Keeping a straight face while reading smut/fluff

should be an olympic sport

On Thursday night in New York, a literal stampede happened when a rare Pokémon appeared in Central Park. The rare find was a Vaporeon, which looks like a combination of a cat mermaid, and also that dinosaur from Jurassic Park.

when theres drama in the squad and you’re staying in your lane

“How would you describe yourself?”

“Where do you see yourself in the future?”

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A comprehensive guide in drawing 6-pack abs |:3

Please don’t remove my caption. [Twitter]

You can print things at 150dpi but anything lower than that comes out pixellated.

300dpi is the minimum setting I use for drawing digital and printing from digital. The higher the pixels per inch the better the print is. It applies to scans too! Scan at 300dpi minimum.

Hope this helps!

Character Creation/Design Talks (01)

Featured Artist:

 curiocosm

It might seem a little obvious from my work, but my two main categories for inspiration are the world I currently live in a experience, mostly focusing on nature elements; and the world before my existence: history, mythology and paleontology. (I collect a lot of things and have a lotta books…)

(This was for a specific project but when I had to choose a career for her to pursue I was able to incorporate my interest in prehistoric life and the ocean)

I think the biggest way to find inspiration hinges on one word: observation. Whether that’s watching animals to figure out how they function; artists, architects and other craftspeople to finagle how they made their work or discovering the rhythms of stories and myths.

(These characters are all based off United States urban legends and cryptozoology)

Its about learning, absorbing, processing and then translating. (and a lot of trial and error!)

And I always keep in mind the role of my creation: what world/setting do they exist in, how is that apparent in their design? Do they have a backstory? Who or what are they interacting with? These and similar questions can immensely help in making them believable entities that engage the audience.

(Lucian the Victorian English newt is a good example of this)

I’ve also noticed that two of the crucial visual elements in any creature and character design are repeating shapes and color palette. Just keeping those in mind can help make design decisions and lead to stronger designs. I tend towards triangles and diamonds with rounded points as well as organic rounded blob/oval shapes. It can often help me to get out as many ideas at once as possible and then go from there.

(Here are my top 20 costume designs for a future project, from here I can mix and match until I get a memorable end product)

And after all that: spark, idea, design, I want to become familiar and comfortable with the character/creature from different angles, and in different moods. The perimeters of what they act like and look like as well as their reactions to events can lead to the development of other characters/creatures and further world-development.

Personally I usually turn to images/visuals for the majority of my inspiration so I utilize Tumblr, Pinterest, field guide books, picture books and my camera and I recommend that to others!

growing up with three parents was really weird

what?? u had three parents??

yeah my mom’s a gemini

Sometimes I like to make the joke that as writers we’re ‘righters.’

And I guess there’s some truth to that.

Some of us write to fix some injustice that struck us to our core. Others to fulfill what we wanted–what was ‘wrong’–whether with other books, with our own desires, with people who we never see but want so badly.

We write to make us feel all right. To either soothe ourselves and tell our story or to silence the burning need to create.

We retell stories, or we tell them accurately where they weren’t before.

We revise. We rebuke. We remember.

So, perhaps we are ‘righters’ as writers.

This is beautiful. This is an emotion spelled out in words that have escaped me for a long time. This is why I write, this is the only reason that I write on the dark days. Thank you for articulating this. xx

@writer-rachelina I love this so muchI hope you see these tags this is my motivation in wordsthis is a real emotion this is why I ‘force’ diversitythis is why I write marginalised heroesmy heroes have to choose between religion and politicsheating and food righteous war and compromised peacesupporting the people they hate because they’re rightand abandoning loved ones because they’re wrongBECAUSE REAL PEOPLE HAVE REAL PROBLEMSthank you for writing this

Thanks so much! I did see all the tags. I like to say I have occasional moments of clarity. :P

windows 8 can suck my dick

I can’t believe how far technology has come

this guy thought the bear had been swept away for a second and im dying at his reaction because that’s 100% how i would react

“[giggling] It’s a fucking bear! NOOOOOOOOOOOO! [laughs] Oh shit it’s right there!” 

i’m like…. madly in love with the female cast of suicide squad… margot robbie, viola davis, karen fukuhara, cara delevingne…. the loves of my life all of them

reblog if you’re part of the holy trinity of unrecognized and dismissed sexualities

bisexual, pansexual, and asexual 

Reasons why I dislike yaoi fangirls

the signs as strange weather phenomena