the cake

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early  astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop.  nasa employee: what?  astronaut: *loading a pistol* moon’s stuck in a time loop. do you have extra ammo? this won’t be enough. nasa employee: enough for…what? astronaut: *finding extra clip of ammo, pocketing it, and getting back on the rocket-ship* don’t worry about it!

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early  astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop. nasa employee: what?  astronaut: *emerging from supply closet with a space harpoon, getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s stuck in a time loop.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early  astronaut:   oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop.  nasa employee: what?  astronaut: what?  nasa employee: how did you know what i was going to say?  astronaut: *punching in key pad code for base evacuation signal, getting back on the rocket-ship* i told you…moon’s stuck in a time loop. *red warning lights begin flashing*

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early  astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop.  nasa employee: what?  astronaut: *rifling thru bookshelf of operating instructions, selecting one that says “AIRLOCK MANUAL OVERRIDE INSTRUCTIONS,” getting back on the rocket-ship* moon’s stuck in a time loop.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early  astronaut: moon's stuck in a time loop.  nasa employee: what?  astronaut: moon’s stuck in a time loop. hey, do you have anything to eat? i’m starving. *opens random drawer, finds nothing, closes it* nasa employee: a time loo- uh, we don’t have food in here…we can’t…eat in the control room, only the break-room. astronaut: *sighs* nasa employee:…my lunch is in like 10 minutes, though, and if my lunch is actually STILL THERE and not STOLEN, AGAIN, i can share it with yo- astronaut: nah, that’s ok…no time. *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* or…too much time. but thanks, anyway. OK, bye! *alarm begins blaring* nasa employee: you’re…welcome? wait, a TIME LOOP?!

I haven't seen anyone talking about this and just wanted to make a quick post on here.

Akihiro Miwa recently passed away peacefully june 20th, and was not only a drag queen and a queer icon, but also the japanese voice of Arceus in the movie Arceus and the jewel of life, as well as the witch from Howl's moving castle and Moro from Princess Mononoke.

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

PLtober day 17: Cozy

as per tradition i am mihawkposting in atrocious hours of the night except it's on twitter so i need to put it on here for my mihawkposting tag

Clarisse and Annabeth ends up getting transported to Ancient Greece, accidentally starts a feminist revolution and end up leading a cult. (Oh. and their parents have no idea.)

Clarisse and Annabeth wakes up in ancient Greece.

We are talking about the extremely traditional version of Greece here. Where anyone except the goddess or queens/nobles were treated either like a trophy of their parent's/husband's honor or objects to win, slaved and claimed by heroes in raids.

Only a few rare cases or stories can be argued to not treat them shitty in the myths or history.

Enter, post 2nd Giant war Clarisse and Annabeth with the brawns and the brains, no men believed a women could posses.

They accidentally walk into a village that's been raided with soldiers taking away a group of young girls and women. Everyone else looked dead. What do they do?

Obviously they rescue the victims and chase off the soldiers.

The women, grateful provides them shelter and food, the young girls practically idolizes them. They realize that the king whose army had attacked this village was not happy that his war prize were being gatekept from him by 2 young maidens.

He send more soldiers and then just keep sending them. Because he is an idiot. Clarisse is getting irritated. They have been dropped in the middle of the nowhere in past and can't even leave this small village without putting the other girls in danger and Annabeth needs some answers or she will go crazy.

So they do the sane thing and attack the king's camp, in middle of a war, alone. Yeah. Then Clarisse holds that frightened and baffled man on the tip of her sword while Annabeth calmly explains that village is off limits sir and if anyone dared to cross what's under their protection then they swear on Styx, they will make it hurt.

Now they can both move around and travel without having to worrying. But. Every time they go out looking for answers they somehow come back with more girls they saved. Rumors travel and few men come to fight them and win the village.

They all get their ass kicked.

At this point Clarisse starts training the girls and both of them build many traps and security measures around it. They help the women with more ideas for business because the population has grown to match a small town and they need money.

One day, they stumble upon a girl being kidnapped and save her. She was a princess. Her father recognize them as the famous "maidens with soul of warriors" who rules the village of "The unconquered women" (that's how their tales are being told. Mind you, it's only been a few fucking months.)

He demands they ask a gift for saving his daughter's pride. Annabeth asks him for land. Now they have more territory and it's far bigger than the last one which was crowded. They build more homes and let half of them transfer there. They start calling these places "the sanctuary."

