The Skellingcorner

[fandonetrash]

[stunningpicture]

Who never thought about this?

[high-hannah]

This bothers me

[reverseracist]

it’s a gas?

[killbenedictcumberbatch]

fire cannot have a shadow because it is a source of light jesus christ i hate this website

[runningrepubmain]

This is the same website that believed you could have unlimited chocolate if you cut it the right way.

[anarchyinblack]

These people are our future

[areodesy]

Okay so I really really want to know how you trumpet fellating douchefucks managed to spring fully formed into the world, knowing every single little thing that has ever existed ever?

Because shit, that would be some groundbreaking scientific and theological wetdream.

OP is basically going “wow, this is a cool thing. Who else never really considered why this cool science thing does this cool science thing” and eventually some assholes turn up and go; ” i hate this website”, to “THESE people are our future”?

What the frickity frick you fun sucking vampiric pisslords.

Shit son, you are literally the perfect example of why kids go “science is hard and boring”. Because instead of going “Heck yeah! This weird thing happens because gases! Because flames! Because light! Because the world is weird and fun and dude if you think this thing this is cool check out this and this and this!” 

Because instead of going “Yeah, not everyone knows as much as science about me. Everyone has to learn things somewhere; come on friend have I got so much to show you.”

You went; “I’m self absorbed as heckle and I think that everyone MUST  know or they’re just silly ignorant peasants aha lol im smart. Screw this website and the kids on it.”

I could go on all day, but you know what friend? We all have to start somewhere, because education in a single county district can be as unequal and bollocked up as heck, let alone between countries, between ages, between classes, between days and I have so much to show you.

Let’s start here;

Good luck.

[ultralaser]

i’ve never seen this version yelling at the science hipsters before, good addition

[wilwheaton]

Fuck gatekeepers.

[fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment]

Day 14: Food

[worldbuildingjune]

Gonna crunch! Gonna munch! Its the day to talk about what the folks in your world eat! After Flora and Fauna you may have an idea about local delicacies made with a combination of both.

But in addition to what is eaten, today is also a chance to dig into where this food comes from, where the farms are located and how the food gets from the farm to the table.

Along with nutrition, food also can be the source for many cultural and religious uses. Maybe a shared mug of alcohol can be a symbol of kinship. Maybe a certain food is made during certain holidays.

Well time to get cookin’ and time to GET BUILDING!

[thatsthat24]

[alexreadsboooks]

Day 13 of #grimdragon is If you liked this you might like [blank]
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A poetry rec for everyone who liked the princess saves herself in this one: Wishing for Birds by Elisabeth Hewer might be another poetry collection for you. It’s one of my favourite collections out there and it’s beautiful and powerful.
I highly recommend it!
Also I posted that blog post I talked about earlier. The one about LGBTAIQ parents in books. Link is in my bio if you want to read it!
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#bookstagram #bookish #booklover #bookworm #booklr #books #bibliophile #junebookchallenge #bookstagrammer #booklove #booksofinstagram #instabook #read #reading #reader #buch #bücher #lesen #bookstagramfeature  #bookphotography #leser #igbooks #bookishallure #poetry

[fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment]

Character Creation/Design Talks (01)

[fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment]

Featured Artist:

 curiocosm

Hey there! Would you mind talking a little about your process for creating creatures and characters? Where do you get your inspiration from? -Evvy

It might seem a little obvious from my work, but my two main categories for inspiration are the world I currently live in a experience, mostly focusing on nature elements; and the world before my existence: history, mythology and paleontology. (I collect a lot of things and have a lotta books…)

(This was for a specific project but when I had to choose a career for her to pursue I was able to incorporate my interest in prehistoric life and the ocean)

I think the biggest way to find inspiration hinges on one word: observation. Whether that’s watching animals to figure out how they function; artists, architects and other craftspeople to finagle how they made their work or discovering the rhythms of stories and myths.

(These characters are all based off United States urban legends and cryptozoology)

Its about learning, absorbing, processing and then translating. (and a lot of trial and error!)

And I always keep in mind the role of my creation: what world/setting do they exist in, how is that apparent in their design? Do they have a backstory? Who or what are they interacting with? These and similar questions can immensely help in making them believable entities that engage the audience.

(Lucian the Victorian English newt is a good example of this)

I’ve also noticed that two of the crucial visual elements in any creature and character design are repeating shapes and color palette. Just keeping those in mind can help make design decisions and lead to stronger designs. I tend towards triangles and diamonds with rounded points as well as organic rounded blob/oval shapes. It can often help me to get out as many ideas at once as possible and then go from there.

(Here are my top 20 costume designs for a future project, from here I can mix and match until I get a memorable end product)

And after all that: spark, idea, design, I want to become familiar and comfortable with the character/creature from different angles, and in different moods. The perimeters of what they act like and look like as well as their reactions to events can lead to the development of other characters/creatures and further world-development.

