Since the holiday toy drive post is circulating again, I figured this would also be helpful! Food insecurity is such a massive problem in America, in general, and if you have the means to help feed others, I think you should take that opportunity. Here are some other tips:
1. If you’re planning on donating items from your own pantry, please check the expiration dates on the packaging. Think of your donations as gifts to bestow, not castoffs to be rid of. It’s awful to think of people feeling like they got scraps someone else just didn’t want. Everyone deserves dignity with their meals.
2. If you’d rather give money to a food bank, that’s also great since they buy food in bulk and know what items are most wanted/needed!
3. Not everyone has access to appliances like stoves or microwaves or hot plates so if you can donate items that don’t need to be heated up, that would also be greatly appreciated!
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my goodness thank you your art looks amazing
pandering to my audience bu drawing gunntech ocs :}
Close ups under the cut
Kailani from @mysticarts
Lottie from @got-saged-intheprocess
Orion from @banana-birb
Sun Arley from @sh1n0buloverrr
Liêm from @senseihuy
And Dolores accompanied by Flint-Shot from @thefaeartist
I also drew Kit from @ambriel-angstwitch but I didn’t do her justice so no close up sorry
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discovered a new method of low - effort sketches so that’s nice :}
some cool characters i like ig!!! :DD
here’s my actual answer LOL /hj
An online library of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.
Happy Halloween! I'm really excited to be finally launching* what is maybe one of my most ambitious, largest work yet. This online library is the next phase of a research project that began in May 2020, when I first mused on how comics as a field doesn't have a resource that catalogues devices used in the medium. Like, theatre has devices, so does literature, and film! So why shouldn't comics? I always had an interest in comics studies and analysis. I love reading, making and thinking comics. However most of my knowledge was intuitive - I learned comics from osmosis and experience. This is true for many of my peers. Speaking about comics as a creator is hard, because we don't have a robust system of language. When we had to speak, many of us tend to reach for the language developed for film by film practitioners. If there is language specific to comics, it's either scattered in multiple blogs or hidden away in academic journals. The Comics Devices library is meant to aggregate everything and everybody into a single hub! After exploring some multiple resources, alongside some original, independent research, here is the first edition! * The Comics Devices project is still a work-in-progress! It's not final, nor will it ever be. This is why I am seeking contributors to help build this library. Translations, comics examples, etc. There is a lot of work to do! If you are interested, reply to this post or submit an expression of interest on this page. Have fun everyone!! (Now time for me to melt x_x)
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.
anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
A Better World - create an alternate history timeline
Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game
Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet
Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games
Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones
Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy
ZenGM - simulate sports
Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi
IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)
Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface
The Cafe & Diner - mystery game
The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game
Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions
Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game
Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game
Miniconomy - player driven economy game
Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes
BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators
Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil
Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.
if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
All of the "humans are space orcs/space Australians"
But Especially the one that ends with "we're the Doctors Without Borders and we're here to help"
"can I ask you a question? ...what was your favorite thing to learn about as a kid?" Tiktok, in which I am both of them
Stabby the Roomba
Todd, the Demon Grandson and his myopic grandmother, and their seven season story arc
The God of Arepo (and the comic that was made from it)
New one: "may you have a life of safety and peace" said the witch, to the warrior, with his dying breath
And the SEQUEL
Concept: Pirates slay a monster mermaid to steal its treasure chest. Pirates open chest, finds a sleepy baby mermaid within. Monster mermaid was using the treasure chest as a cradle. Pirates: 😳😳😳
Cinderella and her face-blind prince
The comic, There Are No Nazis in Valhalla
Beau FUCKING Brummell and modern men's fashion
"I give regular Coke to skinny bitches who order diet hahahaha" DON'T DO THIS
This Irish hard-shoe dancer, Elizabeth Bullock
Big joy and small joy are the same
The bees will know: inkskinned honey jars
If fantasy creatures had Tumblr discourse
Ballerina Spiderman Miles Morales: "don't YEET the ballerina"
Steve Rogers wakes up "in the hospital"
The "Miette post" & its spiritual successors
Batman + Bruce Wayne "the butts match"
What if Bruce Wayne met Zuko? And Iroh met Alfred, and...
Venus of Willendorf and other paleolithic goddess/fertility figures sculpted by women using their own body as model
Living in a city with superheroes. (3 parts so far!
The A-ha Take On Me dancers tik tok
Chickens will sit on any egg if broody enough. Even an orphaned dragon egg (how DID that get in the brood box?)
Dragon stories from @microsff
Gonna pin this one and start adding links and updates.
Hyplern
Language Crush
Readlang
Vocab Tracker
ok, so I’m a lifeguard, trained and certified, all that pizazz.
And I just wanted to clarify something. CPR alone cannot bring someone back. CPR keeps oxygenated blood flowing through the body, prevented the body from shutting down and the person from going brain dead.
In order for your character to ‘jump’ back alive, there needs to be an electric shock, in a modern au that should normally be an AED and a lot of places have that somewhere in the facility somewhere, and in powered universes you can have an electrically powered person do it.
In fact, its almost more angst-filled to have character A doing CPR, knowing that as the time goes by, without an AED, without EMS getting there, the chances of character B coming back and making a full recovery are getting exponentially lower.
Not to mention CPR is VERY tiring, it’s why lifeguards rotate who is doing the compressions, so if its just character A there to do the CPR, describing the burn of their arms, their back, their muscles all while fighting tears is something that would be very compelling for some readers.