Jumping Ship

Hey so, I was gonna make this post once I have some alternate social media properly set-up, but let’s face it I don’t have the time to do that before the 19th, so. I’ve been dissatisfied with how tumblr is being run for a long time, but apparently “we only care about child trafficking when it starts hurting our sales” was the last straw. Extremely condescending corporate-speak posts about transparency on a site more opaque than vantablack are not helping either. So, I’m packing my stuff. I won’t be deleting my blogs, but I also won’t be active on here anymore.

Where you can find me:

Wysp: https://www.wysp.ws/ammoth/

Once in a blue moon, I upload all of my favorite art pieces on here. It’s a gallery I can link people to, and I keep it clean and unpersonal. If you just want to see my art, check there.

Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.io/Ammoth

Nothing there yet, I’m hoping to have both art and chatter on there, but it might take a while to set up.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ammoths

If you need to get a hold of me, i get email notifs when someone DMs me. However, I dislike twitter with a passion, so I will not be particularly active on there.

Mastodon: ???

I wanna get an account but I’m undecided on which instance yet. I want to post art and do some socializing, and I want an instance that allows nsfw content of all kinds. I’m open to suggestions!

                    SOLE SURVIVOR FAMILY PORTRAIT

ROOOOAH HERE IT IS. After hours of work, I finished them, FINALLY. Dedication to all the people who put detailled armors and tattoos on their characters, you utter scroundels. But I like you anyway.

It was a lot of fun, joy, blood and tears and I’m happy to being able to show you this work I did to thank you all to be here and follow my work. Hope your sole correspond to the vision you have of them.

I didn’t shown the names of your oc, you’ll have to search them like Wally !

UPDATE : You can use them as profile picture, just tag me in your description. Ask me if ya want the high resolution link !

I’ll open the comissions soon ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

And, to the person who abused my confidence and gave me a character who isn’t from the Fallout universe but just wanted to have his oc drawn freely, you’re on the blacklist now, it’ll be the same for every persons who will try to do the same for the future projects.

11/11

@unfortunate-waitress

Gonna attempt to explain why anon’s dad’s reasoning is crap, as short as I can.

In an ideal world, tips for wait staff would be just that: tips. A bonus for a job well done, a thank you. In most EU countries with minimal wage, this is the case. So when people don’t tip, we’ll get a kinda low pay, but the income is still enough to make a living. Service is included in the price of the food. Usually around 15%, PLUS a base hourly payment that they get no matter what, even if it’s a dead day.

In the USA, for some asinine reason, the tips are the waiters entire wage. The 15%-20% tip? That’s the waiters payment. If you stiff them, they literally worked for you for free. Or sometimes even at a loss, because some restaurants make their waiters pay back some of their tips, or put the service-tax (I think it’s service-tax) on the tips.

And. Look. Even if your server is rude, and grumpy, and forgot one of your drinks or whatever the fuck counts as ‘not good’ service? They deserve to live, and pay for their house and food and other expanses, ffs. It’s an incredibly abusive system, because it takes responsibility away from restaurant owners (who should be paying their workers a decent wage) and gives customers way too much power. In an ideal world, if a server is really so bad that you think they are unfit for the job, you should bring it up with their boss. You should not have the power to decide whether they get to eat tonight or not. You’re not employing them, it’s not your place. Customers should not have this kind of power.

But you do. It sucks, it’s an exploitative system. It’s your responsibility as a decent fucking human being to not exploit it to make servers life miserable.

Fucking tip the percentage that is normal in your state, more if you’re really happy with your service.

tl;dr: if you’re in the USA, your tips are literally the waiter’s entire wage, because their employer do not pay them beyond what you tip. And it’s cruel and exploitative to withhold their wage, even if the service wasn’t perfect. If you do not tip, you just made someone serve you, for one-two hours, for free.

