I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe

Transformers One isn't changing the established lore y'all because there is no established lore

The best thing about Transformers is that nothing is “non-canon.” Instead, what we have is continuities where that particular thing is true.

So coloring books, that commercial where Movie!Optimus goes through the BK drive through, the early toy bios that set Beast Wars on present day Earth, the pack in comics from the Armada and Energon toys, everything.

It’s all true, it all happened somewhere in the multiverse.

The opposite fantasy of "he needs me."

"He doesn't need me."

He doesn't need me to function. He doesn't need me to be happy. He doesn't need me to be strong, to be steady, to go on, to manage his life or solve his problems...

I can just be and he can just be and we're together not out of need, but out of choice.

Because being together is an additionnal happiness, not a vital requirement I will be responsible for (in addition to all the things I am already responsible for).

people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”

people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.

And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.

Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.

Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.

This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.

Watcher google drive

i think the title is pretty self explanitory

Only ghost files on it atm but Mystery Files and Puppet History are next. Watcher has back pedalled on deleteing all their free content to lock it behind a pay wall but y'know what? maybe I just dont want to give them ad revenue anymore, which is evil but screw them. Also they may still back pedal on their back pedalling, which is to many pedals anyways.

The most important comment in this whole mess

We must carry the lost lore into future generations

Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

Clouds over sunset in Lazise on July 13, 2017 by me Only 175 years, 5 days and 124 km apart

this headline is so fucking horrible why is it whenever indigenous people are murdered everyone avoids saying they were murdered

it’s so important to show solidarity with indigenous people right now and remember that this was a hate crime. rising hearts is an indigenous run organization and they’re asking everyone who can to braid their hair on monday regardless of if you’re native american or not

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#as an indigenous journalist i feel the need to point out that journalists cant say he was murdered if it hasnt been confirmed#if his braids were cut off when he was found then all signs point to yes#but because it hasnt officially been ruled a homocide ESPECIALLY bc he was just found we cant call it that#it would be bad journalism to declare this a murder without it being ruled that#journalists are there to report facts and the fact is that he was found dead and a cause of death has not been released

also seeing people wondering why they didn't say he was "killed."

same reason. we don't know that. all articles i've read have said that he was found in his car in a wooded area. i can't even find where it was mentioned that his braids were cut off.

he could have been killed. he also could have killed himself, or even died of natural causes and it just so happened that he was in his car. since journalists weren't actually there, they have to rely on what they're told by the police.

cole was found dead. he died at 27. this is the information we know and it's generally seen as bad journalism to report on speculation.

Theres strong evidence to suggest that Cole was murdered.

Cole's hair had been cut off the night he went missing, which occurred at a mosh pit in Lawrence, Kansas: he had gotten some wire tangled into his hair, which there is photographic evidence of. While one person attempted to help Cole untangle the wire from his hair, someone had come and cut it off, without his consent. Below is the photo of him that was taken while another person was trying to help him.

Later, a White woman named Alexis Zabala admitted on social media that SHE was the one who had cut his hair, and that she was the one who had accused him of domestic violence & called the police on him. But I'm suspicious of this alleged "domestic violence" considering the fishy circumstances of which it was reported, and the woman who accused him of it committed a hate crime against him. This post of her admitting that she cut his hair no longer exists because she's since deleted ALL of her posts on Facebook after he was found dead. I don't have a screenshot of it either, but there's been multiple witnessing confirming that they saw this post, but if anyone else has one please add it.

Below is where Alexis Zabala alleged that Cole had "assaulted" her, and said this and had called the police over this alleged "domestic violence" only AFTER he was reported missing. So allegedly she knew something about his disappearance but didn't bother to give her input or file a report despite him assaulting her?

To elaborate on the second stacked screenshot: both Alexis Zabala and her sister Emma Zabala had been making remarks about Cole's disappearance and death on facebook & tiktok, only for both of them to delete these remarks, retract them, and then Emma proceeded to private her tiktok account. Here is a still existing audio of Emma Zabala on tiktok saying that Cole "deserved to die", but then as you can see in the screenshot on the right, when asked why the fuck she said that, she says "well everyone says things they don't mean when they're upset".

Below is a screenshot of what Alexis Zabala had to say when asked if she had something to do with Cole's disappearance.

Furthermore, as this facebook post claims, despite that the Zebala's claim that Cole had gone "on the run" after the alleged assault, we also dont know for a fact that it was COLE behind the wheel, just that it was his VEHICLE that had been seen leaving the area. And what's worse is that Cole was found in the exact same way as his sister, Kyla Red Bear, who was murdered and ALSO found in a wooded area not even a year ago, and police will often report Native American murders as "suicides" despite evidence pointing towards hate crimes & murders.

So THAT'S why people are saying he was likely killed, and that this was a hate crime. Cutting off someone's hair without consent is already legally designated as assault in Kansas, and doing it to a Native American where hair is so important to so many tribes (including Cole's) & that the cutting of our hair has been weaponized in cultural genocide, is a hate crime. And Cole was found in suspicious circumstances and accused of "domestic violence" by two racist White women (with a sketchy story, who bragged about his disappearance & death) and we know racist White women have often falsely accused men of color of rape & domestic violence. Something's not adding up.

Cole Brings Plenty was the victim of a hate crime and very very likely murdered

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Black movies that are not about trauma, slavery, or being accepted by white people >>>>>>

i made a letterboxd list for this actually

HOMIE TYYYYYY

rights received

gay rights pt2

Pt 3

THE AGE OF PINING IS OVER

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

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.

listening to phil collins

I hope that all internet content is obliterated except for this video

Rest in Peace sir

Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

Loserlord indeed

Ozai was the weak failure that was projecting on everyone else.

Ozai was the weak

failure that was projecting

on everyone else.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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