All right, write that down guys.

through a series of unfortunate (drunk) events last night my art ended up in the hands of the dunkin’ donuts CEO. btw

so the thing about going to school for an illustration degree is that basically everyone knows it’s a financial death sentence. so at least once every semester they make you pretend you’re a successful illustrator closing a financially lucrative editorial or advertising deal. in my most recent semester at art college my court-mandated advertising assignment ended in me producing two illustrations advertising for dunkin’ donuts, purely because i had a dunkin iced in my hand when i was frantically trying to come up with a concept the day before sketches were due.

last night i got home for the summer, and as is tradition in my household i showed my parents most of the art i’d created for the past semester. as is also tradition in my household, all three of us were drinking heavily the entire time. this art show included the aforementioned dunkin’ donuts ads.

my mother, several glasses of wine deep, becomes very excited upon seeing the dunkin ads, and tells me she HAS to text them to her brother, who used to work in sales for dunkin. I, also several glasses of wine deep, remember very little about my uncle’s job but know that he is retired. i agree to let her send them to him.

my uncle (sober, presumably) texts her back immediately and says that he loves them and wants to send them to his “old boss” at dunkin. my mother and i (drunk) agree to this. he sends the images to his boss. what everyone has neglected to mention to me up until this point is that my uncle was SENIOR VP OF SALES at dunkin’ donuts and his “old boss” in question is the CEO OF THE COMPANY. my mother relays this information to me while looking incredibly guilty. i start cry-laughing. the ceo of dunkin liked the fake ads apparently. i was unfortunately not offered a marketing position

because people have asked, here are the fake ads in question:

Also because some people seem genuinely upset on my behalf in the notes, just to clarify: the story above wasn't like. my uncle pitching me as an ad illustrator to the ceo or the ceo taking my art for free or anything. it was a series of drunk text messages at near-midnight on a thursday that just happened to involve the ceo of dunkin donuts. Basically all he said was that he liked them. The point of assignments like this is to be able to put an example of advertisement work that you COULD do in your portfolio, and if you do put something like this in your portfolio it has to come with the disclaimer that this WASN'T an officially contracted piece of work for the company, just an example assignment. I got my grade for this assignment a LONG time ago so no one stole my labor and they really don't owe me a job or any money i promise. it's just kind of funny that i happened to do a fake ad for a company that i apparently have some connections to already

Tumblr??? Hello??? Are we getting ads from alternate universes now or-

Kathryn Janeway - "The Fates"

OPENING COMMISSIONS

Howdy, y'all. Unfortunately it looks like I am not getting paid anytime soon for some recent work I did. I have a volunteer event coming up that covers four days, wherein I need money for transportation and food. I am offering pretty steeply discounted commissions because of this. I don't have a set goal, because it would be nice to eat steadily during my volunteer work.

PLEASE REBLOG

These are like scenes from a romcom, sarahbucky style

One of the things I like about seeing things in the highest resolution possible is that you can see tiny but important details that get lost otherwise. The moment from the deleted scene is short but we get a lot of information about Sarah, Sarah and Sam's relationship as siblings, and just also how well the comedic timing of all this is, on top of the canon sarahbucky content.

I just love seeing the variety of expressions Sarah gets to be shown just from this once scene alone! And of course she shares another stare and look with Bucky.

And just look at how deliberate Sam was in stealing the chair when he knew she was interested in it 😂 You know he loves teasing her

You know you’ve spent too much time with someone when you make the same kinds of expressions (sometimes at the same time) – SamBucky edition

Feat. the deleted scene remix

I just found out that someone made a realistic dragon ring and I can't stop thinking about it.

Ok. This is actually kinda neat

Moss Agate Rings // JYNICE

Rock bands used to just write about whatever the fuck. Not to be all "old music was better!" but when's the last time the world's highest selling band released a song about killing people with hammers. The Who made an entire rock opera about a deaf, mute, and blind guy who is so good at pinball that he inspires a cultlike group of devotees who think he's the next christ. It was released at the peak of their popularity and was made into a movie featuring people like Elton John and Tina Turner.

I think classic rock gets a reputation for being all about girls and cars and drugs but for about 15-20 years there were absolutely no rules on acceptable song subject matter. Pink Floyd has a song about a gnome going on an adventure. Alice Cooper has a whole album about breaking out of the Ableist Insane Asylum because he misses his dog. These weren't weird little indie groups, these were all highly successful charting bands getting radio airplay and selling out stadiums.

We need to bring this culture back. No more love songs. Sing about wizards.

Some of you are missing the point. I know there's music like this out now! I was heavily involved in the indie music scene for a while and actually marketed some stuff like this at the venue I worked at.

But what I am lamenting here is these kinds of off-the-wall topics have been relegated to random artists on bandcamp and maybe the occasional indie sleeper hit, when it used to be the biggest names in the business. I want Harry Styles to release a song about an elf prince in a magic kingdom. I want Taylor Swift to write about an alien warlord.

"You're barking up the wrong tree expecting that from them!" That's the POINT. Expecting the most popular radio played artists to make weird random shit shouldn't be out of pocket. Somewhere along the way it only became profitable/socially acceptable to write the same four song topics over and over and I think it's boring.