Someone, jokingly: Haha I kinda ship our OCs

Me:

also since I’m reblogging this fomr @eisenhexa: ;)))) winks @ Shark

learning how not to fish for compliments can really help how you interact with others. here’s some common phrases i’ve noticed:

what all of these have in common is that they all involve putting yourself down. when you do that, those around you feel obligated to compliment you, which can make them feel frustrated that they have to just to be polite. not only that, but by talking yourself down you feel worse about yourself. the latter two phrases also centre your problems, distracting the attention from the person you’re trying to compliment. that often makes them feel bad!

here’s how to fix those phrases:

by cutting out the negativity, you make it so nobody feels obligated to compliment you. you’ll usually get more compliments this way because people don’t feel uncomfortable! the latter two phrases now also centre the artist and their knowledge. not only do they make the artist feel good, they also might score you some good advice.

this strategy will also help to boost your confidence in the long run. if you stop prefacing every compliment with negativity, you’ll be able to internalise them better.

ALL OF THIS, and also: never underestimate the power of just straight-out asking for validation. Obviously this doesn’t work for everyone, but it works for me, so it might work for others?

I used to do this a bit over-the-top, so my friends respond with over-the-top compliments, and it all feels a bit silly and like a game, and not forced. It still made me feel good! It is a good laugh, and a supportive kind of game. Though nowadays I’m just honest. “Hey, I made/achieved this thing and I’m proud, acknowledge me?” Sometimes the bluntness surprises people, but so far I have only had positive responses.

It has also been a pretty solid confidence boost, tbh.

Small things you’re proud of

A lot of posts on tumblr can be kinda negative. So, for a change - what’s one (or more, if you want) small thing you’re proud of doing, or for being able to do, or which you’re just happy about?

I feel like I’ve gotten pretty good at flipping eggs in a pan without a spatula. Something really satisfying about throwing them into the air.

It’s been over a few months of waiting but my hands can grip a pencil again! It’ll take a few days to a week but I think I’ll heal enough to be able to draw soon juj just really proud of it

That’s amazing, I’m so happy for you! Thank you for sharing <3

aw man this is such a nice idea. I’m very impressed by your egg-flipping skills Rhea, I’m always way too chicken to throw food in the air xD And GG @world-fr, that’s awesome! Art soooooon!!

As for me, hmm… I’m really proud of the progress I’ve made with my art recently. I’m drawing faces! Sometimes freehand! And they look good!! This is a huge progress compared to last year :D

I’m also really proud of my cooking skills, bc I make some damn fine food every other day now. Yesterday I made a veggie lasagna and it turned out reaaaaally tasty. And before that I made roasted potatoes (in duck fat!) with a really nice salad, and thai(-ish) pumpkin curry, and pasta with lemon and sage, and more.

Just. Tasty food <3

today in ‘i wasn’t actually expecting this, but i really should have expected this’: i do a lot of visa application invites for people for work, and the passport first page for just about every country i’ve seen has clear, black text printed on light/white background with maybe some simple pastel-coloured designs. and for the first almost-three-decades of my life, i was happy in the naive belief that all passports around the world were similar; that one day all countries of the world gathered in Geneva or wherever and formed a Passport Design Committee where they all agreed on the general aesthetics for passports worldwide. 

then, about two weeks back, i saw an american passport for the first time, and it straight up has a giant-ass flag, an eagle, a fucking ear of corn, and the first line of the constitution on it, the text is on glaring multicoloured backdrop, and while i was caught off-guard by it, it is also completely in line with its country of origin, and also i feel like this tells me everything i need to know about america as a nation. 

@languagecrazy @misacoh

for anyone wondering if it’s really that bad

…American here and I really shouldn’t be surprised to find out that nobody else in the world does this and yet every single fucking time

I have mostly stopped making shitty jokes at the expanse of the USA because it doesn't really feel like punching up nowadays, but this is really too funny to not reblog. It’s so American I’m dying.

A small heist goes awry, and Maika flees into the Drowned City in effort to lose her pursuers. She trades a caravan of angry merchants for the company of the spiteful god Ishavan.

Normalize apologizing to children.

I see these kinds of posts every now and then and they make me wonder if I’ve had uncharacteristically good parents or if the USA just has a really fucked up idea of parenting, or what.

Yes? Absolutely apologize to children if you fuck up?? Set a good example, take responsibility for your actions? Show them that you care about their feelings and acknowledge their hurt? I’m kinda shocked this even needs to be said, but since this has 67k notes apparently it does.

