Month: November 2018

rosexknight:

willow-wanderings:

tooiconic:

scarlet-benoit-is-my-rolemodel:

pr1nceshawn:

If Humans Flirted Like Animals.

are you saying that engagement rings aren’t just cool rocks 

They sloth is my favorite

STORY TIME!

Ok so when I was doing a security job on a college campus, the geology club on said campus was having their mineral and fossil sale (which is where the club gets the vast majority of its funds for the year). They had some really cool shit but their sales techniques were… uh, they were bad, just really terrible. They set up the tables, put all their stuff out, hung a sign up… and then sat there, occasionally mentioning quietly to one or two passersby “Hey we’re having our mineral and fossil sale if you want any.” Very boring, overly factual, not very attention grabbing.

Now I’m a fuckin nerd so I’m all over this shit (the sale was literally a foot away from my security post so I wasn’t even getting in trouble for spending literal hours ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the really cool stuff they had). And me being the type of nerd who must SHARE ALL THE THINGS when I find cool stuff (and who also has 18 years of customer service/retail experience to draw on), I start trying to get some of the literal hundreds of students walking by to get some of the cool things. The club only needed a couple hundred bucks and we were on the largest campus in the state so they should have been making their goal easy but almost no one was biting. So my “must share the thing” nerdiness teamed up with my “must help all the people”-ness and I did my best to pitch in and get them more sales.

Now, it was two days before valentines and a lot of the people walking by were dudes. So I start trying to get them interested with comments like “hey come check out the cool stuff you could get for your bae!”

One group of dudes paused but it didn’t seem like they were gonna stop and get any of the cool things, so I go “No, seriously, chicks dig this shit, you literally cannot go wrong here. There’s fossils and cute little carvings of manta rays and kitties, and literal gemstones here; that box is full of fucking EMERALDS that are 3 for $5. GET. SOME.”

They didn’t believe me that the ladies would go nuts for “a bunch of shiny rocks.” So I decide to prove it to them. And in the most booming voice I can muster (and I can muster quite a bit after a decade of choir classes) and yell “THEY HAVE SHINY ROCKS OVER HERE AND THEY’RE REALLY COOL!”

Literally instantly, three separate groups of ladies look straight at the tables and make a beeline for them, all of them saying some variation of “Wait, did you say shiny rocks? WHERE?! WHAT KIND?! OMG!” Suddenly a dozen or so different gals (and several dudes), who seconds ago were only thinking about getting to class, stopped in their tracks to detour to the table full of shiny rocks. Only two left without buying at least one thing.

The dudes I’d been talking to before were bewildered but convinced, so they start looking for the best shiny rocks they can get to give their SOs. Several of them came back a few days later to inform me that my seemingly ludicrous advice of “get them shiny rocks” had gotten them laid or scored them a date.

So, remember kids, GET THE BAE A SHINY ROCK. That shit WORKS.

Human Brain: I can find rocks everywhere I don’t need to spend money on them.
Penguin Brain: SHINY! SHINY ROCKS PRETTY!! WANT!!

did-you-kno:

Boy dolphins often try to impress girl
dolphins by giving them a sponge as a
gift. Male Australian humpback dolphins
present large marine sponges to their
favorite females- sometimes getting so
excited that they aggressively throw the
sponges at their desired mate. They also
work in pairs with other males, making
them one of the only species besides
humans that use ‘wingmen.’ Source

Help, maybe

jitterbugjive:

jitterbugjive:

Okay first I have to say that this is in no means meant to be a guilt trip and there are no obligations here, I just need to explain what’s been going on so I can shed more light on the current situation.

I’m having a really crummy Thanksgiving. Fighting with computer issues all morning, don’t really have food and can’t do Thanksgiving stuff until later in the month since we’re missing someone right now.

Recently I was rejected from Thanksgiving by my mom because she
doesn’t think the people she invited would be ‘ready’ to see my
transition, and she’s been going back and forth with me for days now
about trying to understand my transgenderism, trying to find answers and
support because she has nothing but shitty conservative friends, and
trying to convince me to be Christian again even though I have told her
over and over that I have nothing to prove any religion is wrong or
right because they all have the same claims as proof of their being
right and the others being wrong.

I’ve been struggling all year
with trust issues and I haven’t been asking people for help on a lot of
things when I really should have, I could have made more time for DWnA
for example but I’m so exhausted from working with people that it’s so
hard to have the energy to ask people to do things for me.

The
positives are that I’ve made a lot of headway with My Magic Grandpa, and
my art skill has gone way up because despite everything that went wrong
this year, like Bedeviled Derpy, the move, the strain of recovery from
surgery, just… the list honestly goes on, everything this year has
felt so out of reality with time that I can’t fathom just how much
actually happened. Anyway, I pushed through and still am determined to
show MMG to a publisher in January and I’m still working on finding a
job to hold me over, I was even getting in to a groove and updating projects daily while drawing commissions on the side until my computer decided to kick the bucket.

So for the past few days now I’ve spent nearly all day fighting with my computers, and I still can’t get my art tablet working because one computer is basically dead and the other has something messed up with the graphics card that’s keeping it from working with my tablet, and it’s missing a lot of ports that I need and the screen is way too small and I just can’t work like this

So I need to get a new computer. Now, I have savings, but I’d be using a lot of what I have left and I needed some of that for Molly’s training (PTSD service dog) and a weekend off somewhere nice after the holidays are over because I’ve just had a really rollercoaster year and I need a small break that’s not obligatory so bad. Even if it’s just a weekend in Portland to immerse myself in the city and get photos for MMG it’d just be nice to get out of the apartment and spoil myself.

And without my tablet, I can’t draw, and if I can’t draw, I can’t really make money. That also means for rent too. I also need to be able to afford a cheap emergency tablet that I can use while I wait for the new computer to come in (a friend is going to build it) just so I can get some work done in the meantime with probably the simpler stuff until I can get the cintiq hooked up again.

So as a reminder, I have prints available that you can get as a holiday gift or something, all pony related, over 50 different images from multiple artists

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JitterbugsCorner

And of course I have donation options too: 

If you want to do monthly payments, and get rewards, Patreon works for helping with rent.

https://www.patreon.com/jitterbugjive

For an immidiate single donation which would be for the computer and emergency tablet, you can use either my ko-fi or paypal donate links!

https://ko-fi.com/jitterbugjive

Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/jitterbugjive

I know folks are probably rushing around for black Friday but reminder on this, I’m hoping to catch a good deal on computer parts either today or Cyber Monday so any purchases or donations would help

More on “I’d never be as good as you”

jitterbugjive:

Of course you’ll never be as good as me. Only I can be as good as me, just like you can only be as good as you and no one else can be. That’s why comparing your art to more practiced artists isn’t really fair, because artists all have their own styles and methods that make them stand out as ‘good’ as they are. You can compare all you like to another artist but it’s not really fair to tell yourself you’ll never be someone you’re not.

Use better artists to inspire what you do now, and instead compare your work to what you’ve done in the past. The only way to see if you’ve really improved is to look back and see how much you’ve improved compared to your younger self, because as long as you try, you’ll always get better at being you.