So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?
“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”
And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.
Saying “I’m not going to draw this thing because I don’t know how to draw this thing” is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you’ve now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.
I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of “I could never do that.”
He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn’t about natural talent; it’s a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you’re assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they’ve put into getting where they are today, and you’re cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.
I don’t remember where I heard this but I wish I could, because it stuck with me:
Talent is THE RATE at which you learn things, not whether or not you can learn certain skills at all.
And that suddenly clicked for me. I have been very talented with a lot of things in my life and once I realized that I had basically been getting XP multipliers on my normal life experiences, it suddenly felt so much less awful to realize that I did not have the same advantage with other skills I struggle with, and that’s okay. I might even have some debuffs on those, and that’s okay. It’s still all gaining as long as I keep working on it!!
I DONT EVEN HAVE CHICKC EN BUTDONT TEL L ME;:..WHA YTA TO DO
DON T TEL L ME ;;!!!! WAT TO DO
Did you know in Europe it’s standard practice to vaccinate chickens against salmonella? That’s why they store their eggs on the shelf at room temp. We can’t do that in America because we don’t vaccinate against salmonella in chickens. Because it’s considered too expensive/not cost effective.
I wonder if you can buy a vaccine in the US. It’s a really awful disease for the birds, I wouldn’t want any of my babies going through that.
there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living
I love Dungeon Meshi because every (main) character has a version of this. Every character is deeply affected by something they have no way of fixing or changing, but they’re all still drawn together by love, passion, and kindness
ADHD isn’t ignoring the elephant in the room it’s just that the elephant has been in the room for so long that your brain no longer registers its existence.
Baby I can mentally skip over things you wouldn’t believe
to be 100% frank i do think AI is fascinating and you’ll definitely find more anti-AI than me out there HOWEVER if you don’t disclose your images as AI-generated or heavily AI-assisted then that is a Bitch Move. furthermore if you build a following on shitass traced midjourney slop with captions like “spent all week working on this piece with me own wittle hands and paintbrushes 🥺 #artists on tumblr #illustration” i’m sorry but i’m putting you in the food processor
english is not my native language. i’ve spent the last 15 years of my life speaking and thinking and dreaming in english - but i feel a certain sadness knowing i may never have the same ease or process it in the same way that people who were born in it can. i have a lot of fun with this language, and there may be some advantages to learning it analytically rather than having absorbed it into the softer parts of my brain as an infant; but on some level it’ll always feel like something i’m wearing rather than something i am. anyway i feel similarly about being a person
me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?
me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.
I can never tell which of my posts are going to explode (it is never ones I put work in) but I pray to God this one does
The past few weeks I have seen an explosion in doomerism and defeatism about Trump. Some people seem to have just decided to call the election for him for reasons that don’t even make much sense
(He was almost shot and that always helps! Look at Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt! Reagan was already president and incredibly popular, and the shooting happened 2 months into his first term; Roosevelt was shot when he was campaigning in 1912….in an election he lost)
Trump has never been popular, he has never won the popular vote, and he has never had popular support. For the past 3 years, especially post Roe V. Wade, Democrats have increasingly overperformed especially in special elections. There were so many polls predicting 2022 would be a Red Wave, that turned out to be false due to faulty and biased polling. I’m not saying a Dem loss is impossible, but it is a lot less of a sure thing than the doomsayers are making it out to be
How does Trump win? Apathy. Despair. Low Turn Out. While many of the “Trump is guaranteed to win” posters I’m sure are real people who are justifiably scared, I think we underestimate just how many are people at home and abroad, who want a lower turnout, who want Trump to win.
I used to hear a joke growing up that “If voting did anything, they would make it illegal” Well considering how hard Republicans are trying to discourage voting and making it hard to do, it must do something.
