To Anyone Who Got Me For Secret Santa, This Is My List

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for all the artists out there, here are my favorite resources i use to learn!

Files

The Complete Famous Artist Course

Art Books and Resources

Art, Anatomy, and Color Books

PDF Files of Art Books

Internet Archive

YouTube

My YouTube Playlist of Tutorials

How to Draw Facial Features

Drawing and Art Advice

Drawing Lessons

Art Fundamentals

Anatomy of the Human Body

2D Animation

Perspective Drawing

Websites

Pinterest Board for Poses

Another Pinterest Board for Poses

Pinterest Boards for References

Reference Angle

Figurosity

Sketch Daily

True Ref

Line of Action

Human Anatomy

Animal Photo References

Humanae - Angélica Dass

Fine Art - Jimmy Nelson

Character Design References

CDR's Twitter Account

iamagco's Twitter Account

taco1704's Twitter Account

takuya_kakikata's Twitter Account

EtheringtonBro's Twitter Account

Drawabox

Color Wheel

Color Palette Cinema

Free Images and Pictures

Free Stock Photos

FILMGRAB

Screen Musings

William Nguyen Light Reference Tool

SketchFab - 3D Skeleton Model

Animation References - sakugabooru

Animation References - Bodies in Motion

i think ppl refuse to believe mike isnt straight and didnt believe will was either in the past bc SO MANY ppl only see queer ppl as characters, as over the top icons designed to sell/pander to other gay people. they're not people to them; no depth to their thoughts, feelings, intentions etc etc. irl not just in media, but that not-recognizing-gays-as-real-people in real life they are now also applying to media that strays from the 'norm'- to mike

literally "what ur gay! i could never have guessed," and "but u dont look gay🙄"

lucky girl syndrome

☆ i am the luckiest girl in the world ☆ everything literally works in my favor ☆ everything works out the way i want it to ☆ luck is always following my around ☆ i'm always at the right place at the right time ☆ things always work out too perfectly for me ☆ life is always rigged in my favor ☆ only good things happen to me ☆ i only experience the best outcomes ☆ i get the perfect things at the perfect time ☆ everything i want is always following me ☆ i only deserve the best, and recieve the best ☆ everything goes better than planned ☆ the world is shaped to work for me ☆ luck is always on my side ☆ the world is my servant, serving me ☆ all the good things come to me at the right time ☆ good things keep flowing in my direction ☆ i can always count on my luck ☆ i always find the best things ☆ it always turns out better than i expected ☆ i am destined to have the best things ☆ i am destined to experience the best things ☆ i am destined to have everything i desire ☆ everything i want is mine right now ☆ every situation works out in my favor ☆ every day goes by in my favor ☆ i am so lucky, it's unexplainable ☆ why am i this lucky? ☆ why is everything in my favor? ☆ why are things so perfect for me? ☆ why is life so perfect for me? ☆ why is everything always in my favor? ☆ miracles keep coming towards me ☆ my life is full of miracles ☆ i always experience miracles ☆ luck is flowing my direction ☆ everything always unfolds in my favor ☆ life is always working for me ☆ i know it will end in the best outcome possible ☆ everything starts and ends the way i want it to ☆ every sign shows that i'm in the right direction ☆ the best things are coming to me ☆ the best things are chasing me ☆ the best things keep running towards me ☆ i'm meant to have the best things ☆ i'm meant to have good luck ☆ only good things are meant to be ☆ it's all turning out perfectly ☆ i love having lucky girl syndrome

*IDGAF Mentality* POWERFUL AFFIRMATIONS

I'm too cool to give a fuck

I'm literally so confident, nothing can shake me

I always know how to remain calm and cool and unbothered 💆🏻‍♀️

My peace of mind is my top priority and nothing can affect that

I have that 'out of sight out of mind' mentality

I can easily detach from other people's bullshit that has nothing to do with me 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't care for external validation i know I'm dope as fuck

