Everything Humans Do Is Art

oh fuck

I read the whole thing in one go thanks to this post. It's great! Colorful in a way I don't see often in fantasy (love the glowing Magic! Especually when there's a sarcastic comment about it in the alt text XD)

It's not soft but it's warm (emotionally) mand touching and it really resonated with me.

I feel like the positive comments are more meaningful because they aren't the only comments I let onto the site. Anyone can voice their thoughts, and it's very cool that most of those thoughts are positive, curious, engaging with the story and picking up most of what I'm putting down. It tells me that I'm doing a decent job at narratively and visually portraying the important parts, but I'm also reaching an audience that won't just automatically approve of whatever I do regardless of quality.

If someone wants to spend an excess of time being negative about me or my work, that really only affects me if I actively seek it out. Otherwise they're just burning daylight engaging with something they clearly don't enjoy, and the only person that hurts is them. Seeking it out to censor it would be self-defeating and a smidge dishonest.

Plus, if I saw a negative comment in the moderation queue, it stung me, and I elected to hide it as spam, nobody else would get to respond with their own takes. It would just be me alone with the bad vibe bouncing around in my head. If the comment goes onto the site, it gets confronted with counter-arguments. It's not just me alone with it, hiding it out of shame that it somehow reflects poorly on me. It's in the cold light of day where everyone can volunteer their thoughts on it.

Anyway, micromanaging a comment section is a recipe for madness. I wouldn't recommend it!

danger noodle?

The art history version of “you’d look prettier if you smiled more”

you know what? fuck this *un-smiles your painting*

HAD to keep @furbearingbrick 's tag:

He gave her softer eyes, bigger breasts, a sweet inviting smile, narrower arms and wrists, and a less emphatic chin. A complacent and Proper Maiden for his smug consumption.

That is NOT what the artist painted.

The artist painted the cleaned image. Thank goodness and highly skilled people that we get to see it.

I'm so mad that the restored version is cropped in the photos there. I badly wanted to see the whole background cleaned. That SKY. SHOW ME IT.

NEVERMIND. The fucker who added boobs and a coy smile also pasted on a whole strip of new canvas at the top and slapped a skyline on there. o_0

Wow. The Kind of Guy(tm) who would do that really hasn't changed.

@achronalart

In the age of automation and artificial intelligences, I suspect people would rather change 1 & 2 to a universal basic income and a 20 hour work week, but it certainly is a start.

very occasionally I'll get a critical comment on the site where I'm like "oh no, I hope this part isn't losing people, I know it's a lot of moving parts and the answers aren't all there yet but I- oh wait it's this guy again. yea never mind"

I needed to test out a new stylus, and figured I may as well tease future events in the process!

Just doing some expression sheet work with this handsome as-yet-unintroduced lad. He's almost too floofy to consistently sketch 🤔

Another unintroduced character, this one much trickier to sketch with pencils ;-;

this is it. the dumbest thing I've ever drawn.

bonus (technically a spoiler for an unintroduced character)

(two more bonus spoilers, don't tell anyone)

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Dean Hacker, comment on “Giving Lois Lane A Second Look, For The First Time” by Kelly Thompson (CBR: She Has No Head!)

#GoLois

(via wickedjunkie)

So I'm reading through some old 1920s fashion magazines and the illustrations are sometimes gorgeous, sometimes bizarre.

And sometimes they're vampires. These are so obviously vampires.

(Source: advertisement for Bemberg rayon fabrics from the March 1929 issue of "Delineator" Magazine)

I don't know why, but I am still tickled by these hashtags:

"Beware the Children of the Night they have Rayon"

It's weird how geological time works. Eras start and end bit by bit over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. That sounds like a big uncertainty but that sort of timescale, on which the climate can overhaul itself completely and entire species rise and fall, is instantaneous compared to the age of the earth. Any hypothetical sentient creature would have no idea it was living through a major turning point. The Silurian slid into the Devonian as land plants became A Thing and insects started to wonder if 'pilot' might be a good career path, but there was no one moment when one thing ended and another began. That's not how that works...

... except for the Cretaceous. The Cretaceous had a Last Day and it was probably in April, and then the next day it was the Paleogene.

So, fun fact: The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary is defined, specifically, as the layer of the iridium anomaly. In other words, the roughly geologically synchronous event where the space dust rained out of the atmosphere.

Only....that's not the instant the asteroid hits. When the asteroid hits, the Earth's crust melts and freezes to glass, tidal waves flood continents, wildfires rage, and vaporised bits of Earth and the Chicxulub impactor are thrown into the air. This condenses and freezes to dust, which circulates in the atmosphere.

How long does that dust circulate before officially ringing in the Cenozoic by raining down onto the sediments of Earth? A few days. What's more amazing? On top of the fused glass of the crater, but below the iridium anomaly, are fossils of bacteria. Nothing is truly barren for long. Life's recovery begins instantly.

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my wife is right

That's actually a really good character concept my god-

🎶One more thing's a glamour! Fae behavior!🎵

(thanks to @sidereal-sapphic for sending this in!)

@comicaurora this seems up you alley.

in my experience this is just what new yorkers are like

"men were radicalized because they were tired of being demonized" oh piss off. since the beginning of time women have been blamed for all the ills of the world on a literal, cosmic sense. for most of human history there was a belief that there is an inherent wickedness to the female nature that made us all treacherous vixens using our feminine wiles to reach our shady purposes, and the only women who avoided the stigma by being literal saints were seen as the exception that proves the rule. the natural inferiority of women was attributed not just to a feebleness of mind but to a feebleness of character. we were seen as cowardly and cunning and the stereotypes used to justify our oppression never really went away, they just lurk now in the people's collective unconscious waiting to be weaponized against any detested woman via confirmation bias. but god forbid you fragile losers have a moment of reckoning about all the bullshit you've been putting women through without wanting to hitler out. if "this demographic was mean to me so i get to take away their rights" was a valid political stance feminism would be about getting to hang men on the public square. you should count yourselves lucky we just want independence for us and accountability for you.

Feels like a good time to bring this one back.