I don't choose the fixation

Monesti hengaillaan iltapäivästä iltaan asti ja aloin vaan jossain vaiheessa sanomaan hyvää yötä kotiin lähtiessä. Sanon sen nykyään joka kerta ja se on niin kivaa ku kaverit sanoo sen takas!! Nyt välillä on käyni niinki et kaveri on sanonu sen ennekö mä oon kerenny!

Se on oikeesti yks parhaista asioista mitä voin kuulla päivän aikana!! Siitä tulee niin hyvä mieli, sekä sen sanomisesta että se kuulemisesta!!

Nyt on sun vuoro tehä samoin! Seuraavalla kerralla ku hyvästelet sun kaverin illalla, sano sille heipat ja toivota hyvää yötä!! 🫵🫵🫵

so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah​ or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:

pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)

extras in comedy sketch shows

esports players

real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks

70s baseball players

athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type

ska, jazz, and blues musicians

firefighters

improv troupes

for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date

state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)

people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado