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Getting real tired of these “How to make Frozen 2 good’ posts real fast.
The film has its flaws, a fair few of them, and so does EVERY OTHER FILM IN EXISTENCE. People want to like it, and kids (for whom it was made) love it. Shut the fuck up about Frozen 2 until we’ve seen actual footage, or better yet, until it’s actually out.
You know what’s fun? Walking into a conversation about you/your work/art/etc. and not having anyone know
I find that lacking in motivation makes me feel bad, which lessens my motivation, which makes me feel worse in a beautiful spiral of shame.
1. Work all week, with little to no time to draw
2. Get a few days off to draw
3. Be plagued by tech problems and block
4. Something
5. Profit
I live in an eternal state of “I want to do the thing, but I don’t want to do the thing.”
How is it that when I finally get time to work on commissions and projects my computer decides to start bugging out? At the very least I’ve got a preliminary sketch awaiting approval, though I wanted to get 2/4 done today.
A rant on whatever grinds my gears at the moment:
I’m rather livid at the state of my own job, and of common practices in the American job market, or at least the local job market. Where I work, my department consists of my manager, me working full time, a friend working part time for 30 hrs/wk. one coworker working 10 hrs/wk, and one coworker working 24 hrs/wk. as well as two night stockers. One of the two stockers quit after 1 day of work, leaving us without anyone between 9 PM and 6 AM 4 days a week. My friend is leaving at the end of the month, and my manager is leaving at the end of the week. My store’s HR is so terrible that the last 4 night stockers that were hired for my department quit within a week of being hired, so the likelihood of finding a new manager for the department soon is slim.
To avoid hiring a manager I am being made the interim manager of the department, despite saying repeatedly that I DO NOT WANT THE POSITION. Until they find a new manager I will be doing my own job, and the manager’s for my current pay of $8.90/hr and that is unlikely to change for some time. Because the department is so heavily understaffed, and will be made moreso by the end of the year, I can’t quit without having the action come off as a major ‘fuck you’ to the company and potentially losing them as a reference despite having worked there for 6.5 years.
I need a new job. Badly. Unfortunately I’m overqualified for most entry level positions, being a college graduate with a Bachelor’s in English, being conversational in Spanish and knowledgeable in French, German and Japanese with 6.5 years of experience in retail and customer service. I’m also underqualified for most positions above what I have now, as I haven’t been working in those fields for years, and don’t have connections to just put me into a job.
Question from here
1. Selection of television programs I don’t care for: Walking Dead, I tried to get into it and watched the first few episodes but the characters were so dull and dry, their choices so stupid and the pacing so unbearably slow that I couldn’t stand any more than what I watched. Sherlock, I don’t get the hype behind it and Bandersnatch Cumberbun’s face just looks weird to me. Lost, I just never got into it and from what I’ve heard the whole series just gets so muddled towards the end just to end horribly.
4. A hobby I don’t get: Sports, i guess. I’ve never been ‘sporty’ and don’t much get the draw. Also sports fanatics confound and annoy me, especially Husker fans.
10. A sport I don’t like: Stemming from my general dislike of sports, i loathe American Football with a passion.
Questions from here
I know, I want him to be Timmy so bad but if not oh well.
As with most movies people need to settle down about the choices in the movie until after they’ve already seen it. I’ve already seen complaints that Raptors couldn’t be trained, and that the hybrid-dino idea is dumb, but both are rather moot points.
Raptors in Jurassic Park are social creatures with avian behavioral aspects. It’s well within reason that a pack of what we can assume to be females (all raptors in the trailer had the coloration and lack of plumage indicative of females in the last movie) could imprint upon a person and be trained. Barring that, it could be that a clutch could have been manipulated into being less hostile as genetic engineering and modification have always been a major part of the series.
As for the hybrid dino, that fits with the Jurassic Park ideals as well. The original movie explored the hubris of man, and of science. It was about doing something because you could, but not considering whether or not you should. This is that in a nut shell, and it’s something that we see in the real world with species with which we haven’t completely cracked the genome.
People need to settle until they’ve seen it. The ideas are solid, and the presentation is beautiful. The only complaint I have after seeing the trailer is that the park is open to the public after the events of the first film, but after 22 years (and without the events of the actual book) it’s not surprising that a company would want to capitalize on all the work done, especially when dinosaurs have been seen and acknowledged by the wider world. It’s an amusement park now, but it’s also a natural preserve.
This is going to be the first entry in the series since Michael Crichton died, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be bad. I’m as big a Crichton and Jurassic Park fanboy as anyone, and I’ll say now what I often say about movies. Shut up and hold judgement until you’ve seen it. Until then, enjoy the trailers and maybe even get hyped.
askknightstar replied to your post:I don’t think people realize how hyped I am for…
I do! Cause I am too. As is my best friend.
