A lot of public media will be destroyed by this. Public TV and radio are vital for rural areas in our country, and without them, anyone living there will have a difficult time finding out about important news in their area.
One thing you can do is find your local PBS station and click “donate” at the top of the page. https://www.pbs.org/stations/
needlesandnilbogs asked:
color pallette art game: 43 plus whatever of your OCs fits best with it
ilovedthestars answered:
ALT
ALTI spent SO long just working out the underlying sketch of the pose for this one but oh my god it was absolutely worth it. I love this drawing SO MUCH. It looks so good it makes me mad that i don’t put fanart in my professional portfolio because LOOK AT IT. I showed it to my roommate and she told me it looked like an art print you’d hang on the wall. I might genuinely have to go print it out on the nice art school printers so i can do that. I’m just SO proud of how this looks. I have truly given myself some indescribably emotions that i wish i could bottle for the next time i’m feeling like i have never made anything good.
anyway. here is a cozy and Symbolic niri :) thank you so much for this prompt!!
(I’m doing this color palette ask game! Feel free to send me a palette number and a character/scene idea in my ask box!)
NIRI NIRI NIRI I LOVE IT ITS SO PRETTY AND YOUR ART IS SO GOOD AND YOU SHOULD PUT IT IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO ANYWAYSSSSSS
In a normal circumstance, I hate Netflix. However, they struck a deal to produce new episodes of Sesame Street and will ensure that the episodes remain free and accessible on PBS for all kids and for that, they deserve gratitude.
Additionally, unlike the deal previous struck with HBO, this one with Netflix also makes its so new episodes are simultaneously available via Netflix, PBS, and the PBS Kids app.
Please continue to support Sesame Street and all the other PBS programming via donations to ensure everyone, kids and adults alike, continue to have access to educational viewing.
ALTMy first year of ArtFight!
This is Kraken, aka Bharadwaj from @needlesandnilbogs's Murderbot Diaries superhero AU! This is Bharadwaj in her bitten-by-a-radioactive-octopus form.
tags by @recursiveallele :
#I love this. I don’t understand this at all but I love this. She looks so happy to be swimming around like that.#the murderbot diaries#somebody post a link to the fic because now I must know
hi this is my fic these characters are from, I figured they were au enough to count for art fight so I stuck them on there and Artemis drew Bharadwaj/Kraken SO prettily I love her soooo much
here’s the fic! They’re superheroes being superhero-y
long distance feelings
little update.. they wiggle now :~)
@ilovedthestars for your pocket friend art collection
People used to comment on web comics.
People used to comment on fanfiction.
People used to comment on fanart.
People used to comment on OCs.
I hate "content" culture.
I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.
People used to be excited about the art that other people created.
People used to want to share that excitement with creators.
I hate this future.
Once someone tagged art that I made with "woah" and I think about it at least once a week. Someone else said "oh neat" once. Someone else WROTE A WHOLE DAMN POEM IN THE COMMENTS. Anyways even just one word can change how someone sees their art. You don't even have to think about it too hard. You could put a keyboard smash and I'd probably cry from joy.
I'm also trying hard to interact more, I understand that it's hard to break away from opening your phone and being in Content Consumption Mode.
I honestly hadn't stopped to think about this until I saw this post... I used to think people would get annoyed if they were notified everytime someone posted a comment on their art. I never thought about it being like fanfiction and that they might appreciate comments. Frick, that means I'm part of the problem on here. Thats gotta change.
Every tag, every comment, every reblog with some kind of reaction/opinion or even just one word. All of these things are precious to creators!
I spent countless hours reading and rereading tags full of love people left under my art. All the people i could gift a laugh to or even inspire with something I made mean more to me then you could ever know.
It's what makes me proud of my art!
And to think that you could have enjoyed my art in silence and I would have never known.
A very special shout out to the person who tagged "these mcgriddles make me want to shit so bad" on fanart in 2013 I think about you once a day
You know that line you hear during the introduction of PBS shows? "This show was made possible by contributions to your PBS stations from viewers like you"? That's absolutely true. Sure, there are federal funding sources, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (despite its confusing name, CPB is a nonprofit responsible for distributing funding to PBS stations from the U.S. government; those government funds, of course, come from your taxes), as well as grant funding from specific organizations, such as the National Science Foundation, depending on a given show's topic.
The best time to donate to the Public Broadcasting System was yesterday. The second-best time is now, when federal funding for all public media is in jeopardy.
