i guess i AM a famished fella

Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

The third image is of a text-based reaction form, with several "check all that apply" lists with parentheses representing the checkboxes, here represented by dashes, with the "checked" answers underlined and preceded by an X:

Your post advocates a technical - X legislative - X market-based - vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.) - Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses - X Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected - X No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money - It is defenseless against brute force attacks - It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it - X Users of email will not put up with it - Microsoft will not put up with it - The police will not put up with it - X Requires too much cooperation from spammers - X Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once - Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers - Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists - Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business Specifically, your plan fails to account for - Laws expressly prohibiting it - X Lack of centrally controlling authority for email - Open relays in foreign countries - Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses - Asshats - X Jurisdictional problems - X Unpopularity of weird new taxes - Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money - Huge existing software investment in SMTP - Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack - Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email - X Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes - Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches - X Extreme profitability of spam - X Joe jobs and/or identity theft - Technically illiterate politicians - Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers - X Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves - Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering - Outlook and the following philosophical objections may also apply: - Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical - Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable - SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation - Blacklists suck - Whitelists suck - We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored - Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud - Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks - Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually - X Sending email should be free - Why should we have to trust you and your servers? - Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses - Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem - Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome - I don't want the government reading my email - Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough Furthermore, this is what I think about you: - X Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. - This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. - Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

Bless every fic writer for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every gif and photoset maker for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every roleplayer for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every Photoshopper and video editor for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every musician for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every liveblogger for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every theorizer and meta writer for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every fan who writes wikis or gives news updates for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

Bless every fan who comes in screaming about what they love for "older" fandoms no longer in their "heyday"

I love you so much

I love you so much

I love you so much

I love you so much

Just very clearly an attempt at saying, “my what?”

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

gosh I enjoy this website

Image 1. Search result preview from crunchyroll article titled Happy Yaoi Day, dated August 1, 2012. Reads: August 1st. In Japanese, a short reading of "801" can be reading 8 as "ya," O as a western influenced "o" and 1 as "i." So, the "yaoi" numeric sequence has become otaku shorthand for the genre of male romance media and, following that logic, in countries that list the date month-day, August 1st is yaoi day!

Image 2. Similar search result preview from the website thevetshed. Reads: Why is every horses birthday on the 1st of August? Jul 30, 2566 BE - Every horse in the southern hemisphere celebrates their birthday on August 1st. Horses in the northern hemisphere celebrate their birthdays on January 1st.

The first is by a user whose identifying information is obscured. They provide the following caption: "My local Home Depot is sick of your nonsense." Below the caption is a photo of a somewhat tattered laminated sign printed on printer paper. Hanging on a display pegboard stocked with light switches and other items, the sign reads, in very large bold-faced all-capitals, "There is no magical adapter that will make a 220-volt product operate on a 110-volt outlet." The word no is especially large, and underlined.

The second is by user EntertainmentTrick58. It is a parody of "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, as follows (conventionalized for screen reading):

I heard there was a secret cord; You plug it in and you meet the Lord. But you don't really care for safety, do ya? It goes like this: The black, the red-- You touch 'em both and--bam!--you're dead, The purple arc of power flowing through ya. Hallelu-- (here the text dissolves into keyboard-smashing gibberish)

The third is by user spaycedinvader, who adds another verse:

Like, Qui-Gon would still be sent to Naboo and end up on Tatooine, he'd still meet Anakin and take him back to the Temple. But, in this AU, he survives the battle on Theed and takes Anakin as his padawan. And the entire Order would be making jokes:

"Congrats on the new padawan! Hope he sticks around longer than the last one!" "We'll keep this one off the bodyguard missions, eh Qui-Gon?"

So one day little Anakin’s like "hey master, what happened to your last padawan?" And Qui-Gon's like "oh he ran off with a girl, yeah he's royalty in the Outer Rim now".

In Eridanese, repeating a word is considered rude.

Every time Rocky says “amaze, amaze, amaze!” The closest actually English translation is: “That’s fucking awesome!!!!”

Or “bad, bad, bad.” Would be “this/that fucking sucks”

And Grace shows up 75% dead and linguists are all so excited to get a chance to speak with The Alien™️

further project hail mary + textposts (this time featuring grace as well!)

Next is Stratt and Grace standing in Grace's classroom, with arterial-blues's post "I am going to befriend my impending doom".

Next is Grace on the Hail Mary very soon after he woke up, sprawled on the ground and surrounded by clutter. quaintpanic's post is in all caps with a few words bolded for emphasis: "I WAS BORN YESTERDAY. I JUST BLEW IN FROM STUPID TOWN. THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ME."

Next is Grace sitting on the beach in his yellow flight suit, looking at something offscreen, with fruitviking's post "Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode."

Next is Stratt, about to force Grace to go on the mission. A small shot of Grace from the same scene is in the bottom right corner, a la live slug reaction. wordfather's post says "dont look at me with those big beautiful eyes im trying to be Weird and evil to you".

Next is Stratt, standing in a doorway to watch the karaoke party, with possessable's post "it's fine i don't even need to be part of social groups or friend groups anyway (giant hole appears in my chest spontaneously) ? what's that".

Next is Grace, looking wrecked after being asked to go on the mission, with monster2003's post "i'm putting in my too weak notice."

Next is Grace, hunched into a ball with his head in his hands, with loveridden1999's post "in a way i am my own dead wife".

Next is Grace and Stratt, bundled up and standing outside together right before the explosion, with nephilot's post "oh no suicide for me thanks i just wanted to stand on this bridge with you :)"

Next is Stratt giving Grace (offscreen) a dry look. dear-ao3's post is a screenshot of ao3 tags that say "No Morals, don't look for morals".

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.