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Spot on 😆

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The youth are lost

got my hands on a field guide of californian bugs and i found that there's this one bee species in southern california that looks like this

(Actual bugs under the cut, CW for insects)

Credit for idea @blimbo-buddy

based on real life events😔

please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit

Always thinking about how Brock/James and Misty/Jessie share the same VAs in the original series

Ash after Brock and Misty left: "It's like I can still hear their voices"

*sounds of Jessie and James bickering in the background*

whisper of the heart (studio ghibli) redraw as a gift for my friend binch <3

every single time

Does anybody know of any etsy alternatives that's not redbubble or something like that?

I found one!

Artisans Cooparetive is a handmade only site owned and operated collectively, its in phase two beta right now but they already have some pretty cool products I've seen so far <3

Boycotting Etsy for supporting Israel & banning Palestinian liberation merch from being sold on their platform. Please deactivate your Etsy accounts & let them know WHY.

^^ Thanks for finding an alternative for people to use!

GoImagine!! It's like an early Etsy but so much better morally. It's owned by makers and all profits after running and promoting the site go to charities selected by the crafters. Please support it. It's still a baby but I have great hopes for it.

I can see that the phrase ‘from the river to the sea’ has no results in Etsy, but it looks like it’s that one specific phrase that’s been banned.

Here’s their explanation why.

It’s stupid, I know, but somebody in Congress almost got thrown out for using the exact same phrase.

There’s still a ton of Palestinian protest art and products. Here are just a few.

Image 1 ID: A model wearing a shirt with the Palestinian flag on it, with the flag shaped like a bird. The text on the shirt is in all caps and reads “Support humanity not genocide! Free Palestine!

Image 2 ID: A model wearing a black shirt that says “Free Palestine”.

Both of these above items list their profits as being donated to Doctors Without Borders, who are offering aid in Gaza.

Image 3: ID: Several pins of various shape with the Palestinian flag, including one with the raised fist in Palestinian colors. This pin includes the text “Free Palestine”.

I fully understand and support anyone’s choice to stop using Etsy and find another platform, either as a seller or buyer. I just wanted to check if there was more to this story, and it seems like it isn’t as cut and dry as “they support Israel and not Palestine”.

If there’s something obvious I’ve missed that changes this story, please let me know.

"Good for them." FUCK YES! EXACTLY!

palestine will be free

I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

:) 🖤

nefarious anglerfish

I always think of this Undertale quote on New Year's day. 🌟

🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮

Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?

To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:

SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!

Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it): THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles! ✨Cons: None really <3 Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup

Twine: Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want) ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) ✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain. Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity

Bitsy: Little topdown games! ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small! ✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing! Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty

RPGMaker: To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!! NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post. ✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here! ✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale! Some games to look at: Ib, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)

engine.lol: collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden! NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?

✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨

Seriously cannot recommend GBStudio enough for beginners, it makes making a gb/gbc game pretty simple, it's also FOSS (free, open source software) and the devs in my experience are very responsive as is the community

Worth noting that ren'py and gb studio will happily let you add whatever ridiculous code you want on top of their frameworks. GB Studio will straight up dump the entire engine as a CMake project if you want to work in assembler or C, so if you don't like the way something works you can change it.

A while ago, I made a doc filled with pretty much evwry cheap and free resource I could find for game dev, and Im still working on it. Highly reccommend checking it out.