when i was a kid, i would imagine that my pens and pencils were starships in a galaxy at constant war and play out battles and skirmishes between them. i had a bunch of lore in my head for the different factions (grouped by color) and the story got ridiculously involved, culminating in a climax that involved me stealing every single piece of stationary in the house and arranging them on the living room floor for a massive invasion of Earth.

gay culture is sitting in a chair and immediately finding a way to get your feet off the floor

@catradykea

Alternate title: Millennials are so humble about their lacking skills that they eschew pride in order to learn skills that their parents thought were unnecessary to teach.

alternate alternate title: Boomers Fail So Hard As Parents They’ve Left Their Adult Children ‘Helpless’

Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish friends! You bring joy and light to the world 💞🕎

i need a girly name. something you’d expect from someone SUPER stuck up and dramatic. like. someone who just has an overwhelming aura of ‘if i am not the centre of attention, i will die right now’ but with a bejewelled crown on

Tiffany

Don’t cross a picket line. No Uber on May 8th. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw47FBVHU-s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1egv9lovrenyv

Here’s the BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48051646

Wait one fucking second! Uber drivers don’t get to demand FUCK ALL! They’re the ones destroying taxi companies by undercutting them. Undercutting by not having things like benefits and a living wage. Fucking hypocrites.

You’re confusing Uber drivers with Uber as a whole. 

And workers always have the right to demand better working conditions.

Additionally: hi, I drive Uber and Lyft part time to help pay my bills. I’m a disabled artist. You want to say that again to my face?

Medusa but instead of snakes her hair is made of these guys

@electric-lyra

Regardless of other factors, do you believe asexual people have the right to be part of this community because of their asexual identity?

Yes: 94.2%, 1838 respondents. No: 5.8%, 113 respondents.

Regardless of other factors, do you believe aromantic people have the right to be part of this community because of their aromantic identity?

Yes: 92.2%, 1771 respondents No: 7.8%, 149 respondents

Meaning of the letter “A” when appearing in LGBT[…]+ acronyms:

I’m just posting this here for my aces and aros who are feeling down on themselves and defeated tonight. Remember that nine out of ten people support you and that the current loudest voices are not those of the majority.

Time for discourse bich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (or maybe just an unpopular opinion idk)

Nevermore’s single redeeming factor is the lyrics, Everything else is just really hard to listen to

The Mix? Garbage. The Guitars sound similar to first wave Black Metal recorded on amps that are only $50, the Bass is doing Way too much for what it’s supposed to be doing, which is fill the low end, and anyone can tell you that a Choir and Piano, Classical instrumentation, Do NOT go well with Rock Bass and Drums, which, by the way, get Muddier the longer the song goes on.

And the Vocals Could have been good, but the Performance is as Dead as Pyrrha and sounds as Flat as Weiss. As I said, the Lyrics to me are the only Redeeming factor.

Do I want to like it? Absolutely. But it’s hard when you’ve listened to high-quality, professionally Mixed and Mastered Rock music for at least Half of your life.

@hammertime-rwby @twelveclara thoughts?

… Was a friend

I think I reblog this every time it comes up. I make paper stars and sometimes it does make me feel better

i never knew how to make paper stars, so i looked up for tutorials on youtube.

when i’m lonenly, which is translated to most of the time, i make them; green, yellow, pink, blue, white, purple.

and, believe me, it’s kind of a relief to make them. not only for the colors and cute shape, but also for the fact that the time i spend makin them i am entertained and don’t have to think about my loneliness anymore.

i learnt how to make them like two months ago, by the way. and i have made over 300. 

it’s awesome. 

I’ve been wanting to see this story again.

This is for everyone. Guys, girls, both, neither, and more.

When you’re upset, make a star. When you’re stressed, make a star. I make them in school when the teacher yells at our class for being lazy or dumb. I make them at home when I’m in my room, wishing someone would notice my feelings and give me comfort. I’ve always made them with whatever I had around, and write a number on each and every one because its therapeutic. I can see how far I’ve come and how many times I haven’t given up.

Right now I’m at around four-hundred and seventy, and it really puts everything into a perspective.

Thats four hundred and seventy times that I could’ve given up. I’ve gotten pretty close on some of them - scarily close, but every one of those stars is a reminder to keep pushing forward, because I wake up every day and on my dresser is a box full of stars, and when I’m happy I think of how far I’ve come.

I think this idea should be passed around as much as possible. Its calming and distracting from and panic I feel. It gives me something methodical to do: Fold here. Fold there. Crease that line. There you go, Create. Produce. Make something solid and focus on it. Make another if you need to. Write a number. Fill up the jar, box, drawer.

