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myseybee:

Eleven/Clara AU:
After an argument, Clara won’t answer the phone or the door for The Doctor. But he’s a persistent one. 

Don’t usually ship ElevenxClara, but this just made me smile too much :3

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qinni:

More tips:

  • The closest I could find on Amazon to the watercolour set I use is the Sakura brand of Koi Assorted WaterColours Field Set.
  • Just use any old toothbrush. I used to use the ones that my dentist would give me after a visit, just because those were kind of cheap and I wouldn’t actually use them anyways.
  • I use acrylic for flicking and highlights because watercolour-whites tend to fade when they dry. 
  • Also, remember to keep your hands clean, because nothing’s worse than smudging graphite into your watercolours and then unable to get it out.
  • Try to avoid black and white when possible. They tend to dull the colours and it loses that watercolouring lustre. 

Since I started watercolouring again for my daily sketches, I’ve gotten a lot of asks/dA notes on if I could give a tutorial on watercolouring and also more specific questions that overlapped each other, so I decided to do a semi guide/tips/answering thing.

I actually started watercolouring before I went into digital medium, so I have a bit of personal experience, but I am essentially self-taught when it comes to watercolouring since there weren’t a lot of watercolour tutorials online back then to begin with, so I cannot promise that these are the absolute correct way of doing things. 

Hope it helps anyways :)

My Other Tutorials/Guides | My Daily Sketches

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johngreener: mr-cappadocia: I am a man. I do not have those rights. I do not have the right to life while my government can arbitrarily take me from my home, send me overseas, and let me die in a jungle. This also subsumes my rights to privacy and my rights to freedom. I do not have the right to bodily integrity while it is perfectly legal to medically amputate a part of my body without my consent. I do not have the right to decide when and how I reproduce, as men who are unconscious, men who are underage (as young as 12), men who are the victims of rape, and men who aren’t even the father at all have been successfully sued for child support. You have far more rights than I do. Alright sir, let’s look at your arguments and dismember them as cleanly and politely as possible, shall we?  You say you don’t have a right to life because there is a draft law, and that if a war is fought and our country needs soldiers, you will be lawfully ordered from your home and into a training camp for said war. And yeah, that does take away your right to life—if the draft law is put into effect. But let’s just forget about the reason women are NOT included in drafts, mainly because we are seen as agents of reproduction and as ‘soft’ and ‘unable to handle deadly combat’. I’d love to be included in the draft! I’d love to serve for my country if they need me. I’d be just as afraid as my fellow American, but I am willing to serve my country if the cause is decent. But you know what a right to life means? It means you are allowed to do with your life as you like. It means if you don’t like the draft law, then move to a country that doesn’t have one. Also, half the reason you have a right to freedom and privacy in this country is because of the people that voluntarily put themselves into our military services fight for and protect it every day, and you’re actually complaining about the off chance you could be drafted into in army if need be to fight to keep those rights? (On that note, I would stay away from Israel—no matter what gender you are, you are automatically enlisted to work for the army from when you’re 18 to when you’re 21!) But at least you have the same right to life as I do in that you’re allowed to move wherever you want and ask for the rights you want, so that’s cool!  Oh wait, that’s right—females can’t ask for the rights they want! (Wow, what a great segway!) At least, that’s what my government and medical insurance companies have been telling me by making birth control more expensive and not under the same medical coverage (meaning less available to those who may need it) as Viagra (even though birth control DOES SO MUCH MORE THAN CONTROL BIRTH (like regulates hormones within the body, reduces any problems with menstrual cycles like extreme cramps and pain and heavy flow, can improve acne, and there are some that have been shown in tests to help protect against ovarian cysts, breast diseases, anemia, and ovarian and endometrial cancers! Holy shit that’s really awesome what one little pill can do!) while Viagra just makes a male’s genitals hard enough for pleasurable sex), or when they tell me that I don’t deserve the ability to get a safe abortion because you care more about my body’s ‘correct’ functionality than the person that has to LIVE WITH A FUTURE PERSON BEING GROWN INSIDE THEM. And that’s where my rights to privacy, freedom AND bodily integrity are violated! Wow! Surprising how BOTH GENDERS can have problems with their rights! Except your problems are far less problematic to you, whereas my problems actually make it harder for me to grow up and live a normal, healthy lifestyle like you can. Alright, and your little remark on bodily integrity doesn’t really work because that can happen to women, too! Doesn’t just happen exclusively to one gender! And your point for the right to decide when and how I reproduce? Whoa, what’s that thing you’re talking about? I think there’s a word for it, I think it’s called RAPE. Let’s look at all the little girls and the regular sized women that have been raped (9 out of 10 victims are women, btw), which includes been taken advantage of when they’re unconscious and/or underage (as young as 4, though I’m not trying to one up you on the age, because that’s terrible for any young person who probably does not understand what is happening). Actually, I think you need to be more informed on what rape is in general, because if you’re unconscious or underage, and someone engages in sexual conduct with you, you’ve been raped, plain and simple, and yet you touch on rape after you talk about those two points without including them, which leads me to believe that you have a very narrow and uninformed understanding of sexual assault and rape. And just because the man isn’t the biological father doesn’t mean shit about being sued for child support. If any two someones help take care of a child and one decides to leave, the one left with the child can sue for child support if they need the money to help take care of the children they raised. And if they had no hand in helping to raise the child, being sued for child support shouldn’t be a problem seeing as you won’t have to pay for the child. That is, if the person being sued shows up at all, or if the parent with the child is even able to sue them for child support. THIS CAN APPLY TO EITHER GENDER. Meanwhile, women can be sued  for wanting/having an abortion without the father’s consent and for being too ugly, and women can also be fired for being too attractive! My point a paragraph back about abortions counts to this right to decide when and how I reproduce as well, seeing as a government full of old white men think they have the ability to choose for me if I should have a child or abort a child safely. And let’s not forget about the stigmas behind anything female or feminine, how we have a set double-standard for almost anything that involves our gender, and how women make less money than men in most jobs because of their gender (POC women even less than both white women and their male POC counterparts!)! Lastly, this quote from Soraya Chemaly was not made because women are automatically granted those rights and she was just saying it for kicks. She wrote it in an article that talked about how old white men in our government think that it’s more important to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until the woman goes into labor naturally, where also Representative Terry England indirectly compared a human woman’s pregnancy with a stillborn/dying fetus to that of a cow or pig’s. She was making this very statement to remind people like you that WE DO HAVE THESE RIGHTS. YOU CAN’T JUST PICK AND CHOOSE WHEN AND HOW A WOMAN IS ABLE TO DO SOMETHING. So, long story short, you took mostly gender-neutral issues and tried to apply them to men and say that you have less rights than women, when we also face the same blockage to rights (other than that draft law, which many women are actively trying to change by the way) that you listed, but also more strictly because we are of the female persuasion. Basically, you’re just continually making sure that everyone on the internet knows just how much of an uneducated sexist you are, so good for you! Hope the rest of your life leads to better learning and understanding in the future, because I don’t think you have had a very good educational system so far. :) And before you blow me off, this post isn’t so much for you as it is for anyone that was curious about sexism, feminism, or human rights. 

