I Miss The Days When, No Matter How Slow Your Internet Was, If You Paused Any Video And Let It Buffer

buds, this is the wrong article to put under an email gate.

hi fatehbaz, do you have a tag for recommended books? i remember seeing a few posts with your top picks from various subjects but now cannot find them

hello. sorry, i don't really tag things. but i've put together several compilation posts for reading recommendations involving imperial ecology; environmental history of colonization; ruins, haunting, and eerie/uncanny ecology; human-landscape relationships; relationships with other-than-human creatures; decolonizing environments; and my favorite authors; etc.

here's a compilation post which includes links to original stuff i've written about these topics and also a list of my favorite scholars/writers with info about their focus/specialties.

i've said this before, but i spend much more time reading essays and articles than i do reading full-length books. that linked compilation post lists some of my favorite "essential" writers:

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; Elizabeth DeLoughrey; Anna Tsing; Paulo Tavares; Anna Boswell; Achille Mbembe; Hugo Reinert; Frantz Fanon; Tim Edensor; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Ann Laura Stoler; Kyle Whyte; Audra Simpson; Kathryn Yusoff; Ikyo Day; Pedro Neves Marques

here's a compilation post which includes links to short excerpts (in the form of tunglr-dot-com posts) from all of these authors.

if those essays and articles aren't what you're into, and you'd rather have long-form books, then here are the two posts about my "favorite books" which you might've been thinking of: round 1 and round 2.

and here's a look at the books that i mention:

I keep trying to like red wine like a grown-up but like … it’s rotten grapes, guys. You can drink things that don’t taste like rotten grapes. Why

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.

Art tutorials by Disney artists Griz and Norm Lemay

One of my friends and her friends made an ask blog. Check it out!

[INCOMING MESSAGE]

???: ‘Kay I think it’s recording ???: Is it??

???: No yeah see ‘cause the little light is on ???: Ohhhhhh

???: OK, you start

???: What?? Why me

???: Just go!

Krynn: Fine okay HI I’M KRYNN!!

Mark: I’m Mark, and this is Tom!

Tom: Huh?

Krynn: Welcome to our blog!!

Mark: Alright, intros time. The name’s Marcos, you probably recognize me from your dreams. I enjoy long walks on the beach, deep conversation, holding hands, romcoms, pruning the garden, skinny dip-

Krynn: Whoaaa okay stopping you there–aaaand HELLO! I’m Krynn

Krynn: I’m the newest member of the team!! I don’t know how these guys got along without me cause my power makes it waaay easier to deal with-

Mark: Oh crap I forgot to talk about powers

Krynn: Well too late! Anyway, we’re a team of like, paranormal hunters who-

Mark: Well, hey, we can’t tell them all that much. But yeah, if you see something out of the ordinary, give us a call! And-

Krynn: WAIT wait Tom didn’t introduce himself!

Krynn: TOM!

Tom: What are you guys doing??

Mark: It’s an ask blog! So tell us about yourself

Tom: Wait, is that even allowed?

Mark: I dunno, who cares

Tom: Well, you should ask Mrs. Douglas before doing this.

Mark: Jeez, fine

[END OF TRANSMISSION]

The askbox is open!

That one time I practiced drawing goats and sheep!

The average women’s advice is ignored factoid actualy just statistical error.

average person listens to women’s advice. Oracle Cassandra who lives in Troy and knows exactly what’s up with that giant wooden horse is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

After seeing the dad how do I channel, I really wanted this one. I searched for it and, tada! Mom how do I? Seems rather new, but I love it anyway.