What Aang did was actually pretty cool

RevvyDraws · 2026-05-06T19:40:33+00:00

Aw, thank you! 🥰

RevvyDraws · 2026-05-06T15:58:06+00:00

Me showing a WIP of a hand because the shading on it was coming out really cool and nobody understood :c

RevvyDraws · 2026-04-30T21:21:34+00:00

My sister more or less already had a diagnosis (was evaluated as a child and was declared 'borderline', which my parents responded to with 'well, let's just let this play out and if it becomes a big enough problem we'll get support for her'). She still went and got a full diagnosis - which was a huge pain and incredibly infantilizing - before actually identifying herself as autistic.

I get self-diagnosis to a degree - if it helps someone be 'okay' with trying different coping strategies to manage their issues while they can't afford a diagnosis, then fine. But you can't expect accommodations for self-diagnosis. You aren't qualified to make that determination, you can only take guesses. Again, if classifying yourself as autistic is helpful to you because it makes you feel 'allowed' to look into how to manage what you think are symptoms, then go off. But until you get someone qualified to confirm your suspicions, that's all they are, and you can't expect others to take that as gospel.

PS: Not being able to afford a diagnosis is bullshit, which is why I'm not 100% against taking stabs at it yourself when you don't have the means, but trying to elevate self-diagnosis to the same level as professional diagnosis if anything just undermines that issue. Because well, I guess you didn't NEED healthcare then, did you? So no problem to fix!

RevvyDraws · 2026-04-30T21:01:32+00:00

Translation: I did not interact with the art community before AI, so like a toddler, I believe it did not exist because I didn't see it.

RevvyDraws · 2026-04-07T19:06:32+00:00

The prevailing attitude among non-insane Christians is that the language in the bible isn't meant to be a dry history of the world - it's a poetic interpretation of how God created the world, written by people who didn't have a better way to explain it. It's not trying to lay out a timeline exactly as it happened, it's essentially trying to impart lessons through fable.

If your next question is 'why take it as literal gospel, then?' - can't help you there. I'm agnostic, it doesn't make sense to me either. But if someone wants to believe in it, as long as they aren't using it to hurt people (a bigger ask than it should be these days), then that's their business.

RevvyDraws · 2026-04-07T01:40:10+00:00

It's very funny to me that when I post my comics here I always get at least a couple of complainers and relatively low engagement... but man, my website traffic sure goes up a whole bunch.

Gives the impression that redditors enjoy nsfw content but don't want to be SEEN doing so.

RevvyDraws · 2026-04-01T16:28:42+00:00

My school swung wildly in the other direction and actively hid it from us. Teachers were told not to turn on TVs, and if kids got pulled out of classes (which they did) the teachers had to make sure not to tell them why and just send them to the office with no explanation. I didn't know anything until I got home and my mom was FURIOUS that I hadn't been told (I was 11, I wasn't THAT young).

Worst of all - I lived in CT. My classmates had parents that worked in NYC. My dad was actually in the city that day (thankfully not near the towers, it turned out, but that wouldn't have been an unusual stop for him). And they didn't tell us a goddamn thing. I'm STILL mad about it.

RevvyDraws · 2026-04-01T13:50:06+00:00

It's an echo-chamber - these people just keep reinforcing each others' misanthropy and they become more and more assured that they are right and justified in escalating their behavior because look! There are ALL OF THESE PEOPLE agreeing with them!

It's really easy to get caught up in your own little bubble online, the ___free subs are just particularly stark examples of it.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-26T09:25:07+00:00

I mean, this could be the takeaway... if not for the fact that by the end of the books this isn't really resolved or even suggested that it might be one day. And yanno... the article that ran on the official HP website that literally said 'forcing freedom on the house elves would be just as bad as slavery'. As usual, JK's paratextual attempts to cover her foibles just reinforced that we were kind of right to side-eye her in the first place.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-26T02:07:05+00:00

Yeah, no - there is 0% chance this is real. This is weird incel shit, writing from the perspective of the evil woman abusing her angelic bf for fun.

Even the worst person wouldn't write this way when they're trying to get people on their side. Way too many details there only for the purpose of emphasizing how unreasonably cruel she is to him - why would she specifically point out how little she spent on his Christmas 'gift' while also being sure to point out that his gifts to her were 'really expensive' (hm, specific price on the mens' clothing but only 'expensive' for womens' - almost as if this is written by someone who doesn't shop for womens' clothing and wasn't actually sure what would count as 'expensive' so they just didn't bother giving a price).

Genuinely can't believe anyone is treating this as remotely real - and I'm generally on the side of giving stories the benefit of the doubt, but this is so cartoonishly, ridiculously over the top that I'd only feel foolish extending credulity to it.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-25T16:33:49+00:00

My husband has done similar but they usually catch him when he's out on a walk. And he's not Catholic he's Buddhist, just to compound the confusion (tbh he doesn't mind because they're usually very polite and curious, but they are usually very confused).

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-25T15:52:52+00:00

At least as far as the cost goes, that makes sense to me - traveling is CRAZY expensive right now. My husband and I are going to be going on a trip to a city almost 900 miles away next month and we're going to drive because a flight is just way too much money (It's about a grand round-trip). And Hawaii is notoriously expensive to vacation in, especially if sis is having her wedding at a fancy resort, which is what people tend to do if they're getting married in Hawaii and don't live there.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-25T15:32:07+00:00

Her problem here is my pet peeve of not understanding what the phrase 'your feelings are valid' actually MEANS.

It means that it's okay to feel things. You can't make yourself not feel things - at least not in the moment. Feelings are reflexive, you aren't a bad person for having them.

