cursed emojis that no one asked for but I don’t care

free to use!

I have an addiction.

free to use!

who needs coherent words when you have cursed emojis

free to use!!!

@queenie-meanie

OP These are genuine works of art and belong on a gallery wall somewhere (I especially like the NOmoji with the O as their mouth and “looking disrespectfully”)

character development

reblog to give a trans person soup

Made this specifically for genshin artists cause I love y’all but you made me realize most people don’t know how to draw archers! I tried to make this just generally educational but I left out things like finger slings and stabilizers and clickers just cause I thought this would get way too long

Terrified owl is thankful to be saved. "Back to Hogwarts now"

Do you know what is drawing closer? October and the spooky season!!

So maybe, some of you are interested in a few spooky prompts I found last year?

Queen!

i agree that jameela makes great points at times, but she’s also the same woman who thinks the likes of laverne cox are women just because they identify that way. you can’t be a woman who calls out the deep-seated misogyny of society while also saying that any male who “feels” like a woman is one, and his opinions on womanhood automatically become relevant.

I hope you and all TERFs shit your pants in public too.

buddy her thinking trans women are women is a bonus not a flaw 

i was expecting something actually bad and harmful when they started talking like “but she thinks vaccines cause autism” not “she knows trans women are women”

shes a fucking treasure, lets be real.

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i’m still learning anatomy myself so i wouldn’t use this as more than just a general tip but…. I am fascinated by speculative monster anatomy and this is something i discovered years ago and thought i would impart amongst my fellow monster enthusiasts :)

mind you, the second set of pectorals can look kind of funky so i understand aesthetically why people would prefer not to draw them but! if you are someone interested in anatomy, i think this is a thing people dont really think about when giving their OCs wings/extra limbs and i think it’s kind of neat!

Cricket World-building: The Superpower Drugs

In the world of Cricket, the most profitable market is that of the illegal superpower trade. The use of drugs are widespread, especially in poorer areas of the city, but approximately 60% of Malum’s population is addicted to one or multiple drugs (this demographic includes all age ranges)

History of the Superpower Trade

In 2184, in an effort to create a super-weapon to be ingested by world leaders and soldiers, the top scientific minds created substances which gave the user abilities once thought to only exist in comic books: the ability of levitation, invisibility, control over the elements, even mind control.

Before the drugs had the ability to reach the target audience, the superpowers, as well as their recipes, were leaked to the public. Instead of more common drugs like marijuana or heroin, people were turning to these drugs instead, as the effects they saw were more powerful than that of the drugs they were using before. By the year 2206, traditional drugs that we see today became all but extinct.

In an effort to control the superpower trade without having it go unregulated in the black market, governments around the world legalized the superpowers and inflicted rules as to who could purchase what, and where. However, families began buying up the drugs and using it both for themselves and their children, causing the first addicts of the superpowers.

They were once again made illegal, but these new addicts came of age and caused the drug trade to flow into the black market, where it remains.

What drugs are available?

Pyro: This drug gives the user the ability to conjure fire and control the fire around them, and is often snorted nasally. Frequent users of Pyro build up tolerances to the drug quickly, meaning the user often needs to buy more daily to continue their habit. Negative side effects include hand and forearm burns and persistent fever (approx. 200 credits per ounce)

Flow: A counterpart to Pyro, Flow gives the user control over water, and is taken via huffing. Flow is more difficult to control, but many have found that in regards to Flow, children have greater control over their highs than adults do, and as a result is often given to children as gifts. Flow has the ability to be chemically altered to give the user powers over ice and steam, but this is dangerous and often not successful. Negative side effects include dehydration, nausea, and incoherence (approx. 175 credits per ounce)

Sprout: This drug is one of the last major drug types to be made organically with farming and is taken through smoking. The lack of organic farming in cities means that this drug is often imported, making the price usually higher than other drugs. Users can control the plant life around them and revitalize dying plants. Sprout is more commonly used in rural areas outside of the city, generally with the intention of furthering an agricultural business. Negative side effects include internal bruising and exhaustion (approx. 230 credits per ounce)

