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Last day for Harold! (That sounds ominous. Don't worry; Harold died a long time ago)

I close the form tonight at this time! Here is the info page.

I'll be around today to answer questions! i love to talk about Harold and dolls and customizing and making stuff so, don't be shy!

Remember, you can request a hybrid color in addition to the regular four color options (see my previous post here)!

never thought there would be a wave 2 but HERE WE GO roller skates!!!! yayyyy!

About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"

This makes people very angry and panicky.

My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.

It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure

Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

Friendly reminder to make sure your meds are good to go for when the pharmacies close for xmas. I'm getting mine refilled now.

I am beginning the process of possibly switching my Dream Tactics character BJDs to fashion minis. I'm starting with a SartoriaJ elf and I'll see what I think.

No matter what I do, I feel like I'm always in a funk with that set of characters. I rarely reach for them. They're older characters age-wise and I've always struggled with them looking old enough. Especially the boys. Hana is the youngest main character at 21 and Levy is the oldest at 38.

The sequel cast is younger, so I might use the more standard 6/7 head dolls for them. We'll see. I've been feeling like I need a refresh for a long time which is why I think that I buy so many random dolls. Maybe this will finally be the solution.

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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