Coloured Lined Commission for @ammoth !

I adore these babs, they were so fun to draw <3

hello!!! I’m @unnameablethings and I love gushing about my datefriends so much and love hearing other people gush about their datefriends and QPPs and best friends and family members and how cute they are SO much that I decided I had to collect ALL of the adorable little love stories I could find!! 

Submissions and asks are open, cuties, tell me about your love! 

<3

a sufficient amount of apathy is indistinguishable from courage

We really have harmed a whole generation of trans and gnc children by failing to communicate how serious a decision binding actually is, how there’s no ACTUALLY safe way to bind, how it permeneantly damages the body, how it can make top surgery more difficult in the future. I don’t think we should be keeping trans kids from binding (we let kids do all sorts of things they’re really not old enough to understand the potential consequences of) but we owe them the ability to make informed decisions at LEAST

So this is definitely an important conversation to have, but can you point me at some reading about “permanent damage”? I might just be lucky, but I had zero lasting effects from binding. I’d like to at least read up on it so I can have this conversation and be more specific than “be careful.”

Of course! I can’t easily source right now but I am more than happy to provide further info when I am not at work and on mobile. Unfortunately, like a lot of trans healthcare, a lot of what we know about binding is anecdotal and word of mouth. BUT permeneant damage can include:

-Musculoskeletal damage. Binders are indiscriminate compression tools; they can’t flatten the chest without applying pressure every other anatomical structure underneath including the spine, ribs, lungs and heart. Many people who bind experience chronic back pain, shoulder pain, sharp stabbing chest pains, permeneantly decreased lung capacity, literal spine deformation, etc etc.

-A continuation of the above but the ribs are actually jointed bones. Their ability to flex is absolutely vital to their ability to withstand trauma and protect your vital organs. Imagine the damage that would be done to your elbow if your bent your arm to full flexion and then tightly bound it closed like that, for six, eight, twelve hours per day, every day, for weeks or months or years. And you don’t NEED a functioning arm to live!

-Tissue atrophy. Forcing chest tissue to lay in an unnatural way can and will change the way that tissue looks, even to risk of atrophy. Some people who bind and only moderately dislike the way their chest looks find that they HATE the way it looks after binding for a period of time. Tissue atrophy can also make top surgery more difficult in the future, and increase the risk of complications like nerve damage.

-Worsened dysphoria. Once someone starts binding and becomes accustomed to seeing themselves with a flat chest, it can be much more difficult to see yourself without one, and dysphoria that much more intolerable. You can imagine the psychological feedback loop of binding more in response.

The typical safety measures passed around about binding are harm REDUCTION measures and should not be advertised as making binding “safe.” Binding is not safe. It is a very serious health decision with long term consequences and should be treated as such. That doesn’t mean it’s the wrong decision, but it should not be considered the DEFAULT decision for chest dysphoria which is frankly how it’s currently treated.

gonna drop some links to read more:

Health impact of chest binding among transgender adults: a community-engaged, cross-sectional study Inside the Landmark, Long Overdue Study on Chest Binding  

Binding FAQ

Health Consequences of Chest Binding

@pooflyperfectprincess

Holy shit

I went to the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference and went to a workshop held by a chiropractor who works with trans men (as well as being a trans man himself), so I’m going to pass on his advice to people who bind:

Stretch your chest, shoulders, and back everyday (at least)

This is a passive stretch where you place a foam roller at the bottom of your spine (to support your hips and lower back), and lifts your shoulders off of the ground, with your arms on the ground to balance you.

This stretch is meant to be held for a few minutes, open up your chest, and aid your everyday posture.

You probably don’t own a foam roller, he advised to wrap a towel or blanket very tightly and tied as a substitute. I use a layer of bed foam rolled up with two belts to keep it rolled. Whatever you use, it ought to have a bit of give and it needs to lift your shoulders off the ground.