Working Family’s Party - an organization working to help progressives win in primaries and general elections. I particularly like working in their text bank program. Want to help in a phone bank but don’t like talking on the phone? this is perfect as you send texts to encourage support and voting
Spread this far and wide. Tell your friends and your family. Make clear to them what is at stake if Trump wins. Feel free to add other resources and organizations that
Apparently a part of the reason why farmed bees stay in the beehives that humans build for them is because the farm hives are safer and sturdier. I don’t know how a busy Discord server’s worth of bugs that only have one brain cell each would logically conclude that the humans protect them from outside threats, illness and parasites, but if I understood right, the bees would be free to move away and build a new nest somewhere else any time they’d want, and they simply choose not to.
You know how in almost every culture, people have some concept of “if I sacrifice something that I made/grew/produced to the Gods, they will ward me and my harvest from evil”?
So, in a way, don’t the bees willingly sacrifice a part of their harvest to an entity not only far greater than them, but nearly beyond their comprehension, in exchange for protection against natural forces wildly outside of their own control?
So tell me, beekeepers, what are you to your bees, if not a mildly eldritch God?
I don’t know about other cultures, but in English folklore, when a beekeeper dies someone has to go out and tell the bees.
Imagine you’re a neolithic hunter-gatherer, just hanging out, sacrificing stuff to your god, when a new god you’ve never met before shows up and tells you that your god is dead, it’s not your fault or anything, and maybe a new god will come along to take care of you, maybe not, it’s gonna be touch and go for a while
Apparently in medieval Europe they also whispered secrets to the bees.
So imagine the mildly eldritch God you worship talks to you and tells you secrets, but these secrets make no sense to you and are incomprehensible to understand or even know they are secrets. But your God does make vibrations at you, so thats probably a good thing right??
Also occasionally the Swarm decides there is not enough room in the Hive because the eldritch god didn’t take the offering of Honey at their normal time. So enough of a Swarm builds up that the second queen is able to leave without decimating the first Swarm. They are all set to search out a new place that will likely not have your God anymore (but really that’s not too much of a struggle, they have abandoned you, that’s part of why you’ve left, even though the first Swarm still holds out hope for their return).
And then, the scouts find another Hive right next to the old Hive. Literally right next to it. So the Queen lands to inspect it and wow, it’s a good deal. The area already has enough food to support 2 Hives, so it’s a not problem to stay in the area now that they have the space, but…this wasn’t here before.
And then you see God, they’ve come to help the Swarm move to the new Hive and take the offering from the old Hive. Truly this must have been their plan all along
In English folklore, you ALSO have to invite your bees to your wedding, and decorate their hive, and leave a slice of cake for them, and also bring your new spouse by to introduce them to the hive straightaway. Imagine your eldritch god doing THAT.
#these polite beekeepers are just modeling the behavior they would like to see from their own god maybe? #perhaps if we could sting God he would tell us secrets
Apparently a part of the reason why farmed bees stay in the beehives that humans build for them is because the farm hives are safer and sturdier. I don’t know how a busy Discord server’s worth of bugs that only have one brain cell each would logically conclude that the humans protect them from outside threats, illness and parasites, but if I understood right, the bees would be free to move away and build a new nest somewhere else any time they’d want, and they simply choose not to.
You know how in almost every culture, people have some concept of “if I sacrifice something that I made/grew/produced to the Gods, they will ward me and my harvest from evil”?
So, in a way, don’t the bees willingly sacrifice a part of their harvest to an entity not only far greater than them, but nearly beyond their comprehension, in exchange for protection against natural forces wildly outside of their own control?
So tell me, beekeepers, what are you to your bees, if not a mildly eldritch God?
I don’t know about other cultures, but in English folklore, when a beekeeper dies someone has to go out and tell the bees.
Imagine you’re a neolithic hunter-gatherer, just hanging out, sacrificing stuff to your god, when a new god you’ve never met before shows up and tells you that your god is dead, it’s not your fault or anything, and maybe a new god will come along to take care of you, maybe not, it’s gonna be touch and go for a while
Apparently in medieval Europe they also whispered secrets to the bees.
So imagine the mildly eldritch God you worship talks to you and tells you secrets, but these secrets make no sense to you and are incomprehensible to understand or even know they are secrets. But your God does make vibrations at you, so thats probably a good thing right??
