A tip for blending when painting digitally: use a transition color! I quickly made this when my brother asked for art advice while I was working on a painting for my best friend. (I was watching a lot of makeup videos to pick out her gifts).
The leaves are changing colors and falling to the ground. Pick one up and use a sharpie to write down change you wish to manifest this fall. Crumple the leaf in your palm (it should go into many crunchy pieces) and blow it away like one would do with a dandelion. You will see the change in your life.
the human life is a strained and tense one. i envy the life of a smooth rock resting on the beach… warmed by the sun… unaware of the trials and tribulations of sentient life…
I find the twilight renaissance funny, and I’m all for eliminating cringe culture, but let’s remember that smeyer changed Quileute legends and beliefs to fit her narrative, gave animalistic/abusive traits to her Native characters, reinforcing the uncontrollable “savage” stereotype, made the “pure”, pale vampires constantly insult and antagonize the werewolves (whose land they were living on) for no reason, and overall wrote some pretty racist stuff about her Native characters
concept: I live in a tiny cottage in the woods. I dry my laundry on a clothes line and regularly pick mushrooms. I wake with the sun, stay up late reading and nap during the afternoon in a hammock. I have a garden full of flowers, herbs, vegetables and berries. I rarely need to leave my beautiful home tucked away in the forest.
1600s: most witch-hunts ended in this century. no witches were burned in North America; they were hanged or in one case pressed to death
1700s: the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette. the French Revolution. the crazy King George. most pirate movies
1800-1830: Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice! those dresses where the waist is right under one’s boobs and men have a crapton of facial hair inside high collars
1830-1900: Victorian. Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end
1900-1920: Edwardian. Titanic, World War I, the Samantha books from American Girl, Art Nouveau
1920s: Great Gatsby. Jazz Age. Flappers and all that. most people get this right but IT IS NOT VICTORIAN. STUFF FROM THIS ERA IS NOT VICTORIAN. DO NOT CALL IT VICTORIAN OR LIST IT ON EBAY AS VICTORIAN. THAT HAPPENS SURPRISINGLY OFTEN GIVEN HOW STAGGERING THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERAS IS. also not 100 years ago yet, glamour.com “100 years of X” videos. you’re lazy, glamour.com. you’re lazy and I demand my late Edwardian styles
I just saw people referencing witch burning and Marie Antoinette on a post about something happening in 1878. 1878. when there were like trains and flush toilets and early plastic and stuff. if you guys learn nothing else about history, you should at least have vague mental images for each era
“Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end” sounds like the longest weirdest worst movie I’d pay to see in theatres five times.
To all of the anti-captivity people out there who claim that animals should be free, taken back to the wild, I challenge you with one question-
Where is that wild?
Its not in Borneo. Its not in South Africa. Even our oceans are being destroyed.
I am a zookeeper and i would love nothing more than my animals to be in the wild, free. But before that happens, I need them to be safe. And what with deforestation, poachers, climate change and people, there is no more wild anymore.
So I urge you all instead of petitioning zoos and animal care facilities, start by not using palm oil products. Start spreading the word about the rhino plight. Educate yourselves. Stop trying to shut down these places that do good and take good care of their animals and start worrying about the ones left in the wild, because they are the ones in trouble. They are the ones who need help.
teakepp 