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Rise Baby, Rise Baby: The Musical!

Chapter 2 is up!

This time with art AND a song selection ready to go!

Vote for DonTron because this is HERESY

Round 1 Match 8

Being an increasingly heavily tattooed artist is so hard

On the one hand, I look fantastic.

On the other, drawing myself is getting very complicated...

This episode is EVERYTHING to me. Representation is really growing!

“I may process moments and thoughts differently, but it does not mean that I feel any less than you.” This episode was so, so special to me for that moment alone. ;u; Thank you, TBB crew!

It's a new moon fellas 👀🌑

I'm sorry

Me when i like and reblog a post

A hero of the people

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

Cod you guys knock it off?

What type of fish is made out of two sodium atoms?

2Na.

Rise of the TMNT (S1): End Game

I’ve been working on this show for almost a year now and it’s been the wildest ride of my life! Huge shoutout to all my peeps at Flying Bark and the crew at Nickelodeon who’s dedication for this show is unmatched, as well as a BIG BIG THANK YOU to the fans!! Your support means the world to us! ♡

I used to be in this fandom lmao

as much as the concept of Jesus being a fairly normal lad has its charms, im personally very intrigued by the idea of him being just… extremely weird. not even in a mystical sense, just…….staggeringly BIZZARRE. 

you go to the well to get some water, and here’s Miriam’s boy, staring at the sky, completely still. his expression is unreadable. you hazard a hello and ask how he’s doing, and he slowly, unblinkingly, lowers his gaze on you (he’s 8 and is missing his frontal teeth, not that this is making you any less uncomfortable) and says “I cannot speak of the state of my being, Nathan son of Saul, my brother, but rejoice for the water you shall take today will be as pure as the soul of the children of Heaven”

…you start sweating

So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. 

Hilarously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

I feel like this whole season has been a subtle love letter to Jedi: Fallen Order

I like how the Bad Batch immediately jumped to agree with Omega’s suggestion, because for once it takes her out of the immediate danger.

Omega: Can I go with-?

Hunter: Yes, yes you can!

Chuchi: But she doesn’t have-

Tech: Clearance? No problem, I’ll hack the imperial database!

Chuchi: Okay but she’ll need-

Echo: A disguise? No problem! Here take this poncho!

Accidental Leo whilst pose practicing today. I wanted to do those mask tails hehehehe

Screenshot redraw sketch- Your Own Room

Stranger in the puddle

From my human!/high school! ROTTMNT fic:  https://archiveofourown.org/works/44890552/chapters/112949449

Rise Baby, Rise Baby: The Musical!

Hahaha. I’ve done it. I’ve written a whole thing. I’m amazed. I’m stunned. Please read my fanfic, I promise it’s short the first chapter is short. I’m having so much fun with these silly scenarios in my head. It’s also very different from what I normally write, but that’s just what makes this fandom so special.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44890552/chapters/112949449

Enough.

So THATS what this style is called. Yes, Crosshair in this. Also Donnie and Mikey.

I personally think Crosshair would look incredible in both smart grunge, and tactical grunge outfits🤤

*hisses, scrambles under desk*

I cannae BREATHE

Bless him

Of all the holos of me out there, this one is the one people can't stop using.

So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.

The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.

The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)

The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?

People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.

Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.

“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”

Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.

Give abstract art some respect. It’s more important than you realize.

Tell me you were gaslit as a child without telling me you were gaslit as a child 🙃

Constantly torn between “if I show symptoms I’m real and valid” and “I can’t show any symptoms because then I’ll be a bother so I have to internalize everything.”

oh my god two words in that just UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

rottmnt as shitposts

I spent so long on the spicy chicken one

What a lovely shade of periwinkle

and whatever the current percentages are at, use this cmy slider to calculate the color you got

self-indulgent human!Mad Dogz screenshot redraw with April. 

Applause, and applause, aaaaand waiting for your applause.