Starting again on July 1st is my favorite online artist event: Art Fight! If you have OCs, and enjoy making and receiving art involving OCs, then I highly suggest you check out the site and set up an account!
For those who aren’t familiar with Art Fight, here’s a brief overview:
Each year, participating artists are split into two teams.
The main goal is to find any artist from the team opposite yours, and ‘attack’ them by drawing art of their ocs! Your team receives points based on what you create.
Artists that receive attacks can then ‘counter’ by drawing an OC belonging to the person who fought them, or pay it forward by simply attacking anyone on the opposing team!
The official about page with more in depth information is located here! There’s also a video format for this information that can be watched here!
Art Fight is a great chance to interact with tons of different artists, get to know the amazing OCs that others have created, and have a lot of fun making art! The art you receive is also very exciting; you never know who may attack you! Keep in mind, it’s all in good fun and any skill level is welcome!!
The event lasts a month (July 1st – August 1st), and the team with the most points by the end wins!
My account can be found here, if anyone feels like attacking me! I hope to see you there!!
gonna be doing this again this year!! come and fight me! c:<
Can’t wait for this to start up! I answer every attack with a counter, at least a sketch and do Friendly Fire! Follow me here, I’d love to give back to other artists and have a month of fun creativity!!
An actual conversation I heard at a pride parade:
“What flag is that?” “An Irish flag. That’s a pub.”
“A long-term study of children
raised by lesbians found that these children were less likely
to suffer from physical and sexual abuse than were their peers
who were raised by heterosexuals. This is thought to be due to
the absence of adult heterosexual men in the households (Gartrell,
Bos, & Goldberg, 2010). Girls raised by
lesbians tend to have higher self-esteem, show more maturity
and tolerance than their peers, and are older when they have
their first heterosexual contact (Gartrell et al., 2005, 2010). Children
raised by same-sex parents seem to be less constrained by
traditional gender roles; boys are less aggressive, and girls are
more inclined to consider nontraditional careers, such as doctor,
lawyer, or engineer (Gartrell et al., 2005; Stacey & Biblarz,
2001). Over the course of more than 20 years, scientists studied
the psychological adjustment of 78 teenagers who were raised by lesbian mothers. Compared to age-matched counterparts raised
by heterosexual parents, these adolescents were rated higher
in social, academic, and total competence, and lower in social
problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and externalizing problem
behavior (Gartrell & Bos, 2010).
There are fewer studies of children raised by two men, but gay
fathers are more likely than straight fathers to put their children
before their career, to make big changes in their lives to accommodate
a child, and to strengthen bonds with their extended families
after becoming fathers (Bergman, Rubio, Green, & Padrone,
2010).” ~ Martha Rosenthal, Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society, p.247.
“having gay parents will harm children”
I love that this is cited and sourced ahhhh. Actual researched support! So good.
Everyone knows that on Uber/Lyft you should always give the driver five stars unless they, like, drive the car into the ocean or something, right? You can’t say “the ride was fine, nothing special, so I gave them three stars,” because the company will punish them for being anything less than perfect.
Well, you should know that the same rule goes for any kind of customer service survey. Unless the service you received was unacceptable, give them 5/5 or 10/10 or whatever. It’s annoying, because it ruins the sensitivity of the survey, but it’s how it’s gotta be. 9/10 gets treated like a problem and 6/10 gets treated like a disaster. Understand this and do the workers a favor by grading easy.
Also, remember that when the survey says, “How likely are you to recommend [Company] to others?” or “How satisfied are you?” that really refers directly to the last person to help you, and will show up in their personal metrics.
Not the idiot who screwed everything up three calls ago, not the company as a whole: the last person you spoke to. If they fixed your problem and you answer the “Would you recommend the company?” question with a 3/10, you’re not providing criticism of the people who couldn’t help you – you’re hurting the one who did.
It sucks, and it makes it super hard for the incompetent people to get weeded out, while it punishes the competent ones. I’ve lost track of how many surveys I’ve gotten back with a ridiculously low score and a written-in comment that says, “Jacqueline was wonderful, but I really hate [this policy/this other agent/etc]” and, I mean, it’s great that they said nice things about me in the comments, because it means my boss doesn’t have to listen to the entire call to find out if he needs to yell at me, but that still reflects on me, personally, as far as the number-crunchers at the company are concerned.
2 AM mood: fullmetal alchemist continues to be the best executed series I’ve ever had the pleasure to read in my life and I thank arakawa everyday for delivering it to me thank u cow mom
27 books and the plot is still understandable, well-rounded character arcs, consistent characterization and style, no loose ends despite an incredibly detailed multifaceted narrative???? The most well-paced, filmic action sequences I’ve ever read?????? When has another manga E V E R
