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Secrets of Slytherin no.78

One of our biggest problems is that we love being alone but hate being lonely.

How I imagine the end of The Collector is gonna go

Gabriel: *gets un-akumatized*

Chat: To be honest until this happened I was starting to suspect you were Hawkmoth

Ladybug: Chat! You can’t just say that!

Gabe: Please, Adrien, have you seen what half the akumas were wearing? Give me some credit.

Chat and Ladybug: *stunned silence*

Ladybug: *about to spontaneously combust*

Gabriel: What? Was I not supposed to know?

[Image Description: Two screenshots, with captions at the bottom, of Bill Nye from his Netflix show. The first reads, “pansexual people are attracted to individuals” and the second reads, “regardless of their sex or gender.”]

Bill Nye acknowledged and validated pansexuality on his new Netflix show, Bill Nye Saves the World.

Even though I don’t particularly like the “regardless of” definition of pansexuality, I’ve seen quite a few people who are really happy about this and that is so important to me.

So, endless shoutouts to Bill Nye for acknowledging and validating people who very rarely feel seen and valid.

me: good morning everyone! 😊😊😊 my friends: *start pelting stones at me*

8/10/17

#resist (at Tacoma, Washington)

So I have noticed a Thing

Admittedly, I have a very small Tumblr footprint.  The most notes I have ever gotten on a post was under 450, and that was very unusual for me.  A typical post gets single-digit likes/reblogs–or none.

Still, even when I have managed to rise to the level of Being Noticed ™, there is one thing I never get:

Hate.

Anon or otherwise.

So I have started paying attention to what is reported by others I follow, some of whom can expect 100 likes/reblogs in an hour.  

The women and girls are more likely to get–or at least to report–hate, both anonymous and in-your-face personal.  Not that the guys never get it, but the data is definitely skewed toward “woman and girls get more hate-mail”.  Which makes me rather unhappy.

I have shown my face on here.  I know it’s ugly.  Heck, I avoid mirrors a lot of the time.

(No, that wasn’t a joke. I really don’t like mirrors.)

Is my ugly face scaring off the haters?

Is it my Y chromosome?

What is it?

Tell me, Anonymous: why exactly are you afraid to come hassle me and other men and boys on here like you do the women and girls?   What’s your deal, here?

Sadly, this isn’t some great surprise or shock to me. I’ve known about this crap since before there was an Internet.  I just figured it was time to demand an accounting.  Why do you do this?    Do you even know?

Ladies, if you get a persistent hater?

Show them this:

Send them the Angry Talvin Look Of Irritated Disapproval, if you think it will help.

Maybe it will scare them off. 

It sure is ugly.

Steve Irwin would have been able to lift Mjolnir, reblog if you agree.

how’s she gonna talk like that when a stranger just mauled her and left her for dead

I made a thing! I was thinking about this for a few days - because I realized that when I was young, I was also frustrated about being given the same advice over and over - without really knowing what it meant!!

Here’s 5 techniques which I have done before which have helped me grow as an artist, which are good for 5-minute warmups or just straight up challenges for your sketchbook! 

Obviously, these are not the ONLY techniques - they’re just the ones I find most fun! And maybe they’re not the most ‘correct’ ones out there, but it’s better than another comic about practicing more, right? 

Good luck to everyone on their drawings!

Honestly, as an artist and illustrator myself, seeing all the posts yelling at newbies to “practice” is so frustrating to me. It feels condescending, and would have had me running for the hills in no time if I was just starting out. This is much more helpful.