robotsandfrippary: zeonhime: the worst feeling about trying to draw is being a mediocre artist. You.

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zeonhime:

the worst feeling about trying to draw is being a mediocre artist. You realize you’re not terrible and family and friends who have can’t draw at all tell you all the time how amazing you are, but you, as the artist, have seen what amazing really is and you realize that it isn’t you.

No matter how good you get you always feel like this.  You can perfect your knowledge of anatomy but then you realize you’re shit at figuring out a dynamic pose. Or you can paint like an old master but your graphic design and color design is abysmal. Or you can sculpt but you can’t draw anything but stick figures.

Art is constantly learning.  You will always be mediocre at some aspect of art because it is such a vast skill set.  Accept it.  Use it to keep yourself humble when you finally get the hang of some singular aspect.

I know people who can’t draw or paint but are the most amazing colorist and watercolorists I’ve ever seen.  It’s amazing.  Their ability to render skin is flawless.  But they need someone else to put down the basic lines.

I know people who are heroes of the Zbrush community, doing extreme life-like faces of celebrities from scratch in short order… but they can’t sculpt the rest of the character at all.  They don’t understand how clothes work and they don’t know where to start.  They don’t even understand basic proportions.

Jack of all trades, master of none,though oftentimes better than master of one.
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lemondemon: nemfrog: “Each dot represents 5,000

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“Each dot represents 5,000 hogs.” World Geography. 1948. 

untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean
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PLEASE tell us how vegetables are a social construct

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so a long time ago humans were trying to figure out edible plant matter, right

and because they didn’t have fucking microscopes or anything they were like “okay we have to divide them in some way that is easy for us to figure out”

so they COULD have divided them up by like, color or some shit

like all the red things are called noogles and all the orange ones are called fuckips and all the yellow ones are called snarglebutts or whatever

but they didn’t

they divided them by taste, which makes sense if you’re trying to sort edible plant matter, the whole point is eating them so why not sort them by the most likely reason you need to know the difference between them

so all the sweet tasting things are called fruits and all the not sweet tasting things are called vegetables

except like other than that there’s no rhyme or reason to it at all??

like potatoes are roots and broccoli is a flower and pumpkins are fruits and celery are stocks

but we’re putting them together because they don’t taste sweet

and lemons are juicy and wet but not sweet but they’re fruit for some reason but tomatoes aren’t even though they’re also juicy but not sweet and carrots aren’t even though carrots can be sweet

meanwhile apples are genetically more closely related to fucking roses than they are to shit like blueberries but because they both taste good in pie we put apples and blueberries in the same group and roses are a different thing 

like, there’s a good reason why we sort plants this way, and that reason is “it’s easier to make food if you know vaguely what it tastes like beforehand,” and sorting plants by genetic family also makes sense if your reasoning is “i want to know what plants are related,” but they’re both sorting groups that humans made up and we could just as easily sort by color or shape if we decided that was an important thing we needed to know and that’s why it’s a social construct
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there’s a DINOSAUR IN YOUR KITCHEN
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Saw so many suggestively, luxuriously posed St. Sebastians at the Louvre, you don’t even know. 

@lilliburlero I feel like this might make you laugh
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   I just drove my uncle and myself to the hardware store, and he said to me “Molly, I want you to know that being Catholic doesn’t change anything. If you someday get married, your wife will be welcome in this family. Don’t ever think otherwise.”

  That is really nice, but I am not gay???

I’M LAUGHING SO HARD. SPOILER ALERT 2012 ME; YOU’RE SUPER FRICKING GAY.
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slimetony: destructionofsanctum: slimetony: I slept for almost 12 hours but I might still be...

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slimetony:

I slept for almost 12 hours but I might still be tired so lets go for 12 more just in case

Randy that’s a coma

sounds festive
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the new honda odyssey will tear your children limb from limb.
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I say this every time I argue for raising the minimum wage. I never hear anyone else say it and I’m glad I found this.

If you build your business and your bonus on the backs of others who you don’t pay a living wage you don’t deserve to be in business.

this is making capitalists bleed from the ears keep reblogging it

Since I tend to get into this with people who argue that robots will replace minimum wage workers if they get too expensive, I like to lean into the robot metaphor.

If you have a machine performing a valuable talk for your company, the upkeep of that machine is part of your operating cost. You have to pay to power it, to upgrade it, to fix it when it breaks. And if you can’t afford the machine, the manufacturer doesn’t have to do business with you. They’re free to take their service somewhere else where they think the price is fair.

For humans, a living wage is the operating cost. If you can’t afford to pay your worker enough to live nearby, feed themselves, and get basic health care - all of which are things they need in order to be able to work for you - you’re failing to pay for the cost of their service. 

