fixursoul:

No matter how much you miss a toxic person, please don’t ever contact them again.. please. Don’t. It’s not worth it, you will be sad again regardless of the many times they told u it wouldn’t be that way anymore. You deserve nothing but happiness and it is not them.. You don’t ever need to feel drained and exhausted over a person

Real love will find u

autistic-danvers:

i’m “obsessed with being gay” bc i’m trying to make up for a lifetime’s worth of self hatred so you can fuck right off!

stimmypaw:

dabsquat:

i mean i know this country is a shithole and when i say “nuke us” i’m not even half joking but when this happened in the usa it was ALL people (americans and non-americans alike) would talk about on the internet for months and we’d never hear the end of it

brazil is a huge fucking country with about 209 MILLIONS, the 4th BIGGEST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD and the fact that most of the people around the world have no idea that a literal military, fascist, racist, misogynistic, lgbt-phobic won the elections yesterday says a lot. 

yeah i get it we are a shit 3rd world country you can’t just pretend this isn’t happening  

SO IF YOU CARE ABOUT ANTIFASCISM YOU BETTER FUCKING LISTEN

brazil is one of the most violent countries for lgbt people. almost a third of brazilian women have been victims of different acts of violence related to gender. democracy in this country only began in 1985, and before that, we lived under a severe military dictatorship that murdered, tortured and kidnapped over at least 500 people, and possibly many more that to this day are not recognized.

and now this country has elected a man who praises all of the issues stated above, using as slogan “brazil above all, god above everyone”, which is hilarious because it sounds just like Deutschland über alles (i bet a penny you know where this comes from) smashed with a slogan from 1964 (you guessed it, the military dictatorship slogan!!) “brazil: love it or leave it”. also, he preys on the fear of a “communist menace” in brazil which honestly would be funny if peopole didn’t take his word for it and literally assaulted people on the streets for wearing red.  

“but this doesn’t sound that bad!!” uhm well let me show you what FUCKING FOX NEWS the right-wing journalism has to say about this radical right wing guy.

while several people, including roger waters, have acknowledged him as a neo-fascist and stated to despise his man and fear for democracy in this country, the kkk endorsed and praised his politics. they literally said this guy sounds like them. 

look here are some of my favorite iconic™ quotes mr hateman neonazi has said throughout the years:

• “I have five children. Four are men, and then in a moment of weakness the fifth came out a girl.”
• “I would prefer my son to die in an accident than show up with a boyfriend.”
• “I won’t fight against it nor discriminate [gay people], but if I see two men kissing each other on the street, I’ll beat them up.”
• “The dictatorship’s mistake was to torture but not kill.”

i could go on but i’m sick of this so here, knock yourselves out if you want more Edgy Fascist Quotes from this guy.

this man made use of fake news to propell his propaganda and was accused of corruption (one of the things he based his entire propaganda on, promising he would end corruption in case he became president) 

does the name steve banon ring a bell to you? because yeah, these guys were pretty close. 

a lot of people who support and praise this man strongly defend that he is not the bad guy everyone paints him to be. the same people who attacked over 70 people who opposed their candidate and favored the other candidate running for president, a teacher. these supporters look at this man’s statements mentioned above and say the left is lying and that the now president elect doesn’t mean it (while some strongly defend and stand by what he said), but anyone with half a wit knows that backtracking and having a sudden change of heart from night to day can’t be a serious or honest change of point of view when you’ve been defending violence for all your life. 

i honestly could go on and on but i’m TIRED, FED UP, and DESPERATE because i know that the opposition i’m part of will soon be swept off the map. this man has declared that the opposition could either leave the country or go to prison. 

if you want to know more, let me provide you with some more sources: 

• meet brazil’s jair bolsonaro – the brazilian trump (video, subtitled, 6 minutes)
• jair bolsonaro: latin america’s greatest menace (the economist)
• brazil’s fearful lgbt community prepares for a ‘proud homophobe’ (the gueardian)
• ‘i’m not about peace and love’: the ‘trump of the tropics’ who won brazilian election first round vows to stick to hardline promises as gangsters boast how they used guns to vote for him (daily mail uk)
• why brazilian women are saying #NotHim (bbc)
• the danger posed by jair bolsonaro (the economist)
• the rightwing extremist jair bolsonaro is in the ascendant as sunday’s poll approaches. he’s not trump – he’s worse (the guardian)

i am a historian. i am witnessing the rise of fascism in this country. there are people who want me dead and i am aware that bringing this to attention will likely make me a target. we will not be silenced. 

do not trust people who try to defend this monster. 

this needs more notes urgently so I’m reblogging it right away, please pay attention to it

trashcanpolitical:

fromacomrade:

here’s the link to the English version of the article from folha de s.paulo: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/10/universities-all-over-brazil-suffer-police-raids-and-electoral-justice-operations.shtml

in case someone else hasn’t linked it yet

thortiddies:

hela: lol what happened to all your little friends valkyrie

val: why didn’t your dad love you

the revengers:

aphobicmarx:

aphobicmarx:

bisexuality means attraction to two or more genders not just two

saying that bisexuality means attraction to cis men and cis women is biphobic and ahistorical

xmafiacatx:

majestras:

lindblut:

euclase:

armellin:

reapergrellsutcliff:

pridetothefall:

wolveswithhats:

eliciaforever:

Why do artists refuse to use references why why why.

It’s not a contest to see who can get by without them. It’s not cheating to look at a thing in order to know what the thing looks like.

You don’t get stronger or better by pretending. Nobody is impressed by the awkward whatever-it-is you just drew. Use references.

I don’t think a lot of people know that it’s not cheating. I recall seeing so many piece of art called out because they referenced a pose, someone recognized it, and then proceeded to shame them for it. There’s this belief, both by creators and the audience, that artists should just be able to translate the ideas from their head to paper, and if they don’t, it’s plagiarism, or not true originality (spoiler alert: there’s no such thing).

I myself didn’t start using references until very recently, because even I was under the impression that it was frowned upon. And that belief has seriously crippled and stalled my ability to improve as an artist.

As a restarting artist, I can confirm. I just never knew. I thought you were just supposed to know how to draw the body correctly and if you didn’t you had no talent.

(( I am going to say this again, loud and clear for everyone:

USING REFERENCES FOR ART IS NOT ‘CHEATING’!!!

If you can draw/paint without references, great!  But if you need to use them, and feel that your art can be bettered by using references, please, use them!  This is one of the biggest tips I can give to artists, is USE REFERENCES! 

Anyone who would dare to attack someone for using references after ‘recognizing a pose’ is a dipshit, who doesn’t know a thing about art.

Do you know who else used references for their art?

Norman Rockwell

Alphonse Mucha

Gustav Klimt

Toulouse Lautrec

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Edgar Degas

Gil Elvgren

Frida Kahlo

Pablo Picasso

Disney Studios

And thousands of others!  So, artists! Go forth, and use references!!! ))

What do you think artists do when they ask someone to stand infron of them for 6 hours and then they draw this person. Do they cheat? Or when they place a still life and then paint it, cheating again? LOL

#literally one of the biggest fears I have #is for some douchefuck to dig out my reference #and point at it and say that I’m not a real artist #I don’t want you to dig out my references to prove that I didn’t make up a realistic picture out of fucking thin air #that’s not how art works #but especially on this site it happens CONSTANTLY #it’s so fucking scary #when people who’ve never touched a pen in their lives think they’re qualified to judge you #and ‘reveal’ how you’ve ‘scammed’ people

Soooo. I made this post originally on my personal blog (I’m eliciaforever), and it was nothing more than a little rant about a specific incident that I deleted after five minutes. But before I could delete it, it took the hell off on me, and now it has all these notes. And LOTS OF AMAZING INPUT.

And I just wanted to add in response to the above tags in particular, that shaming people for using references is something that happens to so many of us SO OFTEN. It doesn’t matter how skilled you are. People think art is supposed to be magical or whatever, and anything else is a crime. The reality of course is that art is a thousand times more deliberate than a lot of people think it is.

So yeah. Good info to pass along. Use references, kids. ❤

Reblogging because I think it’s important especially for young artists to gain the confidence to use references.

Seriously, references are esssential! Use them!

This is so relevant to my struggle.

this is still one of my biggest struggles! I avoid references like the plague because of what people told me and all the shaming I have seen. I know its not a bad thing at all to use a reference but its just brunt into the back of my mind that I failed if I use a reference
Even if I just look at a character so I can draw them I feel like cheating but how the fuck should I know how exactly that character looks without a reference?!