And when you’re breaking and feel everything crashing down, you can look at your stars and think:

“See? I made it through alright. I can give it another go.”

syndhdsalty

punkjackaboy Thanks babe ❤️ #sweetesthusbandever

I finally found the original! I’ve reblogged this once years ago and never found it again, I am SO HAPPY 😱😂😃👏👍

I love this comic so much. And the stars … I love making these things. It’s a good way to keep your hands busy and your mind quiet when you’re in a lot of pain inside. Also, they’re really flippin’ cute.

i actually make these and it’s super helpful

@pipesflowforeverandever look it’s Ginger and Francine

Shout out to Jewish butches… Butches with thick curly hair and dark thick eyebrows and big noses. Shout out to Jewish butches that aren’t skinny, white or cis and have a really hard time relating to the Jewish women they see in the media that all seem to be conventionally pretty by goyische beauty standards.

Very very important, almost as important as the gameplay itself?

The Pre-game.

Before you start playing, you need to get into a mood, right? Well, the best way to do this is listening to Music, in my opinion.

Since this is Pharah, we're gonna want something high energy, something hard-hitting, like herself. I prefer listening to metal, however, if a song Screams Pharah, it screams Pharah.

Now that you're in the mood, you can really inhabit the character, and destroy the enemy team.

Now Go, and get that Diamond Rank you deserve!

This is the engery we need for 2k19

I love my mutals.

I love my mutals.

I love my mutals.

(reblog if you do.)

Me @ all of you Rocket Kings and Queens!

girls with short hair are hotter than any boy. so thats why boys get upset when girls cut their hair off. case solved

#if you use this argument w/ annoying straight boys there is literally no way they can win#oh so you disagree?#you think boys w/ short hair are hotter? (via)

This is literally the best thing I’ve ever read.

Writing an action scene-

In your head:

Trying to describe it like:

ADVICE TIME. I also plan very elaborate fight scenes in my head and it took me a long time to figure out how to write them. Obviously there’s no right or wrong way to go about writing a fight scene, but here’s my method if anyone wants to give it a shot:

1) Find some good fight scenes to reference. Note that while it should look *something* like the fight you’re going to write, you can be pretty flexible as long as you can translate the movements of the original fight into something that makes sense for your setting. For example, I once adapted elements of a bending fight in Legend of Korra into a lightsaber duel, even though the LoK fight didn’t involve swords or melee weapons, because I was able to retain the spirit of the LoK blocking in swordfight form. Turning that LoK fight into something involving guns, on the other hand, would be tricky. The reverse is also true - it’s tough to turn a gunfight into melee combat.

2) Watch the reference scenes a few times, and try to identify what about the blocking makes it cool. 

3) Watch the reference scene again, but this time watch it in slow motion or pause it every couple seconds. Make a mental note of what’s happening frame by frame. Try to break it down into smaller pieces as well as large movements - don’t just say “he swings a sword,” make a note of the micromovements that go into swinging a sword.

4) Block your fight scene without any flair or description. Just write a list of simple, one-line descriptors of what happens blow by blow. Draw on your observations of the reference fight scenes from steps 1-3. You shouldn’t copy a fight’s blocking verbatim, but you can borrow individual elements as long as the way you describe it in Step 5 brings something new to the table. (The equivalent in art would be using references. Tracing a picture and calling it yours? Bad. Plagiarism. Looking at pictures similar to the thing you want to draw and using that to figure out how it should look? Or looking at art and saying “hey the way they did x is really cool, I want to emulate that part of their style”? Good and fine.)

5) Once it’s blocked, THEN you go back in and add flourishes. Note that you shouldn’t add flourishes to every sentence. Some of them should be short & declarative. But figure out the places where you can add relevant information and flesh those out more. 

If you’re still struggling to write a fight scene, here’s a list of questions you can ask yourself about the fight scene. Use the answers to inform the blocking AND how you embellish on that blocking.

Are there lots of acrobatics? 

Is it fluid or choppy? 

Are the characters going for glancing blows or are they throwing their whole weight into the strike? If melee combat, do they have to follow through? If ranged combat, is there recoil? If it’s a heavy blow or recoil is involved, what does that feel like?

How do the characters and their weapons hold up as the fight progresses? Do they need to reload ammo? Do weapons break? Do they injure themselves? If the answer to any of those is yes, how does that change the course of the fight?

Are characters using the environment in interesting ways? 

Does the fight damage things around them? 

Are the weather or other conditions (lighting, smoke, hazards) complicating the fight?

Does the fighting style reveal something about the character, or the relationship between two characters? 

Does a fight have extra dimension because of the characters’ relationships, or the context of the fight?

What do the characters want out of the fight? Is it a no-holds-barred fight to the death, or is it a ceremonial fight with rules and norms to follow?

Is it strenuous? Do the characters tire? Do they sweat? Do they get dirty? Do any of those factors affect the fight as it goes on? How do characters deal with pain?

Are the characters used to fighting? Are they scared? Do they enjoy it? What does it physically feel like to experience those emotions while fighting? If they’re fighting to the death and they kill somebody, does that bother them? Have they done it before? Do they feel guilt or regret? If they’re numb to what’s happening, is it because they’re a hardened killer or because they’re running on adrenaline and survival instincts?