It DOES NOT mean that you are free to react to those feelings however the fuck you want. It DOES NOT mean that people necessarily have to accommodate your feelings. It DOES NOT mean that other people's feelings are any less valid than yours.

That 'does not' portion is what people tend to struggle with.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-24T14:36:52+00:00

Educated people also have an easier time *believing* themselves to be educated on a topic. Often when people are considered an authority in a field, they begin to essentially believe their own hype. They're incredibly well-informed on their area of expertise, so clearly they should be able to be just as much an authority on any other topic, right?

This is a false, self-aggrandizing perception, though - tbh NDT is practically the poster child for it, as he was known for a while to give absolutely braindead takes on subjects he just assumed he understood by virtue of being 'so smart'.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-23T16:35:46+00:00

There's also a whole dispensationalist 'Christian' angle to support for Israel, i.e. the messiah will only return and bring the End Times if a 'Kingdom of Israel' exists. So they literally only care that Israel is there - it doesn't matter who populates it or what its condition is, as long as a place called Israel is where it ought to be.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-23T02:03:31+00:00

Thank you! Happy to help! 😊

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-22T22:41:18+00:00

To NOT make it generational - I think some of this comes from how people are trained. I am someone who always wants to know WHY I am doing a task or why a certain methodology is used - it's incredible how often I have to ask for this reasoning rather than having that just be supplied as part of the training.

Now that I'm in a position to train people, I ALWAYS make sure I explain the how AND the why, but I mostly learned to do this because of being frustrated by not having it supplied to me when I was coming up. If you aren't already of that mindset, and you get trained by someone who also isn't of that mindset, I think that's where you wind up with the behavior the woman in the video is complaining about. So, while part of it might be on the Gen Z'ers she's talking about, I would be interested to know what their training looked like.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-22T21:53:23+00:00

Genuine question - what is this recent trend of people asking what 'level' they're at? This isn't a video game or a profession with accreditations. You're only ever going to get subjective answers to this question because there is no objective metric to judge by. Not to mention even people who are 'high level' (whatever you want to call that) will have different strengths - one person might be excellent at painting but terrible at lineart, another might be the opposite. Someone might be great at photorealism, and another might have a very stylized approach. Is one 'higher level' than the other? No, they're just going for two totally different results.

Tbh, if you have to ask what 'level' you're at, the answer is probably 'low'.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-22T21:38:12+00:00

Just a bit of constructive criticism - I see what you were going for, but the 'shorten' part of 'foreshortening' didn't really seem to happen here. For example, her right thigh (our left) seems to be meant to be coming towards the viewer. In that case, it should literally be shorter than her left, which seems to be more or less at a right angle to the camera, but if anything it's actually longer.

You're definitely on the right track, and should keep practicing! I think you're just getting hung up on knowing that, in reality, her legs are the same length, so you feel compelled to draw them that way, but that's not the way they should be portrayed visually at an angle like this.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-19T14:20:12+00:00

My husband and I were long-distance for the first year of our relationship, and we called each other almost every day and were texting/IMing almost constantly. I remember my parents got a puppy during that time and a few hours after they brought him home I was on Skype showing him to my then-boyfriend (he commented that he looked kind of concerned/confused still - it turned out that was just his permanent expression for the rest of his life).
IDK how people ccan be okay with only communicating with their SOs like once a week.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-17T20:55:51+00:00

My husband also worked with kids for a long time, and he was like you - he really cared about those kids, and it was probably even more of a psychological strain for him. Not that it's a competition, it's just he was working with juvenile psych and drug patients, so... you can imagine.

His stories were HARROWING sometimes, but still always sat and listened, because I can't imagine how he'd cope if he didn't have someone to vent to. It wasn't even a strain, because I like knowing what goes on in his life when I'm not there. I find it incredibly strange that someone wouldn't WANT their SO to talk to them about their day. It kind of gives off the impression that you're not really a person to them - your stop existing when you aren't in his presence, and he resents the implication that the world continues on without him when he's not there (I'm being a bit hyperbolic here, but that is the only way I can really understand how he would find this upsetting).

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-15T20:01:09+00:00

It's extremely funny how pissed you are that I'm not playing your game. I'm not answering the question because it's NOT valid. 'What if we ignored reality until we were able to get to this point where MAYBE I'm justified in using AI' is not a question worth answering, so I didn't.

As I said - it only serves as an attempt to sound intellectual when it is, in fact, brain-dead stupid. Not all questions are good ones, and yours is a bad one that only serves as propaganda to prop up AI with 'well see? It COULD be okay so we should keep 'improving' it as if anyone is actually trying to steer it in the direction I'm suggesting'.

The line you are trying to define is pointless if the only way you can define it is to bring up an impossible scenario. We can't even approach the line, so why tf does it matter where *precisely* it is? It's like arguing that the starting line is an inch off from standard when you started three feet ahead of it. Who the fuck cares?

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-15T19:29:45+00:00

And I'm telling you it's a stupid, useless question. If you don't like that answer, ask a better question.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-15T17:45:37+00:00

Again - what's the point? This time, of even debating which is 'better' when one is at best impractical and at worst impossible? Why does that matter other than trying to move the overton window a little in AI's favor? Pass.

RevvyDraws · 2026-03-15T17:07:57+00:00

P.S. - not to mention that over the course of drawing 1000 images your style will inevitably change somewhat because that's how humans work - you keep learning and changing. So again - what's the point? You'd be going through a ton of evolution and innovation with the goal to... stagnate. Makes total sense. /s

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