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[l3irdl3rain]

Petunia is giving Buglet what for because Bug tried to suck her toes while she was napping

[morganathewolf]

You know what's sad?

Going to a fandom in AO3, reading stories from 2016 and backwards and finding the most amazing fics, yet the author of those fics is orphan_account, and you know they are from the same author, but you can't find a way to read all of their work because the account doesn't exist anymore.

That is sad.

[noebody-is-here]

[another-goblin]

[ppenguinpperson]

another isat doodleboard :) this time with more chinchilla!mirabelle.. spreading my propaganda

[lavellenchanted]

Aerith Week, Day 2: Your favourite side quest with Aerith ↳ Absence of a Sign

@aerith-week

[softchouli]

[danganronpumilaa]

thinking about this post and the concept of two people consistently drifting towards each other in every universe got to me

based on falseknees’s comic :)

individual panels under the cut 🔽🔽

[dogmanincorrectquotes]

*Li'l Petey and Dog Man accidentally set something on fire*

Dog Man: WE NEED AN ADULT!!

Li'l Petey: You are an adult!

Dog Man:

Dog Man: We need an adultier adult- get Petey!

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Skizz talks to how bossy he is

Skizz: DireKestrel with the one hundred bitties said, "in the Hermitcraft 10 podcast, Impulse said you'd be a leader. The way the other hermits gather around you is proof he was right." Well that's--I-okay, thank you for that. I don't nec--I-I--thank you. I don't necessarily know if there's any truth to that, I think, I think we just enjoy each other's company, very much. You know what I mean? And I'm just, I just--I've been trying, actually, since every single life, like, series? I end up getting into this role, and I'm like, 'god,' when I watch my episodes back, I'm like, 'I'm so friggen bossy.' And I'm just, and I just wanna move (starts laughing) away from that so bad. I don't wanna be bossy! I don't wanna be pushy. The only place I wanna be a leader anymore is when it comes to...what it is to build people up and put people in positions to build other up. That, I really do enjoy that. I like getting people to explore...new depths of their own soul, and what it is to be outwardly focused on others, uh, and find the areas in others, uhm, to help lift them, yeah?

Skizz: Oh my god, you're right SpotSix, straight up, guys, '"Get your bows out, kill Pizza." Name it.' That was-that was actually the first season. That was the first season. Uh, and I remember I-I talked about it when we had Martyn on the podcast, what I loved about it is, that was the moment I realized Martyn and I are-are one and the same in many ways? Cause I said, I said, "Get your bows out, kill Pizza." And Martyn goes, Martyn's response was to go, he said, he just, hears the command? And he's all (emulates Martyn laughing, then his voice gets suddenly serious) "I'm down." (back to normal voice, filled with laughter) It was so funny, man. Oh, god, that was so good. So good! I wanna go back and watch all those, we should have a watch party together.

[transursa]

Blessed to be built like this

Genuine rock-your-shit build with a mama bear personality 💜

[jesncin]

Lil' musing about Public Domain, AI theft and Transformative creativity

Old essay originally written on Cohost in February 2024. With additions.

I'm putting my thoughts here because I don't want to risk going viral for subtweeting discourse again, here we go! So with the Steamboat Willie Variant of Mickey Mouse going to public domain I've seen the usual cynical pushback over transformative art. Particularly in response to overplayed EDGY DARK WINNIE THE POOH and EDGY DARK STEAMBOAT MICKEY and YOUR CHILDHOOD THING DARK NOW that inevitably happens around this time.

But to group all transformative art as derivative, soul-less, profit-driven, lazy and "reliant on past successes" is frankly just...really silly? I saw a notable concept artist making this over-simplified talking point, and I find it odd that someone can look at the most visible (by being formulaic, provocative and made by rich people) examples of public domain adaptations and just generalize all art ever inspired by a thing as uninventive and compare artists who do that to being "ai-like". It feels like the false dichotomy constantly set between "real books" and fanfiction.

We've seen marginalized people reclaim cosmic horror from Lovecraftian fiction. I've seen queer people reckon with and reclaim the queer history of Peter Pan. There's something special about taking a familiar thing and informing it with a perspective that wasn't present in its original iteration. It takes a whole other part of your creative brain muscles to adapt and reimagine something that already exists. And it can be just as creatively fulfilling as making original stuff.

While it's important to recognize and remember the origin of archetypes in stories or movements in art, I think there's sometimes a misplaced reverence put towards the original version of something. Whenever I talk about how Asian writers like Gene Yang and Sarah Kuhn have more thoroughly integrated Superman's immigrant themes in their re-imaginings of his mythos than their white peers have, I get hit with the constant "hey remember Superman's creators were the sons of Jewish immigrants (who made racist jokes about Chinese people)" and "hey remember, Gene Yang and Gurihiru's Superman Smashes the Klan was based on a radio show arc made by WHITE people first (who made the story about a binary of Good white people vs Bad white people, along with centering how white people feel about racism)".

Especially if it's a means of centering white creatives, people love to dismiss the transformative contributions of marginalized people, but especially that of people of color. It took until 2016 for the World Fantasy Award to change their statuette to not be based after the face of renown racist H.P Lovecraft, after all.

