I’m so tired of this “your body is perfect” bullshit that people so often spout, because it’s just a lazy excuse for people to make. No, your body is not perfect. Your body could be better. Your diet could be better. You could look better if you wanted. It’s not about comparing yourself to people better than you and feeling bad, it’s about asking yourself if you’re alright with being mediocre. And for people like you, it seems like it is.

If you’re cool with settling, that’s fine. More power to you. But don’t fuck with people’s motivation by saying they’re already perfect. They’re not. Having flaws and fixing them is fundamental to getting better.

maddoxfanx:

another page ink test

also wanted to do a test print to see how it actually looks on paper

my printer sucks ass btw

prostheticknowledge:

AWAKEN AKIRA

Motion Graphics short from Ash Thorp and XiaoLin Zeng is a labour of love tribute to the legendary anime:

Awaken Akira was created by two friends, Ash Thorp and Zaoeyo (XiaoLin Zeng), who wanted to collaborate on a tribute to the iconic anime, Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo.  It’s creation took over a year, as we had to coordinate our time on it with other project commitments.  We hope you find it was well worth the wait and truly enjoy our efforts.

We would like to thank Pilotpriest for the masterful score, as well as Raf Grassetti and The Joelsons for their help on the project.  We would also like to give our most sincere thank you to Otomo-san and all the men and women who helped bring Akira to life.  Akira has and will always be a timeless and continual muse for all of us.

More background on development can be found at the official Awaken Akira website here

TICK PSA

t00tsmcgee:

biologyweeps:

Alright you guys, ‘tis the season again and I’ve already seen bullshit float about so here we go: what to do and what not to do when you happen to have a tick attached to yours truly.

WHAT NOT TO DO:

DON’T cover the tick in anything. Vaseline, nailpolish, whatever. Doesn’t matter. It’ll all suffocate the tick, making it panic vomit germs into your blood stream. That’s the opposite of what you want.

DON’T burn the tick. Same problem, plus the additional option of giving yourself a burn wound in the process. 

DON’T squeeze the body of the tick when you try to remove it. Again this empties the tick’s digestive system into your body. Bad. 

DON’T wait for the tick to detach itself. The longer it stays on you, the higher the chances it’ll transmit anything to you. Plus when ti detaches it may again vomit germs into you. 

WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO

STAY CALM. A tick hanging on you is not a reason to panick. You’re not going to keel over just like that, and if you’re unsure what to do, there are many resources on the internet on how to safely remove a tick, like this one from the CDC (aka the professionals)

USE APPROPRIATE TOOLS. These can be suitable tweezers (the pointy kind, not blunt tipped ones), tick removers (there are cheap ones out there, those you can buy at the vets are totally fine for use on humans, too!). Ideally you can remove the entire tick in one go, however if that doesn’t work and the mouth part breaks off in your skin, that’s not a terribly big deal and you can totally remove it separately after you got the body remove. Again, don’t panic.

KILL THE REMOVED TICK. But not by squeezing it. Flush it down the toilet, submerse it in alcohol in a container etc. Ideally if the tick has bitten you and not your dog, keep the tick around in a sealed container in case you start having symptoms and someone needs to identify the tick species. Also IF you start getting symptoms like the tell tale Lyme disease rash, HIT A DOCTOR RIGHT AWAY AND TELL THEM ABOUT YOUR TICK BITE. Do not wait this out, ticks can transmit a whole host of diseases beside Lyme, so be mindful of that, too! 

Some of those diseases you can actually get vaccinated again, such as tick born encephalitis. Check with the local authorities if you live in a risk area, and if so, get the shots to protect yourself. 

Excellent post! I would like to add that ticks hide in tall grass and bushes mostly. They do not drop down from trees or jump to other people’s heads etc. Ticks aren’t designed to jump, they latch on somewhere on your leg and then crawl upwards in most cases. 

So be careful with bare legs and tall grass!

ndnmccree:

McCree Ultimate Dance (Fan animation) by HappyLMegas

HAVE Y’ALL SEEN THIS YET????

im bringing it to 2018 bitches

diatribe#129048

I hesitate to post anything personal now because I hate how pretentious it feels to post something I’m not even sure I actually feel whatever I think I’m feeling, because I’ve lied to myself and to everyone else one to many times, and tricked everyone one too many times that I’ve wrapped myself up in a web of deceit regarding what emotions I feel.

Now though, I mostly feel empty and unfulfilled. Like nothing motivating me to keep going. Not my future, as bright as that would. Not my family, because surprise, I don’t care about them enough that I would throw away my ‘self’ to preserve their happiness. Not my preservation of self, since boy do I care little about my well-being. 

Games are, sadly, my only really good anchor as of right now, and I find that such a sad and pitiful thing keeping me alive, since no one, and yes that includes close and best friends, is worth enough to make me think twice about just going away.

Hopefully I’ll read this one day, have a chuckle, and be on with my life.

Some days I’m Van Gogh’s Starry Night other days I’m his suicide letter.

souu-h 
(via wnq-writers)

did-you-kno:

Studies show being in love with someone new makes you a less productive person. Source Source 2

Science backs up why I’m single. Go figure.

My OC couple yee 

Working them together in a sketch now

lots of areas to improve in, but here’s a lighting sketch

games-frontier:

Source

I shout into the abyss:

“I WANT TO KILL MYSELF”

then move on and not kill myself because that’s irrational and I have so much to do, so much to see, so what’s wrong with taking the backseat?

lesstalkmoreillustration:

FERHAT EDİZKAN

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