I’ve recently discovered Cape Town realist MJ Lourens whose work is very dreamy and haunting in a dusky, post-industrial Mulholland sort of way
but also THIS FENCE HOLY SHIT
this motherfucker has painted what I cannot
The hardest thing in all of realism
The chain link fence
Why are chain link fences so hard? I mean, I could never draw one to save my life even in stick figures, but that’s because I’ve never put in the dedication for it. I’m trying to not ask in a dismissive way, I’m genuinely curious
Well for one thing chain link is thick steel wire, which is cylindrical. So right off the bat it’s difficult because it’s machined. Machined things are things like bottles, cans, metal tools, instruments, gun parts, cars, anything made in a factory. They’re mathematically perfect. And that’s hard to draw because it’s so neat and straight.
Imagine trying to paint a straight line. Now imagine painting a thousand of them, exactly the same.
Now imagine painting a thousand of them to look three-dimensional.
But chain-link fence is also a grid. A perfect grid. Evenly spaced.
A perfect grid of three-dimensional cylindrical wire of all the same thickness.
And it’s been twisted together at perfect intervals:
And it’s METALLIC. And it’s in daylight. With shadows falling on each wire and twist a little differently.
Chain-link fence is a nightmare.
Oh jesus i didn’t even think about that.
Thank you for responding! That makes a lot more sense than anything I was coming up with
I’ve recently discovered Cape Town realist MJ Lourens whose work is very dreamy and haunting in a dusky, post-industrial Mulholland sort of way
but also THIS FENCE HOLY SHIT
this motherfucker has painted what I cannot
The hardest thing in all of realism
The chain link fence
Why are chain link fences so hard? I mean, I could never draw one to save my life even in stick figures, but that’s because I’ve never put in the dedication for it. I’m trying to not ask in a dismissive way, I’m genuinely curious
hey, fishblr, I’ve got a 40 gallon breeder aquarium that I want to turn into a planted enclosure for a betta, should I also get some Corys or some Neons?
Also, does anyone have some good guides for planted tanks they can direct me to? There’s a lot of information out on google and I don’t wanna fuck up.
This is incredibly disappointing. We need more people using negative like emoticons on the post, more people liking the comments that point out how disgusting this is, and more people making comments explaining how and why this is a terrible fucking idea. Maybe if enough people point out how wrong this is he’ll reconsider. Dude shoulda stuck to cats.
Okay, I’m not very educated with dogs, but I thought dogs could do the vegan thing, if the food is right to get them the right proteins? I know cats can’t.
Nope. Dogs are not obligate carnivore like cats, but they are still carnivores. It is in no way ethical to force an animal designed to derive their nutrients from meat protein onto a plant only diet.
This describes dogs as opportunistic omnivores in the opening which sounds like they’re suggesting they’re omnivores but if you continue to read on it isn’t what they are saying. Dogs are actually best described as opportunistic carnivores.
Remember Rosetta? That comet-chasing European Space Agency (ESA) probe that deployed (and accidentally bounced) its lander Philae on the surface of Comet 67P? This GIF is made up of images Rosetta beamed back to Earth, which have been freely available online for a while. But it took Twitter user landru79 processing and assembling them into this short, looped clip to reveal the drama they contained.
while the stuff in the foreground is dust/ice on the surface of the comet itself, the background is actually stars. i saw a stabilized video where you can really make it out, and it blew my mind.
here’s the stabilized clip, if anyone’s interested
the biggest lie, i think, the internet perpetuates about D&D is that a skinny little twink of a bard just needs to roll a nat 20 to seduce a dragon
like a dragon…a creature with more wealth and power than any other creature on the planet…a creature who is easily an 11/10 when they deign to take humanoid form…would look at your skinny little 8 STR half-elf Bard whose own father doesn’t even love them and go…yeah I’d like to fuck that
Counterpoint, my good man:
Dragonsfuck
Dragons fuck, clearly, but not just any joe blow schmoe with a big Charisma stat. If I’m Joseph J Dragon sitting on a small hill of gold and jewels I’m not gonna waste my time boning every monsterfucking tiefling twink with a lyre. I would have standards.
Counter-counterpoint: dragons are SUPER horny
Counter-counter-counterpoint: even if dragons are SUPERhorny they’ve got better prospects than spindly little bards!!!! They could be off fucking cloud giants or beholders or planetars!!!! They could be having sex with kraken in the middle of the ocean or fire giants in the mouth of an erupting volcano!
There is a wealth of sexual excess and opportunity available to dragons; so much that they do not need to be slumming it with an adventurer who hasn’t washed his ass in a month and a half and is probably covered in kobold blood by the time they get to the dragon’s lair!
Seriously!!!
I don’t care how many times you cast Charm Monster, the Elder Dragon who has probably slept with more princesses than there are princedoms is not going to bite! When you have bedded the most beautiful mortals on the Prime Material Plane on a pile of gold and jewelry you are not gonna be looking twice at any MOTHERFUCKEr who can’t at least True Polymorph to make things interesting
triple-counterpoint:
you’re right but please shut up you are actively ruining my 10 strength half-elf twink bard’s sexual prospects with this post
OP is right and they should say it
Actually…
As we can see from this most excellent chart, dragons can and will fuck anything. Even humans do not compare. The only species that can match dragons for horny-ness is, in fact, nymphs.
Therefore your twinky-ass lil bard has as good a chance as anyone. Go forth and thot your way through your DM’s carefully planned Big Bad encounter and
fuck the dragon.
I’m not even sure where I stand on this argument but I absolutely need to keep that chart for reference, so
This is beautiful.
@lucifers-perfect-angel, why did I think of dragon prince Luci and dark fae prince Sam or dean doing the dirty and having shapshifting children who can breath fire and ice and become dragons?
And all they want in return is for us to find that that tree.
I imagine by now Beurghes has turned about full traitor and sided with the Nightborne, willing to expose and teach ancient druidic magics to their botanists in return for their own arcane knowledge. In accordance to the trade, Beurghes will call upon his own for what the Grand Magistrix wants destroyed, and with it incapacitate the resistance.
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