oh ... no

I had a realization today about the POTUS. It's kind of awful -- maybe not the worst kind of awful, more like MASSIVE FACEPALM awful, but it explains so much. And it means the last week's trash fire of executive orders is not going to stop. It's just going to keep going on until he manages to horrify enough people to get impeached, basically.

( Politics - also long )

Happy things: art-a-day!

Discovered via goss, this looks fun: Monthly Art-A-Day (or sketch-a-day), an artistic advent-calendar-style project of darthneko's which they are kindly making available to everyone by sharing the templates. The link explains how it works, and here is the February template (from the Deviantart page, if you click "download" instead of saving the image you'll get a higher quality one - at least that's what I found).

I made a blueline version for myself and darthneko gave me permission to share it, so here's a mini preview and if you click on it, you'll get the full-sized one, which you can download:



Basically you print it out, fill in the boxes day by day according to their numbers (so you don't just start at the top and move to the right, you'll be jumping around), and have a finished art piece at the end. I strongly suspect I am going to end up with a weird-looking inked mess, but I'm looking forward to trying it! :D You can see a very lovely finished example at darthneko's journal.