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The great unfuckening
I’ve had a lifetime of perma-fucked habitat. It only got worse when I fell in love w/ and moved in with someone with an equally fucked habitat.
It is time for things to change! My entire house needs some level of unfucking, but here’s what I’ve done recently:
The “dining room” before:
Clearly not being used for actual meals - we have been eating in the living room (our one good room) off of tv trays. Not ok.
and after several 20/10s:
I didn’t get the floor in this picture, but it is CLEAN. The TV is gone, the trash/recycle have been moved under the sink, and I am heading out to buy proper chairs this afternoon.
Big storage cupboard before:
This cupboard has stuff that has never moved since it was first shoved in there at move-in, two years ago. I also desperatly needed to apply the UfYH laundry maxim to my dry dishes - step three is PUT THEM AWAY.
After:
Not perfect, but much better! I can find my teas, paper and plastic bags (which were actually part of the dining room mess) are stored for easy re-use, my partner’s power tools are accessable without being at risk of falling onto my head, and my cookbooks live somewhere I can actually use them. Hooray!
Thanks for the lessons and motivation, Team Unfuck Your Habitat!
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Egyptians Vote in Free Presidential Election
View more photos of Egypt’s election by searching for the hashtag #egyelections.
For the first time in generations, Egyptians lined up Wednesday to cast their votes in a free Presidential election. Voters are choosing from a slate of 13 candidates, with the voting extending through tomorrow.
(via knitandstuff)
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I understand the point they were trying to make here… too bad it’s reinforcing the idea that women are never doctors or bosses. FAIL.
(Source: rhrealitycheck, via knitandstuff)
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Unfuck Your Habitat: Let's talk about habits for a minute
I’m still in the process of “unfucking,” but I’m trying to get in good habits NOW.
SO MANY PEOPLE have done serious major unfucking lately, and IT’S AWESOME. I couldn’t be prouder. But once that initial high wears off, you need to focus on maintenance, or you’re going to end up right back where you started. I have a short list of things that, if you can make them habits, will…
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“It’s called being part of a society. Not everything goes your way. I don’t let my kids eat ice cream every night. They wish I did, but even they know: that doesn’t make me the Hitler of ice creamAmen to that.
(Source: igotkittypryde, via maggieblueberry)
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Lady Nilstria submitted:
I haven’t done one of these in awhile! :D
Let’s charge right in then. The thing that immediately struck me, other than the ridiculous jaw, is her hip. It’s like the person thinks the ball and socket joint of the pelvis is located on the bottom, instead of the side. Hips don’t work that way. Learn the human skeleton before you try to pose it!
Obviously, her spine is broken, because not only is her torso rotated, it’s also tilted upwards. I’m also not sure what fantastical tendons are attaching her left arm to her rib cage either, but hey, that’s just me. The clavicle isn’t that enormously flexible.
This artist must not know how the hinge joint of the jaw works, and that just because it’s the bottom jaw, doesn’t mean it’s actually any longer than the top one. She has a serious overbite. Both jaws are the same length. The top jaw never moves, while the bottom jaw operates on a hinge. The curve of the bottom jaw works the same as a door. It never gets any farther or closer to the hinge.
All in all, a travesty of anatomy wrought by the desire for a B&B pose and to be scary. I guess the human skeleton isn’t capable of being scary on its own.
You will notice I put her feet on a different plane of perspective. (That is honestly because I’m not that good at it. I’m still learning this whole grid thing.)
This looks similar to positions I’ve seen Venom and Carnage in in the past and I really like it. :) I think Marvel symbiote logic does allow impossible jaws like that, though I know people who think it shouldn’t because it makes no sense that the mouth can be larger than where the host’s head should be.
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Unfuck Your Habitat: Unfuck Your Habitat Fundamentals
Now that it is summer, I am officially unfucking my habitat. As always, the internet has the answers I need.
- 20 minutes is not a long time. Marathon cleaning sessions, while satisfying, are exhausting and make you never want to clean ever again. 20 minutes at a time, once or a few times a day, is a sustainable way of keeping your habitat unfucked.
- PUT IT AWAY. Probably 75% of our mess is made up of…
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http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/27/473096/romney-borrow-money-parents/
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Because all dads are presidents of a multinational automotive corporation.
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Anyway, enough porn. Back to GENDER ISSUES.
