Morning With Chris 🌤

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Draw your characters like this

My God I've been seeing so much old man yaoi on tumblr and omg it's amazing

It makes me wanna watch deadpool and wolverine even more lmao

My personal goal is to try and make fanfic binding as accessible to everyone as possible, so here are some resources on how to make a fanfic hardcover for under $25.

This is a barebones bind for the broke college students and such. Happy to field questions, too!

Here's a proposed budget breakdown:

Loosely organized thoughts:

Fanfic bookbinders often share typesets amongst each other. Never pay for a typeset for a fanfic.

You'll hear a lot about grain direction for your printer paper, but as a newbie on a budget without your own printer, settle for some nice 92 bright paper. If you like the hobby, splurge after but expect to pay at least 2-3x more for short grain paper.

Printing is a pain because some copy shops won't let you print intellectual property smut, and it's very expensive. You are better off bartering instead or looking for a free printer on Buy Nothing.

You know the thick paper wrapping that comes with online orders? It's a good weight for endpapers if you need to scrounge. Paper grocery bags or gift bags (birthday presents) might work, too.

Ask your local library to give you covers from books they are throwing out. Ask for outdated textbooks (those covers are built like tanks) or three-ring binders that are too busted to be binders anymore.

Obtain a used book that was mass produced (so your destruction of it does not impede anyone's access) and maybe even become a little vindictive with it.

If you can afford it, I recommend the Olfa SVR knife (~$10)

If you can afford it, upgrade your ruler to a t-square.

I really hope this resource is helpful! I want to stress how possible this is and encourage people to cherish what they love through art.

If you are interested in fanfic binding and have a little more disposable income, I have an affordable Fan Fiction Bookbinding Starter Pack that I carry on my site. I pack them myself and drop them 1x/month on the 15th.

lowkey feel there was some voter fraud going on. People were saying it was going to take AT LEAST a week to count all the ballots, yet it was called in a night? and he got all the swing states? something is up and i feel like M*sk did something horrendous. The math for his votes doesn't add up.

First things first, if you voted via absentee ballot you NEED to log onto your voting portal through your Secretary of State's website and make sure your ballot was accepted. This is primarily impacting young voters and people in swing states, but absentee ballots are being incorrectly rejected due to problems with the signatures. If you ballot was not accepted, you should see a pop-up similar to this. Do as the instructions tell you and ensure that your vote is counted!

But to answer your ask, there is absolutely voter fraud going on, and they need to demand an immediate recount. Harris should not concede. I've been following this quite closely as I am about to get a degree in journalism and there are insane levels of bullshit and fuckery happening.

I find it very hard to believe that this is a "record election" yet there are somehow less votes than there were in 2020. Trump won with LESS total votes than he LOST WITH in 2020.

Additionally, there was all sorts of election interference happening, especially in swing states. Ballots were set on fire in several states. Over 3,000 votes in Democrat counties in GA were not sent to voters on time, and the GA Supreme Court rejected an extension, heavily impacting those people's ability to vote.

Russian bomb threats were called into majority Black precincts in various swing states, especially PA and GA, both of which interestingly enough are now red. These polling stations had to be evacuated due to the threats, impacting people's ability to vote. I've already mentioned the issue with the absentee ballots, but now Centre County in PA is saying they are having issues with their ballot scanners and that the mail-in ballot data is "not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software."

I'm not going to lie, I don't have a lot of faith in this situation right now, but I do fully believe that this is bullshit. Something is going on, the math is not mathing, and something needs to be done about it right fucking now.

sentient calculus crabs im fucking dying

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

they have THE friendship

I don't often draw fanart, but the 3rd episode of the amazing digital circus was so good, that I just had to draw Kinger.

Kinger was already my favorite character, but holy shit I love him even more now