i just… wanted to draw him… and his various smiles…

1:  drunk & doing finger-heart centuries before everyone else smile 2:  cliché cherry blossom smile 3: tense political drama smile 4: sad seclusion smile

Normal Horoscope:

Aries: All things come in waves. The tides of the world ebb and flow, bringing as much as they take. You are in for a wave of stonefruit.

Taurus: The highway to the danger zone is paved with good intentions. 

Gemini: Inspiration will abandon you when you need it most. Routine will always stay by your side if you beat it into submission.

Cancer: When you and your potential romance meet, sparks will fly as your claymore meets the circular saws that have replaced their hands.

Leo: The sunken eyed humanoid thing thats been watching you from the sewers is afraid of conflict, and will leave you alone if you throw stuff at it. 

Virgo: Worried about not having enough knives? Put in some work beforehand, and make yourself a knife suit.

Libra: Today while out on a hike you will find an abandoned mine with a lit oil lamp that glows an unnatural blue. Don’t touch it.

Scorpio: See how much cereal you can make before the manager of the grocery store calls the cops. 

Ophiuchus: Prepare for an odd day as one of the fake decorative bananas you have on your dining room table begins to ring.

Sagittarius: Everyone has things about their life they don’t like. Try fixing the parts you want to improve by hitting them several times with a wrench.

Capricorn: A surefire way to check whether or not something is really there, is to take a picture of it.

Aquarius: When I asked the stars for your fortune they brought me an old tire. I think its for you.

Pisces: The angel’s back. The beating of wings in the night was the sound of it feeding. Try not to leave your bed when you hear that.

The Signs and Knights III:

Aries: Warriors of a traitor clan. Hidden laboratories filled with kodoku jars. Throwing knives and daggers coated in unholy toxins. Peasants turned assassins by the arrogance of self proclaimed god-kings.

Taurus: The knights of a forgotten order. Overgrown armor that shows few signs of decay despite centuries of wear. Sentinels to a forgotten holy site. Violets blooming from the spaces in the maille. The heads of lances twinkling in the sunlight beneath a century of overgrowth, still sharp.

Gemini: Guards shepherding foreign merchants across the dune seas. Faces obscured by cloth veils, a bundle of throwing spears slung across their backs. Stoic and seldom spoken, few have heard their voices. Curiously all female. 

Cancer: Holy knights. Armor and arms created in the image of artifacts found in the deepest levels of the ancestral necropolis. Bronze sickle-swords emblazoned with the symbols of new gods, but their shape alone channels an ancient blessing fit for rending the unquiet dead.

Leo: The followers of a legendary champion. Lightly armored, and what armor they wear is largely ceremonial. Decorative manacles dangle from their wrists, impaled on their spiked pauldron is the effigy of an inhuman eye. Reminders as to the cost of freedom.

Virgo: The warrior elite of an empire now lost and fractured. Helmets in the shape of a snarling lion. Rumors of a secret, esoteric order. Clandestine rituals in the halls of the former capital. Ruminations on the origins of humanity. The true meaning of beasthood.

Libra: The last solider of an old atrocity. Dark memories. Prison camps. A chance at life. Dark red half-cloaks denoting a slave. Sealed into mouthless suits of armor and bound with padlocks. A necklace of keys and the fingers they were pried from. 

Scorpio: Tales of cats eyes glinting in the dark. Circles of mushrooms in the woods. Living veridium armor, shape-shifting along with their wearers. Deals made, debts collected. The watchdogs of the Summer Queen. 

Ophiuchus: Stewards to the dead. Bodies preserved in ritual armor. Forms bent double, walking on all fours. Sacred candles cover their backs like the spines of a porcupine. Blessed silver estocs glinting in the candlelight, free of blood and rust despite centuries of wear.

Sagittarius: Tundra knights. Thick layered pelts act as protection from weaponry and the bitter arctic winds. Wolf-skull pauldrons engraved with protective charms denoting rank. One hand carries a curved greatsword carved from a single colossal tusk. 

Capricorn: A lost warrior from an isolated and inhospitable land. The only known user of a weapon unique to her people. A long, razor sharp angled blade that bears no hilt, brandished with graceful wheeling motions. Strangely, the weapon is meant to be thrown. Stranger still, on a miss, the weapon comes back.