I don’t think you are, not quite anyway. I adore the movies, even 3 albeit to a lesser extent. I read the original novels while everyone else was first reading Harry Potter. One of the first games I ever owned was Jurassic Park for the SNES, and I kept my Lost World sheets for close to a decade. I don’t just love dinosaurs, for a time I lived dinosaurs and would beat my teachers at trivia, including one of the curators of the city zoo.
I AM HYPEDfleur is dinosaur confirmed.
time to draw pony head on brontosaurus
Shame that the brontosaurus is not a real dinosaur, but a fake dinosaur made from a combination of Apatosaurus and Camarasaurus fossils.
askknightstar replied to your post:I don’t think people realize how hyped I am for…
I do! Cause I am too. As is my best friend.
I don’t think you are, not quite anyway. I adore the movies, even 3 albeit to a lesser extent. I read the original novels while everyone else was first reading Harry Potter. One of the first games I ever owned was Jurassic Park for the SNES, and I kept my Lost World sheets for close to a decade. I don’t just love dinosaurs, for a time I lived dinosaurs and would beat my teachers at trivia, including one of the curators of the city zoo.
I AM HYPED
I don’t think people realize how hyped I am for Jurassic World right now.
I hadn’t considered that, but it’s somewhat fitting. It’s as I’ve said before, there is no shame in taking pride in one’s country’s successes but there is great shame in being blind to its faults.
Growing up in the U.S. I was told and taught every day that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I was brought up believing that the past was a dark and terrible place, but that we as a country had moved on from those times. I was taught that if you worked hard, no matter who you were and did your best to avoid, or apologize for your mistakes then you could and would find success.
Grown up I can’t go a day without being disappointed in my country. Every day is another example of how imbalanced the economy is, and how close-minded and selfish many Americans are. Every day shows just how broken and defunct our political system has become. Every day is a new lesson in how the darkness of the past is every bit as prevalent now as it has been for centuries.
Today, with Ferguson is an even more poignant example of what the United States is, whether that be what it has become or what it may always have been. It sickens me, it frightens me, and it shows just how wrong it is to tell the young that their country has no flaws.
I’m going to have to continue the hiatus on all blogs, and commissions through the next few days at least. Please bear with me, this is the busiest time of year for me.
ask-surgeon-rarity replied to your post:We need a zombie-esque spoof movie that replaces…
#stonedthoughts
Try #Iworkretailandthisistheworsttimeoftheyearzombieswouldbepreferablethoughts
in other news, are you liking ORAS so far
Very much so. I just cleared the League and am just starting the Delta episode.
ask-surgeon-rarity replied to your post:We need a zombie-esque spoof movie that replaces…
#stonedthoughts
Try #Iworkretailandthisistheworsttimeoftheyearzombieswouldbepreferablethoughts
We need a zombie-esque spoof movie that replaces the living dead with Black Friday shoppers.
Just imagine James Potter convincing the other Marauders to form a Beatles cover band to help him woo Lily.
something I’ve been wondering for a while…
how many of you get emotionally attached to your pokemon? am i the only one who considers them to be pets, or children?
if you could help me do a little survey, reblog this post if you get emotionally attached to your pokemon. (no likes please)
All semblances of mercy are lost the instant someone knocks out one of my babies.
The winner of the first Bits for Bovines giveaway is rpperfav, who will need to contact me in the next 12 hours. If no contact is made, then a new winner will be chosen.
It’s not even the 21st yet (for me, 11:14 PM) and I have ORAS downloading!
Psst. ORAS is available on the e-shop in 6 hours.
You know you’re trash when your dog wants nothing to do with you.
It’s random bouts of depression that make me regret some of the decisions I’ve made in life, particularly towards certain people that deserve better.
One day I need to make an unpopular opinion day or something, or just make a post with some of them.
I know they are unpopular for a reason, but I feel like some people here have misjudged me on certain aspects. That and I am sometimes such a PR machine that I censor myself in front of certain things that makes me tick, like I start writting a huge rant and by the end I’m just like ‘eh fuck it, who cares’
It wouldn’t be anything too controversial really, or at least they shouldn’t be, but yeah…. HM!
Did someone say unpopular opinion day? I’m all over that.
Wait… is it true that there’s an American flag in every classroom in America?
what the fuck? all we Brits have to do is shove a scone up our arse
ugh you fucking brits have everything
The thing is, people would be worried if another country, Like russia or germany, pledged allegiance to their country every day.
“This project is not the kind of thing you can just do the night before. You’re going to need all semester to get a good grade.”
can’t wait to not get kissed again this new years
When you think about it, isn’t refusing a patient necessary treatment because their insurance won’t cover them due to a preexisting condition, or whatever other excuse they can muster, a violation of the Hippocratic Oath?
Plans on drawing stuff all day
Gets around to drawing stuff at 7:30 PM
Tablet isn’t working
Loses all motivation to draw
Yay.
