Evolutionary Dead End

This event spanning February 22 to March 7 could be extra incentive as you can join for educational art and gaming streams, as well as opportunities to win art prints (including some fresh ones from me) over the course.

All the money donated will go straight to Save the Children, no other party.

I’m glad to have been offered to contribute a small part to this project, but more importantly please donate if you can, and check out the charity for yourself if you don’t care about ac. This is just a way to get more people involved and find more ways to help from home.

Any and all contributions to help people count

Sorry folks for the lack of art; I started uni recently and haven’t been drawing as much as I’d like. Hope that’s ok.

^ plus some swords for my first assignment! (I’ll be making the gold one in 3D)

quiet days

(I reinstalled AC1 again and oh my god I forgot how these controls work. the amount of things I’ve accidentally fallen off of RIP)

Hello everyone! I know this is vastly different from the usual content I post, but it is extremely important to me. I am currently doing research on fandom vocabulary and identity for one of my college classes this semester with the goal of getting my paper published. If you have the time, I would appreciate it if anyone involved with fandoms currently or in the past could complete this survey and spread it to others.

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This survey consists of a demographic section and questions related to fandoms and their vocabularies. It will take about 45 minutes to 1 hour to complete.

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“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

specifically she also performed Claudia and I’m sure she’s a fine actor but holy shit the accent is so horrible. I wish she had never taken the role and tbh it felt like a mockery. Someone had beef w my observation on this in the past but like … Canada isn’t short on Chinese talent. They could have found writers and actors and artists and historians to help with her portrayal but no.

So, Caravaggio was a messed up violent guy, even by the standards of his time. It’s genuinely amazing he produced as many paintings as he did, with all the time he spent, fucking, fighting, and fleeing the law.

He constantly got in trouble with the law for dumb shit like writing bitchy (and absolutely fucking filthy) libelous poems about people, threatening to beat up painters who imitated his style, throwing rocks at the cops, and in one incident, throwing a plate of artichokes at a waiter (don't be dicks to the waitstaff, folks).

But he was really notorious for just constantly getting into brawls. "The transcripts of his police records and trial proceedings fill many pages" apparently. Dude just wanted to throw down ALL. THE. TIME.

So in one of these brawls he straight up kills a guy by trying to cut his dick off (and instead stabbing him in the femoral artery) and has to flee Milan to evade murder charges. He ends up in Rome, where he gets the brilliant idea to BEAT A NOBLEMAN WITH A CLUB, and eventually gets his ass thrown in jail. His patrons intervene, get him out of jail and into house arrest so at least he can paint and stay out of trouble.

HAHA NOPE! So much for staying out of trouble -- a couple years later he stabs another dude in a fight over a model he’s banging, and has to flee to Genoa for a few weeks before coming back to Rome. At which point he gets in trouble because he doesn't pay rent, and decides the reasonable response to this is to chuck old veggies and rocks at his landlady. Several dozen people had sued this dude for various reasons, mostly involving stabbing or throwing shit (we only know as much about him as we do because of the paper trail from this dude’s insane legal troubles). Hell, he managed to stab himself when he tripped and fell on his own sword. He was a menace.