Month: September 2012

curryjolokia:

I’ve had one of these since high school. My English teacher was adamant about never using said unless we had to.

omg…this is so…amazing… 

This is so perfect, wow. Filing this away for future use always…

Except, all of these are in my regular writing vocabulary anyway… 

Not to mention the stylistic problem of using incidental words the rest of your writing can’t support, or using words for the sake of the WORD and not the sentence they’re in, leading to prose which draws attention to itself and away from the story it’s building

^ agreed with the last comment.

Advanced creative writing classes in college and all of the writing conferences I’ve ever been to have repeatedly beat us over the head with “USE ‘SAID’ BECAUSE IT IS INVISIBLE AND WE DON’T WANT THE READER TO REMEMBER THAT THEY’RE READING A STORY!’

If they saw this list they would be furious. It kind of makes me nervous just looking at it.

shineko:

Oh gosh, I’m so sorry this took longer than I wanted, but atleast I got it done in the same year. I kept delaying my working process due to various things happening over the time period in which I was commissioned to now.

I wanted incorporate Gabkitty as Gab wanted, but I felt it was silly if I rendered them in this fashion and then added a cartoonish kitten. So I decided to make Gabkitty the iPhone case. They are slightly older in this picture.

And as typical Shineko fashion I went overboard with details. Sorry.

SOOOOOOO AMAZING <3 EEEE thank you!

inkydonkey:

Anonymous asked you: 
2012-09-02 11:04
Rose will you draw a Pinkie with braces? It would looks so cute.
No more for today, got work to do

Pinkie Mabel. Mabel Pie. 

oh my goodness it is me as a preteen omg what my life

Easiest Way to Register to Vote

Easiest Way to Register to Vote

slackeremeritus:

slyjinks:

thisiswhiteprivilege:

velvet-areola:

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I have exactly four followers, of which only two are in the United States, but here, this might come in useful to one or the other of them, I suppose.

Signal boostin’

No complaining unless you’ve tried to make your voice heard! Do your duty and LEARN about what is going on, and then VOTE! People only have power if they actually use it. 

MORE UNICORNS.

I’ve taken to coloring up old/unfinished sketches as warm-ups for commission work. Here are more unicorns from the last few days… Heart Wish and Quantum Flux from EQD and Chris the Unicorn, who works for google.