I can recognize when people project their insecurities and I take none of that

I don't care what people think of me, I'm the main character why'd I care if one person dislikes me 😂

People's opinions are their subjective perspectives and it's not a threat to my survival so idc

I just be my own person, doing my own thing, living my best life

I'm happy with myself and who I am and that's all that matters

I accept myself fully, with all the good and the bad, that's what makes me unique and amazing ✨

I don't compete with anyone, I'm already the best

My confidence radiates and speaks volumes

I do whatever the fuck I want cuz this is my life and I'm the main character

I'm such a catch anyone would be lucky to have me

My self concept is top tier, I'm the one on the pedestal

I have an unshakable sense of worth

How I see myself and how I feel about myself is the only thing that matters to me

I don't give a fuck about what the 3D shows, I KNOW I already have it

I trust myself always.

My potential is so great, I'm meant for great things

I'm so fucking powerful, I command my desires and bend reality to my will

The last thing I'd worry about is stupid circumstances or opinions that don't even matter LOL

No one can mess with my vibe ✨

𝑢𝑛𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ♡

✦ life isn't meant to be hard

✦ i wasn't put on this earth to suffer

✦ i don't need to push myself to the point of despair for the sake of productivity

✦ i am the kind of person who good things happen to

✦ i'm not cursed, good things can and will happen to me

✦ i am extremely lucky

✦ i am constantly receiving good news and being blessed with miracles

✦ i deserve to rest

✦ i deserve to take up space

✦ it's okay to struggle and ask for help, other people also struggle, and they care about me and are happy to help

✦ i don't need to apologize so much. i didn't do anything wrong and i have nothing to feel guilty for

✦ it is possible for me to be healthy and live a happy life

✦ "i can't accept this, i don't deserve it" if you don't take it, someone else will, whether they deserve it or not. if someone's offering you an opportunity, or a present, it's because they thought you deserved it, and want you to have it, so stop being silly and just take it

✦ i'm not stuck with any identities. i can always change and become and better me. maybe i'm not athletic, but i can be. maybe i'm not organized, but i can be. i'm not stuck and i can change.

this post is a reminder to myself and others that we're allowed to take up space in this world and that we deserve to be happy just because.

we don't need to earn the good things in life by suffering and working to the point of exhaustion.

we don't need to thank people a million times for something they chose to do for us, we don't need to constantly apologize for being sad or needing help.

aren't we all human? aren't we all struggling, trying to figure life out? why is it that when it's me who needs a little help, suddenly it's burdening?

i think i have a hard time manifesting certain things, because i still see myself in a negative light, in many ways, and because, for a very long time, i believed i had to be humble, work hard, that suffering was something honorable.

i think this is something that comes with existing as a woman in this world, being so apologetic about everything, and it's something i really want to let go off.

me existing in this world as someone who does no harm to others is reason enough for me to deserve to take up space and live a happy life.

💖🍡DEALING WITH HATERS💖🍡

💖Oh that person said this about me 😭They commented rude things about me ☹️They attacked me for expressing my opinions 🥲. Girl stop it 🛑 ✋️ Get over yourself . We need to step into our " IDAF" ERA !

🍡BEING HATED ON IS A PRIVILEGE

Being hated on means you are RELEVANT ! You are so extremely relevant because that person is taking their time off to focus on YOU rather than themselves. Only the insecure people would choose you as their target because they are threatened by you.

💖STOP PUTTING YOUR HATERS ON A PEDESTAL

Why are you putting your haters or bullies on a pedestal ? Why do their opinions outweigh your own opinions ? 🤔 Value yourself above these haters. Reassure yourself and put yourself on a pedestal. You should know you are great and you know your intention. Their words stay in your mind because you are giving them your power , precious energy and attention to them. You are giving their words more power than your own words.

🍡YOUR WORTH DOES NOT RELY ON EXTERNAL OPINIONS

You are not an opinion of someone who does not know you or care about you. Realize this and you will be free ! As I told you before in my know your worth post , your worth should not rely on external opinions, if your worth relies on external opinions , you are a slave to other people. Your worth is intrinsic, it comes from within and it is present since the day you were born.

