Mild nudity, painting of a fat mermaid making eye contact with the viewer
Hey, uh, I think I finished this!
George Floyd riots, Minneapolis, little feel-good story, community-based alternatives to policing
Have a feel-good story about the rebuilding of a grocery store in Minneapolis in the wake of the Floyd uprising last year.
For those of you not in Minneapolis, North Minneapolis saw some rioting last year. It's a predominantly black area and there were some questions raised about whether or not areas that were damaged would be rebuilt.
Mild nudity, painting WIP, fat mermaid 💙
I've been working on this lovely lady for a couple of days now. Hopefully I'll finish her by the end of #mermay.
I really struggled to find a good reference image for her, so I kinda fudged some of the bits. Also, I'm just still learning a lot. 😅
I enjoy how refreshing it is to draw characters that aren't all bone and muscle, though. It's like I get to break art rules, and also like I'm still drawing something that's more realistic/relatable than standard "art" body types. It feels like being both rebellious and more technically correct at the same time, which is absolutely an intoxicating feeling. If you haven't, I highly suggest you make some art of unusual human bodies. It's good for representation and also just feels so freeing. :)
#mastoart
Tor's free ebook of the month is "When Tiger Came Down From the Mountain" by Nghi Vo
nginx config to void rss urls on your instance
location ~ ^/@\w+.rss$ {
return 418; # or anything else, really
}
cursed mashup; all star and the wellerman
So, I'm working on a cursed mashup. I think I'd like to sneak in as much of Smash Mouth's All Star into The Wellerman as possible without changing the tune of The Wellerman.
Here's a sample, I'd love to see what other folks come up with:
There was a ship that put to sea
and the name of that ship was the billy o tea
the winds blew up her bow dipped down
oh blow me bully boys blow!
soon may the wellerman come
your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
soon may the wellerman come
you'll never know if you don't go
She had not been two weeks from shore
When down on her, a right whale bore
The captain called all hands and swore
You'll never shine if you don't glow
hey now, you're an all star
get your game on
go play
hey now you're rock star
get the show on
get paid
Before the boat had hit the water
You're bundled up now wait till you're older
The meteor men, beg to differ,
Judging by the hole in the satellite picture
soon may the wellerman come
your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
soon may the wellerman come
you'll never know if you don't go
Vaccinated, outdoor gathering, weather
Today will be warm and also is day of a little DOTA 2 guild bonfire meetup. The humidity is 84%, which is kinda high.
It'll be cool to see guildmates in person. It's wild how much the pandemic changed my social patterns, and I'm looking forward to meeting some of those friends in person for the first time.
But also, 84% humidity and like 85°. We'll be like two blocks from a lake, though. Maybe I'll just bring a swimsuit?
kink at pride
I feel like a lot of people are confusing Pride events with the Folsom street festival. I've never been to a pride where people were any less clothed than being at the beach and in a lot of cases I wondered how people werent fainting because they were wearing SO MUCH.
A lot of the hand wringing about "think of the children!" reminds me forcibly of the mindset that gay people are morally degenerate and just salivating for a chance to expose your child to sex. and i say that as someone who was exposed to sexually explicit kink far, FAR too young but here's the kicker- it was the heteros that did that to me. there's far more sexually explicit content on tiktok and daytime tv than i generally see at Pride.
Ladies, gentlemen, enbies, non-human beings, space faring creatures and all you out there lovers of the happy and the silly, rejoice !
You have One. Week. Left. to submit your entry to the mirabolous, inter-planetary, pan-galactic, friendly Fedivision Song Contest !
The rules are simple:
- Choose a fictional country or faction
- Submit your entry by midnight (CEST), Friday 28th of May 2021
- Mention @fedivision account when submitting, this will boost it
Sci Fi show where pvp is enabled for billionaires and whoever kills them gets to keep 100 million while the rest gets the distributed.
Main character could be a hunter who forgets to give away money before killing their tenth billionaire.
You think it's trying to humanize billionaires but you realize actually the main character deserves to be hunted because they never cared about helping people just liked the excuse to kill.
People all over are confused about how to feel.
it's 2021 but apparently some people are still out of the loop so
do not use the term "fren"
here's a good place to start on why
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/c2znoq/what_is_rfrenworld_and_why_did_it_get_banned/
it's a nazi/alt-right dogwhistle and i don't wanna see it. do not use it in any context. don't just stop using it around me but continue using it around others. just don't use it at all. if you hear someone else say it tell them to stop too. if they refuse to stop even after you have informed them then that should be raising some serious red flags
i am going to be implementing a block on sight no questions asked policy going forward
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
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