Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

sadbhyl: “ HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PONY? This is Crease. As you can see, she is a handmade, custom My Little Pony stuffy that I made for my daughter for Christmas last year. The two of them went to Bronycon together, but only my daughter made it home. She...

sadbhyl:

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS PONY?

This is Crease.  As you can see, she is a handmade, custom My Little Pony stuffy that I made for my daughter for Christmas last year.  The two of them went to Bronycon together, but only my daughter made it home.  She is heartbroken at the loss of her special pony, and we would love to try to get her back.

If you were at Bronycon this weekend, maybe you saw her.  She was last known to be in the Hall of the Stars at 4 p.m. on Friday.  If she was found by some young pony-lover who can’t stand to be parted from her, we may be able to work a trade.

If you weren’t there, but you’re a pony fan, could you please boost the signal on this?  MLP isn’t my primary fandom, so this won’t be seen by the right people without a little help from the Tumblr magic.

Thanks, everyone!

deadninjaartstuffmeh:

A comic for the cactus!

If you can’t read it:

1.) Codex: Hi guys! Codex here, and I’m visiting a cactus-

2.) OC: Gimmie that!

     Codex: Hey!

3.) OC: Sup homies!

     Codex: Hey! This is my video! D:

4.) Codex: Hey! Get out!

     OC: Back off, pedo!

5.) Codex: This is my video!

     OC: Fuck off! I’m better than you!

     Codex: You’re a terrible OC!

     OC: Like you’re any better!

6.) OC: AH!

7.) Codex: Anyways…

8.) Codex: I’m visiting a cactus garden!

Pffffffffffff! Thanks!
(Calm down with panel 4, though. :u)

(Source: mr-rottsontheartman)

They dont do that in the show...?

Asked by Anonymous

ambris:

Take a look at even this bit from the gif I post earlier.

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It absolutely curves in at the bottom.

It’s only shown on one side here, and because they use colored tones for outlines instead of black (like I do), so it’s a hell of a lot more subtle. And does actually look better too, now that I’m really studying it. I may take reevaluate how I draw horns based on that.

But you know, yes, they do that in the show too.

It’s not really a curve on the horn itself, though. It’s more of indicator of the horn being round at the base (the base being where the horn meets the head).

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In early episodes, it was a complete line.

broken-pen:

Official AutoSave Announcement Post! (download here)

AutoSave is an application for Windows Desktop (Vista or higher, no Linux, no Mac OS) that adds an auto-save feature to every art program in existence. SAI, Photoshop, Flash, Notepad, you name it.

How, you ask? By the most primitive way possible: Every five minutes, it simulates a press on Ctrl+S. That’s it.

Now, you wonder, how do you make sure that AutoSave doesn’t press Ctrl+S while you’re procrastinating browsing for references in your browser? Well, that’s why AutoSave will ask you to enter a part of your art program’s window title.

(For GIMP, that would be “GIMP”; for SAI, it could be “SAI -“; for Photoshop, it should be “.psd”, because Adobe.)

AutoSave then checks the title of the current window against what you entered earlier – if they don’t match, AutoSave just keeps waiting.

I have now reached a point where AutoSave is pretty stable, where I’m happy with its content, and where it’s saved a friend twice already from sudden data loss due to app crash. Time to show it to the world.

AutoSave is free. As in no money, everyone can look at the source code, copy it, change it, whatever. (GNU GPLv3 for those who bother.) You can download it directly from its Github page.

There is no installer. Everything AutoSave saves on your disk can be deleted from within the app. Just download the exe file and run it. For more information, there’s also an FAQ.