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Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

Hello. I’m sorry for begging again but my situation is pretty dire.

Recently, I’ve been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, stage 4. It came out of nowhere and was caught by sheer luck on an unrelated test. Stage four means my kidneys are shriveled up and almost dead - currently at only 17% working condition. When it drops to 10%, which is stage 5 (prognosis is within a year) I will require a kidney transplant and/or dialysis. You can not live without it, and prognosis for dialysis/kidney transplant patients are 10 to 20 years. I’m very young and I really would like to continue having a peaceful life and work on my art. I’ve had many hardships before - I’ve fundraised to get money for rent because of a homophobic attack I’ve suffered, I’ve fundraised to escape my country, all within 2-3 years. I’m really grateful for all the help I’ve gotten and I believe in people’s kindness.

Please, if you’re able, share or pitch in to my gfm campaign made by my fiancé. Link in the reblog.

My comms are also still open if you’d like to help in that way and get some art.

Hello! It’s my birthday today, I turned 25. I wanna thank you all for making us reach 50% of our goal! For my birthday I wish nothing but to reach our goal :) Please continue sharing and if you’re able, please donate so I can get a transplant and live a healthy life.

Finally, here is my information for commissions! If you have doubts just ask me! Reblogs and likes are very appreciated 😍

Everythings the same except Luke stays a good kid and basically adopts Percy as his honorary younger brother.

Please do not repost my art, thank you!!!

Rising out of the pjo grave to redo this AU picture because the feelings for big brother Luke are STRONG tonight

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I keep having to tear down extremely predatory/misleading Scien.tology flyers in my school's art building. This is the third fucking time I've ripped the fuckers up and I'm getting Real Fucking Tired of it.

If you see shit like this DO NOT call the number, do not do anything to interact with these fucking people. Take down the posters if you're able to. They do NOT want to help you. They are a literal fucking cult who openly despise psychology and any actual proven mental health science, and are actively trying to trick mentally/emotionally vulnerable people into joining.

The red flags here are "Hubbard," the name of their founder, and "dianetics," the crackpot theory they teach for "auditing" your sins from your past lives.

I’d like to add what @jaspertheshark said in the tags because I feel it’s important

youre doing gods work. continue ripping them down!

scientology is a cult. it is deadly. it destroys lives. stay as far away from it as you can.

All of those posts above say the truth and I'm recommanding everyone who sees this to follow the advice.

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jason growing up in camp halfblood is just extremely funny to think about, like. camp halfblood is so much less organized than new rome and the responsible adult supervision is limited to pretty much just chiron. there are some older teen campers but demigods on the greek side don't tend to live very long, and a lot of campers only stay for the summer anyway.

now please consider whatever chaotic kids happen to be around at any given time collectively raising a toddler that can fly

please imagine younger luke exhausted but experienced with wrangling this particular toddler, holding on to a string tied around three year old jason while he floats around like a balloon, luke wearing rubber gloves because he's learned the hard way about the electricity powers

WOW, completely forgot to add this but extra characters are +$15 and prices for backgrounds can be discussed!!

It’s important to know that hijab is banned in schools in most of the european countries, such as france, belgium, switzerland etc. Millions of girls have to take their hijab off everyday in order to have access to education, and I am one of them. Please spread this as much as possible, it has become so normal here that I feel like a fool for even mentioning it, but I’m pretty sure it goes against the human rights. This senseless law has been on since 2004 and pretends that all the students have to be “equal” and it is prohibited to show that you belong to any religion, any religious sign must be set aside. However, most of us have to take our hijab off in schools where you can clearly see a christmas tree or a christian cross. “Yeah but it’s not the same”, they say. Tell me about double standards. I pray for days when we don’t have to chose between religion and education.

[image description: two photos of people. the first person is a nun, and they are wearing a habit and veil. text reads “a-ok in public institutions in ‘secular’ france.” the second photo is of a person in hijab. text reads “totally illegal in ‘secular’ totally non-racist frace with no racism problem at all (sarcasm).” end description]

I truly believe that an underexplored concept in Star Wars fics that involve Earth being an unknown/forgotten planet in the GFFA, hidden away somewhere in Wild Space and only found by accident, is that Earth doesn’t have a whole lot to offer. Not tech, not natural resources, not even particularly nice tourist locales compared to some of the planets we see, and the local culture would definitely shade towards hostile to unfamiliar species, just based on the way things as simple as race or gender feature in our biases.

However.

The galaxy far far away has no idea where humans, one of if not the dominant species in the galaxy, come from. Nobody knows the home planet. Nobody knows the history. There is nothing, in the tens of thousands of years of history they have in their databanks, about where humanity started.

And Earth, this stupid little backwards planet that’s fractured into hundreds of unallied governments, where there’s always a war going on somewhere and man hasn’t made it past the nearest natural satellite, where the media is no more or less interesting than what the GFFA has already got floating around over the last few thousand years, where the natural resources are nothing special…

Earth has a fossil record.

#first of all this fucks so hard #second of all I love the implication that of all the planets people think humans might have come from #ones with a fossil record are WILDLY rare #it’s so silly but it! makes! sense! #all the really developed core planets—Alderaan Coruscant etc—have had so many years of civilization #that either it’s impossible to dig without hitting something integral for infrastructure #or any place you could dig is buried under so many layers of buildings and civilization that even getting back twenty five thousand years or #so is nigh impossible #and if humans AREN’T from one of the core planets then… #good luck excavating every single habitable planet in the galaxy #really the only way around it is. you know. finding a planet that’s already done the work for you (via @willowcrowned​)

“What’s that picture?”

