no no. you don't get it. the reason I injure my blorbos until they can't walk is because that's the only way they'll ever let someone else carry them. the reason I curse them to be sick and feverish is so that they'll finally open up about their emotions while delirious. the reason I force them to overexert themselves to the point of exhaustion is so that when they pass out they can finally rest.
I'm doing this for their own good.
what they don’t tell you about being an artist is that sometimes you will sit down and suddenly know how to draw something that youve never gotten right before
something else they don’t tell you is that sometimes you will sit down and suddenly have no idea how to draw something you’ve drawn numerous times before
randomly posting a bunch of old merch or posting stuff to twitter bc tumblr was kinda bumming me out lol
BUT I figured I’d post about as far as I got on my Leyendecker piece. Last time i worked on it was about a week? two weeks? before ECCC in March. I was getting no sleep and working full shifts and skipping the gym to try to get it done lol I had plans to buy prints last minute and then have this printed at the fedex at the convention center. And then ECCC cancelled and six months later I haven’t touched this since.
But I liked the work I did on it so here’s the unfinished piece :\ Its a little bittersweet but the chances aren’t very high that I’ll come back to finish this unless its for my own pleasure. But I don’t paint very often so I was really proud of my painting job especially on Steve’s face. Its not easy to ….basically hate painting and then try to paint like one of the greats lmfao.
The so-called Terror Birds did justice to their Mesozoic ancestors, taking the role of apex predators for millions of years in South America - some even made the trek north, reaching as far as Florida and Texas before dying out.
*The animals represented here are not to scale and don’t represent a direct line of descent, but rather plausible models for how this amazing transition happened.*
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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!
this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks
Reblogging things I like feels a lot more goblinesque than upvoting ever did. The upvotes felt like "hmm yes, I approve *golf claps*" while reblogging feels like furtively staring at something before shoving it in your mouth and scurrying back underneath the nearest piece of furniture.
Which isn't to say that I don't like it. But I definitely find myself going "maybe I shouldn't reblog this because I've already reblogged a bunch of things today and I don't want to look like I don't have a life," I say as I close the app and reopen it like one of those little automatic box toys with the switches.
It's likely been mentioned in other reblogs, but this is where the queue shines! Want to reblog 50 things but without putting literally 50 posts back to back on your followers' dashes? Have other people reblogged the same post 50 times, and you HAVE to reblog it as well, but don't want to be 51?
Queue those posts!
Your queue will distribute I think it's 1 - 50 posts a day, evenly spaced. You can also schedule posts/reblogs for specific days and times - say there's a Christmas post in July. Not an ironic one, just a regular post. You might not want it in July! In that case slap a date on it and it goes in the queue for THAT DATE rather than posting at the whims of the the queue's timer.
For example, I have an ancient post of a Christmas Godzilla topiary in some Japanese mall that's consistently scheduled for December 1st.
Anyway, back to the idea of the queue one more time before I quit. The other major thing about it, in addition to managing your own posts, is that the queue is what keeps posts alive here. On every other site, a post gets its initial impressions and then it's gone. No one talks about it again once it exits the collective attention span. But the queue gives posts indefinite life. Without it, we wouldn't have our heritage posts or the Old Magicks.
People talk about how Tumblr is dying, blah blah. The queue is why we HAVEN'T died though, even through all the years of changes that should have killed the site otherwise.
Autumnal
“An old god comes.”
“What? No. That’s just a cold front. It’s Autumn.”
“Yes, one of the oldest gods of all.”
