It’s so weird to me when people are like ‘but that will cost the government money!’ So what? They’re the government, they’re supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.
when a dragons wings are too small to realistically fly thats fine its reasonable i think to size them down to allow them to fit in a space better and be more readable as a character. but outside of really specific circumstances (like cartoonishly small wings) when a dragons wing webbing stops way too far up? punishable by death. in seymourworld.
sooo many dragon designs look like the last thing and it pisses me of. stopppp
No, but yes. The reason insects can have a single connection point like that is because they have a completely different type of wing which operates on a different set of laws of physics. To hideously oversimplify it for the sake of brevity, they’re so small and light they can basically treat air like a fluid.
Birds, and anything larger than a bird, are using their entire body as a single plane with which to generate lift. Insects don’t have to, but they do need to be able to move their wings at a lot of different angles very quickly. And hummingbirds split the difference between the two.
–uv resin. That includes gel nails and all nail accoutrements. No you shouldn’t gaze into the uv lamp either. I mean it, nail glue will fuck you up. Yes it is now less likely to cause cancer in nail techs due to formulation regulations no it is not zero risk.
–epoxy resin. You need a respirator. Ask me about the bloody and blistering rash I had to treat for months if you think gloves are optional.
–most adhesives in fact there’s a reason you can huff shoe glue and get high and that reason is “it gives you brain, throat, and lung damage and you need to do this project outside”. Krazy glue is an eye skin and lung irritant. I don’t know why you people don’t read the packaging.
–solvents. Paint thinner. Alcohol.
–paint. Im not sure why you’re playing with oil paint in a windowless room. You don’t need to paint your bedroom with the windows closed. If it’s raining you can wait.
–wood stain. Ask me about the rocking chair incident.
–cleanign supplies. You shouldn’t be mixing them. I know what you saw on the internet. Those people are morons. Are you a fucking moron. You will get turbo cancer. And more importantly bronchitis. Glass cleaner on the glass, lysol your fucking countertops, and pour toilet cleaner or pine sol in your toilet. No. Not both. No you don’t need to dump all of them in your sink. Leave the door open while you clean.
–if you have unbaked polymer clay you need to paint it after you bake it. After. Not before. It’s weird that I have to specify this.
Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated that electronic device searches are infrequent and unrelated to political beliefs, focusing on national security threats.
Makled said he believes he was targeted due to his involvement in cases that challenge the current administration of President Donald Trump.
Plus probably his name & skin colour
just as a thing, EVEN IF you believe that “if you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide” bullshit, “I am forbidden from even accidentally disclosing information about my clients” is a pretty decent rebuttal
and if you’re thinking, “oh, maybe they just wanted to see his phone because they didn’t know he was an attorney or that stuff is privileged,” NOPE
While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: “We know you’re a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.”
Makled said he responded: “I said, ‘I’m not a famous lawyer. Let’s get to the bottom. What’s the issue here?’ ”
they then harassed him into letting them see his contact list (but only after he refused to let them see his privileged texts with his clients)
These are smocking patterns. If you stitch these patterns into flat fabric and then pull the threads to gather the fabric, it will produce these patterns on the finished fabric. Smocking manipulates flat fabric into three dimensions.
The beautiful fabric that looked like dragon scales on costumes in the tv show Game of Thrones were produced by smocking, by sewing a particular pattern into the fabric and then pulling those threads just the right amount to gather the fabric into that pattern.
i am increasingly convinced that the wedding industry is having a statistically significant impact on young women leaving the mormon church. has anyone looked into this?
>mormons tell girls their most important roles throughout their entire life are wife and mother. extremely patriarchal, told in every way except in plain speech that they are expected to erase their personhood in favor of performing a strict role
>american culture says that the wedding day is about The BRIDE. it’s HER day.
>mormon girls are not told about the strictures of a temple wedding until endowment because secret secret.
>mormon girls spend their whole lives dreaming about their american weddings with their wedding dresses and decorations and loving vows and a day about me me me me me me. perhaps the ONLY day that they truly expect might be in some way about them. the day they get to be star of the show
>wedding industry puffs these american girls dreams of their wedding up to extremes
>forced out of wedding dress on wedding day by a random bishop they’ve never met in their life because it’s debatably not modest or white enough (even though it was made by a mormon dress shop) who also says your name wrong. you’re not allowed to speak, and especially if you’re in a larger city or a busy day, your wedding ceremony feels more like being processed at the DMV than a celebration of your love and commitment to each other. factory pace 15 minute wedding
>bishop follows you to the reception and loudly tells everyone that you and your new husband are the least important part of the ceremony because actually the holiness of the mormon temple church is what’s really been proven today. better not get distracted by young love when really it’s the Mormon Church That Matters
at least these are the throughlines i’ve noticed. i’ve never watched a woman’s “I left the Mormon Church” video that didn’t mention her wedding and how much it sucked absolute shit the whole time.
thank you for explaining further! that makes a lot of sense.
totally <3. i also realized i kind of sketched this out but didn’t fully explain. i don’t think the heart of it is the opulence or extravagance; more that it’s about the specialness of the day and the focus.