“Oh, it’s a common motif called ‘the evolution of man.’ The individual depictions are based on what we’ve found of the species that we evolved from. I don’t remember what they’re called, I just remember that Neanderthals were contemporary to humans, not a predecessors, but I think this one here is based on a bog mummy or–”

“You have BOG MUMMIES OF HUMANITY’S EVOLUTIONARY PREDECESSOR?”

“Uh. I mean. I guess?”

(The earliest bog mummies are firmly within the period that is modern homo sapiens, but the speaker is about as ignorant of actual archaeological theory as I am.)

I want to show take a Jedi to some natural history museums and see them geek out over the fact that we have remains from, like, homo erectus.

I’m okay. Enjoying my new off days since work gave me a different schedule. Just trying to relax.

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

Too bad Lahore pigeons are a domestic breed and don’t appear in the wild at all. Some equally balanced wild colorations include

Pygmy Falcon

Great Hornbill

Wallcreeper

and

Black-throated Loon

this is a good addition to this post. thank you for this birds educations

I would like to submit the following additions to the world of exceptional bird color design:

Cedar Waxwing

Red Crowned Crane

Brahminy Kite

Green Tree Swallow (I mean seriously - those are metallic teal feathers against stark white. Damn.) 

Bali Mynah

And, last but certainly not least, the cutest fucking puffball on this planet earth:

The Korean Crow-Tit

I’d also like to contribute some pretty awesome birds

Hooded Pitta (or as like to call them little olives)

Coua

Mot-Mot

The Blue Crown Pigeon (the biggest pigeon)

good post

@ilovegirlsalways

@candiceirae

I’m fond of the Golden Breasted Starling,

the Golden Pheasant,

and the Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher.

@izzyovercoffee

May I present the most fabulous turkey in the world, the Ocellated Turkey?

@poisonedapples

They’re all immensely pretty

@todaysbird

I wish to add the European Golden Plover

The Arctic Tern

The Atlantic Puffin

And the Eurasian Oystercatcher

The nuns who took care of the building are thrilled that skaters saved the church. They even let the skaters push them around on the skateboards.

I looked it up to verify and found not only that one but also

If they make another Tony Hawk, this needs to be in there

I wanted to read more about the nuns so here it is from their facebook page:

Also, the building is currently closed and theyre raising money to get the remodeling needed

https://sk8liborius.com/

This was such a formative movie

This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.

To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.

This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.

Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.

If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.

Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.

And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.

And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.

When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.

Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.

“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”

And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:

And you can FEEL her pride.

All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.

the fact that some of you history-ignorant children in the notes are trying to shit on groundbreaking historical queer cinema because it doesn’t meet 2021 standards is infuriating. sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to the elders in the room for fucking once

This. If you have never lived in a world where queerness was universally pathologized and criminalized to the point that even IMAGINING a world where it wasn’t constituted a radical and potentially dangerous act, you don’t have any business judging those of us who have for how we survived it and how we found (or still find) comfort in the few imperfect representations we got.

You don’t have to like it. You probably aren’t capable of “getting” it. And to be honest, I don’t want you to! I am glad that young queer people will never know exactly what it was like “back then.” But what you also will not do is refuse to learn your own history and then shit on everything that came before you, because like it or not what came before you is the reason you will never have to get what it was like back then.

On Wesley Snipes’s role Noxeema and John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodriguez.

Source: How Hollywood heartthrobs and Steven Spielberg helped make a drag queen cult classic

a monumental film in the library of queer history.

it was formative for modern society, too.

there are a lot of action fans out there who learned from their idols that respect doesn’t cost a damn thing to give. i know plenty of people who aren’t queer saw trans women and drag queens presented as people to them for the first time in wong fu. suddenly, strange and foreign queer identities that had only been presented to them as jokes if they’d even heard of them, seemed a little more relatable, and very human.

we’re all just people.

snipes, swayze, and leguizamo were willing to play people a lot of their fans didn’t respect yet or didn’t even know how to respect and demand they figure it the fuck out.

This is a HUGE reblog but I watched this as a little girl on cable TV and I’m so glad I did. GO WATCH THIS AS SOON AS YOU CAN

I’d love it if To Wong Foo was inescapably broadcast once a year, like A Christmas Story.

For every terf that sends me anon hate, I just reblog this post again.

#alfred raised him right

Bruce ‘raised by a butler’ Wayne knows how to treat everyone no matter their social position with respect.

Can you imagine his outrage and anger at watching how everyone treats the only family he has left? Alfred was his entire world until Dick showed up. And people saw the man that raised him in the same way they noticed a lamp. He swears to himself to never be like them.

So Bruce knows all the janitors names, he pulled strings for his garbage man Donny’s daughter to get into a better school, he thanks waitstaff with the utmost sincerity, he makes genuine conversation with anyone he can so that they know they are seen, he tips graciously and leaves his card with those stuck in a rut with the skills to be more.

Batman fights crime but Bruce Wayne fights apathy.

Batman fights crime but Bruce Wayne fights apathy