#LONG RANT SORRY

[zoluulife]

I really hate those mf who treat Luffy like he’s a child that doesn’t know anything about anything as a way to justify them shitting on zolu, they act as if he’s never heard of a crush in his life “ I don’t know how you can ship Luffy with anyone he’s so innocent “ (yes someone has actually said that to me) like Luffy? The man that fights to free people of oppression? He’s not 2. He’s seen and been through stuff most adults wouldn’t be able to handle ,he is so emotionally intelligent and it’s shown throughout the show. Shipping him with someone that makes complete sense is not that fair of a stretch.

[captaindunkan]

I finally finished this guy

This isn't my character, this is one of my friends, and I don't remember the name of this guy so yeah, just a hivewing rn

Anyways, I know it's been like two weeks, but that's because I only really drew at school to fill in time, and well, it's summer now, also I just lost motivation completely.

But I am getting a new sketch book soon, so I'm gonna go back to traditional art, but also since I have no ideas for myself anymore, if anyone wants there oc drawn, I will do it just ask.

Might also post old doodles from sketch books and school work to make up for not doing anything for two weeks (sorry guys)

You might also be getting irl pictures (my bugs) so stay in tuned! Sorry again for not posting in a while, I'll make sure to try and do it more!

[octobergrover]

Can someone please explain to me why there's a sudden influx of people saying that the Percy Jackson movies were good? The characters in the films were SO out of character! Like, that is NOT the trio we love. That is the good will trio. Grover was the character that was most of character, at least that's what I noticed, followed by Annabeth. Percy was kind-of a prick and was selfish. His reasoning to going on Clarisse's quest in the SOM movie was to go on it because he's the "chosen on." Grover doesn't get kidnapped until later on, and Tyson is also out of character. They straight up cut Sally out of the second film and had Percy choose to live at camp, for whatever reason. In the movies, Annabeth was so useless. She just stood there doing NOTHING. If she was cut out of the movies entirely, the movie wouldn't be affected that's how insignificant she was in the movies. If anything, she was a damsel in distress. She wasn't the one planning shit out like the books, that was all Percy, especially in Sea of Monsters(movie). In the SOM film, Annabeth literally tries to open the 4 winds thermos for whatever reason, despite supposedly being smart? And then Hermes had to tell her not to use the magic masking tape inside the warehouse. The movies dumbed her down. We barely even had Percabeth moments in the movies, too. So she's literally just there. OH and Percy is stupidly overpowered in the movies. Yeah, it can be argued that Percy was also overpowered in the books, but he at least he trained in the books while in the movies he's just powerful. I already had low expectations for these films when I watched them last night, but the movie was WORSE than I originally thought, I doubt that the movies would have even been "good" if they were a stand alone series instead of an adaption. The movies were edgy and inconsistent with each other. The sudden design changes in the second film caught me off guard. This is JUST the tip of the iceberg. I have an 11 page google doc of all the inaccurate scenes in these trashy film, plus just scenes that make no sense at all. What even led to the directors and writers taking this direction for the Percy Jackson series? Did they even read a fraction of the source material?(the answer is no.)

[cyborgghost]

Im so sad over the movie cancelation, Yuri on Ice was really important to me. I have genuine tears in my eyes.

I remember being a closeted 12 year old when it aired, I was so ashame of who I was. It had such an impact on me... it was the first time I saw a homosexual couple represented in such a natural and good wholesome light in anime.

They even kissed on screen and got engaged!! Which was HUGE in 2016, back then unapologetic queer representation outside of nsfw content was so rare!

Each Thursday, if I remember correctly, I would stay up late until I could watch the new episode with Spanish subtibles. I LOVED the opening song and the fact that on each episode its animation got brighter colors to represent the characters newfound happiness!!

I got SO excited, knowing that I would go to school and talk about it with my bestfriend during recess.

I just wished I could replicate that feeling because the happiness I felt was truly unique. You just HAD to be there!!

