Sparkle Shader Based Off Of @bobacupcake‘s Wonderful Sparkles (except Translated To Blender)

Furry-friendly headphone design

I saw an anthro character wearing headphones with speakers nowhere near their ears and I was compelled to make this

I built the Lego Bugatti bolide today :)

Minecraft fans are so starved for new content that 5 new textures for one creature is big news Brother there were varied cats for a decade. You shouldn't be celebrating that they finally added dogs, you should be wondering why it took them 13 years to add a feature that takes like half an hour to implement and makes a lot of sense considering the minecraft cats already had it. FOR YEARS

Silly billies

I've heard this refered to as the hedonic treadmill and it's related to a lot of things, not just social media.

Once you get to a certain level of success, amount of money, happiness, etc, your baseline expectations move with it - earning 10k dollars doesn't hit quite as nicely when you're a billionaire.

For the average person I think the easiest way to illustrate this is videogames. Your average RPG has you start out quite weak, fighting weak enemies. Then you find a sword that does more damage, and you can fight tougher enemies. Then you get a sword that does even more damage, and you can fight even tougher enemies. Then you get the legendary sword of legendary legends that lets you kill anything with 1 legendary swing, and that first sword that helped you get a foothold to eventually get here seems like a piece of garbage by comparison. You wouldn't look twice if you found one like that again. This constant scaling of your character and the enemies leaves you at net zero - your sword is always *just enough* to handle the enemies you're encountering, but the numbers that pop up from hitting them keep getting larger and larger. Like a treadmill.

And that's largely how it goes with any rising numbers in our lives. Every time you reach a higher number, the ones below it seem smaller and smaller as time goes on. Doesn't help that humans tend to naturally think in fractions and exponents - once you get from 1 to 10, the next target is more likely to be 100 than 20. I think it's important to recognize that kind of bias in ourselves and try to appreciate and enjoy what we already have a little bit more.

Not too long ago...

I was posting art on Tumblr and getting like, 2 notes. In those days, if I got 5 notes anywhere, I'd be thrilled...and if it went to 10 I'd be positively jubilant! TENPEOPLESAWMYARTAAAA.

A few days ago, I posted something and it unexpectedly climbed to almost 300 notes! Must've done something right with the hashtags I dunno...but here's the thing-

Since that day, I've posted a few more times and I've started getting so pissed if the notes don't come. Now even 50 notes (which would ordinarily have made me faint with ecstasy) seems disappointing...

Makes me wonder. I've seen artists here get many tens of thousands of likes/comments/reblogs on their art. Does an artist who regularly gets >10,000 notes on their art feel dejected when they get just 6 to 7000 on something?

In the event of finally getting rid of fossil fuels, what will all the car enjoyers do? So this is a uhhh WIP of an electric hotrod :> just gotta finish the cabin a little bit

Is it normal to be like in genuine mental distress because you can't draw what you want. Like I'll see some really cool ass furry art and go "I want to draw like this!" But then I can't practice at all because my family just doesn't respect privacy and they insist on looking (or conveniently passing by all the time whenever I draw) in my sketchbooks. So I feel the need to limit myself to this sort of abstract style (which I do really love for the record, I just want to do *more*) so that my grandma doesn't tell all her friends that her grandson draws porn ("porn" being anatomy practice)

Can anyone relate. Am I just stupid and should draw whatever either way and blame it on them for looking?

The bear's wisdom.

Spaceship work in progress wuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh