XavierCK

if you use generative ai at any point in the illustrative process (let alone fucking fan art) you have nothing worthwhile to say your ideas are vapid and your lack of a commitment to bettering your art thru experimentation and curiosity is boring. go chew on paint chips

getting you with my comically oversized rubber mallet

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

re-reblogging and thinking about when i have another collection agency calling that i can just do this

Yo this is such good info to have

Cheers Americans, have fun with this one

Being recently disabled this is going to relieve a FUCK TON of weight holy SHIT

i am a woman at war with herself, torn forever between my love of detective fiction and my hatred of cops and cop media

it's so fucked up that detective is a type of cop irl. it's more like a gender to me

this guy↑ my bg3 illithid oc vox

Stage Five: Star Trek

Even though most people live in caves and bunkers now, agriculture never went away.

its so difficult to draw anatomy. and objects. and backgrounds. and clothing. and colors. and lighting. i honestly dont know how i ever managed to draw anything in my entire life

More mechs from last year; I designed a floor buffer mech and got the idea in my head to make one for cleaning the windows of a skyscraper. and that's this duo below:

The top one looks quite anthropomorphic but I liked the way its pose ended up capturing a little personality.

A dinosaur obsessed 12 year old studied fossils and found a 69 million year old hadrosaur skeleton embedded in rock while hiking. A fisherman in Australia noticed tiny shrimp in his net that looked slightly different from the others and he sent a few specimens to biologists for testing. Turned out to be a never before described species, going unnoticed in a popular lake. I posted a pic ~here on tumblr~ of a weird parasite on a dead fish and a parasitologist found it and asked to report it as the species has never been seen in my area before.

There is so, so much out there we literally don’t even know. And the best way to find that stuff out is to be intensely curious about everything you see. You might not discover a new species but you absolutely will gain a deeper appreciation for the world around you.

It's so easy to find stuff that's new to science. You may think that you live in a place where "everything is already discovered" but you would be wrong

Is this a threat?

@the-barbearian

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I USED TO VOLUNTEER AT THIS ZOO EXTENSIVELY!!!

This was a really cool enrichment project that allowed our orangutans to interact with the public in a way that was safe, engaging, and most importantly on the orangutans' terms. There is a button on the wall that the orangs could press and would douse visitors with a quick spray of water, and was especially enticing on hot days!

So the handsome fella on the sign is one of the male orangutans named Bajik when he was a kid. Bajik was a very playful and mischievous little guy, and figured the button out pretty quickly. Visitors learned of this and would point to the button to try and get him to press it so they could get a shower, and Bajik would SIKE THEM OUT. He'd go up to the button like he was gonna press it and get visitors all excited BEFORE RUNNING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!

It really is incredible, getting to know these animals on such a personal level. Visiting certain animals is like visiting old friends, and really puts into perspective how similar we are with our close cousins. I'm happy to announce that Bajik is now a proud father, and has learned parental skills from his father, Boomer. Boomer was the first male orangutan ever documented to provide parental care to Bajik, playing with him and carrying him around as a baby/child. And it appears Bajik learned these behaviors, and is doing the same for his firstborn son, Fajar. I've known Bajik and his mate Leela since I was 13 years old giving talks at their enclosure to visitors. I'm very, very proud of him and Leela for being such wonderful parents.

Here's the handsome man nowadays! (Photos courtesy of the Toledo Zoo)

And of course, his little one, Fajar.

How about a co-op shooter where you and your friends are exterminators who travel from planet to planet cleaning up people's neighborhoods by killing alien monsters threatening their safety

All your combat gear has high vis colors, and you try to minimize your impact on people's homes to get a better rating

Occasionally you do other jobs like being a volunteer firefighter or an EMT, and you have to drive a space firetruck

What if there were BUGS

What if the guy on the stretcher has to give you covering fire while you book it to the transport

What if one of the exterminators lifting the stretcher got shot and killed immediately, so the remaining one picked up the guy on the stretcher and they hobbled to the extraction shuttle together as blood trailed behind them.

What if the uninjured exterminator threw his buddy into the shuttle and landed on top of him in a pool of blood.

What if he yanked off his own belt and wrapped it around his dying friend's leg, pulling it tight with his teeth.

I guess my general thesis is Helldivers would be better if horny

This genre of game would be a lot better if they'd add small procedurally generated bug nests that you rappel down into and clear out using flamethrowers and grenades.

Also thermite. Lots of thermite.

How about a co-op shooter where you and your friends are exterminators who travel from planet to planet cleaning up people's neighborhoods by killing alien monsters threatening their safety

All your combat gear has high vis colors, and you try to minimize your impact on people's homes to get a better rating

Occasionally you do other jobs like being a volunteer firefighter or an EMT, and you have to drive a space firetruck

What if there were BUGS

What if the guy on the stretcher has to give you covering fire while you book it to the transport

What if one of the exterminators lifting the stretcher got shot and killed immediately, so the remaining one picked up the guy on the stretcher and they hobbled to the extraction shuttle together as blood trailed behind them.

What if the uninjured exterminator threw his buddy into the shuttle and landed on top of him in a pool of blood.

What if he yanked off his own belt and wrapped it around his dying friend's leg, pulling it tight with his teeth.

I guess my general thesis is Helldivers would be better if horny

How about a co-op shooter where you and your friends are exterminators who travel from planet to planet cleaning up people's neighborhoods by killing alien monsters threatening their safety

All your combat gear has high vis colors, and you try to minimize your impact on people's homes to get a better rating

Occasionally you do other jobs like being a volunteer firefighter or an EMT, and you have to drive a space firetruck

What if there were BUGS

What if the guy on the stretcher has to give you covering fire while you book it to the transport

What if one of the exterminators lifting the stretcher got shot and killed immediately, so the remaining one picked up the guy on the stretcher and they hobbled to the extraction shuttle together as blood trailed behind them.

What if the uninjured exterminator threw his buddy into the shuttle and landed on top of him in a pool of blood.

What if he yanked off his own belt and wrapped it around his dying friend's leg, pulling it tight with his teeth.

How about a co-op shooter where you and your friends are exterminators who travel from planet to planet cleaning up people's neighborhoods by killing alien monsters threatening their safety

All your combat gear has high vis colors, and you try to minimize your impact on people's homes to get a better rating

Occasionally you do other jobs like being a volunteer firefighter or an EMT, and you have to drive a space firetruck

What if there were BUGS

What if the guy on the stretcher has to give you covering fire while you book it to the transport