Im so sad, I was hoping the movie would make me experience that feeling again, if only a fraction of it but now it won't happen :(

[rachelcommitscrimes]

“i’m so delulu” girls when i say that i once believed i was put on this earth to fix the earth’s economy and eliminate the lower class

[kameonerd566]

If i had a nickel for every time I coincidentally owned the same clothing item as a YouTuber I liked... Id have two nickels. BUT STILL wtf

[cervinelich]

"Everyone always leaves/abandons/rejects me =C" is such a huge red flag for me. Saw someone saying this on social media the other day and knee-jerk instinct was "blockblockblock"

[hueningkai]

I'm so so sick of the transphobia I am constantly exposed to within my family lately ... it feels like every week we have discussions about trans people and my sister is very against certain things ... my mum just. doesn't get it. my brother in law is hideously transphobic and purposely misgenders people because he says there's only he or she. it makes me so uncomfortable. I knew today as soon as my mum brought up the brit awards / sam sm*th the gender topic was going to come up, specifically non-binary topic... which we seem to have a lot lately. yesterday my mum was very much like "how can sam be a they?" and once I explained she did kind of get it, but then today as soon as my sister is involved my mum goes back on it and acts like she completely doesn't understand ... the worst part is, because it happens so often now like genuinely we have these discussions soooo much, I try to explain and defend the trans community: my community without outing myself. I don't feel safe to out myself to my family, it took me years to tell them I wasn't hetero, but I always saw myself telling them one day. I don't ever see myself telling them about my pronouns, about my gender. in fact I end up doubting myself. my own identity. I end up feeling wrong for identifying as agender, for using they/them. I tried not to cry in today's discussion. it always upsets me but today felt so much worse because no matter how hard I tried to speak up, nobody agreed with me. my sister thinks it's a trend. as does most of my family tbh. what's the point if I can't ever be comfortable???? I might as well force myself to go by she/her. I'm surrounded by it anyway, to the point where I do end up misgendering myself sometimes bc I have no safe space irl and nobody uses the correct pronouns for me. I'm brainwashed to think of myself as she/her. but I don't like it.

[libulanns]

If I may be critical of women for a moment... and as a disclaimer, I live in a highly neoliberal/liberal feminist city, and I am an older gen Z and am talking about women my age 21-27, but I am getting really tired of women who keep doubling down on horrible views and actions rather than to admit that they supported something that was wrong. It's something literally everyone, males and females do, but before moving to this area, I've never seen women do it to what feels like the same degree as men. Like women will literally start prostituting themselves than to admit that it was wrong of them to help normalize Onlyfans as a career option to middle and high school girls. They never admit it was wrong of them to help normalize hookup culture/"having a ho phase," they'll tell stories about how horrible it made them feel when they did it and imparted lasting psychological damage and issues with intimacy onto them, but they still won't call it a mistake and insist that they gained something valuable out of it and refuse to discourage others from going through the same, either out of an unwillingness to admit they were wrong, out of a fear of offending others, or both. Like can you please just admit you were wrong and the suffering that stemmed from it was actually just needless? Can we just be okay with saying, "hey, I made this decision and it was a horrible mistake, I really advise you don't do the same." to other women and especially girls? Why does everything have to come with a disclaimer of "I did this and I PERSONALLY as an INDIVIDUAL who is an OUTLIER did n ot have a good experience with this, but if that works for you/makes you happy, then go for it!" Individualism really rots the brain.

And I am not fully blaming women who do this here, because obviously these norms are prevailing in the culture right now, and because of the way we're socalized, a lot of us probably really do believe we're outliers and that this kind of thing really can and does work for others. But some are indeed capable of realizing that this isn't true, and still choose to keep it to themselves. We're all young adults here, and I'm moreso talking to the mid 20s crowd with this point, but, at some point we need to accountability for stuff, too.

