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Tim (arguing to himself abt his what is favorite dinosaur over the comms): -and then there is the Gallimimus which while sounds co-

Jason: could someone PLEASE make him stop?

Comms:

Bruce: *grunts* I like it.... so the Gallimimus?

(a) loves Tim

(b) loves dinosaurs

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

There’s not a lot of treatments, and there isn’t a single one that is for vaginismus exclusively - they’re all medications or treatments to treat symptoms, but not the causes. In fact, for a long time doctors waved off vaginismus as a purely psychological disorder in cis women.

It’s incredibly common! And it can be treated by physiotherapy.

I know this because I’m currently undergoing physio and although it can take months to recover, I’m already seeing improvement. A lot of the pelvic floor exercises are available online, but if you have these symptoms please TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR and see if you can get a physio referral (or investigation for underlying causes like endometriosis).

Also, my additions to posts never get reblogged so a note to my followers: this is SUPER IMPORTANT ISSUE that affects many people and is rarely talked about. Please reblog, and please share this info with as many people as possible.

start now. now. now now now. or else you'll never draw this damn thing

it's fine if you don't have the entire story figured out yet, it'll happen naturally

draw what you want to draw!! webcomics often run for years, so you better work with something you like

don't overcomplicate things. a simple, efficient work flow is your top priority in order to stay consistent

bullshit some things. trace background refs. reuse poses. draw your character's face from different angles and just copy paste it in to save time. be smart about your work baby

take breaks if needed. webcomic burnout is real

sometimes, a panel or a page looks bad. shit happens. move on

lettering is actually really important and super hard to pull off

it's your comic. do what you want forever!!!

I'm begging you again to work smart, not hard. reuse backgrounds. use brush sets for webcomic artists. trace 3D objects. use 3D models to pose your characters

you may need hours or days to draw one panel, but people will look at it for 5-8 seconds. keep that in mind

a simple background is better than no background at all (avoiding the white void increases the quality of your work by a ton!)

sometimes the anatomy needs to be a little off to make an interesting shot/panel. that's fine, don't worry about it too much

at least 2000px canvas and 300 dpi for good quality results

your first page is always going to have more hits than your second page. If you're not prepared for that it can be really discouraging. Readership usually stabilizes around page 6 or 7

prioritize legibility

when planning a page put your word bubbles in first. Believe me I tried eyeballing it for years it's not worth it just start with the word bubbles and plan your art around that

persistence beats passion. webcomics are a marathon, not a sprint

I know what it's like to be vulnerable and fall for harmful propaganda. I know what it's like to struggle with something, not have anyone understand me, and trust the first people who claim to have a solution. I know what it's like to be easily manipulated because of the limited information accessible to me. I know what it's like to have harmful beliefs and do harmful actions, grow out of them, and hope for a chance to redeem myself.

And because of that, I don't expect people to be perfect. I don't expect people to have never been monsters at some point in their lives. I don't expect people to have always been social justice warriors.

But Trump supporters are not mistakenly misinformed. They're full grown adults who have had plenty of time to figure things out for themselves. They've had literally hundreds of opportunities to see how cruel Trump is and decide that this is the final straw. And every single time, they continued to support him and went out of their way to find an excuse. They've many times witnessed people begging them to stop supporting Trump, and every single time, they’ve dismissed those people as easily offended special snowflakes. The information they need is all over the internet, and they're choosing to ignore any information that doesn't confirm what they already believe.

People who were once monsters can be redeemed. But there eventually comes a time when those who can be redeemed would have been by now. And for Trump supporters, that time has passed a long time ago.

The idea that “they’ve had plenty of time” is not an argument. Time does not undo propaganda, social pressure, algorithmic filtering, or fear-based identity systems. People do not suddenly become immune to psychological and social forces just because they are adults. Online platforms and social networks actively reinforce beliefs by shaping what people see and who they interact with. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09759-5

Saying “the information is everywhere” ignores that access to information is not the same thing as trusting it or encountering it in a way that feels legitimate. People do not reason in a vacuum. They reason inside social environments shaped by identity, fear, loyalty, and perceived threat.

The post also quietly turns “redemption” into something impossible by definition. If someone is declared irredeemable because they have not already changed, then redemption is no longer a real concept. It is just a label used after the fact to justify exclusion.

The most dangerous claim here is that social exile changes minds. Evidence consistently shows that ostracism does not reliably cause belief change. It often causes people to double down, become more hostile, or lean further into conspiratorial thinking. Making someone “suffer a life of friendlessness” is not accountability. It is cruelty framed as strategy, and it mirrors the same dehumanization this post claims to oppose. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/02/20/social-exclusion-leads-conspiratorial-thinking-study-finds

There is also a contradiction in the idea that cruelty only ends when people lose power. Private friendships are not power in the structural sense. Institutions, laws, and state violence are power. Cutting someone off socially does not weaken authoritarianism. It just reduces the number of people who might ever reach them.

You are allowed to set boundaries. You are allowed to say “I cannot be close to someone who supports policies that harm me.” That is honest and reasonable. But turning personal boundaries into a universal moral obligation, and framing relational harm as political praxis, replaces ethics with purity tests.

If you believe people can change, you cannot set an expiration date on their humanity. And if you believe authoritarianism is dangerous, you should be careful about endorsing tactics based on social punishment and shunning. Research on polarization shows that cross-group engagement, when done intentionally, is more likely to reduce hostility than enforced isolation. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/polarizing-effect-of-partisan-echo-chambers/5044B63A13A458A97CA747E9DCA07228

Sources (collected)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31928312/

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/02/20/social-exclusion-leads-conspiratorial-thinking-study-finds

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09759-5

do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.

Saturnian Aurora - January 9th, 1998.

A lot of people are reblogging this without the addition too which frustrates me because I feel like it's really important to bring attention to the specific sort of discrimination schizophrenic people are subject to.

People will see that you're visibly mentally ill, think that you're annoying and actively look for reasons to dislike you, leading to your presence being constantly fucking monitored and judged because everyone's looking for a concrete reason to hate you. That's what this post is about. this is not a general positivity post or a statement. This is an exasperated vent from a schizophrenic person who has been pushed to his fucking brink so many times.

This doesn't just apply to schizophrenia of course- this applies to other schizospec or psychotic disorders, this applies to personality disorders (ESPECIALLY CLUSTER B.) and this spplies to DID and OSDD and other dissociative disorders. Hell this applies to any even remotely stigmatized disorder. I've seen friends with nothing up with them except for mild autism be treated like this solely because someone found them annoying.