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“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

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disability advocacy went wrong when it became about inspiration porn and “differently abled” and savants. its incredible that that guy with no legs did a triathlon but your sister with no legs will not and she doesnt need prosthetics or five hour training days to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. its incredible that that autistic guy can look at a city from a helicopter for an hour and then draw the entire detailed skyline from memory when he lands but your autistic friend cannot and they dont need to have a special Autism Power to deserve respect and compassion and accommodations. 

activism framed around “we are just as CAPABLE” means that when people genuinely are less capable they are left behind. activism framed around “we are just as WORTHY” is fundamental to radical compassion.

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😀Lmao ill delete this if it falls off. I have a substitute mic atm and wanna fiddle with it. Quality might not be like, superb heads up. 👆

🤝Send me your characters/OCs and I’ll give them a voice Send references to : mushroomsangame@gmail.com (mmm yes a email I never use lmfao)🙂‍↕️ Not guaranteed I’ll get to everybody/only do characters that I think I can pull off Not the best at masc voices but I’ll do my best Currently languages : Eng/chi/ a bit of JP Please don’t send me voice refs, short descriptions only

Feel free to give me short lines 👁️No commercial use, if using my voice please ask and get permission

Also tell me why you think I’m super cool to feed my ego >:)

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the most annoying stage of burnout is when i want to write, and i have the urge to write, and somewhere in my skull are the words that want to be written, but they have to get through the cursed minotaur maze first and nobody remembered to bring string

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there's this horrible school of attempted literary criticism on here that holds that 1. everything in any given author's work is autobiographical, especially if it seems "real" and 2. those themes seeped into the work subconsciously, revealing something about the author that they're either trying to hide or unaware of themself. it drives me up a wall, since it seems to deny the fundamental skills that make people good writers: the empathy to imagine and portray experiences that one hasn't had oneself and the ability to take one's personal emotional experiences or worldview and fold them, consciously, into the unworked clay of a narrative.

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It's almost ChromaCorps season again, and I never even posted my stuff from last year! So I'm hoping to kick off the run-up to the new year of my favorite competition and a month of daily concept art with... well, actually posting the stuff I made last year. lmao.

Here's WESLEY HAWKEN, the cowboy that turns himself inside out into a horse! He's both the cowboy AND the horse! Can't get a better deal than that.

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Thanks so much for the input! I forgot to mention I was working exclusively from still-existing species, since this comic is about what's left.

This is what I've got so far:

Reasoning of selections of organisms include:

trying to diversify from just animals,

has been largely unchanged for many millions of years (like silverfish)

emblematic of evolution in some form (like seals being mammals, hummingbirds being birds that filled in an insect niche, isopods moving to land via the pillbug, coelacanth in general)

notably or by reputation carrying on some VERY ancestral trait (seriema famously having a sickle-claw, last descendant of the terror birds),

Still open to suggestions from you or anyone, including specifications. You can see a lot of specific species of animals are still undecided.

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

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sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”

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Friends: I am working on the poster to actually get this into print for purchase (finally), and I am trying to find creatures for land, air, sea, and the underground. All forms of life, microbrial and plant and insectoid and everything. Modern organisms required, since this is about what survives today. Organisms that are often Prime Examples™️ of evolution are preferred but by no means necessary.

Suggestions welcome!

(Also, tumblr got rid of the tipping function, so here's my ko-fi again. Now that I'm very unemployed. )

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

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The thing with amateur local theater is it is almost always bad BUT keeping it alive is the most important thing

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everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her

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Naïveté, by the dictionary, is “(of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.” Usually associated with things like sparkle-eyed little girls and dopey, “unintelligent” (for the common qualifier of “unintelligent”), laughing men.

Pessimism is treated as a solution, but pessimism is a seductive liar. Part of its card trick is that naïveté gets associated solely with “positive” ignorance. Thus, if I am being negative, cynical, and mistrustful, I cannot be naïve. The less I am naïve, the more wise I am, and closer to the truth of this world.