You don't have to give so much money that they announce your name before the shows. The names you hear are usually people who set up charitable trusts that go into effect following their death. (Unless you are like an Arthur Vining Davis, in which case...pony up post-haste). You can give $5 a month, and that'll make you a member that supports public media. Plus, depending on your PBS station, membership can get you cool benefits, like discounted admission to local museums or discounts at local businesses.
Also, did you know PBS has a streaming service called Passport? If you like science, history, cooking shows, dramas, documentaries, or local programming, you'll love what you find on Passport. Also, Passport has excellent closed captioning (great for people like me), and it's accessible on PBS's website and through an app. But you only get access if you become a member, and again, you can do that with a monthly donation of $5. You know of any other streaming service with that low of a price?
Look, I know times are tough. People are watching their money, and so is PBS. But if we the public don't support public media, that media goes away. I wouldn't be the person I am today without having watched PBS as both a kid and an adult, and I want to pass that gift on to the next generations.
So please. Check out PBS today. Check out your local station, and give a little bit if you can. Thank you.
In honor of Juneteenth, I compiled some great songs by black artists
I highlight genres other than rap/hip-hop, as I don't see them get enough love from non-black people. If the list seems overwhelming, I'd recommend picking a genre of your liking, or the songs marked blue, which are my personal favorites. Hopefully, you find some new music and add a couple of these to your playlists
Jazz: Lester Leaps in [Live at Carnegie Hall] by Charlie Parker (1949); The Star-Crossed Lovers (aka Pretty Girl) by Duke Ellington (1957); Springsville by Miles Davis (1957); Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter (1966); The Black Messiah [Live at The Troubador] by Cannonball Adderley (1971)
Vocal Jazz: Unforgettable by Nat King Cole (1954); Autumn in New York by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1957); Lover Man by Billie Holiday (1958); Don't Go To Strangers by Etta Jones (1960); Work Song by Nina Simone (1967)
Soul: I Say a Little Prayer by Aretha Franklin (1968); Tired of Being Alone by Al Green (1971); Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers (1971); Home Is Where The Hatred Is by Gil Scott-Heron (1971); Someday We'll All Be Free by Donny Hathaway (1973)
Funk: That Lady, Pts. 1 & 3 by The Isley Brothers (1973); Summer Madness by Kool & The Gang (1974); I Want You by Marvin Gaye (1976); Some Love by Chaka Khan (1978); Dreaming About You by The Blackbyrds (1994)
Disco: You Saved My Day by Cheryl Lynn (1978); Good Times by CHIC (1979); Hot Stuff by Donna Summer (1979); Give It To Me Baby by Rick James (1981); It Should Have Been You by Gwen Guthrie (1982)
R&B: Nights (Feel Like Gettin' Down) by Billy Ocean (1981); Outstanding by The Gap Band (1982); Sweet Love by Anita Baker (1986); Real Love by Mary J. Blige (1992); I Get Lonely by Janet Jackson (1997)
Neo Soul: Lady by D'Angelo (1995); Didn't Cha Know by Erykah Badu (2000); Locked Inside by Janelle Monáe (2010); Where Did I Go? by Jorja Smith (2018); Stay High by Brittany Howard (2019)
Alternative: Charcoal Baby by Blood Orange (2018); umbrellar by Dua Saleh (2020); All My Girls Like To Fight by Hope Tala (2020); Neptune by We Don't Ride Llamas (2022); Outta My Mind by chlothegod (2023)
Listen and support black musicians, and the black people around you, specially those close to you. Listening to music is not doing enough to support or boost black people's voices, so, please read and share what they have to say, particularly today, while also respecting and immersing yourself in their art and culture
And here’s a crash course from BLM on what Juneteenth is, as well as an editorial about it from Prof. Melanye T. Price.
opera: Angel Blue, Latonia Moore, and Denyce Graves are three of my favorite opera singers of all time, with gorgeous voices. Angel Blue won awards for her Bess in Porgy and Bess and her Aida was my absolute favorite performance of hers ever. Latonia Moore is my favorite Tosca ever. Denyce Graves is known for Carmen (and she’s absolutely amazing at it) but you might know her more for her stint on PBS kids show Between The Lions.
Declaw
i've been nice enough so far but i'm ngl it makes me feel so fucking crazy (bad) when people keep making this about actual literal declawing instead of engaging with my art in any meaningful way. i was a vet med student. i know declawing is bad. that's why i used it as a METAPHOR. please god engage with my art past the surface level themes. you people are continually showing that you'll care about an animal more than any autistic person which is hilarious because one of the themes for this piece is being treated as less than animal but whatever
