The Friendly Black Hottie.

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There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

adding this google docs that i’ve had saved for years (i don’t even remember where i got it from) that has a whole page of links to public domain image sites and eighteen more pages of creative resources!! i’ve gotten so much from it over the years if whoever made it happens to read this thank you so much

also adding my google docs which has more resources.

i also recommend using etsy for patterns/backgrounds. most creators sell their wallpaper/pattern/texture packs for under $10, and some even sell HUGE sale bundles for the same amount if not less. i STRONGLY recommend it and it’s made a huge difference with coding character profiles on toyhou.se and using for art as well.

for anyone wanting more diverse and inclusive stock photos, free to use, nappy.co is there and i LOVE it.

google images isn’t always reliable as a reverse image search, but i’ve pulled off massive miracles with tineye.

also behance has some free images and various other resources for images!

final piece of advice: tumblr, pinterest and instagram CAN be a good resource if you use it and try to source correctly/follow up on sources - but also make sure to archive and checks links for off-site resources if they’re there. this is ESPECIALLY true for pinterest, since people usually pull their pins directly FROM the sources themselves. but do not rely on any of the above places (and especially we heart it) for sourcing/finding aesthetic images.

Thea Harvey

"I'm unmoved by white tears."

sometimes you say or do bad things while you’re in an awful mental place. sometimes you say things that are rude or uncalled for or manipulative. and i’m not going to hold that against you. mental illness is hard, and no one is perfect. but once you’re through that episode, you need to take steps to make amends. you need to apologize.

“i couldn’t help it, i was having a bad episode” is a justification, not an apology.

“i’m so fucking sorry, i fucked up, i don’t deserve to live, i should stop talking to anyone ever, i should die” is a second breakdown and a guilt trip. it is not an apology.

when you apologize, the focus should be on the person you hurt. “i’m sorry. i did something that was hurtful to you. even if i was having a rough time, you didn’t deserve to hear that,” is a better apology. if it was a small thing, you can leave it at that.

if you caused significant distress to the other person, this is a good time to talk about how you can minimize damage in the future. and again, even if it is tempting to say you should self-isolate and/or die, that is not a helpful suggestion. it will result in the person you’re talking to trying to talk you out of doing that, which makes your guilt the focus of the conversation instead of their hurt.

you deserve friendship, and you deserve support. but a supportive friend is not an emotional punching bag, and mental illness does not absolve you of responsibility for your actions. what you say during a mental breakdown doesn’t define you. how you deal with the aftermath though, says a lot.

This is the most carefully-nuanced discussion of this I think I have ever seen. Thank you for writing this.

Men's 38-in-one night time sickness cold & flu shampoo & conditioner toothpaste and mouthwash combo (plus nourishing skin formula with hydrating aloe)

be right back guys i need to run out to O'Reilly's Auto Parts and get another jug of Boy Juice to soak in, got a big day tomorrow and want to wash up, brush my teeth, take care of these sniffles, and exfoliate

Folks, this exists and it's called Dr. Bronner's castile soap.

https://wildflowerbotanicals.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/18-uses-for-dr-bronners-soaps/

Hey what the fuck

Finally had time to do this: an Inuyasha to that kagome with a tattoo. Not so finished, but yeah just me messing around and have fun sketching these two lovable dorks

not to be a hedonist but. pleasure IS the whole point, my loves. we are made for pleasure. humans have not survived out of spite or sheer grit or simply to make more humans. we live for pleasure. the pleasure of licking the last delicious crumbs off your fingers and feeling sunlight on your skin and massaging a loved one's shoulders. we're made to fill our bellies with delicious food, to nap in soft grass, to touch each other in joy and comfort.

there is no shame or guilt in our bodies doing what they were made to do. and we are made for pleasure.

And this is tiktok we need

75% of the time if something is paywalled, fucking around in developer mode looking for a link to the real thing or finding and deleting the content blocker works like a charm

also if ur lazy like me or just straight up cant figure out how to do this without deleting 90% of the page  theres this extention called Poper Blocker which not only.. blocks popups. but also has this thing called “Remove Overlay” when u right click which works a good 99% of the time in my experience in getting rid of paywalls.

“Imagine if people had been going ‘don’t fight hate with hate’ back when Hitler was around.”

Fam…let me tell you bout Poland.

Let me tell you about how the entire rest of Europe sat ack and watched the invasion of Poland because they thought it would be “improper” to send military aid. How they were unwilling to enforce the treaties that Germany was breaking, because that would make them “just as bad.” They sat back and wrote strongly worded letters while fascists grew in power because they didn’t want to dirty their hands. They thought reasonable discussion and politics would be enough to stop a fascist dictator from rising to power.

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t enough.

like yes, people literally did try that argument then too. 

Everywhere there’s fascists there are fascist apologists hiding under the guise of pacifism, ready to enable their shit and demonize resistance. 

Today I learned that Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove is canonically Jewish in the spinoff series.

Here's the link to the whole challah recipe, before anyone asks: https://twitter.com/disney/status/1411022232445464585

Blocking the haters who have opened up their assholes to express the wet fart of an opinion that Jews are an unrealistic addition to a children's comic fantasy series whose major initial premise was a dude being turned into a llama ✌️