TQ🌟 @TQ@chaos.social

Happy Pride Month to all of you, especially if you can't wave your flag or haven't found it yet.

Dungeons & Dragons is in the business of selling fantasy. Not the stuff with the magic and monsters -- the part where you *actually believe* that you and several other likeminded adults will be able to coordinate your schedules on a regular basis.

And yeah, my "stuff" I did in the past didn't normally try to be art. But that is okay. That's part of the holding back thing, and I need to stop holding back. If art happens, fine. If not, I've at least freed myself of pressure and problematic thoughts.

I've been holding back, haven't had the courage to try hard enough. I've always needed that "it's not art, don't judge!" place to hide myself in.

Now I hate that place, that fear, these thoughts. The constant need to reaffirm myself. To explain myself, to please whatever you expected from me. I'm full of anger and I'm not holding back any more.

Angry Art incoming.

I've a proposition to paint a portrait for a feminist exhibition. I'm very excited about it, I've never really exhibited my stuff.

And now I realize that I never dared to call myself an artist, never considered or called my "drawings", "paintings", "stuff" art. I'm a bit angry at myself now, because who is the judge here? Who is holding me back?

Just me and my fear, and I'm SO over it!

I've just lost patience with my fear.

(cont.) Then there's always a cheap spray bottle with water, because I'm a lazy person who hates to wet the paper with the brush, and it has the additional benefit that I can keep areas wet for longer periods of time without disturbing the paint. And masking rubber for masking, if I ever plan on keeping areas white. Which I don't. But I sometimes bother to take that bottle with me anyway.
And there's always a paper tissue I clean my brushes with, soak up excess water or color from the paper.

My art supplies for watercolor and sketching. Top left are my favourite watercolors, all half pans, because I need many many colors and hate bulky equipment. They are Schmincke Horadam colors I'm quite fond of.
Below my Van Gogh traveling set. These are beautiful colors, esp. for the price!
Below are my brushes, two water brushes from pentel, the rest traditional ones.
On the right my mechanical pencil (Rotring), a brush pen (Pentel), two faountain pens (Lamy Safari + TWSBI Eco).

TFW you paint Spock. 🖖

Liebe TL, kennt ihr ein queer-freundliches Unternehmen in Karlsruhe, das eine Softwareentwicklerin sucht?

Honestly it saddens me that there isn't more people talking about OpenToonz, and this fork in particular:

https://morevnaproject.org/opentoonz/

I was wondering "hey, why DON'T we have open source software for quality 2D animation"? -- except we *do* have it and not enough people know about it.

I started a looooooong due #startrek #fanart painting and of course it's spock and it's waiting for me at home and I'm at work and this is my sad life.

i think this comes down to not understanding, for whatever reason, what a metonym is.

definition of a metonymy:

"A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power."

that what "white people" means. it doesn't mean "every single caucasian who has ever graced, or not graced, tvym, the earth".

this just hit me.

i think white people are still on this "but not me!!!!!" thing when someone says "white people".

this happens on here a lot. a POC says something that's meant in the abstract (while still being relevant and valid) about "white people", and in rush the explainers.

it's pretty obvious what this is, in terms of privilege (or should be imo) -- but i want to talk about language here for a minute.

remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in

like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism

Und verspürt ihr auch
in euerm Bauch
den Hitler-Dolch, tief, bis zum Heft –:
Küßt die Faschisten, küßt die Faschisten,
küßt die Faschisten, wo ihr sie trefft –!

Und schießen sie –: du lieber Himmel,
schätzt ihr das Leben so hoch ein?
Das ist ein Pazifisten-Fimmel!
Wer möchte nicht gern Opfer sein?
Nennt sie: die süßen Schnuckerchen,
gebt ihnen Bonbons und Zuckerchen ...

Wenn sie in ihren Sälen hetzen,
sagt: »Ja und Amen – aber gern!
Hier habt ihr mich – schlagt mich in Fetzen!«
Und prügeln sie, so lobt den Herrn.
Denn Prügeln ist doch ihr Geschäft!
Küßt die Faschisten, wo ihr sie trefft.

Ihr müßt sie lieb und nett behandeln,
erschreckt sie nicht – sie sind so zart!
Ihr müßt mit Palmen sie umwandeln,
getreulich ihrer Eigenart!
Pfeift euerm Hunde, wenn er kläfft –:
Küßt die Faschisten, wo ihr sie trefft!

Red Curtain, 1998 vs. 2018. #redraw #redrawChallenge

Images show the dark silhouette of a person with a white blond bob haircut against a red curtain. Their face is completely in the dark. The older one is done with watercolor pencils, the new one digitally.