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I immortalised Hange as a bust and this is my first attempt at an animation but it was so fun!

It was basically a company who make group family portraits from different photos (for example, if a grandparent passed away before they got to meet their grandchild, they draw them together in one portrait).

These "drawings" were literally just traced over the photo/the photo itself photoshopped to look like a drawing, half of the scales were completely off (lots of babies with heads as big as an adults) and the prices were as low as £15. The post had so many people saying how the "artwork" was amazing, how they'd bought one or wanted one and... I just..

I'm not slamming the idea, honestly the concept is really lovely, but the execution was downright terrible.

We're living in a world where it is becoming nearly impossible to actually have a career as a full-time artist/illustrator/designer and I believe it's these sorts of things making that so. £15 for a piece of art work??? That is an unbelievably low rate of pay for some one who is freelance/ self-employed.

Now I'm beginning to realise why I'm being turned down for charging £70 for a handdrawn illustration that takes me 2-3 weeks to complete.

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It was updated the next week.

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

Most people have a hard time reading scientific journals (and honestly scientists can have a hard time too) so it’s important to asses articles and information to figure out if they have support for the claims they make.

Does it mean they are Ertwins ?

...

All through the episode he was deeply confused :

"Wait they know the big titan ?"

"Where are they ?"

"But this guy wasn't their friend ?"

"I understand nothing of this."

"Is the female titan the blond girl we saw at the beginning ? She was training with everyone. A strong girl."

And also :

Eren : *wakes up*

(Forgot to post) Day 1: Roommates

Sure, it might help him forget a few things for a short while, but it comes at the cost of making his body slow and less responsive, and having his thoughts slip out with an ease he isn’t comfortable with. Not to mention that he’s never woken up without his head pounding the following morning, even after just one glass. 

“Come on, get another one in ya!”

Levi hates drinking with Hanji even more. 

Hanji’s either oblivious to this or they simply choose to ignore it as they fill Levi’s glass, so eagerly that it spills right over the brim. There’s no use in Levi complaining though. Careful not to spill any more, he brings it to his lips and takes a swig, flinching as it swills across his tongue. He doesn’t even like the taste of the stuff, but he knows Hanji needs a night like this every now and then, even if they won’t admit it outright. Doesn’t mean he has to enjoy it though. 

On any normal day Hanji talks too much, but when they drink it’s as if they need to talk just as any other person needs to breathe, their favourite topic being the years long behind them, and all the people trapped there. They paint their own colourful spin to it though, possibly to try and make the whole thing just a little less miserable.

On the rare occasion Levi’ll agree to drink, it’s a small, often futile attempt to forget about the past, to blur out all their words and faces, consequences and hangovers be damned.

The mess hall is empty save the two of them and of course the silence that takes up every other bit of space in there. It’s always like this lately. Even when all the remaining members of the survey corps comes to dine - not that there are many left - the quiet refuses to give way, lingering there in the background like stubborn mould, simply waiting for its chance to take over.

His glass isn’t even half empty when Hanji moves to fill it up once more. Levi doesn’t stop them.

“Hey Levi,” they start with a chuckle which is husky from drink. “Do you remember the time when Mike and Erwin - ”

“ - Not today, Hanji.” 

Or ever.