art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

I've recommended this one before, but for all the non-human vertebrate likers out there... the art of animal drawing

Let’s go trans people!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

"We've gone too far."

I'll bet the lemon stealing whore created this recipe

"Heavy on the citrus."

Yeah, I'll bet, bud.

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

Here are the 2024 vaccine recommendation schedules. They’ve already been wiped from the cdc site. Save them and share widely, especially to your friends with kids.

thank you for being weird. if you're weird I love you

i'll do it for sam

And when there was only one pair of footprints in the sand, that's when Samwise Gamgee carried me

I think we need sam more than ever this year. But we WILL get through it.

in 2022 may you find many seeds, nuts, berries, etc

I didn’t even look at the name I was just like damn I hope so too thanks

it’s 2025 now i hope youve accumulated many seeds, nuts, and berries

i may have eated them all

in 2026, may you begin to once again find seeds, nuts and berries

reblog if your tumblr is more popular than the Metaverse

thinking about everyone who insists that pluribus is a straightforward black and white good vs evil story where carol is The Savior who must save humanity from the pure evil villainous Hive and the irony of lamenting the erasure of indigenous cultural practices and assimilation of communities by the hive while saying the only person on the planet capable of saving them is a rich white woman who lives in an upper class suburb in ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO and whose favorite hobbies include PLAYING GOLF IN THE FUCKING DESERT and who spent the entire season actively lecturing and talking down to / looking down on like a dozen other nonassimilated people (who, guess what, happen to be people of color) because they were too naive to Truly understand what is going on the way she does or too selfish to resist the temptations of an easy life and/or too easily swayed and manipulated by the hive and thus don't know what's best for them or for humanity so she has to be the one to make the Correct choices for them and Save Humanity. using a nuclear bomb.

like do you ever think about the fact that the show highlighted the horror of cultural assimilation into the hive by showing us kusimayu and her quechua village in peru when the show is, again, primarily set in NEW MEXICO. like how may graves is carol's suburban cul-de-sac built on. that golf course with its perfectly maintained green grass. los alamos laboratory and the entire history of the development of the atomic bomb. how many communities and individuals decimated by those things

but no no no you see, this is a story where the white lady (whomst i LOVE btw and think is a fascinating character don't get me wrong) is THE only Hero who is going to Save Humanity and in particular Save All Indigenous Culture remaining on the planet from the evils of colonialism and this is a straightforward black and white story created by vince gilligan a writer famous for morally black and white stories

wait okay instead of continuing to be vague in case people genuinely don't know, this is what i'm talking about when i keep saying the new mexico atom bomb of it all

Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gómez

Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test) / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_from_the_Trinity_nuclear_test

like. oh okay white woman from new mexico is gonna save indigenous communities from alien colonialism using an atom bomb? okay. cool cool cool.

First We Bombed New Mexico

A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

Lesbian Lists by Dell Richards, published 1990

What moms are like when guests are about to be coming over…

tis the season