"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice

insane like/reblog parity on this post btw

Yay

who ruined it

dw i fixed it

Kamen Rider fans hijacked this post. Amazing 🥲

I discovered something useful today, taking breaks or exercising never helps me but THIS does, sharing to save a life

I just found out that some pro artists that work for companies like Dreamworks etc sometimes hold their pens this or similar way so it gotta work. Recently I spent 5 days on drawing for long periods of time (we talk about min 5 hours in one go to max 12 hours long crunch) and not once did my hand bother me.

For any artist friendos ???

SAVE A (HAND’S) LIFE

@fdevitart !

@keigosbirdie @dendriticheep

xion learns a new word

thinking about my fic in the shower:

trying to actually write my fic:

Here’s my pitch for a new Kingdom Hearts game: Kairi and Stitch team up to collect all his wacky cousins

writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

I feel like I'm constantly shilling for them but BehindTheName.com, the only baby name site that doesn't feel like it's run by mommy bloggers, includes census-based graphs for dozens of countries/regions (though not all of them go back very far yet)

And you can expand them to see rank, number of babies, and percentage of babies and add a second name to compare. (in 1973 four percent of babies were named Jennifer! 1 in 25!!!)

Also this. Cursed.

@homoqueerjewhobbit what name did you search for your example, and what's going on with Moldova?

Those are the graphs for Samuel. They only have 1 year's data for Moldova right now, so that's why it's a straight line. Similarly, they only have 2 years for Mexico right now. The US goes back to 1880. I'm not sure how much of that is publicly available/translated records and how much of it is that it's like 1 or 2 guys maintaining a website of 27000 names and a finite amount of time to format and upload.

Here's the list of all of the countries/regions they have popularity statistics for if you want to nerd out on it!

You can't advertise BehindTheName for writers without mentioning the advanced search! You can search names based on cultural origin and usage, gender (including unisex), meaning, and even things like meter and number of syllables, or famous namesakes (you can also see a list of famous namesakes on every name's page, along with meaning, history, related names, alternate spellings in different languages, the above popularity graphs, and more).

I wouldn't even call BehindTheName a baby name site. They have a surname sister site and a random name generator with tons of variables to set that is very clearly intended to be used for fictional characters (iirc it can even generate a cause of death? I haven't looked at it in many years so it might have changed but these things predate generative AI so unless it's been forcefully enshittified it shouldn't be slop). Like, you can use it for baby names, but the website isn't explicitly intended for that purpose. This website caters to us.

These posts are sisters

my daily affirmation as an author

finally finished this painting i sketched out months ago… please click for better quality i know tumblr is gonna kill it (reference used)

Oh my god this is a painting

Guys its a painting

GUYS THIS IS A PAINTING

Me: This is not a painting at all I don’t believe it even though everyone is saying it and the artist themselves said it

*clicks for better quality and zooms in*

Oh my goodness this is a painting

I can't imagine Raz giving a serious therapy session....

I mean, I know he cares about doing a good job, but it's difficult to deal with someone who shares the same brainpower as you. ...

year end round up of all the great things Silver got in 2025

we got a logo, his apartment, his animation debut, his lego debut, a bunch of cool skins, he became a Green Lantern, had CrossWorlds had his own event in Speed Simulator and officially became the third most popular character

this has been an amazing year to be a Silver fan

love when a character is a scientist and their speciality is science and they do science in a science lab. no specifics no clear goals no clue where their funding comes from. dont even worry about it. science.

me personally i just don't think anyone needs headlights powerful enough to light up twelve miles of road at a time