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>>2489036
reminder that 2016 Night is tonight. got some good stuff ready for everyone.

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Tunes to start the weekend with
> Get into weekend mode with some tunes before 2016 night starts. Adding your own mixes to the playlist is welcome.

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Fr 9:00PM AEST / Fr 1:00PM CEST / Fr 12:00PM BST / Fr 7:00AM EDT / Fr 4:00AM PDT

https://cytu.be/r/moovieroom

>>2480182
omg nonna you're so sweet thank you! Honestly I have no idea how to give art advice, but my top trick is light yellow on a low-opacity overlay layer for lighting, and light purple on a low opacity multiply layer for shading. It works well with everything and it's very easy!

I want to suggest a background theme: Nonnas on the Farm using this cute bg if that's okay, I tried to pick an image with a lot of activity opportunity

>>2489675
Aw nona this is so cute!

>>2491634
>had a fight with drake over a sample and he ruined it with shitposty lyrics about poop
I never knew that was why, I thought he was just messing round. Lmao that is funny as hell.

I love living in an individualistic society and not having to depend on anyone.

Only women can be incels. Men can be hideous goblins and still find women out of their league who genuinely love them. If a man is ugly he can work on his personality or education and find a gf out of his league who loves him, hell, ugly men date out of their league already and have the personality of wet bread and are often freeloaders who pay 50/50 on dates. If you are a genuinely ugly woman there is 0 chance for you to find a man that loves you, let alone a genuinely attractive man. I am ugly as hell and i tried asking out 2 guys who i considered to be my looksmatch and i still got rejected. There genuinely is no hope for ugly women.

>>2491785
this men vs women stuff is seriously getting boring

>>2491786
are you lost?

It's raining again

I went to a party yesterday and was very underdressed. Fuck my gay baka life.

>>2491639
I just saw it's actually two spiders. Do I have to worry about them making babies?

i gave myself bangs and made tham a tiny bit shorter than intended so that i can go longer without trimming them and they ended up looking kind of goofy. almost like the forbidden terf bangs. never beating the allegations

>>2491768
awwwww this picture is so cute. i have a picture like this with my mom from back when i was a tiny bald baby

>>2491772
I found another one over my bed. I don't think we've ever had so many spiders at home at once (at least visibly).

>>2491713
this is one of those creeps that thinks it's fine when husbands try to fuck their wife soon after she gives birth.

>>2491723
Who me or her? I think it’s retarded to act like you can’t have regular sex in a LTR. She probably just has a low libido herself so thinks it’s impossible for a woman to ever have a high one.

>>2486518
>>2486528
This shit is a fucking nightmare.

>>2491729
you. the topic was "needing" it every 1-2 days indefinitely with the implication going without is a problem, which shows just a plain lack of genuine care for someone's partner. it'd be one thing if it was just a casual arrangement, but in a partnership you're with that person through pregnancy, illness, traumatic life events, etc. there's natural hormonal fluctuations especially in terms of whether or not both are enthusiastically consenting at the moment. those men that "need" sex all the time almost never only go after high libido women either.

>>2491729
No one said you can't have regular sex in an LTR, I said if you think you need to have sex 4x a week no matter what, you shouldn't get into committed relationships/marriages where you promise to be with each other in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, etc. I don't have a low libido at all but once you get past the age of 25 or 30 or so most people realize there are a lot of reasons why frequency of sex in a relationship can and likely will decrease, either temporarily or permanently. Only a small percentage of people have sex 4x a week or more in marriages (picrel) for a variety of reasons, so calling the other 90+% of people who don't abusive is fucking crazy talk. People's libidos decrease with age (yes even men's), people's bodies break down and they get more tired, they prioritize sleep, they have to work extra hours, they get sick and develop health conditions, they get pregnant and have kids, they want to spend time with their kids and once they've put their kids to bed sometimes they're tired, or their young kids burst into their room so they need to be alone in the house to have sex or wait until very late at night when they're likely sleeping, they might be upset at their partner for whatever reason and not want to have sex until the issue is resolved, they might just feel like there are better uses of time and want to spend more quality time with their partner talking or doing activities together if their time is limited. Hell they might be using the rhythm method in conjunction with other forms of birth control and avoid sex around ovulation times, some people live with or move back in with family and need to wait until they have some privacy, some people's work schedules might not align, there are actually a million reasons why people don't always have sex every 1-2 days.