💖JUDGEMENT IS THE GAME OF THE MISERABLE.

Haters are miserable. It is a fact. Even if it looks like they are doing better , they are not. Your hater could be the prettiest person in the world but when they look at themselves , they feel ugly. That is why people who usually bully or hate on others try to make the other person make insecure so that they can feel better about themselves. Happy people do not hate .

🍡IT IS NOT PERSONAL

It is never personal, it is not about you, it is about them.It is so important to realize that haters are always projecting.

💖NO RESPONSE IS THE BEST RESPONSE

The best response to a hater is no response. Do not give them your precious energy and time. If you show them that you are hurt by their comments , they will not feel bad for you . In fact , they will be happy because they won , they wanted your energy, time and wanted to feel they have power over you. Just be unbothered , do not give a damn about these losers. That is how you take your power back . Other people need your permission to make you feel bad about yourself, do not give them the permission.

🍡A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N

If someone has an issue with you and they are telling everyone except you , they do not have a real issue with you , they just enjoy the attention they get from talking about you.

💖I DONT CARE , YOU ARE YOU , I AM ME

Like our Queen Wonyoung said, if someone says something about her that is not true , she does not care . I don't care , You are You, I am me.

🍡LOVE YOURSELF

Focus on your good qualities about yourself. Love yourself. Our Queen Wonyoung said that people will give you criticism even when you do not need it , so she only gives herself nothing but love. That is how you should think too. Give yourself nothing but love.

💖 FOCUS ON YOU

Have a life. Be too busy to focus on these gremlins. If you are sitting idle and rotting in bed the whole day , of course , your brain will wonder. Have a routine. Be too focused on yourself to care about them.

🍡KNOW YOURSELF

If you know yourself and understand yourself , you will not care what other people think about you. For example , if you know you are smart and beautiful , you will not care if someone else says that you are dumb or ugly. Take it like this, you are wearing a red t-shirt , someone comes upto and says your t-shirt is blue , will you believe them ? Will you try to explain yourself to them ? Or will you just be like - oh what a dumb person and move on with your life ?

💖HAVE COMPASSION

You need to stop seeing them as a toxic , mean or evil person😈 . See them as someone who is unhealed , hurt or insecure . You do not need to be nice, kind or say anything to them. Have compassion for them and wish that they heal from whatever they are going through. Shift your energy from hurt and sadness to compassion. You will protect your peace and you will be unfazed.

🍡THEY ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT

Does this person contribute anything to your life ? Will their opinions help you pay your bills? Will their opinions help you pass your exam ? If no , why do you care about them ? They are not that important but you are . You should take care of you and not lose yourself because of what one person or many people say about you. They do not matter. They are irrelevant. You are the main character of your life.

💖YOU ARE NOT BORN TO IMPRESS

In this world of social media , we often try to impress people who we do not even know. Always remember that YOU ARE BORN TO EXPRESS , NOT TO IMPRESS.

An aye-write Guide to Writing About Food!

Let’s get one thing straight. I love food. I love eating it, I love reading about it, and I especially like writing about it. Food is a massively useful tool you can utilise in your writing - whether it’s for description, plot points, or in a symbolic/allegorical sense - and it can really help ground a reader and get them invested in your characters and your world. 

I’m sure we all have some positive food memories from our favourite childhood books! The Turkish Delight from The Chronicles of Narnia, the huge feasts from the Harry Potters, literally everything from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But other than adding flavour - if you’ll pardon the pun - to your work, why should we bother adding references to food at all? 

Here’s a few:

Sense of reality

Humanises characters (most things need to eat!)

