not how youre supposed to use them she was just trying to teach us to use color and ig this was more to the point. I picked them up again years after i stopped going to that class just bc they were there and i wanted to play around w them a bit and ended up actually enjoying it when doing it on my own terms lol

I love to hear what people say about Youtube Drama* but it's SO tacky when it gets so offbase that the posts people make start to be about completely off topic infighting within the Watcher fanbase

Measurehead is probably one of the funniest characters conceptually in Disco Elysium (probably second behind Harry bcs 99% of comedy comes from how much of a mess he is). He is clearly someone who is pretty intelligent and if he put effort into anything else outside of becoming The Most Racist Man and working out, could be very successful, but wastes it instead on esoteric pseudoscience.

Instead he's just an insane bigot and the best opportunity he can get for himself is as a paid thug for Evrart, ironically someone who represents the opposite of what he stands for (Evrart might be corrupt but he's also a sincere believer in his brand of socialism, and that sincerity is arguably whats gotten him and Edgar so far).

It's all kind of a good reminder that many frothing bigots are not inherently stupid, they have just wasted any intelligence they actually had on conspiracism, and attempting to justify gut instincts with no logic.

you're SO right, how is it that the best portrayal of many italian renaissance figures comes from a bad videogame from the 2010s

wheezing I’m torn between going truly this is the best portrayal of Leonardo da Vinci we may ever get, and defending AC2 even though I’m a full time Ezio Saga Hater

The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights, edited with an introduction and notes by Paulo Lemos Horta, translated by Yasmine Seale

"andor is trying too hard to be dark and gritty! star wars was never like this! this doesn't fit star wars!" sorry they can't make police brutality comfortable for you to watch

u are so incredibly attractive. do you like women

hope this helps

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i don't want to act like corporations won't make homophobic decisions in their quest to further their financial interests. of course they will, because no capitalist would get anywhere without making the strategic decision to pander to the most powerful members of society, and we obviously live in a patriarchy that violently imposes a dogma of heteronormativity as a crucial method in its system of control. so there is, of course, an incentive to systematically erase any [gender] nonconformity from their product if it's no longer lucrative to present themselves as (pseudo)progressive in this way for whatever reason. so in the case of corporate tv executives, the idea that a show could theoretically get cancelled for being too unapologetically gay isn't ridiculous or far-fetched. in fact, the strategy to produce one or two seasons of a niche show with overtly lgbt characters and then cancel it once it's no longer turning a significant profit is pretty sound. especially if that show happens to be a piece of genre fiction, and especially if that show is bad. that way, the show can garner enough of a fanbase (the intersection of, say, sci fi fans and lesbians in your low budget lesbian sci fi series) that it gets promoted without the company itself having to expend their budget on marketing (which they can instead dedicate to more surefire mainstream hits), and gets viewed just enough to turn a profit. it's an experiment that can then get toted by the company as evidence of their progressive inclinations, without actually having to commit to any sort of reputation as a champion of lgbt rights. the fact that these shows are often qualitatively poor means that they can retroactively justify their premature cancellations by pointing to the low quality rather than the content. it's an insidious strategy.

of course, it's not necessarily true. lgbt media does actually happen to be profitable these days, especially when it's presented as either as a) salacious and shocking or b) heartwarming and wholesome. the fact that most of the shows that people have kicked up a fuss over are just undeniably not good and too niche to be lucrative makes the argument that these cancellations are all motivated by pure, unadulterated homophobia and nothing else (such as viewer retention rates and other fiscal concerns) seem somewhat silly. the desire for more authentic, compelling lgbt exploration in our media should not take the form of clamoring to renew mediocre (or just straight-up-bad) shows ad infinitum, but rather to acknowledge that there will never be true artistic depth rendering our community with love and authenticity to be found in corporately produced mainstream art. the issue isn't that these faceless executives are all individually spiteful homophobes, but rather that they operate under a structure that demands that these systemic injustices continue to be exploited for the sake of accruing capital. i'm not saying that homophobia isn't a real concern, but it's entirely incidental to the primary issue which is profit motive under capitalism. but you guys could also just stand to watch slightly better tv.

