no piece of supernatural commentary will ever be as impactful as ‘what happened to all the pussy on supernatural’

Been on my mind

plutonic lesbian friends (that do nothing for me)

Mannnnn why is this festival I'm at planning to release doves today when it is predicted to be 96° with a heat index of 111°.

I think dove releases are pointless and mean to the doves even under the best of circumstances, but this is straight up animal cruelty and these things are gonna drop dead from heat exhaustion. What the fuck.

Even under "ideal" circumstances a dove release is just driving a domesticated animal a few dozen miles away from its home and making it fly back, exposing it to hazards like weather, cars, windows, and predators. They're not native birds, they're pets, and if they're white they have zero camouflage. I have found several injured white pigeons over the years that I suspect were "dove releases."

What do people think is supposed to happen to the birds in a dove release. I'm gonna drive you ten miles away and make you walk home during a heat wave because it's so beautiful and inspirational to me

These poor white pigeons are flying from Dundalk to Virginia during a heat and wildlife smoke advisory. An osprey immediately came out of the trees while they were circling the river and started following them. They are gonna have a rough day of flying home, if they make it at all. ugh.

Now the dove guy is letting the festival children pet his harris hawk 🚬🫩 I feel like such a killjoy but as someone who's worked in wildlife rehab and handled raptors for educational programs, the "this is my pet" vibes are rancid to me.

Man okay I just had to leave my station and go sit down outside the event. He just handed his hawk to a festival goer he gave a glove to and told her to throw him in the air so that the hawk flies back to him. He literally said "I don't know if this is going to work" as I was leaving. This feels so wildly irresponsible!!!!

I will never understand why people upload cropped, low-res, uncredited art. Here's the full piece, originally created for a collaboration with watchmaker Ulysse Nardin:

Milo Manara, 2019, Ulysse Nardin, 2, mixed technique on paper

It never occurred to me that group therapy could be considered a strange american trope

Oh no thanks, I just finished a book and need 12-24 hours to digest it, can’t start another one too soon you know

You know what

dude star wars is so good and/or bad and/or mediocre sometimes, depending

Trying to inflict psychic damage to a tumblr user is like trying to irradiate a cockroach, like it can be done, but the lethal dose is not safe for humans either

Besides the point, but you could always try physical damage?

You’re right Gomez, bring me the flail

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We haven't been super active on this blog in a while, but lately something has come to our attention that we want to address, since we rely heavily on Google Image Search to identify original works and their creators.

As of late May [1], Google has begun saving images uploaded to Image Search and Google Lens for the purpose of training its AI. This change affects users globally, and users are opted in by default.

Some people might not view this as problematic, and that’s their prerogative when the images are their own. But we don't feel great about uploading images we don't own to those services, even if it's with the aim of crediting the original artists, even if those images have likely been scraped a thousand times already.

Apparently there are ways to opt out, but those settings are being rolled out gradually over the next several months [2] and we don't see them currently in our own Google accounts. Until we can confirm that we have opted out, this blog will remain on hiatus.

In the meantime, we encourage everyone to double check your Google Search Services settings if you use those services and want to opt out [3].

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what "death of the author" means:

• a lot of people think the only point of engagement with art is just to decode exactly what the author was trying to say, and their intent is the "real meaning," and once you've figured out the real meaning you're done you've solved it. that's dumb and boring. don't do that.

things death of the author does not mean:

• every interpretation is equally valid
• you are forbidden to treat what we can know or reasonably guess about the author's intentions as something that matters to your interpretation at all
• the only valid way to interpret fiction is to treat it like it's a documentary of events that really happened and never think about it in terms of "why would the creator, a human person, choose to present it this way"
• authors shouldn't get to have opinions about what they intended to say through their work, they should shut up and let me tell them what it means because i know better
• actually i, the person reading or watching or viewing this art, am the infallible source of real meaning, and everybody who disagrees with me is wrong including but not limited to the author
• the audience is the infallible source of real meaning, not the author, and that's why they committed a war crime by not treating my own headcanons as authoritative

unpopular opinion probably but I actually like that ao3 doesn’t let people take back their kudos.

unlike social media platforms (which ao3 is not) where people unlike stuff whenever they think or find out the original posters’ moral compass doesn’t perfectly align with their own’s or whatever, and “likes” can be taken back at any time, ao3 treats kudos as something sacred. once you give it, it’s the author’s to keep forever.

But it does mean that there's a certain subset of readers who refuse to give kudos because there's no take backs and they're terrified of being found out for kudosing a problematic fic

yes. that’s one of the reasons why it’s sacred :)

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just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

As a scientific illustrator- this is 100% true and going to review your basics will fix it every goddamn time.  Not only does it keep your skills sharp, when you’re not emotionally invested in the final product of a piece, you relax and your brain makes more/better art juice for you.  So, when you get back to that big/important piece?  You’ll know what to do and how to do it.

Nothing in nature blooms all year round.  Rest, and take care of yourself.

i want someone to put this into writer’s blocks now

Writer’s block means you need to relearn the whole alphabet. idiot.

For writers block- same thing. Do Studies.

Write a description of an object. write the weather today. Write a made up characterization of a random photo of an actor from the internet as to the character they are in that picture. Write a little story about your pet’s day. Write about spilling soup and make it super dramatic and tragic. Write about someone’s day being ruined and make it funny. Write a meetcute coffeeshop AU of two OCs you’d never put together- maybe from different stories. Write them breaking up.

Write a bunch of short stuff meant for no audience ever and super duper self indulgent.