Also occasionally the Swarm decides there is not enough room in the Hive because the eldritch god didn’t take the offering of Honey at their normal time. So enough of a Swarm builds up that the second queen is able to leave without decimating the first Swarm. They are all set to search out a new place that will likely not have your God anymore (but really that’s not too much of a struggle, they have abandoned you, that’s part of why you’ve left, even though the first Swarm still holds out hope for their return).
And then, the scouts find another Hive right next to the old Hive. Literally right next to it. So the Queen lands to inspect it and wow, it’s a good deal. The area already has enough food to support 2 Hives, so it’s a not problem to stay in the area now that they have the space, but…this wasn’t here before.
And then you see God, they’ve come to help the Swarm move to the new Hive and take the offering from the old Hive. Truly this must have been their plan all along
In English folklore, you ALSO have to invite your bees to your wedding, and decorate their hive, and leave a slice of cake for them, and also bring your new spouse by to introduce them to the hive straightaway. Imagine your eldritch god doing THAT.
#these polite beekeepers are just modeling the behavior they would like to see from their own god maybe? #perhaps if we could sting God he would tell us secrets
I own a pet portrait of a Irish wolfhound that I found in an antique shop.
It’s a really good pet portrait of a dog, the dog looks so happy and the artist’s style is pleasing. In the shop I turned it over. On the back is the artist’s signature and the year it was painted. That year was 1986. It suddenly occurred to me that the dog in the portrait must be dead by this point and the owner who commissioned it must be dead as well. Someone who loved their dog enough to get such a great portrait of them made wouldn’t part with it so they must have died, that’s the only reason it would be here. I was so horrified looking at this beautiful portrait of a beautiful dog.
It occurred to me all of the 19th century paintings of dogs in my favorite museums are portraits of dead dogs commissioned by dead owners. That portraiture is haunted by nature, a snapshot of a living thing that is loved and will survive long after the subject is no longer living and the person who loved them has gone.
Then I remembered my favorite Gary Larson comic.
Anyway, I bought the painting and it now hangs in my cat’s room. My cat has a room because I love her very much. I want to commission a portrait of her.
why would you assume someone who commissioned a painting in 1986 is dead now??? That’s not even 40 years ago, they might even still be in the workforce
@bagel–bytes also me referring to 19th century dog paintings in museums was referring to 19th century dog paintings in museums, like one of my favorite paintings:
Portrait of an Extraordinary Musical Dog by Philip Reinagle (1805)
It suddenly occurred to me that the adorable dog who the owners had taught to play the piano was long dead but the painting of the dog proudly using its extraordinary talent remained two centuries after it was captured.
I’m sorry for responding like this but I’ve got so many responses to this post implying I am stupid and have no concept of the passage of time. Perhaps it’s my wording of the post but I’m not implying 1986 was eons ago, just that the painting was a sentimental object I could not see the owner willingly getting rid of. Also, people can die at anytime.
Thank you for leading me to this! It is sad to think these dogs are dead but so sweet to know they were loved in their lifetime. They have their own form of immortality here with us in photograph and painting. Some of them may have been separated from their name but they have never been separated from the affection you can feel radiating through their likeness.
my mom is soooo upset because she dropped and cracked one of her chicken’s eggs that she knew was fertilized. it’s her first time trying to hatch chicks and she was so excited. this was one of two eggs she’d seen moving while candling them. she feels so bad.
thank god, says man who was seriously considering sneaking chicks into his mom’s chicken coop to save her from sorrow
mother hen accepted the fraud chicks. no signs of hatching on her eggs.
FANTASTIC news, for everyone following this story. the egg that started this whole thing, that made my mom so guilty she bought 4 chicks for her broody hen, that egg hatched:
look at its angry little face. so mad.
here they are, all fluffed up. learned to walk and immediately got trapped in the feeder….
survived its first night in this world.
never seen such a mean mug on a chick in my life. a silkie no less! were thinking he might be a rooster.
we’re too tired to elaborate please choose based on vibes. if you answer yes and have a concrete answer for which part of “education, employment, and training” serial murder qualifies as PLEASE note down which
cmon i’ll grant that some of those guys are more, like, hobbyists about it but SOME of these people truly have a passion. again this is still kind of about the skyrim quest blood on the ice
i know its their attempt at being progressive but its annoying when games call their blatantly stereotypically male and female body types something that isnt just “no boobs” and “boobs” because like. elden ring. what about being “slender” implies i need a bra
Considering the state of the mental health institutions in almost every country, it is simply impractical for the answer to this to be “no” even if you think that’s the correct one.
