Behold! The grand chart for flower language compiled by @hasty-touch & @halonic. After being introduced to it, a number of folks have taken to using bouquets, delivered within Ishgard (and perhaps without) to convey messages.
Can confirm that House Pepin delivers discretely and provides excellent service.
:3 This is just a thing I compiled from loads of PDFs and stuff because I was going batty from flipping between 20 different browser tabs.
Since it’s publicly viewable now I may work on neatening it some over the next few weeks!
Once upon a time @hasty-touch and I somehow ended up screeching “FLORIOGRAPHY???” at one another, and then weeks later he and @halonic made this gem happen, and suddenly the sea of books and browser tabs parted, and I was at peace.
I never close this spreadsheet. It is my home. We are one.
(( Signal boosting because these are the most thorough nerds I’ve ever seen and this list is wonderful.I’ve referenced it countless times already! ))
i think an important thing to learn, especially if you start out with drawing anime, is that faces don’t necessarily have to narrow from top to bottom
i like to think of wide top, wide middle, wide bottom, and rectangle-like as the 4 main face shapes
what you should keep in mind about them:
you’re only halfway done: the jawlines, the width-length ratio, the amount of fat in the cheeks, the intensity or subtlety of the face’s curves are all important components you still have to decide on after choosing the shape itself
none of these shapes are exclusively feminine or masculine, don’t hesitate drawing them on any gender
most people in real life have some variation of the wide middle type
if you are trying to draw real people, getting the shape of their face down is the first step
i’ve seen tutorials say the shape of the face can tell a lot of the character’s personality - you don’t necessarily have to live by that rule. as long as you aren’t unrealistically drastic about their proportions, their face shape determines their inner qualities as much as it would in real life (not at all)
o human star is scifi and gay and one of the mcs is trans
go get a roomie is a comc made up of four page strips and it’s so good (the first like 3 chapters are mostly lesbian sex jokes but eventually there’s a plot)
Les Normaux the love lives of modern monsters in paris
Blossom Boys your average miscommunication in a flower shop story
As the Crow Flies Gay and trans kids having a hard time at a christian summer camp. Slow moving but beautiful, intersectional and hurty. Really well done, by the same artist who did the mermaid wedding.
Like many other books, this one is anything but an escape. It impugns reality and swirls it around with words like chaos, insomnia, love, death, suicide and the like. This is one of the most provocative books we have ever read. It is difficult to give a review on this dark, extensional author who is commonly known as the “king of pessimists”.
22-year-old Cioran managed to keep us up until 5 in the morning with shivers. “There is always a serious danger in repressing something which requires objectification” (he mentions in the beginning of the book) and this is exactly what he did. He picked up topics we have shunned down somewhere deep inside our head because of the agony, confusion or dismay they would cause. He embodied those words - made them urgent and grave. He often asks more questions than he answers and they are more than enough to get your heart racing with feelings of caducity, fragility and emptiness. Nothingness, lyricism, the absurd, the world and I – Cioran probed the reality of existence. The iterate use of statements that implied the simulacra of a ‘life’ created by the world is nothing but an illusion. He urged the way of solitude, restlessness, madness and the ‘indirect animals’ we already are.
In spite of all this, it is ironically life-affirming and inspiring.
So, my heat in my apartment is temperamental and I’ve lived in apartments with no heat at all so, space heaters are like my best friend. Anyway, REALLY good ones are usually pretty expensive BUT, I bought this lil baby the other day and it keeps my 10x16 room TOASTY. It’s 6 degrees outside and about 60 in the rest of my apartment but I’m super warm with this thing on high. Anyway, if you’re broke but needing heat so you can actually function in your home, buy this heater! It’s only $16!