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This is an active stretch. Stand in front of a doorway with your feet together (if the door way was not there, your toes would be touching the wall, not crossing through it). When you lift your arms up and put them against the wall, your feet, hips, and arms should all be in line with each other (your arms should not be behind you with your feet and hips in the doorway).

Make a “W” shape with your arms against the wall so that your elbows are the closest part of your arm to the ground, and take one small step forward.

You should feel a pull in your lower shoulders, but it should be comfortable to hold. Do not over stretch, you shouldn’t be leaning your weight into your arms to balance, your weight should be balanced by your legs. Do not judge yourself and think you are doing yourself a favor by thinking that you ought to have a bigger step. Sure, you could overstretch today, but you need to be able to do this tomorrow too! Hold this for 10-15 seconds. (Yet again. Do. Not. Overstretch.)

Bring your feet back together, and do it the other foot. There will probably be one foot that is easier than the other, stretch that step more often than the less difficult step.

Bring your feet together and bring your elbows up so that your upper arms are parallel to the ground and your elbow forms a 90° angle with your forearms. Take your small step forward and hold for 10-15 seconds and switch feet.

Now reach your arms up as high as you can. It doesn’t have to be much higher than the last stretch, if that is as high as you can go, then that’s it. If you can’t reach higher than the last stretch, put your arms down at your sides and then lift your arms up from your sides and put them against the wall (sorry he didn’t include a picture of this one in the slides, message me if this is unclear.)

Your goal is to be able to reach your arms up like in the picture so that you form a Y shape. Step forward and hold for 10-15 seconds, then switch feet.

His advice was to do this stretch as often as you use the bathroom at home (shoot for 3-5 times a day).

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The next two stretchs don’t have pictures! If you can do these stretches with ease and want a more intense version, try using dumbbells and incorporating it into your workouts.

If you’ve ever done snow angels? Put your heels, butt, shoulders, and arms up against a wall (as much of your body as you possibly can should be touching the wall) and lift your arms up as high as you can go like you are making a snow angel.

Alternatively, lay down on the ground instead of up against a wall if you need to work your way up to lifting your arms above your head.

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Again, with your body up against the wall, but this time with your arms in front of you, bring your arms up like Frankenstein’s monster, so that they are as high as your shoulders. Hold this for a few seconds.

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After trying these stretchs, it’ll probably be clear where your range of motion is most limited. For me, the most useful stretches are the W and 90° angle doorway stretch and foam roller stretch, bc I have the most trouble with my lower shoulders and chest. Try to maintain your range of motion where you have it, and use these stretches to improve your range of motion where you are limited.

I was walking in the forest during winter, and saw a wendigo sitting under a tree. I asked it if it was going to kill me. It said, “No, this is just a dream.” So I sat next to it in the snow for a bit and then he said, “The anger in your heart warms you now, but will leave you cold in your grave.” And then I woke up.

Well SOMEONE’S third eye is wide fucking open

HEY WHAT THE FUCK

I see your weird af mushroom getting parasited by another mushroom, and raise you:

the egg friend. That’s the cap of the mushroom, btw, there’s a foot under there.

Anyway this is. something of a funny impulse project, which. eventually will be probably something like 4-6 pages. Se in the future - decades after the events of the game and decades after their partners (Ellie & Preston; note Preston’s scarf) are gone. The environment seems pretty unchanged but that’s just the Castle really.Norma’s made sure to kinda. preserve it because it’s both pre-war AND post-war history now.

Just. two old friends sitting down to Remember, like they do every year.

Tumblr never fixed the original post I made of this so here’s a re-upload 

Truth emerging from the well to snatch a grape (from mankind)

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…and we’re all caught up! Woven’s update schedule is 1 new page every monday! Don’t forget to check out Lark&Wren and if you like the comic, please consider supporting us over on Patreon! See you all next Monday! :D

…I made a tumblr page for Woven. Just to make is easier for some of you folks to keep track of new pages, etc..! I hope it’s helpful! <3

hey guys! Go check out this really neat webcomic my friend bees is working on with her husband. It has really neat lore and a lovely protagonist, and the art is stunning.

… Also, Tolan, as you can see in this page, just got slammed for trying a “you’re not like the other girls” come-on and I live for this.