So many things happen that just seem unexplainable.

One thing, I don’t get why it happened—I had a little pup, she was a Boston terrier named Anika. Not even a year old yet. Just a little baby. We were playing with her, she was jumping up and down—excited as ever. Then she stopped. She started throwing up. With it, blood and everything under the sun. She collapsed. I can vividly remember it. Only happened maybe 2 years ago. She was there and then she suddenly wasn’t. I still think about it a lot and I don’t think it will ever leave.

Never understood why. One of the worst parts was seeing my dad cry for the first time and seeing how sad the other dog, who’d treated her like her own puppy, behaved afterwards.

<:HONK:550452055140204554> Looking into human genetics and evolutionary preference, I’ve learned that I’ve lost the gene pool raffle.

Hell yeah.

The neotenous face. I don’t have it. It’s preferable to have a smaller nose, larger eyes, smaller chin, and larger lips. I’m not short either.

As far as I’ve read, on an evolutionary standpoint, I have not won.

“Neoteny in humans is the retention of juvenile features well into adulthood.”

It’s where a person might look more young. Having larger eyes and a smaller nose is a huge factor, but the face itself should be shaped so that the chin is not so prominent

I wish I had it <:sam:550157072306667531>

I’ve always looked older

Maybe, but I think looking younger helps when you reach an age where you’re actually old

¿Donde, por favor?

It’s so weird to be on vacation with family, and I’m seeing how much of a distance I have between them all. I love them, but I’m realizing that I’m in this weird middle. Everyone is either ten years older than me or ten years younger. I turned 16 today. Everyone else is 26+ or 6 and under.

I don’t share their humor, I don’t understand their jokes, and I just don’t share the same interests. It hurts, I want to relate and go out and have a good time—but I go out there and I just can’t get in touch. I just want to go inside and enjoy myself online. I don’t want to push them away but I keep doing it. I just can’t enjoy doing what I used to do—following them around and being all silent like some sort of companion who does nothing but be *there.*

I don’t know what to say to them or how to talk with them. All of my jokes flop, and I’ve got to be careful with what I say. I don’t think I should feel so strange to people I’ve known my entire life

I need to learn to stop having expectations. I’ve never had an issue with it until now.

I keep expecting things, and they don’t happen. I keep taking considerations as plans—things that will for certain happen. When they don’t, I am consistently let down and disappointed. I don’t know how to stop and how to keep my own personal happiness from relying on others

I keep finding myself taking things I’m told as gospel. I keep expecting these things, and when the time comes and they don’t follow through, I’m crushed.

I can’t stop. It’s affecting my relationships.

It’s happened so much that the little things are now enough to set me off edge. I’m just so done with everything

I just want someone to be with me right now. I feel so alone. Everyone is asleep. I want my mom right now. I want to hug her because I haven’t done that in a long time.. I had a fight with her today, too—pretty sure she cried.

I’m just fucking AAAAAG

https://twitter.com/clithaver/status/1167953482361393152?s=19

I live in Virginia and I’ve never seen those brands <:hmm:542689375541133322>

What part did they go to?

“'Cause I've always been scared of loving someone just a little bit more than I'm loved” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3rOpaOdRsgM

Tell him to stay away from you, that you don’t want him following you around

Thank you all, and thank you Cat

I’m sorry to hear about what happened, man. <:feelsbadman:589929333074821140>

What the fuck

society

@Corinthian yessir

Would be cool, might try it when I’m more awake

Thankye, my man

Not yet, Traditional art doesn’t have that safety net of easily fixed mistakes—might try one day though

Experimental

Costume

Thankye thankye!

Favorite comic character

Professor Pyg

Pig

I’m so distant.

All of the people I knew feel so distant. When I message them, it’s like two strangers meeting for the first time.

It’s all the hollow.

I got 5 weeks behind in class, so I dropped the ones that I didn’t need. But before that, I neglected speaking to anyone to try to get stuff done, and now I’m trying to involve myself again. it all feels cold. It just doesn’t work.

Thanks man <:salute:558007048122400795>

I just gotta work with it or move on and meet some more folk

He’s in his 30s? (He’s German, it’s an online friendship) I find them closer than anything I’ve found in real life

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Work in progress. Painting studies can suck My assssssss

zuccc

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Yeet

Aight

For a Secret Santa art thing

I built myself up I thought, but coming back around—all those foundations came crumbling down

I don’t know what to do with myself. I suppose I was better off gone, when there was no them to lose

Depends on what you want. The tablet will likely last you longer if it isn't faulty. I stopped buying acrylics because it was more money to keep buying more as opposed to investing into digital and learning how to make stuff on the platform

That's a pretty fucking good deal. The tablet I got recently was in the hundreds--they usually run high

Ahhh, at that point it's a question of what you want more.

If the tablet isn't faulty, it's likely you won't see a deal like it later on when you have more money. Clay and acrylics you might.

However, it might be a better idea for you to get the clay and the paint now, and be content with that. I, myself, would be wary of a tablet listed that cheap. You could settle with the clay and save up to buy a higher end tablet later down the road.

Ahhh, it's best to save your money, I'd say. If you think you'd be happy with the clay and figurines. The tablet listing seemed sketchy to me at first--I couldn't recognize what brand it was, but I looked into monoprice tablets and yeah. Other ones run about 39.99 from amazon and walmart

So, it's probably fine

It’s profitable

Easy tactic: make a simple template and sell adoptables

Pay pal requires you to be 18

Had that issue a while back. Google pay doesn’t, though. If it even works

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Oh Christ you’re here now

I know Lord of the 14th elsewhere

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<:cringepepe:540714116160028682> Idk if I want to know what a 15 year old finds hot

What sheep said <:cringepepe:540714116160028682>

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I don’t want to hear about some sixteen year old girl either

Advice: dont share her thighs with people

No wonder your relationship is shit

You don’t <:cringepepe:540714116160028682>

She’s 16

She wouldn’t be much of an enigma if you did what sheep suggested and spoke with her

If that’s so important to you that you have and value it more than her—end it and find someone who will

But that’s wrong

I cannot see her being happy with you given how you speak about women tbh lmao

I know what you’re saying

And from that, I’m thinking—that girl better get the hell out <:deepfry:557778579828768770>

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Gotta get done in 2 days because I procrastinated but—this is going to be March for an art community calendar

Thanks, fellas <:fren:642720457073885197> <:salute:558007048122400795>

Jaboody is good.

I like his Spider-Man and Batman dubs

Thank you sheep

Breaking off from someone a little bit. It’s not like we talk anyway. Hurts now but I’m sure it’ll feel better soon. <a:catpew:636536665388875804>

Portrait in progress

I’ve been drawing for a while. I don’t think it really clicked for me until two years ago. I watched and read a lot of tutorials

But humans are just about the only thing I draw. I can’t do anything else—I’m not good at fur, objects, buildings, nothin

I’d recommend looking at art anatomy. Don’t waste your money on books like I did though. Most of the shit is online now

I get that, but what really helped me was understanding how that stuff worked—oh and also

Look into gesture drawings

It’s not supposed to be accurate, they’re quick exercises which help you understand form and shape when you draw

This is an example

Start from the basic shape and build up

It helps build a sense of fluidity in your poses

My old art teacher made me to a shit ton of these until I started getting better

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