Contrapoints on youtube did an episode about this exact thing. Her “whats wrong with capitalism” series

the secret is that my recent discovery and subsequent binge of contrapoints is the true reason i actually started watching this series, and i’ve drawn a lot of the same conclusions as her it seems

it is hard to really determine exactly how much i enjoy contrapoints because i’m pretty sure i’m actually astral projecting during the entirety of each of her videos.

Here is the vid in question, btw! it puts a pretty nice point on this whole concept

idk why but i’ve been stuck watching buzzfeed’s Worth It and it’s just such a baffling cross-section of our culture

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so here’s a worldbuilding thing i came up with that i think is cool

in snakeladders the kaleans (or at least the ones we meet in the story) have a written language comprised of glyph symbols which represent syllables (I think this is called logosyllabic?)

so kaleans who are living with humans and using human technology like to use text emojis

specifically, they use certain emojis to represent certain glyphs from their original writing system and their text messages are just walls of seemingly unrelated emojis that only they can glean any goddamn meaning from

you know, just like the youth of today (get off my lawn, jk, you’re beautiful don’t change)

#eee#okay I have missed seeing your art on here so bad#THE COLOURS#THE FACES#the perfect fucking linework#I’m always like#ideal goals of using a minimal amount of lines to show the maximum amount of motion#and your coloursssss#okay done gushing#but: eeeee

thanks! i’m so glad this stands out as like, a feature of my style because line economy is something im really trying to focus on lately. i was actually talking to @goldengoatblog about this when I was drawing it. design doll is amazing for posing the figures (here is the reference) but it obviously doesn’t twist and fold the flesh/muscles correctly. there’s a very specific way that the abdomen caves in and the flesh bunches up around the lower back when you bend back like how roadrunner is, that was a bit of a challenge to convey without going into too much detail for my style

so I’m super glad that it reads!

omg, i’ve been wanting to do like, timelapse art and tutorials and stuff, but I can’t decide whether i should focus in on character art, which there are already a TON of people doing, but with more of a emphasis on foundation and design economy, OR take a broader approach and walk through full illustrations

what would you guys prefer to see?

just putting a personal update here cuz i really been going through it

i just got whanged over the head with seasonal depression like… sometime last fall, and it feels like i’ve lost months of my life. like, days have been burning by without me even noticing, i’ve gotten behind on so much i want to do, i’ve accomplished so little

i’m financially wrecked, as usual, and desperately searching for a job with no luck

i still drive for bitesquad, but they discontinued their company fleet and now require drivers to use their own cars. paying for gas and having to deal with the wear and tear on my car makes this job barely worth it

i could be doing so much better financially if i could scrape myself up enough to do commissions, but it’s just so hard to take the first step when you constantly feel miserable and hopeless and scared

summer brings better mood days for me. i’m really learning that about myself. i can get a lot more done in the summer but fall and winter are really really hard for me

i’m about to move into a new house which is exciting! i’m trying to revitalize my online presence which is daunting. i think once i’ve caught up on backlogged work/commissions/etc i am going to try launching a youtube channel? we’ll see how that goes

also snakeladders. it’s another one of those things that just seems too huge to overcome but it wont be right until i get there

but yeah lol, depression is shit, try to avoid it if you can

themonsterblogofmonsters:

backbbiters:

Activity feed, dashboard notifications AND its happening in the App as well (where they’re also juggling post order despite me turning off anything that might do that). Notes show up fine on the actual posts, so far as I can tell, but our feeds are broken.

Yo @staff, @support What The Hell!

@ my followers: if you’ve replied to a post recently and it seems like I’ve ignored it there’s a good chance that I’ve actually completely missed it. Feel free to send an ask in instead until tumblr gets off their arse and fixes their hellsite.

yeah i was just about to make a post about this! since i use xkit to reply to replies, and that function only works thru the activity page and not the post notes, it means i can’t reply to replies like usual

since the same thing is happening on mobile i’m pretty sure it’s not because xkit

this damn website i swear, i really gotta gather myself up and move to twitter like everyone else…

but can i be real for a quick second about video games tho?

what is with all these devs like, abandoning the things that are iconic about their franchises to copy off each other’s papers?

bioware being like “i know y'all come here for character-heavy writing, single-player roleplaying experience with a strong element of player choice and relationship development, but we’re gonna make destiny instead because destiny did so goddamn well. also we’re moving away from the ‘romance stuff,’ we’re calling it ‘romance stuff’ ‘cause we have to appear as snarky and disdainful about it as possible, despite it being kind of a cornerstone of our player experience”

bethsoft like “ok ok maybe FO4 wasn’t as good as New Vegas so here’s another goddamn Fallout game no one asked for! basically it’s Rust in a Vault suit and also you can shoot nukes at each other because that’s totally consistent with the tone and the message of the IP, which we’ve never ever misconstrued and have always done perfect justice! ALSO STOP ASKING US ABOUT ELDER SCROLLS GAW YOU’RE SO ANNOYING”

i mean i’m… definitely going to play both of these games and am cautiously optimistic about them because cautious optimism is how i try to live my life but godDAMN dude

Anthem looks badass, but.

• Scenic post-apocalypse, city ruins reclaimed by overgrowth of plant life, very luscious, i actually love this aesthetic
  
• The last holds of humanity in a giant walled city under threat of attack
  
• Skirmishers made of or wearing patchwork electronics
  
• The state of the world caused by the abandonment of some type of deity, presumably which granted them their advanced technology
  
• “All that’s left is the Anthem.” Anthem could be the name of their city, but I’m willing to bet it’s more of a… you know, abstract calling or empowerment that grants those who embody it with superhuman strength or abilities. You know, like the Light. Becauase Anthem is LITerally Destiny.
  

sigh. they killed Mass Effect for that.

i hope… i hope there are hot aliens in starfield. bethsoft has succeeded in making me feel attraction to kitty cat people, orcs, and literal zombies so I’d like to see them make sexy aliens and/or robots

that’s all

if tes6 is in hammerfell i will lose my shit omg