Last year I gave myself the goal to do something "unnecessarily ambitious" with no plan of pitching/printing/selling it. Just "art for art's sake", something really not-algorithm-friendly. And yeah, that ended up being a fully rendered, 40-page martian manhunter fan comic. I did it for no other reason than being a huge fan of a severely unpopular character and feeling like there was a new story I really wanted to tell about the character that would never happen in canon with how little there's been written about him. I don't think it's fair to call writing 40 pages of a new origin story, drawing fully colored pages with unique re-designs, reading hours of martian manhunter comics to tie different aspects of his lore into coherent worldbuilding, putting that comic up for free for the few other Green Justice League Guy fans to read, as lazy, profit-driven, and soul-less.

There's tons of artists who do stuff like this all the time. It just comes off as being very out of touch to view true creativity as only existing one way. That transformative media must inherently be "less". One time a white guy pitched to me some ideas he had for Superman if he ever had a chance to write him, and I said "that sounds cool, you should write a fanfic about it" and another white guy (who felt the need to come to the first one's defense), viewed what I said as an insult. There's something about doing fanart because you enjoy it and don't need to profit out of everything you make that's seen as lesser than having the seal of canonicity from a company.

My motto with making needlessly ambitious fancomics is "You don't need to work for DC Comics to make DC comics". Because canonicity has nothing to do with what makes art special.

To bring this back to edgy Mickey Mouse spin offs, even if you do just want to make cliche mascot-horrified stuff because you enjoy it, then by all means go ahead! I always go back to this video Sagan Hawkes did about petscop-inspired video series. There's a running theme about grappling with the concept of Originality in Art in relation to youtube horror projects (the thesis comes around at 2:04:10), and some valuable words are shared in the collected interviews with web series creatives (2:18:47) in the end. SeireaSong (creator behind Diminish) talks about how misguided conversations surrounding "originality" can be (2:29:43). It's so worth it to watch when you have the time.

Anyway happy 2024! Be good to each other.

[livelivefastfree]

In all the selfies he takes// His head is tilted the same way, And his favorite hashtag is #beastmode 'Cause he's a fuckboy

Oh Alex "unhinged military mad scientist fuckboi" Harley it's been since 2018 but I still think about you and your big crazy blue eyes. 😔 Epitome of a disaster bisexual. Someday you'll grow a moral compass, I believe in you.

[frickerdoodledoo]

Some day, either Mikey or Andy will reach directly into my rib cage and cast shatter on my heart.

[boom-bada-boom]

i need. to write out my thoughts. about the ghost zone. (and the infinite realms)

ok ok so. infinite realms. reasonably, that would mean they are infinite. the realm where the dead goes. every universe is connected to it. every place where the dead gather is inside of it.

what this means.

think of the realms like an ocean. and there are islands, that are above the water. these islands are universes, and they are not connected by anything above the water. but they are connected in the water; you cant walk to another island but you could swim there. thats what the realms are, for every universe. it is the ocean they float in.

now think of the environments within the ocean. those are the different parts of the realms. everything is there. every afterlife exists as an environment within this ocean that is the realms. the greek underworld, the christian heaven/hell, etc etc. some of these afterlives are anchored to specific universes, and others are general afterlives that take deaths from several universes. the ghost zone is actually one of those environments, technically. its a large part of the realms, but not the entire thing.

an important thing to note is that the ghost zone is special compared to any other environment within the realms. those other afterlives are self-contained, without crossover. they are part of the realms but their dead cant leave to the wider realms. the denizens of the ghost zone, however, can travel wherever they want in the infinite realms, including into other ecosystems and even to those universes above the water if they have the power for it. because they are more ectoplasm than other realms beings, and thus made up of more of the substance of the realms. that gives them special privileges, and also means the ghosts of the ghost zone are not like any other ghost. theyre sort of like the ghosts of ghosts; more powerful, more influential, more varied.

another important detail is that the infinite realms are alive, in a way. there is a consciousness there, that picks and chooses and plays favorites. for this reason, pariah dark was never the king of the realms, but instead king of the ghost zone. still a powerful being, but not as powerful as he could have been. the realms must accept you as king for your title to be king of the infinite realms, and pariah dark did not have that favor. it must share itself with you, allow you to perceive it in its infinity, put a piece of itself inside of you. (another note, it is only a denizen of the ghost zone that could become king of the realms, because only a being of pure ectoplasm could handle the pressure of infinity.)

danny phantom does have that favor, along with the crown and the ring and the ectoplasm necessary.

an important note, especially for crossover stuff, is that being the ruler of the realms is like being the god of gods. because gods have specific universes and specific afterlives under their control, but they have no power over that ocean that is the infinite realms.

basically if the crossover vibe isnt

then i dont want it

(ps hes doing this experiment with tucker and then sam pulls up and shes like “danny! i cant believe youre going to try and eat concrete! … without trying to eat plastic waste first because if you actually can eat it then you could solve so many environmental issues holy shit—“)