johngreener:

mr-cappadocia:

I am a man. I do not have those rights.

I do not have the right to life while my government can arbitrarily take me from my home, send me overseas, and let me die in a jungle. This also subsumes my rights to privacy and my rights to freedom.

I do not have the right to bodily integrity while it is perfectly legal to medically amputate a part of my body without my consent.

I do not have the right to decide when and how I reproduce, as men who are unconscious, men who are underage (as young as 12), men who are the victims of rape, and men who aren’t even the father at all have been successfully sued for child support.

You have far more rights than I do.

Alright sir, let’s look at your arguments and dismember them as cleanly and politely as possible, shall we? 

You say you don’t have a right to life because there is a draft law, and that if a war is fought and our country needs soldiers, you will be lawfully ordered from your home and into a training camp for said war. And yeah, that does take away your right to life—if the draft law is put into effect. But let’s just forget about the reason women are NOT included in drafts, mainly because we are seen as agents of reproduction and as ‘soft’ and ‘unable to handle deadly combat’. I’d love to be included in the draft! I’d love to serve for my country if they need me. I’d be just as afraid as my fellow American, but I am willing to serve my country if the cause is decent. But you know what a right to life means? It means you are allowed to do with your life as you like. It means if you don’t like the draft law, then move to a country that doesn’t have one. Also, half the reason you have a right to freedom and privacy in this country is because of the people that voluntarily put themselves into our military services fight for and protect it every day, and you’re actually complaining about the off chance you could be drafted into in army if need be to fight to keep those rights? (On that note, I would stay away from Israel—no matter what gender you are, you are automatically enlisted to work for the army from when you’re 18 to when you’re 21!) But at least you have the same right to life as I do in that you’re allowed to move wherever you want and ask for the rights you want, so that’s cool! 

Oh wait, that’s right—females can’t ask for the rights they want! (Wow, what a great segway!) At least, that’s what my government and medical insurance companies have been telling me by making birth control more expensive and not under the same medical coverage (meaning less available to those who may need it) as Viagra (even though birth control DOES SO MUCH MORE THAN CONTROL BIRTH (like regulates hormones within the body, reduces any problems with menstrual cycles like extreme cramps and pain and heavy flow, can improve acne, and there are some that have been shown in tests to help protect against ovarian cysts, breast diseases, anemia, and ovarian and endometrial cancers! Holy shit that’s really awesome what one little pill can do!) while Viagra just makes a male’s genitals hard enough for pleasurable sex), or when they tell me that I don’t deserve the ability to get a safe abortion because you care more about my body’s ‘correct’ functionality than the person that has to LIVE WITH A FUTURE PERSON BEING GROWN INSIDE THEM. And that’s where my rights to privacy, freedom AND bodily integrity are violated! Wow! Surprising how BOTH GENDERS can have problems with their rights! Except your problems are far less problematic to you, whereas my problems actually make it harder for me to grow up and live a normal, healthy lifestyle like you can.

Alright, and your little remark on bodily integrity doesn’t really work because that can happen to women, too! Doesn’t just happen exclusively to one gender!

And your point for the right to decide when and how I reproduce? Whoa, what’s that thing you’re talking about? I think there’s a word for it, I think it’s called RAPE. Let’s look at all the little girls and the regular sized women that have been raped (9 out of 10 victims are women, btw), which includes been taken advantage of when they’re unconscious and/or underage (as young as 4, though I’m not trying to one up you on the age, because that’s terrible for any young person who probably does not understand what is happening). Actually, I think you need to be more informed on what rape is in general, because if you’re unconscious or underage, and someone engages in sexual conduct with you, you’ve been raped, plain and simple, and yet you touch on rape after you talk about those two points without including them, which leads me to believe that you have a very narrow and uninformed understanding of sexual assault and rape.

And just because the man isn’t the biological father doesn’t mean shit about being sued for child support. If any two someones help take care of a child and one decides to leave, the one left with the child can sue for child support if they need the money to help take care of the children they raised. And if they had no hand in helping to raise the child, being sued for child support shouldn’t be a problem seeing as you won’t have to pay for the child. That is, if the person being sued shows up at all, or if the parent with the child is even able to sue them for child support. THIS CAN APPLY TO EITHER GENDER. Meanwhile, women can be sued  for wanting/having an abortion without the father’s consent and for being too ugly, and women can also be fired for being too attractive! My point a paragraph back about abortions counts to this right to decide when and how I reproduce as well, seeing as a government full of old white men think they have the ability to choose for me if I should have a child or abort a child safely. And let’s not forget about the stigmas behind anything female or feminine, how we have a set double-standard for almost anything that involves our gender, and how women make less money than men in most jobs because of their gender (POC women even less than both white women and their male POC counterparts!)!

Lastly, this quote from Soraya Chemaly was not made because women are automatically granted those rights and she was just saying it for kicks. She wrote it in an article that talked about how old white men in our government think that it’s more important to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until the woman goes into labor naturally, where also Representative Terry England indirectly compared a human woman’s pregnancy with a stillborn/dying fetus to that of a cow or pig’s. She was making this very statement to remind people like you that WE DO HAVE THESE RIGHTS. YOU CAN’T JUST PICK AND CHOOSE WHEN AND HOW A WOMAN IS ABLE TO DO SOMETHING.

So, long story short, you took mostly gender-neutral issues and tried to apply them to men and say that you have less rights than women, when we also face the same blockage to rights (other than that draft law, which many women are actively trying to change by the way) that you listed, but also more strictly because we are of the female persuasion.

Basically, you’re just continually making sure that everyone on the internet knows just how much of an uneducated sexist you are, so good for you! Hope the rest of your life leads to better learning and understanding in the future, because I don’t think you have had a very good educational system so far. :) And before you blow me off, this post isn’t so much for you as it is for anyone that was curious about sexism, feminism, or human rights. 

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jimmyjamjimjohn:

rubywhiterabbit:

One day we’ll be in a Marvel movie, sitting there as something doesn’t feel right. and as the credits start to roll we’ll know what it is. It will flash up on screen and our hearts will break. “In loving memory of Stan Lee”. There was no cameo in that movie. And there never will be again.

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