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[Image ID: Screenshot from GoFundMe with a title that reads "Help My Congolese Family Flee genocide". Attached to it is a picture of a black woman with long hair, with a tree and a building behind her. Enya-Zura Citeya-Kanjinga is organizing this campaign and it has gathered $9,305 CAD from its $20,000 goal as of the making of this post, June 20th, 2024. /End ID]
This GFM was shared by youtubers Tirrrb and Elliot Sang and I would like to bring more attention to it. Please help escape a congolese family from genocide and reunite them with their family members. Donate if possible and share ❤️🇨🇩
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[Image ID: a series of tweets from Draconian Crackdown @fencuary that read:
Tweet 1: every character design course in the world should force you to draw twenty people in the same mundane profession like bus drivers or auto mechanics or nail techs before you get to draw an elf
Tweet 2: imagine how cool elves could look if they looked a fraction as interesting as Steve who bags your groceries. have you looked at pictures of your aunts and uncles lately? e-sports competitors from a country you’ve never been to? so many awesome faces to look at in the world
Tweet 3: just saying this from the perspective of a guy who could have been saved a lot of frustration from practicing this earlier on as a young artist rather than stumbling through it now, but then again I think I’m learning to embrace the Real so much more as an adult
Tweet 4: since some are taking this as a design prompt (yay), for this to work you have to show the 10 - 20 “characters” to a non-artist in your life and they have to be like, “yep, i could’ve seen any of these people today” and imagine each of them living their own rich/unfulfilled lives
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[Image ID: two close-up photos of short green lawn grass. The photos appear to be taken in the evening right before sunset, where the shadows are really stark and the tips of the grass is lit up a brilliant bright green by the sunlight. /End ID]
got high and thought the grass looked so beautiful i couldn't believe it and proceeded to take some really mid grass pics
Uh oh fellas
[Image ID: a screenshot of my drafts, of which there are 108. /End ID]
Image ID: an aerial shot of a countryside. There are several long, rectangular fields, all slightly different shades of green (probably because they’re growing different plants). They’re lined with what appear to be hedges or possibly brambles and the occasional tree casting long shadows, some of which appear to be blooming pale flowers. In the center there is a field that’s bright red that fades out in streaks. It almost looks like a streaky line of paint. /End ID
Poppies taking over a field in Poland - June 2013 by Kacper Kowalski, Panos Pictures
Image IDs: all of the images are photographs of the same subject matter, which is a close-up of a very small saptha beryllitis moth on even smaller bright pink and white flowers. The moth is cone-shaped, with its head being the point. It has two long, thin antennae that are all black except for one white stripe near the top of each. Its eyes are comically large compared to the rest of its head. Only 4 of its legs are visible, which are black with 3 white stripes on their lower sections. Its wings are iridescent green/teal on top, followed by an iridescent black/gold stripe, a stripe of teal, then two thin pink stripes, then the bottom half is all iridescent black/gold. It’s so tiny you can see all the little scales that make up its wings. The background is mostly just green, likely the out-of-focus leaves of the plant.
ID1: the moth balancing poorly on one of the flowers, it’s thin, barely visible pink proboscis curving into the flower. One of its legs is blurred in movement. It’s photographed from the top.
ID2: the moth balancing much better on one of the flowers. This one is also photographed from the top.
ID3: a photo of the moth from the side and further back than the others. To the right of it there is some sort of bee or wasp also feeding on the same plant. It is mostly dull yellow and black, with alternating neon green and black stripes on its abdomen.
ID4: a photo of the moth from the side, also balancing on a flower but with its antennae touching the flower.
ID5: a photo of the moth from the front. It’s sitting on some flower buds while feeding from an open flower. Its antennae are slightly out of focus and blurred with movement.
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Image ID: a photograph of a path through a foggy forest. All of the trees are covered in moss and the only places there isn’t greenery is the trail and the sky. The underbrush seems to consist of grass and other leafy plants, but it’s hard to tell. The trees have these beautiful, winding branches that cover up the top half of the photo. It’s very shaded and slightly blue-hued in the foreground, but further down the trail it’s yellow-hued, indicating the sun is shining through the fog there. /End ID
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Image ID: a close-up picture of a spider. It’s looking up at the person taking the photo with its head tilted. It’s mostly mottled brown with two iridescent green patches on the front of its head. It has 4 round eyes, with the center pair being larger than the outer two. You can kind of see a silhouette of a person in the reflection of its eyes. It has little tufts of hair all of its body, with two larger tufts on either side of its head. Frankly, it’s adorable. /End ID
Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax)
March 27, 2023
Southeastern Pennsylvania
[Image IDs: all images are close-ups of pill millipedes, which are small arthropods (bugs) with a similar appearance to roly polies. They are pill-shaped and segmented with shiny scale-like plating that goes to the ground and covers up all their lil legs.
