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2025 Artfight round-up!! Team Fossils 💪

I had so much fun and managed to blast through my goal!! 20 attacks total, 8 more than last year 🥰

In order, left-right top-bottom : Persimmon from glowry000, Cassius from celestialwish_, Damsel from Loner_Loony, Nolan from @metalfuzz84 , Jaeger from honeii_b, Vic-II from @nshtn , Phish from R0ck, Albert Whiskers from moesasaur, Hunter from @goblin-bou

In order, left-right top-bottom : Kayson from snidewayz, Cosmo from DerpyRamenNoodle, Brother Ifo from @nukednick , Mahlon from @fallen-lcarus , Austin from yukik0, Boris from @arcanesouls , Absolon from servalun, Roy from yourdeadprince, Jae from raebies

In order, left-right : Gottiah from @anaviarts , Apostol from r0ttenr0ttie

Can't wait for next year!! 🫶💕✨️

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that "OKAY SO" before someone u love starts infodumping........ most blessed feeling in the world

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Watching TikTok try and rewrite fandom history by saying fandom culture was created by teenage girls makes me eye twitch to an extent I’ve never felt it twitch before. The middle aged women printing out Spirk erotica to share with each other in the 1900s did not die for this!!!! How dare you erase our important historic moments!!! You would be nowhere without the 30 year old women who dedicated their free time to making these spaces happen. Put some respect on their names!!!!

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sorry but someone assuming you have "left a fandom" when you don't post about it a lot anymore feels like bilbo coming home to the sackville bagginses having him presumed dead and selling all his stuff. girl i was just on a little quest????

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guy who has chronic pain and fatigue: man why can't i do more stuff

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A visit from a devil you know.

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People who love cold weather are fucking weird. You like to freeze? You like to shiver?? You like when you take a step outside and the air stings your skin???

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In the shadow of the valley ~🎶

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the point of fanfiction is that you can write whatever the fuck you want forever and no one can stop you. #thepower

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we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

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In the office of the aspiring Archduke, one may find a number of elegantly carved marble busts, figures whom one assumes his Lordship finds to be inspirational in his own march towards power and success In the very back of his quarters, behind a false wall, one might find another marble statue, one quite a great deal larger and more carefully tended to than the rest of the art in his office What blasphemy it is, for a Banite to kneel at the feet of another For the Chosen of Bane to supplicate himself before a demi-god other than his own master And how pathetic it is, for him to pray to the silence where she once was, wishing she might return from death to claim him as she'd once promised she would...

I had the very distinct joy of commissioning @infernaldaydreams for a piece of Kass and Enver - or rather, the memory of Kass with Enver. My instructions were "please make him look like the saddest, wettest, most unadoptable dog abandoned in the shelter" and she came out absolutely swinging. I cannot get over the warmth and the softness of the candlelight playing over the marble curves, and how easily the shadows seem to cling to him in comparison. Just an utterly gorgeous piece, I'm so so smitten

Thank you so much Lexy🖤💛🖤💛

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they love all of you !!! ❤️💜🧡

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“write whatever you want, unless it’s…”, “draw whatever you want, unless it’s…” no, actually, when I say write/draw whatever you want, I mean write whatever you want, draw whatever you want. no buts. no “unless it’s…” censorship has no place in art.

art can be about taboo subjects. art can deal with something socially unacceptable. art can disturb and disgust. art doesn’t have to be for everybody.

tag your warnings so that people who might be triggered by your art don’t accidentally get exposed to it and you’re all good.

and if people try to shame you for the art you create because it’s “problematic” then you can tell them to fuck off and mind their own business. they read the warnings. they choose to read and engage with your art on their own free will. that’s not your problem.

dark fics and macabre art do not—have never, and never will—reflect artists’ in-real-life moralities.

harassing artists, real people, over fictional things will never make you “morally superior”. it only makes you a bully.

again, censorship has no place in art.

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I hate 2 say it but being a part of a “weird” subculture does not meaningfully inoculate you against a conservative moralizing impulse. You gotta unlearn that. Saying “cringe is dead” is not enough, you have to actually be okay with things that discomfort, perplex and/or disgust you.

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I'm so glad to see AO3 making it absolutely clear that none of these things are allowed to even be HINTED at.

Here's some of the language from the new post about AO3's police on commercial promotion:

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There is a wide variety of things that are not allowed under AO3's non-commercialization rules.

Any other language which one might interpret as requesting or having requested financial contributions, whether for yourself or others. This covers indirect references, euphemisms, or other language intended to get around the TOS. Some examples of this include:

Thanks for the coffee!

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Solicitation is not allowed, whether it's for yourself or on behalf of someone else.

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"get a job" "unemployed behaviour" okay but like. girl your ableism

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I CANNOT scream loudly enough that you Hannibal people are disgusting! There’s no way that your kind can possibly by kind or nice or anything like that because you LITERALLY glorify toxic relationships, cannibalism, and hyperviolence! You may have fooled other people but all of your souls are black and TAINTED! It’s disgusting! No morals! Stop acting all high and mighty, what you watch isn’t art, it’s FILTH. Fuck you and your little cannibal friends, you’re all DISGUSTING

reblog if your soul is black and tainted, you have no morals, and are disgusting