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hi im fox. she/her. follow me on instagram @ikariartsquad
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I cant believe the like, HUGE amount of people i see commenting about how they “hated” Barbie. Not really here, but like on instagram and other stuff. It’s usually because Hari Nef is in it, or because they talked about Patriarchy too much, or just randomly for no reason at all.

Frankly, i think its sad. So, even if nobody is listening, i’m just going to come out and say I loved it so much. My eyes were fucking pissing tears at the end in this cathartic miasma of happiness, nostalgia, and love. Love for myself like i haven’t felt able to feel in so long. Love for my sister, my mom, my grandma. My best friend who’s about to get married, and her sister who just had a baby. For all the girls in my community who are taking it a day at a time. For all the women and girls we’ve lost to the shit going on in this country. Love for womanhood and womankind. All of Humanity. It’s been so hard being any sort of woman, and I felt so warm and seen. It’s not just okay to be who you are and where you’re at, it’s beautiful. It’s actually really fucking beautiful to be able to be sad, or frustrated, to feel triumph and heartache alike. It’s beautiful to get old. No matter how shit this world is to you, fuck it! It is fucking beautiful! It’s extraordinary to just… be. It represented the true magic of Barbie in the mind of a girl… not that you need to run the world or live in an ideal circumstance, but that you can be anything, just as you are. Nobody has to imbue you with some grand purpose. Nobody has to give you permission to be a woman, to be alive. It’s just something you realize you are.

That feeling is so massive. I’m so sorry you missed it.

Oppenheimer was really good too.

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Nypd arrested the dancing is happiness guy I hope every cop goes to hell for eternity no matter what I literally feel sick rn

donate to him if you can, his wrist has been injured, his saxophone and dancers have been damaged, and he’s likely to face fines. He has kids.

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utopians

actually extremely upset that they released a trailer for avatar 2. I’ve been chuckling over the ‘any day now’ post for years now I’m not ready to lose that

Love all the people in the notes just now finding out about Avatar 2. Can’t wait for them to find out that 3, 4, and 5 are also very far along in production because they’ve been working on all four of them at the same time, which is why 2 has been taking so long

can you imagine being one of the guys working on avatar 5 before 2 has even come out

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Indigenous-led resistance to 21 fossil fuel projects in the U.S. and Canada over the past decade has stopped or delayed an amount of greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions.
This is despite an onslaught of attacks against Indigenous activists over the past few years. Over the last few years, victories won against projects through direct actions have led to more than 35 states enacting anti-protest laws, jail time for protestors, thousands of dollars of fines, and even the killing of prominent activists.
Indigenous rights and responsibilities “are far more than rhetorical devices — they are tangible structures impacting the viability of fossil fuel expansion.” Through physically disrupting construction and legally challenging projects, Indigenous resistance has directly stopped projects expected to produce 780 million metric tons of greenhouse gases every year and is actively fighting projects that would dump more than 800 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.
The analysis, which used publicly released data and calculations from nine different environmental and oil regulation groups, found that roughly 1.587 billion metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions have been halted. That’s the equivalent pollution of approximately 400 new coal-fired power plants — more than are still operating in the United States and Canada — or roughly 345 million passenger vehicles — more than all vehicles on the road in these countries.
“From an Indigenous perspective, when we are confronting the climate crisis we are inherently confronting the systems of colonization and white supremacy as well,” Goldtooth said. “In order to do that, you have to reevaluate how you relate to the world around you and define what your obligations are to the world around you. It’s more than just stopping fracking development and pipelines and it’s more than just developing clean energy, it’s about actually fundamentally changing how we see the world itself.”

If you want to lessen climate change, this is the way to do it

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momowho34

Christians (specifically Protestants): we have little versions of our sacred text that we carry around in our pockets to pull out if we encounter something and want guidance. The version used during sermons and in church are the same ones that we carry with us

Jews: you can read the torah and Tanakh in a normal book if you want. But if you want a torah you can use as a congregation? *cracks knuckles* you must prepare paper made from the skin of a kosher animal and special ink and a quill made from a turkey feather and you must use no metal in the preparation process because metal is used in the creation of weapons for war and before you even think about actually started to write you must take The Holy Bath to purify yourself and ritually blot out the name of Amalek, the sworn enemy of the Jewish people and every time you write the name of god on the scroll you must say it out loud and recite a special prayer and if you mess up one letter you have to start over and when the scroll is finished you must wrap it in tapestries and pretty cloth and shit and then put little crowns on the end and then put it in a Super Special Box in the synagogue so every time it’s time to read it you can open the Super Special Box and everyone can gawk at the Ultra Big Boy Important Text and the words of god within the scroll. this entire process takes about a year to complete and is done by special sofer’s that devote their lives to making Torah’s specifically and when you read from the torah you must use a little tiny pointer in the shape of a hand so your hands don’t mess up the paper. Oh, you think I kid? You think I jest?

Think again.

(rb encouraged for everyone. Share the sacred baby hands with the goyim. Everyone deserves to know about the sacred baby hands)

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argument post threads on this website be getting longer every day … yal need to thread your way into some bitches

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awsomelink

Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

  • Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
  • Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
  • Lightzone to replace Lightroom
  • Inkscape to replace Illustratr
  • Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

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hopesterling

reblog to save a digital arts major

Reblog to save an artist.

oh jEEZ

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doomslug

I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.

- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration

- Krita for painting

- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.

- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.

- Open Tunez for animation.

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dana-cz

I’m currently using Affinity Photo and it’s a great Photoshop alternative. One time fee only and it’s not really expensive, plus supports PSD formats. Free trial available too! Davinci Resolve for video editing is amazing as well! :)

Another great art program to include in the list is the completely free, no download, browser recreation of photoshop, Photopea! It has the potential/customizability to be as robust as a full copy of photoshop while also being perfectly accessible to anyone looking to just do some quick edits with no strings attached.

Also, heads up to anyone using it,

As of July 5th 2021, Audacity is now considered a potential spyware security risk,

so please approach it with caution and do some research on the situation as things progress.

AD Sketchbook has had it’s pro version free for years, so glad it’s on that list. However, it’s different from a lot of the painter programs especially if you’re used to all the drama and conflama in PS. It’s best for a traditional painter who’s getting their first tablet. They used to have free brushes but the links to download the brush packs no longer work, although if you’re willing to pay Trent Kainuga and some other artists make them, or you can learn to make your own. It has stroke stabilizing but it’s very… not perfect.

That being said, if you don’t do much linework, don’t like heavy UI, and have a traditional painter background and want to start simple, couldn’t suggest it more highly. It also uses most of your monitor space for the actual canvas, so if you’ve got a smaller screen and low tech it’s A1. I use it a lot just because of the minimal super customizable UI, and if i need color curves or something i’ll take the piece to a more complicated software right at the end.

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dyllpiccle
Don’t let them bury me as someone I’m not.
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vanfryingpan

If you are trans or nb, and you want to make sure your wishes are respected in death, I ask that you please watch this video. this might get buried in the notes, but i'll be glad if anyone sees this. You have rights. simple as that, and Caitlin Doughty made this video to share with you all of your rights and how to make sure that your wishes are respected.

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This is one of my favorite posts because that cat’s fucking name is fucking meatloaf

Let us just appreciate that this person’s dad didn’t know when they would be home and so he couldn’t plan for them to be able to join the family for dinner, but he knew with no doubts that dear sweet Meatloaf staying in that exact position for hours was an absolute in this scenario. Truly, that cat was named well.

one of my favorite posts on tumblr over the course of 5 fucking years.. clearly i need a life

Meatloaf is a reliable cat and did not steal the money for selfish reasons. A rare friend.

I love Meatloaf. :)

Bless Meatloaf

Reblog Money Meatloaf to get surprise $40

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maeples

[Video descriptoin: a TikTok by @myelasticheart, showing the user talking to the camera. When they talk about the limits on savings, text appears on the screen that says: "For married couples the limit is $3,000. average rent in the US is $1,098. a motorized wheelchair is $600-$3,000+. a car repair costs $400-$900".]

this is huge?! Holy shit you guys.

it's not all over the news, but here is an article I found:

I am going to gather up all my spoons tomorrow morning and call my reps.

this is amazing! for a long time i’ve been working myself to the point of failiure because im afraid of relying on SSI Disability and having it taken away. Afraid of not being able to save for college or a house someday. Of not being able to get married.

But then, i lose out on work because I almost murder myself to make ends meet. Disability benefits should cover you when you’re unable to do things, not force you not to do things.

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memewhore

Literally any other colour would’ve been a better choice guys.

I’d like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.

im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me

red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂

Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but If you want, here’s a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out “The Designer’s Dictionary of Color” by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something

Xoxo

-Designer

I think y’all are missing the point here.

You can theorize to Nebraska and back but that doesn’t change my immediate reaction which is that someone is literally dragging a corpse around

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jhenne-bean

I like that the presumption here is that “No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth” rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to “this is a hospital and that looks like blood”

like, color theory doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and sploches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway’s floor, an infographic won’t override the viewers’ instinct.

OP: this paint job looks like a blood stain

Tumblr: actually, according to color theory, it looks like love.

To please both sides yellow would have been much happier and uplifting, it also wouldn’t look like a corpus was dragged all over

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mikkeneko

i am begging you to please consider why yellow would actually be just as bad

also could have picked a different shape…. polka dots perhaps. im not even sure what they wanted it to look like? crayon scribbles? cause it does not

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Remember when Jeff Bezos, who is worth 181 billion USD donated 690k to stopping Australian fires? Yeah, me too.

McKenzie Scott is literally proof that these fuckers can donate HUGE sums of money to EVERYTHING and still live a comfortable life.... But nooO someone HAS to justify the pitifully small donations the richest men on earth make every year for their tax write-off

you know, when she got all that divorce cash i just hoped she’d do something good with it and not go girlboss and… holy hell she did it. she actually said “the fuck is any one person supposed to do with all this” Her divorcing Jeff is… praxis

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feralphoenix

hey, did yall know the quileute nation’s still (it is april 2021 as i write) trying to raise money to move out of that potential tsunami hazard zone and onto higher ground? i remember it was trending for a little while on tumblr when the twilight book came out but my corner of the web’s been quiet on it since.

there’s a lot going on all over the world right now but if you can spare them even 5 bucks, thats 5 bucks they wouldnt have had without you! please help them if you can.

hey folks would you mind passing this around please!!

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