one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster

Children placed in residental schools were abused, murdered, and sold into arranged marriages with white men. More recently, children "adopted" out into white households are often also subjected to the same, as well as forcibly converted to Christianity.

As we all know, thanks to the support of the good people of Tumblr, Tylenol has experienced a meteoric rise to second place. Even though her competition is stiff, I believe in Tylenol's ability to go the distance.

But let's take a look at the competition:

Elmer seems to be a lovely boy. I have no qualms with Elmer, and think he would look fantastic on a beer can. But what about Elmer's campaigns? Who is the power behind the throne here, and how have they managed to find such breakout success on this competition?

A handful of wealthy donors are trying to buy this competition.

At the end of the day, all donations are good donations here. This is a charity event so every penny earned is going to help animals in need. But it's not lost on me that Elmer's current ranking is thanks entirely to a few individuals with the financial means to put their thumbs on the scale.

Tylenol's donors, comparatively, are small and numerous, mostly $1-10 donations from many passionate believers in what she stands for (autism and pain relief I think).

Overall, the donations tell a very different story than what the base ranking shows you. Elmer is held aloft by just 24 donors and bolstered by a few wealthy patrons, whereas Tylenol has won the hearts of literally hundreds of people. Even the current third place, Abby, owes her ranking to numerous small contributions rather than one or two large ones.

And the way YOU prefer to do the eyeballs, the kind of hair you like to draw, how you portray fabric wrinkles, how long you draw fingers, how *densely* you portray fabric wrinkles, how sharply you draw curves, what directions your fabric wrinkles most commonly swoop in, your favorite kind of coat buttons or beetles or tree bark to draw, all these things together make it possible for someone to recognize your work as just yours if they care enough about it.

And this truly does apply to each and every human artist, every time. What? You trained for 39 years straight specifically to draw exactly like Akira Toriyama? You only do on-model fanart of a single show? You ghost-illustrated for Stan Lee himself and his own editors never noticed? Nope, sorry, line all your work up next to what you're imitating and yours will still exhibit different trends, different ways of shaping leg muscles, different sets of favorite poses and angles, different pupil to sclera ratios, anything. Big enough fans of that artist will notice right away...and maybe so will big enough fans of *you* someday!?

This is true at ALL skill levels, at all points in life. No two toddlers scribble every kind of object the same way. It's not possible. It's just the way it is. A unique style isn't actually something you need to develop, but something you can't ever perfectly avoid if you try, and that one of a kind fingerprint is hands down the coolest, most amazing and fun part of art, the whole reason you have fun showing it off at all, the whole reason you have any favorite illustrators.

If you ask an ai *or* any other human being to draw your idea, then no matter how detailed your description is, it's not your art. Your visual language won't be used. Nobody will ever say "oh, I know who drew that instantly!" and be able to name you based on recurring shapes and colors or that quirky way you happen to design belt buckles.

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

green? the rarest and not one ive seen personally but it can happen

blue? classics of sky

indigo? violet? twilight babyyy

pink? also shows up at sunrise/sets

black? night. get goth with it

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make