PSA to our followers this Autism Acceptance Month:

Mont Saint-Michel, France (by Memoire2cite)

Same “I Recognized Your Foul Stench” Energy…

i just woke up from a dream where i was being interrogated by a bunch of people asking me if “furbies are kosher” firstly…. im not jewish. secondly……..what the fuck

please stop sending me asks pertaining to the kosher status of furbies. i really do not know. this was just a manifestation of my subconscious. im assuming that they are not kosher because furbies aren’t even food. but who knows! ask a rabbi, if you must. 

Jew here! Furbies are actually worse than unkosher–they are not permissible as food, even for gentiles. This is because the Torah teaches that it is forbidden for any human to eat the meat of an animal that is still alive, and the Furby cannot die.

hi this is the most ominous description of a furby i have ever heard

Another Jew here! Even if Furbies could die, they would not be kosher. This is because the Sages teach that it is forbidden to eat birds of prey, and the Furby is nothing if not a predator. 

Walter Matthau and Audrey Hepburn star in Stanley Donen’s CHARADE (’63)

(by Stefan Klauke)

it was only a sits

how did it end up like this

it was only a sits it was only a sits

types of study breaks for every situation

if you realize you’ve been studying for hours: grab a snack to refuel your body and watch a sitcom to refuel your brain. then back to the books.

if you’re feeling stressed out: take some deep breaths, text your friends, maybe stare at a wall for a few minutes. gather yourself.

if you can’t seem to focus: get moving and get outside. take out the garbage, check your mail box, maybe walk your dog. just get moving and get fresh air. it’ll help bring you back.

if there’s something else going on in your life and you can’t get it off your mind: write down what’s going through your head, sort of like a diary entry. it’ll help you work things out.

if you’re just mentally and physically exhausted: set a timer for 25-30 minutes and take a nap. any longer and you’ll hit REM and you’ll wake up feeling just as tired. once you wake up, get some caffeine in you.

if the material is boring as hell: find another way to study. see if there’s a crash course video online about it or draw out what you’re trying to learn in diagrams and pictures to make it fun.

if people around you won’t shut up: listen to some music. soundtrack and classical music is always good because they won’t absorb you as much as music with lyrics. white noise (like ocean waves, rain sounds, etc.) also works.

if you only half understand a concept: call/message a friend who’s not in the class and try to teach the material to them. this will help you mentally work through the material and will help you remember it as well.

The reason you’re great at one-off compositions but can’t put a long-form comic or animation together to save your life isn’t because you’re a lousy artist, it’s because you’re a lousy project manager.

I know that doesn’t sound particularly positive, but you’d be astounded how many artists I’ve run into who are literally unaware that project management is a) a totally separate skill set from being Good At Art, and b) something you actually have to learn - they think that people are just intrinsically good or bad at doing long-form projects and that’s all there is to it.

Correctly identifying what it is that you suck at is the first step to improving!

Oh yeah def. is there a book or anything you can suggest for learning how to do project management?

This piece on Project Management for Writers by Stephan Macelroy is excellent!

From my POV, project management for big creative projects comes down to four things:

These four things aren’t specific to any creative area. Whichever one of these makes you go “But, but, but…” is a good one to work on!

I like these.

I can add a few project management things, too: I do a lot of big projects. These are writing-centric, because so am I. But I think at least some of them could apply to visual art, filmmaking, etc.

Hey @peacockbluey

Overwatch | New Hero: Baptiste

If I here him say Fout tonè! Ima loose it!!

billy porter at the 91st academy awards

An icon

ARE WE FUCKING SERIOUS

Yes, this is real.

Not to sound fucking alarmist, but uhhhhhh if Trump forcing immigrants to wear yellow insignias wasn’t enough of an alarm bells for you, maybe this is.

God that second article says that a mother of two was sentenced to prison for crossing the border with the intention of seaking asylum you know, something that isn’t fucking illegal????

Oh my god what do we do, how do we stop this

Very tired of our lives being seen as not worth living.

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Pokemon Bookmarks made by Olena Mysnyk

sometimes harvest mice sleep in tulips. here are some that will make you happy

thanks. Have a great day

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.

And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling.  I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person.  I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.

And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.

Purity culture is gonna kill art if y’all let it.