Character development

Reveal backstories

Illuminate relationships between characters

Bringing characters together (around a table, peace offering, as thanks) 

Can capture an era of history 

Gives a good sense of character’s health/mental state/personality 

Metaphorical (Please sir, I want some more - Oliver Twist)

Evoke characters’ memories 

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Food As Symbolism

Using food as symbolism is a particular favourite thing to do in my own writing, but to use a much more well known example, let’s look at Edmund and the Turkish Delight from The Chronicles of Narnia. The sweet is described as being “sweet and light to the very centre”. Many think the sweet was bewitched so that Edmund would want to eat it forever, thereby getting him to agree to anything The White Witch wanted in exchange for more. So it’s a symbol for Edmund’s mistakes and how his desires are so strong that he is willing to hurt others to fulfil them. The fact that the Turkish Delight leaves Edmund feeling sick afterwards is also indicative of his feelings. In the same way you may feel regretful after eating something too sweet, Edmund also regrets his decision to endanger his family.

Where else does food serve as a symbol? It becomes a symbol of resistance and wanting more when Oliver Twist asks for more gruel in the infamous scene in the Charles Dickens novel. The thin gruel personifies the extreme poverty and the horrible reality for those in the workhouse.

And Irish novel Angela’s Ashes has a scene in which Young Frank fawns over the possibility of getting an egg to eat after his father’s wages come in. Eggs were a rare luxury for a poor Irish-Catholic family at the time, and the fact that Frank ultimately does not get his egg (as his father squanders his wages) represents their dire financial situation, hopeless future, and lower social class.

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How Can Food Show Help Us Develop Our Characters? 

A character’s choice of food will be influenced by many factors, including but not limited to, geographical, climatic, historical, religious, cultural, political as well as personal taste, fashion, economic status, society and familial influence.

A poor person will eat very differently from a rich person. Someone watching their figure will be more conscious of their food choices. Someone from a multicultural family will have been exposed to different cooking techniques and dishes and may have a wider frame of reference. Someone who is gluten intolerant, dairy-free, vegetarian, etc. will also be very careful about what they consume.

A great exercise I like to do if I’m struggling to learn about my characters is to make them a meal plan! Setting out a character’s food choices and food preferences might help you unlock some new information about them or help you deepen your understanding of them.

For example, look at these examples of meal plans. 

Breakfast: Weetabix, skimmed milk, red berries. Lunch: Baked potato with small amount of low-fat cheese and side salad. Dinner: Gnocchi and tomato bake (small portion). Dessert: Small pot low fat strawberry yoghurt. Snacks: Apple and cinnamon cookie. Bag of pre-cut apples.

Breakfast: None. Lunch: Microwaved meal. Dinner: Breaded chicken and fries. Dessert: None. Snacks: Peppermint chocolate. Blueberry muffin. Salted potato chips/crisps (two bags). Small bag of Skittles (sour).

Straight away you can start piecing together your impressions of these characters just from their food choices and without knowing anything about the kind of person they are! 

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My Food Worldbuilding and Character Questions 

If you’re worldbuilding, food is going to be a pretty important aspect of your characters lives and the way of life in general for your world. Here are some questions I use when I’m considering how food impacts the characters and the world that I’m trying to create. 

Do your characters eat and drink? If so, how important is it to your plot?

Is food generally safe or dangerous? 

Do your characters have allergies? 

Are there rituals/rules around consuming food/drink? 

Is food and drink a thing of joy or a thing of necessity?

Are there any festivals/cultural traditions around food?

What does food reveal about the culture, relationships, and status of your character and their family/friends?

What food or drink is in your characters’ homes?

What is your character’s relationship with food?

What important memories does your character associate with cooking/food/eating?

m*leven vs byler parallels

Caring, letters, truth and superheroes:

Mike tells Will he exchanges letters with El cause she’s his gf. Later mike throws El’s letter (about becoming a “superhero”) in the trash. Then Mike explains to Will, that he had a fight with El (and he probably can’t mend his romantic relationship with her). 

during that prior fight: Mike says he “ cares” for El. And El responds that he “CARES” but doesn’t love her- and can’t even say it out loud to her or in his letters . Instead his letters say “from mike” . Even the flowers he got her had a card that says “from mike”. Mike then tries changing the subject (of him not loving her) by saying El is important to him and  a “superhero”. El then says “not anymore” to mike’s offiscation.  El later sends Mike the letter about re-becoming a “superhero” (she signs the letter “from el”- probably symbolically showing their relationship is probably over). Which is why mike then throws the superhero letter into the trash.

