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Inktober #24. If you like these drawings, you might also like my patreon. There are plenty of drawings made in traditional media (pens, colored pencils, and watercolors) on it. [Image description: purple pen drawing of snow falling above a seal. Under the seal, there’s a caption that says “I love you. I hope your future is absolutely fantastic. I wish you the best and I always will.” in handwritten text.]

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yeah this is gonna take a while, i'm really struggling with the renaming thing. I'll keep you all updated/

Blog change

So a few weeks ago a former classmate found this handle. At first it seemed like they were going to be chill about it, but now I’m not so sure. Regardless I’m really uncomfortable with it so its time for a move.

I’ll be orphaning my works on ao3 (except one which I’m still determined to fix, but we’ll see) and making a new account. I’ll also be making a new Tumblr and changing my name on discord.

If we’ve been mutuals a while I’ll refollow on my new blog, but feel free to hmu generally if you want to stay in contact.

Now I just need to… think of a new handle. I’ve used this one so long it’s almost like a concrete identity to me.

Yikes.

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y’all are missing out on the real dream fancast for aziraphale and crowley

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Blog change

So a few weeks ago a former classmate found this handle. At first it seemed like they were going to be chill about it, but now I'm not so sure. Regardless I'm really uncomfortable with it so its time for a move.

I'll be orphaning my works on ao3 (except one which I'm still determined to fix, but we'll see) and making a new account. I'll also be making a new Tumblr and changing my name on discord.

If we've been mutuals a while I'll refollow on my new blog, but feel free to hmu generally if you want to stay in contact.

Now I just need to... think of a new handle. I've used this one so long it's almost like a concrete identity to me.

Yikes.

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i love when my friends are in my home like FUck yah! can i get u a beverage!!! 

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concept: the show supernatural but with the mcelroy brothers

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Can I just...

In lieu of the new tumblr settings, can I make yet another plea with those of you who read fics and consume art on tumblr to please reblog them?   

Fics and art will die on a creator’s dash if they aren’t reblogged.  It’s never been more true than now. 

If you want to keep receiving content from creators, reblog the the content. If it’s something you enjoyed?  Reblog it.  It’s not hard.  I am going to make a point to reblog everything I read from now on.  (With the proper tags of course), as well as all the art that I see on my dash.  

I cannot make it simpler.  Posts WILL die unless they’re reblogged.  No one will see your ‘like’.  Your like is a bookmark for YOU to find it later.  Your reblog means the world to a creator because it means you are willing to go the little extra distance and recommend this to your followers.  

Don’t let creations die on the dash of those who created them.  

Reblog to save a creation.  

Reblog to keep a creator creating.

Reblog, please. 

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It’s like this…

You’re fourteen and you’re reading Larry Niven’s “The Protector” because it’s your father’s favorite book and you like your father and you think he has good taste and the creature on the cover of the book looks interesting and you want to know what it’s about. And in it the female character does something better than the male character - because she’s been doing it her whole life and he’s only just learned - and he gets mad that she’s better at it than him. And you don’t understand why he would be mad about that, because, logically, she’d be better at it than him. She’s done it more. And he’s got a picture of a woman painted on the inside of his spacesuit, like a pinup girl, and it bothers you.

But you’re fourteen and you don’t know how to put this into words.

And then you’re fifteen and you’re reading “Orphans of the Sky” because it’s by a famous sci-fi author and it’s about a lost generation ship and how cool is that?!? but the women on the ship aren’t given a name until they’re married and you spend more time wondering what people call those women up until their marriage than you do focusing on the rest of the story. Even though this tidbit of information has nothing to do with the plot line of the story and is only brought up once in passing.

But it’s a random thing to get worked up about in an otherwise all right book.

Then you’re sixteen and you read “Dune” because your brother gave it to you for Christmas and it’s one of those books you have to read to earn your geek card. You spend an entire afternoon arguing over who is the main character - Paul or Jessica. And the more you contend Jessica, the more he says Paul, and you can’t make him see how the real hero is her. And you love Chani cause she’s tough and good with a knife, but at the end of the day, her killing Paul’s challengers is just a way to degrade them because those weenies lost to a girl.

Then you’re seventeen and you don’t want to read “Stranger in a Strange Land” after the first seventy pages because something about it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. All of this talk of water-brothers. You can’t even pin it down.

And then you’re eighteen and you’ve given up on classic sci-fi, but that doesn’t stop your brother or your father from trying to get you to read more.

Even when you bring them the books and bring them the passages and show them how the authors didn’t treat women like people.

Your brother says, “Well, that was because of the time it was written in.”

You get all worked up because these men couldn’t imagine a world in which women were equal, in which women were empowered and intelligent and literate and capable. 

You tell him - this, this is science fiction. This is all about imagining the world that could be and they couldn’t stand back long enough and dare to imagine how, not only technology would grow in time, but society would grow. 

But he blows you off because he can’t understand how it feels to be fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and desperately wanting to like the books your father likes, because your father has good taste, and being unable to, because most of those books tell you that you’re not a full person in ways that are too subtle to put into words. It’s all cognitive dissonance: a little like a song played a bit out of tempo - enough that you recognize it’s off, but not enough to pin down what exactly is wrong.

And then one day you’re twenty-two and studying sociology and some kind teacher finally gives you the words to explain all those little feelings that built and penned around inside of you for years.

It’s like the world clicking into place. 

And that’s something your brother never had to struggle with.

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Does anyone else get really caught up on the small details in their writing? Like you can be really good at writing situations and feelings and characters, but you get to a point when you’re writing something small like what they’re making for dinner and before you know it, you’re googling recipes with tomatoes because you think the scene won’t be convincing unless you know the cooking time and temp??

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Lantern the Cat-O-Lantern. Moving this here too!

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We played the fanfiction trope version of “fuck marry kill” in which the options are “slow burn/fake date/enemies to lovers” and it’s been like 30 hours and I’m STILL losing it over the concept of fake-dating Saruman the White.

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What I hate most about “someone always has it worse” rhetoric is that not only is it minimizing, it also promotes the act of using other people’s misfortune to feel better about your own situation. Instead of actually caring about the people who “have it worse,” you’d rather use their situations to say “Well, at least it’s not that bad.” I think that is such a hideous character trait and it’s very interesting that it is so often associated with good qualities like optimism and appreciation.

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IF YOUR ART GETS STOLEN

https://www.tumblr.com/dmca Go there, and do as the instructions say. When my art was stolen, I got the post reported, and it was taken down. Don’t worry, it doesn’t just take down the sources post, but it takes down all the reblogged posts too. Please give this a reblog, many artists out there may not know this is here. And remember, ask permission before sharing, or don’t post it.

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you know what i need? more gay pop punk. not shit like ‘omg he totally wrote this song about a guy you can tell because of this one 0.03 second clip of one performance in austria’ but legitimately explicitly gay pop punk. give me girls singing fuck this town im gonna drive away with my girlfriend. give me boys screaming at the top of their lungs about how much they love this boy. give me every angsty song about a hetero couple who are so damaged but so in love and just gay it up. i need my angst to be gayer. where is my gay trashy pop punk???