https://www.launchgood.com/project/startup_food_catering_help_a_syrian_in_getting_on_his_feet#
My dearest friend’s brother fled to Brazil and needs help getting on his feet with his small business so that he can bring the rest of the family to safety with him. Now that their father has passed away, the family’s financial situation has gotten pretty grim and every penny genuinely does help. They’ve raised a good amount of money so but the goal is still pretty far from being reached.
@fullten could you help spread this for my friend?
Hell done froze over: TokyoPop is returning to publishing five years after abruptly calling it quits and leaving all their licenses in the lurch. The “Message from TokyoPop” contains the usual Stu Levy bloviating. Looks like new books are in June.
Public Service Announcement to Young Artists:
TokyoPop is scum. Avoid working for them at all costs. TokyoPop is the worst of the worst of the worst. They will take advantage of you. Don’t believe their lies.
TokyoPop is notorious for the worst contracts in the industry. They pay little more than exposure. They have you sign away your trademarks, copyrights, moral rights*, and right to litigation. They will not make you famous. They are not more legitimate nor are they more effective than doing your own webcomic for free or selling photocopied zines directly to comic shops.
TokyoPop is so bad that SCAD banned TokyoPop editors from coming to their school to recruit. TokyoPop is so bad I can post on Tumblr publicly slamming them without worrying about damaging my career in the comics industry in any way.
Don’t just blindly believe me. Google “TokyoPop contracts” and see for yourself.
*moral rights essentially mean they have to give you credit for your work. How much is exposure worth if you give up that?
I have always imagined the American magical community in Harry Potter to be significantly less… structured than that of Britain. America is just so big, and the states can be so different, and history is so fucked up and complicated that a whole secret society with a completely separate government and people who’re totally clueless about the muggle world just makes no sense to me.
American wix participate in general elections and watch tv and their kids go to muggle school during the day and learn magic at home or in after-school programs and play quidditch and football and only your great grandma has owls while everyone else just has a phone and generally don’t obliviate muggles who see magic shit bc lol who’s gonna believe them anyway.
And European wix haaaate dealing with them bc they won’t do things the Proper Magical Way they just do whatever the fuck they want bc AMERICA FUCK YEAH.
*eagle noises*
I am here for this
And then you’ve got the Pennsylvania Dutch and Native American nations and New Orleans and other areas where large swathes of the population are like, “Well duh there’s magic. Hugh down at the end of the street lays hexes on my vegetable garden for the kids who keep trying to steal them and I give him a bag of tomatoes every month.”
#like it’s not offensive in the same way#but it’s patently obvious JKR doesn’t understand American or its history at all#and yeah#no way would american magic-users consent to that kind of structure
@monstermoonshine and i once talked about this extensively and decided that the american wizarding government should be called FBOM, the federal bureau of magic, with the O left in for Humor Purposes
I feel like this is in general demonstrative of the failures of authors—European in particular, but also including many Americans and Canadians with less broad knowledge of their own countries—to grasp the breadth, variety, and nature of North American supernatural folklore and traditions of magic. I’m absolutely floored to see a mention of PA Dutch folk magic here, you almost never see that tradition acknowledge except in Pennsylvania scholarly circles and the few practitioners.
Rowlling is catching a lot of well-deserved criticism for this and her racist portrayal of indigenous Americans, but she’s hardly the first. As much as Neil Gaiman’s work in this area is much-beloved, works like American Gods read really blatantly to me as the work of an outsider who just read a few encyclopedia articles about the subjects he’s fictionalizing.
And don’t get me started on how badly tv shows like X-Files, Sleepy Hollow, and Supernatural fail at this.
literally every time an anti-trans bathroom law passes, bearded trans bros take it upon themselves to start viral campaigns w pics of themselves saying “now my BEARDED MAN-LOOKING self will share a bathroom with your WIVES AND DAUGHTERS” as if that isn’t exactly the kind of cissexist fearmongering that gets trans women killed and causes these laws to get passed in the first place
Holy carp, thanks for putting this into words. It bothered the heck out of me, but i could never articulate why.
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
early April 1 joke: I get the rights to a new animated series /o/ it’s a romantic comedy
still waiting on that call, but who has time to wait? anyway, it’s amazing how much flexibility light sources allow after years of flat colour!!
I want everyone to watch TNG. also I run a Q blog
Really loving your palettes on these, Toril! Your colours are always really unique/unexpected.
Is that Jean Luc with a little bit of leftover Borg tech from his time as Locutus? Lovely touch!
NECROPHIDIUS
Though literally called a death-snake, the necrophidius is not an undead creature. It’s actually a construct, made up of snake and human bones (most notably the skull), created as a guardian. The serpentine form is possible the second most popular shape for constructs (the first being humanoid). Like other snakey constructs, the necrophidius’ main tasks are guardianship and assassination. Despite the lack of visible venom sacks, this creature’s bite injects paralytic poison. Should it be spotted before it gets within biting distance, the necrophidius is able to perform an undulating dance which hypnotizes its target.
So this one was a tricky one to draw. If I’d been smart, I’d have gone for the much more simplified and bendy vertebrae that Joe used in his devourer image. Silly me, I decided to go with less flexible, much more numerous vertebrae (with disks!). That’s my excuse for this late image, at any rate.
A bone snake. How lewd.
always one of the most memorable D&D monsters, to me. I dig the deceptive nature of it.
I think a lot of people get Jewish atheism / agnosticism and cultural Judaism confused, and I understand why. To someone from outside the culture, both ideas probably seem somewhat foreign. But I’ll try to explain.
Cultural Judaism is what most people think of when they here “Jewish atheism.” It’s the practice of certain parts of Judaism - often celebrating certain holidays, like Chanukah and Pesach - without any religious aspect. It’s about retaining one’s ethnic and cultural heritage, and is irreligious.
What is most confusing to people, however, is that Jewish atheism is religious. This refers to the practice of Judaism religiously, but without the belief or need for a sentient, central deity. Some Jewish atheists do believe in G-d, but separate that believe from their Judaism. It’s complex, and a concept that would be largely impossible in most other religions.
we’ve been looking for a new place and i wish i could find something like this.
(Source: cant-wait-for-christmas)
I mean, even just think about the creative delegation he had to put into designing his stencil, vigilantes are like top tier cosplayers.
Take the term in question which people state is gender neutral, and then use it in a neutral sentence, like so:
“Some guy came up to me and sneezed”.
What do you think the guy’s gender is?“Some dude came up to me and sneezed”.
What do you think the dude’s gender is?“Some bro came up to me and sneezed”.
What do you think the bro’s gender is?“Some man came up to me and sneezed”.
What do you think the man’s gender is?What most people will find is that all of these examples read as if a man were being referred to. Which is why “guy”, “dude”, “bro”, and “man” for example, make no sense in a gender neutral manner. These terms are distinctly male and in no way gender neutral.
Like, go ahead and say these terms however you want, but please don’t defend your use of them as being gender neutral when the terms are clearly not.
oh hey guys i have found a pdf manual for toonz
although it mainly applies to another version, they still function the same. you can find some stuff you want to know there!
Okay BLESS YOU?? This is the only link to any type of official manual I’ve seen at all relating to the program after going through at least 15 pages [and a quick google search] so I’m sharing it here. TAKE A GANDER EVERYONE
@my animation fools (me included)