#actually posting art and engaging with people

[angelsdean]

i am just not a shitposts person at heart. the silly ones are fine and fun but i'm really really not here for the quippy ironic "isn't it so funny that i performatively hate the things i claim to be a fan of" energy. i'm here for earnestness. i'm here for genuine love and celebration of the things you're a fan of. i'm here for meta posts and rewatching and digging in and doing analysis for fun and having discussions and rotating scenarios around in my mind while staying true to who the characters actually are and i'm here for making art and edits and writing fics and engaging with fanworks from others and just love. just loving these characters and their stories and the people who love them.

[deepseametro]

if you enjoy my posts and opinions on AI art - and especially if you're interesting in learning about how actual AI artists engage in our hobby and the skills and techniques used (theyre really cool!) - i once again encourage you to check out @are-we-art-yet! it's an artist collective devoted to ethical AI art and the discord is a super fun and engaging place to be (and full of people very happy to explain how it all works, and how their art workflow goes)!

[sisaloofafump]

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[lavenoon]

reblog art, goddamnit

[thedreadvampy]

every time something from Neil Gaiman's tumblr crosses my dash I'm so concerned about the people writing and to him like. why have you outsourced your imagination to this man? asking shit like 'what does Morpheus sound like in this scene' or 'what does this dialogue mean' or 'what's the backstory to this moment' like BABES. THIS IS WHAT BARTHES WAS TALKING ABOUT. YOU'RE MEANT TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS YOURSELVES THAT'S WHAT MAKES ALL ART A COLLABORATIVE CREATION OF MEANING. if the author wanted something to be explicit in the text they can make it explicit in the text and if it's not explicit in the text YOU CAN MAKE IT UP.

what really gets me is I 100% prommy these kids regularly use 'death of the author' to mean 'i can enjoy works by problematic creators' which 1) yes I agree you can and should (using some discretion re who it profits and what's replicated in the work) but 2) THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS LITERALLY WHAT IT MEANS IS. NEIL GAIMAN'S POST HOC OPINION ON SANDMAN OR GOOD OMENS IS A NO MORE LEGITIMATE FACT ABOUT THE TEXT THAN ANYONE ELSE'S INTERPRETATION. the text has left his control it belongs to the reader now, you get to decide and debate what it means.

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t know if this is a controversial hot take or something a lot of people feel, but I’m tired of hearing people unironically describe Ace Attorney as being “about gay lawyers”. Because it’s not. Do the lawyers act gay? Yes. But that’s not what 99% of the playtime is about.

At the end of the day, Ace Attorney is a satirical story about the corrupt justice system in Japan as represented by a kind-hearted defense attorney protecting (mostly) innocent defendants from having their lives ruined by misguided prosecutors. Its goal was to flip the cultural narrative that defense attorneys are trashy scum who make money off of sympathizing with criminals. And they did this through episodic, goofy murder mysteries.

So where does the gay come in? They wrote some accidentally romantically-charged dialogue, fans were obsessed, and the writers decided, yeah it’s pretty good, let’s do more of that. So they proceeded to toss in more gay side-banter and whatnot amongst the homicide investigations and court sessions.

Now, it’s not like Ace Attorney is the deepest, most poetic social commentary ever written, but it still has a meaningful theme inspired by a real life issue, so it’s pretty discouraging seeing people either not process it or straight up ignore it in favor of “the gay lawyers”. And that’s not even getting into all the other meaningful, non-romantic character relationships that have way more presence in the plot.

I know there will always be uncritical, shipping-brained people in every fandom, but what gets me about how bad it is here is that people who only know as much about AA as what they’ve heard really think it’s “about gay lawyers”. I was watching Drawfee recently, and genuinely all they know about the games is contextualized by Karina’s gay lawyer ship art and brief plot description of how gay the lawyers are. My friend recently told my other friend that Ace Attorney is about gay lawyers to which he was like oh yeah I heard about the unnecessary feelings scene. This is all he knows about the games.

I don’t want to make this sound like a bigger deal than it is, but damn. It truly feels like a lot of people refuse to engage with media in any way that doesn’t involve smashing male characters together like dolls. If you comb through the entirety of the Ace Attorney franchise, you’ll see that such a small fragment of everything that happens is homosexual law, yet that’s the thing that gets amplified to ridiculous proportions. All I can do for now is focus on the posts from fans that love the games themselves just as much if not more than they love the ships.

[icewindandboringhorror]

finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

[koko2unite]

[baltears]

its truly not that i have a problem with ppl continuing to engage with a persons work after theyve been called out for being problematic or whatever but the way m//lanie m//rtinez stans literally just convinced themselves all the allegations were false, called the alleged victim a liar and then proceeded to pretend it all never even happened is frankly chilling to me

[duthea]

they're vibing

[miiints-repostiory]

WOAH MORE TSP ART HII!!! And these designs are MINE for once? unbelievable

Meet my Narrator and Stanley! They're some silly guys, I love them very much and I hope they can make some friends in the paraverse soon 👉👈

SPEAKING of which, the two lovelies that my narry is simping over are Rosemary and Nathan who belong to the wonderful @tomi-chuu and @callixspod respectively!

i love them so much and feel so normal about them <3 Haven't got a name for my narry yet but im working on it

[meatcatt]

Some doodle requests from a discord call I was in :>!!

[eirian]

incredible how i was fine mentally the entire week i was off social media and now that im back on it my mental health has tanked again. awesome

[jofiah]

If I wasn't such an insufferable cunt maybe I'd actually be popular

[hybbat]

I hate that in all those "reblogs are better than likes" posts replies are completely forgotten about. Honestly I like replies more than reblogs or likes.

[wellnoe]

in my head i am going like. months without posting art. which is not actually true.