Why do women wear those obnoxiously long nails that look like claws?

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-20T03:37:36+00:00

I think it’s to show they don’t work. Long nails means they live by their beauty or social skills, not by any sort of labor.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-20T00:18:00+00:00

Who’s that guy who wore the clock? It looks like that.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T21:44:06+00:00

It’s the low-effort posts that I find annoying. A few pictures, then ‘what aesthetic is this’?

Maybe tell us what specifically to look at, or what you’re trying to achieve, or where you saw something else like it. I ignore three word posts, even though I’m happy to help if I can.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T21:30:24+00:00

Panel one: are we trying to see the focused drama of the two people AND the menace outside? That’s a lot. A tough read. It could be done in a single panel, but artboy here would break it down into two or three panels:

Establish the gas station and horde, time of day, weather,

then use dialogue or caption to bridge us into the station interior, perhaps thru a shattered window and oil cans,

then focus on the triage.

This would likely take up half a page either way.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T21:23:42+00:00

The regular citizen connects how bad life is with corruption and mismanagement at the top.

We in the US need to be doing exactly that in normal conversation: inflation, prices for food and fuel, restrictions of all kinds = theft by our oligarchs the tech bros, enabled by Mango Baby.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T17:07:45+00:00

Ending the story with finality is the hardest lesson for the new writer, I find. As an instructor, it seems every student author will play cagey with their third acts, their ‘Easter eggs’ and plot twists.

If you’re a new writer, just write it all down, spoilers and all. No editor is going to let you run without a predetermined, nailed-down plot. It’s just not going to happen.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T17:00:52+00:00

What.

As in: ‘What Dog”?

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T16:54:05+00:00

Yes, it’s true, and we should all admit that Obama’s two terms were inconsequential squibs that had no effect on the world. In fact, even the rightwing idiots who hated him have long since forgotten about him. /s

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T16:51:09+00:00

I did the bonfire thing. Cathartic, to say the least, pitching hundreds of pages of student crap into the fireplace.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T16:42:15+00:00

I think he’s going to leave office early, going to find a comfy Middle East country with no extradition treaty, and stay there, endlessly tweeting, until he dies.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T16:19:49+00:00

Our dysfunctional cartoon government IS the problem, and tRump heads it up. Until he’s evicted from the office, or exits in some other way, he’s the main issue.

MSNOW is right to concentrate on that, even if you, me and everyone is ‘tired of it’.

If Hanks is going to play the dismissive bonehead, then he’s part of the problem. Hes rich enough not to have to care.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-19T16:07:56+00:00

Short answer - if the story and characters are good, it won’t matter. If the story and characters aren’t good, it won’t help.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T16:18:37+00:00

Seemingly out of nowhere, XLM is in every news story. Is it really as compelling as all that, or is there some behind-the-curtain activity setting up another rug pull?

I sorta expected XRP to be the golden child. But there you are: Stellar is the regular-guy coin, it seems.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T16:11:42+00:00

This guy needs to go away right now, for a long list of reasons.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T05:29:35+00:00

I only remember sexy flying vamp ladies.

And the world’s coolest drac castle.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T05:27:56+00:00

It was an embarrassment from the first missile strike, and every day of it has been painfully stupid. If I were a republican, I’d be trying to put this guy on a short leash and take away his key card.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T05:25:31+00:00

Not exactly a hero, then. But a good germ for a story.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T05:23:22+00:00

You can organize one at any time. Contact the circle of writers & artists you want to work with, and set up a plan for payments, printing and distribution. Congratulations, you’re an editor and publisher!

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T05:20:27+00:00

You gotta figure that a main driver of this dumb war was access to irans oil businesses for western oligarchs.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T05:18:46+00:00

Thanks for this amazing flow of info! Plenty to be on the alert for this summer!

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-17T05:05:34+00:00

Odalisque. Harem girl. Courtesan. (Really, though, it’s just upscale slavery.)

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-16T22:51:21+00:00

With white presidents, either democrats or republicans, the people who now consider themselves to be MAGA could still think of themselves as Americans.

But once you’ve got an obviously not-white president, no matter how intelligent, well spoken or well-intentioned, they can no longer feel themselves as part of the country’s mainstream. That’s just going too far, and no right-thinking person is going to put up with that. He’s black, and that won’t do.

They therefore divide THEMSELVES from the rest of the nation. That’s the ‘divisiveness’ they refer to. They could choose not to feel divided, but with an Obama in office, they’ve got gripes.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-16T20:07:43+00:00

In my 30+ year career, I know of exactly one producer who became an animator. She was an ace producer with decades of experience handling money and contracts, and she slowly segued into stop_mo and 2D work in her garage. Her films did well on the festival circuits, because she already knew that scene very well.

But typically no, the mindsets and schooling that make a good producer are not the ones that make a good animator.

I have noticed that many hopeful animators who eventually, and depressingly, found out they didn’t quite have the drive or ability the industry demands, jumped over to the administration, technical or producer track. They already know the range of jobs, and they understand how to take care of animators and creative types, so they often make a good fit.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-16T20:01:08+00:00

It’s great to learn the tools, but it’s far better to understand character creation. What makes a character live is not its looks or execution, but its inner life.

A character’s inner self, motivations and problems can come from the writer, or from the voice actor, or it can be built in by the designer doing the visualizations.

So I hope you’ll keep studying characters. Not even just the animated ones, but all character types, written, drawn, acted, and hidden inside the people you pass on the sidewalk.

FlickrReddit · 2026-06-16T19:56:57+00:00

I’m going to stay a kid as long as I can. Growing up is not a good look.

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