There was a bit of an uproar about there not being female assassins in Assassin’s Creed Unity, especially with the most well-known actual assassin of the time and place being a woman.
After less than 4 hours playing, guess who the leader of the Assassin’s Order is? A council of 4 that includes a black man, and a woman during a time marked by imperialism and patriarchy.
“While we’re out I need you to do this, this, that, this, this, and clean these.”
“I did all of that yesterday, when you asked me. They’re still clean.”
“DON’T YOU LIE TO ME, THEY’RE FILTHY!”
“They’re clean, just look at them. Shoot, they’re cleaner than most of the stuff you’ve ‘cleaned’ in the past few months.”
“BUT YOU’RE A TEENAGE BOY! YOU’RE FILTHY AND YOU STINK, SO IT HAS TO BE CLEANED AGAIN!”
“One, I’m 22. Two, I just showered. Three, there’s a limit to how clean something can be, and how clean it should be kept. Yes, my living space is dusty and not sparkling, but strangely enough I’m the one who almost never gets sick. Having me obsessively clean every room I come in contact with because you think I’m unclean by merit of my gender and age will more likely make me sick than it will keep me healthy. You’re not the one using the facilities, so let me keep them clean as I see fit.”OH GOD I KNOW THIS FEEL, except im 17, so i guess that makes it a bit different
It’s a case of parental hypocrisy at its best, and not even the worst I’ve had. For instance, I work full time and make a decent amount of money on my own, yet I am chastised and ridiculed any time I make a purchase for myself, and use it. I bought my PS4 (and every system/game/etc. I have) on my own, with my own money that I had worked for, while never going into debt and always having enough in the bank to get by for a while. I use my purchases and enjoy them afterwards. That never stops my mother (dad’s usually on my side) from calling me fiscally irresponsible, if not incompetent and stupid for wasting money on such things, despite telling me explicitly that I would have to get it on my own after being denied such things for Christmas/birthdays/etc.
Meanwhile, we have several “antique” cabinets, appliances, and other odds and ends taking up a fair amount of the garage because my mother found them on Craigslist, spent scores, if not hundreds, of dollars on each one, and brought them home to be refurbished and resold. They have sat out in the garage for years, untouched. As has her ‘craft table’, for the most part, which is generally in complete disarray.
I fully acknowledge that all parents are entitled to a little hypocrisy, but really?
“While we’re out I need you to do this, this, that, this, this, and clean these.”
“I did all of that yesterday, when you asked me. They’re still clean.”
“DON’T YOU LIE TO ME, THEY’RE FILTHY!”
“They’re clean, just look at them. Shoot, they’re cleaner than most of the stuff you’ve ‘cleaned’ in the past few months.”
“BUT YOU’RE A TEENAGE BOY! YOU’RE FILTHY AND YOU STINK, SO IT HAS TO BE CLEANED AGAIN!”
“One, I’m 22. Two, I just showered. Three, there’s a limit to how clean something can be, and how clean it should be kept. Yes, my living space is dusty and not sparkling, but strangely enough I’m the one who almost never gets sick. Having me obsessively clean every room I come in contact with because you think I’m unclean by merit of my gender and age will more likely make me sick than it will keep me healthy. You’re not the one using the facilities, so let me keep them clean as I see fit.”
Seeing as the cowening commissions still have a slot open, methinks on the next set the commissions will just be anthro with cowening being an option.
not surprised because apparently we are to blame for everything
OH MY FREAKING GOD.
#MILLENIALS AREN’T THE ONES KILLIN EACH OTHER AT BLACK FRIDAY#WE CAN’T EVEN AFFORD BLACK FRIDAY
Millennials are the ones working Black Friday, because we don’t have enough seniority (or jobs that ain’t retail, enough hours at those jobs, enough income period, ect) to call off!!
That headline is literally giving me an out of body experience.
I work all day before, and all day of Thanksgiving because the baby boomers that run the company decided it would be a good idea. I work all day almost every holiday, not because I want to but because others want me to, and I need the money and hours.
Whoever wrote that headline, piss off.
One commission down.
Four commissions to go.
One slot still open.
6 days until the giveaway winner is chosen.
Like I said, it’s a debate I’m having. In bringing it up I was reminded of stallions to bulls, and that would be a little odd without horns.
I’m debating including racial differences for cow-ponies, remnants of their pony type. I’m thinking that only those who were unicorns would keep horns, while former pegasi would have tiny, mostly useless wings. Or I could have all cow-ponies turn out like Rarity.
As much as the likes on that commission sheet/giveaway post are appreciated, I feel compelled to point out that entry in the giveaway is only through reblogging it, not liking it.
For those who want their character cowed right away, there are still 2 slots open, and multiple characters are allowed per slot so long as they are in one picture.
