grumblehugs:

legionschoiceass:

My computer and my tablet are on their last legs, and we are unable to afford to replace either-or right now or at any point in the foreseeable future. I really, really need a working computer, as I am doing online schooling and my entire highschool education relies upon this computer. Ergo, I’m opening up some relatively cheap commissions in order to afford this stuff!

So if you ever wanted a wicked cool drawing by me, here’s your chance! I can do my stuff both in smooth lines and colouring with the pen tool (this takes longer and will cost more), or pixel-y lines and colouring with the binary tool! MAKE SURE TO SPECIFY WHEN YOU SPEAK TO ME.

Also feel free to check out my art tag for more of my stuff!!

All prices are in CND!

Lineart: (smooth lines only)

• Headshot - $10

• Waist-up - $15

• Full Body - $17 (no preview available)

Flat Colour: 

• Headshot (Smooth) - $15

• Headshot (pixel-y) - $12

• Waist-up (smooth) - $20

• Waist-up (pixel-y) - $17

• Full Body (smooth) - $25

• Full Body (pixel-y) - $20

Full Colour: (limited reverences available; currently only available for Pixel-y art!!!)

• Headshot - $15

• Waist-up - $20

• Full Body - $25 (no preview available)

Doodle sheets: $17

A bunch of headshots of your character making various  expressions in a cartoony style! Pixel-y lines only. Most will be coloured in with flat colours.

Talksprites: $25

Simple animations of a character talking/blinking/laughing/whatever. Done with pixel-y lines, waist-up, flat coloured. If you want a more complex animation, it will Cost more! Please ask about pricing first.

Digital Paintings: $35

Or as best as I can get them. I am not very confident in these yet! I will not be able to paint animals/furries or overly-complex things with this. Backgrounds will be attempted to the best of my ability.

Other information:

• White/Simple backgrounds are free of charge. Please inform me if you would like it to be transparent! All talksprites are already transparent.
• More complex backgrounds will be attempted, but for $5 more. 
• each additional character is 50% of the original price. Ergo, a flat smooth fullbody with two characters is $37.50
• I am willing to draw a lot of things, including mechs/robots, furries, mild gore, and porn, but be aware that more complex things may cost more (only by a few dollars, however). Please ask to see whether or not I will draw something first!

Please send me an ask or email me at squirrilsama@hotmail.com if you’re interested!

hEY YOU buy my friend’s sweet art

(Source: cum-guzzling-guttermech)

undyingumbrage:

Uh huh, this is my shit
All the girls stomp your feet like this

A few times I’ve been around that track
So it’s not just gonna happen like that
Because I ain’t no hollaback girl
I ain’t no hollaback girl [x2]

Ooooh ooh, this my shit, this my shit [x4]

I heard that you were talking shit
And you didn’t think that I would hear it
People hear you talking like that, getting everybody fired up
So I’m ready to attack, gonna lead the pack
Gonna get a touchdown, gonna take you out
That’s right, put your pom-poms downs, getting everybody fired up

A few times I’ve been around that track
So it’s not just gonna happen like that
Because I ain’t no hollaback girl
I ain’t no hollaback girl [x2]

Ooooh ooh, this my shit, this my shit [x4]

So that’s right dude, meet me at the bleachers
No principals,no student-teachers
Both of us want to be the winner, but there can only be one
So I’m gonna fight, gonna give it my all
Gonna make you fall, gonna sock it to you
That’s right I’m the last one standing, another one bites the dust

A few times I’ve been around that track
So it’s not just gonna happen like that
Because I ain’t no hollaback girl
I ain’t no hollaback girl [x2]

Ooooh ooh, this my shit, this my shit [x4]

Let me hear you say this shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
(This shit is bananas)
(B-A-N-A-N-A-S)

Again
This shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
(This shit is bananas)
(B-A-N-A-N-A-S)

A few times I’ve been around that track
So it’s not just gonna happen like that
Because I ain’t no hollaback girl
I ain’t no hollaback girl [x2]

Ooooh ooh, this my shit, this my shit [x4]

sumney:

Many don’t often understand why dressing up as people from other races and cultures is perceived as offensive, beyond the fact that it “hurts people’s feelings.”