mormons think they’re normal perfectly average christians until endowment because people who aren’t endowed aren’t allowed in the temple even if they’re a mormon child in a mormon family. (to the point that exmormon youtubers and social media personalities regularly get comments from mormon youths saying that they’re lying about the temple and endowment and all of it). + endowment takes place after high school graduation and the expectation is to marry YOUNG. so these girls are generally 18-22 (up to 24 if she both went to college and on mission), brand new to a church that runs on social pressure and expectation, and trained for their whole lives to obey and trust authority without question while ignoring their own feelings and misgivings. the consumerist american values and ideas of the wedding are in full play, including ideas that are WAY more powerful for mormon girls. it being the bride’s day is supercharged in importance when the bride knows she will never get another day.
i think in the mormon girls’ consciousness, she always knows she’s going to be second fiddle. or fourth or fifth. she’ll never hold the priesthood or be a leader to her family or community and even in the afterlife, she’s beholden on her husband to call her forth by a secret name into paradise. and he can choose not to. but this day is supposed to be the day where she gets to be her own person and honored for her necessity to the whole process even if she’s in a support role. where she gets to be recognized and honored for the role she’s committed to.
and then. she likely can’t wear her wedding dress and will be forced to buy another one in the mormon church giftshop that also sells the secret underwear. even if she does get to wear her dress, she has to put the shit quality mass manufactured one-size-fits-all temple garments on over it to feel ugly and undifferentiable during the ceremony. and her wedding ceremony is conducted in a factory style and it’s exactly the same as the other girls that have gone ahead of her. to the point the bishops regularly get their names wrong. and then they don’t get to exchange vows. and then they literally aren’t allowed to have any kind of wedding celebration disconnected from the church so they can’t hold a reception without a bishop in attendance to spend the whole time denigrating the importance of her relationship with her husband and telling all the non-mormons that the most special part of the day is over and they weren’t allowed in because they’re not holy enough and this reception is just a stupid meaningless party. telling everyone that the only part of the day that the bride had any say over and the only part where she’s meant to be special means nothing and is nothing. the part that matters is the part where she doesn’t.
during what is supposed to be her special day, she probably never feels more reduced to being an interchangeable hole whose purpose is producing flesh children and spirit babies. any other girl could have been standing there with your husband and it wouldn’t have made a single difference.and this is the day your whole life has been leading to.
like, it’s the young ages and the recent surprise of what the church actually is and the unbelievable sexism to their liturgy and how it’s all mutually exclusive to an american wedding culture that mormon girls are primed to invest in. like these girls talk about picking out baby names and starting wedding scrapbooks at like 8. they’re all trained by their religion to be the girl in class that is the most obsessed with getting married and having babies and then, right before what they’ve been dreaming of for their entire life finally happens, all of those dreams are crushed into dust and replaced with something i think every american would call a very bad wedding.
like. when you think about how a non-mormon girl who started her wedding scrapbooks at age 8 would react to the priest at her wedding getting her name wrong, to not being able to wear her dress, to not being able to choose her venue or have her different religion family members and loved ones in attendance, to have the same guy who got your name wrong in the ceremony follow you to the reception and continue to shit on your relationship in order to remind everyone that the Church is Most Important? she’d murder that priest and burn the fucking building down with everyone in it, laughing while people fled. and then she’d have a re-do and no one would be surprised. the mormon girls seem to leave the church about it, which is basically burning their whole lives down with how enmeshed the mormon church demands you be.
they train these girls to look forward to their wedding as the most important day of their lives and then their church structure actively manufactures the worst, most depersonalized and disrespectful weddings i could ever imagine. and then girls who’ve been dreaming about their weddings forever go “actually fuck this and fuck you.”
It’s actually pretty nuts how there is no real mass media coverage of the protests that are happening all over the US. It demonstrates fairly conclusively that the unlawful activities at the White House aren’t just limited to Trump. There’s a lot of wealthy people in powerful positions in the US and around the world helping to support the dismantling of the US federal government.
I have multiple asks about leshy looking like various stim toys so to offset the previous shitpost comic, I present this box of leshy fidget slugs (I did not know which ask to respond to so I’m just posting it as is lmao)
I drew it over a crusty jpeg I got from an amazon listing so I artifacted the drawing to make it fit better, I think it adds to the vibe of “shitty reused stock image of a dropshipped item you found in the trenches of google images”
Hello this isn't so much an ask but I did want to say I love your artstyle very much and wanted you to know it. Your color balance is so lovely and even with the high saturation, nothing feels overpowering at all! The emotion you're able to instill in your drawings and comics is legendary and delightful to see!
AUAUAUUUUUHHHHHHHH THIS IS SO CUTE ARE YOU KIDDING ME–
Thank you for the kind words, I’m really glad you took the time to write to me! I’m especially happy hearing the high saturation in my art isn’t like overpowering, I REALLY loved eyestrain-y art a few years back but now that I’ve got bad eyes, I had to make my colors easier to look at for long periods of time…but I still like to keep them neon and crazy >:)
I love how sweet and happy kallamar looks in this, I s2g I am so mean to this squid because I just feel like there’s a lot of room for tragedy/angst with somebody who everybody bullies in-game? I don’t draw my kallamar happy very often so art like this melts my heart cause I’m like MAN!! FINALLY!! THEY GET TO JUST VIBE AND BE A SILLY CREATURE.
This is awesome thank you so much!!! I love the kind of glittery quality your art has, I’ve noticed in some of your stuff the paper or ink you use leaves a kind of sparkle that I think is really cool. Specifically the gold in this one stands out to me…….ALSO…..this is the part of the description where I write that it’s funny that you drew me something because I have a big project in the works that perhaps features one of your versions of a specific character :’) it’s a reference to one of my favorite pictures by you so I hope I can finish it in a timely fashion.
