Month: March 2016

We got edamame noodles at Costco a couple of weeks ago and I finally made spaghetti with them tonight and it was awesome. Organic, chock full of protein, and delicious– just needed a little bit of salt. :9 

A++ would definitely recommend. Quick to cook, nice and filling, and the only “negative” is the texture takes some getting used to. Definitely going to use this instead of regular spaghetti noodles for this particular dish.

…also, costco’s organic marinara sauce was AWESOME with just a bit of garlic salt and some parmesan. :9 

mylifeisroosterteeth:

you know what you shouldnt do? constantly tell your child how expensive they are to take care of. because eventually, that child gets scared of asking for money, and doesnt feed themself at school, doesnt go places with their friends that require money, because she doesnt want to be expensive. it really does get into their minds, that theyre too much money and that they shouldnt do anything.

Ye Be Warned

caitiward:

Can I just say that I am sick and tired of this gender disparity? 

Tonight I saw a post on reddit where a guy took a photo of a woman’s cluttered counter in her bathroom with the caption “you left the toilet seat up”. I was totally shocked because in the photo, clear as day, is the woman naked in the background; changing.

I thought “Oh my gosh! He doesn’t know she’s in the photo!” I scrolled through the comments, and to my utter horror he replied to people asking if she knew she was in the photo, with “she doesn’t know and you’re welcome”.

I feel physically ill. I have reported it both on my account and on my husband’s account, but honestly – I feel defeated just from reading these revolting comments. From the men who are cheering on this unapologetic pervert, to the responses from him declaring it fine because “for the record, she’s not my gf she’s my fwb” because somehow, on some far off planet or another dimension THAT MAKES IT OKAY. She’s just a piece of arse, so, like, it doesn’t even matter.

I want to spread it far and wide in the hopes that people will report it, but I also want to protect this woman. The argument arose that “you couldn’t see her face so what does it matter?” That question hit me like a ton of bricks. How could you possibly think that just because you can’t see her face, that it’s somehow less criminal? But is it even? Is it against the law? Do we even have laws, aside from the revenge porn laws, to protect women (and men) who are victims to this perversion? 

I’m positive if he were taking pictures up women’s skirts that he’d be arrested – so why is him taking a photo of his unsuspecting woman in this situation somehow less criminal? Somehow less perverted and disgusting? Is it because he has a relationship with her? 9 out of 10 women who are sexually assaulted or violated know their violator. He knew before he posted the photo that she was in it. He ACKNOWLEDGES that she did not give him permission to post it on this global website, yet somehow that doesn’t make him a sex offender? 

What really puts the icing on the cake here, what really truly brings me the farthest down, is that he says it’s her dorm room.
1. It’s her personal space – a space where we, as women who brave the outside world every day, lock ourselves away after exposing ourselves to their evils; from people like him – but he’s in there and he violated her trust, her body.
2. Because of the sexual assault and violence young women face on campuses. Because she stands against the statistical odds of 1 in 4 women on college campuses who will be victim of sexual violence; of rape. Assuming she hasn’t suffered already. 

Because people like that pervert ruin our innocence and stunt our development and humans. They steal our joy, our perspective and vision and hope. Because people like that pervert taint our view of the world and hinder our progress. 1 in 4 women will not become the doctor they wanted to be. The teacher, the scientist, the social worker, the chef, the engineer, the author, the CEO. People like that pervert will unjustly rob those women, and male victims, of their potential, and yet those victims are still the one’s who pay for the rest of their lives. 

I was raped by a footballer when I was 19. I remember thinking I had done everything wrong, even when I had a text from him that said “I am so sorry” – I still counted all the reasons why I had brought it on myself.
Flash forward – after a night on the town, my friends and I crashed at one of their houses and I woke up in the middle of the night with a family friends hands down my pants. Who could I tell? Not my mum, his mum was her best friend. Not my brother – he would either not believe me, or kill the guy. I found out the next day that he’d even more grossly assaulted my best friend. But who could we tell? It would cause a rift in our circle and who’d believe us? We had been drinking that night. We “probably said yes and just didn’t remember”. We stayed silent and never talked about it again. We had to see him any time we wanted to see our other friends.  

I know so many women who have experienced the exact same thing and I feel so helpless for them. You know there’s a horrific inequality when I write the sentence “I know so many women who have experienced the exact same thing” and it’s about violence and assault. I am genuinely aghast. What is happening? 

We’re regressing. For a brief stint, I felt hopeful. Wendy Davis filibustering and empowering men and women everywhere (I know it didn’t end well, but she ignited fire…), marriage equality, Bernie Sanders and his feminism. But now, while we’re busy watching the presidential parade, we’re re-enacting these laws that are strangling our basic rights to health care because we have vagina’s – but we can’t be trusted with them? The terrorist attacks on Planned Parenthood because someone hears a lie that makes them behave erratically and emotionally, yet we’re the ones who are “emotional” and can’t decide for ourselves? 

You may think I jumped from 0-10, but it’s all related. The way we treat women regarding violation, regarding our decision making skills,regarding media, regarding our place in this world. What are we doing? What the actual fuck is going on? We make up HALF the population, but fuck us if we want to have equal rights and to be taken seriously. God damn it. God fucking damn it.

your art is just so beautiful, especially how you did the zootopia characters… do you have any tips or tutorials in how to do animalistic anatomy and/or features like paws or the snout? if you can show pictures that would also be appreciated!!

kittenpawprints-deactivated2018:

WELL gosh I’m actually really bad at anatomy, but ill try to help!
Pardon these pics, I was gonna put them all in gif form but my computer
is slow and i had to badly edit them together.
I start with the nose,
then attach everything else based around it. I do the nose, then the
mouth. The snout (or the bridge of the nose) goes up to the eyebrow,
depending on the view.

image
image
image

as for paws, I just draw a circle for the palm, and draw the fingers on first. then i add the wrist and details. Paws are like big human hands. you can make them as big and bulky or as thin as you want. Bigger animals usually have bigger paws, like lions and tigers, when anthropomorphized. Bunnies and cats usually have smaller ones. Rats tend to have the thinnest.

image
image
image

And a thing to note is the middle two toes are usually bigger than the two on the sides. I draw them as circles usually when planning them out, then add details. I usually draw them this way if I’m drawing feral animals or big animals like tigers.
My favorite thing to draw are noses and snouts, and it’s definitely easy to start with the nose first. Just practice drawing snouts is all I can say, and you’ll get the gist of it-It’s pretty much second nature to me because I draw them so often. THEN you can add different expressions!
Thats all I really have!