you can have a snack, a wee lil one, a lil one...

WAHHHH LOOK AT HEERRRRR!!!!! KITTY BABY! BABY KITTY!!!! the pose and the wink are sooooooo cute!! the sass! the ‘tude!!! ALL VERY EXCELLENT

also lmao loser in the back get dunked on idiot

I like Tomiko! Her story and the way she looks good next to Leo is crazy in a good way. This art is for you! ✨

OH SHE’S SOOOOOO CUTE THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!💖💖💖💖💕🩷💖💖💕💕 the flower petal additions are sooooo cute aaaaa THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

Got bitches saying Falin is doomed by the narrative. Are you serious. Not only are the themes of the story completely irrelevant to her death/suffering the author is cognizant of this fact and didn't kill her off & then utilized her LIFE, her RESPLENDENT NEED TO EXIST, as a way to bring the themes together. baby she is not doomed she is celebrated by the narrative! The narrative reveres her! The narrative is making up reasons not to doom her! Learn more phrases for the love of god

This is,, one of my favorite moments from the MBMBAM tv show

THIS IS JUST A PHONE NUMBER YOU CAN CALL

Well what was I supposed to do? NOT draw bad timeline August in overalls like her Papa? It’s like you don’t even know me.

ok but does anyone else ever just

the first time i saw tomiko was in the rottmnt tag and i hadn't watched season 2 yet so i assumed she was from season 2. i was so confused when i looked her up on the tmnt wiki and found nothing lol

it’s been a while BUT RESET THAT WAR CLOCK, BOYS!! WE GOT ANOTHER ONE!!!

I'm always seeing this sentiment of "I have got to make my art weirder" or people begging for weirder art but here's the thing, Weird is not a brand. You cannot rack your brains trying to figure out the "Weird" formula. You don't get weird art by artificially forcing whatever you think is "weird." You get weird art (and I think "weird" is sometimes people groping for a way of saying non-corporatized) by figuring out what you like, deep down, even (especially) if you think it's embarrassing and wallowing in it like a pig

Hm. Your interpretation of this character displeases me. Guards! Take them away! Make them read the source material once more, and if that fails, the stocks.

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

Is fresh blood tomiko at all inspired by Ryuko Matoi?? :00

[loud correct air horn sound]

AGES ago i did some Tomiko palette swaps, including some legendary skins, and I wanted to do an Izutsumi Dungeon Meshi one! these are silly and i really love doing them hehe

tomiko crush meme!! cause i wanted to and haven’t done one of these in a while

oh to be 16 and beyond pissed that you have feelings

(edit: HERE’S the template!!!)

tomiko crush meme!! cause i wanted to and haven’t done one of these in a while

oh to be 16 and beyond pissed that you have feelings

(edit: HERE’S the template!!!)

The real treasure was the Leo's we gained along the way!

Finally wrapped up with the @tmntaucompetition and I just wanted to thank everyone again for such a fun time! I wish I could have interacted with even more of you but I sadly could only do so much! Leo gained quite the following though! Including @cupcakeslushie's Kapa, @dianagj-art's One, @evenmoreofadisaster's One, @angelpuns's Kid Leo, and @red-rover-au Leo.

I would have included @tangledinink Gemini but I felt like Leo and Omega might have scared off the poor boys! Speaking of Omega, he gained a bit of following too during the competition...

I'm sure @intotheelliwoods's Sprout will come help him eventually (Replica Leo sure as hell isn't haha).

Thanks again all!

iconic

When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”

He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)

I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.

What is your objective?

Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.

I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.

I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.

Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.

Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.

How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?

Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.

Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?