Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes
This info needs to be out there, it turned the tide against cryptocurrency in the public eye it might fit so too
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Homie gonna share this
Happy dimension 20 day that last one was a doozy
"No one here is gonna start believing in Ankarna" figeroth faeth is sweating. Because ankarna is set up for her. She's the goddess of conviction and fig is going through an identity crisis but she's anchored by her friends and that's where her conviction lies, in the strength of her bonds. She has an innate connection to rage. She's the archdevil of rebellion and rebellion needs conviction to thrive.
Zara and Porter said doubt isn't for her but conviction is.
Do you ever think about how Con O’Neill came out publicly at age 57 and specially talked about the importance of community to him, after he spent a season playing a miserable, repressed man who found happiness and support and love in the queer community.
when you realize that this scene was actually very much foreshadowing what would happen later…
surely this is how it went
"So I feel, inside me– my heart beating"🌹
(available as a print in my shop, with the rest of my OFMD art!)
Over his dead body.
that being said ed catching one (1) fish and immediately taking a job as a fisher might be the most adhd move in history
i LOVED that ed's most in depth conversation about the everything was with fang. who he's been with for 20 years and who is so so forgiving. having it with him made it feel like a reckoning with the entire history of blackbeard and how he's hurt people who could have been (could still be!) friends to him without realizing. he's already gotten to the idea that he was hurting himself with blackbeard and this was such a good way of getting him to see he was hurting others too. and to be FORGIVEN for it, for doing fucked up pirate shit like hornigold, who he's scared he's become and there's no way back, i feel like goes a long way to addressing a lot of the gravy basket shit. like yeah, you hurt other people. you hurt yourself. blackbeard was not a Good thing to have been. but it's okay. you can be something different now and the same people you've always wanted on your side and thought you had to perform blackbeard for might actually love you for it
also loved the set-up of this conversation. fang sees ed hanging onto the side of the ship asking if lucius feels better - struggling to be forgiven, to understand the depth of how lucius et al feels, stuck between the water (death) and the deck (life) - and fang invites ed into the dinghy. gives him a safe, in-between place to land.
and fang is up front with ed. ed asks if he's a dick, and fang says yeah. ed relays a memory of fang laughing, and fang says no, i wasn't giggling, i was screaming. contrast with ep 1, where ed asks if the vibe is poisonous (at gunpoint) and fang cries but lies and says no because he's afraid of ed.
the end of the episode shows fang sleeping next to him. what a powerful image of forgiveness and trust and safety between old friends.
...and that's not even everything!
If you'd like to buy my booty, I'm running a sale in my shop to celebrate OFMD Season 2, so use code 'OFMD2' to get 20% off any 2 or more Our Flag Means Death items!!! Stickers, sticker sheets, & prints galore!
As a trans & disabled artist with top surgery coming up (!!!), every sale helps pay my bills, so please reblog & help get the word out!
episode 5 izzy is fun though because we get to see how he actually interacts with stede when he's not viewing stede as an obstacle or romantic rival. david jenkins said that izzy shooting ed is them breaking up! and now that izzy is moving on from ed, building relationships outside of him, and finally cashing in on his 20+ years of accumulated pto he's as close to chill as izzy's ever gonna get.
now that he's letting the past go, he's able to joke around with stede. he's almost eager to mentor him because it's clearly something he enjoys doing (and seems like something he has experience in!) he's playful! he'll slap stede on the ass and make snide comments poking fun at him. he offers actual advice and praises stede when he does well!
it was never about masculinity. it was never internalized homophobia. it was jealousy. his own insecurities. a fear of no longer being wanted. he was a man in love, unsure of who he was outside of this unrequited relationship, so terrified of losing the person he cared about that he lashed out and hurt them both in the process.