Mike wonders why he couldn’t say he loved El to her face (before she left). Will says to Mike it’s hard to “say how you really feel” about  people you “CARE” about because they may not like  the “TRUTH”. On one hand it could reflect Will’s fear. But it also reflects Mike’s fear of admitting to El he doesn’t romantically love her-because It’s something she wouldn’t like.

After mike threw out el’s letter , Mike states the “TRUTH” is he misses Will and was worrying too much about El.

Brenner later tells EL “superheroes’ are stuff of fairytales and the “TRUTH” is not that simple, and she cannot hide from the “truth” any longer (even if it freightens her). Aka - (symboliically) the “truth” El doesn’t want to face is that Mike doesn’t “love” her romantically and her trying to become a “superhero” again won’t change that “truth”. which was earlier  illustrated by Mike throwing out her “superhero” letter . In s3 -4: we see mike/EL dating eachother but both are called out for lying to one another (their whole romance is the antithesis of “truth”-but instead lies.)

lumax and byler

Will asks if mike is angry at him, cause he stopped “talking” to him. Then Will mentions how mike and El share letters (and mike barely talks to him). But Lucas says he’d rather “talk” to Max and doesn’t want a letter (paralleling how Mike threw El’s letter away so he could “talk” to Will). Mike literally throws the letter in the trash like a basketball (to parallel lucas further).

 Both pairings had a falling out between seasons. lucas says to max “it’s like you’re not even here anymore”. And Mike says “I don’t know maybe I feel I lost you”. Max/Will take the blame for the fallingout. But Lucas/mike correct them and take responsibility.

After this Lucas says  he didn’t loose Max ,but he just wasn’t using his eyes to see what was infront of him. dustin: the world is full of the most obvious things that no one by anychance ever observes. Lucas to max : “But i SEE YOU NOW” .  cough oh look at byler staring at eachother.

Not to mention Will getting the courage to eventually show the painting to mike… is almost a loose parallel to the letters. So for byler the painting may spur a “talk” about the “truth” of their feelings. A piece of paper can only mean so much. But if the painting said “love Will” that would be a nice touch too.

It seems like mike and Will are almost contrasting. Mike can’t say he loves El even in letters. And Will seems like he’s about to confess any minute to mike (and his painting may symbolize his romantic love for mike).

Also another very obvious byler hint:

They fight in an arcade (cough a place they used to hangout together). Will says “what about us?” Which initially alarms Mike. Then when Will brings up how they haven’t been talking ,but mike sends el letters . Mike uses the excuse that she’s his girlfriend. And again Will says “and us?” . And mike quickly states they’re “friends”. Will is this close to calling out their relationship. I swear. And Mike protested too much. XD

Also don’t get me started on how robin mentions a movie (dr zhigiago) and says its about “doomed love” - and then we see the m*leven fight. The film has a subplot about 2 siblings having the same love interest. Heck Yuri even yells about his brother taking his wife. Like ok. Suspish. And no I don’t think the “doomed love ” is the queer ship -like it usually is.

why? well robin mentions vickie and not being able to confess. Then right after robin shows the “doomed love” video to Steve. But Steve said earlier to robin. She doesn’t have to worry about confessing to Vickie cause she’s clearly queer like robin. So does Will have nothing to worry about cause mike’s also lgbt?hmm

My opinion:

Mike is still processing his complex feelings but … my oblivious son will eventually get there eventually. Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if Will confessing to mike is what makes mike finally realize his feelings for Will.

also “cool” parallel.