Even though I have a high libido I don't prioritize sex over all the other important things in my life and anyone who thinks they'll like, literally die if their partner doesn't get them off every day or two is both delusional (you'll survive) and not respecting their partner as a person and treating them as a sex dispenser. I'd be actively put off by a partner that treated me that way and I'd probably stop wanting to have sex with them if I felt like I had to treat sex like a chore I need to do so my Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2483899
Tim Hortons is pretty disliked by significant portion of Canadians these days because of dog shit quality. And iced caps are even worse than a frozen coffee lol because when they blend it, the flavoring doesn't always mix well enough and you get this gross very minimally coffee-flavored slush at the bottom

>>2491697
buy nescafe ice java and make iced caps at home. timmy's can cope and seethe

>>2490355
These guys. I've loved them since the time i found couple on just laying on a fence and i planted them and grew them all my childhood. Now i'm trying to grow them for 4 years again but there's an insect that's been driling holes in them every year and so it's no luck.

Nonas, are there any discontinued foods you miss and would like to see come back? I used to love picrel..

>>2491806
Lattice biscuits… I miss them so bad. They're just like, crackers covered in sugar syrup but a lot of people use them in slices etc

>>2491811
2/3
I like how in this one they pretend it's about all these ignored groups, like any of these other groups other than troons would be offended by a pussy hat:
>multinational women, disabled women, queer women
What, are they suggesting those women don't have vaginas?

>>2491813
3/3 and my personal fav, this troon was shook to his core by this innocuous sign about female reproductive rights.

>When I went to the Women’s March in Chicago in 2017, I knew that I would feel somehow left out as a trans woman. I’ve long maintained that the “pussy grabs back” mentality is a more-than-appropriate response to a president like this one. But the issues raised in 2017 over how the hats became a symbol of a specific type of cis-centric feminism are real. Standing in D.C. this year, I was reminded of how palpable that discomfort was for me personally, having to wonder if there was space for me in that crowd where it felt like so many people were staring at me like some kind of oddity or novelty.
>And then, as LGBTQ+ elders so often do, Salcedo says something that I have been feeling all day: She tells the crowd she is a woman with a penis who deserves to be there. And I hear someone laugh. Maybe it is a laugh of ignorance or surprise, like a baby’s giggle during peekaboo, a game with mechanics beyond conception for the uninitiated. But that possibility is only as likely as the one I don’t like to consider — that the idea of a “woman with a penis” was laughable.
He finds a way to make shit about himself at a march mostly centered around fears for women's reproductive rights:
>That matters for the trans community right now, as President Trump’s scientifically unsound military ban makes its way through the courts and headline writers believe his administration’s internal memos threaten our existence, even as legislation makes common survival tactics more dangerous. The political system has done more than fail trans women; it has directly threatened us by housing us in men’s prisons, by making asylum seekers’ lives harder, by excluding us from conversations about our own needs even as our piss is legislated.
>After hearing that laugh, I decide I've had enough of the Women’s March.
Moid has enough of a women's protest after realizing it's not about him, news at 11.

>vagina museums
>rotpockets
What is even the point, hope they go bankrupt kek

>>2491792
>Kek what even is 'hormonal sex'?
True. Even people with hormonal imbalances (not troons) are still the same sex. Women with conditions that cause them to have too little estrogen, for example, are still women and nobody denies that. Said hormonal imbalances can also result in health issues.
Troons who go through HRT are just injecting their bodies with something they shouldn't. Trannies' bodies naturally produce the correct amount of hormones for their actual sex, unless their organs are fucked beyond repair due to the HRT.
Hormones are important and closely tied to your sex (your actual reproductive organs). You can't just play with them, fuck your body up and call yourself a "biological" member of the opposite sex.

>>2491760
I was already peaked at the time and remember thinking that surely this would wake the handmaidens up to how misogynistic troons are. Surely! Sigh.