I have a story from last Halloween that illustrates the problem perfectly.

I was at a Halloween party in Westwood (UCLA’s college town), not dressed up as usual. In attendance was a guy (let’s call him Bob because he’s basic and I don’t remember his name) who I’d had an argument with the week before. En route to a different party, I had overheard him and a friend drunkenly laughing about just leaving a party because there were “too many Asians” in attendance. I called them out in front of everyone on the street, yelling at them and calling them racists. That’s obviously the worst thing you can call someone, so they followed me around that night desperately trying to convince me that they weren’t racist (Bob had done mission work in Africa apparently, so he was incapable of such tyranny!!!).

Fast forward to Halloween night, and it turns out Bob’s roomates was one of my friends. His roommate approached and tried to convince me to give Bob another chance, that he wasn’t racist, and that he felt really bad about what he did. He introduced Bob formally to me and then left us to become bffs.

There was only one problem. Bob’s costume that night was a large sombrero, furry black moustache, and an oversized poncho.

He tried to chat me up about different random topics, but I was visibly deadpan and uninterested in conversing with him. He then asked my why I wasn’t dressed up, and I told him that I’m not really into American holidays. Since we were now on the topic of costumes, I asked him what he was dressed up as.

He paused before answering, suddenly hesitant. Avoiding eye contact, he responded, “Umm… well… nothing.”

“Huh?” I replied. “You’re clearly dressed up as something—”

“Oh, yeah. Well I couldn’t really find anything, so I guess I sorta just threw this together and now… I’m kinda like a Mexican or something.”

“Right.” I turned away from him.

“Well are you going to dress up tomorrow?” He inquired. “There are so many more parties to attend!” No. I wasn’t. But he was persistent.

“Come on, man. You gotta dress up! Here, I’ll help - what have you always wanted to dress up as?”

I looked at him from top to bottom, my gaze stopping at a bottle of red hot sauce in his left hand. I turned toward him and finally gave him a welcoming smile. “Fine! I wanna dress up as a white person.”

He looked at me as if an eyeball had just popped out of its socket. “What? Dress up as a what?”

“You know, a white person. I’d love to be that. Can you help me out? What should I wear?”

He laughed, seemingly relieved that I was finally engaging him in a friendly manner. “Oh come on man, don’t be silly. You can’t just dress up as a white person.”

“Why not?”

“Because, man… white people are diverse. You’ve got skater boys, hillbillies, businessmen, rich people, poor people, hipsters, bros, hippies, nerds… so many different types. There is no one way to just generally be ‘a white person.’”

I laughed incredulously. “Oh… but wait. You can dress up as a Mexican but I can’t be a white person? Is there just one way to be a Mexican, then?”

He froze. “Oh, no! There’s not just one way to be a Mexican…” his voice trailed off, unsure of itself.

“Ok. So what other ways could you have been a Mexican?”

I stared at him with a closed-mouth smile and arms crossed, patiently waiting for an answer. But Bob was struggling, scanning the room full of ghosts, goblins, and Indians for a politically correct answer.

“Well?”

“Well, to be a Mexican… I guess I could have been a gardener.”

Our conversation ended there. (I may or may not have told him to get out of my face.)

Bob did come back as the party ended to vaguely thank me for making him think. But I was once again cold and uninterested. And now when he sees me around campus, he makes sure to awkwardly look away or walk in a different direction. 

I’m not in college anymore, but the saga continues -  I’m writing this while at my corporate job, and one of my coworkers is dressed as a gangster, decked out in a red bandana, baggy Dickies, and a checkered shirt only buttoned at the top. He’s a grown man dressed as a one-dimensional “Mexican.”