Zap: Being the least potent and more accessible drug on the market, Zap is a favorite among teenagers and adolescents and is taken through tablets or pills. Many see it as a gateway drug to more potent powers like Pyro, but many who become addicted to Zap stay with it for life. It is often used in entertainment, with many Zap addicts using their abilities to perform. A common game played by teenagers who use Zap is putting colored powder in their hands and creating makeshift fireworks that last the longest. Negative side effects include paranoia, drowsiness, and dizziness (approx. 85 credits per ounce)

Lift: Those with low tolerance or pain levels often find themselves using Lift, given its general non-addictive nature. Lift is administered through snorting or huffing and gives the user the ability to float off the ground, with an average distance generally being about five feet. This is more of a white-collar drug, given the fact that it is generally low-impact on the body and can be concealed, although it is not expensive. Negative side effects include nausea, dizziness, and lightheadedness (approx. 100 credits per ounce)

Port: Given the dangerous nature of this drug, it is often hard to find and is not in high demand, but when used, can be incredibly powerful. Port is taken through injection or tablets and gives the user the ability to teleport, and users with a built-up tolerance can teleport themselves long distances, even to other planets, although few survive beyond the several hours after attempting such a feat. Not much is known about Port, but it is not often in mass production, causing many seeking Port to commission a chemist to make them some, which is often risky and dangerous. Negative side effects include low blood pressure and heart rate, organ failure, and death (approx. 350 credits per ounce)

Night: Regarded as the most dangerous superpower on the market, only the heaviest superpower users dare to use Night. It is taken through injection or smoking and often gives off a potent smell. Users of Night have the ability to control dark matter and dark energy and therefore can move objects with their minds as well as producing a black-purple substance from their pores which can be launched at others. It is very easy to overdose on Night, and those who do often do not survive. Negative side effects include total organ failure, seizures, and death. (approx. 500 credits per ounce)

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This is so cool!!!! I love the connotations of superpowers as drugs. And the side effects make it so much more real and chilling (although tbh I kind of read the side effects part like the narrator of a medicine commercial lol)

How does the law enforce them being illegal? Or have they just given up on enforcement at this point since it’s so common?

Sticky hand wall update

Yep… totally fine…

Update the third.

True love is happening on the sticky hand wall.

hand in unlovable hand

he knows we know

they don’t know this is a meme here and that we are funnier than them

we hide in plain sight

First stop taxing the poor, and then we can tax the rich, how the fuck about that then?

They already tax the rich, you can't tax money that only exists in theory no matter how much you want to.

What is "investment"?

This analogy was stupid when I saw it last year, and it’s stupid now.

Because rich people pay more taxes than everyone else. If anyone’s consistently getting off with no taxes, it’s poor people.

okay wait. This is. SO dumb.

Like, how would this even work? I know it's a dumb math thing but for fuck's sake, we've got some variables that make me irritated just to hear them.

1) Where do we get 10k a day? No, seriously, how do we get ten thousand MODERN US dollars a day? Ignoring the period, that's stupid. What, do we have a SECRET, UNLIMITED emerald mine we're working every day?

2) If I'm a fucking immortal around as of the time of the Pyramids, I have better ways of getting money than SAVING EVERY DAY. Like, I could literally be conquering the world with functional cannot die immortality. I'd be the god-empress of Mankind! Call me Condy because I'd rule you all and style on it!

3) Accepting the stupidity of A and B, we're still left with the dumbness of C, that we're essentially burying money in the ground every day. Like the entire premise centers around having a Scrooge Mc Duck vault somewhere. And I know yall don't listen to rich people but listen to my poor ass, the best way to make money? Is investment. LOANS. 10k a day? I could loan that out every day, and even if I only charge .5% interest, I'm still making REAL MONEY every day. Suddenly those 10k's are 10,050 but that's all MY money, and over a year it's 18250 extra, just assuming everyone pays it all off at the end of the year. And that's presuming a RIDICULOUSLY LOW interest rate.

It’s supposed to better represent quantities not be a legitimate way to build your fortune but I am interested in how y’all planned to go back and try it

sorry Key but honest to god this is dumb? like, notably dumb? Because you're using and requiring far too many dumb variables? Most people don't know how to conceptualize living for a hundred years, let alone over four thousand. the use of money is an abstract but stated in a very silly way?

