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qinni: Semi-realistic Eye tutorial. Hope you guys find it...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:32:25 -0400

qinni:

Semi-realistic Eye tutorial. Hope you guys find it useful ^^. and here’s the step-by-step in GIF:

Full view tutorial

uinyan: 「ねこむらおたこ」さんのTwitterのつぶやきをついに商品化！「にゃんこ型イヤホンジャックカバー作ってみた」...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:38:51 -0400

uinyan:

「ねこむらおたこ」さんのTwitterのつぶやきをついに商品化！「にゃんこ型イヤホンジャックカバー作ってみた」 | ニコニコショッピング(仮)

legendaryarmor: “Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak… it just means...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:38:10 -0400

legendaryarmor:

“Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak… it just means you’ve been strong for too long.” You are not less than anyone else because of your hurt - you are just as important and wonderful as all of us. Being strong doesn’t mean never crying, never showing emotion or vulnerability. You are pushing on, beautiful and so amazing, even if you don’t think so - and I hope you can see that some day, if you don’t already.

doctorholmesofhogwarts: rainflaaash: districtnineand-three-quar...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:12:46 -0400

doctorholmesofhogwarts:

rainflaaash:

districtnineand-three-quarters:

accio—loki:

valkyriesmith:

solveitwithchocolate:

iou-a-fall-smeagol:

eleanull:

thechimeraresistance:

tltty:

if this eggplant gets less than 5 million notes i’m going to be so upset

Reblogging because eggplant

Fewer than 5 million notes. Fewer. Not less.

I believe that it is called an aubergine.

IN AMERICA WE LET EGGS BE PLANTS BECAUSE FREEDOM

In Britain we let those AUBERGINES live once we heal them with our FREE HEALTH CARE

NOBODY CARES, ENGLAND

at least America came up with their own word and didn’t steal ours

you used the wrong flag France

How I want to be cheered up if I'm down.

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:59:27 -0400

egifany:

bullshittery: spinlighted: There Is No Miami Zombie Apocalypse, Just Mentally Ill...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:26:36 -0400

bullshittery: spinlighted: There Is No Miami Zombie Apocalypse, Just Mentally Ill...:

spinlighted:

There Is No Miami Zombie Apocalypse, Just Mentally Ill People With No Safety Net

Attention, internet: Enough with the zombie apocalypse meme. ENOUGH. In general, I need you to stop talking to me about zombies, vampires, werewolves, unicorns, bacon, cupcakes, Chuck Norris if that’s still happening, and “I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.” Stop. Make a new thing. But more specifically, please stop aggregating gruesome crimes committed by mentally ill and/or drug addicted people so you can make some big har-har zombie punchline on your Facebook wall. Zombies are not real. Human beings are.

So a guy ate another guy’s face. That sounds pretty wacky, until you consider the fact that a guy ate another guy’s face. To someone, somewhere, this isn’t a remote story about some weirdos on the news—it’s an immediate, close, howling pain. And to turn that pain into a cheap joke (and not even a particularly good joke) is irresponsible and inhumane. As Richard Lawson at the Atlantic Wire put it:

It’s a real, sad, terrible thing that happened. All those other catastrophes are real too. Stringing together a bunch of awful tragedies for the purpose of making a lazy listicle is so checked-out and blase and insensitive that it’s, well, kinda disgusting…Just maybe try not to be so excited that some poor man had his face chewed off by a naked drug addict who still had bits of flesh in his mouth when he was shot and killed.

Or, I don’t know, maybe I should make a hilarious meme about the time your mom died! She’s probably a ghost now! Ha ha, you and your stupid ghoul mom. 75 dickheads “liked” this.

Yesterday in Seattle (where I live) a man walked into a cafe and shot five people—not people I knew personally, but people I’d met, friends of friends. Then he drove to a different neighborhood and shot another woman, a mother of two. Then he shot himself. According to his family, the man had a concealed weapons permit and a history of mental illness. They felt that he was dangerous, but there was nothing they could do. Now everybody is dead. Jonathan Golob wrote in my hometown newspaper:

In place of (costly and arguably inhumane) warehousing of the mentally ill, the plan for decades in Washington state has been to provide aggressive outpatient case management. Psychosis, bipolar disease, depression, anxiety and others are all treatable diseases. The notion—and it’s not a bad idea at its core—is to use an army of social workers (state employees) to keep mentally ill people in the community engaged with treatment and the community safe.