Even many places with universal healthcare systems commonly have long waiting times, and you can never assume that the doctor is actually a believer of any kind of modern theory
for the love of god separate the word TERF from the man hating ugly dyke feminist you made up in your head. it is a group founded on the exclusion of trans women from women’s spaces, everything else grows from that ideology. it is not a word for when feminist theory makes you mad. it is NOT when women hate men.
if i have to see another person call a trans woman a TERF for saying she doesn’t like men i’m gonna start hitting people with axes
you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are dangerous and need to be excluded. you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are their sisters who need saving. you will find TERFs who are themselves transmasculine. you will find racist tradwife TERFs. you will find black lesbian TERFs. you will find TERFs who commit to political lesbianism. you will find TERFs who are quite happy to have a husband and work with fascist men. (a lot of those actually)
you’re not going to find transfeminine TERFs. because the foundation of TERFism is the exclusion of trans women.
taking words coined to describe the specific oppression of trans women and cutting us out of their definitions is transmisogyny. turning around and using those words against us is fucking revolting.
transmisogyny is not sparkling transphobia, it is hatred of trans women. TERFism is not Feminism I Don’t Like, it is TRANS EXCLUSIONARY RADICAL FEMINISM
also let me assure you that if you walked into a discussion of transmisogyny with “sex based oppression” on your lips you are 100% closer to TERF ideology than the person telling you that transmasculine people are capable of oppressing trans women.
way too many fucking people seem to think TERFs exist because the feminism’d too hard and accidentally started hating trannies. no, actually, transmisogyny is a foundational part of colonial and christian society and they shaped their feminism around it.
*with the caveat that there are some transfems who get roped into TERF ideology, but they are not the girls who discuss transmisogyny
It’s actually crazy how quickly people forget the meaning of acronyms
I mean seriously??? How the hell did you conclude a transfem is actually a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist because she doesn’t like men
There is only one way, that is you completely forgot what the term even means
for the love of god separate the word TERF from the man hating ugly dyke feminist you made up in your head. it is a group founded on the exclusion of trans women from women’s spaces, everything else grows from that ideology. it is not a word for when feminist theory makes you mad. it is NOT when women hate men.
if i have to see another person call a trans woman a TERF for saying she doesn’t like men i’m gonna start hitting people with axes
you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are dangerous and need to be excluded. you will find TERFs who think transmasculine people are their sisters who need saving. you will find TERFs who are themselves transmasculine. you will find racist tradwife TERFs. you will find black lesbian TERFs. you will find TERFs who commit to political lesbianism. you will find TERFs who are quite happy to have a husband and work with fascist men. (a lot of those actually)
you’re not going to find transfeminine TERFs. because the foundation of TERFism is the exclusion of trans women.
taking words coined to describe the specific oppression of trans women and cutting us out of their definitions is transmisogyny. turning around and using those words against us is fucking revolting.
transmisogyny is not sparkling transphobia, it is hatred of trans women. TERFism is not Feminism I Don’t Like, it is TRANS EXCLUSIONARY RADICAL FEMINISM
also let me assure you that if you walked into a discussion of transmisogyny with “sex based oppression” on your lips you are 100% closer to TERF ideology than the person telling you that transmasculine people are capable of oppressing trans women.
way too many fucking people seem to think TERFs exist because the feminism’d too hard and accidentally started hating trannies. no, actually, transmisogyny is a foundational part of colonial and christian society and they shaped their feminism around it.
*with the caveat that there are some transfems who get roped into TERF ideology, but they are not the girls who discuss transmisogyny
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