Two characters I really like in glass onion are whiskey and Peg or I should say the type of person they represent are very interesting to me since unlike most of the group they aren't as wealthy or powerful but they're still willing to play the game if its beneficial to them they also don't speak out against Miles when given the chance sure Whiskey might say to Helen privately that she thinks what happened to Andi was shitty but actually defending her in front of others not happening

it would be cool to possibly see a time lapse of one of yr colored pencil pieces eventually(?) ! i am very curious about the process !

I'd love to eventually do that ive been wanting to for a while, its just more difficult with traditional bc i have to be at one spot, not move the sketchbook around too much, and just generally have the camera setup occupy part of my brain the entire time in a way i wouldnt with digital. i do have a post showing the process of a piece with photos

anti/pro ship discourse is extremely annoying and I would honestly recommend trying not to get involved on either side, but I just wanted to say that I think the prev ask was pretty disingenuous. There are many problems with chronically online ppl who identify strongly with "anti-shipping", (the main one being that, as you say, these are nuanced issues and intent/context need to be taken account), but to describe them as being "anti ship just for the sake of it" is pretty.... suspicious, let's just say.

that's just my two cents and all I'm going to say on the matter, I don't want to use your inbox as a battling ground with that other anon. And obviously you should be free to draw your own conclusions on all of this. But frankly I would just recommend keeping out of it altogether. People who use the labels "anti" or "Pro shipper" as unironic and uncritical character traits need to go outside, touch grass etc.

YEAH to be fair the previous ask did sound like ao3 paid them write it (sorry to that anon) but I decided to give the benefit of the doubt and use the response to give my own opinion, haha!

I agree with you 100%, I think "anti-shippers" definitely talk about genuine issues that occur in fandom spaces. the way of going about those issues through the divide of "anti-" and "pro-shipping" seems to be quite misleading though. as said, I think shipping in general doesn't have moral value to it, but how you engage with other people and surroundings does. issues like racism, grooming etc. in fandom should be discussed, but sort of centralising them around shipping and fanfic and being strongly for or against either one doesn't seem to me the most constructive way of going about it, which is why I'm also not too interested in becoming tangled in this discourse. I hope you get what I mean!

It’s really important that everyone here who didn’t watch Breaking Bad knows that all of these streamers are throwing drugs at the guy who played a passionate cop from the Drug Enforcement Administration

that one post I rb'd earlier about France and laicité and Macron celebrating Chanukah is still making me made just thinking about it. That came in the same week as Masha Gessen being almost stripped of the Hannah Arendt prize because they wrote an essay about Gaza (incidentally, Gessen is Jewish). I'm just really, massively tired of the current climate in Western Europe where political and civil authorities pay lip service to diversity and pluralism but actually actively suppress diverse voices. Case in point, lots of framing Judaism = Israel while actively making life harder for their Jewish communities.

I'm not eloquent enough to word this properly, but it's infuriating to witness. It's not a new attitude by any means, but it's rooted in racism and xenophobia and I hate that it's getting so much fresh mileage lately. I wish more people (& local press) called it out for what it is.

stede "I love nature" bonnet is not gonna try to kill that fucking rabbit. might he be jealous of it??? yes that might happen. but he loves ed and all the creatures on God's green earth too much. look at that man and tell me he hasn't wanted a bunny his whole life but never said anything because he was already getting picked on and didn't want it to get any worse. I won't believe you.

You guys HAVE to stop putting punk on a pedestal

hey whats eyeshield 21 :0

HOLY SHIT. omg okay so eyeshield 21 is a manga (and. anime.) about American football!! the main character is this short kid named Sena (pictured below)

and basically his meek ass gets bullied a lot so he runs super quickly to get the errands they send him on done and this guy hiruma sees that and is like. Hey he's really fast he could be a great running back so he blackmails Sena to join and Sena learns the epic highs and lows of highschool football. hiruma also kidnaps and blackmails others onto the deimon devilbats and they're a fun team and also Sena gets many rivals one of which is his boyfriend <- lie but I wish

also here's some scs from the manga

you should read it it's funny it's silly it's my favourite sports series ever. it's 333 chapters you know you wanna