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Come hither and bulge with Deadpool
mdevile submitted:
What can I say, you’ve been inspiring!
Deadpool in the tradition of Strong Female Characters everywhere is totally ready for action (if yannow what i mean)
When I was a kid, I always wanted to grow up and inspire people. This might not be the way I expected, but it’s still awesome. xD
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Come hither and bulge with Deadpool
mdevile submitted:
What can I say, you’ve been inspiring!
Deadpool in the tradition of Strong Female Characters everywhere is totally ready for action (if yannow what i mean)
When I was a kid, I always wanted to grow up and inspire people. This might not be the way I expected, but it’s still awesome. xD
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Escher Girls: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH It turns out I NEVER put up the scans I made of...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH It turns out I NEVER put up the scans I made of Christopher Hart’s “how to draw” books! I thought I did! Time to correct this. >:\
Let’s start with him teaching us how to turn heroes into villains.
I love how the male hero gets more clothed as he turns evil. In fact, he…
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You punch like a girl, Masochist.
Seriously, that kind of posing on a punch is pretty much only drawn on girls. You’ll likely never see a punch done this way on a man. No, a man puts his back into a punch. There’s follow-through. This girl here, she has a weak punch because her back’s going the opposite direction, and her waist is swiveled in such a way as we get to see both her butt cheeks and both her boobs at the same time. There’s also the fact that the artist chose to draw the moment the punch connects, rather than the follow-through of the punch, which makes it look like a tap on the chin rather than the impact it should be. And this is the big no-no in all “How to draw comics” books when drawing a fight scene: if you want your punch to look like it actually caused damage, draw the follow-through.
I’m going to concentrate on the full body posing here. See the first small image? This is the current line of action for Masochist. The punch is a secondary action to the body posing. Here’s the first hint of weakness. If you look at the original, the artist drew speed lines from Masochist, trying to tell us that Masochist is running really really fast to hit good ol’ Supes. In the second one, you’ve got Superman’s line of action added in, and as you can see, the speed doesn’t work because it’s not flowing in the same direction as Maso’s line of action. Weak!
Third drawing shows what the line of action SHOULD be on her. And how it impacts with Superman’s own line of action. This is a strong action! The full force of the body’s in there. So before I actually roughed out the drawing, I got up and mimicked a hard punch to the face, took note of my body, spine, back, hips. I took in account the fact that she was running first, so as much as we twist at the waist when punching in a standing pose, when running, the whole body turns with the punch. Then I slapped down really rough lines to get my motion in.
In order to understand this motion better, you really need to think of what’s happening to this character before the punch actually happens. There’s a wind up, an antic (short for anticipation) of the movement: that line of action is curved back, and whips forward with the punch! There’s a moment of pulling back her fist as far as it will go to be able to bring it forward to cause the most damage possible. Since she’s running, think of her RIGHT leg hitting the ground, the whole body twists as the LEFT leg pushes off the ground and that whole velocity carries enough kinetic force as to make Superman’s head snap back. (Art fixed! Thanks Anonymous!)
But instead we get a boobs and butt swivel-waist and a tap on the chin of our hero. And speed lines that make it look as if she was zipping forward, frozen in that pose. Yeah.
I love this breakdown because one of the knee-jerk defenses is “so, she’s punching” but the choice of HOW she’s punching is up to the artist and as you so brilliantly showed, it’s not even a really effective or realistic way to be following through on a punch either. That’s part of the problem of a lot of the “action” poses in my blog, the women may be punching or attacking, but their motions are really limited and constrained, generally to show more sexiness, or to have them posing, and it ends up with them not looking particularly aggressive. (In that example, Artemis’ arms are in FULL extension which means she has no more leverage to be hitting Diana with and her sword isn’t even close to hitting her, and that’s not even getting into Diana’s posture.)
In the original picture, you can tell she’s punching, but the way her body is, it looks like she’s already as far extended as she can get and so the punch doesn’t look that hard except that Superman’s reacting to it, however your punch looks WAY more powerful and also adds so much more dynamic to scene. It’s not “Masochist is punching Superman”, it’s “WOW MASOCHIST JUST PUNCHED SUPERMAN!”
Going into what it would look like in a wind up is a great idea too. I don’t draw that much, but I do write a lot, and when I do an action scene, I always act it out in the mirror so my descriptions are logical, and doing this for art seems very sensible too. :)
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Mochimochi Land knitted animation!
