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Morbidly Cheerful

@inga-don-studio / inga-don-studio.tumblr.com

Too many fandoms, too little time. Mostly run on a queue. 🎃 Gorgeous header art by Skullzy20
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inga-don-studio

Places to find me outside of my current natural habitat (Tumblr):

Instagram: DeadofNightStudio

Bluesky: @DeadofNightStudio.bsky.social

Cohost: @DeadofNightStudio

Pillowfort: DeadofNightStudio

Twitch: MaladyRed

I’m cautious about giving out my Discord (I’m not much for DMs and I’m mostly on there for friends’ fandom server shenanigans), but I will share it w/trusted mutuals if asked. Just know I’m terribly shy & I don’t start conversations easily except once in a blue moon. But I do love hearing from friends!

I haven’t had the time or mental energy to do much with any of these sites yet but I do intend to start posting old art on most of them & testing the waters more. They may focus on Dead of Night Studio art stuff to start with, but if I find one that speaks to me the same way that Tumblr did I wouldn’t mind sharing more of the general dumbassery I get up to. :). Then again, I need to start sharing more of my dumbassery on here again, too. 🤔

ALSO! If any of you have recommendations for art-friendly sites, I’m all ears! I refuse to make an X or TikTok account (& even Insta is on thin ice with how incredibly vile random strangers are on there- so I’ll probably never do more than post art & run away). But any sites, even small ones, that are good for sculptors, painters, cosplayers, fiber art, etc. - I’d love to hear about ones you recommend!

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inga-don-studio
#🎃 Cryptid Sighting#Where to find me#I’m not planning on leaving Tumblr but a few friends are and I don’t want to lose contact#Dead of Night Studio
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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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neil-gaiman

I use LibreOffice. It's wonderful.

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moonybamboony

test

edit: DO NOT VOTE BASED ON THE VIBES OF THE FLUIDS 😭

#Tumblr polls#Equal score on Sanguine & Phlegmatic#Only got the results for sanguine and they’re not too far off#‘cheerful disposition lively energy and a generally positive and optimistic outlook on life.’ Not an extrovert but otherwise fair#But I’m very curious what qualities phlegmatic tends to be#Oh ok- looking through others’ results phlegmatic is basically agreeable & chill - sometimes to a fault.#In person- that tracks. It takes a lot to get me riled up#At least visibly.#Also important to note that melancholic isn’t a bad thing per the humours. But those who voted on vibes- tea & a hug for all y’all#Fun test! Thanks op! Now I want to learn more about the historical takes on all of ‘em!
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utopians

the thing is the king charles portrait is genuinely incredible and exactly how I would execute a portrait of a member of the british royal family but also I literally cannot fathom why the british royal family would have it made

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utopians

like yeah if I were going to make a portrait of king charles I would absolutely have just his smugly smirking face leering out of a mass of red that could only be read as blood and gore, and have his military uniform fading ambiguously into the same background to lay bare the brutality of imperialism concealed by the pomp and ceremony of the british state, and make the entire thing sort of look like it was decaying to indicate the rot of the empire. like I really struggle to imagine a better visual metaphor for the nightmarish history of a dying empire than the king's spiffy military uniform and saber and sash and rows of epaulets being literally made out of a rotting field of blood and gore. but like why did he have it commissioned... why did he have it MADE and then say Looks great I'm putting it on the wall... HE EVEN LOOKS LIKE HE'S IN HELL

#You phrased it far better than I could have but EXACTLY#It’s wild#It’s a perfect anti-Tory piece and that it was what that old moldy crumpet WANTED is … oddly poetic
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youngks-smile

What I Want You To Know About Long COVID

Well lads, I've been suffering from Long COVID for over a year now. My life is at a complete standstill. I'm 25 years old and I'm too sick to go back to school, I can't work, I had to move back in with my parents and I'm still stuck here.

Here are just a few things I wish people knew about Long COVID, including things I didn't know myself until I got it.

