I Want To Draw SOOO FUCKING BAD

book spreading the love!

Uh hey chat… We don’t talk about how I’ve been gone for like 2 months… I literally haven’t had anything to draw and have slowly started forgetting that tumblr exists 😔

Guys please give me stuff to draw book doing I’m out of options and my brain hurts 😭

Enjoy this very old and bad art I made a while back of book doing pillow’s makeup ig

SHES SPREADING THE LOVEEE I LLOVE HER SM MY LIL CUTIEE

ohh book. you were my favourite since when you were still called dictionary...

GIGGLES I love this

I'm seeing a lot of people say that punk fashion is expensive and inaccessible, which is very wrong. here is a list of some ways you can make punk fashion easier, cheaper and more accessible for you, since that's... kinda the whole point.

others are encouraged to add onto this!! (just don't recommend corporations like amazon. not cool.)

1. patches!! you don't need to buy them. DIY patches are not ugly or boring. in fact, they are encouraged here!! DIY, in my opinion, is always the best thing to do when it is an option and is safe to do so.

2. speaking of DIY, spikes!! you can make them!!

cut the top and bottom off of an empty can. cut down the middle of the cylinder and flatten it, so it's just a flat rectangle of metal.

cut out a shape that is kind of a third of a circle, but around 3/4 of the curved edge is taken up by triangle shapes. (I'm not very good at describing, so here's a badly drawn picture)

roll it into a cone, leaving the 4 triangles sticking out at the bottom. this bit is optional, but you can fill it with hot glue to make it more sturdy, just be careful touching the hot metal. I tend to hold the cone by one of the triangles with a bit of fabric wrapped around my fingers for this bit. cut 4 small holes in your fabric in this kind of shape:

and put the spiky bits of triangle through the holes. fold the triangles in on themselves to secure the spike in place. boom. spike obtained. this is one I made and attached to a little piece of fabric to test this method out:

3. battle vests!! (like the base jackets). the best places to buy these are charity shops and second hand websites in my opinion, but if anyone else knows any better options, please reblog with those!!

a good trick I find works well on eBay is to filter search results to your country (or state? can you do that in the US? idk) so that a: fast delivery because local, and b: all the sellers of everything that shows up are in YOUR TIME ZONE.

why is this important? when people sell something for really cheap, it goes FAST. check eBay at like, 2am or something. all the scalpers in your area are asleep. grab the cheap stuff while they can't.

4. sewing!! want patches, but can't sew for whatever reason? I've heard of a lot of people with joint conditions like arthritis complain about the inaccessibility of patch stuff, and that does sound extremely annoying, however:

safety pins!! while they are still a little fiddly, they're much less work so you don't have to fiddle about for long. if you can, you could even ask a friend to help, since it doesn't take long at all I'm sure someone will be willing to help out!! (I know I would, but that's just me, and I love this kind of thing). safety pins on clothes are also widely considered to be a symbol of solidarity, so if anything, you're adding some extra love and meaning to your patch pants/battle jacket.

if that's still too fiddly, fabric glue is always an option. unfortunately this means you won't be able to remove/reposition patches, at least without leaving a massive patch of residue, but if you're ok with that then fabric glue is probably your best bet.

for people who prefer sewing: as for where to get the thread, I've heard a lot of people recommending dental floss, as it's apparently much cheaper and works just as well. I haven't tried this myself so can't confirm that, but I thought I'd share it regardless.

5. where to get fabric!! old clothes. rip em up. you don't need any kind of fancy fabric from the craft store. my patches are made of old jeans that I grew out of.

don't have any old clothes and you don't want to waste any good ones? I'm not sure about other countries, but in the UK, as long as you're not on private property (trespassing), dumpster diving is perfectly legal.

I definitely ;) do NOT encourage ;) trespassing rich people's land ;) to steal from their dumpsters ;)

or tbh it doesn't matter too much how rich the person is, since it's all going to landfill anyway. if it's in the bin, it's free game, but you didn't hear that from me. ;)

please add onto this where you can!! and if I missed something or got anything wrong, add that on too!!

YES OH MY GOD. I love people who make good use of words

IT'S BOOK!!!!!!!!!!! I like her in bfdia not so much in tpot but her human ver is so fun to draw

YES THANK YOU

As much as I am LOVING all the love and support the new black magical girl pilot is getting, can we not use it to put down other magical girl shows?? Yeah more darker skinned/black rep in anime is important, but that doesn’t mean that any other magical girl shows with pale skinned characters are inherently bad???

And don’t call the characters in these other magical girl shows white when they literally take place in Japan.

“Oh I only mean poc. There’s no diversity.”

Yes diversity is important but like…

JAPANESE PPL ARE STILL POC!! ASIANS ARE POC!! Not every poc has darker skin tones and it’s extremely racist to assume otherwise.

Idk why tf you’d even say/believe something like that so proudly like omg that’s super racist what is wrong with yall??? We should be going after the racist white ppl in power right now, not after other fellow marginalized ppl. Get over yourselves.

Plus the creator of idwbamg is also literally half Japanese. She’s blasian. so not only are you being racist towards other Japanese ppl but to the creator of this pilot as well..and don’t even get me started on the internalized misogyny radiating off of these ppl using this pilot to put down other magical girl shows..I hate it here…

sick of everything