ID1: a rusty red pill millipede with a black head and mottled black spots on its segments. It’s segments are edged with a pale, slightly translucent yellowish color. It’s photographed from the side. It’s standing on light grayish tree bark.
ID2: another photo of the same or a similar millipede. This one is photographed from a higher angle, making it easier to see black backwards-pointing triangles running down its back. In this image it’s standing on bark covered in moss.
ID3: another photo of the same or a similar millipede on a similar background. This one is photographed from directly above.
ID4: another photo of the same or a similar millipede on a similar background. This one is on its back and half-curled up so its head is right-side up. Its belly and legs are a tan-ish; and its little legs stick up like it’s reaching out.
ID5: two of the red/black millipedes completely curled up on their sides, completely hiding their heads and legs in their plates. These ones are sitting on grey granite. One is slightly smaller than the other.
ID6: a similar millipede to the others, but this one is a much darker maroon red and less shiny. This one has a bright copper stripe behind its head. It’s on leaf litter.
ID7: another darker millipede on leaf litter and coniferous twigs (fir, I think). This one is curled up, but is upright like a wheel.
ID8: a collection of four millipedes on rough grey bark. There is one to the left, two in a vertical row to the right, and one in the center. All of them are curled up except for the center one. The one on the left is orange with black mottled spots and black diamonds running down the center of its back. The one in the center is an ochre color with darker orange edges on the bottom of its segments. It is sparsely mottled with black, with a black head. Behind its head is a yellow stripe, then a black stripe, then no more stripes. It has tall backwards-facing triangles along its back that get smaller and smaller until they disappear, after which there is one big black triangle at the end of the millipede’s body. The top right millipede is a blue-green-grey, similar to the color of lichen. Its segments are edged with thick orange-grey, and it has connected black diamonds running down its back. The bottom millipede is mostly covered in black spots, with orange stripes peeking through at the edge of its segments. There are black diamonds running down its back, which are separated from most of the other mottling by grey.
ID9: a photo of a pill millipede from above and a bit further away than the others. The millipede in this one is almost entirely black, with a bit of gold peeking through. This one is on a pale-skinned person’s hand, and is just a bit shorter than the width of their fingers.
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Pill millipede (not an isopod/roly poly), Glomeris klugii, Glomeridae
Found in Europe and northern Africa
Photos 1-4 by ingridaltmann, 5 by vytautas_tamutis, 6-7 by amujcinovic, 8 by phtevendrews, and 9 (for scale) by bianca_t
[Image IDs: All the images are photos of clouds at sunset/rise, with beautiful high-contrast orange and dark blue color palettes. In all of them the moon is visible and there are airplanes with long, lit up contrails.
ID1: In this one the clouds are huge thunderheads clustered mostly in the bottom half of the image and to the left. The moon is a waning crescent in the close to the center of the image. The contrails of the airplane cut through the higher clouds on the left, moving diagonally up and to the right, ending just under the moon. There are stars in the sky.
ID2: Just the top of a large thunderhead is pictured in this one, with a very bright waxing crescent moon just above it. The airplane is this one is a bit bigger and more visible than the others, its contrails cutting across the image to the right/top diagonally, disappearing behind the cloud. The sky is a slightly lighter blue in this one, but there are still stars in the sky.
ID3: This is the only image that shows the ground, which is hard to see because of the low light, but appears to be an parking lot overlook on the top of a mountain with a city below and to the right. The clouds in this one are more scattered and wispy, but are still huge and cover most of the sky. The sky is bright yellow near the horizon, turning to a rich, starless blue at the top of the image. The contrails strikingly travel straight up from the horizon, behind the clouds and up to the moon; which is a thin waxing crescent.