>>2491811
I’d almost forgotten about the ‘Eurocentric’ nonsense. Such disingenuous bullshit. No white woman has a hot pink vagina! The colour was obviously chosen for the same reason that the breast cancer awareness ribbon is that exact same shade of hot pink; this colour is heavily associated with women. The pussy hats were clearly never supposed to be anatomically correct representations of the wearer’s genitalia. They were KNIT HATS with CAT EARS. Once again troons and handmaidens were using WOC as both a cudgel and a shield. They were scrambling for a less dick-centric reason to tear down the movement and this is what they settled on. Was this the first instance of them using claims of racism to shut down a feminist movement? It’s the first time I noticed it, anyway.

I also remember being on Ravelry at the time and seeing people whine that the hat patterns being knit was oppressive to disabled people who couldn’t knit and could only crochet. So people immediately designed crochet versions, but those weren’t good enough because reasons. People complaining about the colour weren’t satisfied with differently coloured versions either. None of these people actually wanted to improve the hats or the message, their end goal was to shut (other) women up entirely.

>>2491659
Japanese women are cowards, even in josei with attractive men they still objectify the female insert more than the hot guy.

I'm experimenting with my style and I really want my digital art to look like old cartoons (picrel as an example), any tips?

I stopped joining zines for a number of reasons. But the length that some zines take is definitely one of them. This zine I participated in started in 2022 and the shipments still haven’t been delivered…it’s supposed to be by this month, but I can’t really believe it since it’s been so fucking long.
This isn’t even the first time a zine I joined took ages to complete. Why is it that the morons who want to become mods of a zine are always the ones who have the busiest schedules? Iirc the mod of this current zine was “busy traveling” which is the reason for the delay. Or maybe that was a different zine with another irresponsible mod with terrible time management. The problem is just that prevalent.
I’ve been in zines that have been completed in reasonable times which is great, but too many of these twats have taken so long in completing the zine due to god knows why that my interest and passion have long since disappeared for the zine. Why the fuck would it take three goddamn years for a zine to complete? There’s definitely some time fuckery going on with one of the mods. Specifically the shipping mod.

Also, of course I also participated in a zine where the finance mod took the money and ran kek. It’s just so retarded how zines will have the entire funds handled by one singular person only. This girl who scammed the zine also did it to other zines she was currently in too kek

>>2491808
I think the waning passion after too much time has passed is something every party experiences. One day you're just talking to your friends about how cool it would be to make a husbando zine and 8 months later you have to ship out hundreds of zines filled with shitty art of a character you don't even care about anymore during your vacation that wouldn't have been affected had there not been delays at every other step. I would definitely put it off for months in a case like that kek
The timelines are really insane though. As an artist I've never needed the full months they plan and ime and neither did anyone else. Most people including myself would procrastinate until the last week and bang their page out in a day. Or everyone would get an extra week because no one bothered to do work and the production timeline would shift further back. I didn't like doing my parts early because at the time I was participating in zines my skills were still developing and three months or whatever the mods had planned would mean a huge difference in quality. Projects like that only succeed if the people involved are really passionate or disciplined which online artists seldom are

>>2491826
True, I don’t really think I was ever truly excited to receive a zine I participated in in the mail. And the long production times is also annoying when you’re working on a piece and it won’t be until a year or more later when you actually get to post it, and that art is terribly outdated at that point so it’s too ugly to post.
And I wonder how often mods can just take a chunk of the profits (that doesn’t include their original share) before paying the artists and no one would ever know. Overall it’s just harder for me to trust zines now, so I stopped joining them for about a year or two since. A zine that started in 2022 and is still not complete is just fucking ridiculous and irresponsible

i've had a strong craving for baked beans on toast. so i've been eating them. the cheap cans of baked beans and some hot toast… delightful. i'm not even from the UK yet it's something i find so comforting

Microwaved sweet potato with gochujang garlic mayo. I always thought gochujang was like any other chili paste but I was wrong, it's so addicting. The smokiness just makes it out of this world.

Just made a mixed berry smoothie. I would make it more often but the blender is too loud so I only use it when my roommates are away.

Sometimes cheese and tomato is where it's at. Put that in between bread, rice crackers, wheat crackers, oat crackers, whatever.

A whole can of mackerel. I need my omega-3s.