When you dress up as other races, you’re not only covering up your own identity — you risk covering up your mind’s ability to differentiate real people from their stereotypes and caricatures.

nissie:

On October 3, 2012 (in my timezone, which would be early October 2 for most of you), I and millions of internet users in the Philippines have officially become criminals, liable to be jailed for up to 12 years.

I will understand if you don’t care. After all, the Philippines seems like such a small, inconsequential place for most to bother with. But if you believe in the right to free speech, the right to express yourself even when you’re in the minority, then please. Listen, understand. Help us spread the word, get others to condemn this act, for one simple reason: the restricting of one’s freedom to express ideas, thoughts, and opinions, for whatever reason, is wrong.

On October 3, a law called the Cybercrime Prevention Act takes into effect in the Philippines. While this sounds very right and proper, this particular law bans (among other things that should be rightfully banned, like hacking, child pornography, and the like) cybersex and online libel.

Well, you think. Online libel can’t be that bad.

Oh, it gets worse.

The Philippine definition of online libel is best summed up as “anything that can be misconstrued as criticism against any one individual, regardless of whether it is the truth or otherwise”.

Criticizing a corrupt politician constitutes online libel.

Complaining about inefficient administration constitutes online libel.

The problem with the Philippine definition is that online libel is so broad and unspecific that nearly anything you say can be counted as it, as long as it’s in opposition to what the ‘injured’ party says. The fact that it is so broad enables politicians or people in positions of power to exercise this law against people with dissenting opinions or to stamp out critics, regardless of whether the latter is in the right.

And libel is criminalized here. It’s not a civil suit. (This is a throwback to the days of America’s shaky colonial rule over the Philippines, where libel was criminalized to dissuade critics. This was in the 1940s. No one has thought of changing it since.) With regards to curtailing freedom of speech and content, it is in many ways similar to the previously squashed SOPA bill. Even worse, considering the jailtime.

Oh, wait. There’s more. You’re going to love this.

1. Liking, tweeting or resharing said ‘online libel’ will also mean YOU get jailtime, too. It doesn’t matter if you didn’t write the original entry.

2. Posts, likes, and tweets are retroactive. That means they can jail you for posts, tweets, or likes you’ve made BEFORE the law went into effect, as far back as 2009.

3. Sarcasm still counts as libel.

4. The Department of Justice can block your access to the internet or to other computer files without a search warrant.

5. Convictions can mean up to twelve years of jail time or a P1,000,000 fine (about $20,000. Minimum wage is roughly $10 a day, but usually for jobs with a diploma. Actual wages can go 50% lower than stated, and that’s a GOOD wage for most of the poor).

6. Then they can charge you again for another law that bans printed libel, resulting in more jailtime. They do not apply double jeopardy in this case.

Cybersexing is a crime, too. Well, maybe child pornography can be avoided with this, right? Except child pornography has already been addressed by another law, it’s merely reaffirmed here. Owing to the Filipino lawmakers’ penchant for broadness, ‘cybersex’ is literally anything that constitutes “The willful engagement, maintenance, control, or operation, directly or indirectly, of any lascivious exhibition of sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid of a computer system, for favor or consideration.” Sounds a lot like just plain ol’ pornography, don’t you think? The Philippines, I might add, is an industry geared toward exporting labor. This means husbands / wives are forced to find work abroad for better pay, and do not return home for months.

How did this all start?

Once upon a time, there lived this Senator called Vicento “Tito” Sotto III. He was against the Reproductive Health bill, which if passed, would provide contraceptives and sex education to the poor to minimize overpopulation in the city and infant / maternal death rates.He is a strong backer of the Philippine Catholic Church, which considers contraceptives akin to “abortion” (despite abortion not being a part of the RH bill. It is, in fact, still illegal). The Church has a strong hold in this country, with over 80% Catholics, and funds many politicians.