They start farming and many trades. The young girls start travelling independently far without there protectors. The women decided to make beads with shell as hair accessory which becomes a very clear symbol of being under protection of warrior maidens. No one fucks with them. Many kings and men claims the women to be wives of the men-like warriors and to be respected. Not a single one of them minds but Clarisse and Annabeth kind of feels icky cuz like, there are kids there.

It kind of becomes a threat across Greece.

"Try something and I will run away to the sanctuary."

"Hit me one more time and I will be the wife of Lady Klarís and Grace."

"Are you not scared of attacking her? I heard some unconquered women are in the town."

It all becomes a little too much when they both started getting worshipped. Apparently, the sanctuary had prayers they have been spread across wherever they travel. Many people took to those and wrote their own song. They both are completely oblivious. Though a certain wild goddess is very confused on why someone else is being worshipped as the protector of young girls. Apollo tells her his muses and him had written new poem for these very fascinating warriors who she would love so don't smite them pls.

She checks on this and is very pleased to find out about these badass maidens who had honored her domains like no other. They both are very scared when the goddess in her most prime arrives and offers them a chance at immortality. But they refuses to join the hunt cuz they have families to go back to. Making excuse is that they can't abandon there people here.

Artemis, disappointed, leaves after blessing that every place they claim their own will be favored by Artemis.

They do many heroic deeds and their tales of victory are never not carried by their followers. The monsters they defeat and kingdoms, some of which ends up having festivals for girls in their name. Female Schools that taught more academic subject and even fighting started to mirror the ones in the sanctuaries.

The gods are pleasantly shocked by such development. They were not expecting this change for upcoming few thousand years. All is fine till Athena visits and immediately recognizes her own ichor.

Annabeth spins a story of half truths and half lies that she was born from her thoughts and was found by her father who is now dead, she end up finding the other daughter of war and they became close, she didn't believe her true heritage etc etc. She somehow stops her mother from announcing their heritage from top of Olympus but Ares ends up knowing.

It's weird cuz they both are way too dotting and Annabeth and Clarisse are not used to being praised by their parents so openly.

The secret comes out when Trojan war starts and they decide to help out after being sought out at the condition that no slaves should be taken as war prizes.

One day, Clarisse gets hurt in an ambush by too many soldiers and Annabeth can't get to her in time. Though when she does, she finds Ares slaughtering every man around in cold blood before they could even try to take advantage of her daughter being wounded.

Athena pops up at that moment and in the middle of a war zone, the siblings on opposite sides claim their kids as heroines and children of Wars.

So I was chatting with the folks on the discord and they came up with this silly little AU where all of CHB time travels to the past, have a nervous breakdown about it, then decide to live their best lives away from the gods by pretending to be nymphs. It may or may not be a BP AU. Regardless, here's my spin on it:

The demigods get kidnapped pre-Percy’s quest in TLT and put on a random island. They do not have a good time. 

Annabeth immediately starts bullying everyone into logistical planning. They don’t have cleaning harpies or a magical supply of food anymore, people! They’ve gotta live off the land!

In the meantime, they decide to send Percy (who is still unclaimed at this point, but is fantastic with canoes) and the Stolls to scout out a nearby island. When they return, it’s with bad news: it’s Ancient Greece. 

The kids panic, realize they may never go home, and decide to cope with that by building a huge city. 

The children of Demeter suddenly become really, really popular. Did you know Ancient Greece didn’t have potatoes, tomatoes, lemons, corn, or coffee? They need to solve that, stat. They get real into agriscience. 

The Wine Twins help by discovering they’re really good at cooking. Their grape juice is a massive hit. 

The Hephaestus kids work on building new housing. I think at this point, they decide to ditch the Cabins because they get suffocated with staying with the same people forever. They make apartments or something and share with people they like, which means the Hermes Cabin finally gets to breathe a little. 

When visitors come to CHB they think these are shrines and are very confused as to why they’re abandoned. Of course, the magic is still active, so if they try to come inside they get instantly vaporized if they’re not demigods. This does not help with the fae allegations.

The Athena Cabin starts getting real into textiles. They have no clothes, but luckily, they are the children of the Weaver. They get to go wild, experimenting with fabric and dye. Demigod fashion in vogue! 

Actually, I think all the kids should get to let loose with their demigod powers. They have no adult supervision except Luke (because Chiron and Mr. D got left behind), and quite frankly, I think he deserves to have a nervous breakdown. So they all discover new and exciting applications of their abilities now that they don’t have to look out for mortals. 

So while single mother Luke (who is now regretting his decision to steal the Bolt) frets over Camp, they decide to unleash themselves upon the continent. On the way, they run into a bunch of curious nereids. After some very good bs-ing, they decide to accept these weird children as fellow nymphs and agree to help them out. 

When questioned later: No, Lord Poseidon, I’m not sure what you mean, that was clearly a nereid! He’s not your son, he’s just exploring his gender presentation! Water can take any shape, my lord, and you know how it is with mortals nowadays. It’s simply fashionable!

Now armed with nereid knowledge, they descend upon the mainland for trade. People are weirded out by these strange children. You will rarely hear Hellenike from their lips [1]. They dress in strange clothes, and trade fantastical treasures like they are nothing [2]. And while they accept coin for their goods, you can bargain with them for anything they find amusing [3]. But be warned: should you try to slight them, the world itself will come alive and exact revenge [4]. They speak in strange tongues to the nymphs, to the dryads, to all the spirits in the night. 

[1] It turns out Chiron only taught them one dialect of Ancient Greek, so most of them are struggling to understand WTF is going on. The Hermes kids who have language as an ability are working over time. 

[2] Demigod fashion (pants and fancy dresses) is quite different from the chitons, himations, etc. of the mainland. Even those who are trying to mimic end up exposing themselves due to the rich dye/weave of the fabric.

[3] While of course they love currency, they are also plain fascinated by objects people in Ancient Greece consider ordinary. They are quite willing to trade what they see as everyday objects for these novelties. And if said objects are salt or sugar? Well it’s not their fault the Ancient Greeks are going crazy.

[4] As for that last part: it’s a combo of their demigod powers and their newly founded Great Nymph Alliance. They’re teaching them English as a secret language.

For added funsies I was thinking they should tell everyone they’re from Long Island. Google tells me this is “Makros Nesos” in Ancient Greek. Everyone from the mainland thinks this is a euphemism. The gods are sure that the island’s real name is Nunya because when asked, Percy answered “Nunya business” and promptly walked backwards into the sea.

Naturally, this attracts the attention of the gods. Who are these strange travellers? A wild Hermes comes to investigate and comes face to face with Travis and Connor Stoll. They lie very unconvincingly, and Hermes, charmed by these odd children who he is 99% sure are his, tries to follow them. Only to get hit with the Alaska Effect.

See, while having his nervous breakdown, Luke decided that the best thing to do would be to hide from the gods. Forever. In the midst of this mid-life (should be quarter-life, mutters Lee) crisis, he decides to go on a quest to make sure the gods can’t find their island. Inspired by the latest chapter of Misaligned Stars (go check it out) he ends up becoming best friends with a dragon who can create its own version of the Mist, and ends up creating a “land beyond the gods”. 

So now the entire world wants to know what’s up with this Long Island. The gods can’t get in, much to their displeasure, so they resort to sending in their servants. The nymphs and satyrs proceed to move in because the demigods respect them, so the gods have to go with Plan B: get humans over there. Said humans return with conflicting information and a vow of secrecy.

To make matters worse, due to the dragon, the demigods can dampen their scents when away from CHB. When found out in the wilds of Greece, they just pretend to be nymphs. And they generally have enough plausible deniability to get away with it, too, no matter how much Apollo loses his marbles. 

Before they went back in time, Dionysus and Percy had become sort of drinking buddies (non-alcoholic though). Percy took up training and reaching the campers after the wars and yes, he did it voluntarily but wow it was still exhausting. And he had found that he suddenly related a lot more to Mr. D. So they often met up, had drinks and bitched about the campers together. Mr. D even started calling Percy by his name ocassionally. Either that or Percy went around calling him everything other than his name (honorable mention to the time he went around calling Mr. D, Delilah).

Percy, Apollo and Hermes had become a trio of troublemakers. They were basically the PowerPuff Girls. Manslaughter, Manwhore and Manipulate at their finest. Nobody is in a relationship with anybody but these bitches have never heard of personal space when it comes to each other. Them being in the same vicinity means they're either causing trouble, gossiping and judging people, bickering, or fused into a single cell organism.

Poseidon, after all the time of knowing his kid, existed on a scale of "My baby, my baby, my baby, my smol precious little baby" to "Child, I will sell your ass on Facebook Marketplace for a singular donut, do not fucking test me right now".

