There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.
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Oh miss thing ATE. this ain’t a game to her
i NEED to know the story behind all of these rulings
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it doesn't matter how much you tell tumblr that all their silly and bad features don't work and you hate them because they're not for you. they're jingling keys to dangle in front of venture capitalists, the most gullible motherfuckers on earth, so they will keep pouring money into the giant money pit that is this website. this is also why all social media websites add features pretty much
you're not meant to use tumblr live so it doesn't matter that nobody is and everyone hates it. i mean obviously they'd like it if we used tumblr live but ultimately if you understand the incentive structures of social media companies you will recognize that the actual target audience of tumblr live is investors who will hear 'we've added a video livestreaming feature to our site' and think 'oh wow! thats like what tiktok is! and tiktok is growing! better throw another million dollars into this big pit full of fire!'
...does tiktok make money?
no lol i edited the post just now to remove the implication that it does. tiktok loses money but it's growing which is, in the mind of the venture capitalist, an indicator that one day it will make money
90% of the digital economy has, for the last decade, been based on the completely ungrounded presumption that it is possible to directly transform daily active users into revenue at a profitable ratio
The biggest attempt at converting users into revenue is online advertising, about which basically every single financial analyst who looked at it has said "it's completely worthless, companies pay for it because their executives have not yet realised this, and the entire industry will collapse like a house of cards once they do."
I consistently underestimate the value of doing warmups before drawing. Just always do it. Even if you don't feel like you have to. Five minutes of zebra stripes will make a world of difference I promise.
It's a drawing exercise where you fill the page with vertical lines while alternating pressure, so the end result is a bunch of zebra stripes. Like this:
It's a good exercise for when you plan on inking, and for loosening up your arms if you're like me and prone to drawing from the wrist. Of the warmups I've tried this is the one I've found particularly effective.
so i was a contract live caricaturist for a while, and my supervisor for that company taught me a lot of good ones! my favorites are "fur tufts" and "flowers", which are exactly what they sound like
like the zebras, they loosen your arm up and are meant to help you get comfy with line weight too! and they also help a LOT with line confidence!
but just a couple minutes of just loop de loops or hatching or outright scribbling is WAY better than nothing! OP's v right about the importance of warming up
girl help my Shoulder Angel and Shoulder Devil just realized they're both girls and they're doing yuri right next to my ear while I'm trying to eat
it’s funny how quickly you get desensitized to comic book nonsense like mister sinister is an insane name for a fictional character it’s so goofy but when i read his name i’m like this is not a laughing matter. we’re talking about cyclops’ traumatic secret laser beam eyeball orphanage surgery backstory. stop laughing.
I finally get to spend some quality time with the new ocs
Alright, I need every A N T I D O and E you people can muster
the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.
sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.
you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.
it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.
but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.
they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.
they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.
barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.
and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't get admit you were sexual assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.
but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.
they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!
this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.
Show me a censor and I’ll show you someone who thinks a *lot* about the thing they wish to censor. The more earnestly they demand it, the more they themselves fantasize about it.
The house butlers of the Future!
which reminds me i have doodled him some more lately :-)
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