I guess I'm complaining about several different but interconnecting things here. I'm just a little tired of it, it gets hard to work with women who have this mentality/take this approach to social issues. I just feel like this mentality is at the root of what will prevent us from truly gaining class consciousness. It is a brick wall I keep running into. I feel like we're so close, because even in a city like this, I still make connections with women from different backgrounds, who are still libfems, every day in the real world. We're almost there so it feels especially frustrating.

[frogathy]

why is my mom so weird about things when she could just be normal! there is no need to add a condescending tone when telling me your rules and guidelines as if i am going to break them. just say them normally and i will be like “ok!” as i have done my whole life! but when you do it in that tone it makes me sort of angry because why do you have to do it like that! why cant you just say things normally! why are you doing that! i really hate it! please treat me like i am a normal person who has followed your rules literally her whole life instead of talking to me like i am a convicted criminal!

[zoluulife]

Imma say it, it’s so funny seeing zosan Stan’s saying that thriller bark is a zosan moment. Like is the zosan moment in the room with us..? I think personally the reason zoro didn’t let sanji take the pain instead of him was because of the duty he felt as a first mate. He felt obliged to be the sacrifice, he knew he had to be. But also because I mean come on it’s Luffy zoro will do anything for Luffy including giving his life for him. He values and respects Luffy the most out of anyone.

He didn’t not let sanji do it bc he was in love with him or something that’s just stupid, and honestly something zosan shippers say bc they are desperate for something. The whole zoro giving his life for Luffy vs sanji saying he should instead moment if you look at the two manga panels you will see an difference. Even though zoro says it for the crew it’s clear that his actual main reason for doing it was for Luffy while with sanji when he said he should be the one to do it it’s clearly shown he was talking about the crew in a whole.

The two panels are so different thriller bark IS zolu angst arc cry if you think otherwise bc that little “hand holding “ thing sanji did when he fainted was NOT a zosan moment

[chaos-in-one]

Also I don’t talk about it often but btw I don’t personally label as transmasc/transfem/transneutral despite being trans I used to label as transfem as an individual alter but after seeing a shit ton of controversy over who can/can’t label as transfem I decided to stop labeling that way since I refuse to share what the bodies agab is and I didn’t want to be dragged into arguments over if I could really label that way or not, and I didn’t switch to any other umbrella label since transmasc comes with the exact same arguments and transneutral doesn’t feel right to me because my gender is not even remotely neutral to me, it’s very heavily aligned, it’s just that the alignment shifts sometimes due to me being genderfluid, but I’m always either heavily masc aligned or heavily fem aligned (although I am fem aligned more often tbh) gender identity wise (not to be confused with my gender expression, I am also gnc, and feel very uncomfortable presenting as masculine when I feel man-aligned, or feminine when I feel woman-aligned), it’s pretty rare for my gender to be unaligned completely, mostly due to the fact that my gender mirrors the genders of people I’m emotionally close to, and most of the people I’m close to like that are aligned in some way.

[mimzy6bunny]

saw someone on tiktok complain abt how prevalent some hcs are in rise fandom and yeah. agree. but then the comments were just bashing on trans/gay headcanons wtf

[leandrocrossard]

something really cool happened today that i wanted to share:

my nephew is 9 years old, and a stereotypical little boy. he likes dinosaurs, minecraft, and ninjas.

today i walked in on him excitedly watching Nimona with my dad. (minor spoiler warning!)

i had never heard of it, but i sat down and watched some of it, just to see why he was so happy.

he started narrating it, anticipating parts of it, almost as if he’d seen it before. he had.

we didn’t get to finish it, but i watched it on my own, because it looked fun and i wanted to see how it ended.

and i loved it. it was a fun, exciting, fantastical adventure about the importance of acceptance people who are different to us.

and it had a very clear queer subplot.

one that my nephew hadn’t mentioned at all in his explanation of the film. his summary was “it’s about a monster who helps a knight that was framed for killing the queen”.