Over the same decades, our investment in social services has dwindled. Right-wing propagandists like the Seattle Times’s editorial board, Tim Eyman, and everyone you know who has uttered the phrase ‘a more efficient state government’ are directly responsible for our social service network being gutted, the many safety nets being left tattered and unmanned.

The reign of radical right wing financial policy in Washington State has left (the richest of) us with some of the lowest tax burdens of any community in the United States. The cost is a day like today.

I don’t mean that the people who latched on to this particular meme are bad people (though I would say they’re a bit thoughtless), or that it’s never appropriate to respond to unthinkable tragedy with macabre humor. But I’m not feeling particularly charitable toward wacky zombie jokes today. There’s no such thing as undead people, only dead people. And sad people. No one deserves to be publicly ridiculed for their identity — gay people, fat people, black people, poor people — but when we ridicule and marginalize mentally ill people, actual innocent people get killed.

Do yourself a favor and read this.

Made this out of paper clay, and it doesn’t look half bad~...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:34:39 -0400

Made this out of paper clay, and it doesn’t look half bad~ (Taken with instagram)

talldarkbishoujo: dontbearuiner: buzzfeed: sexualsportswear: ...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:01:54 -0400

talldarkbishoujo:

dontbearuiner:

buzzfeed:

sexualsportswear:

letsdolaunch:

GZA of Wu-Tang Clan to release a science inspired album: “Dark Matter”

“There’s no parental advisory, no profanity, no nudity,” he said. “The only thing that’s going to be stripped bare is the planets.”

the only thing that’s going to be stripped bare is the planets omg

“The only thing that’s going to be stripped bare is the planets.”

Awesome!!! Astrophysics rap!

things I did not know I needed until now

Ai-yo: "Get over it."

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:55:57 -0400

Ai-yo: "Get over it.":

washingitout:

The quote that inspired this tumblr and a few pictures to reference what the person was saying I should get over:

“I think you should get over it. European characters are often replaced by Black/Non-White actors. People complain because the cast of LOTR was White. In…

gamzeemakara: CAN WE STOP MISGENDERING OTHER PEOPLE IF YOU DONT LIKE SOMEONE IT IS NOT OK TO...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:06:32 -0400

gamzeemakara:

CAN WE STOP MISGENDERING OTHER PEOPLE

IF YOU DONT LIKE SOMEONE IT IS NOT OK TO MISGENDER THEM

IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT IT IS STILL NOT OK TO MISGENDER THEM

IF YOU MISGENDER SOMEONE BY ACCIDENT

ITS OK

IT WAS AN ACCIDENT

BUT DON’T DO IT ON PURPOSE YOU HEAVING SHITSTAINS.

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:04:50 -0400

Fuck Yeah Character Development!: Five writing tips from Barack Obama

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:54:15 -0400

Fuck Yeah Character Development!: Five writing tips from Barack Obama:

yahoopolitics:

… or, how Yahoo News landed an advance copy of David Maraniss’ Barack Obama: The Story.

A friend sent Obama a manuscript for editing, Obama wrote back with five tips:

1) “Careful about too many adverbs, particularly describing how people speak (Paul asked disbelievingly, etc.) It can be cumbersome and a bit intrusive on the reader”

2) “Resist the temptation of easy satire…Good satire has to be a little muted. Should spill out from under a seemingly somber situation.”

3) “Try to get the basic stats on the characters out of the way early {Paul was 24} so that you can spend the rest of the story revealing character.”

4) “Think about the key moment(s) in the story, and build tension leading to those key moments.”

5) “[W]rite outside your own experience…I find that this works the fictive imagination harder.”

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:53:45 -0400

bryankonietzko: I don’t celebrate my birthday, but the crew put...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:37:16 -0400

bryankonietzko:

I don’t celebrate my birthday, but the crew put together a nice card for me anyway a short while back. This excerpt is Ryu’s hilarious and bizarre drawing. Not sure what Bolin’s intentions are here… The Meelo tag line is my favorite part.

lmao this is a good card. Happy Birthday, Brian!

"You want to say Hi to the cute girl on the subway. How will she react? Fortunately, I can tell you..."

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:05:02 -0400

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You want to say Hi to the cute girl on the subway. How will she react? Fortunately, I can tell you with some certainty, because she’s already sending messages to you. Looking out the window, reading a book, working on a computer, arms folded across chest, body away from you = do not disturb. So, y’know, don’t disturb her. Really. Even to say that you like her hair, shoes, or book. A compliment is not always a reason for women to smile and say thank you. You are a threat, remember? You are Schrödinger’s Rapist. Don’t assume that whatever you have to say will win her over with charm or flattery. Believe what she’s signaling, and back off.