Aquarius: The captain of the guard and first of the dragonfly snipers. Personal bodyguard to the empress, watching visitors from the rafters of the throne room. Tales of a contest with the gods. A crossbow made from a falling star, shot right out of the sky. 

Pisces: Knights of an alpine kingdom built on lumber and steel. Greatswords with bossed hilts for smashing armor. Flesh-rending teeth along the spine, supposedly a reminder, a nod to humble origins as woodsmen, 

I just watched a kid break down in the bookstore because his books for the semester totaled $600 and that’s the american university system in a nutshell

I was on the verge of tears when I got to the cashier so yeah, that’s messed up

Go here and just, don’t waste any more money okay?

While I entirely support following that link, I also suggest going to Abe Books or Book Depository or even eBay to see if there are inexpensive print versions of books you need. I haven’t paid full-price for any of my texts while I’m in school… because that would DOUBLE the cost of school. I use the ISBN of the require books and search the cheap sites for them. Good luck out there, guys!

Paging FenrisLorsrai! Come work your resource magic on this post!

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED. (but I’ll post on my actual bookstore account)

Quick anddirty meta search for books: Addall. it’ll crawl 40+ book sites at once including ABE, ALibris, Amazon, Half in both domestic AND foreign versions.

Meta search #2! GetTextbooks.com which focuses specifically on textbooks. It omits some foreign sites that AddAll includes, BUT it also includes a whole bunch of rentals as well.  Renting is probably the most cost effective method overall.

NOW, HOW TO SEARCH!

First determine a few things:

Now, run your search by ISBN using the two metasearch sites.  Open them in separate tabs.  

gettextbooks shows you WITH the shipping, Addall does NOT show you the shipping.  keep this in mind when you’re comparing.  You’ll see a lot of duplication.  GetTextbooks will also show you SOME variants.

Now that you have those open, open two more tabs.  Run a second search on same two sites using the author and exact title you picked up from search #1.  This will show you all the international editions and weird bundles that don’t exactly match the ISBN of the bookstore

WHAT THE HELL IS AN INTERNATIONAL EDITION: its a paperback version of the US version with an angry notice on the cover saying “NOT FOR SALE OUTSIDE INDONESIA”. Its the same book, but way cheaper.  ignore the angry warning, the US Supreme Court has your back. NO, REALLY. Right of first sale, baby!  ignore the angry warning and you basically have same book, it just isn’t printed with ink made from student tears and unobtanium.

Now filter results based on whether you need any Extra materials or not. 

IF YOU DO NEED THE EXTRA MATERIALS: this is where it gets tricky. an intact bundle is generally the most expensive option or near top end of price curve.  If you NEED the other materials, you may be able to get them cheaper in pieces.  and you can buy mismatched pieces!

Say for example you need a math textbook, but need the software key for the math problem program.  The professor said you can use older book.  Buy a math book that one or more editions back and then buy the software key separately from the SOFTWARE manufacturer.  You’ll find the software keys on booksites all by themselves, but they’re generally way more expensive than buying the key direct from software manufacturer. and no shipping then!

NOW A WORD ON LITERATURE: sometimes profs want you to get a specific edition of something to read a specific essay in the book. You have about 50/50 odds that the essay is in the front of the book. IF IT IS, you may be able to read the essay on Amazon by going to that books page and clicking on the “look inside”.  They generally preview between 10-30 pages of books and that often means its the essay you needed, not the actually BODY of the book.  So you can look up the specific copy of Frankenstein on Amazon, read the essay, then download a free different version from Project Gutenberg.

FOR RECENT NONFICTION, make sure you have an up to date library card for your HOME library and the LOCAL city library where your college is.  Many have digital loans available, where you can check out the ebook for free and popular nonfiction is frequently available that way.

IF YOU CAN GET YOUR BOOKLIST BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL: shop for the mundane things locally first.  There will be 50 people in CollegeTown looking for that book, you may be the only one in your home town.  supply and demand, if you found it in collegetown, it may be 10X price of your local bookstore.

and check you local library as well!  You may be able to check out some of those books from your local library and take them to school with you and renew them online one or more times, depending on how in demand they are.  There will be NO copies in CollegeTown library because there’s 50 people asking for it.  But your HOME town, you may be able to renew it twice since its low demand. Write on your calender when they’re due or need to be renewed.  Renew them OR tuck the whole pile into a Priority Mail flat rate box and send them home to your folks.  The cost of the priority box to send several library books home is probably way less than what you’d pay for them. (or if its stuff you know you need AFTER a break where you’ll be home, request a hold from school, pick up at home)

ONE LAST WORD BEFORE YOU BUY…

You determined you HAVE to buy a book and you’ve narrowed it down to a few choices of source.  Run a search for “coupon + Sitename” what looked like the lowest priced may not if you find a coupon for the 2nd or 3rd lowest priced option. Gettextbook will generate some automatically, but you may be able to find even better ones.

