For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use -expected_number_of_chapters: 1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

counting plum to sleep

His name is Steve Rogers

Steve's choices / Bucky's lack thereof

Merry Christmas! Bucky & Steve!

You are home now!

Embrace the cringe.

Write weird fanfic.

Read weird fanfic.

Marvel 'tattoo style' stickers are in my shop now! :) https://deandraws.etsy.com

The “Unknown Model” (2016)

Ok, this one’s fun. You have this incredible 1970′s picture making the round on Tumblr of an unknown erotica model who happen to 1) look like Bucky and 2) have practically the same uniform. That’s some happy coincidence! This art, is a reinterpretation of this photo, with the real Bucky this time (and it’s in full color!)

(Photoshop CS6)

IW STEVE x TFA BUCKY

One Liner Prompt list #6

1- “Are you always this stupid, or are you just feeling festive?”

2- “One drunk assassin, armed with a bubble gun and a bag of marbles, is one drunk assassin, too many.”

3- “Aren’t fish meant to stay in the water?”

4- “Look, it’s not that I’m not grateful, but I’m pretty sure that 30 uncooked turkeys, might be a little extreme.”

5- “If you’re calling to ask me about what went down yesterday, you’re wasting your time.”

6- “Please stop yelling about vampire conspiracy theories at three in the morning, you’re starting to make our neighbours uncomfortable.”

7- “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I think eating my body weight in chocolate, after learning about the existence of demons, is a perfectly reasonable coping method.”

8- “Oh, we’re taking the murder route this time? Ok.”

9- “Please stop responding to every threat, with, ‘Oooh~ Kinky!’.”

10- “Stop trying to eat the guests!”

11- “Do you happen to have a crowbar? I need one because of reasons.”

12- “To be fair, I wasn’t the only one who thought that setting them on fire, was an appropriate response.”

13- “….Do I want to know why you thought bringing a shovel was necessary?”

I think 11 might be my favorite 😆

Always a good idea to have a crowbar handy~ 😏

Quick! Funniest reason for someone to become a villain

Has a crush on the hero and can't be normal about it

You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.

One of the tragedies of Steve’s character assassination is that neither Sam nor Bucky were allowed to mourn his absence. Unlike with Nat, where Yelena and Clint were able to lay bare their grief during Hawkeye. Nominally, Steve went to lead “the life he wanted”, and the narrative was afraid to open the can of worms around how uncharacteristically irresponsible that was. Hence neither Sam nor Bucky could discuss his loss, nor could they voice their own negative emotions around his absence. Not only were they not allowed anger, but they were also deprived of grief and bewilderment and regret. There was a Steve-shaped hole in TFATWS, and as much as the narrative tried to pretend it didn’t exist, the story was warped by its unshakeable presence.

still thinking about that long post about unsolicited fanwork critique and just want to toss out there:

there is no moral obligation to improve at your hobbies.

"x ship is normalizing incest-"

Buddy

If game of thrones hasn't normalized incest by now (pulling over 10 million views in the 7th season alone) then a small fandom ship most certainly won't

Spn ran for fifteen fucking seasons, it ran for over a decade, and wincest was consistently one of the two or three most popular ships. And it had no measurable impact on real world abuse. Maybe you think fandom is uniquely dangerous (why, idk, but this tumblr after all) but a pretty good rule of fandom is that if Spn couldn't do it, fucking no one else is going to manage it.

(link to tweet)

my blorbos dont deserve romantic relationships. they deserve relationships that are so complex and comfortable that they go beyond the terms romantic and platonic, deserve to be in a relationship thats ambiguous but still gives them the knowledge of where they stand with each other. they deserve to have their lives intertwined with others in a way that no words could ever begin to define it as. and they deserve to feel safe in it.