Personally I usually turn to images/visuals for the majority of my inspiration so I utilize Tumblr, Pinterest, field guide books, picture books and my camera and I recommend that to others!

[alexreadsboooks]

Top Ten Tuesday: Books With LGBTAIQ* Parents

Top Ten Tuesday: Books With LGBTAIQ* Parents

Hey everyone! This weeks topic for Top Ten Tuesday is “Father’s Day Freebie”. Top Ten Tuesday is a blogging meme created and  hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Okay so I thought about this for a long time, and while I had some easy lists, I also still wanted to make it queer for Pride Month. Which is where I ran into problems. As it turns out, LGBTAIQ* people are finally barely allowed to…

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[alexreadsboooks]

Day 13 of #MaddieWaliJune is Classic/s
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I haven’t posted a picture of The Three Musketeers in a while so here we go!
This was such a great and fun read, it’s definitely a favourite!
I’ve spent most of my day so far writing my Top Ten Tuesday post. Turns out I can’t come up with ten books with LGBTAIQ* parents on my own… I just need to insert graphics now and then it’s finally done…
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#bookstagram #bookish #booklover #bookworm #booklr #books #bibliophile #junebookchallenge #bookstagrammer #booklove #booksofinstagram #instabook #read #reading #reader #buch #bücher #lesen #bookstagramfeature  #bookphotography #leser #igbooks #bookishallure #alexandredumas #thethreemusketeers #themusketeersbbc

[fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment]

Day 13: Flora

[worldbuildingjune]

Hello hello! Today’s prompt is to answer what sorts of plants inhabit your world! More specifically there may be importance about answering what sorts of edible plants are used most often in your world, what are the most important medicinal plants, and also if there are any which are good for construction such as turning into lumber or just in general providing a good material to create shelter with.

Flora and Fauna definitely intermingle as a food source, and home for them. There’s even an importance to what sorts of plants provide ample cover for hunting/hiding.

Grow! And GET BUILDING!

[tetw]

tetw.org

10 Amazing Essays about Growing Up

Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes by David Foster Wallace - I grew up inside vectors, lines and lines athwart lines, grids - and, on the scale of horizons, broad curving lines of geographic force

The American Male at Age Ten by Susan Orlean - If Colin Duffy and I were to get married, we would sleep in our clothes and eat pizza and candy for all of our meals. We wouldn’t have sex, but we would have crushes on each other…

Off Diamond Head by William Finnegan - To be thirteen, with a surfboard, in Hawaii

A Few Words about Breasts by Nora Ephron - I was boyish. I wanted desperately not to be that way, not to be a mixture of both things, but instead just one, a girl. As soft and as pink as a nursery. And nothing would do that for me, I felt, but breasts

The Comfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen - Growing up with Snoopy

Difficult Girl by Lena Dunham - Growing up, with help

Us and Them by David Sedaris - Because they had no TV, the Tomkeys were forced to talk during dinner. They had no idea how puny their lives were, and so they were not ashamed that a camera would have found them uninteresting…

Surviving High School by Tom Junod - A story about two friends – why one made it through and one did not, and how you can help your children survive “the best years of their lives

Be Cool or Be Cast Out by Michael Chabon - When I was twelve or thirteen I went to the T-shirt counter at McCrory’s dime store, in the Columbia Mall, and had them print me up a custom shirt, using heat-transfer letters and a steam press…

My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator by Harrison Scott Key - The Pearl River is full of trash, Volkswagen-sized catfish, and a heckuva lot of gators. Swimming in it? That was Pop’s idea

[writingwithcolor]

[latinxjunkrat]

• Latino is not a race.
  
• Mestizo is a race and probably what you meant to say.
• Latinos are majority mestizos, but not all Latinos are mestizos.
• In Latin America there is black / chinese / native / white / turkish people… and they’re all latinos.
• Racism might not be actually the same in LatinAmerica as is in USA, but antiblackness is still prevalent, so is discrimination towards native / Romani / Asian / Jewish people, mestizos and so on.
• Colorism is real, and white and white-passing people have privilege over dark-skinned people.
• Xenophobia is real, and it won’t be hard to heard of the discriminations Bolivians face in Argentina, or Peruvians in Chile (these cases also affected be racism).
• White people have white privilege even in places where they’re a minority.

[fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment]

Day 12: Fauna

[worldbuildingjune]

Hello builders! Today’s the day that we build on the fauna that inhabit your world. The creatures who walk, swim, and fly in your world are integral to how it works. These are food sources for folks who inhabit your world, or play an important role ecologically, and definitely count the creatures that people in your world have tamed and domesticated!

For many worlds the Fauna category could take many months to cover, so if you need to, just give a basic cross section of your creatures, or set up the various niches that need to be filled like herding animals and major predators.

A fan of WBJ is also looking into starting a life spawning August I hear, so keep your eyes out for that!

now GET BUILDING!