Just An FYI. The FDA Is Not Allowed To Announce Any Food Recalls Due To The Health Communications Pause

I'm currently in the process of drawing a comic, and I have found myself struggling with the composition, specifically what angle a character should be viewed from, how to space the text bubbles, and how to have the characters and objects placed. So I was wondering if you have any advice to give on that? Thanks!

To be honest, coming up with the composition for a panel is a lot like shooting a movie. Different angles invoke specific emotions but also help draw your focus on what's important. Different angles are especially useful for fight scenes, since they give it a lot more momentum. I'd suggest taking inspiration from different media for it. Manga and Anime is especially good at that kind of stuff.

As for the text bubbles and the placement of the characters it's important to remember that the eye trails across a page like this:

So what you wanna do in composition is work with this flow and not against it.

The eye starts with the text box, wanders over to Kris, Frisk (and Susie), goes down to a noticing a distressed Chara and then it stops at the last text box. Though there are many MANY ways to handle this. But that is a simple example how to explain a decent flow.

So Your Temperate Home is Suddenly an Arctic Hellscape

As -10F hits area’s of the US who’ve never seen such temperatures in living memory, I wanted to give some tips from a Minnesotan who’s lived with these temps as a part of my life for 37 years.

1) Don’t Get Cocky. People used to these temps may laugh at our southern neighbors freaking out about the cold because yes, some parts of the US get such temps regularly every year. These people are being ignorant assholes. Our houses are mandated to have insulation that few of your homes will have. We pretty much all have huge puffy coats, and have well established winter weather gear drives for homeless and poor folks every year. We have expensive, well equipped infrastructure for cope with these temps and with large amounts of snow. You don’t. When it comes down to it, Minnesotans know to respect the cold temps- it’s just that a lot of the ways that do it are so commonplace as to be invisible to those who already have these habits.

2) Don’t go out wet. Dry your hair or stay inside. You will loose a lot of heat if you’re wet. Same for sweat, and wet diapers. And clothes with snow on them are now WET CLOTHES. Change into dry clothes as soon as possible.

3) If you have a shitty car battery or a car that sometimes struggles to start, then try not to use it. You’re unlikely to get the kind of temps where it’s impossible to start an engine (I’ve only experienced those temps a few times. Once my eyelashes froze shut and I almost froze to death in my own back yard. Don’t be like young me. Respect the cold.) If your car doesn’t start, you could be stranded somewhere, and realistically your area’s emergency services may be pretty overrun. 

4) Very cold air doesn’t hold moisture well. Plan for extra hydration for people, pets, and plants. Even if your staying in- most home heaters pull cold air from outside, then dry it out even MORE in the process of heating it. Dehydration is a thing. Even if your home’s heater has a humidifier attached to it (if you’re not sure, then it probably doesn’t.) it’s a good idea to drink extra water. Right now I have a few pots of water just left out by heaters to evaporate as much as possible. My mom used to just heat huge camping pots on the stove all day in cold temps. Remember, dry nasal passages really muck up your bodies ability to fight airborne illness. This is not a great time for that.

5) Help out homeless folks in your area in any way you can. These temps can and do kill. And since we have more evictions than any society can conscionably defend this year, we have high numbers of homeless people. Which means area supports for unhoused folks are often underfunded and over-taxed. 

6) Let your faucets drip. I know nobody likes to waste water but if your pipes freeze they will literally explode. Your home will flood. My mother’s kitchen got completely destroyed and it traumatized my childhood dog. Justa  bit of moving warm water will safeguard you from that.

7) Do. Not. Burn. Propane. Indoors. 

8) Plan for potential power outages. Ice on the lines can cause this and again, your infrastructure isn’t prepped for this. Unplug anything in your home you’re not using to do your part to help prevent rolling blackouts.

9) Driving on ice is a SKILL. Your roads may be filled with people who do not have that skill. Please please, stay off the roads if you can- even if you have this skill these roads will not be prepped and will, again, be full of people who don’t know how to do this because it just hasn’t come up that much in their life.

Stay safe and stay kind, folks! 

Cult of the Lamb - Head Trauma

Been influenced quite a bit with how comics here on tumblr are formatted, so I've been experimenting lately with how I possibly want to upload sketches and stuff in the future--these little comics were mostly experiments on how high or low effort I would like to go.

