do you look into the mirror to remind yourself you’re there?

God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit

Sailor Moon

By Angela Vianello

*throws it*

amufun Coelacanth prize plush

Rough translation:

- Revive it! Coelacanth

- big BIG

- THE! Living fossil !!

- God's creature !! (lit. "Living thing")

- Enter your hand in its mouth (Chomp!)

this sounds like a shitpost

This is what I like to call, 16 times Din and Cobb could stand literally anywhere but instead they chose to be no less than 2 feet apart + 1 time the gazed at each other from afar.

you want my hot take for the evening? people who dont like complainers just havent been exposed to good complaining, and will never know if they themselves have an inborn talent for the art of kvetching

good complaining is some combination of a) funny, b) animated and theatrical, c) insightful re: human foibles, d) inquiry into social trends and norms.it must ALWAYS involve at least a small degree of self awareness, and is often used to build camaraderie and maintain relationships.

source: im jewish

absolutely mind-boggling that favreau created a character as good as din djarin

you couldn’t make a character less close to a male power fantasy if you tried. this man routinely loses fights, most of which he does not even start. he’s incredibly socially passive and polite to everyone he meets. on multiple occasions women have explained basic concepts to him that the audience is already well-familiar with and his only response is “wow you are very nice. I think we should be friends”. his hobbies include sleeping in his chair and bothering his infant son with dad jokes. he doesn’t use his reputation as a scary warrior to harass people or impress anyone. he barely ever loses his temper or lashes out, and when he does it’s because people are actively trying to murder him. if anyone tries to flirt with him it either doesn’t register or he jumps out of the nearest window because he can’t process someone forwarding genuine affection in his direction. he has zero aspirations for conquest or power of any kind. literally all he does is walk around with his kid and help people. sometimes I think I’m hallucinating this entire show but it is in fact extremely real

The Sandman | “Playing House”

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i replayed dishonored recently so that i could finally play the dlc’s that i neglected all these years and man i wasnt really planning on getting so into it but the stars aligned and i had a really long and boring train ride during which i read a few very good dh fics so. here i am huh 

also you could say i woke up in a cold sweat thinking about this:

Some Photoshop Tips

I’ve been getting quite a few asks about the process for the patterns in my stylized artworks, so I decided to put together a couple of tips regarding them. 

Firstly, what you need are

—  CUSTOM BRUSHES  —

Most of the patterns I use are custom brushes I made, such as those:

For the longest time I was convinced making brushes must be super extra complicated. I was super extra wrong. All you need to start is a transparent canvas (2500px x 2500px max):

This will be your brush tip. When you’re satisfied how it looks, click Ctrl+A to select the whole canvas and go to ‘define brush preset’ under the edit menu

You will be asked to name your new glorious creation. Choose something that describes it well, so you can easily find it between all the ‘asfsfgdgd’ brushes you’ve created to be only used once

This is it. Look at it, you have just created a photoshop brush. First time i did I felt like I was cheated my whole life. IT’S SO EASY WHY HASN’T ANYONE TOLD ME 

Time to edit the Good Boi to be more random, so it can be used as a Cool Fancy Pattern. Go into brush settings and change whatever you’d like. Here’s a list of what I do for patterns:

- under Shape Dynamics, I increase Size Jitter and Angle jitter by 5%-15% 

- under Brush Tip Shape, I increase spacing by a shitload. Sometimes it’s like 150%, the point is to get the initial brush tip we painted to be visible.

- If I want it to look random and noisy, I enable the Dual Brush option, which acts like another brush was put on top of the one we’ve created. You can adjust all of the Dual Brush options (Size, Spacing, Scatter, Count) as you wish to get a very nice random brush to smear on your  backgrounds

The result is as above. You can follow the same steps to create whatever brush you need: evenly spaced dots that look like you painted them by hand, geometric pattern to fill the background, a line of perfectly drawn XDs and so on. 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

—  PATHS  —

But what if you want to get lots of circles made of tiny dots? Or you need rows of triangles for your cool background? Photoshop can do all of that for you, thanks to the magic of paths.

Typically, paths window can be found right next to Layers:

Now, pick a brush you wish really was in place of that path you’ve drawn and go to layers, then choose the layer you want it to be drawn on. Then, click this tiny circle under the Paths window:

Then witness the magic of photoshop doing the drawing for you while you wonder how tf have you managed to forget about this option for the past 2 years 

You can combine special brushes and paths for all sorts of cool effects. I mostly use them in backgrounds for my cards, but you can do whatever you want with them.

An ancient Greek walks into his tailor’s shop with a pair of torn pants.

“Euripides?” says the tailor.

“Yeah, Eumenides?” replies the man.

This is so awful. It must go on to infect others.

This is a voiced line in one of my favorite old Greek civilization city planner games, Zeus: Master of Olympus.

Piotr Jabłoński His portfolio:

One of my favorite digital painter.

Please form an orderly line to step on me

Hey, people who go to conventions, let’s have a chat.

This past weekend a whole bunch of my friends were at 3 separate conventions and all of them were tweeting very similar experiences with convention goers: being told their art was the wrong ship, or their favorite characters were bad, or that their art was in some other way unacceptable. People placed food and bags on their work, or complained about their prices to their faces. It’s happened to me. I’ve had people tell me they hate the characters I have prints of to my face. I’ve had adults tell me my ship is disgusting. I’ve had people complain about the quality of my art. These are my favorite characters, that I’ve made art of, in the hopes to share my art and my love for those characters with other people. Artists at conventions are at work. For some people, this is their full-time job. And they put passion and love into the things they create. They put time and money into creating the things we take for granted at cons.

Can we stop treating artists like they’re not people, with feelings? If you think something about the work at a table is a genuine issue, bring it up with con staff. If you don’t like a character based on something in the show, that’s fine. You can discuss it with your friends, not with the person who has put time into making art of that character. Don’t put your food and water on paper merchandise. If you don’t like the price of something, you are not obligated to buy it. 

Please, just. Think before you speak. Be kind. And if you don’t like something, you just walk away. The artist isn’t going to change who they are or what they draw because you told them you hate it. 

We’re quickly slipping from self-entitlement to lack of basic manners. People really be acting like spoiled 5yo (sorry for the insult, 5yo peeps, I know you can be kind with the smallest nudge) who have never been taught better. Call back your parents, you cannot be trusted alone in a crowd, clearly. That’s embarrassing.

Not to derail this, or take the focus away from artists, but this happens all the time to cosplayers at conventions too! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told to my face “your costume looks great but man I hate that character” or “you’re such a good cosplayer, why do you have to cosplay that character?” or even “why are you cosplaying from that series/game/show, you should cosplay from something better”. 

Yeah. Don’t do that. If you don’t like a series or a character, maybe just…don’t talk to the cosplayer? It’s seriously not that hard. At best, the person is going to become EVEN MORE ADAMANT about continuing to cosplay that character out of spite, at worst you’re going to upset the person wearing the costume.

I’m seeing a lot of this kind of reply and I agree. One thing I would like to highlight here is that artists, at their booths, are a captive audience.

I have to sit there and be ranted at. I can’t cause a scene or I might get blacklisted, I can’t yell at someone or walk away. I have to sit there and take it. I can snap back but people like this don’t usually listen or care what my feelings are. I can’t leave. I can’t do much to fight back. Most people like cosplayers can walk away, ignore someone, or have friends around to help. Artists are usually alone, at their job, and unable to take breaks or shut down.

Don’t be rude to people at cons over your ships or your faves. Don’t be negative towards someone who clearly loves something. And for gods sake don’t harass someone while they’re working and literally can’t get away from you.