posts that are poems to me

on your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life, you said to me but the man and his wife returned me my feet with the knowledge i did sow

Look at this! Look at my mutual!

This is glorious. Almost all of the same text was preserved, but it was structured in a way that A). Reveals more of genesis. B). Has an ABCDCBA rhyming structure, which is like... the chiasmus of rhymes. And chiasmus is like, one of the only poetic structures that is actually preserved through the funhouse of translation layers that the bible has suffered. C). The syllable counts match in each thing as well, just as a flex. D). The poem is comparing man to God, and the D line is structured so that the comparison happens over that line, and it's... I don't know what the word for it would be. It is just really, really fucking clever to have a mirror point in a poem that's essentially about comparisons.

Just. Holy shit.

Hey. Hey. Watch the video.

That is absolutely not what I expected the video to be like

"and this is a fish abandoned by god"

happy annoy squidward day

Actually, Annoy Squidward Day is January 15th. Although the calendar doesn’t have the month written on it, if you continue to watch the episode, they’re competing for January’s Employee of the Month.

happy annoy squidward day

shut up

Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...

I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

This little guy was a print I offered on my Patreon but forgot to post earlier, happy December!

some old Google fanart (is that what we call it?)

ghosty ghosts

I no longer know when the war truly ends… because for us, it is still here. The bombing has stopped, but our home is gone. The place that once held our memories, our laughter, and the small details of our daily life has turned into rubble— offering no shelter from the rain, and no protection from the pain. Today, the rain falls on an exhausted city, on destroyed homes, and on families trying to start over with almost nothing. Here, rain is not a symbol of life— it is another harsh test of survival and patience.

The end of the war in the news does not mean the end of its impact on our lives. The suffering continues— in the cold, in the loss of safety, and in the struggle to rebuild life from zero once again. We are not looking for pity, and we are not writing these words to seek sadness. We write because we want a real chance to live with dignity. We want to rebuild a home, to restore a sense of safety, and to give our family a new beginning after everything we lost. Rebuilding life is not easy, but it is possible when we are not left alone. Your support today means a roof to protect us from the rain, a wall replacing the rubble, and hope that tomorrow can be less cruel.

If you are able to help, your support—no matter how small—makes a real difference in our lives. And if you are unable to donate, sharing this message means more than you may know. From the heart, thank you to everyone who has stood with us, to everyone who supported us, and to everyone who remembers that behind the headlines are people simply trying to survive and rebuild their lives. 🤍

Brotherhood of The Orb

Every friend group has the bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice

"wehhh but my friend group doesn't have a bloodthirsty shape-shifting entity that can perfectly imitate the human voice!" oh yeah? Are you really really sure about that?

Dark dice: domain of the nameless god featuring Jeff Goldblum

i can't take my binder off because it's not just for keeping my chest flat it's for holding the demons in. & the demons live in my tits

lilim in the left & rākshasas in the right

also there is an archangel inhabiting my cervix

god never should have given me the power to say things

need to find a doctor who can do exorcisms during top surgery

what a fun number of likes on this post....

omg mom look i'm on tumblr

the return of strawberry boy

this is still my favourite strawberry photo

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd

THE GUYS IN THE BACKGROUND MAKE MY LIFE. THEY’RE SO PROUD OF HER. FUCK YES

This is one of the very first things I reblogged and I still love it

This is one of the

very first things I reblogged

and I still love it

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I'm Salem...but Shiloh too sometimes

erm, ty for liking my art

how does it feel to be at the top of the tag, king?

holy shit