and honestly yeah, that is what the film was about.

before sharing it with us, he had watched it all, engrossed himself in the story, took it in entirely, and the part he cared about most was whether Nimona got her acceptance. he wasn’t indoctrinated, or confused, or questioning anything about himself.

he didn’t bat an eyelid over a gay love confession. he just enjoyed the film, raved about it, made my 60 year old dad watch the movie about the monster who didn’t fit in.

he’s still the same little boy who’s been asking us how to get a girlfriend.

the only thing a movie centred around queer and queer-coded characters taught my nephew was that those who are different to him are not monsters. that’s it.

and that dragons are really cool.

[iwhoneverbelievedinwar]

(grabbing your face) do you remember simon fairchild's statement about how he became an avatar. how he fell and the sky embraced him. i think about it all the time. how it would feel to be embraced by the vast. the entity that is about how you are insignificant before the endless void, holding you. the fact that being an avatar of the vast means loving a contradiction: you are insignificant and the entity of the vastness of everything else holds you in its embrace and takes away your mortality.

i wonder if when simon told that one guy enjoy sky blue if the reason he laughed while saying it was because he was sharing his own joy. if in his own way he wasn't being generous, sharing the experience that changed him forever. i wonder if as much as he spreads terror, maybe what he really wanted was to share that experience, and that's why he picked someone who loves sky-diving, someone who was also in love with the sky.

i wonder if that guy who was eaten by the sky isn't out there now, saying the sky held him gently in the huge jaws of endless blue, and he cried with joy as he understood. if what for his mother was a horrible experience that killed her son, for him wasn't the liberation from his mortal life and worries before the realization that we are nothing.

i wonder if simon was afraid, too, before he was in love or while he was in love with it, if he can even distinguish his love for the vast from his fear from it or it's just another facet of his adoration, something he can offer to it, if when he said he loved the sky he meant it like that, like we often love a god, with fear as strong as our adoration.

[anniflamma]

So I’ve received a couple of anonymous messages telling me that they were really disappointed in me for liking Elian's Antinous fanart. Instead of answering them individually, I’m just going to make an angry rant post instead. Most of if probably won't make sense anyway.

This post have talk about SA, and homophobia. Be aware. I don’t ship genuinely Telemachus and Antinous, if that’s what you’re wondering. I didn’t even consider the possibility that ship could even exist. At the end of the day, I don't care about that ship.

And do you want me to explain that I know SA is bad? Or that I’m aware Telemachus/Antinous is a toxic ship? Do you think I’m dumb and don’t know that? You don't have to explain to me either, I know that SA is bad, I have experienced it, you don't have to explain to me, trust me I know.

I like Elian's art because it’s really beautiful. Her work is a huge inspiration and encouragement for me when making animatics. But do I REALLY have to spell out, word for word, that I know Antinous is an antagonist and tries to do bad things? Does it mean every time someone draws Antinous and I like it, I have to explain that I like the drawing because it’s well done, not because I support Antinous’ intent toward Penelope and wants to kill Telemachus?

I mean, I’ve seen tons of thirsty comments like, "I hate how Zeus treats women, but your design is really hot" or "Even if Poseidon SA Demeter, this Poseidon I'd go down on all fours for!"

I have seen some stuff….

I guess I could just imitate something like that????

But I know it’s a joke and I know its a fantasy that someone is expressing. Its not real, its fictional. I know all those thirsty ppl who simp over Poseidon, Zeus, or even Antinous aren’t supporting hatred and violence toward women. And yes, I am expecting that you should already know this too. Because if we gonna assume the worst of ppl… Then everyone who likes Greek myth/Epic the musical are pro SA. "Do you like Crice from Epic the musical? That means that you support her actions, you support SA!" "Oh you like Odysseus?! He killed a baby and all of his female slaves cuz they got SA by the suitors! You support infanticide, slavery and SA!" Do you hear how dumb that sounds? To be honest, I wouldn’t be that surprised if there are some who think like this. I mean, this discussion wouldn’t even be a thing, right.

