“Pickle, You Want A Belly Rub?” (sound On)

Tuesday Tips — Long Lines : one way to bring a pose “together” and simplify it in many ways, is to forgo the small choppy lines and go for long uninterrupted lines that move through the figure and connect its parts more seamlessly. Push strokes to their absolute limit instead of breaking it down too soon. You can always go back and make it more complicated if you like. Overall, long lines bring a kind of unity to most poses. -Norm @grizandnorm #tuesdaytips #100tuesdaytips #longlines #arttutorial #arttips

This is possibly the best Parks and Recreation blooper

I feel so guilty and bad for blocking spam accounts with URLs that obviously once belonged to a real user, like an obvious fandom URL or a clever pun, something obviously once chosen by a real blogger and not auto-generated. It’s like shooting a shambling zombie in the head when you can still tell what kind of person they were before they died. Maybe they’re wearing a slogan tee you can still read pretty clearly or their hair is still dyed and you had FRIENDS with pink hair… Auto-generated URLs like @drawerlampungulatesparklewillowcord are clearly just faceless nameless drones with no actual person behind them and no history. There’s zero guilt involved with blocking those. It’s actually pretty satisfying, shooting those sick imitations of humans dead. But @sasukeisapowerbottom?? That was once somebody. Somebody’s kid, somebody’s friend. And now their corpse is tottering around trying to get people to click on their links with pictures of skinny white girls in frilly bras. It’s so sad.

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The thing that fucks me up about tumblr is that there is literally a text post that says “none pizza with left mineral” and i laughed, and i reblogged it, and it was only after i laughed and reblogged it that I realized that post is just a random collection of five words that make no fucking sense to anyone in the real world 

i swear the Mulan post full of misinformation is annoying me so much because it’s all over my dash. I don’t really blame the people who reblogged it, I’m more annoyed at OP.

Mulan is kind of more like King Arthur: very possibly based on a real historical figure, but the story we know is more of a legend, been told in many different adaptations by different Chinese writers throughout history. Going around and saying she’s ‘real’ like the way we know the first emperor Qin Shi Huang is real is totally erasing the very interesting fact that this legend has been so popular over the centuries despite the patriarchal inclinations of Chinese culture. It’s something to think about why this story circulated throughout dynasties.

is it too much for people to do some research when talking about my culture? That post says she’s a real historical figure, when all the info about how she’s a character from a 1400 year-old poem is all on wikipedia! OP literally cut and paste the 1964 Hong Kong film version’s plotline and this is being spread as ‘historical fact’! Did they even bother to check? We have our own legends and myths too. She doesn’t need to be real for her story to matter- it’s enough that this legend existed and was so popular across dynasties. It’s enough that in this culture where only one woman ever was empress regnant, for some reason, chinese poets and playwrights loved reinventing and portraying this character.

And then of course, all the people thinking this version is more ‘badass’ then the Disney version when the Disney version is in some ways closer to the poem. Like ok, it doesn’t matter if she didn’t actually duel her father to go fight in the Chinese army, there’s also a story about filial piety in Chinese culture and the Disney version certainly brought that across well.

2 AM laying in bed thinking about everything i’ve ever done

when you think you’re doing well in class and you get your first assignment back