new timeline, new me

Anyway if like me you are constantly looking for online content that gently releases sweet good vibe chemicals in your brain, here’s a shitload of episodes I like. They’re all about 20-40 mins long. Stars next to the ones I particularly like, but I feel like that’s gonna tell you more about me than about drawfee.

*Artists Draw Themselves Into Their Favorite Anime (Speed draw where everyone’s art is very good but frankly we all get distracted because we have to talk about Julia’s wild flex)

Scooby-Doo Drawing Challenge (ft. Simone from Polygon) (you know, scooby doo! like from that episode of supernatural. Simone is great and Nathan could not be more delighted by the art.)

Professional Artists Redraw Their Old Art (Speed draw ft the phrase “Mid-2000s hetero nonsense”)

Impossible Coloring Challenge (art but make it bullying)

Artists Draw Urban Fantasy D&D Characters (ft. Brennan Lee Mulligan) (an Unsleeping City themed episode. A powerful bard is made this day.)

*Artists Draw Their Fursonas (speed draw. This episode made me want a fursona so goddamn bad)

Turning Animals Into Original Characters Challenge (just an extremely chill hangout episode)

*Drawing Dungeons & Dragons Cats (an entire episode that’s about the tv show Columbo)

Drawing Backgrounds For Video Calls (another chill hangout video that features my husband Kaiba)

Professional Artists Redraw Their Childhood Art (Speed draw. Full Moonpaw comic reboot and relaunch when)

Drawing Thomas the Tank Engine Original Characters (body horror. car body horror.)

The Hottest New Board Game (ft. McElroy Brothers) (the first episode I saw! Monster factory energy except the character creator is just two other people drawing)

*Artists Draw Gigantamax Pokémon From Memory (look, the way Julia says “laser eyyyyyyyes” in the beginning is all I’m thinking about 24/7.)

Artists Draw Kaiba in Different Styles (when I was younger I used to walk around and listen to “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “In The End” on repeat because those were my Kaiba songs. I also had an elaborate plot line where he was begging crushed under a boulder and no one could get him out so he was just endlessly suffering. I was 11 and I knew what I wanted my favorite characters to experience. Anyway, speed draw episode.)

Artists Draw MORE Disney Characters As Dark Souls Bosses (boy I wish I could say I’m recommending this for a reason that isn’t “in depth exploration of Gaston/lefou oviposition” but I’m not here to lie to you)

Knock-Off Pokémon Based On Food (look anytime they talk like Joey Wheeler, it’s a good episode.)

Dungeons & Dragons & DRAWING | Drawga Episode 1 (ayyyyyyy plot! Come get ya plot over here! If you want drawings with story. Or if you like Naddpod and you’re like “I want that but only with Caldwell and also Tonathan Tinkle, and also I want to see faces as they talk.” Ten episodes in total. Elyse Willems and Rekha Shenkar are the funniest guests alive.)

I tried.

Again.

Misinformation is also a virus and our country is just as infected with it as it is with COVID-19.

Bunk thinks he is perfectly innocent publicly posting his bad information. That he is not harming anyone. But he has influence over his loved ones and his friends and maybe even strangers that see his nonsense.

He is a potential superspreader of misinformation.

And that is dangerous.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-vaccine/art-20484859

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2035389

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6950e2.htm

the lesson for today, class, is when to use epithets rather than names or pronouns — and when not to.

USE EPITHETS:

- when the character’s name is unknown, so there’s really no other way to refer to them:

Two goons in suits blocked my way. “You ain’t going nowhere,” said the ugly mook. The even-uglier mook just grinned.

- to draw attention to the role or function described:

Bill was so excited to meet Obama, he was a little worried he’d end up remembering today as the day he threw up on the president.

- as in-character commentary to flesh out the POV’s voice:

You stand back and nudge the door open with your toe in case of falling buckets, but it seems the windy dipshit has given up on that particular tired prank.

(NOTE: use this last one SPARINGLY. consider your own internal monologue. how often do you think of people by anything but their names? too much of this trick breaks immersion.)

DO NOT USE EPITHETS:

- to avoid using pronouns.

- to avoid using names.

- to remind the reader of physical characteristics you should’ve described elsewhere.

- to remind the reader of physical characteristics they already know perfectly well because they wouldn’t even be reading your damn fanfic if they weren’t familiar with canon, come ON people.

- to try to sound erudite or poetic.

- for any other stupid reason. i’m serious. i will come over there and hit you.

- i’m not kidding.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.