I mean honest to god you're the one who posted a 'You have money and thousands of years to do whatever you want, but instead you bury everything you own in the ground and now that it catches to modern day you're still not one of the ultra-rich' as if it MEANS anything. Yeah, to you it's meaningful, but that's because it's a bit of pointless 'oh there's no way for a normal person to ever be one of the Ultra-Rich!' nonsense. You like the premise so the flaws don't mean anything to you.

Are you sure it’s not just a way to easily and linearly visualize how much they have?

Because if you start adding in finances it gets complicated?

Would it be better if they used the word “rock” or “stick” instead of dollars?

Jesus y’all

Yes. Literally it would be better that way.

Because if I had gathered BILLIONS of dollars over CENTURIES I could set myself up easily to be richer than anyone in the world, by simply INVESTING the funds into businesses.

The entire premise is 'if you gathered money and threw it in a pit, you'd make less money over thousands of years than some inventor or investor made in thirty years.'

That doesn't say 'The rich are too rich to understand how much money they have' it says 'Gee, if you'd only invested that money you'd be fantastically rich, instead of merely massively rich!'

Your setup has the end result being someone who has nearly SEVENTEEN BILLION DOLLARS and then going 'that's not NEARLY as much as some rich people!'

And that's not even counting the fact that the person would have seventeen BILLION dollars in FLUID CAPITAL. Like, Bezos? His billions are ENTIRELY tied up in Amazon. There's no way of getting that money without forcing him to sell that stock, or TAKING that stock from him.

It's literally how the rich are so rich, they don't have cash dollars, they have a certain level of ownership in multiple companies! You can't get that money out of them, it's tied into the corporations, you have to TAX THE CORPORATIONS to get that money. It's a thing.

But your theoretical rich immortal? Has billions in CASH (or gold, gems, platinum, however she accrued funds over the centuries) ready to spend on whatever she wants. ANYTHING. Buy a literal island kind of money.

This isn't the fucking trolly problem where the question posed IS the question of morality, would you be more willing to kill one to save five, or to not act at all in hope that none of the blame would be on your hands. This is 'We set up a framework where the moment you think even for a second about the framework, a whole different concept immediately rises that points out the problem IN the framework.'

Please stop trying to boil complex ideas down to a fucking pithy tweet. I s2g social media discourse had utterly destroyed people’s ability to think critically about anything. Even people who, theoretically, should be smart enough to know better.

According to Key's insane notion merely having 16.8 billion dollars in liquid assets makes you "less rich" than some of the 1%.

What Key hasn't researched is how much in liquid assets those 1% have. Jeff Bezos, according to Google, keeps about 5% liquid assets. That's under 10 billion. With 16.8 billion, you'd be richer than Jeff Bezos and have more buying power than Jeff Bezos and the rest of the 1% because all your assets are immediately spendable.

The idea you could own 16.8 billion dollars in liquid assets and still not be in the 1% seems outrageous...because it is. You would be the 1% of the 1% of the 1%.

Key is a smoothbrain who likes to think big bank account = bad people. Key is an idiot. Don't be Key.

Damn.

An exercise to visualize how much a billion is and y’all just jumped in the deep end huh?

Hope you can’t swim

drawing plaid

so hard to find a decent exorcist these days :/

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it’’s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i’m not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i’m talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it’s literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can’t even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don’t need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught… but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don’t know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you’re able. i’m not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber’s “best” recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille’s basics but especially:

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt’s tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

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Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

reblog to save a digital arts major

Reblog to save an artist.

oh jEEZ

I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.

- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration

- Krita for painting

- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.

- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.

- Open Tunez for animation.

I’m currently using Affinity Photo and it’s a great Photoshop alternative. One time fee only and it’s not really expensive, plus supports PSD formats. Free trial available too! Davinci Resolve for video editing is amazing as well! :)

Another great art program to include in the list is the completely free, no download, browser recreation of photoshop, Photopea! It has the potential/customizability to be as robust as a full copy of photoshop while also being perfectly accessible to anyone looking to just do some quick edits with no strings attached.

Also, heads up to anyone using it,

As of July 5th 2021, Audacity is now considered a potential spyware security risk,

so please approach it with caution and do some research on the situation as things progress.

If you want an alternative to audacity there’s Dark Audacity

A(n awful) guide on how to draw various faces, by me (ft. my OCs, trashbois)

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