So make yourself some food, get a beverage, put on some tunes and compare prices!

and if you’re reached point of wanting to curl up in a ball and die, you can send us an ask with the ISBN for your book and answers to questions aobe (extra materials, previous edition, etc) and we’ll send you back an note with a link to the cheapest one we can find.  I do this for a living, send an ask and I’ll get it done usually within about 12 hours.

WHOOP WHOOP MASSIVE EXCELLENT RESOURCE ADVICE ABOVE!!!!

In my experience avoid purchasing the textbook before you hear the words in person from your prof. I found out that I needed a specific edition AFTER I bought the textbook I thought I needed. 

For Arts kids check out [university/college name] + textbook exchange on facebook, a lot of the time theres upper years selling books to you, so you usually get them for at least half price. This is always a cash deal where you meet the student on campus.

For science / engineering kids, talk to some upper years about what textbooks you’re actually going to need. I have a friend in second year applied math engineering who didn’t purchase any textbooks this semester because all the content was on KahnAcademy 

The on-campus libraries almost ALWAYS have your textbooks. If you’re really strapped for cash, borrow them. For me they’re on a 3 hr loan, but sometimes if you try to check it out right before they close you can take it out overnight!

For future reference

reblogging for anyone who needs this info.

Just wanted to add that in my experience some of the books I need are impossible to find other than at the school bookstore because my school puts the “schools edition” book on the lists so you have to get it at the school bookstore.

Turns out they slap their name on it and don’t change a thing in the book I’m assuming to get more money and discourage students from buying elsewhere. So when purchasing books I would look out because you can probably get the cheaper regular/older edition book.

i wanna know pls, reblog with ur star sign and who your Pokémon partner would be?  ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Aries and Blaziken.~

I think next thursday is gonna be the best day of my entire life tbh

reblog for next thursday to be the best day of your life

not risking it

Pulchre!

The part about Wackernagel’s Law is very important.

Wow I sure wish I had been taught Wackybagel’s Law at some point in my eight years of Latin education. Especially my Latin degree, a considerable part of whose grade was based on sight translation. Jeez.

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Reblog for a kiss of luck from the Universe to find the love you seek in 2019 .+:｡

reblog by only using one word to describe what country/state you’re from

cheese

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Hell

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how to draw arms ? ? 

holy fuck

holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???

yes !!

but how much extend

^^^^^^^^^^

I NEARLY CHOKED

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finally. i can be accurate

This is too fucking great to not reblog

I give it MASCLES

BIG MACHO

LMAOOOOOO

Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:

The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!

So if anyone’s wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:

And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:

It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting: 

So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:

But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!

HOW THE HELL DID I FIND THIS POST OMG

nope.

i dont know why everything’s on fire, but im enjoying watching it burn

just to be clear, I’m staying here as long as this site functions. I have 0 intentions of deleting this blog, I will go down with this ship if only to see exactly how bad it gets

— Slytherin

Does necromancy only work on animals? What do you do if you accidentally necromancy a fence and then it starts growing branches?

WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU NECROMANCY A BOTTLE OF SHAMPOO AND IT TURNS INTO AN ENTIRE PILE OF LIMES?

What if I accidentally necromancy a vaccine and then someone gets an armful of very live pathogen?

WHAT’S THE LIMIT ON DEADNESS? HOW RECENTLY DOES SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DEAD? COULD I NECROMANCY A DINOSAUR FOSSIL? WHAT IF I NECROMANCIED THE GROUND AND THEN DINOSAURS STARTED APPEARING?

WHAT IF I NECROMANCIED A LIMESTONE WALL AND IT JUST TURNED INTO A PILE OF MOLLUSCS? WHAT IF I MOLLUSCED A BUILDING? A MOUNTAIN?