Listen are you even an art student if you don't have a grand plan to Help the World with the Power of Design?

It wasn't a thesis but I did a project on ~The Power of Comics to Educate~ and proposed a full set of comics as textbooks. Which I did not do enough googling to learn already existed.

Drawing of an albino deer with a wrist and hand for antlers. The hands are giving the middle finger. The deer has a bow around each hand-antler and also around its neck. The background is a checkered arch of pink and red

Somewhat failed experiment in my sketchbook of a Handtlers

Puppy ears robot guy

Drawing of an albino deer with a wrist and hand for antlers. The hands are giving the middle finger. The deer has a bow around each hand-antler and also around its neck. The background is a checkered arch of pink and red

Somewhat failed experiment in my sketchbook of a Handtlers

I think this is the first time I have ever let out my rare really weird laugh (it's an escalating Ooh-hoo-hoo-HOOOOOOO) while reading something. This article is fantastic

"I'll save my money for experiences!" I say, as if experiences these days aren't mostly structured around taking instagram photos or shopping at booths that sourced a bunch of little trinkets from Aliexpress

God why is that so true 😭

Listen, don't be like me. I used to have a cheap walmart microwave for 10 years, so I decided to pay more so I could have the cutest colorful microwave (a green Haden) I could find. This piece of shit burns every bag of microwave popcorn regardless of setting. I LOVE microwave popcorn 😔

Oh my god. I just realized I don't use the button for anything but fidgeting. (And i fidget with both index and thumb)

I love to undo centuries of progress with my joke ideas lol 🥰

This is probably super clever but I don't know what that is and I'm very confused after trying to skim the Wikipedia article

Raise the birthrate by implementing this as a strategy to get people who think they're the first to come up with the idea to never do taxes by constantly having babies and getting to skip those years

Thank you!!!

I had to google that.... a movie quote and we aren't using it to imply or signify something else? it's basically hieroglyphics

I don't know if this is a "tip" persay but I've gone a handful of times without internet for a few months and I'd always download a ton of podcasts and library audiobooks every time I got back to internet access. Also got really into renting library dvds of shows. Good luck!!!

Pen drawings in a planner of 3 different versions of a stapler headed creature with 2 big front teeth and staples around them

A stapler is like a sort of creature

LMAO

I should've figured everyone already knew about them 😅 They were a revelation for me when my job had us all get one!

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

UGH that sucks!

Folding Photo studio kit box

Instagram photo feom user ratpocalypse (which is me) of 3 pottery pieces featuring a planter woman covered with eyes, a small snake mug, and a little black and white abstract character

It definitely makes for blander photos than natural lighting but they sell a ton of variations on these photoboxes for $30-40ish that I use for my job and also photograph my personal work with sometimes

I'm sorry I can't be there to empty the lint for you guys!!!!

It's great tech but it's so much heavier than the Switch that it really aggravates my wrists. I can barely play it holding it up, I have to have it tilted on something at all times. I don't see this drawback mentioned ever unfortunately.

I feel the opposite way- I pity everyone denying themselves the sensory pleasure of getting to empty the lint trap. Getting to peel the fibers and hairs away from the mesh. It’s like the only fun part of laundry

And for reference, emotional triggers that made me cry hysterically in mid movies-
-Shot 1 of Wall-E seeing the planet looking fucked up set me off crying the full runtime.
-The pet toad dying in Cheaper by the Dozen (played for laughs)
-Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland- the Bandersnatch got hurt

I've come to a point where I feel a story has made me cry if it's at the end of the book or arc, and especially if I'm crying from happiness or something more complex than just a simple death, and they did it slowly over time to make that meaningful, then it earned it.

Still made me cry because it pulled an "easy" trigger for me, like animal death. And I began to grow frustrated when stories pull "easy" triggers on me, especially early, especially when I don't feel like the story quality has earned pulling the easy trigger.

Okay I actually have strong feelings on this- I'm an easy crier. Like before I got on anti-depressants I'd never seen a movie that DIDN'T make me cry of any genre. And that's actually frustrating, because people often use "I cried" as a measure of quality. I'd often actively dislike a movie and it

you look so cute 🤩