Which is just as ignorant, let’s be honest. Relentless, unchecked pessimism, is not wisdom. It’s just misery. Most people are just folks who are trying to make things work. Behavior comes from a small part of natural tendencies and the most part, what they discovered will allow them to thrive the best in their prior life circumstances, whether that’s in an abusive home or in university. In all cases we are bringing what we know to the table when we interact with others, and sometimes those things are at conflict. There are really bad people out there, often. Yes. But it’s pretty shallow-minded to be so cynical that you take a well-meaning person’s gesture of goodwill and throw it back in their face. It also speaks to the very basic animal behavior in the human brain that just looooves to cling to the negative more than the positive. Following this instinct is not “rationality” as so many love to claim. It’s running off of just as much monkey brain as the rest of us.

I have seen people unironically and wholeheartedly buy into the “loving anything is stupid and you’re all being exploited by everyone and everything and we’re all just going to die” schtick. (This is the crowd I’m addressing, to be clear.) I’d hardly blame them. Look around at the world. It’s a natural reaction, and partially true. Partially. Just the same as classic naïveté is partially true. To buy wholesale into either side, though, is insanely reductive, and both demonstrate the aforementioned lack of wisdom and experience; just that one is born of positive limited experiences and the other is born of negative. To quote another post: “man, I think it depends” is the thing to live by. imo.

TL;DR Unchecked pessimism and cynicism get a “pass” for appearing wise when IMO it can and often does also fall under naïveté just as much as the foolishly trusting. Both of them are uninformed worldviews.

Go read Camus’ Sisyphus (It’s super short. 3 pages.) or Epicurus (substantially longer) and maybe you’ll calm down about living in a meaningless universe that functions not as a cold jail cell but a blank canvas for your philosophy. Mistake not blankness for barrenness.

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you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

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i am still looking for audios & other bootlegs of the new london & australia productions of Groundhog Day the Musical. btw.

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Hi!! Sorry I know you haven't posted GHD in a while, but I just wanted to say I really like your animatics! Your art style is really pretty and the little characterization details in the animation are so good :) I was wondering if there's a reason you always draw Phil green and Rita pink? Thanks!

Hi! Thanks so much! I haven't posted GHD in a while, but believe you me, that thang hasn't left my brain in 5 years. I think about them A Lot.

Rita's pink/magenta/fuscia mostly by association. It's the color of her jacket as well as the pattern on her blouse. (She would probably give me an earful if she knew I was drawing her, The Woman(tm), in fuschia, but hey, girl. You dressed yourself that day.)

Phil's reason for being green is a little more esoteric. Though I see His Color as a sort of steel and stormy grey-blue, since that's what he wears almost exclusively (and he is the world's most culturally straight man), in pieces where I want to throw bold colors around more freely, he becomes green. This is because it sticks out against GHD's background/ground palette that mostly consists of shades of blue (either because of the actual IRL staging, which is dominantly blue or purple, or because much of the day is snowy and overcast). I can't make the man blue, because 1) that combined with Rita's pink is maybe a weird message, and 2) he'd just fall into the blue background. He wouldn't stick out the way I need him to. I'm certainly not doing red--too aggressive/fiery of a color, and red belongs exclusively to alarm clocks and "Hope" because it's the only number lit that way. And yellow/orange is sunny/fiery, neither of which really apply to Phil as a person, and they belong to the sunrise scene. So: green.

And green, pink, and blue not only look good together, they also feature as colors in the show's branding (see: the album cover). So it falls nicely in line with the "visual language" the show uses for itself.

TL;DR it's a mix of direct association and practicality, mostly. And the other colors were taken. LOL.

Thanks for the question!

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Autoiconoclasm

This took forever, and then after it was finished and compressed and I cropped all the closeups, I realized I had drawn a 50 star flag instead of 48 and I had to go back and fix it :/ BUT WE PERSIST! I don’t know how many more times I can say that but...WE PERSIST.

Prints are available from my inprnt :] And they go super big too because this thing is 5000x6000 px !!!!!!!