In other news, I've finished this game twice now. I'm officially a follower and I've got ideas spinning in my head. This bodes poorly for me.

what they don’t tell you about making art is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

Found Family || Gotham

Maybe this therapy shit is working

a love letter to qsmp.

welcome to the qsmp // “gift to both my communities” - quackity announces his own bilingual minecraft server called qsmp by shreyan mukherjee // quackity opens his new smp - qsmp twitch stream // quackity on twitter // screenshots from qsmp egg wiki pages, quackity on twitter, philza on twitter, and slimecicle avenges his minecraft child (qsmp) twitch stream // quackity welcomes brazilian creators to the qsmp 🇧🇷 twitch stream // quackity welcomes french creators to the qsmp 🇫🇷 twitch stream // @mikaikaika // festa junina qsmp wiki page // screenshots from cellbit & roier wedding qsmp wiki page and tumblr // @shikai-the-storyteller // quackity welcomes new creators to the qsmp twitch stream // @majickth // @kadextra // screenshots from 4th of july, welcome carre!, and mexico’s independence day qsmp wiki pages and tumblr // @bloodyteeth-png // quackity on twitter, cellbit on instagram, quackity on twitter, slimecicle on instagram // screenshots from PARANORMAL ORDER: QUARENTENA - PART 2 (FINAL) twitch stream, etoiles on twitter, missa on instagram, bagi on instagram, cellbit on instagram, tubbo and cellbit on twitter, and tumblr // quackity on instagram // screenshot from 2/11/24 (reposted here) // screenshot from 2/11/24 (reposted here) // @royalarchivist // screenshot from 2/17/24 (reposted here) // quackity on instagram // quackity on twitter // screenshot from 3/16/24 (reposted here) // en - a letter from pomme // screenshots from qsmp korea on twitter, former or current admins (shade, artea, @.dandelionryans [admin of sunny]) on twitter, en - a letter from pomme, and tumblr // @kadextra // art by @sweevanna, @ivelte, @brunmary, @din0lover, @milenalovememe, @anartisticdreamer0, @fghniki, and @mailb0xbunii // @ramons-elevator // screenshots from 3/22/24 (reposted here) // quackity notifications (@.quackitybell) on twitter // @lionheartedmusings

No sleep. Thoughts are consumed by how when Pomme was first given to the french she was the youngest, the littlest egg, and while she was babied as the youngest she was also the one in the most danger as she was the last egg with all her lives. Not only did she have to grow up so fast, she actually used her lives as protection for her siblings since as long as she had all of them the code would target her and her alone. And she got better, and stronger, and tougher, and the entire island knew her strength. But she was still q!frenchs daughter, youngest in their heart. And while Pomme slowly noticed that most stopped looking over her shoulder, none of the french ever let her face anything alone. She would always be their baby <3

becoming an adult cheat sheet!

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what to do when you can’t afford therapy

cleaning your bathroom

what to do when you can’t pay your bills

stress management

quick fix meals

find out if you’re paying too much for your cell phone bill

resume workshop

organize your closet

how to take care of yourself when you’re sick

what you should bring to a doctor’s appointment

what’s a mortgage?

how to pick a health insurance plan

hotlines list

your first gynecology appointment

what to do if the cops pull you over

things to have in your car in case of emergency

my moving out masterpost

how to make friends as an adult (video)

how to do taxes (video)

recommended reads for surviving adulthood (video)

change a flat tire (video)

how to do laundry (video)

opening a bank account (video)

laundry cheat sheet

recipes masterpost

tricks to help you sleep more

what the fuck should you make for dinner?

where should you go for drinks?

alcohol: know your limits

easy makeup tips

find seat maps for your flight

self-defense tips

prevent hangovers

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how to write a check

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browse careers

birth control information

financial management software & app (free)

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my college applications masterpost

how to jumpstart a car

sex ed masterpost

Edward: Yeah, now Jonathan probably hates me. I bet he’ll just shoot me if he ever sees me again

Waylon: Oh man that’s really tough, sorry for interrupting your breakup by the way

Edward: Excuse me?

Waylon: what?

Edward: It was’t a breakup

Waylon: So you’re still together?

Edward: We aren’t and weren’t dating, Waylon

Waylon: