It’s the doodler’s manifesto tshirt! http://www.redbubble.com/people/davidscohen/works/16884608-the-doodlers-manifesto and here is the manifesto: Lines are movements, let them dance. ♥ Accidents are beautiful. ♥ Overworked is the enemy. ♥ Over-thought is the enemy. ♥ Smiles and laughter are not just important, they are noble, elevating, aesthetic experiences. ♥ Respect the integrity of your chosen media, embrace the quirks of your chosen media. ♥ Experiment! ♥ Practice acceptance. ♥ Respond! ♥ Improvise! ♥ Let people see what you make especially the pieces that make you nervous. ♥ Art is Love for everybody. ♥ We make art on Earth. We are Earthlings one and all and only one planet is open for business. ♥ Choose Mudita over Schadenfreude. ♥ Glory in color. ♥ Strive to bring the feeling of color even when using only a black pen on white paper. ♥ Even a single line can be beautiful. ♥ Even a single line can be profound. ♥ Your hand knows its business – don’t be too swift to judge it when it surprises you. ♥ Doodling is openness to the essential. ♥ When in doubt, draw a bird. ♥ When in doubt, draw a bunny. ♥ When in doubt, write a word in the middle of the page. Love is a great word to choose. ♥ Believe in every line you draw. ♥ When in doubt, be simple and spare. ♥ When in doubt, be complex and turbulent. ♥ When in doubt about starting, make a single random mark on the canvas or page. ♥ When in doubt about finishing, stop and walk away. If you’re not finished you’ll know it when you come back. ♥ Poems love doodles and doodles love poems. ♥ Grownups deserve art that is joyful without being jaded, mawkish, ironic or saccharine. They need it at least as much as kids do. ♥ Give yourself permission to put your whole heart into what you do. ♥ Give yourself permission to love the silly, the whimsical, the absurd. ♥ When in doubt, draw! ♥ When certain, draw! ♥ Draw! Draw! Draw! ♥ Hug unreservedly. ♥ #art #tshirt #bunny #bunnyart #love
Flan says: I’ve seen lots of lists like these, but often times they were a mix of sexual and nonsexual things or included lists of specific gifts or were just not quite tailored well enough for me. So I spent some time today coming up with a list of 100 nonsexual ways to make me feel extra little, or to bring that feeling to the forefront of my mind. Not all of these things have to be done all the time, but all of them will evoke that sort of feeling in me.
I hope this list gives you some ideas of your own! And I hope Senpai and Daddy get some ideas from it as well…
Help me tie my shoes
Wash my hair in the bath
Pet me
Pick out my clothes
Pull me into your lap
Get my paci if you notice me chewing my lip
Cuddle me
Make me giggle
Use my little dishes for a meal
Bring me a drink in a sippy cup
Stick a crazy straw in my drink
Hold my hand in public
Order for me at a restaurant
Drive me places (and pick me up)
Go to my doctor’s appointments with me
Help me make tough choices
Let me fall asleep on you
Ask me to help you with things
Tell me when I’m a good girl
Tell me if I make you proud
Take care of me when I’m sick
Remind me to take my medicine
Suggest naptime, especially if I’m crabby
Read to me
Ask me about my favorite things; tell me about yours
Whisper secrets to me
Teach me new things
Remember my plushies’ names
Ask about my plushies and toys
Tuck me in at night
Remind me of bedtime
Ask if I remembered to do things
Kiss the top of my head or forehead
Color with me
Check for mean-monsters
Listen to my excited-babbles
Play pretend with me
Take me to a park
Push me on the swings
Let me pick the movie
Tell me I’m cute/adorable
Kiss my owies
Use awesome band-aids
Surprise me
Get me little gifts
Set up a bubble bath
Let me draw a tiny heart on you
Check on my planner
Make music with me
Pick my jammies
Cook with me
Take me to the zoo
Take me to the library
Plan and go on a picnic
Take a walk with me
Take me stargazing
Visit a museum with me
Paint my toenails
Make sure I have something to cuddle
Invite me to a tea party
Ask about my imaginary friends
Plan a themed date night
Play board games with me
Play video games with me (or watch me play them)
Do arts and crafts with me
Give me candy/sweets
Make me hot cocoa with marshmallows
Blanket. Forts.
Show me a place I’ve never seen before
Whisper “shhh” in my ear when I’m upset
Wipe away my tears
Take me to see a kiddy movie in the theater
Sing with me when I break out into song
Call me “princess,” “little one,” “kitten,” “bunny,” “girl,” or “doll”
Appreciate little gifts I make/give you
Make a funny face at me in public
Scoop me up princess-style
Watch cartoons with me
Make me a healthy snack
Make a meal of special little foods
Give me an allowance
Have me complete chores
Remind me to wash my hands before I eat
Get things from places I can’t reach
Rub my tummy when it hurts
Start a pillow fight
Shoot me with a water gun or nerf gun
Quote from my favorite books and movies
Ask me silly questions
Try to win me a prize
Take me somewhere I need to dress up to go to
Ruffle my hair
Boop my nose if my emotions are getting too intense
Let me wear your t-shirt/hoodie
Write a note and leave it somewhere for me to find
Writing with Color: Description Guide - Words for Skin Tone
We discussed the issue of describing People of Color by means of food in Part I of this guide, which brought rise to even more questions, mostly along the lines of “So, if food’s not an option, what can I use?” Well, I was just getting to that!
This final portion focuses on describing skin tone, with photo and passage examples provided throughout. I hope to cover everything from the use of straight-forward description to the more creatively-inclined, keeping in mind the questions we’ve received on this topic.
So let’s get to it.
S T A N D A R D D E S C R I P T I O N
B a s i c C o l o r s
Pictured above: Black, Brown, Beige, White, Pink.
“She had brown skin.”
This is a perfectly fine description that, while not providing the most detail, works well and will never become cliché.
Describing characters’ skin as simply brown or beige works on its own, though it’s not particularly telling just from the range in brown alone.
C o m p l e x C o l o r s
These are more rarely used words that actually “mean” their color. Some of these have multiple meanings, so you’ll want to look into those to determine what other associations a word might have.
If you don’t know about the controversy surrounding this year’s Hugo Awards, this Wired article will get you up to speed. The upshot is that, of the 16 award categories where there could be a possible Hugo winner, only 11 were actually awarded. In the other five categories the Hugo voters chose not to give an award to any of the nominees.
This is a rare occurrence but has happened in the past because “No Award” (or “Noah Ward” as some people jokingly call it) is always an option for Hugo voters. I have voted No Award many times in the past, and each year Noah usually receives a smattering of votes in every category. It’s just extremely unusual for Noah to actually finish first. In fact, this year Noah “won” as many awards in one night as he previously had in the entire history of the Hugos.
This happened because two groups of disenfranchised fans (the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies) were upset that their picks never won Hugos and rarely even got nominated. So they bloc voted a slate of works onto the ballot to try and get their (and only their) preferred nominees an award. In response, the wider voting audience chose to hand out no award in any category where there were only Puppy candidates. In all the other categories, only non-Puppy nominees won. (This is why bloc voting, while not against the rules, is discouraged. When you try to force people to vote for things they don’t like, the results will predictably not be in your favor.)
According to various tweets I’ve seen, the Puppies have characterized their abject defeat by the wider voting audience as a sort of moral victory because, in their words, fans “burned down” and “nuked” the Hugos rather than have a Puppy win one. Larry Correia, the guy who started the Sad Puppies, wrote “Rather than let any outsiders win, they burned their village in order to ‘save it’.”
I attended the Hugos this year and so was at ground zero of the supposed village-destroying nuclear fire when the Puppy bomb went off. Far from being devastating and awful, it was an awesome, fun night where fans of all kinds came together to celebrate and have a good time. In fact, this was widely regarded by many attendees as one of the best Hugo ceremonies ever held.
I wasn’t expecting that to be the case. I thought the Hugos were going to be a grim, somber affair and wasn’t particularly looking forward to them at first. I hadn’t attended or voted on the Hugos in more than five years and came back into the fold primarily to register my displeasure with the Puppy’s tactics while getting caught up on all the reading I’d been missing out on. (Note: I voted No Award not because of the political ideology of the Pups but because I would vote No Award for any nominee bloc voted onto the ballot since it negates everyone else’s vote, which I believe is unfair. Bloc voting has happened in the past for individual nominees – though not for an entire slate – and the results tend to be the same. You may disagree with this POV and are of course free to vote as you like.)
But as I filed into the auditorium for the awards, there was a palpable atmosphere of good cheer and camaraderie. We all knew it was likely that nearly a third of the awards wouldn’t be given out, but that wasn’t the point. We weren’t there to celebrate what wasn’t happening, we were there to laud whoever won a Hugo (plus the John W. Campbell Award winner) and share their joy through their acceptance speeches. We also laughed and cheered as emcees David Gerrold and Tananarive Due hosted what turned out to be a rollicking ceremony.
Things started out on a high note when Gerrold and Tananarive praised ALL writers, artists and editors everywhere, not just ones of a particular political persuasion. They namechecked many nominees on the ballot, both non-Puppy and Puppy alike (noting that Puppy nominee Mike Resnick was one of the most nominated people in the history of the award). This was an obvious bid to pay tribute to fans of every kind and not to focus on the dividing lines between various factions.
Gerrold also quickly addressed the elephant in the room: the asterisk. Many people had been saying any winner or loser this year would forever have an asterisk attached to their award due to the controversy. But Gerrold and co. neatly turned that concept on its head by saying there would indeed be an asterisk, but because it was the largest Worldcon in history with the most voters, thereby focusing the asterisk on the positives and not the negatives. (He also had special wooden asterisks made that would be on sale after the awards, the proceeds of which would be given to a favorite charity of Terry Pratchett.)
In an especially smart (and kind) move, Gerrold asked the audience to applaud not for each individual nominee but for all the nominees in the category as a whole after all the names were read. That helped ensure no single nominee was ever booed despite the animosity of the voting process. The only time someone did let out a boo…during a No Award result…Gerrold politely asked them not to and it didn’t happen again.
Gerrold also took on the burden of announcing the categories with No Award himself instead of having a special presenter on stage to do it. The five times no award was given, Gerrold handled it expeditiously and with no fanfare so the audience (and the nervous nominees in attendance) could move past the moment quickly. This helped focus the night on the 11 winners and not on the controversy.
For its part the audience was in tearing high spirits, applauding and cheering, laughing at the jokes and fun little skits (including having an award announced by a Dalek), focusing on the positives and spending little time on anything negative. Since there were still a lot of awards that were handed out, the night didn’t seem particularly shortened or bereft. Indeed, by the end it was full of such acceptance and good cheer that it was hard not to leave with a smile and a feeling of good will.
So, far from being “nuked,” these Hugos turned into the biggest, most well attended and most fun awards in history. They not only brought new attendees into the fold but also enticed lapsed people like me back to come together in a fantastic night of celebration. While it was unfortunate that some categories had no winner, it wasn’t catastrophic. Indeed it was fandom’s way of saying, this award has merit and needs to be earned and will never simply be given out to a slate because some people got together and mustered a certain number of voters. And if at times that means an award won’t be given in a category, that’s okay. The integrity and spirit of the Hugos is more important than that. We are not burning a village to save it, we’re simply inviting more people to the village and celebrating.
A few notes:
I had several friends who ended up on the Puppy slate. My No Award vote was not given out of any animosity towards them or the other nominees or the nominators. Which is not the same thing as saying I have no animosity towards a few of the Puppies, just that my vote was about the process, not the people.
I have previously been active in making changes to the Hugo Awards when I was dissatisfied with how they worked. I participated in the process that split the Best Dramatic Presentation category into Short Form and Long Form (so TV shows were not competing with movies), and advocated for the inclusion of an online/Web award category. This same avenue is open to anyone who is likewise dissatisfied with some aspect of the awards process…attend the business meetings, suggest changes and see if you can make a positive impact.
I have been nominated for a Hugo Award twice, losing once (for Scifi.com) and winning once (for Sci Fiction, along with Ellen Datlow). The first thing I did on seeing the person who “beat” me for the first award was to congratulate them and admire their Hugo statue. It was indeed an honor just to be nominated and I have no quibbles with the voters who did not vote for Scifi.com. I do not feel wronged in any way.
I have never once agreed with every winner chosen by Hugo voters in any given year and have on many occasions voted “no award” in various categories. I nevertheless think the eventual winners should definitely have gotten the awards. Their wins were perfectly valid and the will of the majority of the voters.
- having a lot of sex doesn’t make you “loose” , nor does it “make your walls disappear”
-you’re not supposed to bleed or experience extreme pain your first time having sex (some women bleed for other reasons but it shouldn’t be due to lack of arrousal and foreplay)
-the idea of virginity is sexist
-having sex the 30th time can be just as special as your first time
-having sex does not make you “less pure”
-There is no medical or biological definition of virginity
- the concept of virginity was created to control female sexuality
I can’t find any explanation for why this poorly made cop doll is beating the cute little mermaid, other than pure spite on the part of racists who have too much time on their hands.
Hey everyone! I was asked to design and sew a custom Itty Bitty for Hallmark, and my design is now up for vote! I would really, really appreciate your support. The Itty Bitty with the most votes will be put into production and sold, which is a huge dream of mine.
It’s important to me that every kid who walks into a toy store is able to find something that is representative of/relatable to them, and this is my small effort into making that a reality.
You can vote once a day for one design per device (phone, tablet, computer, etc) which is a really, really difficult choice, (I love so many of them!) for the next 16 days, and I would love your support to make my mermaid dreams come true.
There are no bonuses or incentives for winning except that little kids (and big kids) all over the country would be able to have something I made.
Any kind of signal boost would also be really lovely of you! <3
Thank you!
PLEASE VOTE for Han’s amazing little mermaid! Not only is she SUPER DUPER CUTE, but diversity really matters - something I personally find really important in children’s toys and media!!
You can vote EVERYDAY!
Nothing is required to vote. Just go to the site and click to support this awesome toy.