  1. COVID destroys your immune system. Yes, even if you don't have Long COVID. Are you getting sick more often now? When you get sick, does it last longer? There are many studies showing that COVID causes t cell depletion, even in mild COVID cases! T cells are how your body remembers how to fight off infections you've had before so losing those cells? Bad news.
  2. Your initial infection can be mild and you can still get Long COVID. Right from Yale Medicine, "Most people with Long COVID had mild acute COVID." (This is also a good link for a basic Long COVID overview).
  3. There can be a gap of time between when you "get better" from the initial COVID infection to the onset of Long COVID symptoms. Some people get sick with an initial COVID infection and never get better. Some get better and then weeks or months later start developing Long COVID symptoms. Long COVID symptoms can even fluctuate over time, can go away for months and then suddenly come back.
  4. So many people have Long COVID and don't realize it. Do you feel more tired lately but no matter how much you sleep, nothing helps? Is it harder to concentrate at work or school? Can you just not think like you used to? You could have Long COVID and not even know it. Even mild post-COVID symptoms are still Long COVID.
  5. COVID can do anything to your body. Long COVID has over 200 recognized symptoms and can affect basically any part or system of your body. There is no one mechanism or cause of Long COVID which unfortunately also means there's no one cure either.
  6. The effects of COVID are cumulative. Each COVID reinfection increases your chances of developing Long COVID. COVID is also affecting your body in other ways, yes, even if you're otherwise young and healthy! "Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death".
  7. Once you have Long COVID, repeat COVID infections will make your symptoms worse. "80% [of Long COVID patients] saw their symptoms worsen [from reinfection]. In 60% of people who were in recovery or remission from Long COVID, reinfection caused a recurrence of Long COVID."

There is a lot more I want to say about Long COVID but I want to keep this post at least somewhat manageable to read. Like how when COVID is contracted during pregnancy, those COVID-exposed fetuses have a 6.3-fold increased risk of motor developmental delays, or that another study found 50% of babies exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays.

You need to keep caring about COVID, for others around you and also for yourself even if you're "healthy". Everyone is at risk. And don't forget 40-60% of COVID infections are asymptomatic, which is why masking even if you feel fine is crucial. The only way right now to not get Long COVID is to not get COVID in the first place. It's not too late, if you've stopped masking it's never too late to start again! I know it's easy to get distracted by things in your life that seem more real than the possibility of getting sick some time in the future, and the peer pressure to not mask can be intense. But it only feels less real or less important until your entire life is having Long COVID. Trust me.

I know this is a complicated issue, many people can't afford to stay home when sick even if they want to because of their jobs, there are disgusting policies trying to ban wearing masks, but please if you can. Keep masking. Masking works, masking saves lives.

This post got a bit longer than I wanted so below the cut is a non-exhaustive list of my Long COVID symptoms and some of my experiences as one of the "healthy young people" who got "unlucky". cw brief mention of suicidal ideation.

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psychic-waffles

Read this. Read it again. And internalise it.

Please educate yourselves. Covid isn't over - it's a mass disabling event that is only getting worse. Wear a mask, take any precautions you can, and encourage others to do the same.

This month is my two year anniversary of my symptoms beginning, I had a very mild initial infection, and I am in a very similar position to Liz. And while some of my symptoms have improved in that time, others are worse than they've ever been. Pre-covid I could cycle 10 miles, today I can't leave the house without being pushed in a wheelchair.

It's important to realise that if you get long covid your treatment options are currently next to nonexistent. And even treatments that do help certain symptoms are incredibly inaccessible. Not to scaremonger but the truth is if you get long covid, especially if you have symptoms outside of pulmonary issues, you will be on your own.

Mask up.

#Covid#Long covid
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mersei47
Anonymous asked:

how do you draw the mh boys hair?

mersei47 answered:

here is how I draw them. I think to draw good hair you have to have a good head base first so that it will get easier to picture the hairstyle you want to draw. I usually draw them bald heads first and add hair later

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#Marble Hornets#Art advice#Art tips#drawing hair#I have A LOT of trouble drawing short hair styles & not having them all look the same so I appreciate this even if it wasn’t fandom relevan#-t
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