I'd like to personally apologize to the ESL folks on behalf of all native English speakers
But much like Japan's three alphabets, this must be memorized to truly achieve total fluency
"Your ancestors would think you were weak and soft" rhetoric is positively insane.
No, my ancestors would be like "Holy shit, you can read? You chose your own husband? You can drink from any water fountain?!" And assume I was a fucking queen.
Take it from a bitch in management AND talent.
There is no abusive, misogynist, sociopathic "genius" out there that CAN'T be replaced by an equally creative person who is not a living trash fire.
Found on Reddit.
Honest to god, this should be grounds for expulsion. Not a failing grade or even a failed class, but an actual boot in the ass on your way out the door.
College is voluntary. Why are you even there?
Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread.
Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but aren't confident they won't make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair.
Tetris 99 has taught me there is an entire roiling underbelly of god-tier Tetris degenerates out there that have been unknowingly training for this week their entire lives.
Having a good time watching Twitch streamers get destroyed by accounts named "Eileen" and "LuvMyKids72."
Gay Pride, Uganda, 2015, secretly held event due to state oppression/brutality, documented by photographer Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
#womensart
#PrideMonth
Reminder that the concept of "I made it all by myself with no help from anybody" is a complete fucking myth unless you were born from the primordial void like a chaos god and lived alone naked in a cave in the wilderness from that point onward.
Remember when Adult Swim promoted a new season of "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" by putting up Mooninite LED signs all over Boston
And the cops decided they were IEDs, for some reason
And when everyone went "1) They're obviously not and 2) They're ads," The cops refused to back down
Yo, folks: If your college is on this list, $10k of your student loan isn't forgiven: The ENTIRE THING is cancelled. Biggest name I recognized in The Art Institute, bu there are dozens more. Give it a read if you have outstanding loans.
In case you haven't been paying attention, since her disgrace, she married some dude and started pumping out kids at the speed of sound, then tried to tell the court she just CAN'T go to prison now, she has young children at home, have a heart! π’π’π’
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to move Tuesday to a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.
When Lady Gaga was in university, there was a Facebook group called βStefani Germanotta, youβll never be famousβ and now she is the FIRST woman in history to win an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA and Golden Globe all in the same year.
I still think about that one tweet proposing a sci-fi film where machines gain sentience and attempt to wipe out humanity... but their white-engineered facial recognition/tracking tech means they don't even notice black people.
The fine, by the way, isn't for refusing the order. It's for "emotional damages." Y'know, for gleefully leading a nationwide harassment campaign against a couple of people who just wanted a fucking cake.
A billionaire has Notre-Dame covered. Please consider helping these churches, who don't have a wealthy benefactor coming to their rescue. Every little bit helps.
Please donate here to help rebuild the three black churches in Louisiana burned by a white supremacist in a series of hate crimes. The loss of any sacred space is a blow to the heart of the community it sustains.
This is your occasional reminder that the big, publicized trades are faked, compensated, or occasionally both, with the intention of instilling FOMO and a gold rush mentality in the vulnerable.
They can't cash out their paper millions without your desperate, hopeful buy-in.
This is utterly unhinged anti-labor propaganda. There is nothing elitist about art. Being artistic is available and accessible to all with the will to pursue it. Henry Darger, James Hampton, Shaker gift drawings, quilting bees, kitbashed toys.
Now THIS is a money move: Shonen Jump has gone free-to-read with same-day updates in both Japanese and English, via a website and an app.
This is gonna kneecap scanslation/pirate sites AND centralize the readerbase. Talk about shifting to accommodate a changing market!
Gentle reminder that, when the Habsburgs sat for their portraits, as one of the most powerful and wealthy pan-European royal families in existence, they doubtlessly employed painters that flattered them to the brink of absurdity.
And the paintings still came out like this.
You gonna travel to the year 3,000 and get told "Hi! Welcome. Cancer is cured. We live to be 300. I can breathe water" and be like "You're all so WEAK I'm so ASHAMED"? Yeah, don't believe you.
"Uh, Spike, statement like that are aimed at men"
And it's still bullshit for men. You think Spartan foot soldiers and medieval kings wouldn't be insanely envious of your antibiotics, HVAC, and modern dentistry? You're genuinely deluded.
- "I'm just saying what everyone else wishes they could!"
- Rudeness to waitstaff, valets, workplace subordinates
- A need to one-up every story I tell
- "I'm old-fashioned."
- ALL their former partners are "crazy"
- Pretending It Never Happened instead of apologizing
PRO TIP FOR LIFE: It's never, actually, "a joke."
Screaming Nazi slogans?
Soliciting nudes from fans?
Sending disgusting unsolicited texts to strangers?
Those aren't "jokes."
They held a fucking PRESS CONFERENCE with the signs laid out on a table like they were cocaine millions and blathered about how they were going to "investigate further" because they were too square to recognize a Mooninite until like an intern went "That's from a cartoon."?
TL;DR version: the next incarnation of Clip Studio Paint will be on a now-mandatory subscription model, a la Adobe. Buy the current, 1.0 version while you still can.
Absolutely heinous and terrible decision.
Can we all stand in a moment of silent respect for "Clue," a movie based on a goddamn BOARD GAME that to this day remains unbelievably watchable and delightful and quotable?
I think an important part of being a goddamn grown-up is understanding you don't have to defend every dumb little piece of media you love.
Some stuff is just objectively mediocre/bad/insensitive, and YOU like it anyway. So what. It's fine. You're fine.
This is spec work.
Clients who expect to be presented with finished products without paying for them and pit designers against one another for that work are exploitative.
Ubisoft is developing this, ffs. They can afford to fucking pay you. They just don't want to.
There are so many ways for illustrators and graphic designers to get involved in making visuals that'll be in the game βBeyond Good and Evil 2β β join in! Details here:
Non-CK players: Wow, that game looks boring
CK Players: Hey everybody, how can I get my horse-wife to join my satanic cult? She's been a hopeless drunk since the last plague swept through, and there's just no reasoning with her anymore
Another Clip Studio Paint superpower you may not know about, but I can no longer live without: We all know about the 3D reference models. But did you know, once you have them posed, you can snap a perspective ruler *to the pose?*
The literal HOURS this has saved me.
I cannot believe "You must be polite to police or it's okay if they literally fucking murder/brutalize you" is a real argument I'm seeing on here, but here we are, I guess, you fucking bootlicking trash.
Srsly. Woke wasn't built in a day.
A LOT of the criticism of some of the marchers (and their pre-Trump politics) are legit, but they're here now. It's a chance to educate, not exclude due to a lack of purity.
Iβm sorry Jan from the PTA isnβt cool. Sheβs middle aged, sheβs never been to a march before, she made a hat sheβs proud of, and sheβs learning a lot of new things today. Jan isnβt cool. But Jan showed up. And that isnβt nothing.
This entire thread is hilarious.
Turns out, Verified accounts are still Verified, and on the Verified tab, and you can confirm they're Verified with a search. The checks aren't gone, Clyde just made them invisible.
Absolute, ABSOLUTE clownshow.
It looks to me like he never did figure out a mass unverification and so they are updating the UI (something they are not great at) to simply not display it.
Which might explain why he wanted to axe so much API access before this.
It could just be a caching thing, though.
This is honestly the best description of Versailles I've ever read.
"Wow, unbelievable! Mind-bending luxury and excess! A true wonder! Fuck this place and whoever made it!"
Inside Versailles is stunning.
That said, if I was a French peasant I would have been in the mob that killed all these bastards.
The opulence almost makes you physically ill.
The Afros we associate with the 60s, Black Panthers, and black liberation movements are direct rebellions to then widely-held beliefs that natural black hair was unkempt, dirty, unprofessional, shameful, and ugly. They are the haircut equivalents of "fuck you."
Did some techbro make these? Because it's doing that thing where they take something a hundred years old, give it a new name, and claim they invented it.
These are pince-nez. Teddy goddamn Roosevelt wore them.
Archaeological reconstructions are a great opportunity to remind folks that the past was way more colorful than we think. It's just that stone and clay last way longer than paint does.
And not even gonna dignify that "My mom's brother's neighbor's cousin saw the word "fentanyl" written on a Post-It from across a parking lot and IMMEDIATELY OD'ed" copaganda shit.
Reminder that these are the people we were told over and over again were ridiculously, dangerously wealthy because they were just plain smarter than everyone else
Wonder how many opponents of Healthcare For All will be banging the drum in memory of Stephen Hawking this week, whose life and work was made possible by the NHS.
Media: I cannot believe the Golden State Killer was a cop!
You mean like the cop with the elaborate plan to kidnap, rape, & devour a woman? & the one cop who serially raped vulnerable black women exclusively? And cops could fuck ppl in custody until LAST MONTH in NY?
Yeah, wow.
Just straight up admitting intersectionality is the nightmare scenario for people who rely on dividing the oppressed into easily-managed groups that can be turned on one another.
And pictured below are students recently threatened with punishment by their schools for "violating dress codes." Three of them are literally just wearing their hair as it grows from their heads; the other two have simple box braids.
I've bought games on Steam that I *already own,* because just paying $5.00 during the summer sale was less hassle than digging out the hard copy on CD.
Real talk: Every once in awhile, I feel compelled to remind folks that, in my opinion, Alphonse Mucha's illustrations of bored-looking ladies in togas are easily the least interesting work he ever did.
Please familiarize yourself with the concept of Schrodinger's Asshole: The guy who does/says a terrible thing to test the limits of what he can get away with, and, when met with disapproval, backpedals with "It was just a joke!"
Nope. It wasn't. Never is.
You don't have to French, or Catholic, or really anything but human to mourn the loss of a unique work of art and a piece of our collective heritage. Notre-Dame was objectively one of the beautiful things we could accomplish when we really tried. This is tragic.
This is a great article. Jordan Peele's Mad TV contract stopped him from getting onto SNL so he started smoking weed and began plotting to take over Hollywood:
If only there were a system in place to make economic migration between European nations easier
If only the continent had somehow become unified on the matter in a formal way
Porn is entertainment. It's not the job of porn to teach your kid about sex, any more than it's the job of "Greyβs Anatomy" to teach you to be a medical doctor.
If a fear of supernatural punishment is literally the only thing stopping you from raping, thieving and murdering your way through life, there is definitely something wrong with you.
It's fascinating that PraegerU manages to prove that you can get a better education in modern moral pilosophy and ethics from reruns of The Good Place than you can from their entire YouTube channel
This is how they rewrite history. This is how they manufacture a self-serving narrative.
There were GLOBAL protests against the invasion of Afghanistan. Including here. We weren't on your side, we were just vilified and ignored.
I can't say this enough: If there's an artist, author, publisher, YouTuber, streamer, filmmaker, band, etc. that's off the beaten path and that you love, y'gotta support them. And support is tangible. It's not a feeling, it's action.
Honestly tho, the sketch is cool, but my fave thing about this is the fanboys in the comments whining that the EXTENSIVELY Nazi-punching hellboy has now become "political."
Remember this
@shenanigansen
comic? It's true! This is me, I am a superloser! I've lost count of the times I've backed the wrong horse, lost competitions, tried stuff that didn't work. It's okay to be disappointed, but don't let this ruin your ambitions!
DREADLOCKS are among the easiest styles for a kinky-haired person to maintain. It's just a matter of twisting hair into sections, and then simply never untangling them. They hold themselves together. There is no glue or pomade. It's just hair.
(Source: had dreads for 15 years.)