Me on my way to steal yo girl
I suspect it’s difficult for men to imagine a world in which their bodies have long been inextricably linked to their value as an individual, and that no matter how encouraging your parents were or how many positive female role models you had or how self-confident you feel, there is an ever-present pressure that creeps in from all sides, whispering in your ear that you are your body and your body defines you. A world where, from the time of pubescence on, you can feel the constant and palpable weight of the male gaze, and not just from your male peers but from teachers and sports coaches and the fathers of the children you baby-sit, people you’re supposed to respect and trust and look up to, and that first realization that you are being looked at in that way is the beginning of a self-consciousness that you will be unable to shake for the rest of your life.Even if they are never verbalized, the rules of bodily conduct for females become clear early on: when school administrators reprimand you for the inch of midriff that shows when you lift your hands straight in the air or youth group leaders tell you that the sight of your unintentional cleavage is what causes godly young men to fall, you learn that your body is dangerous and shameful and that it’s your responsibility to cloister it in a way that is acceptable to everyone else. You learn that your body is a topic of public debate that everyone is entitled to weigh in on, from a male classmate telling you that those jeans make your ass look huge to the male-dominated United States Congress dictating the parameters that rape must fall within to be considered legitimate. To be a woman, and to live life in a woman’s body, is to be held to a set of comically paradoxical standards that make you constantly second-guess yourself and jump through a million hoops in pursuit of an impossible perfection.
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Also, I reached 400 followers last night! Ahhh, thank you all so much for following me—it means a lot! <3 It’s hard to believe that 400 individual people like my blog enough to follow it, diverse and arbitrary as it is. <3 I’ve made a lot of friends on Tumblr and hopefully I will continue to make more! Never be afraid to reach out to me for any reason if you want to talk or have questions or anything! I promise I won’t be annoyed or bothered. 8D
(And PokéScans is up to almost 3,000 followers now, wow!)
…DID YOU REALLY NAME THEM AFTER THEM I love you so much right now lol oh my god
I DIIIIID! They’re roosters I’ve had for about two years now, but I couldn’t figure out names for them for the longest time (I have a lot of chickens and sometimes it takes me a while to think of the right names). So, then I watched Tiger & Bunny and went, THAT IS IT. Because one is blond and one is brown. 8D
This is a game of “Who the fuck are you?
- Name: Kristin
- Age: 25
- Height: 5’ 6”-ish
- Obligatory picture of self: http://pacificpikachu.tumblr.com/post/49832019796/me-and-my-vicious-bird-of-prey-aka-teeny-tineh
- Relationship Status: Single.
- Birthday: March 14th.
- Favorite color: Cerulean blue.
- Favorite bands: Yoko Kannooooooooo. <3 (She’s not a band, but she has a band, The Seatbelts.)
- Last song listened: Sakura Nagashi — Utada Hikaru
- Favourite Movies/TV Shows: Pokémon, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf’s Rain, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Dennou Coil, Millenium Actress, Wolf Children, and the list goes on and on…
- Favourite Books: The Last Unicorn and Watership Down.
- Last book read: The Last Unicorn, for the gazillionth time.
- # of siblings: 1 younger brother.
- # of pets: 100-something. Three dogs (two corgis and a border collie), three cats, two cockatiels, two horses, 90-100-ish chickens, ten ducks, three peafowl, a turkey, a goose, and a fish.
- Best school subject: English and art.
- Mac or PC?: PC
- Current shirt color: Purple
- Gamer?: Somewhat! Mostly Pokémon, though.
- Day or night: Night.
- Summer or winter: Winter.
- Most-visited website: Tumblr and LiveJournal.
- Biggest turn on/s: I don’t know. I would only want to be with someone who has similar interests to me, and is vegetarian and never ever wants children. :P
Age 104 year old man and his age 100 wife, they are poor. They have been married for 81 years and they never got to take a picture together on their wedding day. So when she finally tried on the wedding dress, he was so happy to hug her, and told her how beautiful she was.
Tutorial: from paper to digital.
Hey ya’ll! I’m not much of a tutorial person, but this was a technique that I learned from Syuzuki, one of my favorite artists back in the day, when I was 13. I memorized the technique and it’s been one of the most useful things I can do on photoshop. This was something that really helped me, and I hope that it will be useful for even some of you.
In this tutorial, I will be going step by step how I take something from my sketchbook and color it on photoshop.