In Sotto’s speech where he denounces this bill, several bloggers and internet users discovered that he plagiarized text from at least five different U.S. bloggers, including one named Sarah Pope, and from another who was pro-choice, but twisted in his speech to sound anti-choice. Both bloggers expressed dismay at being plagiarized, and he was called out for it. Sotto refused to apologize, and claimed he hadn’t plagiarized because ‘she’s just a blogger’, despite his lawyer confirming that he, in fact, did.

In another speech, Sotto then plagiarized a portion of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy’s speech, then claimed this was not the case, as the text had been converted to Filipino. Therefore, he argued, it can’t be plagiarized because Robert Kennedy can’t speak Filipino.

You might at this point begin to realize the quality of intelligence of some of the senators here.

Bloggers and internet users refused to back down. Sotto then issues a veiled threat regarding ‘regulating blogging’. A few days later, he inserts an online libel provision to the CyberCrime Prevention Act bill that was not present during previous readings of the bill, which was duly passed with only one dissenting vote from a Senator Guingona.

President Noynoy Aquino then proceeded to sign it into law. The irony is not lost on many of us here. His father, Ninoy Aquino, was an advocate for freedom of speech during the 1970s martial law, and literally gave up his life in the process for it. Ninoy’s popularity is what ushered his relatively inexperienced son into office - only to sign what constitutes as E-Martial law instead.

A couple of senators later came forward to admit that they hadn’t read the amendment clearly, which makes it all the more frightening that they voted for something they didn’t even understand in the first place.

The Reproductive Health bill has been in limbo for nearly fourteen years in the Philippines. Same goes for the Freedom of Information Act, which would ensure government transparency. And yet this bill with its controversial clause was enacted into law within DAYS.

Facebook accounts turn black in protest, the law is trending on Reddit. Human rights groups have condemned this law. Anonymous Philippines has been active. Forbes has spoken out against it. But government here has been notorious for turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the protests of the people, instead pandering to cronies and corruption instead.

Sometimes I can’t help but admire friends living in Western countries. Vote republican or democrat, this labor party or that, but you are still free to express yourselves however you may. Living in a country where religion is the all-powerful, I can no longer say the same. Many people believe this is a ruse to take people’s attention away from the RH bill, and I don’t disagree.

But despite all this, many of my fellow Filipinos refuse to back down, and have resolved to continue posting, liking, tweeting, and resharing what they like, regardless of consequence. Because when you back down, they win. It’s as simple as that.

So for any of you people it will be a normal day at October 3 (or 2), 2012.

I, on the other hand, will be living in October 3, 1970, because this law has just set this nation’s progress at least forty years back.

Be thankful for the freedom that you have, and keep fighting for it.

That’s what we’re doing.

The Cybercrime Prevention Act law.

[ Image credit to Mr. Bawagan, who I will not link to here for reasons fairly obvious in this post.]

(Source: whatnowrin)

There’s that “First 20 songs on ur shuffle” thing going around so

1 - To Become One - NicolArmarfi
2 -  07 The Word of Your Body - Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) (I have literally never heard this song before wtf where did it come from)
3 -  A Soul as Red as a Ground Cherry - ZUN
4 -  Blue Beating - Daisuke Ishiwatari
5 - Magus Light - SYNC ART’S
6 - アルティメットトゥルース（meets bossa）-  Jerico
7 - Pergo pugnare - Yuki Kajiura
8 -  World’s End Dancehall (chorus ver) - Wowka (I think)
9 - Veda - Liz Triangle
10 - 2x400m Relay - NicolArmarfi
11 -  Antipyretic - Hitoshi Sakimoto
12 -  Teatime, Fast Forward - NicolArmarfi
13 -  Happy Material April Opening Theme (TV Size) - Sasagawa Ayana & Kuwatani Natsuko & Watanabe Akeno & Tanaka Hazuki & Matsuoka Yuki
14 -  ハートフェルトファンシー（平茸 remix）- 平茸
15 -  Eientewi set 02 〜 蠢々秋月 - 凛
16 -  Alma’s Theme - Hitoshi Sakimoto
17 -  Lover I Dont Have To Love - Bright Eyes
18 -  Ayakashi set 12 Another 〜 ボーダーオブライフ - 凛
19 -  今昔幻想郷（ちばけんいち remix）- ちばけんいち
20 -  幽雅に咲かせ、墨染の桜　～ Border of Life - ????? (I don’t actually know omfg)