The difference is that humans have to eat, like, all the time, so they often don’t have the option of taking their business somewhere else if the price isn’t fair - even insufficient food and shelter is better then starving on the street. But that means those people are not really able to act as agents in a free market, and it’s easy to exploit them under the guise of “the market setting the price.” People can’t act like reasonable economic agents when they’re desperate. As for as I can tell, that’s the whole point of having a minimum wage. 

Keep reblogging this, it’s making capitalists mad and reaching out to the working class
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cabochonruby: Look, I really don’t like to be

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Look, I really don’t like to be pedantic about things that technically don’t matter but can we try harder on this topic, thx
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languorwine:no offense but i’m in fucking tears

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no offense but i’m in fucking tears
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LGBT+ PRIDE (❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ*
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babyanimalgifs: Someone dropped their cotton balls

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Someone dropped their cotton balls
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90377: Portland Japanese Garden by Jim Lewis

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Portland Japanese Garden by Jim Lewis
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doonabae: Doona BaeSURE Korea Magazine (December 2013)

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Doona BaeSURE Korea Magazine (December 2013)
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misssatori: xbunnyclawsx: Credit: @hysteriamachine

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Credit: @hysteriamachine

hmmmm….
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Sarah, I'm having one of those nights where it feels like I'm not enough. Like I'm not getting anyth

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So, even in the midst of….probably the most significant crises of faith I’ve ever experienced, there is still a part of me that believes that after you die someone is going to sit down with you and ask about your life.

(I always picture it in one of those beige, nondescript rooms like a high school counselor’s office. There are bright, inoffensive posters on the wall. A glass dish of hard candy. The entity interrogating you wears a sweater.)

And they are going to sit down with you, and they are going to ask, SO HOW DID IT GO. THIS WHOLE….LIVING BUSINESS.

And you are going to have to tell the truth.

And the truth isn’t….did you make it. Where “it” is anything ranging from a lot of money to a lot of fame. The nice entity in the sweater doesn’t care about that. The nice entity in the sweater wants to know if you helped.

When you saw suffering, did you react in a way that was to minimize pain and bring relief? that came from a place of empathy? did you react our of love and justice, or out of showmanship, or worse—out of fear? did you give up what you could live without, to serve them?

If you were privileged enough to know other people, did you help carry their burdens where you could? did you meet them where they were, and forgive them their trespasses as you forgive yourself? did you rein in your own anxieties and fears, and let them blossom as only they can?

When you moved through the world—and wasn’t that beautiful, all that physics and chemistry and psychoanalytic geometry, really so impressive—did you leave the bits of it you touched better than you found them?

And at the end of the day, the nice entity in the sweater is going to know, whether you improved, helped, carried, served,….or whether you didn’t.

No other standard matters. Nothing else is important.

And….I mean, I didn’t choose my profession out of pure disinterest, I’m guilty as anyone of ignoring what I really and truly believe should be the guiding principle of my life. But I do believe it. And I think that there are millions upon billions of humans who fit the above criteria even though the historical record will never mention them by name.

That reminder keeps me humble, as I pursue more lofty goals—however  prestigious, however notable, that entity in the sweater doesn’t give a fuck. All that matters is: did I lessen suffering and unkindness where I could? was I gentle even when I could have reacted with violence? and did I help others flourish, even when I wasn’t sure it would help me grow at all?

Every other goddamn thing is secondary.
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socrappyicoulddie: factoseintolerant: John Oliver unveils...

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John Oliver unveils possible replacements for Confederate statues

Thank you HBO for bringing back the handsome Colbert hair curl that for some reason they’re not doing anymore at @colbertlateshow because they have no taste
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venterry: dudeholdmybeer: my sister just sent me this...

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dudeholdmybeer:

my sister just sent me this screenshot and honestly this is a prime mood

what a dream
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a guide to uk cities for foreign people

