I feel so guilty and bad for blocking spam accounts with URLs that obviously once belonged to a real user, like an obvious fandom URL or a clever pun, something obviously once chosen by a real blogger and not auto-generated. It’s like shooting a shambling zombie in the head when you can still tell what kind of person they were before they died. Maybe they’re wearing a slogan tee you can still read pretty clearly or their hair is still dyed and you had FRIENDS with pink hair… Auto-generated URLs like @drawerlampungulatesparklewillowcord are clearly just faceless nameless drones with no actual person behind them and no history. There’s zero guilt involved with blocking those. It’s actually pretty satisfying, shooting those sick imitations of humans dead. But @sasukeisapowerbottom?? That was once somebody. Somebody’s kid, somebody’s friend. And now their corpse is tottering around trying to get people to click on their links with pictures of skinny white girls in frilly bras. It’s so sad.
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here’s an old patreon reward to fill in the drawing-hiatus void a bit; something I get asked about a lot is the ‘acting’ in my comics and how to be subtle with conveying emotions. The answer is mostly experience and constantly observing people in real life to learn about expressions, but knowing when to ‘dial up’ or ‘dial down’ emotion is very important! context is king- this is basically the same advice that Carl Barks gave on one of his reference sheets here (in a much more succinct manner!):
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Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”
Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.
Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.
When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.”
- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof
Just released: my unofficial soundtrack for Wii Snorkeling
How to Tell
by ttanner2448
Stuff I like that I reblog, and stuff that I post .... Luke
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