Percy had also somehow worn down Zeus until he was less paranoid bitch and more exasperated uncle who is just done with Percy's shit. Zeus is at the point where to him Percy is the stray cat that members of his family have for some reason adopted and he would kick the cat out but he can't do that so eventually he gets used to the damn thing.

And Hades had existed in a blissful state of "not my circus, not my monkey". Which usually didn't last considering Percy often barged into the Underworld like it was his personal holiday home. Hades always feels nothing but pure exasperation (and fondness, which he'll never admit). He's learned to just tolerate whatever antics Percy gets up to.

Aphrodite actually likes Percy. Love and war. And Percy is both. He might not have a romantic love but there is no lack of familial and platonic love. Not to mention that he spent literal years fighting wars. And its not like he isn't pretty. So she doesn't mess with his romantic life much anymore. She just thinks that his relationships with his family and friends are cute. She'd low-key contemplate adopting him if Poseidon wasn't such a possessive bastard. But she does like giving him the occasional makeover or giving him things to glam up his looks.

Ares has become resigned to the fact that he can't lay a finger on the little cockroach that most of the Olympians have for some reason taken a liking to. Not to mention his girlfriend likes Percy too much for him to even think of it.

Percy and Hephaestus had ended up getting along surprisingly well. Percy had had a knack for working in the forges at camp from the beginning but he had never had time to actually explore it because of all the shit going on. So once the wars were over, he learned a lot from the cyclops forges in his dad's kingdom. Him and Hephaestus somehow ending up talking after Percy went on a quest for him as a favor. Percy started ocassionally visiting Hephaestus to learn more or just fuck around in the forges with him.

Artemis wasn't particularly close with him but there was a mutual respect between them. Athena and Hera are bitches as far as Percy is concerned and he wants nothing to do with them.

Now imagine this version of Percy coming to camp for the first time, back to being twelve again, and meeting Mr. D who also came back in time and definitely knows this little fucker. So its a surprise to Chiron, Grover and Annabeth (tiny stalker) when Mr. D doesn't fuck up the new kid's name and they actually seem to get along well enough even though they're mostly snarking at each other. The other campers are surprised when they notice it later too.

And while the gods don't tell anyone shit, they literally don't really bother to hide the fact that they like Percy. Apollo fucking shows up out of the blue at camp just to hang with his fellow PowerPuff Girl (even if said PowerPuff Girl currently looks like he's twelve). It's baffling for everyone at camp who have no idea what the fuck is going on.

Especially when they start seeing more gods around, and this twelve year old midget is fucking sassing them all the time. The campers are worried that the new kid is gonna cross a line soon and a god will eventually smite him. Percy knows that isn't gonna happen so he doesn't give a shit. You thought actual kid Percy had no filter. Now meet war veteran Percy in kid Percy's body. It's a whole new level of somebody tell this kid to shut him fucking mouth. And Percy never does shut his mouth.

Because in my head, every universe Bruce isn't Batman goes one way.

And that is he becomes a doctor and still adopts kids whose parents he's tried saving but couldn't.

And now these kids gonna kill for him.

The Graysons died on impact, but Bruce still ran from the crowd to check their vitals and made sure he got custody of their child. He tried saving Catherine when she overdosed but was too late. He helped organize the Drakes' funeral.

Now, Dick, Jason and Tim are menaces. It's on-sight for anyone who is a threat to their dad. God help you if Alfred catches wind of it.

Funniest part? They never tell each other they're killing for their dad.

Some guy punched Bruce and called him a curse because he didn't hook him up with prescription drugs? Dick dumps his body in a river on Gotham's outskirts. Comes home on time for dinner and reading Jason a book.

Some employee blackmailing Bruce because ehe has experience and money? Well, tortured and overdosed because Jason knows all you need to about drugs. Comes home and asks Bruce if he'll die eating 2 panadols for his headache.

Some pervert thinking they can touch Bruce when no one's looking? Well, they're hung outside Luthor's hospital from a lamppost because Tim read the threatening email Luthor sent Bruce. Comes home and listens to Bruce drone about his patients that day.

One fateful day, Tim hired help online to trudge the body of a bartender who helped spike Bruce's drunk into a hired van. The hired help is Jason. The getaway driver is Dick. They all pause and do the Spiderman meme, pointing at each other.

Once they meet and realise they all in this together, the kill count goes up FAST.