Catradora is my religion

You need to workout everyday

Eat 3 healthy meals everyday

Meditate everyday

Write in your journal every day

If you want to gain a skill or progress in a hobby, you need to practice everyday or damn near everyday

Some chores need to get done every single day

Meds and vitamins every day

Grooming and skincare every day

Deal with family matters everyday

Try to talk to friends damn near everyday

If you have kid, forget everyday, you need to take care of that EVERY SECOND.

And on top of all that WORK DAMN NEAR EVERY DAY

And you need to sleep

By the time you sleep and work and commute at least 16-20 hrs of day are gone btw

The Substance texts , self indulgent f2u credit appreciated

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

for example, there’s the the curupira, a young boy with fire hair with backwards feet that attacks woodcutters or anyone who damages his home (the forest). because his footsteps are backwards, following his tail will lead you in the opposite direction! this very relevant to the fact that the portuguese came into the country and not only slaughtered the indigenous populations but also destroyed every bit of nature they encountered to export back to europe. brazil (or brasil, from brasa or ember) is literally named after the reddish color of the wood from a tree that was chopped down to near extinction after the arrival of the portuguese.

my favorite one as a gender person is the boto cor de rosa, or the amazon river dolphin. because first of all this is the cuntiest animal ever.

the story goes that every full moon, this majestic creature emerges from the river and turns into a very handsome white man wearing a hat to hide the dolphin-ish features that remain on his face. he then attends a party and seduces a woman, gets her pregnant and leaves her behind to return to the river and never be seen again. a popular brazilian idiom, “filho do boto” or “child of the boto” is used to describe children with unknown or absent fathers. the allegory here is the sexual violence suffered by indigenous women at the hands of colonists, who of course did not give a shit about who got or didn’t get pregnant. note how the dolphin’s light and pink-ish skin is quite similar to a very white person’s skin tone (maybe even with a blush or sunburn from the tropical sun).

this plus slavery (and the sexual violence that came with that) plus mass immigration has made brazil a very highly miscigenated country, and a very racist one nonetheless. this is why your stereotypical picture of a brazilian person, particularly a brazilian woman, might be that of a scantily dressed black/tan/racially ambiguous woman who is very sexy and dances etc etc. the notion of brazilian women of color as sex objects has existed in our culture for a very long time and has clearly extrapolated our national borders—see what words/phrases in english have incorporated brazil, like brazilian butt lift, brazilian blowout, brazilian wax, all things associated with sex appeal and a particular brand of femininity.