And if you don’t know, I literally make thirst art of Poseidon (and that includes Zeus and Hermes), and you don’t see it as a bad thing??? It’s Poseidon… Do you know what he has done to women in the myths?!

Im going to ramble here and I will bring up stories from greek myth that have SA in it. So be aware.

One example is the story of Caeneus. When Caeneus was a woman, his parents left him to take care of the house while they were out running errands. Poseidon took that as an opportunity to break into the house and sexually assault him. This is probably the only myth where Poseidon actually feels bad after what he did, so he grants Caeneus a wish. Aww, how sweet~~~ /sarcasm.

Do I need to give an example of Zeus? We all know what Zeus does. But hey, I’ve made Poseidon/Hermes ship art. And guess what? There’s a story where Hermes breaks a woman’s leg so she can’t run away from him, and then he sexually assaults her. Isn’t that cute~~! /sarcasm

Heck, I can even go on with my biblical ships. David/Jonathan—David, a serial assaulter and murderer, and Jonathan, a mass murderer. But do I support their actions? No, I do not support mass murder, and its really dumb that I have to spell it out for you.

Daniel/Darius is even questionable too! It's literally a king and his servant, and that power imbalance is so big I don’t know what to tell you! Do I have to spell it out that I know that, in real life, king/servant relationships aren’t cute at all?!

All of these characters that I’ve listed have done or represent horrible things. And I have to tell you that I don't support their actions?! Really? You really can't think outside the box?

But do you see what I’m trying to tell you? We can simp over other ancient mythological figures but Antinous is the red line that we can never cross??? It’s hypocritical and immature, that’s what it is.

Right now, ppl loves the Ody seduces Zeus art I made. And that "ship" is well really questionable too! But nobody have called me a witch and tries to burn me at the stake yet. 😐

And the thing is, I can separate these fictional characters from the real world. I can also separate the fictional material from other fictional interpretations. Exemple, I like The Song of Achilles, in it, they are the same age, but I am also aware that in the Iliad, Achilles is 16 and Patroclus is 26. But do I automatically assume that Madeline Miller likes teens? No! Do I assume that everyone who likes The Song Of Achilles like that shit? No!

But we still can have a disscussion about it without making it into a witch trial.

As long as we can separate different fictional materials, then everything is fine. It only becomes a problem if a person can’t separate them. Then we have a problem. I can acknowledge that my depiction of King David from the bible is not the same as from the original story and that he is horrible person towards women. If I couldn't acknowledge that, then its bad! The same goes for Antinous if someone makes an AU or headcanon about him. If someone want so make AUs about Antinous, my first thoughts isnt "Oh they like to SA ppl!". At the end of the day, this is just a group from tiktok who didn’t like a toxic ship and decided to bully an artist while acting like they have superior morals.

And I get this type of shit from christians when I make my queer bible interpitations, both from those that don't like the queer stuff but also those that points out that David and Jonathan were horrible ppl.

So I rarely answer comments like this because they usually end up spewing beliefs filled with homophobia and Islamophobia. Heck rasism sometimes, apparently, Christians don’t know that the Bible takes place in the Middle East, and they are angry at me for drawing them looking like Arabs! I just delete their comments before they gets there. Making queer biblical animatics on TikTok that go viral on the Christian side is not fun at all guys....

And hate to say it but tiktok Epic fans sound really similar. You are acting like you’re on a pedestal, holier than thou. Its just a different font.

+ I haven’t forgotten all those homophobic comments I got on my David/Jonathan animatic that I posted right after my Ruthlessness animatic. Epic fans were saying they didn’t want “that gay shit” and wanted to see more Epic stuff. Hate to break it to you all, but the Epic fandom isn’t that innocent.