#eh. its not going to change me

[uinferno]

I've had this conversation with friends before but it's always a topic I can't stop myself from returning to. Death of the author, the divide between OCs and mass-media characters, and how blurry it can get.

It's just amusing to me how there's an unspoken respect and boundary for an individual's OCs. How they have full control over the characterization and how they're depicted and if someone else came along, and proclaimed the OC was their little blorbo; characterizing them in a manner that no only diverged from that defined by their creator, but running in direct contrast to it. Quite often, they'd be regarded as a bit of an asshole at large. However, codify the setting a little, define some structure of a greater narrative, and you're not too far from your OC being free game.

It's easy to see when this starts being okay when you look at the extremes. Don't pull this shit with a random character from a person's sketchbook whom they've never shown to another soul. However, comic book characters dating all the way to the 1930s are so fair game that the creators are fucking dead and your reading is likely to be far from the worst interpretation that's ever occurred to them.

Yet, what sets apart free webcomics from an artist's sporadic doodles of hijinks starring their OC? Frequency? Amount of an overarching narrative? Whether or not they decided to properly host it on a dedicated comic site? Is the intent to "Publish" as a work of fiction merely enough?

With stories and media, the consequence of receiving counter interpretations of one's own characters is expected when you choose to publish. That with the enticement of people loving your work and characters comes the inevitability of others to tear it apart. To lose custody and control of it is the price that needs to be paid. It certainly can be easier when detractors become less than faces in the crowd, but it's certainly funny regardless just how large the gap on how treatment of a piece of fiction can be between "don't fuck with another person's OC" and "Tear that bitch apart" when it comes to fanworks.

[egberts]

posting without context but this took an embarrassingly long time and i got lazy with the bg because at the end of the day it’s all about the ocs baybee

[turboemmy]

hii how do you do that old effect on your art (the recent tenna pieces)

I use a photo filter app usually ! Its called Prequel , and it can have some cool free stuff but a lot of it is behind a paywall now 😔

I dont have photoshop or after effects so ive always tried to find other alternatives to cool easy to apply filters and this has been one of the best ive found! Theres still some cool free filters i like to use but the coolest ones are behind that paywall ofc 🙄 but i still think its worth checking out!

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

years ago i set this as my medication alarm sound to remind myself to take the antidepressants i was on back then, thinking it'd be funny. it was, but now that i'm finally starting a different set of antidepressants after being off them for a few years, i (respectfully) didn't want fukase swearing at me first thing in the morning 😅

so, since he does exist in my computer, i made this little simpler audio just for funsies, and figured i'd upload it here too bc why not 🤷‍♀️ i don't know if i'll actually end up using it myself but if anyone else wants fukase reminding them to take their meds for whatever reason, here you go lmao

and here's a bonus oliver version as well for those who are more oliver-based lol:

[dulcebot]

tumblr is orchasting my downfall because it's not letting me update the audio on the sillies discography post im logging off forever day = ruined

[ragnars-tooth]

One of my big compulsions is taking a fuck ton of screenshots Just In Case a piece of information is important in like 4 years and I can't remember it (sometimes the information is an instagram post that I might not remember later and of course needs to be recorded everywhere (I will Not be looking at that again)) so today is my transfer 16000 images off my phone admin day (woo)

Like yeah I never looked at any of them and they were completely irrelevant to my daily life, But what if I need them ✨️ later ✨️ (you'll see that the idea of Later is doing a lot of heavy lifting here) OR what if there's a vital piece of information in the mix somewhere that I'll lose forever if I delete them? So: onto the external hard drive they go

This is one of those cases where. Yeah. Ideally I wouldn't take 16000 screenshots in half a year. And YEAH ideally I'd just delete them and not transfer them somewhere else to never look at again. BUT at least I get a clean slate and I can maybe not mindlessly save everything for 2 seconds. It's like. Small wins? Progress. Yknow.

[starryeyed-seer]

Had a dream last night I was dating Mr Wines but really shy about it. My boss (of a revolutionary group) was like. 'Hey did I see you get abducted by a giant bat last night' and i was like. 'Noooooo...... 🙂‍↔️'

But also Mr Wines was mean the entire time so I'm not sure it was "dating" so much as "periodically being abducted at random for the sake of being complained at"

[whitestopper]

Bunch of Elle outfits I like ranked vaguely

[deesi-academia]

i thank the dinosaur that died to make the fossil fuel which powered taylor swift's method of transportation to get her to a music studio to record the best album of all time

[bloodcoveredgf]

having a revelation. red velvet cake is Not my favorite kind of cake

[oury-boros]

sometimes i wish i cld contact my grandfather via séance or smthn and ask if he's chill with me using his name. less to get permission and more to know if he was actually the kind of guy id want to take the name of

[storm-of-feathers]

I will continue to be a cunt about this.

[clownattack]

oops spilling me beans on crinklytinfoil

crinkle would always talk about how garbage they are, how much they suck etc and overall said a lot of things that hit weird but i had no context to apply to what they meant before they started treating me and night like crap. The moment they let the mask slip and showed that they're capable (and more than willing) of treating people horribly over the most minuscule issues i realized what they meant, and that they actually are what they claim to be.

Yes, you are garbage for taking your frustrations out on someone over fiction. Yes you are trash for purposefully bringing others down. Yes you are a terrible person for taking advantage of someones trust and care for you. Add cheating, having 0 concerns for their spouses boundaries and comfort, never being able to fully own up to causing a lot of harm with their infantile bullshit. This and so much more.

But the rich thing is that once someone agrees with them on this - actually shows them irrefutable proof of them being garbage - they freak the fuck out. The "im garbage" they likely use to garner sympathy turns into "im being attacked! Everyone is so mean 2 me!"

Agreeing with a statement crinkle always made is not an attack. Recounting shitty things they did in my own space is not an attack. I never was the one messaging crinkle out of the blue - they were always the one sending me inflammatory messages and CONTINUING to message me after i said goodbye. They couldnt stop themself from blowing up at people and then always made a surprised pika face when people reacted to their behavior. I was never willing to put up with their bullshit and coddle them, i have no reason to. They played stupid games and won stupid prices.

[vamptastic]

my voice started changing SO fast on T like the first changes i noticed were around three weeks and now it's been like six-ish weeks on 0.3 (a pretty low dose) and my voice is noticably deeper and cracking when i try to pitch it too high. really wasn't expecting this to happen for like a year im really pleased :)

[fdrsamericanflagduckfloaty]

Ça va, mon ami?

... Oui?

[the-acid-pear]

today's prompts are spiders and self insert so i've been thinking of drawing nembone and a uh, bunger. but Im still thinking around the uh. ? i cant remember the word HELP the fucking COMPOSITION there.