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manchester: gays. you will probably get mugged.
liverpool: like manchester, but less gay. you will definitely get mugged.
newcastle: probably quite good for canadians as exists in permafrost and has never left the 90s.
leeds: it's a lot cheaper than london
bradford: leeds but awful
nottingham: gun death capital of the uk!
derby: intense rivalry with nottingham, literally no one else in the country or world gives any fucks about this.
hull: violently resist anyone who attempts to take you here
leicester: i'm not sure this is a real place
york: this is an illustration from the top of a christmas biscuit assortment
birmingham: NO.
brighton & hove: more gays. is only a pretend city. mild to moderate chance of mugging. contains some deeply annoying hippies. basically if san francisco was british.
portsmouth: there is literally nothing here.
southampton: exactly the same as portsmouth but smells of off milk
bristol: you have a 1 in 10 chance of ending up in a bbc recording. everyone sounds like a farmer or bob marley.
cardiff: you have a 1 in 5 chance of ending up in a bbc recording, and a 1 in 3 chance of being glassed.
plymouth: post apocalyptic wind tunnel full of drunk sailors pissing on depressed hookers. do not enter.
penzance: everyone here is from london now.
london: no one from london is actually from london and even breathing is expensive.
cambridge: windy and full of equal amounts of homeless drug addicts and public schoolboys. the junkies are nicer.
oxford: same number of cunts as cambridge but easier to escape from due to all-night bus to london
edinburgh: a goth turned into a city. basically london but slightly more scottish.
glasgow: it is impossible to tell whether people are angry or happy.
aberdeen: las vegas at the point when vegas starts crying uncontrollably
belfast: do not order "an irish car bomb" OR "a black and tan" here.
wolverhampton: really, really don't.
norwich: count people's fingers. mutations walk here.
coventry: like plymouth, bombed flat in ww2. like plymouth, failed to take the hint. like plymouth: do not alight here.
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thefingerfuckingfemalefury: perpetuallyfive: duckayeh:

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duckayeh:

I’m legitimately crying right now at this news. When the celebs you put your trust in and step up like they should. Oh, man.

His comments are pretty great too: 

“My entire career is tied up with the man,” Smith said of Weinstein on his podcast Hollywood Babble-On. “I just wanted to make some fucking movies, that’s it…. And no fucking movie is worth all this. Like, my entire career, fuck it, take it. It’s wrapped up in something really fucking horrible.”

Though Smith says he was unaware of the allegations against Weinstein until the recent onslaught of public accusations, he still claims responsibility. “I know it’s not my fault, but I didn’t fucking help,” Smith told his podcast audience. “Because I sat out there talking about this man like he was a hero, like he was my friend.” He added, “I didn’t know the man that they keep talking about in the press. Clearly he exists, but that man never showed himself to me.”

Good for him both for doing this and acknowledging that not knowing about the accusations doesn’t change anything
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staff:

Here it is: Best stuff first

Extremely handy if you follow a lot of people and hate missing anything good. 

Best Stuff First moves the best stuff on your dashboard—mhm!—right up to the top. 

It’s rolling out this week on iOS and Android, and comes with this Help Center article.  

Thanks! ✌️

Head’s up folks! Tumblr decided to shit the bed and go non-chronological!

This bullshit is being rolled out this week and it’s going to be default!

Ah yay, another feature to deactivate immediately!

What analytics does Tumblr use to determine what is “best” for me to view because all of the blog recommendations I usually get are garbage. I really wish Tumblr would stop spending time developing features that completely alter and disrupt the experience of blogging. Non-chronological blogging, much like on Twitter, is so infuriatingly messy.

Not out yet it seems, at least not for everyone, but fortunately they tell you how to turn it off if you prefer chronological

Wait is this mobile only or tumblr-wide
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Whoaaa, 400 followers! THANKS PEEPS

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Whoaaa, 400 followers! THANKS PEEPS
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alexalexalexalex: meladoodle: my friend angella was doing a comedy gig, and as soon as she came out.

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my friend angella was doing a comedy gig, and as soon as she came out a guy shouted ‘can i give you my number?’ and all the crowd groaned cause it was so inappropriate but angella was like ‘yeah sure’. the guy started shouting out his number and she started entering it into her phone. the whole crowd was like woaaah. she got the whole number and then dialled it and it rang. everyone lost their shit. finally the guy answered and angella just said “hello? shut the fuck up” and it was the most incredible thing i’ve ever seen 

So some of these details are probably wrong, it happened a long time ago so I don’t remember the specifics leading up, but it was incredible.
A friend of mine who does stand up was doing his bit at open mic one night, and a guy was heckling him. Just being a total asshole, and then his phone rang and he started talking loudly on his phone about how he’s at open mic and this guy isn’t funny, etc. Now the weird thing about hecklers is that they just want to be a part of something most of the time, so my friend said, “hey man, what’s your name? Can I see your phone for a second?”

The guy actually handed over his phone, and my friend hung up, and scrolled through his contact list until he found the person he was looking for. He hit dial, and starts.

“Hello? Is this [Name’s] mom? Great! It’s very nice to talk to you. I’m a comedian in the middle of my standup routine, and your son is being very rude, [lists off some of the things her son said]…. hold on, can I get you to repeat that?”

He takes the phone away, puts it in speakerphone and holds it up to the mic.

“I said, I’m sorry my son is being such an asshole.”

Everyone lost it. Fuckin’ destroyed by his own mother. My friend said it was one of his proudest moments ever.
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My fav sex position is actually when I have feelings for someone and they have the same feelings for me too
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