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This is the second time, this year I think, that I encountered her. Can someone tell me the lore behind this? And who she is? I'm curious.

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

Does anyone know what this means exactly

REBLOG IF YOU'RE AN ACTIVE ÃNÅ ACCOUNT THIS MONTH I NEED MORE ACTIVE MUTUALS!!

Why waste your calories on junk when you can just eat fruit?

Black femme goths

New KnitHacker Community!

I received a notice last night that a KnitHacker community has been approved on Tumblr, 500 spots only. What should we do with it?

Link to preview here.

Leave a comment below if you'd like an invite!

I'm sorry to say but I disagree, and the reason why in my eyes your argument is invalid is actually one of your own arguments.

Nowadays every thing is art no? A stripe of pencil on a piece of paper? You don't need skills for that. Being against ai doesn't take the opportunity to be an artist away from the ones who don't want to, or can't? ( you kind of cannot not)

And even then art is a skill, like so many other things. What your saying is like that Ready-to-eat meals are a good substitute for fresh made food, no even worse that artificial food is as good for society as food with no artificial ingredients.

Generative art is not as worthwhile as art made by living beings. Art itself is something that expresses emotion, thought or something else, but it's always something that gives art a life. Even if it's a painting about dead, it has a life because it shows that it was made by someone alive.

Artificial intelligence does not share these traits with us, or other living creatures. It can imitate them yes, but it can not experience them. The question is if ai will ever be able to.

Ai is cruel towards artist and writers. Not because ai wants to be, it can't be, at least not yet as far as we know. Ai imitates and steals from what already exist.

So yes there are ethical ways to argue that Ai should be opposed.

If Ai ever gains conscious and emotions we shouldn't use Ai either, because then it would be a sort of slavery. Forcing something that is alive to do your will.

Ai isn't ethical and it will never be.

generative art is just as worthwhile as any other form of art, and the idea that it should be treated as anything less, anything more limited in what it's acceptable to use it for, is deeply ableist. if you treat it as such, you are participating in bigotry

art is not defined by tools or methods. it's about finding a way to communicate or express something, whatever form that takes

Jellyfish Skirts // June Secrets

Checklist of character traits prone to inconsistency:

Heyo, quick one today. It’s great to give a lot of detail to character traits and personality quirks, but they aren’t real people, you’ve made them up, and thus, might not have a perfect memory for how you’ve described them, or drawn them in the past.

So before you post or publish, do yourself a favor and make sure the following are consistent throughout your story, if applicable:

If they’re left or right handed, or ambidextrous.

Which side their hair parts on.

Which side their scars are on (especially facial scars).

Which eye has the patch or is just missing, and how much or little the character fiddles with it.

Missing glasses and how prone a character is to forgetting them or anal about cleaning them. Glasses are always dirty (do they clean them with a proper cloth or the edge of their shirt?).

Which side broken, missing, or bandaged fingers are on.

If they’re wearing a cast, how it inhibits their mobility.

If they have a leg or foot injury, how severely they limp.

If their clothing takes damage, when/how they replace it or repair it, and whether or not they’re wandering around town accidentally covered in blood or grease or all-purpose flour.

Which injuries they sustain that should still be bothering them, like pulled shoulders, bruises, shin splints, paper cuts, sun burns, cramps, carpal tunnel, arthritis, tinnitus, road rash, and stubbed toes or pinched fingers.

Which side of their body buttons, rings, bracelets, pins, brooches, badges, or name tags are on.

If they’re wearing gloves or mittens, when they take them off or how their mobility is impacted by them.

How mobility changes if their fingernails are short and stubby or long, or artificial, like typing, eating, and grabbing objects.

If they have a wheelchair, how they transition out of it, into it, and move within it, like getting dressed or putting on shoes, or lifting themselves up into cars and back down—and how public spaces do and don’t accommodate them.

If they have prosthetics, how they maintain them, how they might sound different than someone else—prosthetic feet for runners won’t sound the same as sneakers.

If they need crutches, a walker, a scooter, or a cane, and how the world accommodates them.

If they're colorblind, how it impacts their day to day and descriptions compared to other narrators.

Jewelry often jingles. Pandora bracelets are loud af especially if they’re on your dominant hand when you try to write on a desk. Charm necklaces jingle if you bounce and some earrings can jingle when you shake your head.

Where tattoos are and if they take measures to hide them and how.