ID4: Dark clouds billow up and to the left, a dimmer contrail cutting through the peak of them diagonally up and left. The moon is a bright waxing crescent. It’s so bright the shadowed side is still visible, and it’s also off-center, resting just above the highest point of the clouds. The 3 stars of Orion’s Belt are the only ones visible.
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[Image ID: a photo of a fluffy snow leopard cub, old enough that it’s not helpless but young enough that it’s still reliant on its mother. It’s laying on its back in a pile of rocks, it’s tail laying next to it and its hind legs flopped over its belly. It’s front legs are stretched up over its head in a comic manner. Despite the ridiculous, kind of uncomfortable-looking position its eyes are closed and it is clearly snoozing. /End ID]
A snow leopard cub that fell asleep during playtime by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard
[Image IDs: three gifs of a beautiful, long-haired dog with alert ears in slow motion. It’s dark enough that the dog, the slightly hilly horizon, and the clouds are all stark black, but the sky is still lit up with pale orange and blue-grey. In all the gifs the dog’s pupils are reflecting a bright white, but its features are otherwise impossible to make out aside from its silhouette. In the first gif the dog is looking to the right and turns towards the camera to look right at the viewer. In the second gif the dog is looking at the viewer and lowering its head toward the ground, its fur billowing a little with the movement. In this one, there’s a very faint light that illuminates some grass and what appears to be the dog’s lower canines, or potentially a white patch under its nose. In the final gif the dog is loping just to the right of the camera, its head lowered and tail wagging. /End ID]
black shepherd at night | source
Brought this beautiful kitty home from the thrift store. It looks like an employee found her endearing, too.
(Image ID: A ceramic cat statue about 12 inches/30 centimeters tall, photographed from several angles. The cat is slender and off-white, sitting with her black-tipped paws tucked tightly together and her black tail wrapped around her body. She’s stretching upward as though trying to charm a person into petting her. She has artistic flourishes drawn all over her in a sketchy, ink-brush-like style — including a pink flower blossom on top of her head, a red heart on her chest, leaves down the back of her neck, and multi-coloured fish spilling plentifully up her lower back. Her eyelashes and whiskers are thickly lined in a way resembling mascara, and her human-like lips are red. A handwritten price sticker on the cat’s chest says, “She has a sore [left] ear :( $22″ She does indeed have a small chip missing from the tip of her left ear.)
A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!
I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character
For pride part two electric boogaloo -
(credit isn't needed but is appreciated!!)
Image ID, also in alt text - James Tiberius Kirk played by William Shatner with the bisexual flag, first as a background then overlayed on top of him, transgender flag, first as a background then overlayed on top of him, and the Gilbert Baker pride flag, first as a background then overlayed on top of him.
After School Ghost Theory 101 with Professor Fenton
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[Image ID: A four page comic that starts with Danny Fenton standing in front of a whiteboard holding up a white cat. “Question: Do ghosts purr?”
Tucker: “Danny when was the last time you slept?” Danny: “Irrelevant.”
Danny info-dumps: “The answer is yes, but also no. Technically, all beings that possess a core are constantly "purring”, a.k.a. Core Vibrations. Core Vibrations are a nonverbal, emotion-based communication system between Ghosts, similar to how some living species use pheromones to communicate. The exact tone of each ghost is different the same way people’s voices are different. Humans can only hear these vibrations when the frequency passes through their audible range (20Hz - 20KHz), hence the ‘purring’ sound. When the range dips into infrasound (16 - 20Hz) it can cause feelings of fear and unease in humans that they often associate with ghosts and the supernatural. Also known as the ‘Heebie Jeebies.’”
Danny, wiping off the whiteboard: “Any questions before we move on?“
Danny’s audience consists of Wes Weston, Tucker Foley, Sam Manson, Danny’s clone Ellie, and Dash Baxter in a classroom. Wes is seated at a desk at the front taking notes. Tucker is sitting on Sam’s lap playing on a Switch, Ellie is sitting on a desk behind them. Dash is asleep at the back of the room.
Ellie, now holding the cat: “Is this Vlad’s first cat!?” Wes: "Could you tone down the floating eyes before the next part? They’re kinda distracting.” Danny: “What eyes?” Wes: “Please stop gaslighting me.”
A transparency trick on the last page reveals dark shadows and eyes all around Danny when viewed in dark mode. /.End ID]
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