If you speak, and she responds in a monosyllabic way without looking at you, she’s saying, “I don’t want to be rude, but please leave me alone.” You don’t know why. It could be “Please leave me alone because I am trying to memorize Beowulf.” It could be “Please leave me alone because you are a scary, scary man with breath like a water buffalo.” It could be “Please leave me alone because I am planning my assassination of a major geopolitical figure and I will have to kill you if you are able to recognize me and blow my cover.”

On the other hand, if she is turned towards you, making eye contact, and she responds in a friendly and talkative manner when you speak to her, you are getting a green light. You can continue the conversation until you start getting signals to back off.

The fourth point: If you fail to respect what women say, you label yourself a problem.

There’s a man with whom I went out on a single date—afternoon coffee, for one hour by the clock—on July 25th. In the two days after the date, he sent me about fifteen e-mails, scolding me for non-responsiveness. I e-mailed him back, saying, “Look, this is a disproportionate response to a single date. You are making me uncomfortable. Do not contact me again.” It is now October 7th. Does he still e-mail?

Yeah. He does. About every two weeks.

This man scores higher on the threat level scale than Man with the Cockroach Tattoos. (Who, after all, is guilty of nothing more than terrifying bad taste.) You see, Mr. E-mail has made it clear that he ignores what I say when he wants something from me. Now, I don’t know if he is an actual rapist, and I sincerely hope he’s not. But he is certainly Schrödinger’s Rapist, and this particular Schrödinger’s Rapist has a probability ratio greater than one in sixty. Because a man who ignores a woman’s NO in a non-sexual setting is more likely to ignore NO in a sexual setting, as well.

So if you speak to a woman who is otherwise occupied, you’re sending a subtle message. It is that your desire to interact trumps her right to be left alone. If you pursue a conversation when she’s tried to cut it off, you send a message. It is that your desire to speak trumps her right to be left alone. And each of those messages indicates that you believe your desires are a legitimate reason to override her rights.

For women, who are watching you very closely to determine how much of a threat you are, this is an important piece of data.

”

- an excerpt from Phaedra Starling’s “Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced” (via lostgrrrls)

finite-whitewashing: yo-cosplayer: Anti-whitewashing...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:03:27 -0400

finite-whitewashing:

yo-cosplayer:

Anti-whitewashing Blaise

Omg this post is perfection.

My favourite is the second one XD

gabzilla-z: mylifewhocares: gabzilla-z: White Mage...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:43:28 -0400

gabzilla-z:

mylifewhocares:

gabzilla-z:

White Mage Aya

somebody in /co/ requested the crew as RPG characters. I’ll try to do the others during the weekend.

She is so adorable! Can’t wait to see how you draw the rest of the crew! ^__^

Razer is next :)

Still can’t decide which jobs to use for Hal and Kilowog.

I would see Hal more as a Paladin/Knight type, and Kilowog would be a Barbarian type. I dunno..just thinking.lol

chekhov: rosa parkour leaping over segregation

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:54:53 -0400

chekhov:

rosa parkour

leaping over segregation

face-down-asgard-up: alichay: starling-girl: lillian-raven: #...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:31:22 -0400

face-down-asgard-up:

alichay:

starling-girl:

lillian-raven:

#bring me some of this fine Pop-Tarts Thor said #bring me lots of ALCOHOL Tony said. #Bring me some corn flakes Bruce said #bring me something to eat Steve said #bring me some tampax Natasha said #IT’LL BE QUICK THEY SAID. #Fuck you. #You’re all getting some hot dog buns. #That is all.

#There’s that funny tag scene up there #but my original thought at seeing this gifset was Clint having to go grocery shopping for the first time by himself after Phil died #Phil always did their shopping #cos Clint got easily distracted #He’d go to the store for milk and bread and come back with four different kinds of cereal and a weird-looking fruit he’d never seen before but no milk or bread #so Phil never let him go alone #and now Phil’s not here #and Clint doesn’t know what he’s supposed to get #and he has no interest in picking up interesting looking fruits or new cereals #because Phil’s not there to be impressed by them

NO NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING NO

Why would you do that?! ;_;

putawh0re: Fuck off. Hell yeah, madame!

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:29:59 -0400

putawh0re:

Fuck off.

Hell yeah, madame!