An aside about characters with tattoos (from experience):

If they’re new, they still hurt for at least a week depending on the level of detail.

Tattoos are basically mega sunburns and fresh ink should either be covered from the sun or, once it’s healed enough that the skin isn’t broken, heavily sun-screened to preserve coloration. Newer ink is very noticeable in sunlight, just like a healing sunburn.

Black ink tends to turn a bit green over time and sharp details blur. Tattoos are beholden to the skin they’re on, and how it stretches or sags.

Tattoos stink, as plasma and other fluids build up under the wrap (that can either be straight plastic wrap or a dermal cover akin to the stuff used for burn victims).

Tattoos can burn and ache if they’re on the legs when you stand, as blood and your body weight settles back into place.

Tattoos do very weird things to your body depending on the amount of ink and the time it took to design. Your skin peels kind of, but not exactly, like a sunburn, and every artist has their own tips for aftercare.

If the ink is over thin skin (I have one that ends over my ankle) the ink may have a texture left behind, a raised puffy bump, that fades over time.

A character receiving a tattoo might have this kind of bell curve effect, where it hurts really bad at the start, until adrenaline kicks in and dampens it, and then again once their adrenaline runs out. There is no pain quite like tattoo pain and everyone describes them differently. I like to think of them as itching a bug bite on a sunburn, dialed up to 11.

According to my past artists, women almost universally handle the pain better than men. I have definitely suffered other injuries worse than tattoo pain.

Fine linework hurts more than broad stroke coloring or shading, because the distribution of pressure is wider with more needles packed together. The larger the needle bundle, the less it hurts. All of mine are water color and the *splash* effect for the illusion of water drops uses a single needle and it’s always the most painful part.

Feel free to tag any that I missed!

Guys I made a community for every artist.

So any mediums etc

I made this in the hope to have a group where tips, artwork, etc are shared.

It's called:

For artists with dreams, and for those without

Please if you can and are interested, join the community.

It's a community for everyone (everyone decent that is, otherwise pls stay away). Illegal things are obviously not allowed.

The link is:

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Join For artists with dreams, and for those without • Community on Tumblr

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Thanks for responding now I had to be reminded of this sad post. No to be honest it's a great response, it's just sad.

GUYS WAKE UP KNEE HIGH CONVERSE ARE BACK JUNE 28TH

HUGE WIN FOR THE SCENEMO COMMUNITY

Noooo that's so sad, why would you say that? And even if it did in the next world or in spirit it's still growing.

A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

Commissions are open starting at $20 for a fully-colored full body character!

For examples of my art, check my portfolio, or simply scroll through my blog!

Reblogging this to hopefully safe my future

ArtStation Fan Expo Panelists, Nacho Yagüe (Art Director at Gameloft) and Tim Warnock (Co-Founder of North Front Studios) detail how to avoid common mistakes and filter through your artwork to get stunning art portfolios that will wow recruiters.

Proper boundaries

this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

Same here

can yall send me meanspo. like actually vile shit bro idc what it is nothing is off limits u can fr say whatever tf u want, my dms r open or you can put it in the comments (or my ask box) PLEASE BRO IM DESPERATE. SCAR ME FOR THE NEXT 15 YEARS OF MY LIFE.

I mean I kinda look like this, I couldn't get my eyes, and eye colour and my hair colour right though.

Challenge >:3

using this picrew make it look like you :D

no magical color eyes

Make it look as much like you as possible

you can do whatever with the background and stuff tho

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Scarf Patterns // Cottontail and Whisker

I finally made my first yarn wig after 10+ years of crocheting my cosplays...

K so not to be dramatic or anything, but there's a free vintage French pattern book available on antiquepatternlibrary so if you like to crochet/weave/make pixel art/tie epic friendship bracelets don't walk- RUN.

It has scenes from aesop's fables! Cherubs doing things! Beheadings! Greek muses! Little farm people! Intricate floral pattern! Goth stained-glass window like patterns! Fun little corner pieces! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/C-TT008-180.htm

Bark Backpack Pattern // Whymsi Row

The only valid thief is a magpie.

I just realized that I have a couple (2) of these books. They're amazing!

xkcd fans are the only fandom I've had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

I want to know this as well. Can someone please help?

does anyone have tips for purg1ng for someone who has never done it -- advice for harm reduction + efficiency ~<3

I'm dead dove