cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13859495

Based on this painting: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/fried-eggs-230434

(I tried lines this time)

Based on this painting: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/fried-eggs-230434

(I tried lines this time)

Hi all. I am relatively new to light novels and want to start with the lightest ones but I don't own a scale which is making it difficult to figure out where to start. What I do have, however, are a few containers, a measuring cup, and a lot of water. What I am thinking is that I can fill one container to the brim with water, submerge my book, and then capture the overflow in a second container. From there, it would be possible to measure the volume of water with my measuring cup and derive its mass (and thus its weight). Theoretically, this should be equivalent to the weight of the book per Archimedes' principle. I am unsure if this method will actually work in practice though. Has anyone tried anything like this before?

Based on this Utagawa print I saw floating around a while back: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73459

Notes:

• I couldn't draw the hat properly so now it's a helmet I guess :/
• Perspective hard
• Light hard
• French hard

Very heavily inspired by this painting (which I also may or may not have traced)

I've gotten highly addicted to Kindergarten Wars recently so I tried drawing Hana in some more casual clothes. I also stole the pose from a stock photo this time instead of trying to freestyle it which was a lot easier.

(Bats are shiny right?)

My team has this one shared component that gets involved in like every feature's development. This year, we're loading like 5 different features onto it, all with different timelines, and my head's about to explode trying to figure out how to make it all fly.

How does everyone else do their software releases? Do you freeze prod and then do one big release later? Throw everything into prod during dev, hope no one sees the unreleased stuff, and just announce it later? Or something else entirely?

I wanted to draw Ichijou from It Shows on Your Face, Ichijou-san in the pose from the cover of the Vampire vocaloid and now here we are.

(Vampires sparkle right?)

I sometimes draw but the quality is very amateur level (or sometimes just straight-up a shitpost).

Can I still post it here or is there a better community on this instance for that?

Background+rant: I'm in my early to mid-20s and still living at home with my dad. I'm not a NEET and am employed at a normal office job. I enjoy the comfort of my home. I like being with family (and I believe they feel blessed to have their kid at home longer). I like not having to pay rent. However, I also keep feeling some nagging pressure to "grow up and leave the nest".

Everything in my mind tells me that moving out is irrational. I would lose 1/3rd of my income to rent, go through a bunch of logistical hoops to find a new place, lose the last few moments I have with my family, just so I can prove to nobody that I'm independent, maybe discover new things, and also probably get in on some of that loneliness action that the rest of my generation is going through.

Yet, the pressure is still there. No one looks down on me for it, but I feel a bit embarrassed to tell people I'm living at home, like I'm admitting failure or incompetency. My friends will occasionally ask when I'm planning on moving out and the question just lingers longer than it should in my head. I compare myself to my parents and grandparents and can't help but feel like a child compared to the people they were when they were at my age.

Obviously quite conflicted on this, so I'm interested in seeing what others have to say.