Video game music is all I listen to rolls over and away 

aoikurashikimpreg.tumblr.com
blazblue.wikia.com
carlcloverpowerhour.tumblr.com
deviantart.com
epilepticshutterbug.tumblr.com
facebook.com
garnet-chaos.tumblr.com
hatofulboyfriend.tumblr.com
imgur.com
jonahime.tumblr.com 
kumagawa-misogi.tumblr.com
live.com
mischiefprince.tumblr.com 
ninten.tumblr.com
offensive-homestuck.tumblr.com (OH GODS)
pixiv.net
q… nothing
raspberylhoneysuckyl.tumblr.com
saucenao.com
tojiko.tumblr.com
u nothing again
volatile-katze.tumblr.com
wholelottadicks.tumblr.com
x nnnothing
youre-a-beautiful-mess-my-dear.tumblr.com
z nothing again

Hm 

(Source: cptprocrastination)

tojiko:

Here you go

wHY IS THIS GETTING NOTES ALL OF A SUDDEN

tojiko:

Here you go

kumagawa-misogi:

geminus-anguium:

lackingladymeredy:

geminus-anguium:

teddybaron:

lackingladymeredy:

geminus-anguium:

toriqueen:

Because he is. A troll is someone who purposely invokes anger into others, and that is exactly what he does. Therefore he is a troll by definition. I wouldn’t exactly call that “disgracing” him as a character… yeah…

A troll is a person on the internet who picks petty fights for fun. Yeah Hazama does indeed say some petty things, but usually the actions of a troll do not extend farther than that. And Hazama’s actions extend way farther than that. Hazama is not a petty troll, he’s a mass murderer. He’s a manipulator. He destroys peoples lives for fun, and he gets away with it. I’m pretty sure if that’s what a troll was, a lot of trolls would most likely be in jail.

Yes he does things that are “trollish” but if people’s first thought is “LOLOLOL TROLLZAMA” all the time, then I can’t help but wonder how much attention some people did indeed pay to BlazBlue’s story mode.

I totally skipped Blazblue’s storyline for the most part and I never got a “troll” vibe from him. He doesn’t say things to rile up the masses. Why would he? Doesn’t most of his objective require a lot of careful planning and some working behind the shadows? He can’t let his plan be known until the right moment, nor can he provoke any fights until the time is right. So him being a troll completely counter-acts his objective.

Also would like to throw in that the hatred of others also played a large part in maintaining his existence. Hate is a very powerful form of acknowledgement, and that’s what he needs. Hazama does indeed intentionally anger people, but it’s far beyond what a troll desires. Trolls seek entertainment. Hazama seeks life and the furthering of his goals. 

You guys take my rants and make them better.

Also Bre the only time Hazama really comes off as “trollish” is gag reels but those are far from canon events.

That’s what I thought. I’ll sit down and watch all of the cutscenes one day. They’re just so fucking long.

WELP IT IS PRACTICALLY A VISUAL NOVEL…

the reason a lot of people hate it

is because you get kids who live on tvtropes and make him out to be a god of trolling and you get a lot of this ridiculously misplaced hype around him and it’s really disgusting

when you go on youtube and there’s a hazama combo video

” JAPAN BE TROLLIN LOLOL “

Hazama isn’t a troll — he’s evil. 

(Source: karakurivitti)

confidentlyintroverted:

zeborah:

#superlongcomiclmao

don’t you look at me like that i already feel duMB FOR UPLOADING THIS

i hope you can read my messy writing  

amgah!